Respond by providing additional thoughts about competing needs that may impact your colleagues’ selected issues, or additional ideas for applying policy to address the impacts described.

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Organization Policies and Practices to Support Healthcare Issues
Competing needs of the workforce may have an impact on the development of organization policy. A shortage of providers may institute organizational or legislative change to increase workforce capacity. In this post, I will discuss how the need of the workforce impacts policy as it relates to the national issue of the scope of practice for the nurse practitioner (NP).
Estimates project that two-thirds of new practitioners added to the workforce will be NPs between 2016 and 2030 (Auerbach, Staiger,