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Discuss how your worldview will impact your decision-making about one of the following:
Taking a daily medication to manage a health condition you wish you didn’t have.
Participating in an advance care planning discussion related to your preferences about life-sustaining treatment following a sudden neurological injury from which you are not likely to recover.
Exploring use of a complementary or alternative medicine treatment.
Where and how are decisions made in your organization? How can you be invited to the table to be an active participant in decision making that influences your practice?
A variety of models for making decisions are available. Three of these models are paternalistic, informative, and shared decision making.
Discuss the pros and cons of each of these models and the problems that are best suited for the various methods.
Determine which method has the strongest possibility of resulting in permanent change.
A variety of models for making decisions are available. Three of these models are paternalistic, informative, and shared decision making.
Discuss the pros and cons of each of these models and the problems that are best suited for the various methods.
Determine which method has the strongest possibility of resulting in permanent change.
In some states, the use of marijuana is now legal, so a majority of the citizens evidently regard it as morally acceptable. In other states, however, the use of marijuana is illegal, so a majority of the citizens in those states evidently regard it as morally unacceptable. Furthermore, given that most states at this time disapprove marijuana use, a majority of citizens in the country as a whole likely regard it as morally unacceptable. The dilemma for those who say that moral questions are decided by the majority is that in this case, there are a number of majorities, and they disagree with one another. Make a decision regarding this dilemma based on what you learned in this chapter. Reading #2 from Ruggiero’s, Thinking Critically about Ethical Issues. At minimum the below chapter from this book is to be read.
A variety of models for making decisions are available. Three of these models are paternalistic, informative, and shared decision making.
Discuss the pros and cons of each of these models and the problems that are best suited for the various methods.
Determine which method has the strongest possibility of resulting in permanent change.
Describe how you made decisions in a 4-page (maximum) double-spaced paper. Describe the following:
Process for decision making
Quantitative or qualitative nature of decisions
System 1- or System 2-type thinking
Integrative nature of decisions
Benefits of collaboration
Theory for thinking – is it reflective, integrative, system, perception-based, values-based, or design thinking?
How you will strive to make decisions in the future
Would you flip a coin for the chance of winning two dollars? What if you were given a dollar and offered the chance to flip a coin to either gain a second dollar or lose the first? Which wager seems more appealing—the first or the second?
Far more people choose the first wager than the second. Both scenarios have exactly the same probability of outcomes: a 50% chance of ending up with nothing, and a 50% chance of ending up with two dollars. Why might the first wager appeal to people? Do we always make the best possible decision?
Impediments are factors that can hinder decision making. While they often vary by situation, common impediments exist that might influence decision making in general.
In this Discussion, you explain a difficult decision you have made. You also describe impediments that you faced when making this decision, as well as common decision-making impediments.
With these thoughts in mind:
Post a brief description of a recent difficult decision you made between two or more alternatives. Then explain the nature of two impediments that you faced in making the decision. Finally, describe two common impediments to optimal decision making.
Would you flip a coin for the chance of winning two dollars? What if you were given a dollar and offered the chance to flip a coin to either gain a second dollar or lose the first? Which wager seems more appealing—the first or the second?
Far more people choose the first wager than the second. Both scenarios have exactly the same probability of outcomes: a 50% chance of ending up with nothing, and a 50% chance of ending up with two dollars. Why might the first wager appeal to people? Do we always make the best possible decision?
Impediments are factors that can hinder decision making. While they often vary by situation, common impediments exist that might influence decision making in general.
In this Discussion, you explain a difficult decision you have made. You also describe impediments that you faced when making this decision, as well as common decision-making impediments.
With these thoughts in mind:
Post a brief description of a recent difficult decision you made between two or more alternatives. Then explain the nature of two impediments that you faced in making the decision. Finally, describe two common impediments to optimal decision making.
As a health care administrator, you will often do research on a topic to provide background information for decision making, committee work, or creating policies. It is often best practice to use a comparison table to lay out and visualize your research notations. For this week’s assignment you will complete a comparison table on hospital care across three time periods and analyze the similarities and differences of the different topics for each of the time periods in the table. You will summarize key findings for the topics and draw appropriate conclusions in a 2–3-page paper, with your comparative table in the appendix.
Scenario
Imagine you are a patient with a serious illness in a hospital in the 1800s, in the 1960s, and today. Think about the room configurations, the skills of the nurses and other staff, the level and type of care, and how you would pay for the care, both now and in the previous centuries.
Instructions
Using the Comparative Analysis Template [DOCX], write a 2–3 page paper about the similarities and differences in hospital care from the different time periods (1800s, 1960s, and today), as well as the conclusions you drew from your analysis. In addition, complete the Comparative Analysis Table: Hospital Care Evolution in the appendix of the assignment template.
Complete the following:
Use your textbook and at least two other resources included in What You Need to Know for this week or resources you find on your own to research how the hospital industry has evolved in terms of hospital environment, medical staff education, level of care in hospitals, and the payment systems. Use the History of Health Care Research tab in the Health Care Administration Undergraduate Library Research Guide to guide your research process.
You will need to reference a total of three scholarly sources in your paper.
Be sure to cite these references within the body of your paper correctly using APA style citations.
Complete the Comparative Analysis Table: Hospital Evolution, located in the appendix of the assignment template.
Provide two descriptive changes for each time period under each of the headings.
Add bullet points to each cell in the table to document the descriptive changes that you have found for each topic.
Document the source where you found the information for each cell in the table, using APA citation style.
Refer to the Comparative Analysis Assignment Exemplar [PDF] for an example of how to translate the information from the table into a written paper.
Note that the assignment exemplar is written about the evolution of physicians’ practices and not hospital care, which is the topic for this assignment.
Do not copy the exemplar text into your paper. You should submit original written work about the evolution of hospitals in your paper.
Write an introduction to the paper.
Include a brief explanation of the purpose of the paper and main ideas.
Reference significant trends that you noticed as appropriate.
Write the body of the paper.
Write the Hospital Care Evolution section in the assignment template, using the information from the Comparative Analysis Table you completed.
Describe your findings about each topic in the different time periods under each subtopic heading.
Explain the trends in hospital environment, medical staff education, level of care in hospitals, and the payment systems in a short paragraph (3–4 sentences) for each topic, using the subheadings provided in the assignment template.
Cite all references used within the body of your paper using APA style citations.
Write the Comparative Analysis section (1–2 paragraphs) in the assignment template.
Write a brief summary of your comparisons and analysis about the significance of the key changes from the different time periods.
Draw conclusions about how the hospital industry has evolved from the 1800s, to the 1960s, to today and about the significance of the key milestones from the different time periods.
Give specific examples of the impact on the quality of patient care during these time frames.
Write a conclusion paragraph where you summarize the main ideas included in the paper.
Explain why it is important to study the history of hospital care for your profession.