Please respond to the following: Evaluate the lessons learned in this course and discuss the single most important or surprising lessons as well as what made it so. Discuss how you would describe this course in 140 characters or less to someone considering taking it.
For the transition paper I would like for each of you to chose one of the below change theories. 1. incorporate a change theory from the list provided in your. This means to write about how you can apply the chosen change theory to the process of transition to professional nurse. 2. Explain the transition…
Define challenges that may impact the future of health care quality improvement. What are the latest trends such as consumer information that is available (HCAHPS/CMS/Home health compare; hospital compare)? Pay for performance and value based purchasing effect on organizations (major agendas; reimbursements linked to quality outcomes; behavior changes influenced by payers and regulators).
Explain an example when business process improvement is more appropriate than business process engineering. Respond to at least two of your classmates’ posts.
Health Care Information Systems are important in dispensing of information throughout the organization. You will develop a research paper on a health care technology that has become essential to the sharing of information via electronic communication mediums (i.e., EMR, Telehealth, HMR, etc.). Explain each part of the key components. Explain each part of contributing factors….
Select a movie from AFI’s 10 Top 10 lists and explain how three cinematic techniques and/or design elements have helped establish a major theme in that film. Note: While you are allowed to choose a film that does not come from the AFI lists, you are strongly encouraged to email your professor to receive approval…
Organizations have tried several different approaches for creating an organizational structure that supports collaboration between the risk management and quality management departments. Which structure do you think would be most effective? Should the departments be combined? Should each department have a manager that reports to the same director? Is there a better alternative? Be sure…
We saw that risk management involves playing the devil’s advocate and asking, “What could go wrong?” Creating scenarios and thinking through situations will help you understand the nature of the risk better. This is your exercise for the week. Create three fictional incidents for the risk area you selected in Week 1. Write about each scenario…
You oversee the insurance program at a local physician’s office. The office has five family practice doctors with four nurses and two office staff. The office is independent, so it must provide full coverage independent of any parent company. The office has a van for transporting supplies, patients to a local medical center, and groups…
Think about how you watch film and how the aesthetic elements work together to create meaning for the viewer audience. Some of the important elements to consider are: editing, cinematography, and lighting. Analyze each of these aesthetic choices by following the instructions below. Editing – visual transitions between shots that work to move the story…
Descriptions “describe”—they depict the “what is” of a statement. Prescriptions “prescribe”—they express the “what ought to be” of a statement. When approaching controversial or emotionally charged subjects, critical thinkers are mindful of the different roles that facts and values play in people’s judgments and the different roles they play in different kinds of judgments. This…
Please respond to the following: · Compare and contrast the rational and political models of policy analysis. Debate the advantages of the model that you believe is most influential in policymaking. Support your rationale with two (2) specific examples of your chosen model’s influence. · Suppose you are a health policy analyst for a government…