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Demonstrate ability to clearly communicate and present your analysis and findings in both written and oral presentation forms articulating your work and findings in the class.

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This course ( E C O N G U 4 9 1 3 ) is a senior level course on specific topics in Economics and Finance. The purpose of this seminar is to study some topics in Sustainable Economics and Finance/Investing using current empirical researches in the area. In this seminar, topics that are covering Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) indicators, both at macroeconomics and micro-levels will be covered. Topics on ESG include:

1. Environmental Issues: • Macro – level : Environmental and Resource Economics, Ecology, Supply and demand of environmental goods and services, pollution, climate change, so on. • Micro – level : Environmental and Resource Economics, Ecology, Supply and demand of environmental goods and services, pollution, climate change, portfolio selection based on Environmental indicators so on. 2. Social Issues: • Macro – level: Social justice with respect to poverty, income/gender/racial inequality, access to health care, education, housing, financial services, and so on. • Micro – level: Micro aspects of Social justice with respect to poverty, income inequality, access to health care, education, housing, financial services, portfolio selection based on Social indicators and/or Socially Responsible Investing (SRI). 3. Governance Issues: • Macro – level : The macroeconomic impact of good governance, political stability, economic systems, regulatory effectiveness/environment, policy environment, political system, taxation, and so on. • Micro – level : The microeconomic impact of good governance at firm level, political stability, economic systems, regulatory effectiveness/environment, policy environment, political system, taxation, and so on. In addition, we consider the portfolio selection procedure/impact of some governance indicators.

Most of the students’ research topics in the past as well as the journal articles that we were presenting and discussing were largely focused on topics such as corporate social responsibility,
COURSE AND INSTRUCTOR INFORMATION
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Sustainable investing, performance of companies that pay attention to sustainability indicators, such as diversity in management/board, worker’s happiness, and pollution/environmental issues, will be covered. In particular, questions like: 1) Do companies that pay attention to sustainability (triple-bottom line) outperform others or the market portfolio? 2) Can welfare be enhanced if Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) investing is followed? 3) Does resource scarcity in the long run imply companies to follow ESG based investing? 4) Does social pressure lead to ESG based resource allocation? and so on.

ECON UN3211: Introduction to Microeconomics ECON UN3213: Introduction to Macroeconomics ECON UN3412: Introduction to Econometrics.

After studying this course, you will be able to: • Goal 1: Understand contemporary topics of Sustainable Economics and Investing.

o Demonstrate understanding of and ability to apply theories of sustainability.

o Develop a basic understanding of ESG criteria for making investment decisions. o Articulate and present current and past literature that focus on sustainability and related investment strategies globally.
• Goal 2: Produce high quality complete research paper on any topics of ESG based Investing. o Demonstrate ability to identify important sources (i.e., of data, related literature, and materials) that will be used in your paper. o Analyze these data, literature and materials that you identify and gather to conduct a research on your selected topics.

o Demonstrate ability to clearly communicate and present your analysis and findings in both written and oral presentation forms articulating your work and findings in the class.

1. Textbooks (Recommended) • Ramian and Gregoriou (2016).
Handbook of Environmental and Sustainable Finance .
Elsevier Inc. UK. • Matthew W. Sherwood (2019) Responsible Investing: An Introduction to Environmental, Social, and Governance Investments . Routledge. 1st Edition. • Peter Camejo (2002). The SRI Advantage: Why Socially Responsible Investing Has Outperformed Financially? New Society Publisher. • Paul Herman, Jessica Skylar, and Gayle Keck (2010). The HIP Investor: Make Bigger Profits by Building a Better World Hardcover . Wiley: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. • Amy Domini (2001). Socially Responsible Investing: Making a Difference and Making Money . Dearborn Trade, a Kaplan Professional Company. • Morgan Simon (2017). Real Impact: The New Economics of Social Change . Hachette Book Group.
PREREQUISITS:
2. Articles • See below under the selected Topics for reading.

COURSE FORMAT
This course will have two major parts. These are workshop and research. Regarding the first part, I will allocate the first 4 – 5 weeks to discuss some topics on ESG based economic/financial resource allocation. In these 4 -5 weeks, I will discuss some important articles/book chapters/ that need to be considered in order to expose you to the area of ESG or SRI based investment. As any type of workshop, it is you (students) who will determine the quality of each session. My task will be facilitating the discussion and guiding it towards the desired outcome. So, towards this end, students are required to select and present articles on related economic issues from journals (see the list of articles for reading at the end), newspapers, books, and other sources that are related to the main theme of the course. Students are also expected to participate constructively in class and for that each student should read all the required/assigned materials, write reflective essays on them, and present or turn them in on time.

As for the research part of the course, since this is a senior seminar course, you are required to produce and turn in your final research paper no later than 12:00 PM on Monday, May 11, 2020. The paper should be 15 – 20 pages in length and must have some data to answer a specific research question(s) on the ESG related topics. Econometric analysis is highly encouraged as it is one of the prerequisites for this course. That is, the type of your research should mainly be quantitative research (i.e., theoretical or empirical). However, in situations where by you select an interesting research topic but there is no data for you to conduct empirical research, you will be allowed to do a qualitative research. In order to make it easier and clear for all of you, I break your research activities by topics and dates. See the tentative timetable below in the final project sections and due dates table.

EXAMINATIONS AND GRADING

Your grade will be based on article presentations that are assigned to you, class participation and discussions, reflective journals, company profile report, research proposal and final research project/essay. It will be specifically as follows:

Article Presentation: 10% (5% for the first article and 5% for presenting your selected article) Reflective Essays (2-page article reflection for every article you read (present & discuss)): 10% ESG Company Profile: 10% (You are expected to select at least three companies of your choice and assess and rank them based on ESG criteria) OR Social Impact and Sustainable Finance Project: 10% (See the detailed instruction below) Attendance, Class Participation, and Discussions: 10% Research Proposal: 10% Final Research Paper: 50%

Article Presentation:
This article/book chapter presentation is 10% of your grade and it will be a semester long process. This is an individual assignment in which each student will be assigned at least one article or a chapter of a book (from the above listed class material) and each of you are also expected to select one of your own articles that is related to your research topic to present it in class. The assigned student is expected to critically read the material and present in the class. For each article presentation, there will be another student who will be assigned as a discussant. The responsibilities of the discussants are 1) read the article assigned, 2) discuss the article and ask the presenters questions and 3) write a reflective essay on the article s/he discusses.

Reflective Journals/Essays: Please note that these papers are 15% of your final grade.

Each student will write a two-page reflective essay on the articles or book chapters that are assigned as a reading assignment or discussion topics. The Reflective Essay will be evaluated based on the following contents:

Description: Identify the main objective(s) of the material and what are its contributions? Your description needs to have: a) the thesis, main point or main concept of the material that the author is trying to communicate in simple one or two sentences; and b) your summary of the major ideas supporting or criticizing the thesis and the author’s argument. •
Analysis: Analyze the material’s major strengths, weaknesses, and limits of its theses and argument. •
Reflect/Apply: What did this material mean to you? How can you apply it to real life situation, understanding or experience? What questions, issues, disagreements were raised for you? How can it be improved?

