You have been tasked with displaying Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) hospital quality measures data for a 5-year period on four quality measures at your site. After examining the data, identify trends and determine the best way to present the actionable information to stakeholders.
Assignment
Create a 15 slide PowerPoint presenting the data to the stakeholders. Address the following in your PowerPoint:
What conclusions can be drawn for each quality measure over the 5-year period?
What trends do you see for each quality measure over the 5-year period?
When comparing each quality measure, is the quality measure better than, worse than, or no different from the national benchmark over time?
Based on your examination of the data, which of the quality measures should you prioritize and why?
Develop a quality improvement metric and related measures to improve care processes, outcomes, and the patient experience relating to the identified area of opportunity.
Explain how you would monitor the metric and use collected data for improvement.
Include a title slide, references slide, and comprehensive speaker notes.
Use 5 APA reference within 5years with nursing content.
This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
Resources: Explore the Talking Quality: Reporting to Consumers on Health Care Quality page of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) website.
Select an organization with business in Saudi Arabia or a Saudi Arabian organization for which you currently work or have worked, or with which you have interacted as a stakeholder. Describe how that business does or does not communicate and practice corporate social responsibility, corporate citizenship, sustainability, creating shared value, and conscious capitalism. Explain what your selected business does well and what could be improved. Be sure that you accurately answer the following questions in your analysis:
In what way is sustainability part of the organization’s overall strategic plan?
If sustainability is not part of the strategic plan, how should sustainability be incorporated in the strategy of the firm?
If sustainability is part of the strategic plan, how might the firm improve its sustainability actions?
Does the business practice corporate social responsibility, corporate citizenship, creating shared value, and conscious capitalism whether documented in a formal plan or not? Explain.
How does leadership express its corporate commitment to sustainability? How does leadership fail to express its corporate commitment to sustainability?
Your well-written paper should meet the following requirements:
Be 4-5 pages in length, which does not include the title or reference pages, which are never a part of the minimum content requirements.
Use APA style guidelines.
Support your submission with 5 references and citation.
Please complete the following three “footprint” exercises and discuss the questions below. Wait. What?! What does this have to do with organizational behavior? Keep on reading! You’ll see that this exercise has a lot to do with people at work. After all, how are we going to change organizations to be more concerned about the environment if we can’t persuade employees to change their own personal behaviors?
These three calculators will help you evaluate the global implications of your lifestyle. You can click on the link or cut and paste.
Discussion Questions: What do the various calculators tell you about your lifestyle? Any surprises? How do you compare to an average American? How do you compare to individuals in other countries? Which of your behaviors have a high impact? How can they be modified to reduce your impact? Are there areas of your footprint that you have more or less personal control over?
Take Action: As a manager (or future manager), you will no doubt ask others to change their behavior in some way to meet organizational goals. It’s good to experience the “change process” yourself, if only to remind yourself how difficult it is to change an ingrained behavior. Choose a behavior of yours that might be considered unsustainable, or at least, unhealthy for people and the planet if you (and everyone else) were to continue this behavior. Describe the behavior you plan to change (e.g., reduce your use of plastic, cut out red meat, stop buying fast fashion), and tell us how you are going to make that change. Publicly committing to change is a way to reinforce the change, so please share with us the change you plan to make. You will want to set SMART goals to increase the likelihood that you will be successful. Figure out a way to track your behavior daily (e.g., spreadsheet or table).
Summary: Complete the exercises, comment on this DB, choose a behavior to change, and start tracking it. During the last week of the semester we will discuss the progress you made, or didn’t make. Good luck!
This question is related with the question # 2 (V624) that you will do.
For this assessment you will create a 2-4 page plan proposal for an interprofessional team to collaborate and work toward driving improvements in the organizational issue you identified in the second assessment.
