Describe a topic, idea, or concept you find so engaging that it makes you lose all track of time. Why does it captivate you? What or who do you turn to when you want to learn more?

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Essay for college application

Some colleges require submission of the personal essay with your Common App. You may submit a personal essay to any college, even if it is not required by that college. If not required by a college, you will be given the option during submission to include your essay or not for that college.*

Required

  • Austin College
  • Saint Louis University
  • Smith College

Not Required

  • Texas Tech University
  • The University of Texas at Dallas
  • University of Health Sciences and Pharmacy
  • University of Minnesota Rochester
  • University of Minnesota Twin Cities
  • University of Missouri-St Louis
  • University of North Texas
  • University of Texas Arlington

The essay demonstrates your ability to write clearly and concisely on a selected topic and helps you distinguish yourself in your own voice. What do you want the readers of your application to know about you apart from courses, grades, and test scores? Choose the option that best helps you answer that question and write an essay of no more than 650 words, using the prompt to inspire and structure your response. Remember: 650 words is your limit, not your goal. Use the full range if you need it, but don’t feel obligated to do so. (The application won’t accept a response shorter than 250 words.)

Some students have a background, identity, interest, or talent that is so meaningful they believe their application would be incomplete without it. If this sounds like you, then please share your story.

The lessons we take from obstacles we encounter can be fundamental to later success. Recount a time when you faced a challenge, setback, or failure. How did it affect you, and what did you learn from the experience?

Reflect on a time when you questioned or challenged a belief or idea. What prompted your thinking? What was the outcome?

Describe a problem you’ve solved or a problem you’d like to solve. It can be an intellectual challenge, a research query, an ethical dilemma-anything that is of personal importance, no matter the scale. Explain its significance to you and what steps you took or could be taken to identify a solution.

Discuss an accomplishment, event, or realization that sparked a period of personal growth and a new understanding of yourself or others.

Describe a topic, idea, or concept you find so engaging that it makes you lose all track of time. Why does it captivate you? What or who do you turn to when you want to learn more?

Share an essay on any topic of your choice. It can be one you’ve already written, one that responds to a different prompt, or one of your own design.

 

How would you use “The 5 Whys” in this situation? What are the advantages in using this technique? What are the disadvantages, if any? Why is it important to identify the root cause of a problem?

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The Five Whys

Discussion Board Post
This week you read about “The Five Whys”. Watch the following videos for more information on this technique:

In this discussion, explain how you would use “The Five Whys” in the following scenario:

Last month, the Electronic Health Records system was down for over 12 hours. This lead to many departments getting behind on their work and many performance goals NOT being met. As CEO of Hospital XYZ you have a one-on-one meeting with the IT Director and his staff. How would you use “The 5 Whys” in this situation? Include the questions you would ask in the meeting. What are the advantages in using this technique? What are the disadvantages, if any? Why is it important to identify the root cause of a problem?

What additional skills or education would be needed to qualify for the new role? Next, go the AHIMA website and find information on the HIM Reimagined strategy. Assess how that emerging HIM role and skills it will require correlate with HIM Reimagined.

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New HIM Roles (located in the HIM Case Studies textbook).

Use your textbook, lectures and/or Internet research to help you thoroughly answer the following questions. Submit your deliverables in a word document or pdf.
1. What additional skills or education would be needed to qualify for the new role?
2. Next, go the AHIMA website and find information on the HIM Reimagined strategy. Assess how that emerging HIM role and skills it will require correlate with HIM Reimagined.
3. Develop a job desciption and job employment posting.
Deliverables:
1. Job Description
2. Job Employment Posting

Explain the long term impacts covid-19 has places on healthcare organizations and how they can better recover

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Covid-19 Impacts

Long term impacts covid-19 has places on healthcare organizations and how they can better recover

Explain how that initiative shifts the focus from the individual person to population health. Explain why understanding and incorporating a focus on social determinants of health is vital to affecting population health.

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Shifting Toward Population Health

Healthcare administrators direct and coordinate medical services in facilities such as hospitals, public health agencies, and managed care organizations. In order to accomplish this directive, healthcare administrators need to be current on mandates, health initiatives, and population health programs. This requires the exploration of a variety of resources on health initiatives and public health programs.

The term population health was introduced in 2003 by Dave Kindig and Greg Stoddart who defined the term as “the health outcome of a group of individuals, including the distribution of such outcomes within the group” (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2018, para. 1). Nash, Fabius, Skoufalos, Clarke, and Horowitz (2016) argue that the only way to improve the total health of the United States is to shift our focus from healthcare that is reactive to healthcare that proactive and promotes health and wellness. We spend a lot of time treating and focusing on a patient’s disease/illness and spend little time focusing on the conditions that contribute to the disease/illness. For that reason, it is important to understand social determinants of health (SDOH) and how they factor into the comprehensive picture of population health (Zangerle, 2016).

Post a single 3- or 4-paragraph response that addresses the following prompts (your Instructor will notify you of the due date):

Choose a federal or state initiative that focuses on population health – choose a topic that interests you
Explain how that initiative shifts the focus from the individual person to population health
Evaluate the importance of shifting from individual health to population health
Consider discussing how you, as an administrator, could collaborate with other healthcare disciplines to ensure the success of the initiative you selected
Explain why understanding and incorporating a focus on social determinants of health is vital to affecting population health.

