Identify benchmarks or ‘best practices’ that a manager or supervisor utilize to try to ensure employee satisfaction and retention; and How would you determine effective staffing levels and what benchmarks would you use for productivity?

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HR Training Program

In no fewer than an 8-page essay (not counting title section, reference list ‘forms/templates), describe in detail (using your own perceptions and experience) how you would respond to the following scenario:

You have been asked to develop a proposal for a comprehensive Training Program for the organization to present to senior management. Justify the value of this program by including the following elements:

Discussion of the types of company policies that would positively impact quality improvement and customer satisfaction
Create a Training Program that covers these elements:
· New employee orientation, (include organization mission, vision and a summary of the strategic plan);

· Legal compliance training for all employees (and at specific levels, such as ”workers” and &”managers”) pertaining to applicable employment laws, (reference state and federal employee and labor laws); and

· Safety training for all employees (and at specific levels, such as ‘workers’, ‘safety team and unit emergency response teams’ and ‘managers’) including a Disaster Plan (including actions and assignment of responsibilities).

· Discussion of how you would meet the current and future needs of the organization when developing employee training and development

Confidentiality of employee information and compliance with HIPAA for patient information;
Code of conduct; including constructive discipline procedures;
Identify benchmarks or ‘best practices’ that a manager or supervisor utilize to try to ensure employee satisfaction and retention; and
How would you determine effective staffing levels and what benchmarks would you use for productivity?
Why is setting performance expectations important?
What procedures would a manager or supervisor enact to help ensure employee satisfaction and retention?

· Include an Implementation timetable and action plan for the Training Program.

Identify your County’s Demographics. Identify what led to your County’s Health Outcomes, Health Factors, including other sub-title rankings. Search 2015-2021 and check your County’s Trend.

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How healthy is your county?

Web based activity: follow the instruction/task below on the subject “how healthy is your county?”

Web Link: http://www.countyhealthrankings.org/

Instruction:
Click or copy the above link to access the website.
Title – How Healthy is Your Community? Appears.
Enter your “County” in the search bar.
Examine all Health Outcomes and Health Factors.
Determine your County Ranking #, Health Outcomes and Health Factors.

Your Task:
Identify your County’s Demographics.
Identify what led to your County’s Health Outcomes, Health Factors, including other sub-title rankings. Search 2015-2021 and check your County’s Trend.
Write a well-developed 3-4 paragraphs about what was interesting to know and what surprised you. Explain the social determinants of health observed and how Public Health Professionals can help improve your County’s ranking outcomes.
Post your work only. No responses to 2 other students’ posting are required.

Note:
Use college level witting. I.e., proofread your writing before submission.
Check “grade total session” on BB to see your grade status/progress.
Be prepared to finish strong as many of you have done so well.

Discuss the importance of leadership in the implementation of the electronic health record from the perspective of meeting the end-user’s functional needs from that system. How does this help a healthcare organization in KSA meet their business and clinical intelligence needs?

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Population Health

The importance of leadership in the implementation of the electronic health record

Discuss the importance of leadership in the implementation of the electronic health record from the perspective of meeting the end-user’s functional needs from that system. How does this help a healthcare organization in KSA meet their business and clinical intelligence needs?

In developing your initial response, be sure to draw from, explore, and cite credible reference materials. In responding to your classmates’ posts, you are encouraged to examine their opinions, offering supporting and/or opposing views.

You are required to reply to at least 4 of your peers’ answers to this weekly discussion question and/or your instructor’s response to your posting. These post replies need to be substantial and constructive in nature. They should add to the content of the post and evaluate/analyze that post’s answer. Normal course dialogue doesn’t fulfill these two peer replies but is expected throughout the course. Answering all course questions is also required.

 

What is your desired career path after earning a Master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at Grand Canyon University? Describe how your personal experience influenced your decision.

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DISCUSSION ESSAY

Directions: Provide short answers of 150-200 total words (per essay). Do not exceed 200 words for your responses.

ESSAY 1

Address the following components regarding your decision to apply for a Master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at Grand Canyon University (MCMHC).

  • What is your desired career path after earning a Master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at Grand Canyon University?
  • Describe how your personal experience influenced your decision.
  • Describe how your previous academic experience influenced your decision.
  • Never graduated highschool, but managed to get into csuf by going back to school at a community college at the age of 23 (largely avoided college due to my experience doing poorly with school).
  • Describe how your professional experience influenced your decision

 

ESSAY 2

Consider the following disposition: “Cultural Diversity – Counselors promote, honor, and embrace diversity and a multicultural approach that supports the worth, dignity, potential, and uniqueness of people within their social and cultural context. Counselors promote self-advocacy and assist clients in advocating for empowerment within their cultural context.” Please address the following components regarding cultural diversity in counseling:

  • Clearly explain how you would uphold the Cultural Diversity disposition as a professional counselor.
  • Provide a concrete example of what that looks like.
  • Provide scholarly support citing a minimum of one peer-reviewed research article and include APA (7th edition) formatted in-text citation(s) and corresponding reference(s).

 

 

Discuss two popular management strategies for Diabetes Melitus.

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Management strategies for Diabetes Melitus

Discuss two popular management strategies for Diabetes Melitus.

 

What might be the key processes for health-care organizations? What are the potential common causes of variation that would have an impact on the key processes of health-care organizations?

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Importance of variation to health-care organizations

Explain the importance of variation to health-care organizations and answer the following questions.

  • What might be the key processes for health-care organizations?
  • What are the potential common causes of variation that would have an impact on the key processes of health-care organizations?
  • What special causes might be more important than the others?
  • How might health-care organizations’ business environment be dynamic and change over time?

