Discuss the general lessons about evidence that can be gleaned from the hierarchy of sources you’ve composed. In other words, what qualities should one look for in a research source? What makes certain sources more credible and appropriate than others? What sorts of sources should you avoid when crafting research assignments?

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Discussion board

Imagine you work in an urgent care clinic, and for one of your graduate classes you’re writing a research paper on the financial impact of the Affordable Care Act. During the research-gathering process, you weigh the value of the following sources of evidence:

1- Personal observations gathered over two years working at the clinic

2- Workplace data obtained from your direct supervisor at the clinic

3- Meta-analysis of 30+ hospitals in 7 U.S. states, published in peer-reviewed article

4- Case study of hospitals in one Alabama county, published in peer-reviewed article

5- New York Times article on ACA

6- Report issued by Dept. of Health and Human Services regarding national ACA compliance

For your discussion forum post, rank all of the above sources from most valuable to least valuable to your research paper. Then, compose two brief paragraphs:

Paragraph 1: Explain the reasons guiding your ranking of the sources. If you believe any sources are of equal value, or that additional information is needed to assess any source(s), be sure to explain this as well. (Assume all were published recently, i.e. publication date should not be a significant factor here.)

Paragraph 2: Discuss the general lessons about evidence that can be gleaned from the hierarchy of sources you’ve composed. In other words, what qualities should one look for in a research source? What makes certain sources more credible and appropriate than others? What sorts of sources should you avoid when crafting research assignments?

When you provide a posting, please be sure to use the “Add New Discussion Topic” button (to start a new thread). To comment on a posted answer, please use the Reply link. Once other responses have been posted, comment on at least two other student’s posting in substance.

Determine key principles underpinning population-based prevention of ill health including scientific and ethical considerations for population-based disease screening.

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Epidemiology

1.2 Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:

•Critically analyze and evaluate the application of the principles of epidemiology in the context of public health and social action

•Critically analyze, compare and evaluate a range of epidemiology study designs and their appropriate application to public health practice

•Critically appraise, analyze and evaluate the role of chance, bias and confounding in current literature where epidemiological data are significant

•Assess, quantify and compare the risk of health related outcomes in populations and population subgroups

•Demonstrate critical understanding of alternative evidence based approaches in the planning, delivery and evaluation of existing and new public health interventions

•Determine key principles underpinning population-based prevention of ill health including scientific and ethical considerations for population-based disease screening.

Use population statistics and journal articles as evidence to support your rationale and evidence for these barriers. How you plan on implementing it with rationale

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Assessment 2 — Part A, B, C

The assignments are to be based on the One policy.

You have been given 6 policies to choose from.

You can choose whichever policy you want to prepare the assignments on.

Part A — Use population statistics and journal articles as evidence to support your rationale and evidence for these barriers.

Part B — How you plan on implementing it with rationale

Part C — Use the evidence you have in part A and the ideas you shared in part B and create a poster!

This poster unlike parts A and B is for the general population and will go towards initiating change a paradigm shift.

Consider stigma, sensitivity, morals, and ethics.

 

Discuss if you support or refute John’s recommendation? Support your response based on the role of the healthcare manager, your research on socialized in the U.S., and potential impact on performance measures.

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Performance & Measures

Mary is a healthcare manager responsible for overseeing the utilization of services at Norwood Health System’s hospital location. The overflow of emergency room patients has caused issues with wait times, patient care, and patient satisfaction. Many of the patients use the emergency room as a primary source of care because they are uninsured or do not have a primary care doctor to treat non-urgent issues.

John, your supervisor, asks if you can research socialized healthcare. Although socialized healthcare is not in the United States, he suggests a hospital-based model that simulates a socialized healthcare environment could provide some insight into resolving the ER problem. Socialized healthcare essentially provides healthcare access to care for all, regardless of ability to pay or cost of care. John believes that being able to provide care to all patients will decrease the “demand” for ER services. Furthermore, impact performance measures for the hospital, such as wait times and patient satisfaction.

Discuss if you support or refute John’s recommendation? Support your response based on the role of the healthcare manager, your research on socialized in the U.S., and potential impact on performance measures.

Discuss any modification you made to your floor plan with respect to structure and area. Discuss assets and equipment you will need to add to your floor plan.

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Facility Planning

This week you will continue to build your final facility. The legal team has asked you to provide them with considerations regarding legal and regulatory requirements that may affect the facility planning process.

Add the following to your facility:

• Assets and equipment:

o All assets and equipment that should be considered for use by the patient, staff, and families

• Regulatory considerations:

o Color and noise elements

o Regulatory elements, such as Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) guidelines

Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper. Your paper should:

• Analyze the impact of federal, state, and local legal and regulatory requirements on your selected facility.

o Consider and discuss assets and equipment you will need to add to your floor plan.

o Consider and discuss any modification you made to your floor plan with respect to structure and area.

• Analyze accountability and liability implications for individuals and organizations for your selected facility.

• Analyze legal versus ethical considerations for your selected facility.

• Include a print screen of your facility below. Use the instructions provided if you need help adding a print screen.

Include a print screen of your facility in the last page of the paper.

Cite at least 3 peer-reviewed, scholarly, or similar references.

This is what I have done so far using Lucidchart. I just need help with the writing portion

Examine the responsibilities of process improvement, risk management, patient safety, and quality improvement in a healthcare organization from a business case perspective.

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Risk Management, Quality Improvement, and Patient Safety

Instructions
Case Scenario Analysis: you have been hired in the CAO’s newly created position (Chief Administrative Officer) for a regional medical center. The responsibilities have been broken away from the COO (Chief Operational Officer) to focus primarily on all business and revenue generation activities.

