NHS 6008 Unit 3 Assignment Executive Brief: Proposal of New Economic Opportunity
NHS 6008 Unit 3 Assignment Executive Brief: Proposal of New Economic Opportunity
NHS 6008 Unit 3 Assignment Executive Brief: Proposal of New Economic Opportunity
Professional Context
Master’s level health care practitioners are charged with
the responsibility of constantly scanning the external environment for shifts
in supply of and demand for services. Concurrently, leaders must examine
strategic fit with their organization’s directional strategy and determine if
adjustments need to be made for current service offerings, updates in
equipment, changes in staffing models, and a variety of other decisions. Each
decision that is proposed must be evaluated in terms of the health care setting
as a system, alignment with the mission and strategy, available internal
resources, potential contract and payer source implications, and the short- and
long-term economic effects at both the micro and macro levels.
Scenario
As an emerging health care leader, the senior management has
requested that you independently research and explore one of the economic
opportunities that may be available in your care setting. This may be offering
a new service line, working to improve a service line already offered, retiring
an outdated or unprofitable service line, or any other economic initiative that
you believe will be of benefit to your care setting in the short and long term.
One example of this is a recently launched partnership with a local bicycle
sharing company. Your care setting partners with them to host healthy community
events that offer free screenings for early detection of various health issues.
This helps fulfill some of your care setting’s preventive and healthy lifestyle
initiatives, while also potentially driving referrals to other services
provided by your care setting. You have been asked to submit your proposal in
the form of a 2–4 page executive summary that includes your proposed economic
initiative, supporting economic data, and an analysis of the proposal’s
benefits for your department and for the care setting overall.
Instructions
You have been asked to ensure that your report addresses the
following. Note: The bullet points below correspond to grading criteria in the
scoring guide. Be sure your work is, at minimum, addressing each of the bullets
below. You may also want to read the scoring guide and the Guiding Questions:
Executive Brief: Proposal of New Economic Opportunity document to better
understand the performance levels that relate to each grading criterion:
Propose an economic initiative that presents an opportunity
for your care setting at both the micro (departmental, neighborhood) and macro
(organizational, community) levels, and that you believe will provide ethical
and culturally equitable improvements to the quality of care.
Analyze the supply and demand for your proposed economic
initiative within contexts relevant to your care setting.
Explain relevant economic and environmental data that
support your proposal and analysis.
Communicate your economic proposal in a logically structured
and concise manner, writing content clearly with correct use of grammar,
punctuation, and spelling.
Effectively support your proposal with relevant economic
data and scholarly sources, correctly formatting citations and references using
current APA style.
Example assignment: You may use the assignment example,
linked in the Resources, to give you an idea of what a Proficient or higher
rating on the scoring guide would look like.
Submission Requirements
Length of paper: 2–4 double-spaced, typed pages. Your paper
should be succinct yet substantive.
APA formatting: Resources and citations are formatted
according to current APA style.
Resources: Cite a minimum of 3–5 authoritative and scholarly
resources. Be sure to include specific economic data and support as part of
your cited resources.