What is a community advisory board? What are the benefits of having community advisory boards? Briefly describe how community advisory boards are related to community organizing.

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Project Rough Draft

Introduction

For the final project each student will be submitting a letter to an elected official. This peer response assignment allows students to submit rough drafts of their letters in order to receive feedback from student peers.

Your Tasks

TASK 1

Review the tasks listed in the Project: Letter to an Elected Official page. This can be found in the last module of this course.

TASK 2

You will complete a rough draft of your letter. You only need to submit the letter, not the project reflection. Points for this task will be based solely on whether or not you submitted a draft. 10 points

TASK 3

This assignment requires peer review. You will be assigned to view 2 of your classmates’ assignments. Names will remain anonymous. You will provide any comments, suggestions, comments, and concerns that you have regarding the peer’s rough draft. Please use the attached rubric as a basis for your feedback. Grades given by students will not be accounted for in the final submission of the project at the end of this course.

This task is worth 20 points, 10 per peer review completed.

Unsure how to submit a peer review? Canvas Community has a guide with a step-by-step explanation on peer review submission

Submission and Grading

SUBMITTING THIS ASSIGNMENT

  • Tasks 1 and 2 will need to be completed and submitted seprate
  • Task 3 will need to be completed seprate

 

Part two

Your Tasks

TASK 1

Watch the following 5 minute video about minority health and community advisory boards.

TASK 2

Answer the following questions: 200-300 words

  1. What is a community advisory board? (3 points)
  2. What are the benefits of having community advisory boards? (7 points)
  3. Briefly describe how community advisory boards are related to community organizing. (10 points)

 

Research the 3 different positions and describe the duties a medical assistant may have while conducting each one. Discuss how you can practice professionalism while performing each duty in order to provide excellent customer service.

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Medical Assistant

OVERVIEW
The medical office is a multifaced profession. Students must understand the various duties of the medical office assistant to be successful in the progression. This assignment will enable students to research in depth the medical office and everyday duties. The research project is a pivotal assignment for students that want to become medical office assistants.

INSTRUCTIONS
1. For this assignment, you will write a 4–5-page research-based paper. The title page, abstract, and reference page do not count as part of the 4–5 pages (1,400–1,800 words).
2. The paper must be formatted in current APA style and will include a title page, abstract, and reference page, again formatted using current APA style.
3. The paper will focus on the different duties a medical office assistant may have while performing administrative work, clinical responsibilities, or working the laboratory. You will research the 3 different positions and describe the duties a medical assistant may have while conducting each one. In addition, you must discuss how you can practice professionalism while performing each duty in order to provide excellent customer service.
4. The paper must include at least 3 scholarly references in addition to the course textbook and the Bible making for a total of 5 scholarly references. (Do not use Wikipedia.com or dictionary.com.)

Note: Your assignment will be checked for originality via the Turnitin plagiarism tool

From a societal perspective, what problems occur by having a stand-alone public hospital with a primary mission of serving the indigent population? What strategic steps would you recommend for Wishard?

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 The Struggle of a Safety Net Hospital

For this assignment, read “The Struggle of a Safety Net Hospital” case in the course text. Identification of strategic competitive situations is important for a health organization to effectively sustain operations over the long-term. Environmental factors impact the effectiveness and efficiency of any healthcare business. Businesses must continually assess the strategic leverage they have over other area businesses; thus, the identification of environmental factors is essential for the development of a successful strategic plan. This assignment provides an understanding of the varying nature of competition in the healthcare industry.

Instructions

You will write a 5–6-page paper in current APA format that addresses the case questions presented in the assignment. Your paper must be supplemented with research from your textbook, and at least 5 scholarly, peer reviewed sources published in the last 5 years. Note: A minimum of 5 scholarly, peer-reviewed references must be used that support your responses in the paper in addition to the textbook.

Use of scholarly sources is an expected attribute of academic university course work. Being able to distinguish between journals and magazines (non-scholarly sources) is important since content in a journal is considered more authoritative than a magazine. Peer-reviewed journals are considered the most authoritative sources.

The authority and credibility evident in scholarly sources will contribute a great deal to the overall quality of your papers. The major advantage of citing peer-reviewed articles is that they provide a trusted form of knowledge; this trust is particularly important in your assignments when you need to support your statements with literature. Information presented in scholarly/peer reviewed sources is more reliable and trustworthy than information from non-scholarly sources. Using scholarly sources also means that you are using sources that are aimed at your readership level as a university student.

