Identify potential challenges related to the OB/GYN units performance.
Competency
Apply critical problem solving skills through evidence-based and informed practices in organizational outcomes.
Student Success Criteria
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Scenario
You are the CFO of a rural hospital. During a recent review of the organizations financial status, the hospital was deemed at risk for closure. Several factors contribute to the at-risk designation, including the states decision to opt-out of the Medicaid expansion program, the aging population which requires more expensive care, and the changes in reimbursement from Medicare. These challenges have resulted in rural facility closures across the country. As part of the strategic management team, you are charged with reviewing various facility units and making recommendations that may avoid closure. You determine that based on the profitability reports, the OB/GYN unit of the facility is underperforming in several key financial areas.
Instructions
In a written proposal to the hospital CEO, Administrator, and CMO, discuss the following:
Identify potential challenges related to the OB/GYN units performance.
Explain potential trends in the community impacting health consumer utilization patterns.
Explain the potential benefits of reorganization within the unit and how reorganization could improve its financial status.
Recommend a course of action and the implications that those actions will have for patients, providers, and investors (i.e., how might closure affect the community or how might new service offerings, such as midwife services, improve profitability).
Describe how you will ensure that the key stakeholders represent a culturally diverse mix of individuals.
CompetencyAssess key stakeholders roles, impact, and influence on strategic planning.
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ScenarioAfter reviewing the new proposed vision from Healthy Dynamics that includes updated mission, focus area, and objectives, the CEO has decided to contract a project manager. The project manager understands the importance of identifying stakeholders early in the strategic planning process. The project manager will be responsible for the successful start of the planning strategy, implementation, review, control, and evaluation of the strategic plan. Other tasks include: gathering feedback from stakeholders, identifying areas of improvement, and making recommendations.
The project manager has asked you to provide a strategy map, identifying key stakeholders involved in achieving the objectives of the defined focus area. Some of the major stakeholders in the healthcare industry are physicians, employers, insurance companies, pharmaceutical firms, government agencies, and consumers (e.g., patients and employees). You will also need to make a list of relevant questions to solicit feedback from the stakeholders that will allow you to see where stakeholders stand when evaluated by the same key measures (survey questions).
InstructionsDesign a Strategy Map (data table) using Microsoft Word that includes:
Identifying the key stakeholders.
Describe how you will ensure that the key stakeholders represent a culturally diverse mix of individuals.
Explain how you will ensure that you use a fair, respectful, and equitable selection process for identifying stakeholders.
What business or health industry does the stakeholder represent (e.g., wellness, pharmacy, health plans, non-profit, academia, etc.)?
What are the stakeholders roles and responsibilities as it relates to the strategic plan?
Indicate how often you will meet with the stakeholders.
What type of power (e.g., financial, providers, users, influencers) will the stakeholder have in the success of the strategic plan?
Include a timeline to show when you will engage each stakeholder.
Create a Stakeholder Survey that includes:
Key questions to solicit feedback from stakeholders after your first meeting (both quantitative and qualitative) to identify potential solutions to anticipated issues that may be raised by the stakeholders?
Questions should be aimed at how to improve the effectiveness of the stakeholder meetings and the satisfaction of the stakeholders during the planning process?
Your assignment should include a title page, a reference page, and a minimum of three scholarly sources, two of which must be retrieved from the Rasmussen Library.
Resources
For information about creating a Data Table, please visit this Rasmussen College Answers page.
For information about putting a data table into a paper in APA Style, please visit this Rasmussen College Answers page.
Briefly describe the culture in which Equiano lived before his capture; then summarize his capture and separation from his sister.
Olaudah Equiano
After you have written your answers, please delete the questions. Leaving the questions in the document will affect your Turnitin plagiarism score.
1. Briefly describe the culture in which Equiano lived before his capture; then
summarize his capture and separation from his sister.
2. Describe Equianos reactions as he first encounters the slave ship and the white men
who are enslaving them (p. 379). What are the emotions that he feels? What fears
does he have? How does he describe the countenances of those who were enslaved
as he was?
3. These few pages are, in some textbooks, subtitled The Horrors of the Slave Ship.
List five horrors from pp. 380-382 that strike you as particularly dreadful.
4. Describe the procedure for selling the slaves describe on p. 383. (Do not forget this
part of the question.) According to Equiano, what is the greatest horror of the selling
of slaves? At the end of the chapter, he writes, Surely, this is a new refinement in
cruelty. To what is he referring?
5. Describe Equiano’s friendship with Richard Baker, found at the end of chapter III on
p. 385. Comment on at least one other thing that stands out to you from chapter III.
6. The excerpt from chapter VII describes how Equiano gained his freedom. How did
this come about? Who helped him? Respond to Equianos expression of the joy he
felt at being free. Which images best express his feeling to you? Were you moved by
this passage?
7. Explain one of the allusions from this passage – either his reference to Peter in prison
or the reference to Elijah.
Demonstrate the ability to identify and understand the basic ethical and philosophical tenets of criminal justice.
Demonstrate the ability to identify and understand the basic ethical and philosophical tenets of criminal justice.
