1. Read Finkelman (2016), Chapter 13: Improving Teamwork: Collaboration, Coordination, and Conflict Resolution, section on Negotiation and Conflict Resolution, pp. 324-333. Watch tutorial below.
2. Write a ***6*** page paper (not including the title or References pages). Follow APA format. Consult your APA manual, and consider using the APA resources provided. Cite the course textbook and two scholarly sources.
   • Cite the course textbook and two scholarly sources. Scholarly references must be published within the last 5 
   • Review the information provided in our library
   • Review the information provided in our library
3. You are required to complete this assignment using the productivity tools which is Microsoft Office Word 2013 (or later version), or Windows and Office 2011 (or later version) for MAC. You must save the file in the “.docx” format. Do NOT save as Word Pad.
4. Observe nurses in a care delivery setting. Identify a recurring conflict with the potential to negatively impact patient care. This should be from your practice setting or prelicensure experiences.
5. Provide details of what happened, including who was involved, what was said, where it occurred, and what was the outcome that led you to decide the conflict was unresolved.
6. REVIEW AND DISCUSS the four stages of conflict as found in Finkelman. IDENTIFY AND EXPLAIN how the stages of conflict relate to the example in your workplace.***DO NOT use direct quotes.****
7. Describe how you would collaborate with a nurse leader to reach consensus on the best strategy to deal with the conflict. Besides the textbook, the paper needs to summarize conflict resolutions from two scholarly articles. 
8. Describe the rationale for selecting the best strategy.
9. Provide a summary or conclusion about this experience or assignment and how you may deal with conflict more effectively in the future.
10. Describe the rationale for selecting the best strategy.
11. Provide a summary or conclusion about this experience or assignment and how you may deal with conflict more effectively in the future.

GUIDELINES FOR THE 2nd FIELD EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENT:
You must “attend” 1 policy event, at least approximately 1 hour in length.

The event may be online and it must have a health policy focus. Online health policy events/ webinars will be posted from which you may choose.  Event must be health-related.

GENERAL GUIDELINES:
1.  At the event, take notes, and then write up an account and analysis of the event, using the template for field experience logs (below), and the Field Experience Rubric.

FIELD LOG GUIDELINES:

As a way of demonstrating completion of this course requirement, you must submit, in writing, field logs that detail certain aspects of the event. The template for field experience logs is below.

·  Each event log should be three to five double-spaced pages of text.

·  Provide only a brief summary of the event itself.

·  The analysis section should be 550 to 800 words, and be the most developed component of the report. In the analysis section, you can write about the process of policy being made at this event, and/or you can write about the actual health policy issue being discussed/considered.

·  Your analysis should reference at least two sources. They can be from the learning materials in this course or other sources, but should be current (within the last 3 months).

·  Use APA format for citations and references.

TEMPLATE FOR FIELD EXPERIENCE LOGS :
·  The name of the event/meeting and who has sponsored it.

·  The name of the event/meeting and who has sponsored it.

·  Describe the steps taken in preparation for the event (beyond listening or attending the event).

·  Place, date, time, and length of hearing/meeting/event.

·  Topic under discussion.

·  Names of participants and their titles (to the extent you can get them).

·  Brief description of the testimony/meeting/event. (If more than one issue is presented, discuss a sampling of issues.)

·  Analysis of the health policy issue and its implications for healthcare. Integrate course content and readings in your analysis. This section should be approximately 500 to 750 words.

TURNITIN ASSIGNMENT (FREE OF PLAGIARISM)!!!

Note: Attached, you will find a Field Experience Log work you did for me last week as a Reference for this new 2nd Field Log assignment.

MAKE A DECISION: Do you recommend that James and Maria move in together?

1. Yes, they should move in together.
2. James and Maria should move in together only after James works on XYZ.
3. They should move in together only after Maria works on XYZ.
4. No, they should not move in together.

Why? Give reasons for why you chose the way you did. Consider the following factors in your reasons:

• James and Maria’s respective family backgrounds
• James and Maria’s respective expectations of the relationship
• James and Maria’s respective values and beliefs
• Financial factors

Instructions: Go through the interactive module and use the first box below it to take notes as you progress through the exercise.

Findings from research on cohabitation varies depending on the country and ethnic origin of the persons being studied. We have concentrated on the US for this module.

· Cohabitation has increased dramatically in the US over the past three decades, climbing from 500,000 couples in 1970 to nearly 5 million couples in 2000 (U.S. Bureau of the Census, 2001). Currently, about 18 million adults are cohabitating, which is a 29% increase since 2007 (Pew Research Center, 2017).

· Research by Manning and Smock (2005) and Stanley et al. (2006) indicates that few people make a deliberate decision to begin cohabitation. Instead, it seems to happen gradually, often without clear communication between partners about the meaning of the transition.

· Although cohabitation has become increasingly prevalent across other groups, it continues to be a trend driven by those with fewer economic resources (Sassler, 2004; Sassler & Miller, 2011).

Increasingly, couples are choosing to live together before, or instead of, getting married.

· Most couples say they decide to marry each other based on positive connections, such as fun, friendship, and passion (Sternberg, 1998). When couples divorce or separate, reasons include not having enough commitment, too much conflict, infidelity, and growing apart. (Johnson et al 2002).

· Some research shows that couples who live together before getting engaged or married say they’re less satisfied in their marriages and are more likely to get divorced (Stanley et al. 2010; Kamp Dush et al. 2003; Cohan and Kleinbaum, 2002). This is known as the “cohabitation effect.”

· Research shows that an unstable family background (e.g. divorced parents) makes young adults more cautious about marriage and increases their uncertainty about their ability to weather relationship difficulties (Sassler et al. 2009).

