Analyze current and future innovations and trends in health care strategic planning.
Innovations and trends in health care have altered the way health care is delivered around the world. As a result of these innovations and trends, people are living longer, managing chronic diseases more easily, and taking a greater role in their own care. To meet consumer demands and remain competitive in the industry, organizations and their leaders must be prepared to implement current and future innovations and trends. For this Discussion, you examine your own preparedness for health care innovations and trends.
To prepare:
Examine current and future innovations and trends in health care strategic planning.
Reflect on whether you are prepared for these innovations and trends. What skills will these innovations and trends require you to have? What do you still need to learn? How will you ensure that you are ready for the industry?
Post a cohesive response to the following:
Analyze current and future innovations and trends in health care strategic planning. Include whether you are prepared for these innovations and trends. Support your response by identifying and explaining key points and/or examples presented in the Learning Resources.
Resources:
Walston, S. L. (2014). Strategic healthcare management: Planning and execution. Chicago, IL: Health Administration Press.
Chapter 7, The External Environment and Its Relationship to Strategy (Review pp. 162166)
Explain what low literacy is and why its important as a healthcare professional to know about it.
Culture can cause barriers when communicating with patients with low literacy.
1) Explain what low literacy is and why its important as a healthcare professional to know about it.
2) List 3 ways in which culture can cause barriers of communication with patients with low literacy. Then, for each one, explain how you would overcome the barrier or plain language can be used.
250 words minimum, APA format, include references and in text citations.
How do you plan to apply the knowledge you have gained in this course in your current or future career?
Write a 1-2 page essay answering the following question:
How do you plan to apply the knowledge you have gained in this course in your current or future career?
You must use proper APA formatting, which includes a cover page and reference page. You must also ensure that you properly cite and reference your sources following proper APA guidelines.
Describe how nonverbal feedback conveys powerful messages.
Discussion 1
Nonverbal Feedback
question 1 Describe how nonverbal feedback conveys powerful messages. question 2 Provide an example where nonverbal feedback was used and describe the end result.
Discussion 2
Virtual Organizations
Question 1 Describe the evolution of the virtual organization.
Question 2 What are the pros and cons associated with this design?
Question 3 Provide examples of three technological devices/concepts that have had the greatest impact on virtual organizations.
Required Resources
Text
Baack, D. (2017). Organizational behavior (2nd ed.). Retrieved from https://ashford.content.edu
Chapter 9: Communication in Organizations
Chapter 10: Organizational Design and Change
Multimedia
Films Media Group. (2008). Balance in life and work (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. [Video clip]. In 9 to 5 No Longer. Retrieved from https://secure.films.com/OnDemandEmbed.aspx?token=40875&aid=18596&loid=66935&plt=FOD&w=420
Describe different quality methods within healthcare.
Course Scenario
Chaparral Regional Hospital is a small, urban hospital of approximately 60 beds, and offers the following:
Emergency room services
Intensive care
Surgical care
Obstetrics
Diagnostic services
Some rehabilitation therapies
Inpatient pharmacy services
Geriatric services
Consumer physician referral services
Recently, the CEO has been hearing complaints from both patients and staff, varying from long wait times to rude physicians. You have been hired to design and implement a Quality Improvement Plan to help uncover quality problems and to satisfactorily resolve them.
Scenario Continued
You have been asked to present a narrated visual report for the CEO and Board of Directors on a video conference call to share your major findings and to discuss recommendations.
Competencies:
Describe different quality methods within healthcare.
Explain the basic models of quality improvement in healthcare.
Evaluate the role and importance of patient satisfaction.
Evaluate the role and importance of the patient experience.
Apply statistics to different quality methods in healthcare.
Apply quality improvement methods.
Instructions
Your visual report should include the following:
Types of measurements that will be used.
Overall design of the survey.
Identifies who will lead the QI task force.
Identifies who should be on the task force.
Suggestions for implementing the results of the survey.
Your visual report should be done using Microsoft PowerPoint, or any other presentation software of your choosing that also allows for narration to be added.
APA formatting for the References slide, and proper grammar, punctuation, and form are required.
Review the transcripts provided. Summarize the data, making it as factual and data-supported as possible. Submit a 3-5 paragraph analysis identifying the performance issues and opportunities for Turmeric & Spice Ltd. In your summary, identify documentation that you would want to find to corroborate comments by your interviewees or provide additional information that your interviewees were unable to provide.
Pat Eneewon, a performance practitioner with Turmeric & Spice, Ltd., was asked to meet with the Chief People Officer (CPO) about building a leadership development program. Pat has interviewed Ms, Abley, the CPO at Turmeric & Spice (T&S) and three people recommended by Ms. Abley. Pat has been moved on to another project, these interview transcripts have been provided to you in preparation for you taking over the project.