Attendance, Class Participation, and Discussion:
Attendance and participation will be 10% of your total grade. I will prepare and bring a class participation sheet in each class period or I will take note on individuals that are participating in each class. At the end of the semester each student must have his/her name on that participation sheet or note. If you are missing a class (excused or unexcused), you will be writing a one-page report that demonstrate you talk to your friends or classmates and you are catching up on what you missed in class on that particular day. If you fail to do so, I will deduct penalty points from the total attendance and participation points. However, if you miss onethird or more of this class times, you will
automatically fail in this class and I transfer “F” to the registrar’s office as your final course grade.

Final Research Proposal:

Note that this paper is 10% of your final grade. The main goal of this proposal is to encourage students to formulate a clear and researchable economic problem, review related literature, identify data sources and appropriate methods of data analysis.

1.) You are to choose a topic in Sustainable Economics and Finance (i.e., something similar to the suggested topics list) and then get your topic approved before you start conducting research on your approved topic. [Turn in your topic by 02/10/2020]

2.) Use your approved topic to write a 3 – page proposal. The proposal must be double spaced, have approximately 1-inch margins, and use a 10- or 12-inch font. The paper will be graded as follows:

Clear definition/explanation of the research question 40 Significance of the research 20 Idea Originality 20 Data sources and proposed method 20 Total Points 100

Social Impact and Sustainable Finance Project:

Please note that this paper is 10% of your final grade.

This is to give you and your group an opportunity to think about, research on, and come up with a solution to one or more of today’s wicked challenges. These challenges are social, environmental, and governance related problems. These problems are significant enough to be addressed by the current system, that is, if solving these problems were easy and profitable, either governments or corporations could have tackled them long time ago. No one has solved them because the current profit-maximization and individual utility-maximization system is not attractive or conducive for local or multinational corporations to come up with a workable model to address them or many individuals to think about them as the driving cause for life. Most of the courses that you have been and will be taking are not designed to help you work on a project that encourage you to follow your heart, passion, and calling in changing the community and your world with little or no financial rewards at all. For this project, your idea is evaluated by how much environmental, social, and good-governance impact it may have in your village, town, community, state, country or world.

Towards this end, you are encouraged to research a given social problem that you have been thinking about, has personally affected you, your family, friends, and community, and propose a workable solution for it. At this stage, your idea/solution need not be perfect but a little bit different (out of the box) and plausible. Your proposed solution for the problem you researched can be a new business that either directly addresses and tackles the problem or indirectly by using its proceeds to tackle the problem. It can also be a policy change (i.e., through advocacy work), bringing different stakeholders together to address the issue or work with donors or philanthropists in the area to direct their resources for the good of the society. If your idea affects many people in the community, that would be a huge success. However, if your idea is helping even a single person’s life that is still a big success and it needs scaling. I strongly recommend you not to be afraid to be bold, unorthodox, propose out of the ordinary idea, challenge the status quo, and change the current wisdom/system as long as your idea is the best idea to change lives for the better. Do not also be afraid to propose changes that are distributive for the existing social norms and widely accepted practices, as there is no such
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thing as perfect norm, perfect system, perfect practice or business model. If it were perfect, it could have solved the problems that you will be working on.

The specific instruction for this particular assignment is as follows:

1. If you prefer, form a group of 2 – 3 students for this project; 2. Select the wicked problem in which you may find passion, meaning, and calling; 3. Conduct a detail research on the selected problem (i.e., support evidence for the rationale why you selected this problem, the significance of its effect and how it affects your community); 4. Propose a solution for your selected social challenge preferably in the form of a new “start-up” or “business” so that its main focus is to generate enough resources to tackle your particular social problem; and 5. Write a (social) business plan for your “start-up” idea. At this stage, I do not expect you to write a perfect business plan but it serves you as practice for the many business plans you will be writing both during your school years and beyond. For this assignment, I am very much interested in your idea (i.e., proposed solution) than the quality of your business plan. If your idea is among the few that are worth pursuing, you may work on it further individually or as a group. If successful, you may be working on your own start-up idea both as a student and beyond instead of searching for jobs in the job market after your graduation.

I wish you a very Good Luck and please do not be afraid to try something new that is worth trying and even fail. Although, evidence shows that more than 50% of new start-ups fail within the first 5 years of their existence, it should not prevent you from trying.

Final Research Paper:

This paper is worth 50% of the final grade. You are expected to complete a research paper of 15 – 20 pages (double-spaced; about 5000 words not including charts, tables, and references). The basic outline will be the as follows:

• First 1-2 pages should introduce the issue and how it matters in contemporary economics. In this section of your project, you need to discuss the background of your research problem as to why it is important and also clearly define the purpose/aim/objective of your chosen topic.

• The next 1-2 pages should discuss the significance of your research, its scope and limitations as to which aspect of the topic will not be addressed in your study, and some preliminary results of your research.

• The next 4-8 pages should discuss how economists have analyzed this topic. What is the framework that economists used to assess this issue? What conclusions have been reached? What disagreements remain? This is primarily a literature review.

• The next 1- 2 pages should discuss what type of data is required? How it will be collected? From which sources it will be gathered? Why this particular information is needed in your
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research? And present some descriptive statistics of your gathered data (i.e., graphs, tables, means, variance etc.)

• The next 1- 2 pages should discuss what type of data analysis method is required? Why this particular method is needed for your research? And how can this method be used in the context of your research? What are you testing by using this model/method?

• The next1 -2 pages should explain what kind of data transformation or changes have been used before data analysis? Why were these transformations needed? What is the purpose of using a particular data or transformed data in line with your paper’s objectives?

• The next 2 – 5 pages should discuss the main findings of your analysis and answer your research topic (i.e., economic problem) that you selected to address. How is your result different or similar from previously done similar papers? What is your main new finding or contribution regarding your research topic?

• The final 1 -2 pages will conclude the paper and forward some policy recommendation based on your findings.

• References cited in the paper should follow standard modes of citation.

FINAL PROJECT SECTIONS AND DUE DATES

ECONGU 4913 SENIOR SEMINAR PROJECT Item Description Deadline TURN IN YOUR TOPIC TURN IN YOUR PROPOSAL INTRODUCTION LITERATURE REVIEW DATA AND METHODOLOGY PRELIMENARY RESULT RESULT DISCUSSION
CONCLUSION
FINAL DRAFT

Make-up Examination Policy: There is no make-up for this course.
Course Expectations: There is an attendance policy for the course. I may not take attendance in every class as it is an upper level class and also due to time constraint, but consistent attendance is strongly.
recommended for good performance in this course. Failure to attend class regularly affects your performance. Attendance and participation are an integral part of the learning process, and success in this course cannot be achieved by simply reading the text. I will also present material in class that will not be found elsewhere.

During each class students are expected to avoid carrying on private conversations, reading newspapers or working on assignments from other courses. In addition, you are also expected to turn off your lap tops, cell phones, tablets, pagers, and PDAs prior to entering class unless we need them in class for the purpose of this course as determined by me. You may be asked to leave the classroom if these policies are violated or I’ll deduct points from your overall score.