The health care industry is always striving to improve patient outcomes and attain organizational goals. Nurses can play a critical role in achieving these goals; one way to encourage nurseparticipation in larger organizational efforts is to create a culture of ownership and shared responsibility (Berkow et al., 2012). Participation in interdisciplinary teams can also offer nurses opportunities to share their expertise and leadership skills, fostering a sense of ownership and collegiality.
You are encouraged to complete the Budgeting for Nurses activity before you develop the plan proposal. The activity consists of seven questions that will allow you the opportunity to check your knowledge of budgeting basics and as well as the value of financial resource management. The information gained from completing this formative will promote success with the Interdisciplinary Plan Proposal. Completing this activity also demonstrates your engagement in the course, requires just a few minutes of your time, and is not graded.
Explain organizational resources, including a financial budget, needed for the plan to be a success and the impacts on those resources if nothing is done, related to the improvements sought by the plan.
Describe an objective and predictions for an evidence-based interdisciplinary plan to achieve a specific objective related to improving patient or organizational outcomes.
Explain the collaboration needed by an interdisciplinary team to improve the likelihood of achieving the plan’s objective. Include best practices of interdisciplinary collaboration from the literature.
Competency 4: Explain how change management theories and leadership strategies can enable interdisciplinary teams to achieve specific organizational goals.
Explain a change theory and a leadership strategy, supported by relevant evidence, that are most likely to help an interdisciplinary team succeed in collaborating and implementing, or creating buy-in for, the project plan.
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.
Reference
Berkow, S., Workman, J., Aronson, S., Stewart, J., Virkstis, K., & Kahn, M. (2012). Strengthening frontline nurse investment in organizational goals. JONA: The Journal of Nursing Administration, 42(3), 165–169.
Professional Context
This assessment will allow you to describe a plan proposal that includes an analysis of best practices of interprofessional collaboration, change theory, leadership strategies, and organizational resources with a financial budget that can be used to solve the problem identified through the interview you conducted in the prior assessment.
Scenario
Having reviewed the information gleaned from your professional interview and identified the issue, you will determine and present an objective for an interdisciplinary intervention to address the issue.
Note: You will not be expected to implement the plan during this course. However, the plan should be evidence-based and realistic within the context of the issue and your interviewee’s organization.
Instructions
For this assessment, use the context of the organization where you conducted your interview to develop a viable plan for an interdisciplinary team to address the issue you identified. Define a specific patient or organizational outcome or objective based on the information gathered in your interview.
The goal of this assessment is to clearly lay out the improvement objective for your planned interdisciplinary intervention of the issue you identified. Additionally, be sure to further build on the leadership, change, and collaboration research you completed in the previous assessment. Look for specific, real-world ways in which those strategies and best practices could be applied to encourage buy-in for the plan or facilitate the implementation of the plan for the best possible outcome.
Using the Interdisciplinary Plan Proposal Template [DOCX] will help you stay organized and concise. As you complete each section of the template, make sure you apply APA format to in-text citations for the evidence and best practices that inform your plan, as well as the reference list at the end.
Additionally, be sure that your plan addresses 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.
Describe an objective and predictions for an evidence-based interdisciplinary plan to achieve a specific goal related to improving patient or organizational outcomes.
Explain a change theory and a leadership strategy, supported by relevant evidence, that is most likely to help an interdisciplinary team succeed in collaborating and implementing, or creating buy-in for, the project plan.
Explain the collaboration needed by an interdisciplinary team to improve the likelihood of achieving the plan’s objective. Include best practices of interdisciplinary collaboration from the literature.
Explain organizational resources, including a financial budget, needed for the plan to succeed and the impacts on those resources if the improvements described in the plan are not made.
Communicate the interdisciplinary plan, with writing that is clear, logically organized, and professional, with correct grammar and spelling, using current APA style.
Additional Requirements
Length of submission: Use the provided template. Remember that part of this assessment is to make the plan easy to understand and use, so it is critical that you are clear and concise. 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.
Note: Faculty may use the Writing Feedback Tool when grading this assessment. The Writing Feedback Tool is designed to provide you with guidance and resources to develop your writing based on five core skills. You will find writing feedback in the Scoring Guide for the assessment, once your work has been evaluated.
