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Examine the impact of Covid-19 pandemic on the nursing profession.
Identify actions needed to boost nursing safety and morale.
Describe stereotypes that may have been altered due to pandemic media coverage.
Explain how the recent pandemic has changed your nursing practice?
Include the following:
An explanation of the health issues and risks that are relevant to the child you were assigned.
Describe additional information you would need in order to further assess his or her weight-related health.
Identify and describe any risks and consider what further information you would need to gain a full understanding of the child’s health. Think about how you could gather this information in a sensitive fashion.
Taking into account the parents’ and caregivers’ potential sensitivities, list at least three specific questions you would ask about the child to gather more information.
Provide at least two strategies you could employ to encourage the parents or caregivers to be proactive about their child’s health and weight.
Create a 10-12-slide PowerPoint health promotion, with speaker notes, that outlines a teaching plan. For the presentation of your PowerPoint, use Loom to create a voice over or a video. Include an additional slide for the Loom link at the beginning, and an additional slide for references at the end.
In developing your PowerPoint, take into consideration the health care literacy level of your target audience, as well as the demographic of the caregiver/patient (socioeconomic level, language, culture, and any other relevant characteristic of the caregiver) for which the presentation is tailored.
Include the following in your presentation:
Describe the selected environmental factor. Explain how the environmental factor you selected can potentially affect the health or safety of infants.
Create a health promotion plan that can be presented to parents and caregivers to address the environmental factor and improve the overall health and well-being of infants.
Offer recommendations on accident prevention and safety promotion as they relate to the selected environmental factor and the health or safety of infants.
Offer examples, interventions, and suggestions from evidence-based research. At least three scholarly sources are required. Two of the three sources must be peer-reviewed and no more than 5 years old.
Provide readers with four resources: two community resources, one national resource, and one web-based resource. Include a brief description and contact information for each resource.
You are required to cite a minimum of three peer-reviewed sources to complete this assignment. Sources must be published within the last 5 years, appropriate for the assignment criteria, and relevant to nursing practice.
Refer to the resource, “Creating Effective PowerPoint Presentations,” located in the Student Success Center, for additional guidance on completing this assignment in the appropriate style.
How do regulations and accreditation help enforce quality healthcare? Discuss ways in which they help to improve the healthcare system.
Determine three key health care services that could be delivered by telehealth in rural communities.
Examine three technologies applied in telehealth for the delivery of three selected health care services.
Critique how interoperability requirements applied to telehealth improve the delivery of three selected health care services.
Examine how Health Information Management Systems (HIMS) are applied in telehealth for delivery of three selected health care services.
Propose how the application of telehealth for the delivery of three selected health care services could improve patient-centric health care practices.
Defend or critique the primary alternative sources of health care funding in the United States. Analyze the main effect on the resource owner of one of the following means of financing health care: insurance premiums, tax subsidies, and mandated benefits. Provide at least one example that illustrates the selected effect to support your response.
Scenario
Imagine that you are tasked with providing a comparison of government and private sector health care models for senior executives at a health care organization. You decided to create a table that compares the differences between both financing models in terms of cost, access, reimbursement, and quality.
You also want to impress upon the senior executives the importance of providing efficient and effective health care, so you will create an infographic designed to introduce them to the application of Lean Six Sigma principles to streamline operations and improve health outcomes. Some examples that you may consider include medical errors, patient wait times, supply chain management, or billing errors.
Preparation
The optional resources below will aid you in completing this two-part assignment.
Part 1: Comparing Health Care Models
In Part 1 of this assignment, you will compare the cost, access, reimbursement, and quality of government and private sector models. Choose one government and one private sector model from the list below and begin your research.
Government
Medicare.
Medicaid.
Veteran’s Administration.
Private Sector
Employer Provided Insurance.
HMO.
PPO.
One of the characteristics that you will consider – quality – should be assessed using the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Quality measures. Optional resources to aid your assessment can be found at:
Part 2: Lean Six Sigma Infographic
Choose a health care function to evaluate for efficiency and effectiveness of delivery. You will apply Lean Six Sigma principles by using the DMAIC methodology to present how errors and waste can be reduced in the infographic. Examples might include but are not limited to, areas such as medical errors, patient wait times, supply chain management, or billing errors.
