Category: Healthcare

In this module’s readings and on the Baldrige website, it is suggested that a commitment to quality begins and ends with leadership. Discuss the steps that a leader would need to take to implement a change in overall quality. As a suggestion, some of the steps covered in your paper could include initial identification of poor quality, who should be involved in the improvement process (management, customers, consultants, etc.), how to get employee buy-in, level of oversight required and by whom, implementation, etc. 

For this conversation, think about ozone depletion. Consider using the following resources:
The Plain English Guide to the Clean Air ActLinks to an external site..
United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)Links to an external site..
Healthy People 2030: Objectives and DataLinks to an external site..
Then begin a conversation about ONE of the following:
How is the Clean Air Act addressing ozone depletion?
What are some of the goals of the act? How do these goals align with Healthy People goals?
Are we meeting the goals of the Clean Air Act? Explain?
Air Pollution
Retrieve air pollution data for a city of your choice from What Air Are You Breathing?Links to an external site. on the BreatheLife Network website.
Which city did you choose to research? How many people there have died from complications caused by air pollution? How many of those deaths were child deaths?
What other findings were available on the report?

The discharge summary should facilitate the safe transition of care from the hospital setting back into the community, delivering information that is both relevant and accurate to aid continuing care. 
A formal discharge summary/note is often required for any patient who was admitted to inpatient status for longer than 24 hours. Discharge summaries serve as the primary documents communicating a patient’s care plan to the post-hospital care team.
High-quality discharge summaries are generally thought to be essential for promoting patient safety during transitions between care settings, particularly during the initial post-hospital period.
This discharge summary assignment must be submitted in a Word document with a title page and references as per APA 7th edition guidelines. Support your diagnostic, treatment, or follow-up rationales using appropriate evidence from outside sources with appropriate in-text citations.
Assignment Requirements:
Before finalizing your work, you should:
Read the assignment details carefully.
Review the Grading Rubric (under Course Resources) to ensure you have included all grading requirements.
Utilize the Discharge Summary template if needed.
Check spelling and grammar (using a word processing tool) to minimize errors.
Your assignment should:
Follow the conventions of standard English (i.e., correct grammar and punctuation).
Be well ordered, logical, and unified, as well as original and insightful.
Display superior content, organization, style, and mechanics.
Use APA 7th edition formatting for all citations and reference pages.
Discharge Summary
Select a patient that you examined during the last seven weeks of your clinical experiences.
With this patient in mind, address the following to complete a discharge summary:
Date of Admission: 
Date of Discharge: 
Admitting Diagnosis: 
This should be your working diagnosis at the time of admission.
Discharge Diagnosis: 
Make sure this is a diagnosis and not a symptom or sign.
Secondary Diagnoses:
Include all active medical problems.
Procedures
List all procedures with the date of occurrence and key findings when applicable.
Consultations
List all consultations obtained while inpatient.
History of Present Illness (HPI):
This is a brief synopsis of the initial presentation typically found on H&P.
Hospital Course
Summarized details of daily progression or worsening course while hospitalized; include floor transfers, ICU transfers, etc.
Discharge Physical Examination: 
A physical examination that was completed on the day of discharge.
Condition / Disposition
Make a brief statement about the patient’s overall condition at discharge (i.e., “stable,” “fair,” “declining”)
This is where the patient is going after discharge from the hospital (i.e., “home with home health,” “daughter’s house,” “rehab facility,” “hospice house”)
Hospital Diagnostics:
Include all pertinent radiology tests and diagnostic procedures with a brief description of findings.
Discharge Medications: 
List all medications that the patient will be taking at home (even if previously prescribed), including dosage, route, frequency, and date of the last dose, if applicable.
Pending Studies
List all studies that are pending a result so that the primary care provider or any other outpatient providers can follow up appropriately.
Recommendations
Include any recommendations for outpatient care, consultations, or studies you recommend the primary care provider consider.
Follow Up Instructions / Discharge Education:
Name of provider, specialty, and appointment location with time and date of appointment, if known.
If the patient is to schedule the appointment, then make sure you include the timeframe by which the patient should schedule the appointment. (i.e., “Patient to arrange an appointment time to be seen within two weeks.”).
Provide appropriate education for the patient, based on their reason for admission or other identified aspects affecting their overall care (i.e., social considerations, lack of medical).

Week 7 Discussion – Financial Risks
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If managers could have just one wish, many would ask for a crystal ball. With this tool, there would never be any worry about risk. The manager could look into the crystal ball and know exactly what will happen with each decision. Unfortunately, we do not have this luxury and must use other tools and techniques to determine the risks we face for the decisions we make. Understanding the financial risks will be the focus of this week’s discussion question.
In what ways do you believe the trade-off of Risk-Return might influence organization and individual investment decisions?
Be sure to respond to at least one of your classmates’ posts.

