Category: Occupational safety and Health administration

Please read below instructions in it’s entirety. 
The Tuskegee Syphilis Study, carried out in Macon, Alabama, from 1932 to 1972, is a notorious episode in the checkered history of medical experimentation. In one of the most economically disadvantaged parts of the U.S., researchers deceived a group of 399 black male syphilitics into participating in a study with no therapeutic value. These “volunteers” were not treated as patients but rather as experimental subjects or walking cadavers. Even after the development of penicillin, the Tuskegee group was denied effective treatment. Despite regularly published scholarly articles, forty years passed before there was any protest in the medical community.
You will be responsible for examining the infamous Tuskegee Experiment and its impact on the way research is conducted in the United States.  Please examine the role of government, the aftermath, and what policies have been put in place to ensure this type of event never takes place again. Make sure to include:
A brief overview of what the purpose of the experiment and what occurred during the time this experience was running.
Who were all of the key individuals and entities involved and in what way?
Share your perspective what you feel were the societal impacts of this experiment from both a research policy standpoint as well as any other areas you feel pertinent (i.e.: socioeconomic, skepticism of government, etc.).
Make sure to reference the sources you use and. You should be using credible sources. 

Research Paper, APA 7th edition
Discuss the research topic of workplace violence, using various examples of situations, mitigation strategies, and proactive prevention methods.

write an essay of 4 pages about fundamental principles, theories, issues pertaining to occupational, safety, health, environmental legislative framework within organization in South Africa

Instructions
Please answer the following questions regarding policy modification:
Question 1: Compare and contrast, policy initiation and policy modification.
Question 2: Discuss the concept of incrementalism in public policymaking.
Response for each question should be submitted using the text box and be at least 100 words long and no more than 200 words long.

Reflect on how, as a safety professional, you would respond to the overlap in Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) standards and state or local building, electrical, and life safety regulations. In your opinion, what might be the most significant challenges?
Your journal entry must be at least 400 words in length. No references or citations are necessary.

Guidelines for written assignments must be:
Completed in Microsoft Word
Display proper grammar
Completed in APA format (typed in font size twelve (12) using Times New Roman, Ariel, or Calibri fonts, normal margins (no more than 1 inch), double spaced, 0.5 indentation at the beginning of each paragraph and 0.5 hanging references).
Title page must consist of your name (First and Last), Course ID number, and research topic/title (APA format).
Must have a minimum of two (2) references. One reference can be the course textbook. 
For the written assignment, make sure you address all required instructions/criteria as noted in the assignment instructions.
There must be a minimum of two (2) pages for the written assignment. Address all questions presented. If a paragraph is required, please ensure each paragraph has at least five (5) sentences.
Instructions for individual written assignment: VSM and Process Flow
Select a current process or system (e.g. patient check-in for a surgical procedure, consent forms for admission into a hospital, physician screening in an ER, etc.) in a healthcare environment that you identify as needing improvement to improve flow and reduce waste. Define the process and the population served; detail why the area is an important area to focus your process improvement efforts; describe how many patients/customers are served on a daily basis, who provides the services, hours of operation for the process, etc.
Draw a value stream map (VSM) for the process identified including time stamps for each step in the process. Calculate cycle time, idle time, throughput time, takt time, and percent value added in the process.
Describe in detail the muda (or areas of waste) in the system (e.g. DOWNTIME) you’ve identified in the system or process.
Use Lean principles to describe the process improvement you would make to remove non-value-added activities and decreases the throughput time for the patient. Be specific with the principles you would use and why.
Now that you have described what tools you would use to improve the system or process and how, construct an updated VSM to highlight the new process including updated calculations on cycle time, throughput time, takt time, and percent value added in the process. Describe what immediate changes you intend to see (e.g. increase in patient satisfaction, provider satisfaction, reduction in inventory waste, etc.).
Grammar/APA Format/Meet All Guidelines for Written Assignment.
*Attached to this assignment are two simple VSM and process map examples that you can use as a guide. 

Episode 1: Policy Analysis and Development 
Overview see  guidance and attached transcript.
In this episode, you will be in a health care policy internship program in a Senator’s office in Washington, D.C.  The Senator wants to develop policy that requires all health care organizations that receive federal funds to implement the recommendations presented in the Institute of Medicine reports on quality care. You will develop a policy, so that it can become proposed legislation. You must collect data, describe the problem, solutions and related ethical issues, examine the cost-benefit analysis, identify stakeholders (such as lobbyists from American Hospital Association, health care providers, health care corporations, pharmaceuticals, insurers, etc.), and impact.  Based on this information, you will create a policy description that will be the foundation for a bill. You will describe critical issues that would be in the bill such as requirements of hospitals to:
Monitor and report medical errors to the Department of Health and Human Services
Use root cause analysis on a certain percentage of errors
Track and report patient outcomes focused on the clinical problems identified in the National Health Care Quality Report
Integrate the 5 healthcare profession core competencies into staff education and track outcomes
Establish a no-blame culture
*I suggest that you do some research on your own, and if you use outside sources to help you compile your policy description, be sure to reference them (following an APA format) at the end of your post.
To-Do for this Assignment:
You will post a policy description to this discussion board forum. Make sure to identify a plan that addresses legal and ethical issues in a health care policy. 
Below are the characters from this LearnScapes scenario (LearnScapes for Health Policy 1):
The Student (which is you), Health Care Policy Intern for Congress
The student used to work within the Bright Road Health Care System, and had a special interest in policy. The student is thinking about moving into politics, hoping to make a difference at that level. The student has just been accepted into the internship; this is the student’s first big project.
Peter Shackley, Senior Policy Staff Member
The student’s mentor, Peter, is a young and feisty staff member. In his late 20s, Pete has been interested in politics since he was President of his high school student body. He’s especially passionate about policy-making and how the process works. Pete will help guide the student through the policy-making process.
Gretchen Wilde, Senator Chief of Staff
Gretchen is in her 30s and has been the Senator’s Chief of Staff for about 2 years now. She’s very professional, and holds high expectations for everyone in the Senator’s office, including interns. Gretchen is responsible for reviewing policy ideas and descriptions before giving the approval to create a bill.
Marian Powers, Senator
Senator Powers is a Senator in her late 40s. She’s extremely busy with legislative issues, and trusts her staff members implicitly so does not spend a lot of time working directly with the team on this policy.
However, the student and other staff members sometimes contact her for information about state issues, reaction of stakeholders, etc.

For this assignment, You will be submitting a detailed outline and a video presentation. I recommend choosing a topic that sparks your interest. If you would like to reach out to me to make sure your topic works for this assignment, be sure to reach out to me.

What do you think about the deployment, staffing, training, and procedures your department or a department near you has in place to perform fire investigations over and above just cause and origin? Do you feel your department is prepared for these types of investigations? Why, or why not?
What would you recommend to make the process operate better?
Your journal entry must be at least 200 words. No references or citations are necessary.

Anticipating
future events is a huge focus in health care today. We have a number of
different assessment tools and frameworks in place today that assist with this
focus. Discuss the similarities and differences of Six Sigma methodology and
the balanced scorecard concept. Both of these have been used in the business
setting for many years with great success and have recently been applied and
used within health care.