Differentiate the strengths and weaknesses associated with various types of healthcare delivery systems in the U.S. from patient, provider, administrator, and third-party payer perspectives.

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Assignment Objective:

Differentiate the primary goals of nonprofit health organizations and for-profit health organizations in the U.S.

Differentiate the strengths and weaknesses associated with various types of healthcare delivery systems in the U.S. from patient, provider, administrator, and third-party payer perspectives.

Assignment instructions

Part 1:

Despite the documented challenges that the U.S. healthcare system faces, it also enjoys a number of advantages over other systems around the world.

Choose 2 other countries from around the world and discuss the strengths of the U.S. healthcare system as compared to these countries from an administrator’s and a third-party payer’s perspectives.

In your answer, be sure to not only discuss each strength, but provide an explanation as to why you believe the United States has this advantage over the other countries you chose.

Part 2:

Identify a nonprofit health care organization and a for-profit healthcare organization of your choosing (not an organization mentioned in part 1).

Answer the following:

1. Summarize the types of services provided, clientele served, and provider groups involved.

2. Compare and contrast the strengths and weaknesses of each organization from patient, provider, administrator, and third-party payer perspectives.

3. Provide at least 2 suggestions for each organization to minimize the identified weaknesses.

4. Summarize which organization you would rather be part of, using rationale.

Explain how learning about Henrietta Lacks’s story helped you become a more ethical leader.

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During Skloot and Deborah’s meeting with Christoph Lengauer, Lengauer emphasizes the importance of Henrietta Lacks’s contribution to science and how she is remembered in the medical community. Langauer states, “Whenever we read books about science, it’s always HeLa this and HeLa that. Some people know those are the initials of a person, but they don’t know who that person is. That’s important history.”

Write a 525- to 700-word article that addresses the following:

Evaluate whether the book effectively illustrates the significance of Henrietta Lacks’s life, her contributions to science, and their impact on her family. Answer the following questions in your evaluation:
Are there problematic elements as to how Skloot portrays Lacks and her family?
Do you agree with Lengauer’s quote that it is important to know about Henrietta Lacks? Why or why not?
Explain how learning about Henrietta Lacks’s story helped you become a more ethical leader.

Provide 2 to 3 examples of what medical professionals can do to prevent unethical practices.

Use 3 examples from the book to support your response and cite the novel.

Include a citation of your article in your assignment.

se Winkleman as a reference to compare and explain events and issues discussed in Fadiman’s book.

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This is a class on Cultural Issues in Healthcare*
This assignment provides the students with the opportunity for critique and reflection. Students are expected to integrate Fadiman’s reading with class discussions, other readings and any relevant personal experience. Use Winkleman as a reference to compare and explain events and issues discussed in Fadiman’s book. Make sure you find relevant quotes that is analyzed. Do not summarize, this is not a book report.

Describe the advantages and disadvantages of the selected health policy, health program, or health care system

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B. Summarize the selected health policy, health program or health care system and its current status

C. Describe the advantages and disadvantages of the selected health policy, health program, or health care system

D. Discuss challenges and opportunities related to the selected health policy, health program or health care system

E. Present recommendations for policy modification and/or program or system revisions

You must go in-depth with your assessments and provide empirical evidence from scientific literature.

Develop a Resource Portfolio of six resources for a K-2 class focusing on ONE particular content area of the curriculum.

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Develop a Resource Portfolio of six resources for a K-2 class focusing on
ONE particular content area of the curriculum. This is to be presented as a powerpoint.
The SIX resources chosen must be suitable for the topic and to the stage of development of the
students. Students will need to explain why they have chosen each resource and present ways in
which the resource can be used in the classroom.

Explain at least two individual rights for patients regarding EMR and their health care information.

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Explain at least two individual rights for patients regarding EMR and their health care information. Next, describe three basic safeguards required to protect the security of electronic protected health information (e-PHI). Lastly, speculate on what happens if a breach occurs. Provide support for your response.

How significant is chronic illness in aged populations? What misconceptions about aging are there regarding chronic disease?

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How significant is chronic illness in aged populations? What misconceptions about aging are there regarding chronic disease?
In what ways can aged patients enhance their daily lives and promote overall wellness? What sort of strategies do you share with your aged patients?

Submit a convincing argument in 400 –500 words that explains the benefits and the challenges of using a CDSS in the clinical situation you choose.

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Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSS) help to inform decisions by providing information at the point of care. CDSSs can be tremendously helpful tools in many different situations and circumstances, and often their use helps to improve patient outcomes. In addition, CDSSs can help to improve efficiency, effectiveness of care, quality, and safety.

