Compare two strategies for gathering information from at least two different groups of stakeholders. Discuss two strengths and two weaknesses for each strategy.

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The type of stakeholder can influence the strategy for collecting data from that individual or group. Professional background, education, language, literacy level, social class, or age may influence your strategy. Compare two strategies for gathering information from at least two different groups of stakeholders. Discuss two strengths and two weaknesses for each strategy.

Describe three strategies you intend to use to connect with different stakeholders to gather information for your project.

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In addition to traditional methods, such as in-person interviews or windshield/walking surveys, technology has provided new methods for gathering information from key stakeholders. Describe three strategies you intend to use to connect with different stakeholders to gather information for your project.

Read “Step 1: Engage Stakeholders,” from Program Evaluation for Public Health Programs: A Self-Study Guide (2012), by the Program Performance and Evaluation Office (PPEO) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
URL:
https://www.cdc.gov/eval/guide/step1/index.htm

Discuss three challenges that often deter public health professionals from conducting community-based fieldwork prior to implementing a project or program. How would you encourage someone facing that challenge?

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Gathering information is an essential purpose of fieldwork. However, fieldwork is also important for building relationships and identifying personal biases and assumptions. Discuss three challenges that often deter public health professionals from conducting community-based fieldwork prior to implementing a project or program. How would you encourage someone facing that challenge?

Read “Overcoming Fieldwork Challenges in Urban Health Research in Developing Countries: A Research Note,” by Mathee et al., from International Journal of Social Research Methodology (2010).
URL:
https://lopes.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=bth&AN=48453694&site=eds-live&scope=site

What are the psychosocial characteristics that affect the emotional tones of Natasha’s community? Discuss.

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Chapter 15 Case Study
Natasha is a school nurse in a rural community. Because the community is small and does not have many resources, Natasha is the only school nurse for the two elementary schools, one middle school, and one high school in the county. Natasha divides her time among the schools in order to provide nursing care to the students.
Natasha keeps detailed health records on each student, particularly information pertaining to allergies, medications, and immunizations.
1. The county in which Natasha serves is separated from the neighboring county to the north by a river and from the neighboring county to the west by a mountain range. Why are these boundaries important to Natasha’s work? Discuss.
2. What is the focus of the goals Natasha holds for her school community? Discuss.
Natasha meets with the superintendent of the school district to discuss her county’s schools’ health needs. Natasha knows that psychosocial characteristics affect health.
3. What are the psychosocial characteristics that affect the emotional tones of Natasha’s community? Discuss.

Explain an organizational or patient issue for which a collaborative interdisciplinary team approach would help achieve a specific improvement goal, noting potential consequences of not addressing the issue.

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For this assessment you will create a presentation for one or more stakeholder or leadership groups to generate interest and buy-in for the plan proposal you developed in the previous paper. In this presentation, you will explain the Plan-Do-Study-Act cycle and how it can be used to introduce the plan (P), implement the plan (D), study the effectiveness of the plan (S), and act on what is learned (A) to drive continuous improvement. By using this cycle, the stakeholders will have a tool and a proposal to expand on these ideas to drive workplace change and create improved processes to solve an interprofessional collaboration problem.

You will provide stakeholders and/or leadership with an overview of project specifics as well as how success would be evaluated—you will essentially be presenting a discussion of the Plan, Do, and Study parts of the PDSA cycle. Again, you will not be expected to execute the project, so you will not have any results to study.

For this assessment, it is important to keep in mind the target audience: your interviewee’s organizational leadership. The overall goal of this assessment is to create a presentation that your interviewee could potentially give in his or her organization.

The plan MUST address the following:

  1. Explain an organizational or patient issue for which a collaborative interdisciplinary team approach would help achieve a specific improvement goal, noting potential consequences of not addressing the issue.
  2. Summarize an evidence-based interdisciplinary plan to address an organizational or patient issue, noting specific sources of evidence used to develop the plan.
  3. Explain how the interdisciplinary plan could be implemented and how the human and financial resources would be managed, providing real-world examples relevant to the context of the health care organization.
  4. Propose evidence-based criteria that could be used to evaluate the degree to which the project was successful in achieving the improvement goal, noting specific sources of evidence used to develop the criteria.

