Describe specific initiatives, laws, and accreditation standards that can be leveraged to improve health care quality and enhance performance improvement.
Health care organizations (HCOs) often struggle with performance improvement and with effectively communicating performance improvement results to their internal and external stakeholders. It is equally important to communicate your successes externally for marketing and internally to continue to build on your successes. The messaging to these two groups, however, is very different.
For this project, write a paper of 3-4 pages, excluding cover page, abstract page, and reference page and discuss the following:
- Describe specific initiatives, laws, and accreditation standards that can be leveraged to improve health care quality and enhance performance improvement.
- Develop a communications strategy to achieve effective and efficient communication of performance data and performance improvement initiatives.
- Include a plan for strategic messaging in communications to employees (to effect change) and communications to the general public (for marketing purposes).
Note: Use APA style to cite at least 5 scholarly sources from the last 5 years.
Describe what the literature says about barriers to the implementation of evidence-based practice in addressing the problem you’ve defined.
Instructions
Complete this assessment in two parts.
Part 1
Define the patient, family, or population health problem that will be the focus of your capstone project. Assess the problem from a leadership, collaboration, communication, change management, and policy perspective and establish your evidence and research base to plan, implement, and share findings related to your project.
Part 2
Connect with the patient, family, or group you’ll work with during your practicum. During this portion of your practicum, plan to spend at least 2 hours meeting with the patient, family, or group and, if desired, consulting with subject matter and industry experts of your choice. The hours you spend meeting with them should take place outside of regular work hours. Use the Practicum Focus Sheet [PDF] provided for this assessment to guide your work and interpersonal interactions. Document the time spent (your practicum hours) with these individuals or group in the Capella Academic Portal Volunteer Experience Form.
Capella Academic Portal
Complete the NURS-FPX4900 Volunteer Experience Form in Capella Academic Portal. Include a description of your relationship to the patient, family, or group in the Volunteer Experience comments field.
Requirements
The assessment requirements, outlined below, correspond to the scoring guide criteria, so be sure to address each main point. Read the performance-level descriptions for each criterion to see how your work will be assessed. In addition, note the additional requirements for document format and length and for supporting evidence.
· Define a patient, family, or population health problem that’s relevant to your practice.
8. Summarize the problem you’ll explore.
8. Identify the patient, family, or group you intend to work with during your practicum.
8. Provide context, data, or information that substantiates the presence of the problem and its significance and relevance to the patient, family, or population.
8. Explain why this problem is relevant to your practice as a baccalaureate-prepared nurse.
. Analyze evidence from peer-reviewed literature and professional sources that describes and guides nursing actions related to the patient, family, or population problem you’ve defined.
9. Note whether the authors provide supporting evidence from the literature that’s consistent with what you see in your nursing practice.
9. Explain how you would know if the data are unreliable.
9. Describe what the literature says about barriers to the implementation of evidence-based practice in addressing the problem you’ve defined.
9. Describe research that has tested the effectiveness of nursing standards and/or policies in improving patient, family, or population outcomes for this problem.
9. Describe current literature on the role of nurses in policy making to improve outcomes, prevent illness, and reduce hospital readmissions.
9. Describe what the literature says about a nursing theory or conceptual framework that might frame and guide your actions during your practicum.
. Explain how state board nursing practice standards and/or organizational or governmental policies could affect the patient, family, or population problem you’ve defined.
10. Describe research that has tested the effectiveness of these standards and/or policies in improving patient, family, or population outcomes for this problem.
10. Describe current literature on the role of nurses in policy making to improve outcomes, prevent illness, and reduce hospital readmissions.
10. Describe the effects of local, state, and federal policies or legislation on your nursing scope of practice, within the context of this problem.
. Propose leadership strategies to improve outcomes, patient-centered care, and the patient experience related to the patient, family, or population problem you’ve defined.
11. Discuss research on the effectiveness of leadership strategies.
11. Define the role that you anticipate leadership must play in addressing the problem.
11. Describe collaboration and communication strategies that you anticipate will be needed to address the problem.
11. Describe the change management strategies that you anticipate will be required to address the problem.
11. Document the time spent (your practicum hours) with these individuals or group in the Capella Academic Portal Volunteer Experience Form.
. Organize content so ideas flow logically with smooth transitions.
. Apply APA style and formatting to scholarly writing.
Additional Requirements
. Format: Format your paper using APA style. APA Style Paper Tutorial [DOCX] is provided to help you in writing and formatting your paper. Be sure to include:
14. A title page and reference page. An abstract is not required.
14. Appropriate section headings.
. Length: Your paper should be approximately 5–7 pages in length, not including the reference page.