 

What is the management-research question hierarchy for Akron Children’s Hospital? What are the advantages/disadvantages of an observation study for this research?

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 Akron’s Children’s Hospital

From the Akron’s Children’s Hospital, Part A case, answer the following questions:

  1. What is the management-research question hierarchy for Akron Children’s Hospital?
  2. What are the advantages/disadvantages of an observation study for this research?
  3. What does the brand promise recommendation reveal about what researchers experienced and concluded from their study?
  4. If you were designing such an observation study, what would you direct researchers to record/look for/listen for?
  5. What ethical issues would surface in hospital studies in general and this study in particular?

 

Write a paper the responses to the items noted below. The paper can include other outside references, including the assigned textbook.

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Operational Basics for Financial Management

Overview

This section will review the details of operationalizing the healthcare finance information in an assisted living operation. The information will review:
*Financial Records
*Accounts Receivable
*Accounts Payable
*Risk Management

Reading:
Gapenski’s Textbook:
Chapter 7 – pages 184 – 205
Chapter 11 – pages 319 – 344
Chapter 12 – pages 350 – 377
Chapter 13 – pages 382 – 400
Instructor’s Notes:
YouTube Video:
Can You Pay for Assisted Living with Medicaid and Medicare (Web view)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJvRgcXc4GU (Web view)

Optional Reading:
Chapter 4 (pages 119 – 125) (127 – 130)“The Health Services Executive (HSE) – Olson, DM; Knapp, KR (2020)
Chapter 10 (pages 136 -172) – “Assisted Living Administration and Management – Yee-Melichar, D; Flores, C.; Boyler, AR (2021)

Assignment. Write a paper the responses to the items noted below. The paper can include other outside references, including the assigned textbook.

*Describe the role of the following reports for managing an assisted living facility:
*Monthly financial statement
*Monthly accounts receivable aging report
*Check registers
*Payroll journal

*What are the differences between the following:
*Balance Sheet
*Income Statement
*Cash flow statement

*What are the roles of the following positions in preventing losses of assets:
*External auditors
*Facility Bookkeeper
*Corporate Chief Financial Officer

Assisted Living Director

Now that you have completed the Cause and Effect Diagram, the Five Whys, the Flowchart and the FMEA for the Norton vs. Argonaut Insurance Case, create a summary of the case and in the summary, include your recommendations.

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Norton vs. Argonaut Insurance Case

Step 1:
Now that you have completed the Cause and Effect Diagram, the Five Whys, the Flowchart and the FMEA for the Norton vs. Argonaut Insurance Case, create a summary of the case and in the summary, include your recommendations. This summary is called an SBAR.
The SBAR (Situation-Background-Assessment-Recommendation) technique provides a framework for communication between members of the health care team but may also be used as an executive summary of a situation, or in this instance, a case study where you are going to break down the whole “situation” and in the end, provide your recommendations. The SBAR is an easy-to-remember, concrete mechanism useful for framing any conversation or case study, especially critical ones and is a tool you can use in your future. The SBAR also allows for an easy and focused way to set expectations for what will be communicated and how between members of the team, which is essential for developing teamwork and fostering a culture of patient safety.
Reading through the SBAR section of the IHI TFramework tools will give you an idea of the type of an SBAR that is used to communicate to clinicians through a phone conversation. This is just one type of SBAR. In this assignment, your SBAR is going to be set up more like an executive summary of your problem. It is a document you would possibly submit to your organization’s Chief Quality Officer, Chief Nursing Officer, and Health System Medical Director therefore, it needs to be polished and professional because you are explaining a situation to your executive team. There are many formats you can use for the final SBAR, but for your purposes, the document should be on a MS Word document, single spaced in Times Roman 12 point font, and be a minimum of one page.
Listed below are two examples of SBARs. The SBAR used by Social work teams gives examples within the document that should help guide you as you complete your SBAR for this case.
Once you have completed your SBAR for the Norton vs. Argonaut case, you may proceed to Step 2.
SBAR Example that has been used by Kaiser
SBAR Example that has been used by Social Workers

Step 2:
Now that you have completed all five components of your risk assessment, you need to combine them into one document that has everything together. This is the document you will include in your ePortfolio as the artifact used for this course. To combine all your risk assessment assignments, you may use the template below:
HCIN 630 Final Risk Assessment Template
When you have completed both the SBAR and combined all your assignments into the Final Document, click on the assignment title above to submit your assignment.

Does this problem simply illustrate the need for fundamental reform of the U.S. health care system? Should the system be revised to provide basic health care, including maternity care, for all women?

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Discussions

QUESTION 1:

As maternity care coverage falls out of reach for more American women, how should the U.S. health care system deal with the twenty-five percent of working-age women who do not have maternity care coverage or who do not qualify for Medicaid insurance?

How would you respond to the following argument? If women cannot afford to have babies, they should not get pregnant.
Does this problem simply illustrate the need for fundamental reform of the U.S. health care system? Should the system be revised to provide basic health care, including maternity care, for all women?
In the event the U.S. system is not revised to provide universal care, should the costs, both economic and social, of failing to care for mothers and children in a large number of births be used to expand programs such as Medicaid to provide coverage? The long term, even the medium term, costs would be far lower.

QUESTION 2:
The text for our course was written before the COVID-19 pandemic. As the global community races to find a vaccine for COVID-19, what and who should be the priority of vaccination?

While U.S. health care professionals and some members of the military seem to be likely candidates to be vaccinated in the event of a pandemic, who should receive the second round of vaccines?

Should those most likely to be infected and suffer long term consequences or death if not protected receive the second round of vaccines? Why or why not?
Realistically, after the first responders, those with economic resources will get the second round regardless of ethical discussions; some will probably get treatment in the first round. Is this unavoidable?