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“Creating a Culture of Safety and Quality: An Analysis and Leadership Action Plan for a Medication Error Incident at Vila Health” Introduction: Issue Summary The incident that occurred at Vila Health was a medication error involving a patient receiving the wrong medication Title: Fostering a Culture of Safety and Quality: An Evidence-Based Leadership Action Plan for Healthcare Organizations
Preparation
To successfully complete this assignment, use the Collaborate on Quality Template [DOC] to address the following:
Select one of the three incidents from the Vila Health: Patient Safety simulation. These are common incidents you are likely to encounter in the health care field. These included a patient identification error, a medication error, and a HIPAA/privacy violation. You may select one of the incidents you worked with in the previous assignments or select another one. Choose one that holds the most interest for you.
Consider the following analysis questions once you have selected the incident on which you will focus:
What information do you possess about the issue? (Note: You may not be able to answer all of these questions; just include the information you know.) Consider:
Who was involved?
During what process (clinical, communication, or operational) did the issue occur?
When did the issue occur? During a particular shift? On a particular day? During peak hours? Under certain clinical circumstances?
Where did the issue occur?
What additional data about the incident would you like to collect and analyze?
Which best practices were likely avoided that could have contributed to the issue? (Note: This information will prove useful to you as you complete your analysis and leadership action plan.)
Consult the readings provided in Week 6.
Review the Collaborate on Quality Template [DOC], which you will use to complete this assignment. This document is formatted and has space for completing all components of the assignment.
Instructions
Write an analysis and leadership action plan for the issue you selected that will enable you to address the issue on an organization-wide basis. Please make sure to include all of the following headings and answer all of the questions underneath each heading.
Introduction: Issue Summary
How would you summarize the key elements of the incident that occurred?
What is your goal in addressing the issue?
Which 2–3 key items will be your focus? For example, you may elect to focus on nursing staffing levels if being short-staffed in nursing is contributing to compromises to patient safety.
Culture: Explain what culture is and why it is a critical priority for safety and quality, providing at least two evidence-based strategies for cultivating a culture of safety.
What is culture?
Why is culture a critical organizational priority for safety and quality?
What do you know about the existing organizational culture, based on the knowledge you have about the selected issue?
What are some of the evidence-based strategies you are considering that could be employed to cultivate a culture of safety?
IHI Triple Aim: Apply the IHI Triple Aim to develop a health care leadership strategy that focuses on optimizing health care system performance.
What is the IHI Triple AIM?
How does the IHI Triple Aim apply to this specific incident?
What IHI Triple Aim elements will you incorporate into your organizational improvement strategy?
Leadership and Collaboration: Propose evidence-based leadership and collaboration strategies to enlist the aid of key organizational leaders in establishing a safety and quality culture.
Which key departments need to be directly involved with the corrective action process?
What is your rationale for selecting these departments? For example, you may want to involve nursing because many of errors involve nurses and obtaining their buy-in is critical to achieving the organizational priority.
Which specific senior leader, front-line staff member, and clinical expert will you include in your action plan and hold accountable for implementation?
What are the implications of not engaging with all departments toward making safety and quality top of mind?
How might you involve other departments in addressing the specific issue and the cultural issue?
Which specific leaders within the organization could assist you in addressing this issue and in making patient safety and quality top of mind throughout the organization? Examples for you to consider include the chief nursing officer, the chief medical officer, the patient safety officer, et cetera.
What role do you expect these leaders to play in addressing the specific issue and the issue of culture?
What best practices would you employ to enlist their aid in the improvement effort?
Leadership Action Plan: Create an evidence-based action plan that includes leadership strategies to establish a safety and quality culture.
What are three evidence-based (supported by current literature) leadership strategies you recommend that would help to solve the incident that occurred?
What are three evidence-based best practices you recommend to address the issue on an organizational level?
Opportunities to Enlist Governing Board: Determine opportunities to enlist the governing board’s aid in fostering a fair and just culture.
What role does the organization’s governing board have in terms of quality and safety in the organization?
How could you enlist the governing board’s aid in your improvement initiative?
What additional information could you provide them to increase their involvement in the organization’s safety and quality improvement efforts?
Conclusion
How will you summarize your analysis of the incident and your leadership action plan?
In addition, your assignment needs to conform to current APA style and format guidelines. Do ensure that it is clear, persuasive, concise, organized, and without errors in grammar, punctuation, and spelling. Do provide citations and title and reference pages in current APA format. Other leaders in your organization are going to want to know what sources you relied on to prepare your analysis and action plan.
Note: Remember that health care is an evidence-based field. You will need to cite a minimum of two credible references to support your analysis and action planning process.
Please review the Collaborating on Quality: Issue Analysis and Leadership Action Plan Scoring Guide to ensure you understand the grading requirements for this assignment. -
The Struggle for Equality: Mexican-Americans in Southern California during the 1940s
I need you to revive and check one of the essays that’s been done and do another essay. First essay that needs to be done
BOOK REVIEW ASSIGNMENT
Both books for this assignment, Mendez v. Westminster: School Desegregation and Mexican-American Rights and The Sleepy Lagoon Murder Case: Race Discrimination and Mexican-American Rights, deal with the place of Mexican immigrants and Mexican-Americans in American society, particularly in Southern California, in the 1940s. While much of Anglo society racialized those of Mexican descent, in the eyes of the law Mexicans and Mexican-Americans were classified as “white.”
This assignment asks you to reflect on the ways that those of Mexican descent were affected by this racialization and the ways in which they and their allies fought to attain equal status in society and particularly in the law, within the context of Southern California.