Portfolio Prompt: Remember to save the final assessment to your ePortfolio so that you may refer to it as you complete the final Capstone course.
NHS-FPX8002: Collaboration, Communication, and Case Analysis for Doctoral Learners
rite a 6-8-page evaluation of key aspects of a population-based health concern, including your selection of members to form an interprofessional, collaborative coalition to achieve the stated goal.
Resolving population health concerns requires the combined efforts of numerous agencies and individuals to address the Triple Aim of improving the patient experience, improving the health of populations, and reducing costs. This requires an interprofessional and collaborative effort to address the complex factors at the individual, organizational, community, and policy levels associated with the multiple factors affecting the health and well-being of our communities (Graffunder, Sakurada, & Nordisk, 2016).
As a scholar-practitioner in the field, you may be expected to develop and lead a diverse team of health care professionals, civic leaders, community stakeholders, constituents, community members, other interested parties, and city, state, and government agencies in addressing a wide range of issues affecting the health of diverse groups.
This assessment provides an opportunity for you to apply your leadership skills to form a collaborative, interprofessional coalition to address a population-based health concern from a nursing, public health, or health administration perspective.
Reference
Graffunder, C., Sakurada, B., & Nordisk, N. (2016). Preparing health care and public health professionals for team performance: The community as the classroom. Washington, DC: National Academy of Medicine.
Scenario
Government officials are taking action to address a chronic population health concern in your area. As a member of this community, you have a good understanding of the local demographics and population health issues, including the potential implications for policy making, health care systems, service utilization, clinical practice, education, and the workforce. In your role as a doctoral graduate and health care practitioner, you have been asked to:
Evaluate key aspects (including the social determinants of health) of the selected population health issue from the topic list.
Lead an interprofessional team of your choosing (a coalition of community members and organizations, clinical providers, health care organizations, and civic and governmental agencies), to achieve the coalition’s goal(s), which may include prevention efforts, quality improvement, service utilization, and the reduction of health care costs.
This leadership position requires the ability to promote prevention efforts, quality improvement, service utilization and the reduction of health care costs, as well as skills in the following areas:
Health Disparities/Social Determinants of Health: Focus on vulnerable or high risk groups and on decreasing disparities between groups. You can select a specific group with a focus on the person’s experience of care, services, and resources (quality and satisfaction), improving the health of the population, and reducing per capita cost. This will be the focus for the coalition.
Pandemic, e.g., COVID-19: Focus on a vulnerable or high risk group related to population health, including the person’s experience of care, services and resources (quality and satisfaction), improving the health of the population, and reducing per capita cost. This will be the focus for the coalition.
Asthma and Children: Focus on a vulnerable or high risk group including the person’s experience of care, services and resources (quality and satisfaction), improving the health of the population, and reducing per capita cost. This will be the focus for the coalition.
Opioid Addiction: Focus on a vulnerable or high risk group including the person’s experience of care, services, and resources (quality and satisfaction), improving the health of the population, and reducing per capita cost. This will be the focus for the coalition.
Obesity: Focus on a vulnerable or high risk group including the person’s experience of care, services, and resources (quality and satisfaction), improving the health of the population, and reducing per capita cost. This will be the focus for the coalition.
Note: Remember that you can submit all, or a portion of, your draft plan to Smarthinking Tutoring for feedback, before you submit the final version for this assessment. If you plan on using this free service, be mindful of the turnaround time of 24–48 hours for receiving feedback.
Instructions
Evaluate key aspects of a chronic population health concern. In addition, select members for a collaborative, interprofessional coalition that you would lead to achieve the stated goal. Coalition membership can include, but is not limited to, key community members and organizations, clinical providers, and local and state agencies.
Example Assessment: You may use the following to give you an idea of what a Proficient or higher rating on the scoring guide would look like:
A title page and references page. An abstract is not required.
