Healthcare

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.

Please Keep Program Planning & Evaluation Labeled Accordingly 2. Program Planning –  In the city of Macomb, county of Macomb, state of Michigan identify and interview a program planner about a specific public health program plan and then critically assess their approach to the work. PART I. As part of the interview, ask the programmer the following guiding questions. Please DO NOT name the planner or their location. You only need to answer the questions based on your interview. Assignment Length for Part 1. Two pages double-spaced.  Questions if you are interviewing a program planner: 1. Describe briefly the goal of the health program that you developed? 2. Describe what prompted your agency to develop this specific intervention? 3. What are the objectives for the intervention? 4. How was your program funded?  Explain your role in obtaining funding? 5. Explain the program theories that guided you in planning the intervention/Project?  If not, how did you choose your activities? 6. Is this a time-limited program plan?  If so, do you have plans to promote sustainability? 7. Who are your stakeholders and how do you collaborated with them?  8. How did you monitor the implementation of this project? 9. What are the successes and/or challenges of this program plan? 10. Have you been evaluating the program plan? If so, please briefly summarize. PART II Critical Assessment. To assess the interview, draw on the course materials to apply critical thinking related to the program planning process.  This section should be 1 to 2 double spaced pages. We’d like you to focus on: 1. What elements of the planning process did the planner include?   2. What elements were missing?   From your perspective, did this seem to affect the quality of the program? 3. Describe the strengths of the current program?  The challenges they are facing? 4. Make suggestions to improve this program and make three to four key recommendations.  Support each recommendation with a few sentences and citations. Evaluation –  In the city of Macomb, county of Macomb, state of Michigan, identify and interview a program evaluator about a specific public health program plan and then critically assess their approach to the work. It can be the same person interviewed for assignment 1. PART I. As part of the interview, ask the program evaluator the following guiding questions. Please DO NOT name the evaluator or their location. You only need to answer the questions based on your interview. Assignment Length for Part 1. Two pages double-spaced. Take notes and ask for supporting program evaluation documents Questions if you are interviewing an evaluator: 1. Describe the goal of the health program that was developed. 2. What are the objectives, if they exist, for the program? 3. At what point in the development and/or implementation of the program did you begin evaluating this intervention? 4. How and why were you asked to evaluate this program? 5. How did you work with the program planner to develop and implement the evaluation plan? 6. Describe how you developed the evaluation plan?  What were the key components of it? 7. What are the key methods and short and long term outcomes you are measuring? 8. What have been the successes and/or challenges in evaluating this program? 9. Have you involved key stakeholders in the evaluation (eg., program planner, funders, other stakeholders)?  If so, who? PART II Critical Assessment. To assess the interview, draw on the course materials to apply critical thinking related to the program evaluation process.  Assignment length for Part 2. This section should be 1 to 2 double spaced pages. We’d like you to focus on: Critical Assessment Questions for the Evaluation Interview 1. If you were a consultant, how would you describe the strengths of the current evaluation? 2. What are the challenges they are facing in carrying out the evaluation? How have these challenges affected the scope and effectiveness of the evaluation? 3. Make suggestions to improve the overall evaluation of the program and make three to four key recommendations. Support each recommendation with a few sentences and citations.

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.

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.

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.

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.

InstructionsWhat precautions do you think are most important when handling patient medical records? What might happen if these precautions are not taken?Your journal entry must be at least 200 words in length. No references or citations are necessary.