What are the various multidisciplinary departments (teams) included in your facilities?
Choose two long-term care facilities—one from nursing facilities, assisted living, or subacute care and another from adult day care, home health care, or hospice care—on which you would want to base your research work. Research Internet to read about your chosen long-term care facilities. Assume you are responsible for the management and administration of the two facilities. You have to orient the newly appointed manager by providing an overview on managing long-term care. You also need to discuss the programs of the two facilities. From this perspective and based on your research about the facilities, prepare a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation of 10–15 slides including the following: What are the various multidisciplinary departments (teams) included in your facilities? Who comprise the target population being served by the various programs provided by your chosen facilities? What are the major staffing and human resource issues faced by your chosen facilities? What are the significant trends in long-term care likely to impact the operation of the various programs provided by your chosen facilities, and what is your plan of action to overcome them? What are the various forms of cooperation and integration existing in your chosen facilities? Discuss the nature of management, financing, and quality issues related to integration and cooperation in the facilities? Support your responses with examples. Use the Notes section of the slides to provide additional information. Cite any sources in APA format.
What are the differences within a technical system as it relates to data in a computer system and across a network?
Understanding the complexities of data transmission and how it relates to the information technology field is a key foundation to understanding the digital world. How does data flow? Where is it most secure? What are the differences within a technical system as it relates to data in a computer system and across a network? Address the following: Discuss the difference in data at rest, in use, and in transmission. Explain how you would secure the data. Describe how the strategy changes, and when it’s in use, at rest, or in transit. 1,000 words 3-5 scholarly sources
Identify the positive trends relative to the future of organized delivery systems.
Read the Senate Bill HB 707 for the state of Georgia located in Week 2. You may also view the article at http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/143506.pdf. Next, predict the impact of Senate Bill HB 707 on the expansion of Medicaid in the State of Georgia. Defend or critique the implications of Georgia’s HB 707 on Georgia’s uninsured population. Support your position using a minimum of two (2) sources from the textbook or Internet.2. •Identify the positive trends relative to the future of organized delivery systems. Provide one (1) example of an organized delivery system in your area, and examine its impact on reducing costs, increasing access to care, and improving quality of care.3. Consumer-driven health plans often rely on large deductibles funded via a health savings account framework. Suggest two (2) scenarios that depict the potential effect(s) of a large deductible on price elasticity for health services. Theorize one (1) possible outcome of your proposed scenarios.
How do spiritual beliefs impact political ideologies and the policy process?
How do spiritual beliefs impact political ideologies and the policy process? How have they affected the health policy reform process? Using respectful communication, debate your response with two other classmates. Give examples and support your reasoning with appropriate references.
Which factors are the most important for reducing or preventing adolescent pregnancy?
You have been hired as head of the Maternal, Infant, and Reproductive Health Task Force in Centervale. The mission of the task force is to reduce the growing rate of adolescent pregnancy in Centervale using a multicomponent, ecological approach.The task force includes representatives from the medical community, community-based organizations that serve low income and minority populations, schools, parents, and teen advocacy groups. Each group has an interest in the issue, although there are several opinions about how the problem should be addressed. Previous meetings (prior to your participation) lacked focus and direction and consisted primarily of members voicing opinions.You were hired for this position based on your ability to apply theoretically sound, evidence-based principles to the development and evaluation of programs and policies. Over the next several weeks, you will develop brief planning and background documents to use as the basis for the development and evaluation of a comprehensive program. You will then prepare a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation of your program for the Board of Directors. The first step is to learn more about adolescent pregnancy prevention, and the behavioral, cultural, and environmental risk factors associated with this health issue.Using the Argosy University online library resources, review scholarly literature on adolescent pregnancy prevention, including the behavioral, cultural, and environmental risk factors associated with this health issue.• Provide a brief overview of adolescent pregnancy issues.• Explain the key behavioral, cultural, and environmental risk factors.• Be sure to provide illustrative examples in support.• Do not focus on how the problem can be “fixed,” but only on the risk or causative factors.• Focus on the following:
o Which factors do you think are the most important and why?
o Which factors do you think are the most and least changeable?
o Which factors are the most important for reducing or preventing adolescent pregnancy?
