What process improvement tools could you use to help you?
As the recently appointed administrator of a local health clinic, Community Hills Care Clinic, your clinic is facing several challenges. Your clinic is being investigated for poor billing practices which include false billing of Medicare amongst other misconduct. This has caused quite a bit of attention to be focused on your clinic, which is well known in the area, by the local media. In turn, your staff is becoming anxious and worried about the future of the clinic, causing staffing turnover and shortages at times. Additionally, patients are becoming wary of the clinic in hearing the bad press. As the clinics administrator, the board wants to know how you intend to address the problems that you are facing.
Your Task:
Prepare a presentation for the Board, which includes the following:
What issues you want to address in the clinic
What strategies you intend to use to ensure that patients receive quality care, while addressing the clinic issues
What policies will you need to examine and implement?
What process improvement tools could you use to help you?
Address the need for ethical decision making. What is it? Why is it important? How will you enforce it in the clinic?
Going forward, what technology will you use or implement to help ensure the clinics success?
How will you market yourself to the public in an attempt to regain trust and portray a better image?
*Please use APA formatting
*Remember, presentations are the take-aways, the Speakers note box is where you write what you would actually say
What issues in this disaster would make triaging of victims a challenge?
Disasters and Emergency Management:
3-5 pages (excluding the title page and references) on a specific disaster. Examples include:
Earthquake
Tsunami
Tornado
Flood
Fire
Winter Storm
Heat-related Disaster
Volcanic Eruption
Avalanche
Disease epidemic or pandemic
Bioterrorism
Nuclear event
Must address the following:
1) What issues in this disaster would make triaging of victims a challenge?
2) What Public Health issues may ensue (e.g., infectious disease outbreaks) and what can we do to mitigate the events?
3) How can interagency cooperation and local collaboration be effectively utilized?
APA expectations introduction, body, well-defined conclusion, and reference page.
5 scholarly references References should be scholarly peer reviewed journal articles, official reports or from other reading resources
Describe possible workplace violence related liabilities and actions employers can take to limit such incidents.
A paper that addresses the following:
1.Describe possible workplace violence related liabilities and actions employers can take to limit such incidents.
2.List and briefly describe the possible motivations for terrorism in accordance with the assigned readings.
Technical Requirements
Paper must be at a minimum of 5 pages PER QUESTION for a total of 10 pages (the Title and Reference pages do not count towards the minimum limit).
Scholarly and credible references will be used.
Papers will be screened by Turn-ITin
2 scholarly sources per page of content.
Type in Times New Roman, 12 point and double space.
Students will follow the current APA Style as the sole citation and reference style used in written work submitted as part of coursework.
Points will be deducted for the use of Wikipedia or encyclopedic type sources.
Utilize books, peer-reviewed journals, articles, archived documents, etc.
All submissions will be graded using the assignment rubric.
Assess how you can incorporate recognition behaviors into your normal set of behaviors to regularly notice and recognize people when appropriate.
Showing recognition is an important leadership behavior. For some, this is easy as it is part of their regular behaviors. For others, it is harder as they are not accustomed to it. In either case, we often assume people know we appreciate their efforts. Sometimes, because they are peers, we do not feel it is our place to give recognition. Both of these assumptions are false. Whether in a position of authority or if youre just a peer or friend, everyone has the opportunity to appreciate the efforts of someone else. In your career, you will find that authentic displays of gratitude and recognition are a vital part of effective leadership.
For this assignment, complete the following steps:
Think of someone that deserves recognition. This can be someone who has helped you, someone who has worked hard and done a good job, or someone who is simply special to you and has shown time and again they are on your side. Identify the person and explain why they deserve recognition.
Develop a plan to show them recognition. It should be personalized and meaningful. Perhaps you can buy them a small token of appreciation; it could be a thank you card, a small toy, or a mug with one of their favorite animals or cartoons. You might take them out to lunch or recognize them in front of a group of people. However you do it, it should show that you know them personally and that you appreciate their efforts.
Implement your plan and describe what you did and what their reaction was. How did it make them feel? How did it make you feel?
Assess how you can incorporate recognition behaviors into your normal set of behaviors to regularly notice and recognize people when appropriate.
Pick ONE environmental law or regulation, explain its history, purpose, and goals in detail, and evaluate its successes and failures since enactment.
Pick ONE environmental law or regulation, explain its history, purpose, and goals in detail, and evaluate its successes and failures since enactment. Use subsequent court and legislative events, as well as information from the internet and/or printed literature, to help in your evaluation. Most students pick the Clean Water Act (CWA), the Clean Air Act (CAA), the Endangered Species Act (ESA), or the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), but there are a lot more laws and regulations out there ..pick something interesting and applicable to your life. We have covered lots of different possibilities this session, so do not limit yourself to the most well-known acts.