Statement on Academic Integrity:
As all classes in the University, the Honor Code established by the students of Columbia University will be effective in this class as well. If any student is found violating academic integrity, that is cheating, plagiarizing, and committing other academic dishonesty, cannot be tolerated and actions will be taken by me as well as school Deans will be notified. For details of
student’s honor code see http://bulletin.columbia.edu/generalstudies/undergraduates/gs-honor-pledge/.

Basic Rules for this Course:

1. Always come to class prepared to learn and participate in class 2. Always ask questions when you don’t understand something 3. Always challenge yourself to do your best in this course 4. Always show respect for everyone in the class – classmate, TAs, the professor, and YOURSELF. 5. Always keep academic honesty and integrity by affirming the honors code. 6. Attempt to attend all recitations and office hours by TAs in order to get additional help.

ODS Accommodations:
If you are a student with a disability and have a DS-certified ‘Accommodation Letter’ please notify me at least 2 weeks prior to the test dates listed above.

For further information and resources on ODS accommodations, please refer to statement
online at http://www.college.columbia.edu/rightsandresponsibilities.

Month Date Topics/Activities/Due dates Remark Welcome, Syllabus, Introduction
Topic 1: Introduction to Research Method in Economics
Topic 2: Economics and Sustainability Turn in your selected topic
Topic 3: Sustainability through the lenses of economic and financial valuation
Topic 4: How Sustainability affects accounting, profitability, and Investing? Introduction to ESG Based Investing 1 Page Proposal is due
Round 1: Article #1, #2, #3, & #4,
Round 1: Article #5, #6, #7, & #8, Introduction + Literature
Round 1: Article #9, #10, #11, & #12, Spring Break – No Class
Round 1: Article #13, #14, #15, & #16 Data collection + Method
Your selected + Update: Article #1, #2, #3, #4, & #5,
Your selected + Update: Article #6, #7, #8, #9, #10, & #11 Preliminary Results
Your selected + Update: Article #12, #13, #14, #15, & #16
Final Paper #1, #2, #3, #4, Result Discussion
Final Paper #5, #6, #7, & #8
Final Paper #9, #10, #11, & #12, Conclusion
Final Paper #13, #14, #15, & #16 Final Paper Due by 12:00 PM

Describe the differential diagnostic approach for a mental health disorder co-occurring with substance use with strong support from scholarly sources.

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Assessment of Addiction and Co-Occurring Disorders.

For this assignment, use the selected case study (Ji-woo) and analyze assessment tools that would support the diagnostic process for both the substance use and mental health issues presented.

Meet Ji-woo

Ji-woo is a 19-year-old woman of Korean decent. She was born in South Korea and moved to the United States with her parents when she was 2 years old. She has many relatives in the United States including aunts, uncles and cousins, but her grandparents and some other extended family members remain in the Korea. She visited them every couple years while growing up and often stayed for several weeks at a time. Ji-woo’s parents describe her as a happy child who was able to enjoy time with friends and family on two continents. Unfortunately, this changed after Ji-woo was in a car accident last summer.

 

The Accident

Ji-woo was enjoying a high school graduation celebration with friends at a nearby park when the accident occurred. The car in which she was traveling struck a tree at a high rate of speed causing the car to careen into the woods. Ji-woo suffered severe injuries to her back and legs that required multiple surgeries, but her family felt lucky that she survived as one of Ji-woo’s friends died of her injuries the night of the accident.

 

Ji-woo Struggles with Opiates

As Ji-woo struggled to recover from the accident, she came to rely upon opiate medications that were initially prescribed to help manage her pain. As weeks passed, her physical injuries healed, but she found that the numbing sensation that the opiates provided helped block the pain associated with the loss of her friend and memories of the accident. When her physician refused to refill her prescription, Ji-woo found contacts through a mutual friend who could supply the pills for a price. She found they helped her sleep and gave her a warm feeling that helped her act like her old self. Whenever the pills ran out, she found the memories of the accident became worse and popped into her head when she had quiet moments to herself. She has had some thoughts of hurting herself when she questions why her friend died yet she survived, but with the relief of the pills, she has been able to push those thoughts away.

 

Ji-woo’s Family Interviens

When she was physically well enough to travel, Ji-woo’s grandparents invited her to visit because they were anxious to see her. To everyone’s shock, she refused to travel to the Korea. One of her cousins suggested that it might be because Ji-woo couldn’t get enough pain pills to be away that long. This alarmed Ji-woo’s parents who did not know how or where she could be getting the pills. Searching Ji-woo’s room, they found plastic vials tucked in odd places some empty and some with pills. At their insistence, Ji-woo agreed to meet with a counselor to help explore how she was really handling the accident.

Assignment Instructions

  • Consider scholarly literature for your selected assessment to analyze the level of appropriateness of the tool to assess clients from diverse backgrounds.
    • Selects appropriate diagnostic assessment tools for both substance use and mental health issues, including additional assessments that can be eliminated as being inappropriate.
    • Analyzes the selected tools’ applicability to diverse populations including a clear rationale for the selected tools.
  • Include information that would be needed to formulate a differential diagnosis.
    • Describe the differential diagnostic approach for a mental health disorder co-occurring with substance use with strong support from scholarly sources.
  • Formulate a provisional diagnosis following the DSM-5 criteria using the assessment template provided including a concise summary.
    • Analyzes the advantages and disadvantages of a family systems approach for assessment of a substance use disorder (SUD).
  • Follow the template to address client strengths, challenges, and level of care.
    • Formulates a detailed provisional diagnosis on the assessment template based upon current DSM criteria that includes descriptions of client strengths and challenges.
    • Presents a summary of the assessment process noting the limitations and outstanding issues requiring further exploration.

Evaluate the leadership qualities and skills that will be most important to successfully implementing a strategic plan and sustaining strategic direction.

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  • Develop a 5–10-year strategic plan for achieving specific health care quality and safety improvements, based on the analysis you completed in Assessment 1. Use either an AI approach or your SWOT analysis and a chosen strategic planning model.

Note: Each assessment in this course builds on the work you completed in the previous assessment. Therefore, you must complete the assessments in this course in the order in which they are presented.

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Evaluation of strategic choices is important. The methods for selecting strategic alternatives help leaders organize significant issues to support decision making. However, it is important that the techniques do not make the decision. Rather, leaders should use the techniques to reveal the inherent situation and to organize their thought processes. This assessment provides you with an opportunity to evaluate and apply some of the techniques for successful strategy development and implementation.