What is a scholarly source? Scholarly sources (also referred to as academic, peer-reviewed, or refereed sources) are written by experts in a particular field and serve to keep others up to date on the most recent research, findings, and news. These resources will provide the most substantial information for your research and papers. When a source has been peer-reviewed, it has undergone the review and scrutiny of a review board of colleagues in the author’s field.

Sources for Scholarly Resources. Look for publications from a professional organization. Use databases such as JSTOR that contain only scholarly sources. Additionally, use databases such as Academic Search Complete or other EBSCO databases that allow you to choose “peer-reviewed journals”. Use university libraries and apply ‘peer reviewed’ as a search criterion. Some examples of scholarly journals include International Journal for Quality in Health Care, New England Journal of Medicine, PLoS ONE, Educational Psychologist, and Health Services Research; books from University presses such as Oxford University Press and the University of California Press.

This is a paper, so your answers must not be numbered; thus, you must use titles and subheadings to guide the reader through the narrative. You may use other quality sources in addition to support your analysis. Proper grammar and spelling are required.

As you read the case perceive the difficulties of aligning strategic decisions with the organization’s mission; analyze the potential effects of increasing copays at a public hospital; and consider other strategic directions  that Wishard might select in the given market. In your paper include answers to the following questions and prompts:

What was Wishard’s competitive situation? Did Wishard have direct competitors? If so, in what areas did it compete?

Provide an evaluation of the environmental factors impacting the management of the organization.

What strategic leverage did Wishard have over the other area hospitals?

From a societal perspective, what problems occur by having a stand-alone public hospital with a primary mission of serving the indigent population?

What strategic steps would you recommend for Wishard?

Recommend at least 3 strategic planning initiatives for the organization which are supported by peer reviewed sources. Recommend strategies for 3 of the following categories that incorporate a financial analysis, human capital management, operational improvement, marketing, or legal/regulatory compliance plan.

Healthcare planning must account for probable government policy changes, technological advancements and economic trends that could significantly change an organization’s operations. Incorporate peer reviewed literature support and expand upon 3 of the following categorical examples (i. – v.) or provide strategic initiatives of your own:

Include at least 3 environmental factors in the analysis. Each factor discussed must include peer reviewed literature support. Environmental factors refer to external influences on a business that it has limited control over but that it must consider as part of strategic planning. Typical environmental factors addressed by organizations fit into four categories – social, legal, political and economic.

Note: Your assignment will be checked for originality via the Turnitin plagiarism tool.

 

Write an APA style paper that includes a Title page, Reference page, 1000-word, 3–4-page Body or Abstract.

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RESEARCH PAPER-FINAL DRTAFT

Write an APA style paper that includes a Title page, Reference page, 1000-word, 3–4-page Body or Abstract. All APA style, double spaced and 12 font times new roman. Use each topic as a heading for that paragraph. Do not quote you must paraphrase and use in text citation*

What human rights do family members have to weigh in on decisions about hospice care? How should hospice programs balance the liberty interests of persistent vegetative state hospice patients to refuse life saving hydration and nutrition alongside the right to self determination at the end of life with the states interest in preserving life?

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Discussions

Answer each “SECTION” separately with it’s own sources (2) They are all completely different questions so please separate. One source per section

SECTION 1: Would it be permissible to remove the organs of healthy, deceased prisoners to save the lives of five to eight others who need organ transplants?
Take the viewpoint that laws should be altered so that anyone dying in prison is deemed to consent.
Should prisoners in the nation’s jails and prisons have the same rights to consent as others?
Apparently, the current practice is often to use rewards to obtain the consent of prisoners. Does this seem fair?

SECTION 2:
When did the U.S. decide that people with mental illness have rights?