. Supporting evidence: Cite at least five sources of scholarly or professional evidence that support your central ideas. Resources should be no more than five years old. Provide in-text citations and references in APA format.
. Proofreading: Proofread your paper, before you submit it, to minimize errors that could distract readers and make it more difficult for them to focus on its substance.
Competencies Measured
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the course competencies through the following assessment scoring guide criteria:
. Competency 1: Lead people and processes to improve patient, systems, and population outcomes.
18. Define a patient, family, or population health problem that’s relevant to personal and professional practice.
. Competency 2: Make clinical and operational decisions based upon the best available evidence.
19. Analyze evidence from peer-reviewed literature and professional sources that describes and guides nursing actions related to a defined patient, family, or population problem.
. Competency 5: Analyze the impact of health policy on quality and cost of care.
20. Explain how state board nursing practice standards and/or organizational or governmental policies could affect a defined patient, family, or population problem.
. Competency 7: Implement patient-centered care to improve quality of care and the patient experience.
21. Propose leadership strategies to improve outcomes, patient-centered care, and the patient experience related to a defined patient, family, or population problem and document the practicum hours spent with these individuals or group in the Capella Academic Portal Volunteer Experience Form.
. Competency 8: Integrate professional standards and values into practice.
22. Organize content so ideas flow logically with smooth transitions.
22. Apply APA style and formatting to scholarly writing.
Do humans have an inalienable right to ownership of their body and is the patenting of individual human genes a violation of human dignity?
Case Study: Business Ethics/CSR
Patenting Genetically Engineered Life Forms (4)
In 1873, Louis Pasteur received a U.S. patent for the manufacture of a yeast that was free of disease. The first patent in the United States for a genetically engineered life form was granted in 1980 when the Supreme Court, in Diamond vs Chakrabarty, held that a human-created micro-organism was a new and useful “manufacture,” and hence patentable. Since then, more than three million genome-related patents have been filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), some of which cover genetically engineered humans. The year 2007 marked the first application for a patent for an artificial, human-created life-form, a microbe.
Despite the legal status of biopatents, there is still considerable controversy about the morality of the practice. Canada does not permit patents for “higher life forms,” such as the OncoMouse. China, India, and Thailand prohibit the patenting of any animal. The European Union only permits such patents “provided the potential benefits of the ‘invention’ outweigh the ethical and moral considerations, in particular the suffering of animals.”
People who favor biopatents argue that researchers should be rewarded for their discoveries. People would not put the money and years into genetic research unless they had some mechanism for protecting their inventions and investment through patents. Those who are against it question the assumption that science will advance faster if researchers can have exclusive rights to their inventions. They also point out that the monopoly on certain products and the high royalty costs owed to patent holders may discourage product development, since the high costs would be passed on to the consumer, as is currently happening in the pharmaceutical industry. Finally, there is the question of whether it is moral to patent a part of nature or to own life forms.
Myriad Genetics currently holds a patent on two human genes that have been linked to breast cancer. Religious leaders have called for a moratorium on the patenting of life-forms because they believe to grant patents on animal or plant genomes is to usurp the “ownership rights of God.”
Choose one of the following questions:
· Question 1: Do humans have an inalienable right to ownership of their body and is the patenting of individual human genes a violation of human dignity?
· Question 2: Should companies hold patents on mammals or chimera (animals created with human DNA to make their organs harvestable and compatible with human DNA)?
Sources
1. Judith Boss. 2017. Analyzing Moral Issues. p. 488. McGraw-Hill Higher Education 6th edition textbook available at https://www.strayerbookstore.com
2. Judith Boss. 2020. Analyzing Moral Issues. p. 104. McGraw-Hill Higher Education 7th edition textbook available at https://www.strayerbookstore.com
3. Judith Boss. 2020. Analyzing Moral Issues. p. 447. McGraw-Hill Higher Education 7th edition textbook available at https://www.strayerbookstore.com
4. Judith Boss. 2017. Analyzing Moral Issues. p. 169. McGraw-Hill Higher Education 6th edition textbook available at https://www.strayerbookstore.com
Is animal experimentation morally justified if the Animal Welfare Act is not violated?
Case Study: Environmental Ethics
Animal Liberation in the Science Lab (3)
The Animal Liberation Front (ALF) is a loose organization of radical animal-rights activists in more than 40 countries, ALF activists target science laboratories, slaughterhouses, and the fur and lumber industries. Since its founding in England in 1976, the ALF engaged in hundreds, if not thousands of reported direct actions. One of the most publicized actions in the United States took place in 1984, when five members of the ALF broke into the Experimental Head Injury Lab at the University of Pennsylvania and stole files and videotapes of experiments. The videotapes showed gruesome scenes of terrified baboons in vises with their heads being smashed by pistons while the researchers joked around. The tapes showed operations being performed on primates without regard for their pain or for standard research procedures. After taking the videotapes, the ALF ransacked the lab.