By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:

  • Competency 1: Evaluate qualities and skills that promote effective leadership within health care organizations.
    • Evaluate the leadership qualities and skills that will be most important to successfully implementing a strategic plan and sustaining strategic direction.
  • Competency 2: Apply strategies to lead high-performing health care teams to meet organizational quality and safety goals.
    • Develop strategic goal statements and outcomes that support the achievement of specific quality and safety improvements for a care setting.
    • Justify the relevance of proposed strategic goals and outcomes in relation to the mission, vision, and values of a care setting.
  • Competency 3: Apply cultural, ethical, and regulatory considerations to leadership decision making.
    • Analyze the extent to which strategic goals and outcomes address the use of technology and the ethical, cultural, and regulatory environments.
  • Competency 4: Integrate leadership and health care theories into the role of the nurse leader.
    • Explain how relevant leadership and health care theories will be used to help achieve proposed strategic goals and objectives.
  • Competency 5: Communicate with stakeholders and constituencies to build collaborative partnerships and create inclusive work environments.
    • Communicate analyses clearly and in a way that demonstrates professionalism and respect for stakeholders and colleagues.
    • Integrate relevant and credible sources of evidence to support assertions, correctly formatting citations and references using APA style.
Competency Map

CHECK YOUR PROGRESSUse this online tool to track your performance and progress through your course.

Questions to Consider

As you prepare to complete this assessment, you may want to think about other related issues to deepen your understanding or broaden your viewpoint. You are encouraged to consider the questions below and discuss them with a fellow learner, a work associate, an interested friend, or a member of your professional community. Note that these questions are for your own development and exploration and do not need to be completed or submitted as part of your assessment.

Strategic planning models aid in setting goals, establishing time frames, and forging a path toward achieving those goals. Consider the strategic planning models you are familiar with:

  • Which model would you choose to create goals and outcomes that could address the area of concern you identified in your Assessment 1 SWOT analysis?
  • Why is this model the best choice among alternatives?
  • How does goal setting through appreciative inquiry provocative propositions differ from goal setting in the strategic planning model you selected?

Resources

Suggested Resources

The resources provided here are optional. You may use other resources of your choice to prepare for this assessment; however, you will need to ensure that they are appropriate, credible, and valid. The MSN-FP6210: Leadership and Management for Nurse Executives Library Guide can help direct your research, and the Supplemental Resources and Research Resources, both linked from the left navigation menu in your courseroom, provide additional resources to help support you.

Strategic Planning
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2017). Influenza (flu). Retrieved from http://www.cdc.gov/flu/
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2016). National pandemic strategy. Retrieved from http://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/national-strategy/index.html
  • Center for Public Health Systems Sciences. (2012). Strategic planning. Retrieved from https://sustaintool.org/understand/#strategic-planning
    • Provides information on strategic planning and links to additional resources.
  • Honigsbaum, M., & Blower, P. (2014). How pandemics spread – Mark Honigsbaum[Video]. Retrieved from http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-pandemics-spread
  • de Paula Rodríguez Perera, F., & Peiró, M. (2012). Strategic planning in healthcare organizations. Revista Española de Cardiologia, 65(8), 749–754. Retrieved from https://www.revespcardiol.org/en-pdf-S188558571200182X

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Leadership
Suggested Writing Resources

·         Assessment Instructions

Note: You will use your care setting environmental analysis as the basis for developing your strategic plan in this assessment.

Preparation

The feedback you received on your care setting environmental analysis has been positive. Consequently, you have been asked to select one of the potential improvement projects you noted in your analysis and create a full, 5–10-year strategic plan to achieve the desired quality and safety improvement outcomes. You will develop your strategic plan, using either an AI approach (addressing the design stage), or by building on your SWOT analysis and applying a strategic planning model of your choice.

How you structure your plan should be based on whether you are taking an appreciative inquiry approach or using a specific strategic planning model. Regardless of the approach you choose, the requester of the plan has asked that you address the key points outlined below in the strategic plan requirements. In addition, your plan should be 5–8 pages in length.

Note: Remember, you can submit all, or a portion, of your draft plan to Smarthinking for feedback before you submit the final version for this assessment. However, be mindful of the turnaround time for receiving feedback, if you plan on using this free service.

Requirements

Note: The requirements outlined below correspond to the grading criteria in the scoring guide, so at a minimum, be sure to address each point. In addition, you are encouraged to review the performance level descriptions for each criterion to see how your work will be assessed.

Writing, Supporting Evidence, and APA Style
  • Write clearly, with professionalism and respect for stakeholders and colleagues.
  • Integrate relevant sources of evidence to support your assertions.
    • Cite at least 3–5 sources of scholarly or professional evidence.
  • Format your document using APA style. An APA Style Paper Template and associated tutorial, linked in the Resources, are provided for your use. Be sure to include:
    • A title page and reference page. An abstract is not required.
    • A running head on all pages.
    • Appropriate section headings.
    • Properly formatted citations and references.
  • Proofread your writing to minimize errors that could distract readers and make it more difficult to focus on the substance of your analysis.

Strategic Plan

  • Develop strategic goal statements and outcomes that reflect specific quality and safety improvements for your care setting. You should have at least one short-term goal (just-in-time to one year) and one long-term goal (five years or longer).
    • Determine realistic timelines for achieving your goals.
    • Explain how your short-term goals support your long-term goals.

Note: For plans based on an AI approach, the goal statements and outcomes are provocative propositions that may be refinements of the positive, yet attainable, goals that you proposed during the dream phase of your inquiry. For plans based on a SWOT analysis, the goal statements and outcomes are specific, measurable, and applicable to the area of concern in your analysis for which you proposed pursuing improvements.

  • Justify the relevance of your proposed strategic goals and outcomes in relation to the mission, vision, and values of your care setting.
  • Analyze the extent to which your strategic goals and outcomes, and your approach to achieving them, address:
    • The ethical environment.
    • The cultural environment.
    • The use of technology.
    • Applicable health care policies, laws, and regulations.
  • Explain, in general, how you will use relevant leadership and health care theories to help achieve your proposed strategic goals and outcomes.
    • Consider whether different theories are more applicable to the short-term or long-term goals of your strategic plan.
  • Evaluate the leadership qualities and skills that are most important to successfully implementing your proposed plan and sustaining strategic direction.
    • Identify those leadership qualities and skills that are essential to achieving your goals and outcomes and sustaining strategic direction.
    • Identify those leadership qualities and skills that will have the greatest effect on the success of your plan.

 

Based on the report you compiled for your boss, describe the Bhopal Union Carbide plant malfunction you analyzed and which method you selected to complete your assessment.

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Based on the report you compiled for your boss, describe the Bhopal Union Carbide plant malfunction you analyzed and which method you selected to complete your assessment. Include why you decided this was the most applicable method for the malfunction and your primary recommendation for correcting the malfunction.

Develop a 5–10-year strategic plan for achieving specific health care quality and safety improvements.

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  • Develop a 5–10-year strategic plan for achieving specific health care quality and safety improvements, based on the analysis you completed in Assessment 1. Use either an AI approach or your SWOT analysis and a chosen strategic planning model.

Note: Each assessment in this course builds on the work you completed in the previous assessment. Therefore, you must complete the assessments in this course in the order in which they are presented.

SHOW LESS

Evaluation of strategic choices is important. The methods for selecting strategic alternatives help leaders organize significant issues to support decision making. However, it is important that the techniques do not make the decision. Rather, leaders should use the techniques to reveal the inherent situation and to organize their thought processes. This assessment provides you with an opportunity to evaluate and apply some of the techniques for successful strategy development and implementation.

