Category: Nursing

1) Identify a specific health care policy (e.g., Medicare/Medicaid, Social Security, Affordable Health Care Act, etc.) from 
http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/
 or similar websites.

2) In a flow chart, illustrate how the health care policy became law. The flow chart should include a historical timeline from the introduction of the law to its implementation. To create the flowchart, use the “Concept Mapping and Graphing Tool.” After completing the flowchart, save the document as an Acrobat PDF file.

3) In addition, develop a short narrative (700 words) which describes the expected effects of the health care policy on specific health outcomes.

4) While APA format is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected and in-text citations and references should be presented using APA documentation guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

5) This assignment uses a grading rubric. Instructors will be using the rubric to grade the assignment; therefore, students should review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the assignment criteria and expectations for successful completion of the assignment.

Role Of The APRN In Increasing Adult Vaccinations

After reading the Wright and Anderson articles
Childhood vaccine status and correlation with common
 and
Comparison of immunization rates of adults ages 65 years and older managed within two nurse practitioner–owned clinics with national immunization rates
  – discuss the role of the APRN in increasing adult vaccination rates.  Given the culture of the United States , which tools discussed in the articles or that you reviewed on the CDC website do you think might be most useful in increasing the vaccination rates of adults? and Why?

1.  Describe the health beliefs of the African American and Amish people and how they are differ

2.  Mention the difference between the African American and the Amish communities regarding health care.

3.  If there any similarity between the African American and the Amish population.

As always and stated in the syllabus present your assignment in an APA format word document attached to the threat in the discussion tab of the blackboard under week 3 discussion questions.  Assignment must be presented in an Arial 12 font with at least 3 evidence based references.  Two replies sustained with references are required.  A minimum of 500 words are required

Risk management in healthcare institutions

Write a 4-5 page paper in APA format (not including the cover page and reference page).   Please click here to view the criteria by which you will be assessed for the achievement of the CLO for this unit. Please use the APA Sample provided in Unit 1 to complete your assignment. Also use the LIRN to find research and evidence that supports your thoughts and ideas.

According to Kavaler and Alexander (2014), the need model of managing risks relies on a total assessment of the healthcare setting in order to identify potential flaws that could create harm. For the first part of this assignment, identify and discuss the 3 core principles of this model.  For the second part, identify 2 sources of risk in an outpatient based surgical facility.  Using the core principles, how can these risks be mitigated.  Make sure that your recommendation is logical and sound.

The document should be prepared consistent with the APA writing style (6th edition) and reflect higher level cognitive processing (analysis, synthesis and or evaluation). A workbook has been provided for you to use as a tool to help you with selecting one of these methods and the criteria for writing the paper. You do not have to turn the workbook in but it will be helpful to you.

Kavaler, F. & Alexander, R. (2014). Risk management in healthcare institutions. (3rd ed.).

Burlington, MA: Jones and Bartlett Publishing.

TOWS Matrix in Healthcare and SWOT Analysis

TOWS Matrix

Internal and external factors are combined to develop and evaluate specific strategic alternatives using a TOWS matrix. The threats-opportunities-weaknesses-strengths (TOWS) matrix is an important matching tool that helps managers develop four types of strategies as the basis for strategic planning.

Managers consider internal strengths and weaknesses in relation to external opportunities and threats. The internal strengths and weaknesses–or competitive advantages and disadvantages–are summarized on the horizontal axis, and the external environmental opportunities and threats are summarized on the vertical axis.

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Managers can then develop adaptive strategic alternatives by matching the organization’s strengths with the external environmental opportunities and threats, and in turn, matching the organization’s weaknesses with the external opportunities and threats.

 

TOWs Matrix

Opportunities (O)

Threats (T)

Strengths (S)

 SO Strategies

ST Strategies

 

Weaknesses (W)

 WO Strategies

WT Strategies

 

SO = strategies for pursuing opportunities.

ST = strategies for using strengths to reduce threats.

WO = strategies for overcoming weaknesses.

WT = strategies to prevent or reduce weaknesses to external threats.

To add additional rows to the tables, use Microsoft Word’s “Table > Insert > Rows” command.  Right click on a cell and following the prompts.