Instructions for this Assignment
Purpose:
The purpose of this assignment is to apply concepts learned in Rushworth Kidder’s reading on right vs. right dilemmas to your own personal ethical dilemma.
Materials: All Module 1 Materials
Tasks:
Part 1:
Rushworth Kidder talks about genuine ethical dilemmas as tough choices in which individuals face right vs. right situations (as opposed to right vs. wrong situations). He goes on to argue that most ethical dilemmas fit one of four possible patterns identified in Ch. 1 by Rushworth Kidder. Describe a personal example of a ‘right vs. right’ ethical dilemma you have faced in the past. Answer the questions in the following order. All answers must be in complete sentences.
Describe the right vs. right ethical dilemma you faced.
Which type of right vs. right dilemma is this based on Kidder’s reading? Explain why. (Truth vs. Loyalty, Individual vs. Community, Short term vs. Long term, or Justice vs. Mercy [another way to describe mercy is compassion])
What were the moral considerations behind the choices you were faced with? (This includes reviewing all of the facts and identifying all moral dilemmas for all parties involved).
What was the outcome of your ethical dilemma? In other words, what did you do?
What was the reasoning behind your choice?
Part 2:
Consider the following dilemma: You are a police officer patrolling late at night and see a car weaving back and forth across lanes of traffic. You easily suspect either DUI or some form of distracted driving so you turn on your siren and lights and the car pulls over. Before you approach the car, the driver stumbles out of the car, obviously intoxicated. There is no question that the driver meets the legal definition of intoxication. The driver also happens to be your favorite person (e.g. mother, father, sibling, cousin, best friend, grandma, grandpa, coach, teacher, etc.).
Imagine the same scenario and the person is a complete stranger. What would you do and why?
(We will revisit this same scenario in Module 2 once we have covered ethical systems).
Assignment Formatting Instructions
Double-spaced
12pt. Times New Roman font only
1″ margins on all sides
Name, date, course in the top right corner
A centered title
All answers must be in complete sentences and shall be between 500-750 words.
Proofread your work as spelling, grammar, punctuation, and capitalization count.
Any sources used should be properly cited in APA format.
Submission Format
Use the following format when naming your file: your First Initial and Last Name with the Assignment Name.
Example: JDoeModule1HomeworkAssignment.docx
File Submission: Please submit your files as a DOCX or PDF file.
Drawing on The Commonwealth Funds Country Profiles and the Kurani & Wagner analysis for the Kaiser Family Foundation. Summarize the healthcare system in each country as well as some health measure statistics/outcomes you found most compelling in them.
Your initial post should be at least 250 words and must substantively integrate the assigned readings
Be sure to use and cite as much supporting detail as necessary from the required learning materials in answering the following inter-related questions.
Briefly, which two countries healthcare systems did you choose to investigate and why?
Drawing on The Commonwealth Funds Country Profiles and the Kurani & Wagner analysis for the Kaiser Family Foundation. Summarize the healthcare system in each country as well as some health measure statistics/outcomes you found most compelling in them.
What might account for any differences you found in your selected countries (and implicitly back to the US as well)?
Finally, how has your review of these other countries affected your own views of the US healthcare system? For example, is there any structure, practice or outcome that the US would benefit from adopting?
Conerly, T.R., Holmes, K., & Tamang, A.L. (2021). Chapter 19: Health and MedicineLinks to an external site.. In, Introduction to sociology 3e (pp. 559-577). OpenStax.
Kurani, N., & Wagner, E. (2021, September 30). How does the quality of the US health system compare to other countries?Links to an external site. Kaiser Family Foundation.
The Commonwealth Fund. (nd). Country Profiles International Health Care System ProfilesLinks to an external site.. Washington, DC: The Commonwealth Fund.
PBS. (2008, April). Sick Around the World: 5 Capitalist Democracies and How They Do It.Links to an external site. PBS.
PBS NewsHour (2021, April 1) Critical Care: America vs. The World – A PBS NEWSHOUR SpecialLinks to an external site.. PBS. (56 mins; first 30:31 mins required, rest optional).
Explain the process of evidence-based analysis. Highlight the major players and their roles in EBM policy
Evidence-based medicine (EBM), previously translational medicine, can be defined as improving care based on empirical research and/or hands-on practice. The EBMs approach is based on either direct patient care (bottom-up) or an experiment translated into guidelines (top-down). EBM is used in either in conjunction or as quality assessment tool(s) for continuous quality improvement (CQI). The healthcare leader must utilize the evidence to promote healthcare quality.
Explain the process of evidence-based analysis.
Highlight the major players and their roles in EBM policy (i.e., government, providers, patients, etc.).
Explain the EBM Levels of Evidence as defined in your course text.
Review the case Constraints of the ACA on Evidence-Based Medicine.
Provide a written analysis of the case Constraints of the ACA on Evidence-Based Medicine in Chapter 9 of your textbook. (Utilize the Levels of Evidence and Grades of Recommendations as defined by the University of Minnesota) Clearinghouse.
Summarize the policy of EBM in your conclusion.
Identify company actions or red flags that might indicate violations of the Act.
Review the scenario and complete the activity below.
