Category: Healthcare

Practices to follow in the field of health services administration

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Create a list of three best practices to follow in the field of health services administration. Rank the best practices in order of importance (one being the most important).
Rate the three most important concepts that you learned in this course in order of importance (one being the most important).
Provide specific examples to support your rationale from readings throughout your program or from peer-reviewed journal articles.

 

SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH AMONG THE FEMALE POPULATION

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Explore the assessment of Social Determinants of Health. You will develop interview questions and techniques that will facilitate a full assessment of your patients. You will explore available instruments to complete a full assessment of an individuals Social Determinants of Health.

How would your communication and interview techniques for building a health history differ with each patient?
How might you target your questions for building a health history based on the patient’s social determinants of health?
What risk assessment instruments would be appropriate to use with each patient, or what questions would you ask each patient to assess his or her health risks?
Identify any potential health-related risks based upon the patient’s age, gender, ethnicity, or environmental setting that should be taken into consideration.
Select one of the risk assessment instruments presented in Chapter 1 or Chapter 5 of the Seidel’s Guide to Physical Examination text, or another tool with which you are familiar, related to your selected patient.
Develop at least five targeted questions you would ask your selected patient to assess her health risks and begin building a health history.
Post a summary of the interview and a description of the communication techniques you would use with your assigned patient. Explain why you would use these techniques. Identify the risk assessment instrument you selected and justify why it would be applicable to the selected patient. Provide at least five targeted questions you would ask the patient. Identify and discuss at least one online, national, or local resource available to your at-risk client.

 

 

The Secret Language of the Health Professions

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Right about now you will likely be feeling a bit overwhelmed. If you are completely overwhelmed, you need to be communicating with your instructor so we can give you extra assistance to be certain you do not fall behind. Being a bit overwhelmed is normal. As you read through the text there are terms and content that seem much like a foreign language to you.Let’s give it a go – watch this video: Easy German – Basic Conversation Phrases 1 (03:22)Clearly, learning German would take some time and practice. So does learning the language used in the health professions. But when you do learn it, this special language of ours can be rather fun. It makes us members of an exclusive club, the general public is not invited.It also poses great safety risks. If we do not learn the language properly, the risk of errors increases as we may get something wrong or be misunderstood by another health professional. If we are not careful the patient has no idea what is going on, or what they are supposed to do. Miscommunication has caused innumerable deaths, including that of infants whose parents did not understand the pharmacy directions for pediatric dosages of medications and whose health professionals did not take the time to ensure they did.Read: Dose of Confusion”When you pick out colors, it’s supposed to be for prom dresses or Christmas pictures, not colors fo the lining of her casket.” – Christine Hutto, Brianna’s mother Same Teaspoon, Different DoseReport on medication errors due to medical terminology miscommunication.Include the following aspects in the discussion:

Share a personal experience or near miss that med term miscommunication caused or locate an article to use
Summarize the situation including the specific med term error
What could have been done to prevent the miscommunication
Discuss the actions you will take during this course so you can provide safe patient care
Cite any references. At all times proper grammar, sentence structure, and spelling. Copy and pasting are not allowed. Always use your own words.

Patient Care Delivery

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There will be times when the doctorally prepared advanced practice nurse will need to suggest a change in patient care delivery. It will be important for the doctorally prepared advanced practice nurse to understand how to deliver information and what information should be shared with an audience.

This assignment will give you practice with presentation software along with preparing you to provide specific information for your proposed changes. This is a two-part assignment that will also give you practice in presenting to administrators.

General Requirements:

Use the following information to ensure successful completion of the assignment.

Doctoral learners are required to use APA style for their writing assignments.
This assignment requires that at least two additional scholarly research sources related to this topic and at least one in-text citation from each source.
You are not required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite for similarity scores.
Directions:

Part 1:

Create a 12-15 slide presentation (PowerPoint or voice-over; Prezi, include voice-over) that presents a proposed change in patient care delivery related to your DPI Project. The presentation must demonstrate considerations for finance, quality, patient safety, and patient experience.

If you are completing a PowerPoint presentation: The speaker notes must contain a detailed script of your presentation, as if you were verbally presenting. The speaker notes must include embedded citations supporting your presentation.

If you are completing a Prezi: Citations supporting your presentation need to be embedded.

Include the following:

Background of issue
SWOT analysis
The proposed solution
How the solution meets the need of the population (stakeholders, cost, and payer to proposed change)
Proposed change process
Expected outcomes
Implications that are realistic and aligned with current and future health care financing
Part 2:

Present your presentation to at least one administrator. Inform the administrator on the purpose of the assignment and that you will be seeking feedback on content and delivery. This is an opportunity to practice presenting to the executive team.
Write a brief summary (100-250 words) of the feedback given to you by the administrator(s).