SWOT Matrix

Helpful

(to achieve the objective)

Harmful

(to achieve the objective)

Internal origin

(service/organization attributes)

Strengths

Weaknesses

External origin

(environmental/market attributes)

Opportunities

Threats

 

TOWS Matrix in Healthcare and SWOT Analysis Overview

Create a draft for a strategic plan for your selected organization using a TOWS matrix and portfolio analysis in addition to any other appropriate tool of your choosing.

Note: The assessments in this course are presented in sequence and must be completed in order.

The TOWS Matrix is a decision-making process for developing strategic alternatives. You will be able to better develop a more effective strategic plan based upon an in-depth understand of the current environment. TOWS Matrix in Healthcare and SWOT Analysis.

By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:

Competency 1: Analyze organizational structure, design, culture, and climate in relation to environmental forces. ◦Apply methodologies from the knowledge-economy management approach appropriately to the organization.

◦Integrate recent research into a strategic management plan.

Competency 2: Develop a strategic organizational plan that provides human and financial resources to support targeted organizational outcomes. ◦Synthesize operational and financial components into a strategic planning process.

◦Analyze strategy in relation to achieving competitive advantage.

Competency 3: Recommend an organizational structure and design to optimize a strategic plan. ◦Recommend an alternative organizational structure model that aligns with organizational goals.

 

Context

Development of strategies involves awareness of the environment, intellectual curiosity, and a willingness to be open to creative ideas and solutions.

The Assessment 2 Context document contains important information about the following topics related to Adaptive and Market Entry strategies:

The TOWS Matrix.

Service/Product Life Cycle.

Product (or service) Development Process.

Strategy Implementation & Organizational Culture.

When Cultures Need Changing.

TOWS Matrix in Healthcare and SWOT Analysis Questions to Consider

To deepen your understanding, you are encouraged to consider the questions below and discuss them with a fellow learner, a work associate, an interested friend, or a member of the business community.TOWS Matrix in Healthcare and SWOT Analysis.

TOWS Matrix in Healthcare and SWOT Analysis Required Resources 

The following resources are required to complete the assessment.

Riverbend City: Ruby Lake Evacuation Mission

TOWS Matrix.

Suggested Resources

The following optional resources are provided to support you in completing the assessment or to provide a helpful context. For additional resources, refer to the Research Resources and Supplemental Resources in the left navigation menu of your courseroom.

Library Resources

The following e-books or articles from the Capella University Library are linked directly in this course:

Ginter, P. M., Duncan, W. J., & Swayne, L. E. (2013). Strategic management of health care organizations (7th ed.). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass. ◦Chapter 7, “Evaluation of Alternatives and Strategic Choice,” pages 255–304.

◦Chapter 8, “Value-Adding Service Delivery Strategies,” pages 307–341.

Littlejohns, P., Sharma, T., &Jeong, K. (2012). Social values and health priority setting in England: “Values”-based decision making. Journal of Health Organization and Management, 26(3), 363–373.

Assessment Instructions

Note: Assessment 1, Current Environmental Analysis, must be completed before beginning this TOWS Matrix in Healthcare and SWOT Analysis assessment. You will be revisiting and revising strategies throughout each of the assessments in this course. Each assessment builds on your previous work.

Step One:
Critical Thinking Skills Practice

The TOWS Matrix is a decision-making process for developing strategic alternatives. Your ability to think critically is key to organizing your thoughts throughout the strategic planning process.

In preparation for this assessment, you are required to view the Riverbend City: Ruby Lake Evacuation Mission simulation (linked in the Resources). This activity is an ideal setting to practice thoughtful application of critical thinking skills. This media piece addresses multiple competencies, some of which are difficult to practice and assess without a real world or a simulated setting. As you begin your TOWS matrix, keep the following categories of critical thought in mind as you consider the threats, opportunities, strengths, and weaknesses of the Ruby Lake Evacuation scenario. TOWS Matrix in Healthcare and SWOT Analysis.

Assumptions: What assumptions are being taking for granted by the people in this simulation? What alternative assumptions could be useful in this situation?

Information: What information did people have and what kind of information were they missing?

Fairness: How was intellectual and intercultural fairness demonstrated?

Criteria for Evaluation: What criteria would you use to evaluate the quality of the information, implementation and/or effectiveness?

Complete a practice TOWS Matrix for this scenario before proceeding to Step Two. This practice matrix does not need to be submitted.

Step Two
: Complete a TOWS Matrix

Apply the same critical thought process to a real world setting that is relevant for your selected health care organization’s future success. In addition to completing a TOWS matrix, you may use any other appropriate analysis tools to determine alternative strategies.

