Healthcare

Change is part of our daily healthcare environment. Clinical nursing judgments based on quality and safety, as well as protocols and standards, reflect our patient-centered care values.What steps could you take to develop more resilience in your practice setting?How might you communicate a change in practice to patients and nursing peers?

Discussion Question:Explain the difference between internal and external evidence. How can each of these types of evidence be utilized for quality improvement in the clinical setting? Provide an example for both.

Program evaluation procedures can help you identify the needs of a population as you develop programs. They can also help you identify portions of the population who are not accessing services once a program is implemented. In this assignment, you examine issues related to access to services and how program evaluation procedures can be used to address those issues.To PrepareReview the Interactive Learning Community’s Community Center and High School in this week’s Learning Resources. Consider the demographics present in the New Harbor High School. Then consider how you could apply research methods to increasing participation in marriage and relationship education programs to one of the largest disadvantaged and/or ethnically diverse families in the community. Use the data from the High School, to choose a population. Finally, consider the measurement and data collection methods presented in the course text and how they could be applied to this issue.The Assignment (2–3 pages)Identify the disadvantaged and/or ethnically diverse population you have chosen in this week’s Interactive Learning Community and why you choose that population to focus on.Explain how, as a researcher, you would increase participation of your chosen disadvantaged and/or ethnically diverse populations in marriage and relationship education programs based on their needs.The combination of qualitative and quantitative methods to provide more valid, reliable, and generalizable results in research is known as “Mixed Methods” Research. Explain the types of quantitative measures (detailed in this week’s readings) and qualitative data collection methods (detailed in Week 4’s readings) you would employ to obtain more valid, reliable and generalizable results for a program evaluation of the marriage and relationship education programs.

Prompt Imagine you have been invited to present your state’s health policy at a healthcare summit. Create a minimum 10-slide presentation where you provide information from your research into healthcare trends in the United States and your individual state. Be sure to cover the following elements: Affordable Care Act (ACA) State Medicaid Policy Pricing (services and prescriptions) Social issues that impact health in your state Your presentation should have a minimum of 10 slides with notes for the presentation and at least two references.

1)    Discuss the importance of program planning in Public Health ·      500 to 700 words ·      Arguments presented must be supported by literature ·      at least 2 sources of information must be cited 2)    Discuss the importance of theories or models in program planning in Public Health ·      500 to 700 words ·      Arguments presented must be supported by literature ·      at least 2 sources of information must be cited 3)    Discuss the importance of a program logic model ·      500 to 700 words ·      Arguments presented must be supported by literature ·      at least 2 sources of information must be cited 4)    Discuss the difference between monitoring and evaluation ·      500 to 700 words ·      Arguments presented must be supported by literature ·      at least 2 sources of information must be cited

Compare standards of practice in the community and compared to state or national practices for caring for heart failure patient. Analyze and provide substantial support for heart failure care disparities on a national and international basis.

For this paper, you need to conduct research in peer-reviewed journals or other sources that are considered to have reliable information. In addition to your required course text, you will need at least six professional scholarly sources, three of which must be peer-reviewed journal articles.Must begin with an introductory paragraph that has a succinct thesis statement.Must address the topic of the paper with critical thought.Must end with a conclusion that reaffirms your thesis.Must use at least six scholarly resourcesMust document all sources in APA style.Must include a separate reference page, formatted according to APA style

The purpose of this assignment is to analyze the importance of vision, mission, and values in strategic planning.Conduct additional research about the health care organization you selected in Topic 1. Identify the organization’s mission, vision, and values. Refer back to textbook Chapter 6 to review the characteristics of good mission and vision statements so you can use these criteria in the analysis of the selected company.Write a 1,000-1,250 word paper that analyzes the mission, vision, and value statements for the healthcare organization you have selected. The paper should address the following:Explain the importance of strategic direction and the purpose of the mission and vision statements in the strategic planning process.State the mission and vision of the selected organization.Utilize the criteria found in Chapter 6 to evaluate the mission and vision of the selected organization. Include discussion of whether the mission and vision statements contain the characteristics of good mission and vision statements and justify your position.Summarize the organization’s values and describe how they align to key tenets of the Christian worldview perspective. Include discussion about how adherence to these values can affect strategic planning and initiatives.Identify the major organizational resources needed to accomplish the mission and vision and uphold the company values.Identify strategies that can be employed to effectively manage resources to fulfill the organization’s mission and vision.Describe the substance of an organization’s strategic objectives and the contributions they make to the strategic planning process.Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.This assignment uses a rubric. Review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Refer to the LopesWrite Technical Support articles for assistance.This benchmark assignment assesses the following programmatic competencies:BSHealthCareAdministration1.3:Identify the major organizational resources needed to accomplish strategic health care initiatives.1.4:Determine the impact that an organization’s vision and mission have on effectively managing resources.

Physician Office RecordsDiscuss the key components of the patient record in a physicians office. (family practice/medicine)What makes a thorough and high-quality patient record in this setting?

Assignment Content1.Measuring progress and requirements in a project can be completed through performancetesting. As you review the results, it leads to ways to maintain the project progress. In thisweek’s assignment you will develop requirements that need measurable results throughperformance testing. Review the scenario and complete the activity below.The Recreation and Wellness Intranet Project team is working hard to ensure that the newsystem they develop meets expectations. The team has a detailed scope statement, but theproject manager, Tony Prince, wants to make sure they’re not forgetting requirementsthat might affect how people view the quality of the project. He knows that the project’ssponsor and other senior managers are most concerned with getting people to use thesystem, improve their health, and reduce healthcare costs. Users want the system to beuser-friendly, informative, fun to use, and fast.Complete the following in a Microsoft Word document.Develop a list of 6 quality standards or requirements related to meeting the stakeholderexpectations described in the Running Case.Write a 45- to 90-word brief description of each requirement. For example, arequirement might be that 90 percent of employees have logged into the system within 2weeks after the system rolls out.Write a 175-word explanation based on the list of standards and requirements on howyou will measure progress on meeting the requirements. For example, you might haveemployees log into the system as part of the training program and track who attends thetraining. You could also build a feature into the system to track usage by username,department, and other criteria. Support your answer with 1 credible source outside of thecourse materials.