By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:

  • Competency 1: Evaluate qualities and skills that promote effective leadership within health care organizations.
    • Evaluate the leadership qualities and skills that will be most important to successfully implementing a strategic plan and sustaining strategic direction.
  • Competency 2: Apply strategies to lead high-performing health care teams to meet organizational quality and safety goals.
    • Develop strategic goal statements and outcomes that support the achievement of specific quality and safety improvements for a care setting.
    • Justify the relevance of proposed strategic goals and outcomes in relation to the mission, vision, and values of a care setting.
  • Competency 3: Apply cultural, ethical, and regulatory considerations to leadership decision making.
    • Analyze the extent to which strategic goals and outcomes address the use of technology and the ethical, cultural, and regulatory environments.
  • Competency 4: Integrate leadership and health care theories into the role of the nurse leader.
    • Explain how relevant leadership and health care theories will be used to help achieve proposed strategic goals and objectives.
  • Competency 5: Communicate with stakeholders and constituencies to build collaborative partnerships and create inclusive work environments.
    • Communicate analyses clearly and in a way that demonstrates professionalism and respect for stakeholders and colleagues.
    • Integrate relevant and credible sources of evidence to support assertions, correctly formatting citations and references using APA style.
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Questions to Consider

As you prepare to complete this assessment, you may want to think about other related issues to deepen your understanding or broaden your viewpoint. You are encouraged to consider the questions below and discuss them with a fellow learner, a work associate, an interested friend, or a member of your professional community. Note that these questions are for your own development and exploration and do not need to be completed or submitted as part of your assessment.

Strategic planning models aid in setting goals, establishing time frames, and forging a path toward achieving those goals. Consider the strategic planning models you are familiar with:

  • Which model would you choose to create goals and outcomes that could address the area of concern you identified in your Assessment 1 SWOT analysis?
  • Why is this model the best choice among alternatives?
  • How does goal setting through appreciative inquiry provocative propositions differ from goal setting in the strategic planning model you selected?

Resources

Suggested Resources

The resources provided here are optional. You may use other resources of your choice to prepare for this assessment; however, you will need to ensure that they are appropriate, credible, and valid. The MSN-FP6210: Leadership and Management for Nurse Executives Library Guide can help direct your research, and the Supplemental Resources and Research Resources, both linked from the left navigation menu in your courseroom, provide additional resources to help support you.

Strategic Planning
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2017). Influenza (flu). Retrieved from http://www.cdc.gov/flu/
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2016). National pandemic strategy. Retrieved from http://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/national-strategy/index.html
  • Center for Public Health Systems Sciences. (2012). Strategic planning. Retrieved from https://sustaintool.org/understand/#strategic-planning
    • Provides information on strategic planning and links to additional resources.
  • Honigsbaum, M., & Blower, P. (2014). How pandemics spread – Mark Honigsbaum[Video]. Retrieved from http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-pandemics-spread
  • de Paula Rodríguez Perera, F., & Peiró, M. (2012). Strategic planning in healthcare organizations. Revista Española de Cardiologia, 65(8), 749–754. Retrieved from https://www.revespcardiol.org/en-pdf-S188558571200182X

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·         Assessment Instructions

Note: You will use your care setting environmental analysis as the basis for developing your strategic plan in this assessment.

Preparation

The feedback you received on your care setting environmental analysis has been positive. Consequently, you have been asked to select one of the potential improvement projects you noted in your analysis and create a full, 5–10-year strategic plan to achieve the desired quality and safety improvement outcomes. You will develop your strategic plan, using either an AI approach (addressing the design stage), or by building on your SWOT analysis and applying a strategic planning model of your choice.

How you structure your plan should be based on whether you are taking an appreciative inquiry approach or using a specific strategic planning model. Regardless of the approach you choose, the requester of the plan has asked that you address the key points outlined below in the strategic plan requirements. In addition, your plan should be 5–8 pages in length.

Note: Remember, you can submit all, or a portion, of your draft plan to Smarthinking for feedback before you submit the final version for this assessment. However, be mindful of the turnaround time for receiving feedback, if you plan on using this free service.

Requirements

Note: The requirements outlined below correspond to the grading criteria in the scoring guide, so at a minimum, be sure to address each point. In addition, you are encouraged to review the performance level descriptions for each criterion to see how your work will be assessed.

Writing, Supporting Evidence, and APA Style
  • Write clearly, with professionalism and respect for stakeholders and colleagues.
  • Integrate relevant sources of evidence to support your assertions.
    • Cite at least 3–5 sources of scholarly or professional evidence.
  • Format your document using APA style. An APA Style Paper Template and associated tutorial, linked in the Resources, are provided for your use. Be sure to include:
    • A title page and reference page. An abstract is not required.
    • A running head on all pages.
    • Appropriate section headings.
    • Properly formatted citations and references.
  • Proofread your writing to minimize errors that could distract readers and make it more difficult to focus on the substance of your analysis.

Strategic Plan

  • Develop strategic goal statements and outcomes that reflect specific quality and safety improvements for your care setting. You should have at least one short-term goal (just-in-time to one year) and one long-term goal (five years or longer).
    • Determine realistic timelines for achieving your goals.
    • Explain how your short-term goals support your long-term goals.

Note: For plans based on an AI approach, the goal statements and outcomes are provocative propositions that may be refinements of the positive, yet attainable, goals that you proposed during the dream phase of your inquiry. For plans based on a SWOT analysis, the goal statements and outcomes are specific, measurable, and applicable to the area of concern in your analysis for which you proposed pursuing improvements.

  • Justify the relevance of your proposed strategic goals and outcomes in relation to the mission, vision, and values of your care setting.
  • Analyze the extent to which your strategic goals and outcomes, and your approach to achieving them, address:
    • The ethical environment.
    • The cultural environment.
    • The use of technology.
    • Applicable health care policies, laws, and regulations.
  • Explain, in general, how you will use relevant leadership and health care theories to help achieve your proposed strategic goals and outcomes.
    • Consider whether different theories are more applicable to the short-term or long-term goals of your strategic plan.
  • Evaluate the leadership qualities and skills that are most important to successfully implementing your proposed plan and sustaining strategic direction.
    • Identify those leadership qualities and skills that are essential to achieving your goals and outcomes and sustaining strategic direction.
    • Identify those leadership qualities and skills that will have the greatest effect on the success of your plan.

 

Describe teaching experience according to teaching proposal and power points which are design to educate community nurses on infection control, hand washing.

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In 1,500-2,000 words, describe the teaching experience and discuss your observations. The written portion of this assignment should include:

Summary of teaching plan
Epidemiological rationale for topic
Evaluation of teaching experience
Community response to teaching
Areas of strengths and areas of improvement
Prepare this assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
Describe teaching experience according to teaching proposal and power points which are design to educate community nurses on infection control, hand washing.

Compare third-party payer policies through analysis of reimbursement guidelines for achieving timely and maximum reimbursements.