You are a member of the hospital’s executive management team (Chief Executive Officer, Chief Operational Officer, Chief of the Clinical Staff (medical and nursing), Chief Information Officer, Chief Compliance Officer, and Chief Quality and Risk Management Officer, and legal counsel.

The hospital is a nonprofit. The services provided within the hospital include cardiac rehabilitation, emergency department, radiology, pediatrics, same-day surgery, a retail pharmacy, ophthalmology and optical, oncology, limited physical rehabilitation, and physical therapy, patient education, substance abuse, renal dialysis, and obstetrics. The Joint Commission accredits the hospital with recertification in 2 years.

In your initial and informal strategic assessment, you felt several areas warranted further review, both under the Chief Compliance Officer. You were not because of any dereliction of responsibilities by the Chief Compliance Officer. The foundation discussed was exclusively business and fiscally based:

1. The separated responsibilities of risk management, patient safety, and quality improvement from a business perspective.

2. The limited or defined methods and practices to minimize medical malpractice within the organization. Of specific concern were medical errors, adverse events, and hospital infections, even though there was no medical malpractice claim filed against the organization or any clinical provider.

In your discussion with the CEO, she asked for an inclusive memorandum of record back to her to address the following from a business case assessment. You have been there long enough to know the CEO is thorough and bases her decisions on collaboration, data, facts, and legal authority with the two primary objectives of high quality of care minimizing risk to the organization. Hence, she expects your proposal to utilize supporting evidence.

1. Examine the responsibilities of process improvement, risk management, patient safety, and quality improvement in a healthcare organization from a business case perspective. The CEO is explicitly asking, since there is a Chief Compliance Officer, how these responsibilities could be (or should be) the responsibility of both members of the C-suite or remain under the Chief Compliance Officer.

2. Propose specific risk reduction strategies to mitigate medical malpractice, medical errors, and healthcare-associated infections (HAI’s) from a business assessment. Again, use supporting evidence in your proposal to the CEO.

3. Knowing that these two responsibilities are multidisciplinary, recommend a C-suite and upper management ad hoc team by hospital positions to exam the items above for recommendations for process improvement teams. Support your recommendations with justification for industry standards or best practices.

While a memorandum can be in any professional format, it is expected that content is original, founded in best practices, and scopes of care with all external authors had APA citation to the sources in the body and on the last page with an APA reference list.

Grading Criteria
Student writing should be at the academic level, unbiased language in the third person, and proper healthcare and legal vernacular. Assigned papers will require APA formatting (most current edition), including the title and reference pages. If you are unsure how to format using APA style, please see the Writing Center: http://wc.syr.edu/ or Learning APA Style: https://apastyle.apa.org/learn/.

Excluding the APA title and reference pages, the papers should be between 1,000 – 1500 words in the body. The word count requires the substance to be concise, robust, logical, and demonstrate complete knowledge of the weekly content. Although not in proper APA formatting, include the word count for the paper’s body at the very bottom of the title page.

The body of the paper should include first level APA headings for all content or topics when required. Having the required content as first-level headings will help students meet the content requirements and the paper’s focus on the required subjects. Students are welcome to add subheadings at the second or third levels, but the first level is required. The APA Citation Guide can assist with formatting, including headings: http://researchguides.library.syr.edu/c.php?
g=258089&p=1723658.

All sources used within the paper’s body (directly and paraphrased) must be cited in the paper’s body and on the required reference page per APA requirements and should not exceed 20%. Content from other sources that exceed 20% could indicate a lack of originality or possibly plagiarism and will be addressed following the Academic Integrity Policy noted below.

Third-party plagiarism software, such as Turnitin, may be used to assess the originality of a student’s work in any assignment, papers, and quizzes, or exams to rule out plagiarism. The quality of the content will be assessed using the attached rubric. All criteria in the category must be met to earn the full points. See attached rubric.

Research the literature and obtain two to three resources for current, evidence-based information related to the pharmacological agent.

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Week 6 Synthesize pharmacological knowledge

1. Choose a pharmacological agent that has been on the market less than 5 years.

2. Research the literature and obtain two to three resources for current, evidence-based information related to the pharmacological agent.

3. Develop a teaching brochure and one page paper following these guidelines.

a. Brochure

Discuss the pathophysiologies of one medical and one trauma condition commonly encountered among elderly patients. Discuss the significance of ageing in the prevalence and complexity of these conditions.

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Would like to discuss the affects of Atrial fibulation for medical and a fratured humerus for trauma.

Discuss the pathophysiologies of one medical and one trauma condition commonly encountered among elderly patients.  Specifically, discuss the significance of ageing in the prevalence and complexity of these conditions.

What Is A Problem Statement?: Write & submit your Problem Statement for your Proposal. Submit as a Microsoft Word Doc..

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writing Assignment #5 via Assignment 5 Dropbox:

3. Complete & Submit Writing Assignment #5 via Assignment 5 Dropbox:

Writing Assignment 5: Write and Submit your Problem statement

Use Text Chapter 16 and resources provided to Write & submit your Problem Statement for your Proposal. Submit as a Microsoft Word Doc..

What Is A Problem Statement? (Links to an external site.)

What Is A Problem Statement?: Writing The Problem Statement

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Does the public closely follow the politics of health policy? How is public opinion about health policy different than a public opinion about other social policies?

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Healthcare Politics

Description

Does the public closely follow the politics of health policy? How is public opinion about health policy different than a public opinion about other social policies? Analyze 2-3 ways that public data can be captured to influence policymaking.