In an interview published by The New York Times in February 1976, former Lockheed President A. Carl Kotchian defended the payment of bribes by the company as follows:
Some call it gratuities. Some call them questionable payments. Some call it extortion. Some call it grease. Some call it bribery. I look at these payments as necessary to sell a product. I never felt I was doing anything wrong.
More than 30 years later, Reinhard Siekaczek, an accountant employed by Siemens who oversaw an annual budget for questionable payments in excess of $50 million, stated:
I never thought I would go to jail for my company.
We thought we had to do it. Otherwise, we would ruin the company.
People will only say about Siemens that they were unlucky and that they broke the Eleventh Commandment. The Eleventh Commandment is, Dont get caught.
You have been hired to assist ABC Multinational Company to help educate employees on ethical practices and corporate culture. More specifically, related to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, your role is to prevent situations described in the above scenario.
Create either a handout, job-aid, poster, or flier to educate employees on the Foreign Corrupt Practice Act. Complete the following for your educational tool:
Explain what the employees should know regarding the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
Provide examples of Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations.
Identify company actions or red flags that might indicate violations of the Act.
List any consequences of the violations.
Recommend actions to report possible violations.
Describe protections for whistleblowers. Why are they important? How do the protections impact the Act?
What members of the interdisciplinary team need to be included for holistic patient-centered care?
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Week 6 Discussion: Neurological Alterations (USLOs 1, 2, 3, 4)
You are caring for a 68-year-old Akio Kim in the emergency department for rule-out Cerebrovascular Accident (CVA). Mr. Kim’s daughter reported that he woke up that morning with left-sided weakness and slurred speech.
Based on this information, your prior knowledge of this client (refer to medical card from the Collins-Kim family tree interactive), and your knowledge of the pathophysiology of Cerebrovascular Accident (CVA), respond to the following prompts:
1. Thoroughly explain the pathophysiology of Cerebrovascular Accident (CVA). Use a
scholarly or
authoritative source to support your answer.
2. Examine each of the following three factors related to this disease process.
Support all three with a scholarly source.
1. cultural
2. financial
3. environmental implications
3. Identify 3-5 priority nursing interventions for the client while in the emergency department.
4. Describe labs and diagnostic testing you would want to include in clients plan of care and why. What are critical indicators?
Support with a scholarly source.
5. What members of the interdisciplinary team need to be included for holistic patient-centered care?
Provide a rationale and support with a scholarly source.
Write a sentence or two summarizing your purpose for pursuing higher education and your proposed graduation date.
Overview
Establishing a personal mission statement and setting goals are important steps in achieving success. Learning how to identify and align goals with your personal and professional values will establish standards to work toward. In this assignment, youll draft a personal mission statement and identify short-term goals to use throughout your educational career.
Prompt
Draft your academic personal mission statement and short-term goals in the provided Module Four Activity Template Word Document. An exemplar PDF for this activity has been provided for your reference as well. This personal mission statement and these goals should reflect your most important values, motivational needs, ideal career situation, what you value about that career, and why youre pursuing that particular career path.
Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:
Draft your academic personal mission statement. Consider the following as you create these goals:
Write a sentence or two summarizing your purpose for pursuing higher education and your proposed graduation date.
Write a sentence or two summarizing the type of professional you wish to become in your career.
Write a sentence or two summarizing how you hope to enhance your community or profession with your degree.
Draft three SMART academic goals relating to your academic personal mission statement. These goals should be achievable in the next six months (short-term). Consider the following as you create your goals:
How will each goal help you achieve your mission?
How will you know youve been successful in meeting each goal?
When do you intend to complete each goal?
Case study: Your local health system is planning to launch its new population health management (PHM) program for the community and population it serves. You are the Chief Population Officer for this system, and you were tasked by your system CEO to develop key performance indicators for this program.Describe your local healthcare profile (population number, socioeconomic determinants, health and medical resources available, in the community, competitive market, etc.).
CompetencyExamine disease management models and their effect on the health of populations and health economics.
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ScenarioYour local health system is planning to launch its new population health management (PHM) program for the community and population it serves. You are the Chief Population Officer for this system, and you were tasked by your system CEO to develop key performance indicators for this program.
One of the key components of this program is to identify and establish key performance indicators in healthy populations. Establishing key performance indicators allows decision makers to design meaningful and efficient PHM programs that address population health needs. Check out this web site to read more about key performance indicators for population health programs. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4438103/
InstructionsFor this assessment, create a PowerPoint presentation, with detailed speaker notes in each content discussion slide. You should assess your local population healthcare needs and develop key performance indicators that measure these needs. Use your local or state health department, U.S. Census, and other relevant websites to learn more about unique characteristics of your local community healthcare needs.
1. Describe your local healthcare profile (population number, socioeconomic determinants, health and medical resources available, in the community, competitive market, etc.).
2. Assess your local population healthcare needs, programs, and resources needed to address these needs. You should conduct a high-level Community Needs Assessment to ensure that healthcare resources are maximized for population health improvement. A Community Needs Assessment describes the health and welfare of the priority population, identifies the major health risk factors, the top health problems, and helps to identify the next steps to address these factors. Please have a look at the uploaded file.