Relationships between human beings are complex and the factors affecting them are numerous. Here are a few:

· Many studies have shown that successful communication is a key factor in predicting marriage and relationship satisfaction many years later (Gottman et al. 1998).

· Research shows that economic hardship is associated with more conflict among cohabiting couples (Hardie & Lucas, 2010).

· Attachment theory states that children develop an attachment style based on the type of relationship they have with their primary caregiver (e.g. parents) (Bowlby, 1969: 1982). Subsequent research has found that the attachment style that an individual develops during childhood influences later interactions with intimate partners (Bretherton et al. 1999; Crowell et al. 1999).

· Economics is a key factor affecting young adults’ relationship quality. Research links financial instability to the dissolution of both marriages and cohabiting unions (Amato et al. 1997; Burstein, 2007; Hoffman & Duncan, 1995; Kalmijn et al. 2007; Smock et al. 2005; South 2001).

Do you think James and Maria should move in together?

Social media conversation

Hope: Wow! You guys are really gonna do this?!
Maria: Yes, I’m so excited! He asked me on our three-year anniversary! It was so romantic! My card from him had a door key and a tiny toothbrush in it. (smile emoji)
Hope: You’re the only one of us four girls who’ve been brave enough to even think about it! Mom and Dad are going crazy… “Living in sin” and all that!
Maria: I know, I’ve tried talking to them, but they won’t listen, they’re pretty mad at me. I’m pretty sure we’ll get engaged this year, so it won’t be “sinful” for long. (smile emoji)
Hope: As long as you’re happy. I think sometimes me, Helena, and Ana wished we’d done the same before we all got married. (wink emoji)
And have you talked to James about the fact that your guys’ apartment is going to be taken over by hoards of your crazy friends every other night of the week? And that you spend all the money from your new job on clothes?!
Maria: Ha! Well, he knows I spend lots of time with my friends and thinks it’s a good thing. I’ll only have them over when he’s out and we can go their places too so he gets some peace and quiet! And shopping means that I always have nice clothes (wink emoji).
Please will you be my advocate whenever you talk to Mom and Dad?!
Hope: Sure. You know I’ll try my best, but Mom’s Catholic views are not gonna die easily!

Email conversation 

To Lauren,
July 04, 2015, 09:36 a.m.
E-mail subject: Hey!
Yo Sis,
How’s the clan? Happy Fourth of July! Hope you guys are having a great day.
So, my news is that I asked Maria to move in with me! She’s given notice on her lease and will move in next month. I’m pretty excited right now to be honest! She’s amazing and still makes me really happy (smiley emoji). I know I’m not the easiest person to live with sometimes, ha! You should know! But this time it will be different. She makes me talk about things and I haven’t ever done that before.
I’m glad you guys have all had a chance to meet her a few times and that you like her, that’s important to me. She really wants to get married and I’m coming round to that idea, believe it or not (!). I know I said I never would and I thought Mom and Dad really messed that up for me with the horrible thing that they had together, but it turns out I’m not a lost cause after all.
Her parents are giving us a really hard time, and I’m actually going to see her Dad this weekend and try and talk to him and explain where I’m coming from. I guess I do intend to ask her to marry me at some point soon, I just need a little bit more time as I really never thought I’d do it. Oh, and I’m saving really hard for an amazing ring! I hope I can help him understand that I have honorable intentions…!
How is Mom anyway? I haven’t seen her yet this year, though I suppose I ought to soon.
Other news, work is slow right now and that has meant finances are a little tighter than usual. Hopefully I can take care of that soon. Freelancing is a tough business!
Right, I’ll call you in a couple of days when my favorite niece and nephew are around so I can catch up with them.
Meantime, send my love to everyone.
James

Respond to your colleagues. Explain how their chosen national healthcare issue/stressor may also impact your work setting and what (if anything) is being done to address the national healthcare issue/stressor.

At least 2 references in each peer responses!

Health care access in the United States (US) is one of the many national health care issues or stressors faced by Americans and others living in the country. Report from the US Bureau of census indicates that in 2018, about 8.5 percent of people, that is 27.5 million people in the US were uninsured during this year, meaning that uninsured rate or the percentage of those without health care insurance increased from 7.9 percent or 25.6 million in 2017 to 8.5 percent or 27.5 million in 2018 (US Census Bureau 2019). Amongst many other factors, rising health care costs, inadequate or no insurance coverage, to some extent unfavorable government health policies that may be heavily motivated by politics, are some of the leading causes of limited access to health care in the US ( Access to Health Services, 2020). According to the US Bureau of census 2019, “In 2018, private health insurance coverage continued to be more prevalent than public coverage, covering 67.3 percent of the population and 34.4 percent of the population, respectively.” (US Census Bureau 2019, para 03). Unlike in the US, most European countries, including Canada, health insurance coverage is under the government to ensure full access to health care.

In most state and community hospitals in the US, health care access is guaranteed via public or private insurance. Unfortunately, in the US, health care institutions have little or no power to address issues on health care access. Health care laws are legislated, and in some cases, they are political and party-affiliated. In some states like New Mexico, health care institutions may have to partner with the local government to enable access to health care on a specific illness with very minimal or no cost at all—the University of New Mexico Hospitals partnership with Bernalillo county to combat alcohol and drug addiction. Many programs on drug and alcohol detox or recovering centers are created to fight against addictions. This service is an extension of UNM Hospital’s (UNMH). Addiction and Substance Abuse Program‘s (ASAP) and Metropolitan Assessment and Treatment Services (MATS) Detox, providing a comprehensive outpatient/inpatient approach in managing addiction and mental illness that can include detoxification, psychotherapy (Frank 2017, Bernalillo County Substance Abuse Services n.d).