Useful Tools and Resources (Optional)
To create your infographic, you can use whatever graphics tool you prefer. One such tool, CanvaLinks to an external site. offers templates that may speed the process.
Examples and information on how to create effective infographics can be found on the Internet in places like
https://www.businessillustrator.com/what-makes-a-good-infographic/
https://6sigma.com/how-dmaic-helps-hospitals-improve-patient-care/
https://sixsigmamania.com/?p=669
Instructions
Consider the scenario and complete both parts of this assignment using the Week 8 Assignment Template [DOCX] Download Week 8 Assignment Template [DOCX]for comparison of the government and private sector health care financing models. Complete the template using your own words and add three references below the template to support your work. Remember that the deliverables are designed to inform on high-level concepts only. You will submit two separate files for the assignments: a Word file and a pdf file that you download from Canva.
Part 1: Comparing Health Care Models
Compare U.S. government and private sector financing models in the table and include a minimum of four sentences for each criterion:
Cost – What the patient pays: premiums, copays, and deductibles.
Patient Access – Who is eligible for the plan?
Provider Reimbursement – How does the plan reimburse the provider? What are the payment models?
Quality – Apply CMS Quality measures and HEDIS measures.
Provide a brief economic analysis of which model promises the highest quality from the patient perspective. Support your assertion with data or examples.
Part 2: Lean Six Sigma Infographic
Create an infographic (using the DMAIC approach – Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control) depicting how Lean Six Sigma would be used to reduce waste and errors in health care for an operation of your choosing. Examples include medical errors, patient wait times, supply chain management, or billing errors. The following resources for DMAIC should be used for selecting your Lean Six Sigma tools and to review how Lean Six Sigma can be used by hospitals to improve patient care.
Read: pg. 269, “A Safe Hospital Room of the Future.” Then read and review the Production Planning & Control – The Management of Operations Article entitled
“An integrated lean methodology for improving patient flow in an emergency department – case study of a Saudi Arabian hospital” located online via the
following link:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/09537287.2018.1511870?
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The Task: Summarize and Synthesize the case using the format seen in the Sample_Case_Study_Analysis(1).doc Sample_Case_Study_Analysis(1).doc –
Alternative Formats , then answer the two questions seen in the text from the Safe Hospital Room of the Future reading in essay formate. Please provide an
introduction/background of the industry, a body and a conclusion and include supporting peer reviewed journal articles beyond the case in the text.
In your case analysis, incorporate findings from other sources like http://scholar.google.com well as in the online library within academic literature. You can
find excellent scholarly articles to support your opinion in the online library’s LIRN ProQuest database. In graduate work these sources are extremely
important to use!
What to Submit: Generally, these case study analyses will be between 4 – 6 pages long and APA formatted. Before you begin, please review the handouts on
Case Study Analysis Case Study Analysis – Alternative Formats expectations and evaluation.
You may choose to submit your Week-3 assignment to the Writing Studio (Optional). The link to the Writing Studio is on the left Navigation panel. Review the
comments made by the writing instructors, edit your paper, and submit your corrected final copy for grading.
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Countless curricular decisions are made in districts continually, but none, more importantly, following a Crisis.
How curriculum leaders arrive at these decisions varies.
• More progressive school districts have continuous improvement models in place to address curriculum decision-making and are constantly affecting changes in the curriculum as a result of these plans.
• Others approach curricular decisions as a response to an identified need that has presented itself due to student performance or other pressures.
• Some make decisions haphazardly without results,
• While some school districts demonstrate lethargy and apathy toward curricular decision-making and are stagnant for all intents and purposes. (Gordon, Taylor, Oliva, 2019)
Organizational staff and administrators have a wide range of leadership, instruction, curriculum, technology, data analysis, organization, and communication capabilities. The challenge is finding a way to meet the needs while capitalizing on the people to get the work done collaboratively.
Part 2:
Read this article carefully to understand “The New Normal post-covid 19”
rethinking-education-in-the-new-normal-post-covid-19-era-a-curriculum-studies-perspective-8315.pdf
Part 3:
Future Thinking incorporating Change:
In this discussion post (500 words), discuss what you would propose to your organization’s leaders for a “New Normal” following the pandemic or any crisis.
What are the key elements to consider when planning for a vast change?
Align your thoughts to the critical precepts presented in the article and cite them to support your comments.