1) What marked Mexicans and Mexican-Americans as a separately defined group in the eyes of Anglos? In what ways did Mexicans/Mexican-Americans resist this separate definition? Did Mexicans/Mexican-Americans themselves seek to be seen as a separately defined group, and if so how, why, and to what ends? In responding to these questions, detail the circumstances (around the 1930s-40s and prior to this time) found in California (or Southern California) that affected how Anglos viewed Mexicans/Mexican-Americans, and how Mexicans/Mexican-Americans viewed themselves.
2) How was the law/legal system/criminal justice system used by some Anglos in California to treat Mexicans and Mexican-Americans as less than full members of society or as second-class citizens, particularly with regard to the case/time period detailed in your book? Who treated Mexicans and Mexican-Americans as less than? What appeared to motivate these people?
3) How were Mexicans and Mexican-Americans, and their allies from other groups, ultimately able to use the law/legal system/criminal justice system to gain equal rights, with regard to the case/time period detailed in your book? Who did they hire to represent them? What legal arguments/strategies did they use?
4) Were Anglos ultimately successful in using the law/legal system/criminal justice system to racialize Mexicans and Mexican-Americans and to treat them as less than full members of American and Californian society at the time? How did longer-term changes in law, society, and circumstances in Southern California impact the efforts of those of Mexican descent (U.S. citizens and non-citizens) to be treated as full members of American society?
Assignment Guidelines
1. Double spaced, one inch margins all around, 12 pt font. Put your name, date and e-mail address in the upper right corner (single-spaced). Number the pages.
2. Essay page limit is 8 pages of text. You may include a general introduction/conclusion but are not required to do so. Minimum page limit: 5 pages.
3. You must primarily use the Mendez or Sleepy Lagoon book, and secondarily other course material, for this assignment. Outside material can be used to supplement your essay, but it is unlikely that you will need it. Cite to all materials relied upon, including page number(s). Essays without citation to course material will not be accepted. Use parenthetical citations along with a Works Cites page, or footnotes. Cite to your chosen book by using the name of the author and the page number (for example, Weitz, 23). You should have at least one citation per paragraph unless the paragraph is a general introduction, conclusion, or purely your opinion. For outside sources, provide a full citation.
4. Number the response to each of the four questions. I’ll send the one that needs to be checked -
Title: Critical Thinking in Understanding and Treating Social Anxiety in a College Student
Purpose: Analyze and apply critical thinking skills in the psychopathology of mental health patients and provide treatment and health promotion while applying evidence-based research.
Scenario:
J.T. is a 20 year-old who reports to you that he feels depressed and is experiencing a significant amount of stress about school, noting that he’ll “probably flunk out.” He spends much of his day in his dorm room playing video games and has a hard time identifying what, if anything, is enjoyable in a typical day. He rarely attends class and has avoided reaching out to his professors to try to salvage his grades this semester. J.T. has always been a self-described shy person and has had a very small and cohesive group of friends from elementary through high school. Notably, his level of stress significantly amplified when he began college.
You learn that when meeting new people, he has a hard time concentrating on the interaction because he is busy worrying about what they will think of him – he assumes they will find him “dumb,” “boring,” or a “loser.” When he loses his concentration, he stutters, is at a loss for words, and starts to sweat, which only serves to make him feel more uneasy. After the interaction, he replays the conversation over and over again, focusing on the “stupid” things he said. Similarly, he has a long-standing history of being uncomfortable with authority figures and has had a hard time raising his hand in class and approaching teachers. Since starting college, he has been isolating more, turning down invitations from his roommate to go eat or hang out, ignoring his cell phone when it rings, and habitually skipping class. His concerns about how others view him are what drive him to engage in these avoidance behaviors.
Questions:
Remember to answer these questions from your textbooks and NP guidelines. At all times, explain your answers.
Generate a primary and differential diagnosis using the DSM-5 criteria.
Develop a biopsychosocial plan of care for this client.
Compare and contrast fear, worry, anxiety, and panic.
Submission Instructions:
Your initial post should be at least 500 words, formatted and cited in current APA style with support from at least 2 academic sources. Your initial post is worth 8 points. -
“Scaling Up and Streamlining: A Case Study of Supply Chain Optimization and Fulfillment Improvement through Inventory Management, Cost Cutting, and ERP Implementation”
The case Study must be a compelling story of how the company manages to sclae up optimizing its supply chain and increasing the drop shipping while keeping and improving the fulfillment (two 3PLs in EU) However the case study must be also very technical when it comes to Inventory Management,Cost Cutting,ERP implementation and all the Key tasks and delivarables in the file word provided.
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Title: The Goals and Considerations of Financial Management: Maximizing Wealth and Balancing Stakeholder Interests
Write a 4-6 page paper responding to Review Questions 1-1 through 1-4. Use the book as your primary resource, but also include at least two other sources that support these foundational concepts.
What is the goal of the firm and, therefore, of managers and employees? Discuss how one measures the achievement of this goal.
For what three main reasons is profit maximization potentially inconsistent with wealth maximization?
What is risk? Why must financial managers consider risk as well as return when they evaluate a decision alternative or action?
Is maximizing shareholder wealth inconsistent with having concern for the welfare of a firm’s other stakeholders?
Please use Times New Roman, 12 pt font, and ‘Normal’ (1”) margins
Papers should always include:
Introduction Paragraph-this introduces the topic being discussed
Body-this includes the assignment-specific components
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“Summaries of Chapters 4 & 5: Analyzing and Interpreting Data”
Chapters 4 & 5 in the document attached need to be summarized. Each chapter needs to be a one page long summary. May include bullet points and (sub) titles.