In this Assignment, you will analyze a scenario and describe the benefits and challenges of using a CDSS within the scenario.

To prepare for this Assignment, review this week’s readings and websites. Then pick one scenario below to address for this week’s Assignment.

The following three scenarios depict examples of the use of CDSSs:

Scenario A
You are a nurse on a busy medical unit. You are about to administer numerous medications to your patient who is suffering from Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). You are required to use the bedside verification/bar code scanning system to access medications in the automated medication dispensing machine. The system indicates a dose of one of the medications is overdue. You contact the physician that a medication dose was missed earlier in the shift and receive instructions on how to proceed with the current medication, ie, increasing dose.
Scenario B
You work in the Emergency Room and respond to “Fall Response Team” overhead page in the lobby area. You transport to the ER and care for the visitor who has fallen. After the situation has calmed, you go to the employee portal and enter the data about the fall in the automated incident reporting system. This system pulls demographic information from the emergency room encounter for this patient, allows you to enter a paragraph summarizing the incident and automatically sends the information to the quality team responsible for reviewing all falls.
Scenario C
You are a physician in a busy clinic. You are seeing greater than 40 patients per day. Your clinic is involved in submitting quality measures to the state called “Community Measures”. The electronic medical record alerts you to health screenings needed for this patient. You remind this patient of the needed screenings and with the click of the button document that reminder. This information is available to staff to schedule his screenings. The data is also retrieved for sending summary data to the state.
Your written assignments must follow APA guidelines. Be sure to support your work with specific citations from this week’s Learning Resources and additional scholarly sources as appropriate.

By Day 7
Submit a convincing argument in 400 –500 words that explains the benefits and the challenges of using a CDSS in the clinical situation you choose. Use your readings to support your rationale.

Describe a time when you led a team project that failed. Explain why the project failed. What did you learn from this failure? What would you do differently if you had a second chance to lead the project team?

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Below you will find four essay questions. Essays are evaluated according to the relevance and comprehensiveness of your response to the question, your utilization of critical thinking and analysis skills as well as your application of accurate sentence structure and grammar. Please limit each response to 250 words or fewer.
Essay #1 *
Describe a time when you led a team project that failed. Explain why the project failed. What did you learn from this failure? What would you do differently if you had a second chance to lead the project team?

Type your answer here…
Essay #2 *
As its name declares, UGHE is deeply committed to increasing health equity around the world. How have you experienced or observed inequity (social, health, economic, etc.) in your professional work? What are your goals for advancing equity? How will you apply the training at UGHE to achieve these goals?

Type your answer here…
Essay #3 *
UGHE co-founder Dr. Paul Farmer once said that “with rare exceptions, all of your most important achievements on this planet will come from working with others – or, in a word, partnership.” Describe a time when a partnership was necessary to achieve your desired outcome. What was your role in creating or maintaining the partnership?

Reference
Farmer, P., & Weigel, J. (2013). To repair the world: Paul Farmer speaks to the next generation. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

Type your answer here…
Essay #4: Personal Statement *
Develop a personal statement that summarizes your professional, academic, and personal goals and describes why you think the MGHD will help you to achieve them.

Describe a time when a partnership was necessary to achieve your desired outcome. What was your role in creating or maintaining the partnership?

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Below you will find four essay questions. Essays are evaluated according to the relevance and comprehensiveness of your response to the question, your utilization of critical thinking and analysis skills as well as your application of accurate sentence structure and grammar. Please limit each response to 250 words or fewer.
Essay #1 *
Describe a time when you led a team project that failed. Explain why the project failed. What did you learn from this failure? What would you do differently if you had a second chance to lead the project team?

Type your answer here…
Essay #2 *
As its name declares, UGHE is deeply committed to increasing health equity around the world. How have you experienced or observed inequity (social, health, economic, etc.) in your professional work? What are your goals for advancing equity? How will you apply the training at UGHE to achieve these goals?

Type your answer here…
Essay #3 *
UGHE co-founder Dr. Paul Farmer once said that “with rare exceptions, all of your most important achievements on this planet will come from working with others – or, in a word, partnership.” Describe a time when a partnership was necessary to achieve your desired outcome. What was your role in creating or maintaining the partnership?

Reference
Farmer, P., & Weigel, J. (2013). To repair the world: Paul Farmer speaks to the next generation. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

Type your answer here…
Essay #4: Personal Statement *
Develop a personal statement that summarizes your professional, academic, and personal goals and describes why you think the MGHD will help you to achieve them.