Review the transcripts provided. Summarize the data, making it as factual and data-supported as possible. Submit a 3-5 paragraph analysis identifying the performance issues and opportunities for Turmeric & Spice Ltd. In your summary, identify documentation that you would want to find to corroborate comments by your interviewees or provide additional information that your interviewees were unable to provide.
Write a 2 page response using APA format, include a brief summary of Pats methodology and any changes you would have made to it.
Your paper should reflect scholarly writing and current APA standards. Please include citations to support your ideas.
What protocol do you recommend for this network and what are its advantages?
Nishida Kitchens is a medium-sized company that makes packaged Japanese foods including noodle and sauce combinations. Their foods are distributed to grocery stores and specialty food stores throughout Canada, Europe, and the United States. The company is moving into a new building and has hired the company you work for, Network Design Consultants, to help them create a new network. Before the move, their head network administrator accepted a job with another company and his inexperienced assistant has been promoted as the head network administrator.
Nishida Kitchens has a business and sales unit of 42 computer users. The plant in which the foods are produced, packaged, and shipped has 45 computer users. The company has both Windows Server 2003 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers. The business and sales unit uses Windows 10 Professional workstations. The plant users have a combination of Windows 10 Professional and Red Hat Enterprise Linux computers on users desktops. The company plans to have Internet connectivity available to all network users. Nishida Kitchens has an outlet store across town which provides the public with direct sales of their products. The outlet store also has Internet connectivity on a small network of 12 computers that are running Windows 10 P Professional.
What protocol do you recommend for this network and what are its advantages?
For WAN communications, such as remote communication over the Internet connection, what protocol should be used by the Windows 10 Professional and Red Hat Enterprise Linux workstations? What are the advantages of this protocol?
List specific goals of treatment for this patient.
R.S. is a 32-year-old woman who seeks treatment for a vaginal discharge that she has had for the past month. She is sexually active and has had the same partner for the past 6 months. She reports noticing an odor, especially after sexual intercourse. Her history reveals that she has been using a commercial douche on a biweekly basis during the past year for hygienic purposes in an attempt to prevent vaginal infections. She denies any other associated symptoms. The physical examination reveals a white vaginal discharge. Microscopic examination of the vaginal discharge shows clue cells, and the pH is 5.5.
Diagnosis: Bacterial Vaginosis
1. List specific goals of treatment for this patient.
2. What drug therapy would you prescribe? Why?
3. Discuss specific patient education based on the prescribed therapy.
4. List one or two adverse reactions for the selected agent that would cause you to change therapy.
5. What OTC or alternative medications would be appropriate for this patient?
6.What dietary or lifestyle changes should be recommended?
Respond in complete sentences, 2-3 paragraphs. APA format Work must be supported by peer-reviewed article published within 5 years.
Discuss the importance of an educator identifying individual learning styles and preferences when working with learners
1. Provide a summary of your learning style according the VARK questionnaire
2. Describe your preferred learning strategies. Compare your current preferred learning strategies to the identified strategies for your preferred learning style.
3. Describe how individual learning styles affect the degree to which a learner can understand or perform educational activities. Discuss the importance of an educator identifying individual learning styles and preferences when working with learners.
4.Discuss why understanding the learning styles of individuals participating in health promotion is important to achieving the desired outcome. How do learning styles ultimately affect the possibility for a behavioral change? How would different learning styles be accommodated in health promotion?
How do you see the effect of this executive order so far?Consider the following assertion from Health Policymaking in the United States: Implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is proving to be a monumental and challenging management undertaking (Jost 2014) (textbook page 197). Based on what you know of the Affordable Care Act and the implementation process, why might this be? What about managing this act can be so monumental and challenging?
In 2017, President Trump, after failing to repeal the Affordable Care Act in congress, took his own steps toward fulfilling his vow to dismantle Obamacare, signing an executive order that he says will bring affordable health insurance to millions more people. The order broadly tasks the administration with developing policies to increase health care competition and choice in order to improve the quality of health care and lower prices. However, it could also destabilize Obamacare by siphoning out younger and healthier Americans from the exchanges. How do you see the effect of this executive order so far?Consider the following assertion from Health Policymaking in the United States: Implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is proving to be a monumental and challenging management undertaking (Jost 2014) (textbook page 197). Based on what you know of the Affordable Care Act and the implementation process, why might this be? What about managing this act can be so monumental and challenging? You may support your answers by referring to Appendix 1, Overview of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or additional Internet searches.