Include the following as you develop alternative strategies:

Incorporate the use of new methodologies from the knowledge-economy management approach that might be appropriate for this organization.

Correlate recent research findings regarding strategy management into your approach.

Synthesize operational and financial components in your strategic planning process.

Incorporate your findings from your current environment analysis.

Determine the organizational structure that best facilitates the strategy—functional, divisional, or matrix.

Step Three:
Draft Strategic Plan

Re-examine your work from Assessment 1 and create a high level draft of a strategic plan that incorporates insights from your environmental analysis and the TOWS matrix exercise.The goal is to focus upon application of the concepts and new insight. Keep it brief and substantive.

Preface your TOWS Matrix in Healthcare and SWOT Analysis draft with the core assumptions regarding environmental opportunities and threats, organizational strengths and weaknesses, and organizational behavior dynamics that are foundational to the strategy. TOWS Matrix in Healthcare and SWOT Analysis.

Include a brief description of the proposed strategy in your TOWS Matrix in Healthcare and SWOT Analysis that reflects the choices made regarding:

Service/product domain.

Market domain.

Level of investment in the respective service/product and market domains.

Positioning approach for achieving competitive advantage.

Maneuvers that will be used to implement the positioning approach.

Distinctive competencies or assets that will be relied on to gain and sustain competitive advantage.

Additional Requirements

Submit your selected health organization’s TOWS Matrix from Step Two, with the high-level components of a strategic plan, as an attachment to this assessment.

TOWS Matrix in Healthcare and SWOT Analysis Length: 3–5 double-spaced, typed pages. Note: Feel free to construct images/diagrams to summarize information where appropriate (for example, TOWS matrix…).

APA formatting: Resources and citations are formatted according to current APA style and formatting.

Resources: Use evidence from the literature to support your recommendations. TOWS Matrix in Healthcare and SWOT Analysis.

Topic

First, here is a word of caution. With this discussion comes a tasking to discuss the death penalty in two ways: first, as an expression of the social contract, where one person has killed another in a violation of that other person’s right to peace and safety, and second, as a rules-based function of the justice system being applied to a difficult situation.

What do you see going on that is a violation of the Hobbes/Locke social contract idea?

And you might also connect it with any of the Three Schools, plus Aristotle, that you have read in past weeks—and especially with the rules-based ethics model.

Here’s the situation: In Manatee County, Florida, a judge sentenced a man to death—the first time this had happened in the county for over 19 years. Sentenced to death was a 25-year-old man for the January 7, 2004, murder of both of his parents by bludgeoning them to death in their bed with a baseball bat.

Now, with your social contract ethicist hats on, tell us what you make of this quote by the judge at the sentencing, quoted from the front page of the November 17, 2007 
Bradenton Herald
: “You have not only forfeited your right to live among us, but under the laws of the state of Florida, you have forfeited the right to live at all.”

Have at it, good folks. But, rather than running off with reactions and opinions about the death penalty in general, please do keep it in the context of our social contract discussion for this week and also connected with ethics of justice.

THE SOCIAL CONTRACT

2 Social Contract theorists say that morality consists of a set of rules governing how people should treat one another that rational beings will agree to accept for their mutual benefit, on the condition that others agree to follow these rules as well.

Hobbes runs the logic like this in the form of a logical syllogism:

We are all self-interested,

Each of us needs to have a peaceful and cooperative social order to pursue our interests,

We need moral rules in order to establish and maintain a cooperative social order,

Therefore, self-interest motivates us to establish moral rules.

Thomas Hobbes looked to the past to observe a primitive “State of Nature” in which there is no such thing as morality, and that this self-interested human nature was “nasty, brutish, and short” — a kind of perpetual state of warfare

John Locke disagreed, and set forth the view that the state exists to preserve the natural rights of its citizens. When governments fail in that task, citizens have the right—and sometimes the duty—to withdraw their support and even to rebel. Listen to Locke’s audio in this week’s lesson and read his lecturette to be able to answer this thread.

Locke addressed Hobbes’s claim that the state of nature was the state of war, though he attribute this claim to “some men” not to Hobbes. He refuted it by pointing to existing and real historical examples of people in a state of nature. For this purpose he regarded any people who are not subject to a common judge to resolve disputes, people who may legitimately take action to themselves punish wrong doers, as in a state of nature.

Which philosophy do you espouse?