A running head on all pages.
Appropriate section headings.
Your paper should be 6–8 pages in length, not including the title page and references page.
Supporting Evidence
Cite 4–5 credible sources from peer-reviewed journals, other scholarly resources, professional industry publications, and assigned readings to support your case assessments and recommendations.
Assessment Grading
The assessment requirements outlined below correspond to the grading criteria in the scoring guide, so be sure to address each of the seven main tasks. Read the performance-level descriptions for each criterion in the scoring guide to see how your work will be evaluated.
Analyze the impact of factors that contribute to this chronic population health concern.
Examine the situation from a population health perspective.
Provide context surrounding this concern.
Identify the affected groups, and the environmental, social, and financial factors.
Form a collaborative, interprofessional coalition to address this chronic population health concern.
Consider, among others, key community members and organizations, clinical providers, and local and state agencies when making your selections.
Select 5–10 members.
Who must be included?
Why?
How will member selection contribute to the goal?
What potential issues might arise affecting interprofessional collaboration?
What strategies are needed to optimize collaboration and communication among coalition members?
Explain potential ethical issues that might be relevant for the coalition to consider in addressing its mission.
Consider access to care, financial barriers, environmental constraints, and the distribution of resources.
Explain how ethical principles would apply in particular situations on a micro or meso level.
Micro level: individual care encounters.
Meso level: how systems are organized to deliver and ensure quality care for patients and populations (Ho & Pinney, 2016).
Consider ethical codes of conduct applicable across disciplines represented in your coalition.
What evidence supports your conclusions?
Explain the principles of diversity and inclusion applicable to the formation of your coalition and its interactions with the community.
Consider the impact of a diverse team on achieving coalition goals.
How would you work within the coalition to establish a culture of inclusion, respect, and value?
How would you promote community engagement, cultural awareness, health equity, and access to resources? Resources can include, but are not limited to medications, transportation, and environmental resources.
What are some best practices for interprofessional communication for this group?
What evidence supports your conclusions?
Explain how literature and research in the field can be used to develop best practices for addressing this chronic population health concern.
Locate two current, peer-reviewed studies that coalition members should consider as foundational to developing an evidence-based intervention for the situation.
Briefly explain how each study is relevant to the chronic population health concern.
Organize content so ideas flow logically with smooth transitions.
Proofread your writing to avoid errors that could distract readers and make it more difficult for them to focus on the substance of your evaluation.
Apply APA style and formatting to scholarly writing.
Apply correct APA-formatting to your document, including headers, headings, spacing, and margins.
Apply correct APA-formatting to all source citations.
Portfolio Prompt: You may choose to save your evaluation to your ePortfolio.
References
Graffunder, C., Sakurada, B., & Nordisk, N. (2016). Preparing health care and public health professionals for team performance: The community as the classroom. Washington, DC: National Academy of Medicine. doi: https://doi.org/10.31478/201604b
Ho, A., & Pinney, S. (2016). Redefining ethical leadership in a 21st-century healthcare system. Healthcare Management Forum, 29(1), 39–42.
Competencies Measured
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:
Competency 1: Apply interprofessional collaboration, communication, and leadership best practices to advance population health.
Analyze the impact of factors that contribute to a chronic population health concern.
Form a collaborative, interprofessional coalition to address a chronic population health concern.
Competency 2: Apply professional ethics and the principles of diversity and inclusion to advance population health.
Explain potential ethical issues that might be relevant for a health care coalition to consider in addressing its mission.
Explain the principles of diversity and inclusion applicable to the formation of a health care coalition and its interactions with the community.
Competency 3: Explain how scholar-practitioners function as leaders in the field of health care.
Explain how literature and research in the field can be used to develop best practices for addressing a chronic population health concern.
Competency 4: Produce written work that demonstrates critical thinking and application of knowledge, in accordance with Capella’s writing standards.
Organize content so ideas flow logically with smooth transitions.
Apply APA style and formatting to scholarly writing.