Structure the presentation the following way:

  • Part 1: Organizational or Patient Issue.
    • What is the issue that you are trying to solve or improve?
    • Why should the audience care about solving it?
  • Part 2: Relevance of an Interdisciplinary Team Approach.
    • Why is using an interdisciplinary team relevant, or the best approach, to addressing the issue?
    • How will it help to achieve improved outcomes or reach a goal?
  • Part 3: Interdisciplinary Plan Summary.
    • What is the objective?
    • How likely is it to work?
    • What will the interdisciplinary team do?
  • Part 4: Implementation and Resource Management.
    • How could the plan be implemented to ensure effective use of resources?
    • How could the plan be managed to ensure that resources were not wasted?
    • How does the plan justify the resource expenditure?
  • Part 5: Evaluation.
    • What would a successful outcome of the project look like?
    • What are the criteria that could be used to measure that success?
      • How could this be used to show the degree of success?

Again, keep in mind that your audience for this presentation is a specific group (or groups) at your interviewee’s organization and tailor your language and messaging accordingly.

 

 

Evaluate industry dynamics that would influence your organization’s decision to participate in an ACO.

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Urban and rural health care organizations throughout the industry are working together to coordinate care for Medicare patients. Accountable Care Organization (ACO) programs were established by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to help facilitate this cooperation.

Select a type of health care organization that would accept Medicare patients (e.g., family practice, hospital, urgent care, or nursing home).

Write an executive summary that discusses the purpose of joining an ACO and the funding available through one. Ensure your summary does the following:

Describe the organization you selected and the general services that would be offered to Medicare patients.
Describe the types of ACOs recognized by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
Evaluate industry dynamics that would influence your organization’s decision to participate in an ACO.
Identify the steps needed to participate in an ACO.
Justify participation in an ACO for your organization.

Cite 3 reputable references to support your assignment (e.g., trade or industry publications, government or agency websites, scholarly works, or other sources of similar quality).

Examine the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) policies in relation to the selected model.

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Managed Health Care Delivery Model Paper

Paper must have depth of scholarship, originality, theoretical and conceptual framework, clarity and logic in its presentation and adhere to grammar guidelines.

You select either one of the emerging managed healthcare delivery models, Accountable Care Organizations or Patient-Centered Medical Homes

The minimum 10 page paper (excluding title and reference pages) must follow APA

Contain at least 10 scholarly, peer-reviewed, and/or other credible sources published in the past five years.
Your paper must address the following bolded topics, which should be titled appropriately in your paper:
Include an Abstract which is a synopsis of the overall paper.
Managed Health Care Quality – Address what the selected emerging managed healthcare delivery model has done to improve quality of care.
Cost Containment – Describe how the selected model has striven to contain the costs.
Provider Contracting and Payments – Identify healthcare providers’ contracts and payment methods in the selected model.
Effects on Medicare and Medicaid – Summarize the impacts of the selected model on both Medicare and Medicaid.
The Emerging Role of Government Regulations – Examine the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) policies in relation to the selected model.
Recommendations – Include three suggestions for improvement in relation to quality and cost..
• Must include a separate title page with the following:
o Title of paper
o Student’s name
o Course name and number
o Instructor’s name
o Date submitted
• Must include an introduction and conclusion) paragraph.
• Must use at least 10 scholarly, peer-reviewed
• Must document all sources in APA style

How specifically does quality of care fit into the scope of practice regulations? Thoughts everyone?

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Reply to the following questions using at least 175 words.  Be sure to reply to each post individually. Please only reply to numbers 1 and 2, do not reply to what the posts are based on. Be constructive and professional.  Be sure to use in-text citations and FULL APA references.

The following posts are based on the following:

What are the implications of differences across states’ policies around scope of practice in the health sector? For regulation? For consumers? For practitioners?

  1. How specifically does quality of care fit into the scope of practice regulations? Thoughts everyone?
  2. Why is there typically two differing departments at the state level that do scope of practice for Physician Assistants and Nurse Practioners when they perform many of the same services?

Why do you believe that funding preventive health care services has taken so long to become a major component of health plans?

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Although preventative services such as routine well-care visits and immunizations have often shown to be beneficial in terms of preventing future, more expensive, health care encounters, not all insurance plans offer reimbursement for such things. In addition, health care policies have only recently begun to recognize the “worth” of funding prevention-related services.

Why do you believe that funding preventive health care services has taken so long to become a major component of health plans?
What do you think will need to happen to change the prevailing mindset of funding health care services reactively versus proactively from a third-party payer’s and a provider’s? Why?

What were the effects of excluding a health insurance provision from the Social Security Act?

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What were the effects of excluding a health insurance provision from the Social Security Act?
How could we have changed our future? Develop an appropriate advocacy-based response for your recommendation regarding Health insurance Provision and Social Security in the future (e.g. funding, tax structure, etc.)).