The roles and experiences of the healthcare workers in TIME magazine’s 2014

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Discuss the roles and experiences of the healthcare workers in TIME magazine’s 2014 Person of the Year issue: “The Choice: They risked and persisted, sacrificed and saved. Links to an external site.”
Do you think the healthcare workers should have done anything differently?
What can be learned from the healthcare workers that should be applied to future similar scenarios?

A Brief History of the Indigenous Peoples of West Africa | Cultural Survival

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Introduction. What key points or themes were raised in the assigned readings? One paragraph in length.
Details and analysis of assigned article one with page citations, two paragraphs.
Details and analysis of article two with page citations, two paragraphs.
Conclusion. Summarize key points and provide details from the assigned video clip, how does it connect to readings. Here is what I learned from reading these articles.
Why is this information important?
Was any of the information new to you, has it made you think differently, etc.? One paragraph in length.
Here are the links to the articles:

Brief History Indigenous Peoples West Africa

A Brief History of the Indigenous Peoples of West Africa | Cultural Survival

A Brief History of the Indigenous Peoples of West Africa | Cultural Survival

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Introduction. What key points or themes were raised in the assigned readings? One paragraph in length.
Details and analysis of assigned article one with page citations, two paragraphs.
Details and analysis of article two with page citations, two paragraphs.
Conclusion. Summarize key points and provide details from the assigned video clip, how does it connect to readings. Here is what I learned from reading these articles.
Why is this information important?
Was any of the information new to you, has it made you think differently, etc.? One paragraph in length.
Here are the links to the articles:

Brief History Indigenous Peoples West Africa

A Brief History of the Indigenous Peoples of West Africa | Cultural Survival

Education, Finance, Health Care

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  1. Choose a business of your choice (fictional or existing). (It can be within Education, Finance, Health Care, Retail, etc.) and create a database for it.
  2. Create a database for your business with at least 5 Tables (EX. a Student Database, could the following tables Student, Course, Instructor, CourseGrade, CourseLocation (meaning online or onsite))
  3. What is the Purpose of the database?
  4. Who is the user(s) of the database? (customers, students, nurses, patients, etc.)
  5. Why is the DB needed? What is its purpose?
  6. Where is the database located? What is its physical and logical location
  7. Where will the database be hosted? (server, cloud, etc.)
    a. Why is it hosted there? (Provide advantages and disadvantages)
  8. Provide the table fields and characteristics (ex. Student_ID 8 alphanumeric characters)
  9. Create an excel spreadsheet with five (5) records for each table (please designate one attribute or field in each table as the primary key)
    Ex. TABLE Student
    “Student_Id” int Primary Key,
    “Studen_tName” varchar(60),
    “RollId” varchar(10),
    “Student_Email” varchar(125),
    “Student Gender” varchar(10), “Student DOB” varchar(10),
    “Student_Address” varchar(125),
    “Student_Phone” varchar(10),
  10. Create an ERD for the tables
    Write an SQL statement for each item below for your database.
  11. Write a SQL statement to create the tables below. Create Tables – In week 1, Lab 3, we created tables. (Found in the weekly readings in section 6.1.1 Creating a Table)
  12. Write a SQL statement to INSERT a record into your database table.(HINT: use the INSERT command) See section 6.4.1 in the online textbook. (Part of the readings for each week)
  13. Write an SQL statement to retrieve a record from a table from your database: (Hint: use the SELECT statement found in section 6.3 in your weekly reading)
  14. Write an SQL statement to update an existing record in your table (See section 6.4.3 from the weekly readings)
  15. Write a DELETE statement to delete all records for one (student, patient, customer, etc.) from your database (See section 6.4.2 from the weekly readings)

Please use the following format to submit your answers for the Final Project.
Save your Word document with Lastname_Firstname – Final Project.
Using my name, I would save my Word doc as Roundtree_Rena-Final Project

Please put the ANSWER ONLY (that means please only submit the SQL statement for your answer and attach it as the LAST page of your paper)

  1. a. tblxyz – SQL CREATE Statement (where xyz is the above-mentioned table name)
    b. tblsxyz – SQL CREATE Statement
    c. tblxyz – SQL CREATE Statement
    etc.
  2. SQL INSERT Statement
  3. SQL Statement
  4. SQL Statement
  5. SQL Statement