What is the profit-maximizing entrance fee?
An amusement park is considering changing its pricing system from a pay-per-ride system to a single entrance fee entitling the entrant to unlimited rides. Assume that the park is not close to approaching the attendance capacity. The marginal value for rides for the typical entrant is listed below:
Quantity (# of rides) Marginal value ($)1 $2.502 $2.003 $1.504 $1.005 $0.506 $0.107 $0 At a price of $2.50 per ride, how many rides would our consumer ride?= 1 ride If the price were $2.00 per ride, how many rides would our consumer ride? = 2 rides a. Assuming that the marginal cost is zero to provide the rides to those in attendance, what is the best pay-per-ride price (take make things convenient for the cashiers, consider only 50 cent increments)? b. Instead of pay-per-ride, you implement an entrance fee (and unlimited rides). What is the profit-maximizing entrance fee?
What health issues are unique to the cultural group you are researching?
Doctor Coopers, APA 6-8 pages
Dealing with Difference in the Health Care Setting (6-8 Pages double spaced).
Your paper will be based on a specific cultural group assigned to you during the first class session. The purpose of this assignment is to help you learn more about another cultural group by gathering information about the cultural group from a variety of sources, including an INTERVIEW with an individual from that group. Research- Preparing Your Outline and Notes- The following provides an extensive but not exhaustive list of topic areas that might be covered in your paper. While you will not have time to deal with each area, please choose the information that is most relevant to understanding human difference and the responsibility of health care workers for responding to these differences in a health care setting. Please have at least five outside sources in addition to your interview and other course materials. A. Interview Basic Information 1. Immigration background, language, religious beliefs/practices. 2. Most challenging/difficult aspects of American culture for them. 3. Family patterns, roles, and relationships. 4. Customs and behaviors, food, holidays and celebrations. 5. Recreation and leisure activities. 6. Degree of Assimilation: where do they feel they fit in? B. What health issues are unique to the cultural group you are researching? What does a health care worker need to be most concerned about when dealing with members of your specific cultural group? In what ways might nursing care be particularly sensitive to those who are members of this cultural group? C. Discuss three aspects of the cultural group that are the most difficult for you to understand. Explain why characteristics of your culture and that of your cultural group might cause these difficulties. D. Using ideas from the text, readings, class and outside sources, list steps and/or principles health care workers can use to avoid negative stereotyping, judging, or prejudice against the cultural group. E. Mention any emotional responses, changes in thinking, or insights you personally gained from your research. Cultural Group: Culture: Once you have completed your paper ( including bibliography: websites for articles available online, citations for information from your sources—books, magazines, journals etc.) p lease submit paper as a Microsoft Word attachment to ASSIGNMENTS.
How would you apply the principles of positive deviance to address this problem/issue?