The history of mental illness coincides with the civil rights movement although to this day, the courts have not recognized a right to mental health treatment. Up until the turn of the 19th century, people with mental illness were confined indefinitely. Then, in the 1970s, the extensive use of psychotropic drugs made involuntary hospitalizations less necessary and the states began closing their state mental hospitals. For the first time, people with mental illness who preferred to live in their homes and were not a danger to themselves or others were free to do so. In 1975, the U.S. Supreme Court opened the doors to deinstitutionalization when it held that mental illness alone could not justify confining people indefinitely in state mental hospitals (O’Connor v. Donaldson, 422 U.S. 563 (U.S. Supreme Court 1975)). Up until this time, people could be committed to state mental hospitals, without treatment programs, even if they were not dangerous to themselves or others. Four years later the Court held that the due process rights of the mentally ill require a higher standard than a regular civil proceeding if it might result in indefinite commitments (Addington v. Texas, 441 U.S. 418 (U.S. Supreme Court 1979)). In 1982, the Court held that mentally ill people have a constitutionally protected right to refuse drug therapy (Mills v. Rogers, 457 U.S. 291 (U.S. Supreme Court 1982)). The Court explained that involuntary commitment provides no basis to infer someone is incompetent without a further judicial finding.

Today, people with mental illness now have rights, but if they cannot afford treatment, they are often either homeless or imprisoned. The prevailing view is that the nation’s entrenched mental health system does not adequately provide for the mentally ill; a cumbersome process has struck a balance too far toward preserving due process rights with inadequate attention being directed to the need for treatment.

Discussion Points:

Discuss why operation of the nation’s mental health system might be primarily based on principles of economics rather than evidence-based medicine. While it was very expensive to keep mentally ill people institutionalized, by closing most of the mental hospitals, was the expense of institutionalization simply transferred to other social systems like the criminal justice system and homeless programs? How should the U.S. health care system finance effective out-patient care for the mentally ill?
Take the viewpoint that if people commit crimes, they go to jail or prison. This idea of spending money on special and expensive mental health care comes from bleeding heart liberals.
What should the U.S. health care system do about mentally ill people that fail to follow their therapy and take their medication and are involved in crime; should they be locked in jail or prison?
Should involuntarily committed mentally ill patients have a constitutional right to refuse treatment in the absence of a legal determination of incompetence?

SECTION 3:
What human rights do family members have to weigh in on decisions about hospice care?
How should hospice programs balance the liberty interests of persistent vegetative state hospice patients to refuse life saving hydration and nutrition alongside the right to self determination at the end of life with the states interest in preserving life?

Your colleague has designed the bioreactor shown in the drawing below. You are in charge of cleaning validation. What design features might cause problems with successfully cleaning this piece of equipment?

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Bioreactor

Your colleague has designed the bioreactor shown in the drawing below. You are in charge of cleaning validation. What design features might cause problems with successfully cleaning this piece of equipment?

Note that the lines are not to scale.

Name at least five items for full credit and explain what the problem would be.

 

How does organizational structure influence the strategies an organization develops? Why is there no optimal structure? Could the three levels of an organization—corporate, business unit, and functional unit—each have a different organizational structure? Why or why not?

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Discussion Post

Read chapters 10 and 11 then answer the following questions:

1. How does organizational structure influence the strategies an organization develops?
2. Why is there no optimal structure?
3. Could the three levels of an organization—corporate, business unit, and functional unit—each have a different organizational structure? Why or why not?
4. What are the corporate office’s key concerns in creating and implementing strategy? Why?

Chapter 10
Strategic plans guide organizations from their existing state to their ideal state (vision). Environmental analyses inform an organization about its existing position and reveal the gap between its existing and ideal positions. Accurate information and effective communication are critical to formulating and maintaining strategic direction. Organizations that fail to appropriately engage their key stakeholders and align perceptions may find that their strategic efforts derail, resulting in conflict and wasted effort.

Strategic priorities are key initiatives that drive achievement of the mission and vision. From these priorities, goals and objectives are formed. Goals and objectives need to be specific, measurable, attainable, relevant to the strategic direction, and tied to time frames.

To facilitate the development of goals and objectives, many organizations institute project charters. These documents elaborate on the scope, outcomes, resource needs, participants, and processes involved. They are especially useful when an organization has many complex, interactive projects to manage.

While strategic planning can be organized in various ways, most organizations assign responsibility for coordinating the strategic planning process to an individual or a department. The duties of this person (unit) can be expanded in smaller organizations to include public relations, communications, and business development. Organizations with boards may designate strategy oversight to a strategic planning subcommittee and use task forces and advisory groups to obtain information from key stakeholders and constituencies.

