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Discuss at least two implications of current health care

Discuss at least two implications of current health care

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Discuss at least two implications of current health care reform on your chosen health care organization’s goals and strategic plan. How will processes and operations need to be adjusted to meet the requirements of current health care reform legislation?

Essentials of Health Care Finance

Cleverley, W. O., & Cleverley, J. O. (2018). Essentials of health care finance (8th ed.). Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning. ISBN-13: 9781284094633

Requirements: 200 words

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Discussion: Group Contingencies: Strengths and Limitations

Discussion: Group Contingencies: Strengths and Limitations

In situations where using individual contingencies is impractical or when a group’s behavior needs to be addressed quickly, group contingencies are often used. These contingencies are often employed in classrooms to reduce problem behavior, increase academic achievement, and capitalize on peer influence. Research has supported the use of group contingencies as effective methods of altering behavior.

One common independent group contingency, corporal punishment, continues to be scrutinized in the public school sector. According to The New York Times (Caron, 2018), the use of corporal punishment has been banned in a number of facilities and organizations but continues to be legal in 19 states. The use of corporal punishment has declined over the years. However, in areas where corporal punishment is still used, the punishment is not distributed equally, and this disparity is a cause for concern about its use.

For this Discussion, you will identify examples of group contingencies. Then, you will analyze the strengths and limitations of group contingencies.

Reference:

Caron, C. (2018, December 13). In 19 states, it’s still legal to spank children in public schools. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/13/us/corporal-pun…

  • Review the Learning Resources for this week, including the required weekly media program, to gain an understanding of group contingencies. Note: It is critical for you to review the media for this week prior to completing this Discussion.

Requirements: One Page

I am including the links to the required resources that need to be used for this discussion, as well as the transcript for the media mentioned, if you would like to use extra scholarly resources make sure that you cite it APA7.

Post responses to the following:

Identify and give an example of the following group contingencies:

  • Independent
  • Dependent
  • Interdependent

Explain the strengths and limitations of each group contingency example.

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What are the benefits of a workflow analysis?

What are the benefits of a workflow analysis?

DQ1:

What are the benefits of a workflow analysis? What are some of the questions that need to be addressed when doing a workflow analysis?

DQ2:

Provide an example of something that was implemented and wentpoorlybecauseworkflowanalysis was notdone. Describe why it failed and what happened as a result.

Read “‘Context Is Key’ – 10 Tips to Improve Clinical Workflow Analysis,” by Pizzi (2013), located on the Healthcare IT News website. URL: https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/context-key-10-tips-improve-clinical-workflow-analysis

· Read “Workflow Process Mapping for Electronic Health Record (EHR) Implementation,” by the National Learning Consortium (NLC), located on the Health IT website. URL: https://www.healthit.gov/sites/default/files/resources/workflow-process-mapping-for-electronic-health-record-ehr-implementation.docx

· Read “What Is Workflow?” section of the Health Information Technology page on the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) website. URL: https://healthit.ahrq.gov/health-it-tools-and-resources/evaluation-resources/workflow-assessment-health-it-toolkit/workflow

· Read “How Do I Evaluate Workflow?” from PBHCI Learning Community, located on the SAMHSA-HRSA Center for Integrated Health Solutions website. URL: https://www.integration.samhsa.gov/pbhci-learning-community/HowDoIEvaluateWorkflow,_ppp,_pdf.pdf

Requirements: 150-200 words each

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Class: Influencing Health Policy

Class: Influencing Health Policy

 

Agency Synopsis

Identify regulatory agencies that regulate health and the health care system within the US, create a table listing your 5 regulatory agencies and address the following:

  1. Describe the agency, level of regulatory authority (local, state, federal), scope of regulatory authority, and role within the US healthcare system.
  2. Address relevance of the organization or the organization’s authority to the APRN/DNP graduate.
  3. Describe relevance to specialty area, area of practice, or setting of practice. For an example, mental health. 

 

Submission Requirements:

  • In the table, write the 3 criteria above and respond to them.
  • The table is to be clear and concise and students will lose points for improper grammar, punctuation and misspelling.
  • The table is to be complete and thorough. It should include all items indicated in the assignment.
  • Incorporate at least 3 current (published within last five years) scholarly journal articlesor primary legal sources (statutes, court opinions) within your work.
  • Complete and submit the chart by 11:59 PM ET Sunday.

Work is Check via TURN it In… anything greater than 20% gets an automatic ZERO

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Interview you have conducted with a health care professional.

Interview you have conducted with a health care professional.

Nursing Question

For this assessment, you will create a 2-4 page report on an interview you have conducted with a health care professional. You will identify an issue from the interview that could be improved with an interdisciplinary approach, and review best practices and evidence to address the issue.

As a baccalaureate-prepared nurse, your participation and leadership in interdisciplinary teams will be vital to the health outcomes for your patients and organization. One way to approach designing an improvement project is to use the Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycle. The Institute for Healthcare Improvement describes it thus:

The Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycle is shorthand for testing a change in the real work setting—by planning it, trying it, observing the results, and acting on what is learned. This is the scientific method adapted for action-oriented learning…Essentially, the PDSA cycle helps you test out change ideas on a smaller scale before evaluating the results and making adjustments before potentially launching into a somewhat larger scale project (n.d.).

