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Who we admire is often who we imitate. Who do you admire? Think of a paragon of health in your life, somebody further along in the journey who models moderation and healthy behaviors. What specific habits, behaviors or attitudes does this person embody that is worth imitating?
The CMS considers patient engagement a quality metric for a learning healthcare system.
● Patient engagement is a major focal point of stage 2 MU of HER.
● Patient Engagement in Health and Health Care Framework by Carman et al. presents different forms and levels of patient engagement across the healthcare system.
● Institute for Patient- and Family-Centered Care recognizes the vital role families play by providing emotional, social, and developmental support, ensuring the health and well-being of all family members
● The Level of Engagement with Health Care framework considers the engagement, quality, and safety of mobile apps. Clinicians can identify trustworthy apps that serve the engagement of high-need, high-cost populations.
Consider content covered in chapter 5 concerning policy changes in the United States and the strategic plan needed to improve care and drive down cost through health information technology. Give at least 3 examples of an information technology policy change that has supported patient engagement.
The case study is titled Overstaffing. This is not the correct term. Write a reflection that addresses the following questions:
What does the term “understaffing” or “short-staffing” mean?
What is the ICU nursepatient ratio in the state you live in?
List three or more issues identified in the case study video.
Describe at least two strategies the nurses can implement to address the understaffing on the unit.
What is your experience witnessing short-staffing during your clinical or work experience? If you do not have this experience, add what organizations, such as the ANA and the NLN, are doing to address understaffing or short-staffing.
The health care industry is always striving to improve patient outcomes and attain organizational goals. Nurses can play a critical role in achieving these goals; one way to encourage nurse participation in larger organizational efforts is to create a shared vision and team goals (Mulvale et al., 2016). Participation in interdisciplinary teams can also offer nurses opportunities to share their expertise and leadership skills, fostering a sense of ownership and collegiality.
You are encouraged to complete the Budgeting for Nurses activity before you develop the plan proposal. The activity consists of seven questions that will allow you the opportunity to check your knowledge of budgeting basics and as well as the value of financial resource management. The information gained from completing this formative will promote success with the Interdisciplinary Plan Proposal. Completing this activity also demonstrates your engagement in the course, requires just a few minutes of your time, and is not graded. Having reviewed the information gleaned from your professional interview and identified the issue, you will determine and present an objective for an interdisciplinary intervention to address the issue. For this assessment, use the context of the organization where you conducted your interview to develop a viable plan for an interdisciplinary team to address the issue you identified. Define a specific patient or organizational outcome or objective based on the information gathered in your interview.
The goal of this assessment is to clearly lay out the improvement objective for your planned interdisciplinary intervention of the issue you identified. Additionally, be sure to further build on the leadership, change, and collaboration research you completed in the previous assessment. Look for specific, real-world ways in which those strategies and best practices could be applied to encourage buy-in for the plan or facilitate the implementation of the plan for the best possible outcome.
Using the will help you stay organized and concise. As you complete each section of the template, make sure you apply APA format to in-text citations for the evidence and best practices that inform your plan, as well as the reference list at the end.
Additionally, be sure that your plan addresses the following, which corresponds to the grading criteria in the scoring guide. Please study the scoring guide carefully so you understand what is needed for a distinguished score.
Describe an objective and predictions for an evidence-based interdisciplinary plan to achieve a specific goal related to improving patient or organizational outcomes.
Explain a change theory and a leadership strategy, supported by relevant evidence, that is most likely to help an interdisciplinary team succeed in collaborating and implementing, or creating buy-in for, the project plan.
Explain the collaboration needed by an interdisciplinary team to improve the likelihood of achieving the plan’s objective. Include best practices of interdisciplinary collaboration from the literature.
Explain organizational resources, including a financial budget, needed for the plan to succeed and the impacts on those resources if the improvements described in the plan are not made.
Communicate the interdisciplinary plan, with writing that is clear, logically organized, and professional, with correct grammar and spelling, using current APA style.
Write the task about Decisions on Health Care Organization Alliances. Distinguish the factors that are most important in carrying out a successful health care organization’s merger or acquisition.
In the discussion for this week, we will focus on the use of radio-frequency implanted devices, known as RFIDs. This discussion will help you begin to think about the APA-formatted paper due this week on the topic of RFIDs and Smartcards.
Consider this scenario: The hospital administrators have chosen to include the smart card or implanted RFID in their plan for patient care delivery. However, your client base is resistant to the idea of using the smart card. In your discussion response, please address each of the following questions:
1. What are the pros and cons for using the smartcard or RFID?
2. How would you balance the concerns related to the cons, while trying to incorporate its use into the healthcare system?
3. Identify groups or individuals who could immediately benefit from the use of the technology, and why is that so?
As you have learned from Chapter 3 ( The Last Dance: Encountering Death and Dying (10th ed.). McGraw-Hill Education.) of your textbook, there is considerable cross-cultural variation in death rituals. This forum asks you to pick one of the cultures listed below and review all listed resources for that cultures death rituals. Use those resources to address the following questions.
Summarize the most essential elements of the rituals. What do the members of the chosen culture believe about death and the afterlife? What do their rituals involve? What is your reaction to these ritualsdo they disturb you, and if so, why?
Compare and contrast what you learned about the other culture with American death rituals.
Content In health care, economic concepts are defined in a specific way, incorporating specialized terminology and professional jargon. Often, these terms are used in ways that differ from conventional daily use in speaking and writing. This disconnect can confuse health care providers and consumers. For this assignment, you will create a presentation to help colleagues and staff master the specialized language. Write a paper in accordance to APA format which you explain 4 of the following terms: Behavioral economics Benchmarking Cost-effectiveness Demand Economic burden Economy of scale Opportunity cost Productivity Resource usage Supply Value-based care In the paper you should: Explain the common use of each selected term. Explain the meaning of each selected term in health care economics. Summarize the key differences between everyday use and how you as a health care administrator use the selected terms.
Discuss illiteracy as a disability.
After reviewing the background materials and your own research, please define an advocacy decision model for a health condition of your choice. Please list and elaborate the key components (political considerations, economic considerations etc.) of the model and the overall impact that the advocacy will have on the health of the population?