In the controversy that followed the release of the tapes to the public, Dr. Thomas Gennarelli, the director of the lab, defended the research, claiming that the animals had been properly treated. He also accused the ALF of setting back medical research. Both the university and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which gave the lab a new grant to repair the damage, supported Dr. Gennarelli. The ALF responded to the accusation by comparing the lab experiments to those conducted by Nazi doctor Joseph Mengele on Jews in concentration camps. Protesters supported the ALF by staging demonstrations on campuses and at the NIH offices. In 1985, the secretary of Health and Human Services stopped federal funding for the head injury program, and the university agreed to pay a fine for violating the Animal Welfare Act. The members of the ALF were not prosecuted for their actions.
Although the ALF defines itself as nonviolent, the FBI regards groups such as the ALF and its sister organization the Earth Liberation Front (ELF) as “violent animal rights extremists and eco-terrorists [who] now pose one of the most serious terrorist threats to the nation.” In 2006, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security designated the ALF a “terrorist threat.” The ALF has a policy of nonviolence toward living things, including people engaged in animal experimentation.
Choose one of the following questions:
· Question 1: Were stealing the tapes and ransacking the lab morally justified?
· Question 2: Is animal experimentation morally justified if the Animal Welfare Act is not violated?
Are hospitals that routinely perform drug tests on any pregnant woman “suspected of being a drug user” violating the privacy rights of the woman?
Case Study: Health Care Ethics
Jennifer Johnson: Maternal Drug Use and Fetal Rights (2)
When 23-year-old Jennifer Johnson arrived to give birth to her fourth child, hospital drug tests found traces of cocaine in her blood. It was later revealed that her other children had all been cocaine-affected babies. A Florida judge found her guilty of delivery (through the umbilical cord) of a controlled substance to a child. Johnson was sentenced to 15 years of probation, drug treatment, random drug testing, and educational and vocational training. She was ordered to participate in an intensive pre-natal care program if she should ever become pregnant again.
According to the Physicians’ Committee for Responsible Medicine, an estimated one in five women use illegal drugs. The cost of caring for a cocaine-exposed infant can run into the millions of dollars. In response, several states have passed civil child abuse and neglect laws, which state that taking illicit drugs or alcohol during pregnancy constitutes child abuse. As a result of these laws, thousands of women have lost custody of their children and some have even been jailed or placed in mandatory drug treatment programs. As in the case of Jennifer Johnson, addicted women can avoid prison by agreeing to undergo drug treatment.
Choose one of the following questions:
· Question 1: Are hospitals that routinely perform drug tests on any pregnant woman “suspected of being a drug user” violating the privacy rights of the woman?
· Question 2: Does a pregnant woman who plans to carry her fetus to term have a moral obligation to refrain from using substances that are harmful to the fetus? If so, does the obligation necessarily depend upon the personhood or moral status of the fetus? Can we have a duty to refrain from behavior that might harm persons who do not yet exist?
Analyze how ethical standards impact moral decision making.
Applied Ethics Essay
Instructions
This assignment is designed to help you begin work on your Applied Ethics Essay due in Week 9. In this assignment, you will create an outline of what you will be writing in your essay. An outline is a tool used to organize your thoughts. You do not need to flesh out all your ideas, but briefly state your ideas along with supporting details that you will use in your final essay.
Begin by reading through the cases included below these instructions (there are four to choose from). Select one that interests you, and choose one of the moral questions to respond to. Then, develop an outline that you will use to structure your final essay.
Your outline must include the following:
· Briefly state a clear position on the moral question presented.
· List relevant facts of the case.
· Identify clarifying concepts you will use to analyze the case.
· Describe an ethical standard pertinent to the case.
· Include at least four references with proper SWS citation and explain how the information in that reference is relevant to your position. At least two of these sources will be from your textbook and other course materials.
See Sample Outline for an example of how this might look.
This course requires the use of Strayer Writing Standards. For assistance and information, please refer to the Strayer Writing Standards link in the left-hand menu of your course.
The specific course learning outcome associated with this assignment is:
· Analyze how ethical standards impact moral decision making.
Should the PATRIOT Act infringe on people’s freedom of speech?
Case Study: Criminal Justice
USA PATRIOT Act and Academic Freedom (1)
A senior at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, was visited at his parent’s home by federal agents after he requested a copy of The Little Red Book, Mao Tse-Tung’s book on communism. The student who requested the book through the university library’s inter-library loan was doing a research paper on communism for a class on totalitarianism and fascism. The two agents who came to his home said the book was on a “watch list” and that the student’s background, which included “significant time abroad,” prompted them to investigate.
