Category: Health

Fiscal and Resource Utilization in Nursing

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F​‌‍‍‍‌‍‍‌‍‌‌‍‍‍‌‍‌‌‌‍​iscal and Resource Utilization in Nursing This assignment will help you explore the issues of fiscal and resource utilization. This question explores what these resources are and what decisions are made by nursing leaders in the utilization of these resources. As a nursing leader, you have been asked to develop a program that allows greater access to care. find at least three peer-reviewed scholarly articles on fiscal and resource utilization in nursing. Based on your research, write a 4- to 5-page paper that addresse​‌‍‍‍‌‍‍‌‍‌‌‍‍‍‌‍‌‌‌‍​s the following questions: What financial and resource utilization issues must be taken into account while developing a nursing program proposal? What are the fiscal and other types of resources available? What strategic decisions should a nursing leader consider while developing a nursing program proposal in terms of resource utilization? Why? How can nursing leaders track the impact of these strategic decisions monthly as well as yearly? What tools are available to nursing leaders to track the impact of these strategies​‌‍‍‍‌‍‍‌‍‌‌‍‍‍‌‍‌‌‌‍​?

 

Executive Summary: Addressing the Growing Need for Telehealth Services

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Compose a one page written Executive Summary to the organization’s board of directors to provide background information regarding a proposed organizational project/plan to address a relevant healthcare issue of your choosing. It can be something you have been involved in at your own organization, or something you see that could be improved at your own organization or in the healthcare world in general. Include the return on investment, how the project is essential to the organization’s commitment to service, how it will improve quality of care, and market share growth. Examples of Executive Summary documents are below.
Choose an issue facing the healthcare industry, this can be something you see at your own organization or for the healthcare industry in general. You will utilize this issue in the Culminating Final Project for this course as well. Organize an interdisciplinary team to manage a current your chosen healthcare issue and analyze what each member would bring to the team and strategies to work with each discipline.

 

 

Analyzing the Health Behavior Change: Incorporating Regular Exercise into Lifestyle

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Using your behavior change contract, journal entries and wellness assessment as guidelines please use this opportunity to analyze your chosen health behavior that you have changed/improved or added to your lifestyle.
Introduction:

What health behavior did you choose and why?
Why does this behavior need to be improved or changed and why is it important to you?
Have you tried working on this behavior before and if so were you successful?
Body: (in this section of the paper you are encouraged to incorporate citations from the book and other resources to support your thoughts and ideas.)

What are your short and long term goals and how did you choose them?
What steps have you taken to improve this behavior (please be specific-discuss suggestions from the book and/or course resources)?
What were your barriers to change (please be specific)?
Discuss the setbacks and/or successes you have had?
Who/What has helped you along the way?
Conclusion:

Did you successfully accomplish your goal? Why or why not?
What steps do you plan on taking to continue this behavior change after this class has ended?
If you were to do this assignment again, would you pick the same goal? Why or why not?

 

Main principles of the social marketing theory

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1. Identify and describe the four main principles of the social marketing theory.
2. Provide at least one example how the theory can be applied to influence behavior in a healthy way and an unhealthy way.
3. View the Social and behavioral change communication challenge (SBCC) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utW3c7ybv98&feature=youtube According to the video, what social marketing approach is needed today to effectively influence health behaviors?
4. Identify two areas mentioned in the video that social marketing have been used and found to be successful in promoting health behavior changes.
5. Which Responsibilities and Competencies of a Health Education Specialist can the social marketing theory be applied to? Please explain.

 

High and low-context communication

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Describe high and low-context communication in your own words. What style do you typically use? Provide an example. What can you do in an encounter with someone in the health care setting who seems to speak in a style different from yours? What adjustments would you make to communicate more effectively?

 

 

Learning about different cultural values

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How does learning about different cultural values help us in communicating with others? Choose one of Hofstede’s cultural value orientations from our reading/lectures and define it in your own words. Then describe an experience you’ve had or a hypothetical situation where this cultural value influenced an interaction in the health care setting. How did this cultural value influence the situation and what was the result?

The diverse health belief systems

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Choose one of the diverse health belief systems covered during week two that is different from your own. Describe it in your own words. Develop a scenario where you are working with a patient or co-worker who employs this belief system. Share how you would use the ODIS system to ensure that you are being a mindful listener and using appropriate and effective communication skills in this scenario