The strategic planning process generally occurs annually. Organizations commonly set specific time frames for the main components of planning, including the environmental analyses, strategy formulation, goal formation, and implementation. Effective boards spend a significant amount of their time discussing strategic issues.

Marketing plans are derived from strategic plans. The mission, vision, environmental analyses, and strategic goals inform the content of marketing plans. Marketing plans segment the market, target desired customer groups, and position the organization’s products and services as distinct from competitors’ products and services. Marketing plans should be monitored and updated periodically.

Chapter 11
Business plans are tools that support and organize strategic thinking. They differ from strategic plans in that they typically focus on a specific proposal, a line of business, or an innovative concept. Organizations may create multiple business plans to carry out a strategic plan’s goals and objectives. Business plans can be used to ascertain the feasibility of a proposal, obtain funding, or establish monitoring metrics to manage projects better.

The components of a business plan vary according to the issues it addresses and the context. Generally, business plans contain an executive summary; a market analysis; a description of the organization, including its management and governance; marketing and sales strategies; an explanation of the proposed service or product line; funding requests; company financials; and other related documentation. Business plans encourage disciplined thought and provide a mechanism for carrying out strategic decisions.

Make the presentation of your business plan professional. Create a plan that is concise, realistic, and meaningful. Use good visuals that help tell your story and better inform the reader. Ensure that your business plan is creative and stands out.

Textbook:
Walston, S. (2018). Strategic healthcare management: Planning and execution (2nd ed.). Health Administration Press.

What are you trying to accomplish? How will you know if the change is an improvement? What changes can you make that will result in improvement?

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Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) Template

Part 1: The purpose of Part 1 is for you to focus on your selected topic and start thinking about your plan. In 300-500 words, address the following key questions:

What are you trying to accomplish? (The aim statement).

How will you know if the change is an improvement? (What measures of success will you use?)

What changes can you make that will result in improvement? (Change concepts that will be tested).

 

Discuss why we use quality improvement models. Provide a specific example to support your position.

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Washington Manual of Patient Safety and Quality Improvement

Discuss why we use quality improvement models. Provide a specific example to support your position.

Fondahn, E., Lane, M., & Vannucci, A. (2016). Washington manual of patient safety and quality improvement. Wolters Kluwer. ISBN-13: 9781451193558Journal for Healthcare Quality

Explore the Journal for Healthcare Quality in the GCU Library by clicking on the most recent issue or by using the keyword search function.

 

What should we be interested in when we look at this figure? What does it tell us about this epidemic?

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Hospitalized Cases

Review of Hospitalized Cases from Holland Patent School District

Because the data indicated an excess of normal surgically removed appendices in the Holland Patent School District residents during September 1976, the investigators attempted to identify additional cases by conducting a second review of hospital records that focused on children from that district who were hospitalized between September 1 and November 30. They broadened the case definition to include children with the discharge diagnosis of appendicitis, mesenteric adenitis, or regional enteritis instead of only children who had undergone appendectomies. Of children who underwent appendectomies, pathologic diagnoses were without exception stated as normal or lymphoid hyperplasia of the appendix.

A total of 33 children met the broadened case definition. Of these, 23 (70%) had onsets of illness during the 6-day interval from September 23 through September 28. Figure 2 (below) shows the dates on onset for all 33 cases.

Figure 2

Children from 5 Schools Hospitalized with Abdominal Pain and Fever, by Date of Onset, September – October 1976

QUESTION 12:

⦁ What should we be interested in when we look at this figure? What does it tell us about this epidemic?

⦁ The mean and median ages of the 33 school-age children who met the broadened case definition were 11.2 years and 13.0 years, respectively. This means more older than younger children were affected. Also, twenty-three (70%) of the 33 children who met the case definition were males. What are possible explanations for the epidemic affecting more older than younger children, and more boys than girls?

⦁ Cases were seen in students from all five district schools, with hospitalization rates ranging from 3.1 to 19.8 per 1000 students per school. The overall hospitalization rate for the district was 12.4 per 1,000 students. What does this tell us about the epidemic?

Of the 27 cases with dates of onset during September, 13 underwent surgery. Signs and symptoms did not differ between those children who underwent surgery and those who did not.

The distribution of clinical manifestations of illness among the 33 children is shown in Table 2 below.