Tag: Clinical-Nursing

Develop your own opinion about what constitutes social class. Give evidence to support your opinion. Discuss a situation from your own experience in which you personally witnessed the relationship that exists between social class and an individual’s health. Your response should be at least 300 words in length. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations. Any references or citations used should be in APA style.

The fundamental-cause theory suggests that those with greater access to resources will experience better health because of those resources, regardless of changes in cause, time, or situation. Do you agree with this theory? Do you believe that this truth only applies to those with a higher social status? Explain your position and provide at least one supporting fact to Fundamental-Cause Theory. Your response should be at least 300 words in length. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations. Any references or citations used should be in APA style.

From Private to Non-Profit—The Organizational Change Process

Your Learning Team is a Quality Management Team at a health care organization. Your company is preparing for a large organizational change and has asked your team to ready the managing staff for the upcoming change. Resources: Barriers of Change Product grading criteria on the student website Prepare an original product that outlines the barriers to change and factors that influence change. Products might include one of the following: 3 slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation for group training Include the following in your product: Describe possible organizational and individual barriers to change.

The Joint Commission provides some guidelines for creating spiritual assessment tools for evaluating the spiritual needs of patients. Using these resources and any other guidelines/examples you can find, make up your own tool for assessing the spiritual needs of patients. The spiritual-needs assessment tool should include a minimum of five questions that can either be answered by the patient and/or by your observation of the patient. The information can be presented in a Word document, in a table, or in questionnaire format. Using your assessment-tool questions, practice completing a spiritual assessment with a patient, family member, or friend. Once complete, analyze your results in 750-1000 words, with the following: Write a brief summary of your assessment findings. What significant discoveries did you make about the individual you chose to assess? What went well? What would you do differently in the future? Were there any barriers or challenges that inhibited your ability to complete the assessment tool? How would you address these in the future or change your assessment to better address these challenges? Describe the spiritual experience you had with your patient, family member, or friend using this tool. How does this tool allow you to better meet the needs of your patient?

Write a paper describing the approach to care of cancer. In addition, include the following in your paper: 1. Describe the diagnosis and staging of cancer. 2. Describe at least three complications of cancer, the side effects of treatment, and methods to lessen physical and psychological effects. 3. Prepare this assignment according to the APA guidelines. An abstract is not required.

You are a mid-level manager in a health care organization and you have been asked to prepare a report, with appropriate exhibits, for the senior financial officer. a. Discuss the roles played by financial ratios in general and analyze the commonly used financial ratios by categories. b. Additionally, select a local hospital and compare its financial ratios for the most recent three years against the national norms for this type of institution. Include analytical comments and how the organization compares to the national norms as well as any suggestions as to how results could be improved. Your paper must include an introduction, thesis, and conclusion and be four to five page double-spaced (excluding title and reference pages) and formatted according to APA style

Prepare a PowerPoint presentation that reviews a managed care program centered on disease management. Prepare 15-20 slides (excluding title and reference slides) documenting the major points of this program. Include detailed speaker notes with your presentation beneath each slide. The project must include these components: Title Slide with the following: Title of the managed care program Student’s name Course title/number Instructor’s name Date submitted Introduction/Thesis Statement introducing your managed care program based on disease management. The role of preventing disease Patient incentives Physician incentives Case management Facilities Quality of care Prescription benefits The future of data use and informatics Conclusion which includes a restatement of the opening thesis statement and summary of the managed care program discussed. Reference Slide (include a minimum of four scholarly and/ or peer reviewed sources cited according to APA guidelines) Your PowerPoint presentation slides should: Be sequenced and organized clearly. Have a clear, logical progression of ideas. Utilize bullet points or short sentences, if necessary, not dense paragraphs. Have relevant visuals, such as graphs, tables, data summaries, sound and/or animation which enhance the understanding of concepts, ideas, and relationships. Have a consistent theme, format, and font which augment the readability. In addition to the presentation, please submit a Word document containing the same information as the title slide. This document will be used for your instructor to provide you with feedback regarding your work.

Medical errors – Disclosure and Litigation

video about Medical errors then answer the following questions: a. What was the error(s) in the case presented in the video? b. Why do you think the error(s) happened? What might the contributing factor(s) be in this situation? c. Imagine you are this patient’s physician and are meeting with the family member to describe what happened. How would you communicate the error? d. Do you believe there is a link between how the error was disclosed and the actions the family member took afterward? Explain your answer.

According to Sollecito & Johnson (2013), “Organizations do not suddenly start making mistakes. They tend to slide imperceptibly into a set of conditions that produce medical errors” (p. 327). After completing this week’s reading discuss this concept as it relates to quality patient outcomes. Answer the following questions: a. In your opinion, do you believe that errors in the hospital setting are inevitable? Why or why not? b. If the most frequent type of error is omitting a step in delivering care (Sollecito & Johnson, 2013, p. 312), would it be better to focus on the individual who omitted the step or the system in which they work? Explain your answer. c. What role could being a “learning organization” play in reducing errors?

How to peace in a personal or health crisis. What are you able to do that promotes, or would promote, peace in a personal or health crisis? How willing are you to use this skill? What would make you more willing to do this?