You might also recognize that the PDSA cycle resembles the nursing process. The benefit of gaining experience with this model of project design is that it provides nurses with an opportunity to ideate and lead improvements. For this assessment, you will not be implementing all of the PDSA cycle. Instead, you are being asked to interview a health care professional of your choice to determine what kind of interdisciplinary problem he or she is experiencing or has experienced in the workplace. This interview, in Assessment 2, will inform the research that you will conduct to propose a plan for interdisciplinary collaboration in Assessment 3.

It would be an excellent choice to complete the PDSA Cycle activity prior to developing the report. The activity consists of four questions that create the opportunity to check your understanding of best practices related to each stage of the PDSA cycle. The information gained from completing this formative will promote your success with the Interview and Interdisciplinary Issue Identification report. This will take just a few minutes of your time and is not graded.

Reference

Institute for Healthcare Improvement. (n.d.). How to improve. http://www.ihi.org/resources/Pages/HowtoImprove/de…

Demonstration of Proficiency

  • Competency 2: Explain how interdisciplinary collaboration can be used to achieve desired patient and systems outcomes.
    • Summarize an interview focused on past or current issues at a health care organization.
    • Describe collaboration approaches from the literature that could be relevant in establishing or improving an interdisciplinary team to address an organizational issue.
  • Competency 3: Describe ways to incorporate evidence-based practice within an interdisciplinary team.
    • Identify an issue from an interview for which an evidence-based interdisciplinary approach would be appropriate.
  • Competency 4: Explain how change management theories and leadership strategies can enable interdisciplinary teams to achieve specific organizational goals.
  • Competency 5: Apply professional, scholarly, evidence-based communication strategies to impact patient, interdisciplinary team, and systems outcomes.
    • Organize content so ideas flow logically with smooth transitions; contains few errors in grammar/punctuation, word choice, and spelling.
    • Apply APA formatting to in-text citations and references, exhibiting nearly flawless adherence to APA format.

Professional Context

This assessment will introduce the Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) Model to create change in an organization. By interviewing a colleague of your choice, you will begin gathering information about an interprofessional collaboration problem that your colleague is experiencing or has experienced. You will identify a change theory and leadership strategies to help solve this problem.

Scenario

This assessment is the first of three related assessments in which you will gather interview information (Assessment 2); design a proposal for interdisciplinary problem-solving, (Assessment 3); and report on how an interdisciplinary improvement plan could be implemented in a place of practice (Assessment 4). At the end of the course, your interviewee will have a proposal plan based on the PDSA cycle that he or she could present to stakeholders to address an interdisciplinary problem in the workplace.

For this assessment, you will need to interview a health care professional such as a fellow learner, nursing colleague, administrator, business partner, or another appropriate person who could provide you with sufficient information regarding an organizational problem that he or she is experiencing or has experienced, or an area where they are seeking improvements. Consult the Interview Guide [DOCX] for an outline of how to prepare and the types of information you will need to complete this project successfully.

Remember: this is just the first in a series of three assessments.

Instructions

For this assessment, you will report on the information that you collected in your interview, analyzing the interview data and identifying a past or current issue that would benefit from an interdisciplinary approach. This could be an issue that has not been addressed by an interdisciplinary approach or one that could benefit from improvements related to the interdisciplinary approach currently being used. You will discuss the interview strategy that you used to collect information. Your interview strategy should be supported by citations from the literature. Additionally, you will start laying the foundation for your Interdisciplinary Plan Proposal (Assessment 3) by researching potential change theories, leadership strategies, and collaboration approaches that could be relevant to issue you have identified. Please be certain to review the scoring guide to confirm specific required elements of this assessment. Note that there are differences between basic, proficient and distinguished scores.

When submitting your plan, use the Interview and Issue Identification Template [DOCX], which will help you to stay organized and concise. As you complete the template, make sure you use APA format for in-text citations for the evidence and best practices that are informing your plan, as well as for the reference list at the end.

Additionally, be sure to address the following, which corresponds to the grading criteria in the scoring guide. Please study the scoring guide carefully so you understand what is needed for a distinguished score.

  • Summarize an interview focused on past or current issues at a health care organization.
  • Identify an issue from an interview for which an evidence-based interdisciplinary approach would be appropriate.
  • Describe potential change theories and leadership strategies that could inform an interdisciplinary solution to an organizational issue.
  • Describe collaboration approaches from the literature that could facilitate establishing or improving an interdisciplinary team to address an organizational issue.
  • Communicate with writing that is clear, logically organized, and professional, with correct grammar and spelling, and using current APA style.

Additional Requirements

  • Length of submission: Use the provided template. Most submissions will be 2 to 4 pages in length. Be sure to include a reference page at the end of the plan.
  • Number of references: Cite a minimum of 3 sources of scholarly or professional evidence that support your central ideas. Resources should be no more than 5 years old.
  • APA formatting: Make sure that in-text citations and reference list follow current APA style.

Requirements: 2-4 pages

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