Discussion: Applying the Concept of Positive Deviance Focus on the successful exceptions (i.e., positive deviants), not the failing norm. —Pascale, Sternin, & Sternin, 2010 Positive deviants—those who are able to innovate and create affirmative results—do so within the same constraints that others face. These outliers reveal how the desired outcomes can be achieved by expanding beyond the boundaries of the status quo, while maintaining a focus on what is professionally, legally, and morally appropriate. Consider the following example: In 1990, Save the Children (SC), a nongovernmental organization in the United States, was asked by the government of Vietnam to create a program to enable poor villages to solve the overwhelming problem of childhood malnutrition. Given just six months to create a sustainable solution, those involved realized that they needed to look at the positive results that some had been able to achieve relative to the lack of success others had encountered under similar circumstances. They posed the question: “If some individuals in a community were better able to solve problems than others with access to exactly the same resources, could we use that provocative discrepancy?” Taking this tack, they were able to identify approaches that differed from the norm and apply this knowledge to produce positive results that led to a dramatic improvement in child health (Dura, Singhal, and Sternin, 2009). In this Discussion, you examine a health care problem or issue and consider how you could apply the concept of positive deviance to produce systems-level change that leads to improved quality. To prepare: Review the information in this week’s Learning Resources, including the first chapter in Pascale, Sternin, and Sternin book and the Bradley, Curry, Ramanadhan, Rowe, Nembhard, and Krumholz article. Reflect on health care quality problems or issues that warrant systems-level change. Consider the significance of each problem/issue. Identify one, in particular, that you would like to focus on for this Discussion. Note: You may use the quality improvement issue that you selected for your Course Project, if appropriate. With this problem or issue in mind: How would you apply the principles of positive deviance to address this problem/issue? What specific steps would you take to move from identification of the problem/issue through evaluation of outliers to implementation of a larger scale change to improve quality? What examples of positive deviance, if any, are you aware of related to this problem/issue? Conduct research as necessary to see if you can locate one or more instances of positive deviance. Post a brief description of the health care quality problem or issue you selected and explain how it could be addressed using the principles of positive deviance. Read a selection of your colleagues’ responses. Respond to at least two of your colleagues on two different days using one or more of the following approaches: Ask a probing question, substantiated with additional background information or research. Share an insight from having read your colleagues’ postings, synthesizing the information to provide new perspectives. Validate an idea with your own experience and additional resources. Required Readings Bradley, E. H., Curry, L. A., Ramanadhan, S., Rowe, L., Nembhard, I. M., & Krumholz, H. M. (2009). Research in action: Using positive deviance to improve quality of health care. Implementation Science, 4(25), 1–11. Retrieved from the Walden Library databases. The authors of this article review literature on positive deviance as well as break down a step-by-step approach in applying positive deviance in a research model to improve quality. Dingfelder, H. E., & Mandell, D. S. (2011). Bridging the research-to-practice gap in autism intervention: An application of diffusion of innovation theory. Journal of Autism & Developmental Disorders, 41(5), 597–609. Retrieved from the Walden Library databases. The authors discuss the need to apply Roger’s diffusion of innovation theory in an effort to improve autism intervention for patients. Seidman, W., & McCauley, M. (2009). A scientific model for grassroots O.D. Organization Development Journal, 27(2), 27–37. Retrieved from the Walden Library databases. Seidman and McCauley explore the grassroots nature of an organization’s culture and the effect of positive deviance, fair process, and neuroscience on creating change in the culture. Required Media Laureate Education (Producer). (2013h). Risks and benefits of positive deviance. Retrieved from https://class.waldenu.edu Note: The approximate length of this media piece is 4 minutes. Dr. Kenneth Rempher discusses how to encourage positive deviance while maintaining ethical and moral standards. Accessible player Optional Resources Pascale, R. T., Sternin, J., & Sternin, M. (2010). The power of positive deviance: How unlikely innovators solve the world’s toughest problems. Boston, MA: Harvard Business Press. Chapter 1, “Introduction: Against All Odds” (pp. 1–18)
Discuss the roles of the State, Federal, and Local governments in Ohio developing health related laws, and policy, and in some cases directly providing patient care through clinics or hospitals.
Health Bureaucracy” Please respond to the following:• Discuss the roles of the State, Federal, and Local governments in Ohio developing health related laws, and policy, and in some cases directly providing patient care through clinics or hospitals. What impact can these have on the access, cost, and quality of medical care that citizens receive?
Discuss the appeal process involved in responding to internal and external audits in healthcare facilities.
QUESTION 11. Discuss the appeal process involved in responding to internal and external audits in healthcare facilities. Your response must be at least 200 words in length.
QUESTION 21. Explain the impact of failure to comply with state and federal laws, regulations, and statutes in health care. Be sure to include the doctrine of corporate negligence in your answer. Also, discuss the steps that are employed for ethical decision making in health care, including the four key ethical principles. Your response must be at least 500 words in length