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HCM 345 Final Project Guidelines and Rubric Overview The final project for this course is the creation of a white paper.
Much of what happens in healthcare is about understanding the expectations of the many departments and personnel within the organization. Reimbursement drives the financial operations of healthcare organizations; each department affects the reimbursement process regarding timelines and the amount of money put into and taken out of the system. However, if departments do not follow the guidelines put into place or do not capture the necessary information, it can be detrimental to the reimbursement system.
An important role for patient financial services (PFS) personnel is to monitor the reimbursement process, analyze the reimbursement process, and suggest changes to help maximize the reimbursement. One way to make this process more efficient is by ensuring that the various departments and personnel are exposed to the necessary knowledge.
For your final project, you will assume the role of a supervisor within a PFS department and develop a white paper in which the necessary healthcare reimbursement knowledge is outlined.
The project is divided into three milestones, which will be submitted at various points throughout the course to scaffold learning and ensure quality final submissions. These milestones will be submitted in Modules One, Three, and Five.
In this assignment, you will demonstrate your mastery of the following course outcomes:
• HCM-345-01: Analyze the impacts of various healthcare departments and their interrelationships on the revenue cycle • HCM-345-02: Compare third-party payer policies through analysis of reimbursement guidelines for achieving timely and maximum reimbursements • HCM-345-03: Analyze organizational strategies for negotiating healthcare contracts with managed care organizations • HCM-345-04: Critique legal and ethical standards and policies in healthcare coding and billing for ensuring compliance with rules and regulations • HCM-345-05: Evaluate the use of reimbursement data for its purpose in case and utilization management and healthcare quality improvement as well as its impact on pay for performance incentives

Prompt You are now a supervisor within the patient financial services (PFS) department of a healthcare system. It has been assigned to you to write a white paper to educate other department managers about reimbursement. This includes how each specific department impacts reimbursement for services, which in turn impacts the healthcare organization as a whole. The healthcare system may include hospitals, clinics, long-term care facilities, and more. For now, your boss has asked you to develop a draft of this paper for the hospital personnel only; in the future, there may be the potential to expand this for other facilities.
In order to complete the white paper, you will need to choose a hospital. You can choose one that you are familiar with or create an imaginary one. Hospitals vary in size, location, and focus. Becker’s Hospital Review has an excellent list of things to know about the hospital industry. Once you have determined the hospital, you will need to think about the way a patient visit works at the hospital you chose so you can review the processes and departments involved. There are several ways to accomplish this. Choose one of the following:
• If you have been a patient in a hospital or if you know someone who has, you can use that experience as the basis for your responses. • Conduct research through articles or get information from professional organizations.
Below is an example of how to begin framing your analysis.
A patient comes in through the emergency department. In this case, the patient would be triaged and seen in the emergency department. Think about what happens in an emergency area. The patient could be asked to change into a hospital gown (think about the costs of the gown and other supplies provided). If the patient is displaying signs of vomiting, plastic bags will be provided and possibly antinausea medication. Lab work and possibly x-rays would be done. The patient could be sent to surgery, sent home, or admitted as an inpatient. If he or she is admitted as an inpatient, meals will be provided and more tests will be ordered by the physician—again, more costs and charges for the patient bill. Throughout the course, you will be gathering additional information through your readings and supplemental materials to help you write your white paper.
When drafting this white paper, bear in mind that portions of your audience may have no healthcare reimbursement experience, while others may have been given only a brief overview of reimbursement. The goal of this guide is to provide your readers with a thorough understanding of the importance of their departments and thus their impact on reimbursement. Be respectful of individual positions and give equal consideration to patient care and the business aspects of healthcare. Consider written communication skills, visual aids, and the feasibility to translate this written guide into verbal training.
Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:
I. Reimbursement and the Revenue Cycle A. Describe what reimbursement means to this specific healthcare organization. What would happen if services were provided to patients but no payments were received for these services? What specific data would you review in the reimbursement area to know whether changes were necessary? B. Illustrate the revenue cycle using a flowchart tool. Take the patient through the cycle from the initial point of contact through the care and ending at the point where the payment is collected.
C. Prioritize the departments at this specific healthcare organization in order of their importance to the revenue cycle. Support your ordering of the departments with evidence.
II. Departmental Impact on Reimbursement A. Describe the impact of the departments at this healthcare organization that utilize reimbursement data. What type of audit would be necessary to determine whether the reimbursement impact is reached fully by these departments? How could the impact of these departments on pay-forperformance incentives be measured? B. Assess the activities within each department at this healthcare organization for how they may impact reimbursement. C. Identify the responsible department for ensuring compliance with billing and coding policies. How does this affect the department’s impact on reimbursement at this healthcare organization?
III. Billing and Reimbursement A. Analyze the collection of data by patient access personnel and its importance to the billing and collection process. Be sure to address the importance of exceptional customer service. B. Analyze how third-party policies would be used when developing billing guidelines for patient financial services (PFS) personnel and administration when determining the payer mix for maximum reimbursement. C. Organize the key areas of review in order of importance for timeliness and maximization of reimbursement from third-party payers. Explain your rationale on the order. D. Describe a way to structure your follow-up staff in terms of effectiveness. How can you ensure that this structure will be effective? E. Develop a plan for periodic review of procedures to ensure compliance. Include explicit steps for this plan and the feasibility of enacting this plan within this organization.
IV. Marketing and Reimbursement A. Analyze the strategies used to negotiate new managed care contracts. Support your analysis with research. B. Communicate the important role that each individual within this healthcare organization plays with regard to managed care contracts. Be sure to include the different individuals within the healthcare organization. C. Explain how new managed care contracts impact reimbursement for the healthcare organization. Support your explanation with concrete evidence or research. D. Discuss the resources needed to ensure billing and coding compliance with regulations and ethical standards. What would happen if these resources were not obtained? Describe the consequences of noncompliance with regulations and ethical standards.

Milestones
Milestone One: Draft of Reimbursement and the Revenue Cycle In Module One, you will submit a draft of Section I of the final project (Reimbursement and the Revenue Cycle). This milestone will be graded with the Milestone One Rubric. Milestone Two: Draft of Departmental Impact on Reimbursement In Module Three, you will submit a draft of Section II of the final project (Departmental Impact on Reimbursement). This milestone will be graded with the Milestone Two Rubric.
Milestone Three: Draft of Billing, Marketing, and Reimbursement In Module Five, you will submit a draft of Sections III and IV of the final project (Billing and Reimbursement, and Marketing and Reimbursement). This milestone will be graded with the Milestone Three Rubric.
Final Project Submission: White Paper In Module Seven, you will submit your entire white paper. It should be a complete, polished artifact containing all of the critical elements of the final product. It should reflect the incorporation of feedback gained throughout the course. This submission will be graded using the Final Project Rubric. Deliverables
Milestone Deliverable Module Due Grading One Draft of Reimbursement and the Revenue Cycle One Graded separately; Milestone One Rubric Two Draft of Departmental Impact on Reimbursement Three Graded separately; Milestone Two Rubric Three Draft of Billing, Marketing, and Reimbursement Five Graded separately; Milestone Three Rubric Final Project Submission: White Paper Seven Graded separately; Final Project Rubric