His professor told reporters that he suspected that there is a lot more monitoring of student and faculty activities by federal agents than most people realize. The professor also reconsidered a class that he was going to teach on terrorism because he feared it might put the students at risk. “I shudder to think of all the students I’ve had monitoring al-Qaeda websites, what the government must think of that,” he said. “Mao Tse-Tung is completely harmless.”
The USA PATRIOT Act overrides library confidentiality laws. The Department of Homeland Security has the authority to monitor college students’ and professors’ library borrowing records, Internet records, and e-mails, as well as international travel and phone calls. In addition, librarians are bound by a gag order. Once records are requested, librarians are not allowed to tell the person who is under investigation.
Several libraries have protested the PATRIOT Act. Librarians in Santa Cruz, California, for example, are shredding library records daily. Libraries in some other states are posting warning signs and passing out leaflets. The American Library Association passed a resolution calling sections of the PATRIOT Act a danger to constitutional rights.
Question: Should the PATRIOT Act infringe on people’s freedom of speech?
How would you refute the people who chose an additional tool rather than one of the tools that you selected?
Deliverable Length: 4-6 pages
You enter your project team meeting with Mike and Tiffany to hear them discussing the tools that they found to conduct an analysis of the industry and competitors. “Mike, there are so many more tools than I even realized to give us some good data,” Tiffany states.
“I know,” Mike says. “That’s why I wanted to take some time to look at our options and figure out what information we really need to support the board’s decision.”
Mike and Tiffany both found some great tools from their research on the subject. Complete the following:
- Based on your classmates’ discussion posts for Week 2, do you still believe the tools that you selected will work best for a global strategy? Why or why not?
- What evidence do you have to support your decision?
- How would you refute the people who chose an additional tool rather than one of the tools that you selected?
- Based on the tools that you selected, provide a brief analysis of your market, using those tools.
Provide a SMART goal that you will need to meet to launch your product and explain the reasoning for these goals.
Deliverable Length: 4–6 pages (not including cover page and resource page)
Goal setting is a common practice in marketing. It is important to set goals in the marketing strategy plan so that the marketing practices are aligned with the overall goals of the business. SMART Goals are Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, and Time-Bound. These goals are applicable in business as well as for yourself. In this assignment, you will combine these purposes. You are a future entrepreneur. You have a new product or service that you have created, and you are getting ready to launch your new brand. While putting together your marketing strategy plan, you should consider some of the important goals in marketing.
Read this article to understand “10 SMART Goals in Marketing (and Why They Are Important)”. 10 SMART Goals in Marketing (and Why They’re Important) | Indeed.com
Watch this video to better understand how to set SMART goals for digital marketing. How To Set Goals For Digital Marketing That You Can Actually Reach
Using what you have learned, use the following questions to guide your writing:
- Describe the name of your brand and the product and/or service that will launch your business.
- Provide a SMART goal that you will need to meet to launch your product and explain the reasoning for these goals.
- Why is this goal relevant to your business and how would you attain it?
- Please explain why it is important to be SMART when setting goals for your business?
Please use the MKTG630_U2_IP_Template to complete this assignment.
Explain how the information in the report you have selected would be used to form the basis for a presentation to the district attorney’s office, or for any arrest or follow up investigation.
Week 7 Assignment – Asking the Right Questions
Overview
Including the right information in your criminal justice reports depends on many things. It is very important that you develop a habit of asking the right questions in order to collect the right information, taking detailed notes, and always keeping your information organized. You must ensure that the information you put in your reports is specific and accurate in order to ensure individuals are readily identified, that the facts regarding possible criminal activity lead to or show the necessary probable cause, and that any action by law enforcement during the incident or post-incident investigation does not violate anyone’s civil rights or constitutional protections.
Instructions
To complete this assignment, write a 2–3 page paper in which you:
- Select one of the criminal justice reports you reviewed in the Week 2 assignment, Create a Criminal Justice Report Summary.
- Prepare a summary of the essential questions you will need to ask to gather the information to be included in the report.
- Describe an organizational or note-taking strategy that would facilitate the creation of this report.
- Explain how the information in the report you have selected would be used to form the basis for a presentation to the district attorney’s office, or for any arrest or follow up investigation.
- Use the Strayer Library to find at least two academic resources. Note: Wikipedia and similar websites are not considered quality references.
This course requires the use of Strayer Writing Standards. For assistance and information, please refer to the Strayer Writing Standards link in the left-hand menu of your course. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
Identify the most essential pieces of information that should be included in criminal justice reports.
You can choose one of the these below