What is the difference between active and passive immunity and how can it be acquired naturally and artificially? How is the body using the immune system to protect us from COVID-19?

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Discussion .

During the COVID-19 pandemic, we hear information about antibodies, immunity, and vaccines daily. It seems that our biggest concern now is getting the majority of the population vaccinated. Chapter 21 discusses how our immune system works to protect us from pathogens, after reading the chapter discuss the following. ISBN: 9780134807355

What is the difference between active and passive immunity and how can it be acquired naturally and artificially?

How is the body using the immune system to protect us from COVID-19?

What type of immunity does the COVID-19 vaccine provide and why is it important to receive boosters to maintain the protection against the virus?

Do you think that COVID-19 case-fatality rates and mortality rates have been clearly communicated to the general public?

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Essay

Write a post addressing the following prompts:

Pick a location (local, state, U.S., or other country) and identify the COVID-19 mortality and case fatality rates for that area.
Do you think that COVID-19 case-fatality rates and mortality rates have been clearly communicated to the general public?
Assume you are working for a large healthcare system or public health department in the area that you picked for this discussion. Write a short statement that you would give to the media to accurately describe the COVID-19 case fatality rate and mortality rate in your area. Tell the public what this means—is it significant compared to other diseases?

What is your mission as a health care manager? Why do you want to be part of this profession? How will you accomplish this mission?

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Role of ethics in the actual practice of healthcare management

Introduction (20 points)
What is your mission as a health care manager?
Why do you want to be part of this profession?
How will you accomplish this mission?
Application of Ethics Principles (60 points)
Summarize management functions (Planning, Organizing, Staffing, Influencing, Controlling)
Identify at least 3 ethics challenges for each function
Application of Ethics Principles (Autonomy, Beneficence, Nonmaleficence, Justice)-how will you apply these principles in your interactions with co-workers, outside vendors, patients, etc.
Application to Career (20 points)
How does what you learned apply to your mission as a health care manager?
What is the importance of understanding the role of ethics in the actual practice of healthcare management?

Choose a topic that requires an argument to support your position on the chosen topic, acceptable references and citations are, of course, required.

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Medicaid

Research Paper Instructions.

The Research Paper is due at the end of Week 7. APA writing style is required for this paper.

The research paper should be constructed and then saved in MS Word, PDF, or as a Web page. The paper should be 5-7 (double-spaced) pages long, excluding pages associated with title pages, appendices, or bibliography. In other words the body of the paper should be 5-7 pages (1 inch margins – 12 pt. font – (Times New Roman or Arial).

The paper should be documented and include at least 6 reliable sources in addition to the text of the course. The paper should address a contemporary important aspect of the concepts you are learning in this class. The student must choose his or her topic. The topic choice is part of the assignment and it must be approved by your instructor by the end of Week Three. A good place to look for interesting topics is in the material covered in your textbook.

The final paper is not due until the 7th week of class, however, it is a good idea to begin the paper now. The paper may be turned in early, as well as by the due date. Papers turned in late will be graded zero. The paper should not simply be a review printed material. The focus should be on synthesizing and reporting the research information you have found. At least 25% of the text MUST be your own words and your own work.

This percentage will be checked by your professor through the Turnitin.com Website. Remember, large cut-and pasted sections and/or personal, unsupported opinions are not acceptable in this professional paper. Research Topics for the Research Paper due in Week Seven are due to be submitted for approval by week three.

Topics should be emailed to your Professor, using the email inside this class Health Care topics can be a matter of opinion, so, it is important to note that should you choose a topic that requires an argument to support your position on the chosen topic, acceptable references and citations are, of course, required. In addition, the opposing argument must also be posed and supported using acceptable references and citations. Failure to do this will result in a serious reduction

Explain how that initiative shifts the focus from the individual person to population health. Explain why understanding and incorporating a focus on social determinants of health is vital to affecting population health.

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Shifting Toward Population Health

Healthcare administrators direct and coordinate medical services in facilities such as hospitals, public health agencies, and managed care organizations. In order to accomplish this directive, healthcare administrators need to be current on mandates, health initiatives, and population health programs. This requires the exploration of a variety of resources on health initiatives and public health programs.

The term population health was introduced in 2003 by Dave Kindig and Greg Stoddart who defined the term as “the health outcome of a group of individuals, including the distribution of such outcomes within the group” (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2018, para. 1). Nash, Fabius, Skoufalos, Clarke, and Horowitz (2016) argue that the only way to improve the total health of the United States is to shift our focus from healthcare that is reactive to healthcare that proactive and promotes health and wellness. We spend a lot of time treating and focusing on a patient’s disease/illness and spend little time focusing on the conditions that contribute to the disease/illness. For that reason, it is important to understand social determinants of health (SDOH) and how they factor into the comprehensive picture of population health (Zangerle, 2016).

Post a single 3- or 4-paragraph response that addresses the following prompts (your Instructor will notify you of the due date):

Choose a federal or state initiative that focuses on population health – choose a topic that interests you
Explain how that initiative shifts the focus from the individual person to population health
Evaluate the importance of shifting from individual health to population health
Consider discussing how you, as an administrator, could collaborate with other healthcare disciplines to ensure the success of the initiative you selected
Explain why understanding and incorporating a focus on social determinants of health is vital to affecting population health.