Final Project Rubric Guidelines for Submission: This white paper should include a table of contents and sections that can be easily separated for each department area. It should be a minimum of eight pages (in addition to the title page and references). The document should use 12-point Times New Roman font, double spacing, and one-inch margins. Citations should be formatted according to APA style.
Critical Elements Exemplary Proficient Needs Improvement Not Evident Value Reimbursement and the Revenue Cycle: Reimbursement Meets “Proficient” criteria and includes any unique attributes of this specific organization (100%) Comprehensively describes what reimbursement means to this specific healthcare organization (85%) Describes what reimbursement means to a healthcare organization, but description is not comprehensive or is not specific (55%) Does not describe what reimbursement means to a specific healthcare organization (0%) 6.33 Reimbursement and the Revenue Cycle: Revenue Accurately illustrates the revenue cycle using a flowchart (100%) Illustrates the revenue cycle using a flowchart, but illustration is inaccurate or incomplete (55%) Does not illustrate the revenue cycle using a flowchart (0%) 6.33 Reimbursement and the Revenue Cycle: Prioritize Meets “Proficient” criteria, and prioritization demonstrates nuanced insight into departmental influence on the revenue cycle (100%) Prioritizes the departments at this specific healthcare organization in order of importance to the revenue cycle, supporting ordering of departments with evidence (85%) Prioritizes the departments at a healthcare organization in order of importance to the revenue cycle but is not specific to this healthcare organization or does not include support for ordering (55%) Does not prioritize the departments at a healthcare organization in order of importance to the revenue cycle (0%) 6.33 Departmental Impact on Reimbursement: Departments Meets “Proficient” criteria and communicates the impact in a style that adheres to authentic formatting for the business of healthcare (100%) Comprehensively describes the impact of the departments that utilize reimbursement data at this healthcare organization that also influence reimbursement (85%) Describes the impact of the departments that influence reimbursement, but description is not comprehensive or is not specific to this healthcare organization or to departments that utilize reimbursement data (55%) Does not describe the impact of the departments at a healthcare organization that influence reimbursement (0%) 6.33 Departmental Impact on Reimbursement: Activities Meets “Proficient” criteria, and assessment demonstrates keen insight into the relationship between departmental activities and healthcare reimbursement (100%) Assesses the activities within each department at this healthcare organization for how they may impact reimbursement (85%) Assesses the activities within each department at this healthcare organization but does not explicitly link these activities to reimbursement, or assessment is not specific (55%) Does not assess the activities within each department at a healthcare organization for how they may impact reimbursement (0%) 6.33

Departmental Impact on Reimbursement: Responsible Department
Correctly identifies the department responsible for ensuring compliance of billing and coding policies and its impact on reimbursement at this healthcare organization (100%)
Identifies the department responsible for ensuring compliance of billing and coding policies and its impact on reimbursement at this healthcare organization, but identification is incorrect (55%)
Does not identify the department responsible for ensuring compliance of billing and coding policies (0%)
6.33
Billing and Reimbursement: Data
Meets “Proficient” criteria, and analysis demonstrates a nuanced insight into the relationship between patient access personnel’s collection of data and the billing and collection process (100%)
Analyzes the collection of data by patient access personnel and its importance to the billing and collection process, including the importance of exceptional customer service (85%)
Analyzes the collection of data by patient access personnel and its importance to the billing and collection process but does not include the importance of exceptional customer service (55%)
Does not analyze the collection of data by patient access personnel (0%)
6.33
Billing and Reimbursement: ThirdParty Policies
Meets “Proficient” criteria, and analysis demonstrates a keen insight into the relationships between third-party policies, billing guidelines, and payer mix (100%)
Analyzes how third-party policies would be used when developing billing guidelines for PFS personnel and administration when determining the payer mix for maximum reimbursement (85%)
Analyzes how third-party policies would be used but does not apply analysis toward the development of billing guidelines for PFS personnel and administration or toward the determination of the payer mix for maximum reimbursement (55%)
Does not analyze how third-party policies would be used (0%)
6.33
Billing and Reimbursement: Key Areas of Review
Meets “Proficient” criteria, and explanation of key areas of review demonstrates a nuanced insight into reimbursement from thirdparty payers (100%)
Organizes and explains the key areas of review in order of importance for timeliness and maximization of reimbursement from third-party payers (85%)
Organizes and explains the key areas of review in order of importance for timeliness and maximization of reimbursement from third-party payers, but explanation is cursory or illogical (55%)
Does not organize and explain the key areas of review in order of importance for timeliness and maximization of reimbursement from third-party payers (0%)
6.33
Billing and Reimbursement: Structure
Meets “Proficient” criteria and demonstrates creativity in the structure identified (100%)
Describes a way to structure follow-up staff in terms of effectiveness and explains rationale for effectiveness (85%)
Describes a way to structure follow-up staff in terms of effectiveness but does not explain rationale for effectiveness (55%)
Does not describe a way to structure follow-up staff in terms of effectiveness (0%)
6.33
Billing and Reimbursement: Plan
Meets “Proficient” criteria and demonstrates ingenuity in the review process (100%)
Develops a plan for periodic review of procedures to ensure compliance, including explicit steps and the feasibility of enacting the plan (85%)
Develops a plan for periodic review of procedures to ensure compliance but does not include explicit steps or does not include the feasibility of enacting the plan (55%)
Does not develop a plan for periodic review of procedures to ensure compliance (0%)
6.33

Marketing and Reimbursement: Strategies
Meets “Proficient” criteria, and research includes specific examples applicable to negotiation strategies (100%)
Analyzes the strategies used to negotiate new managed care contracts, supporting analysis with research (85%)
Analyzes the strategies used to negotiate new managed care contracts but does not support analysis with research (55%)
Does not analyze the strategies used to negotiate new managed care contracts (0%)
6.33
Marketing and Reimbursement: Communicate
Meets “Proficient” criteria and communicates this in a manner that would be motivational for the individual (100%)
Communicates the important role that each individual within this healthcare organization plays with regard to managed care contracts, including the different types of individuals within the organization (85%)
Communicates the important role that each individual within this healthcare organization plays with regard to managed care contracts but does not include the different types of individuals within the organization (55%)
Does not communicate the important role that each individual within this healthcare organization plays with regard to managed care contracts (0%)
6.33
Marketing and Reimbursement: Contracts
Meets “Proficient” criteria and includes enough information to make informed decisions on accepting the contract (100%)
Explains how new managed care contracts impact reimbursement for the healthcare organization, including support for explanation with concrete evidence or research (85%)
Explains how new managed care contracts impact reimbursement for the healthcare organization but does not include support for explanation with concrete evidence or research (55%)
Does not explain how new managed care contracts impact reimbursement for the healthcare organization (0%)
6.33
Marketing and Reimbursement: Compliance
Meets “Proficient” criteria and includes details such as how often the resources should be updated to stay current with regulations (100%)
Comprehensively discusses the resources needed to ensure billing and coding compliance with regulations and ethical standards (85%)
Discusses the resources needed to ensure billing and coding compliance with regulations and ethical standards, but discussion is not comprehensive (55%)
Does not discuss the resources needed to ensure billing and coding compliance (0%)
6.33
Articulation of Response
Submission is free of errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, and organization and is presented in a professional and easy to read format (100%)
Submission has no major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization (85%)
Submission has major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that negatively impact readability and articulation of main ideas (55%)
Submission has critical errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that prevent understanding of ideas (0%)
5.05
Earned Total 100%

What are the reasons for and what does research suggest are the factors behind teacher stress? Why do teachers experience stress?

