Tag: Clinical-Nursing

Health Education Campaigns

We explored different ways of influencing policymakers through a number of forms of letter writing in this course. For this discussion, you will explore other ways of working with campaigns. As a health advocate, it is important to assist candidates who support your issues to help bring about the desired change. There are a number of different ways you can help contribute during the process. Address the following in your discussions:

How can you assist a campaign with a similar health agenda as your own? Provide examples as part of your discussion.

What responsibility(s) AND what competency(s) of a Health Education Specialist does assisting a campaign fall under? Explain your choices.

Health Information Exchange (HIE) and Health Reform

Resource: Brochure Builder Imagine you are a certified health records specialist at a medical practice and have been asked to create a brochure for your patients regarding HIE. Create a 350- to 700-word brochure Include the following: Describe the relationship between HIE and health reform. Identify and describe at least 3 privacy concerns with the use of HIE and the Internet. Cite at least 2 references in your brochure. One reference should be a course textbook and the other should be an outside source. Format any citations in your brochure according to APA guidelines.

Critical Thinker

A poem by T.S. Eliot (1943) says, “We had the experience but missed the meaning.” As your experience in this course comes to a close, I don’t want you to miss the meaning of the materials you have read, papers you have written, and discussions we have had throughout the session. They are more than a series of assignments and grades—the end result should be an improvement in your higher-order thinking and your ability to make connections between thoughts and ideas. You can achieve that through reflection, the art of taking charge of your own mind.

Reflection is a mental process that challenges you to use critical thinking to examine the course information, analyze it carefully, make connections with previous knowledge and experience, and draw conclusions based on the resulting ideas. A well-cultivated critical thinker (Paul & Elder, 2008):

raises vital questions and problems, formulating them clearly and precisely;

gathers and assesses relevant information, using abstract ideas to interpret it effectively; comes to well-reasoned conclusions and solutions, testing them against relevant criteria and standards;

thinks open-mindedly within alternative systems of thought, recognizing and assessing, as need be, their assumptions, implications, and practical consequences; and

communicates effectively with others in figuring out solutions to complex problems.

For this discussion, take some time to reflect upon two concepts that you learned in this course. What are the concepts? What insight or ideas did you gain from learning each of these concepts as a critical thinker? Were there aspects of the concepts that you would challenge? What is the importance of these concepts to public health? How will you use this new wisdom in your current or future career as a critical thinker?

In order to earn maximum credit, the comment should be more than your opinion, and more than a quick “off the top of your head” response. Be sure to support your statements, cite sources properly, cite within the text of your comments, and list your reference(s). The response must be a minimum of 250 words.

Eliot, T. S. (1944) Four Quartets, The Dry Salvages, pt. 2. London.

Paul, R. & Elder, L. (February 2008). The Miniature Guide to Critical Thinking Concepts and Tools. Foundation for Critical Thinking Press.

Consumer Options Worksheet

Complete the Consumer Options Worksheet. You must identify and describe at least 3 consumer options within the health care Internet market. These options should be tools and resources patients can use to manage their health.

Strategic role and purpose of organizational behavior

Imagine you have been working for a company for several years. Your company is planning to make some significant changes and one of the areas being considered to explore is the company’s organizational behavior. To spark discussion among colleagues, you have been asked to create a presentation that outlines the organizational behavior within a health care company.

Using the company selected in Week One, create an 8- to 10-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation that addresses the following:

Describe the strategic role and purpose of organizational behavior for the company selected in Week One. Identify the organizational factors of organizational behavior for the company selected in Week One. Identify the impact, including the strategic approach and application of organizational behavior for the company selected in Week One.

Format your PowerPoint® according to APA guidelines. Include a title page, detailed speaker notes, and a references page.

Cite 3 peer-reviewed, scholarly, or similar references to support your presentation.

Obesity in the African American community

Need a 5 page paper on the following : Title Page, Abstract, Introduction to the problem and its significance ( in terms of history, geography, and population characteristics), Description of health indicators & disparities (health issues, morbidity and mortality rate, pattern to care, access to care, mental health issues in comparison to other groups), Description of health beliefs, health behaviors and contributing factors ( preventative and protective health behaviors, sick role behaviors, illness behaviors, societal health behaviors with supporting evidence, barriers to health and healthcare: socio-economic, language, political, religious and other factors that contribute to the health disparity), Recommendations for improving health care and reducing disparities in the selected group, Conclusion 5 pages DOES NOT include title, abstract or reference; APA format; ALL references (at least 6) must be scholarly. If utilizing websites, must be “.org, .edu, .gov” ONLY. All information needs to be clearly identified with valid supporting evidence.

Future of Organizational Behavior

The health care industry, like other industries, is a very competitive environment. As organizational behavior within health care companies evolves, it will be even more important to consider its future and the need for continuing education.

Create a 10- to 12-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation that addresses the following:

Explain the importance of continuing education. Using the company selected in Week One, describe the support it provides its employees for continuing education. Describe the future of organizational behavior. Based on the trends of the health care industry, describe what you think the future holds for the company selected in Week One.

Format your PowerPoint® according to APA guidelines. Include a title page, detailed speaker notes, and a references page.

Cite 2 peer-reviewed, scholarly, or similar references to support your presentation.

Strategies that can be used for leading change in organizations

Imagine your team has been informed that there has been a change in a regulation, process, or a program. Your team is responsible for determining the impact of this change and its effect on the company. This assignment refers to the topic selected in Week Three.

Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper that addresses the following:

Suggest strategies that can be used for leading change in organizations.

Format your paper according to APA guidelines.

Cite 3 peer-reviewed, scholarly, or similar references to support your paper.

How Organizational Communication Reflects Organization’s Behavior

Describe the impact of groups and teams on organizational behavior. Discuss how organizational communication reflects the organization’s behavior. Provide two examples. Explain the role employee engagement assessments play in the analysis of organizational behavior. Describe intervention methods that can be used to support successful organizational behavior.

Format your PowerPoint® according to APA guidelines. Include a title page, detailed speaker notes, and a references page.

Cite 3 peer-reviewed, scholarly, or similar references to support your PowerPoint

Benefits of Outsourcing Services

Many companies benefit from outsourcing services because it allows the company to lower costs, focus on its organizational culture, and increase the speed and quality of services. You have been asked to analyze how the outsourced service interacts with your company’s clients.

Read and select 1 of the following scenarios to complete the assignment:

In 2009, the U.S. Stimulus Act changed the way health care providers use electronic health records (EHR). A local clinic was informed that to avoid penalties it would need to adopt a qualified EHR system. The clinic managers discussed two options: 1) adopting an in house EHR system and 2) outsourcing the EHRs. After weighing the pros and cons of each option, the company decided to outsource the EHRs. Recent research shows that many companies are starting to explore the idea of outsourcing for their human resources department. A large pharmaceutical company has begun discussing outsourcing their human resources department. Atwood Laboratories is a small company that completes lab work and bills its patients using two staff members. A larger laboratory in the neighborhood closed its doors recently, which has increased Atwood’s patients and billing. The company is considering outsourcing its patient billing to accommodate the influx of patients.

Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper that includes the following:

Identify the relationship of the outsourced service and the impact to the organizational structure. Describe the benefit and alignment of outsourcing services on organizational culture. Describe how a company can align the client experience with the outsourced service along with your organizational culture.

Format your paper according to APA guidelines.

Cite 3 peer-reviewed, scholarly, or similar references to support your paper.