Assignment:
Research Analysis: Stage 1
This week you will select a topic for your analysis paper and locate 3 empirical research articles that relate to your topic.
Write a 2000-2500 word essay addressing each of the following points/questions. Be sure to completely answer all the questions for each bullet point. Separate each section in your paper with a clear heading that allows your professor to know which bullet you are addressing in that section of your paper. Support your ideas with at least three (3) sources in your essay. Make sure to reference the citations using the APA writing style for the essay. The cover page and reference page do not count toward the minimum word amount. Review the rubric criteria for this assignment.
Research Analysis
In your research analysis paper, you will select one specific issue, question, topic, problem, or concern of interest to you (as it pertains to ethics in the helping professions), and then build your paper around this topic. The research analysis provides an integrative review of current research; you should go beyond simply explaining your topic to highlight how recent research informs the topic. You will build your research analysis in three stages:
Stage 1: Select topic and locate 3 relevant empirical research articles.
Stage 2: Create the structure for your research analysis paper including title page, introductory paragraph, outline of body of paper and reference page.
Stage 3: Complete research analysis paper.
This week you ONLY focus on Stage 1; you must select a topic and locate relevant empirical research articles.
Empirical research articles must be:
Peer-reviewed
Present original research
Published in scientific journals
Published in the last 5 years
For more information on what constitutes an empirical research article, see: https://ncu.libanswers.com/faq/168496#:~:text=An%20empirical%20article%20contains%20research,Methods%20(Given%2C%202008).

Create a  plan for a workshop designed to teach your colleagues about the importance of the core functions of public health. The contents of your lesson plan should address the following:
-A brief overview of each stage (assessment, policy development, and assurance) of the functions of public health 
-An outline of the divisions needed to adequately address the city’s health
Include in your lesson plan an activity (e.g., small group discussion, reflect-pair-share) for your audience to participate in during the workshop. Include the following components in your activity: 
1 to 2
objectives for the activity
A
script (roughly the length of a paragraph) that the instructor will use to
introduce the activity
Student
instructions for the activity (examples below):
Brainstorming:
must include specific prompts and brainstorming tips
Small-group
discussion: must include discussion questions
Role-playing:
must include a 1-paragraph scenario description
Reflect-pair-share:
must include 2 to 3 discussion questions
Tips
to help the instructor effectively lead the activity
An
instructor script for a closure section that wraps up learning and helps
students organize the information into a meaningful context

Overview
First, you will identify a problem in a healthcare organization. You may use a problem from your organization or a problem from a fictional organization.
Prompt
As you develop this first part of the assignment, include the following details:
What Is the Organizational Problem?
Provide details about the organizational problem. How does this problem fail to meet quality or other regulatory requirements?
State organizational challenges posed by the problem (e.g., interdepartmental conflicts, communication failure, budgeting issues).
Evidence-Based Support
Provide data that supports the existence of the problem. You may use public sources to find data related to your problem. Be sure to de-identify any patient data if you are using your organization’s problem.
How has this problem been addressed in the past? What information management systems or patient care technologies have been used when addressing this problem? Be sure to use peer-reviewed literature to support your answer.
Discuss relevant accreditation standards, safety standards, compliance standards, and quality initiatives. How do these standards promote a culture of safety within the department? Be sure to cite the appropriate standards within your answer.
Quality and Performance Improvement Ideas for Final Project
Clinical documentation
Coding compliance
Coding productivity
Coding quality
Data collection or capture
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliance procedures (examples: physical safeguards, release of information)
Hospital-acquired infection rates
Medical errors
Order entry and charting
Patient identity management
Patient safety (example: fall prevention)
Patient satisfaction
Physician query process
Readmission rates
Reducing accounts receivable (A/R) days
Return to surgery rates
Telehealth services and privacy considerations
Wait times (examples: emergency department, clinic, urgent care)
Workflow improvement for any health information management (HIM) function

I need 4 credible sources for my persuasive paper.One 5-10 sentence paragraph per source discussing and assessing the topic. My topic is the need for more mental resources for college students, particularly in Nebraska. I think I already have 2 sources. I have attached some information that will be helpful. My thesis is also attached, but it needs to be revised a little.

Assignment Title: Developing an Ideal Healthcare System (Final Project)
Assignment Instructions:
Based on the key components of a healthcare system, create your ideal healthcare system for a country.
For each of the 10 components:
Explain the component.
Discuss how you will implement it in your ideal system.
Required components include:
Physical access to care
Prevention, screening, and monitoring
Palliative care
Promoting health behaviors
Mental health
Technology
Financing the healthcare system
Cultural competence
Public health
Global perspectives
Include an introduction and summary of your healthcare system.
Assignment Directions
Your paper is to be 5–7 pages in length.
It is to be written in APA format, with a cover page and reference page of at least five references.
Your work should follow the conventions of Standard English (correct grammar, punctuation, etc.). Your writing should be well ordered, logical and unified, as well as original and insightful. Furthermore, all sources used should be properly cited using APA formatting.
Be sure to validate your information with course material.

Module 03 Content
Are you ready to present the policies for your two compliance plans in a way that all employees will understand at a large medical facility where you are the Compliance Officer?
In 4-page paper describe the policies for each of the two compliance plans.
Break each policy section into 2 pages each.
Remember to support your policies for the two plans with a total of three research sources, cited at the end in APA format. (That’s 1-2 research sources per plan).
Then, summarize your plan in a 5-8 slide PowerPoint presentation.
Polices you should consider covering for each plan come under the key compliance elements:
Compliance Standards
High-Level (personal) Responsibility
Education
Communication
Monitoring/Auditing (for Safety)
Enforcement/Discipline
Response/Prevention
Look these over in your research, and then select just two of these key elements and write your policies under them for each of your two compliance plans. (Your policies for each plan can zero in on different key elements.)
Example:
A compliance plan about washing hands between patients might describe policies for High Level (personal) Responsibility and Monitoring/Auditing (for Safety)
A compliance plan about charging patients for Diabetes Management Education as a Physician Visit might describe policies for Compliance Standards and Enforcement/Discipline.