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My Dissertation topic is on teacher stress in secondary schools.
My dissertation literature review will need to include the following 3 sections:
1. A broad introductory area which is on the history of interest in teacher stress and the sorts of things/interventions which have been done in the past to help teachers (Keep this brief). Current interest in teacher stress – What is it? How does it show itself? What effect does it have on teachers?
2. What are the reasons for and what does research suggest are the factors behind teacher stress? Why do teachers experience stress?
3. Some of the interventions/coping strategies that have been put in place to help teachers overcome teacher stress (both successful and unsuccessful interventions/strategies).

Include statistics where relevant (UK based).

Total word count for the Literature Review – 1500 words (This can be split into 500 words for each section)
References need to be related to the UK as my dissertation is based on teacher stress in secondary schools in the UK.

Demonstrate appropriate coverage, critical appreciation and evaluation of relevant literature.

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The Learning outcome(s) assessed by this assignment are:

All learning outcomes assessed.

At postgraduate level you are expected to:

· Have a high standard of presentation, structure, layout and design

· Demonstrate appropriate coverage, critical appreciation and evaluation of relevant literature.

· Demonstrate a critical understanding of key concepts and the application of theory to practical solutions.

· Show evidence of originality of thought and approach, and of creative problem solving ability.

 

Write a report addressing the question given below:

“The management of change is often directly linked to the role of a strategic leader a leader is not someone who is necessarily at the top but rather someone who is in a position to have influence in the organization” (Johnson et al 2015, Exploring Corporate Strategy, Prentice Hall, p. 528).

Drawing on relevant theories of strategy and leadership critically discuss the characteristics of successful strategic leaders. Use business examples to support your analysis.

 

Note the following when completing your written assignment:

  1. Writing: Written in English in an appropriate business/academic style
  2. Focus: Focus only on the tasks set in the assignment.
  3. Ensure a clear title, course, and name or ID number is on a cover sheet and a bibliography using Harvard referencing throughout is also provided.
  4. Research: Research should use reliable and relevant sources of information e.g. academic books and journals that have been peer reviewed. The research should be extensive.
  5. All referencing should be in Harvard style.

You are required to study the case study which has been provided, Unilever’s New Global Strategy: Competing through Sustainability, and attempt the tasks below:

Make and state any reasonable assumptions. Use academic models to support your analysis.

Drawing on the functional areas of management (HRM, Marketing and Finance) and using the quantitative and qualitative data provided in the case study, conduct an internal analysis on the company.  Justify your response (approximately 500 words)

Using relevant models, critically discuss the impact of external forces on the company. Critically evaluate the structure of its industry and discuss the implications for the company (approximately 500 words)

As a change consultant, what interventions would you have implemented within Unilever to mitigate the impact of economic factors? (approximately 750 words)

Consider a scenario in which you were called upon to participate as a change agent in a strategic change management programme. Critically reflect upon your experience in overcoming blockers and capitalising on facilitators of change. To what extent do you agree that reflective learning is in itself a means of enhancing one’s leadership ability in the context of change management? Justify your analysis by using theory. (approximately 750 words)

Please note the following when completing your written assignment:

 

FORMATTING AND LAYOUT

Please note the following when completing your written assignment:

  1. Writing: Written in English in an appropriate business/academic style
  2. Focus: Focus only on the tasks set in the assignment.
  3. Length: 2500 words
  4. Document format: Report
  5. Ensure a clear title, course, and name or ID number is on a cover sheet and a bibliography using Harvard referencing throughout is also provided.
  6. Research: Research should use reliable and relevant sources of information e.g. academic books and journals that have been peer reviewed. The research should be extensive.

The use of a range of information sources is expected – academic books, peer reviewed journal articles, professional articles, press releases and newspaper articles, reliable statistics, company annual reports and other company information. All referencing should be in Harvard style.

Explain why the existing initiative is not meeting its intended purpose and now requires improvement.

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HCM 340 Milestone Two Guidelines and Rubric
Overview: In Module Four, you examined some of the recent initiatives aimed at improving the performance of the healthcare system. As you learned in your module readings, healthcare should be safe, effective, timely, efficient, equitable, and patient-centered. These six key dimensions form the basis for all quality and payment reform strategies implemented since the release of healthcare improvement plans. Prompt: In this milestone, you will identify and analyze an initiative that addresses the gap you chose as the topic for your final project. Explain what the initiative is, identify the goals of the initiative, describe the circumstances around its development, and identify sources of funding.
Tip: So far in the course, you have been introduced to the Kaiser Family Foundation and Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) websites. These websites may also be helpful to you as you conduct your research on an existing initiative.
Your milestone should address each of the following points in detail:
• Explain an existing healthcare initiative that was put in place to address this gap in access. • Explain the specific goals of the existing initiative in place to address this gap in access. • Describe the circumstances around the development of the existing initiative. Consider when the initiative was developed and what factors were considered. • Describe the resources required to fund the existing initiative. • Explain why the existing initiative is not meeting its intended purpose and now requires improvement.
Rubric Guidelines for Submission: Your paper must be submitted as a 2- to 3-page Microsoft Word document with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, one-inch margins, and at least three sources cited in APA format.
Critical Elements Proficient (100%) Needs Improvement (75%) Not Evident (0%) Value Existing Initiative: Address Gap Explains an existing healthcare initiative that was put in place to address this gap in access Explains an existing healthcare initiative that was put in place to address this gap in access, but explanation is cursory or contains inaccuracies Does not explain an existing healthcare initiative that was put in place to address this gap in access 18 Existing Initiative: Goals Explains the specific goals of the existing initiative in place to address this gap in access Explains the specific goals of the existing initiative in place to address this gap in access, but explanation is cursory or contains inaccuracies Does not explain the specific goals of the existing initiative in place to address this gap in access 18.

Existing Initiative: Development.
Describes the circumstances around the development of the existing initiative.
Describes the circumstances around the development of the existing initiative, but description is unclear or incomplete.
Does not describe the circumstances around the development of the existing initiative.
Existing Initiative: Resources Describes the resources required to fund the existing initiative.
Describes the resources required to fund the existing initiative, but description is illogical or contains inaccuracies.
Does not describe the resources required to fund the existing initiative.
Existing Initiative: Improvement.
Explains why the existing initiative is not meeting its intended purpose and now requires improvement.
Explains why the existing initiative is not meeting its intended purpose and now requires improvement, but explanation is cursory or contains inaccuracies.
Does not explain why the existing initiative is not meeting its intended purpose and now requires improvement.
Articulation of Response Submission has no major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization.
Submission has major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that negatively impact readability and articulation of main ideas.
Submission has critical errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that prevent understanding of ideas.