In coming to grips with the two and considering your experience of society as it is today, think out loud about what you experiences as the State of Nature, and tell us what you would be willing to give up in exchange for civil order and personal security?

You might consider what you have already given up in exchange for security as well as what might be required in coming days.

Hourly Rounding – Leadership in Nursing and Healthcare Strategic Planning for Change

Overview For this Assignment, you explore one challenge that you would like to see addressed in your organization or one with which you are familiar. You will continue to work on this Assignment over the next several weeks. You will prepare an outline for this assignment due day 7 of week 5. This outline will help organize your work toward this assignment. This Assignment also serves as your Portfolio Assignment. To prepare: • Identify a problem that you would like to investigate for this Assignment. Consider the resources and discussion about strategic planning and models that guide change such as SWOT, Balanced Scorecard, or Six Sigma and lean principles. Review evidence-based literature for data related to your selected problem. You will need to use at least five current (not more than five years old), peer-reviewed articles. If you cannot find adequate evidence, you may need to refine your topic. Your Instructor may provide some guidance for your literature search. By Day 7 of Week 2, enter your selected problem in the Strategic Planning for Change Forum of the Discussion Board. Your Instructor will approve your selected problem or provide feedback to help you refine your focus for this Assignment. While this portion of the Assignment is not graded, it is required. Once you have received feedback/approval of your selected problem: • Reflect on the topics you are examining in this course and consider how they relate to your selected problem. Plan to analyze the problem using principles, theories, and concepts related to leadership and management, as well as other pertinent course themes. • Review evidence-based literature for data related to your selected problem. You will need to use at least five current (not more than five years old), peer-reviewed articles. Your Instructor may provide some guidance for your literature search. • Synthesize findings from the research literature and/or drawn from other sources of evidence. • Develop evidence-based recommendations for addressing the problem.  © Laureate Education, Inc. 2 Write a 5- to 6-page Hourly Rounding – Leadership in Nursing and Healthcare Strategic Planning for Change paper (not including title page, references, or any appendix) that addresses the following: • Introduction/Statement of the problem (1/2 page) • Review of the literature for potential solutions to the identified problem • Synthesis of the evidence as applied to the stated problem. • Strategic plan for suggested courses of action based on your evidence and including application of a change theory. • Conclusion/Summary Reminder: The School of Nursing requires that all papers submitted include a title page, introduction, summary, and references. The Sample Paper provided at the Walden Writing Center provides an example of those required elements (available at http://writingcenter.waldenu.edu/57.htm). All papers submitted must use this formatting. The completed paper is due by Day 7 of Week 8

Explanation of Benefits (EOB) Form and Remittance Advice (RA)

A  multiple EOB/RA comes back to a large group practice filled with  details of the status of claims including a voucher (check), suspended  claims, denials, and rejections for various patients and physicians. In  250 – 500 words answer the following questions. What are some steps the  medical office administrator can take to record the completed  transactions and address any outstanding problems? When are claim  inquiries made? Properly cite your references in APA format.

Debt  collection is a challenge for most businesses—including the medical  office. It is a delicate task as we never want to alienate patients or  make them feel uncomfortable. In 250 – 500 words,  Discuss some  problem-solving and debt collection strategies for people who do not pay  at your medical office. Should some people be treated differently than  others? What are some best practices for obtaining accounts receivable  without losing a valuable patient? Properly cite your references in APA  format.

Your Ethical Dimensions of Meaningful Use and Chapter Work Products Assignment has five parts:

1. Please read the article titled 
Ethical Dimensions of Meaningful Use Requirements for Electronic Health Records
 at this link: 
http://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/2011/03/pfor1-1103.html

Summarize  the important points you took away from that article in a well-written  narrative (250-300 words) and submit to your instructor for evaluation.

2.  Please produce and save the patient logs for the three patients you  created in Chapter 3 (see pages 39-41 for detailed instructions).

3.  Please produce and save work you created in Chapter 5 (see pages 65-66  for detailed instructions). Make sure you complete the Self-Assessment  to make very certain your work is error-free before submitting. Your  instructor will also be able to view your work online.

4.  Please produce and save all three schedule prints (for your location,  for Dr. Stimson, and for Dr. Carver) you created in Chapter 6. See pages  103-106 for detailed instructions.

5.  Please produce and save the clinical notes for the two patients you  registered in Chapter 7. See page 128 for detailed instructions.