Analyze the collection of data by patient access personnel and its importance to the billing and collection process.
Submit your paper of Sections III and IV of the final project. Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:
III. Billing and Reimbursement
A. Analyze the collection of data by patient access personnel and its importance to the billing and collection process. Be sure to address the importance of exceptional customer service.
B. Analyze how third-party policies would be used when developing billing guidelines for patient financial services (PFS) personnel and administration when determining the payer mix for maximum reimbursement.
C. Organize the key areas of review in order of importance for timeliness and maximization of reimbursement from third-party payers. Explain your rationale on the order.
D. Describe a way to structure your follow-up staff in terms of effectiveness. How can you ensure that this structure will be effective?
E. Develop a plan for periodic review of procedures to ensure compliance. Include explicit steps for this plan and the feasibility of enacting this plan within this organization.
IV. Marketing and Reimbursement
A. Analyze the strategies used to negotiate new managed care contracts. Support your analysis with research.
B. Communicate the important role that each individual within this healthcare organization plays with regard to managed care contracts. Be sure to include the different individuals within the healthcare organization.
C. Explain how new managed care contracts impact reimbursement for the healthcare organization. Support your explanation with concrete evidence or research.
D. Discuss the resources needed to ensure billing and coding compliance with regulations and ethical standards. What would happen if these resources were not obtained? Describe the consequences of noncompliance with regulations and ethical standards.
Identify one or more urban problems faced in Puerto Rico. Make sure to provide a discussion on what caused and continues to cause the problem or problems.
InstructionsUrban Problems in Puerto Rico, Part 1
For this unit and Unit VII of this course, you are writing a four-page research paper about Puerto Rico. In this unit, you will complete the first two pages of the research paper.
The research paper draft you complete in this unit should contain the following items:
Briefly introduce Puerto Rico. Provide some background information about the people and the island.
Identify one or more urban problems faced in Puerto Rico. Make sure to provide a discussion on what caused and continues to cause the problem or problems.
Explain how globalization connects to the urban problem or problems you introduced in your paper.
Discuss how geography connects to the urban problem or problems you introduced in your paper.
Be sure that you fully address all of the required elements for this paper. You cannot simply fill the paper with background information about Puerto Rico and then address the urban problems in just a few sentences.
You are required to cite the textbook and at least two additional scholarly sources from the CSU Online Library. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying APA citations.
The CSU Online Library contains a good resource database for this assignment. It is called the World Scholar: Latin America & the Caribbean database.
Another good resource is the CIA-World Factbook. It can be found at https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/
Critically reflect on the importance of external financing requirements.
External Financing
We examined two important topics in finance during this unit: external financing requirements and agency conflicts.
Include an introduction that summarizes the main points with an example.
Critically reflect on the importance of external financing requirements. What key factors must be considered when determining external financing requirements?
Briefly describe the types of agency conflict, and provide an example of at least one of the types of agency conflict to support your response.
This should be at least two pages in length, not counting the title and reference pages. You are required to cite and reference at least your textbook. Use APA format to cite in-text and reference citations.
Describe the role of the Senator, Representative, and Governor and their influence towards passing this Bill and the political process
The self-reflection final post MUST be 650 to 1500 words and MUST include the following:
1. Summarize what youve learned about knowledge related to a) health promotion and disease prevention to address health disparities among diverse and vulnerable populations; b) discuss primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention; and c) discuss Healthy People 2030 and how its initiatives support current health issues.
2. Reflect on a policy that you as an APN want to ensure passes as a law to improve health. Detail the policy and members of the committee that will help pass this Bill.
3. Describe the role of the Senator, Representative, and Governor and their influence towards passing this Bill and the political process. Discuss this policy and its impact on nursing practice.
4. Provide an analysis of the processes that influence the development and implementation of health policy for application in health care environments.
5. Discuss strategies to foster political action by advanced practice nurses (APN). Why is it important for APNs to get involved in the political process?
6. Discuss economic variables that impact health policy and health promotion at the local, state, federal, and international levels
There is a provider culture that includes the common values, beliefs, and expectations of providers in the health care system. How would you describe the culture of nursing?
Answer the following prompts:
There is a provider culture that includes the common values, beliefs, and expectations of providers in the health care system. How would you describe the culture of nursing?
In what ways might nurses project this culture onto their patients and clients?
How might the culture of nursing conflict with the values and beliefs of patients? Please provide an example from your own practice.
