Healthcare

1. Do employees behave differently in a flat versus a hierarchical organizational structure? Explain your answer.2. Do employee personality types differ between hierarchical and flat organizations?3. What is difficult about policy implementation in a flat organization? What is difficult about policy implementation in a hierarchical organization?4. How do you overcome employee apathy toward policy compliance?5. Create a policy framework implementation plan for the fictional Specialty Medical Clinic (the plan should not be longer than two pages). The Specialty Medical Clinic is being acquired by a larger parent organization under HIPAA compliance law. The parent organization is a hierarchical structure with multiple departments and clinics. The medical clinic is a flat organization. Following is an outline of those areas of the plan you need to include:Parent Medical ClinicAcquires Specialty Medical ClinicPublish Your Policies for the New Clinic{Explain your strategy.}Communicate Your Policies to the New Clinic Employees{How are you going to do this?}Involve Human Resources and Executive Management{How do you do this smoothly?}Incorporate Security Awareness and Training for the New Clinic{How can you make this fun and engaging?}Release a Monthly Organization-Wide Newsletter for All{How can you make this newsletter succinct?}Implement Security Reminders on System Logon Screens for All{This is for access to sensitive systems only.}Incorporate Ongoing Security Policy Maintenance for All{Review and obtain feedback from employees and policy-compliance monitoring.}Obtain Employee Questions or Feedback for Policy Board{Review and incorporate into policy edits and changes as needed.}

Please review the DQ forum for this week. Select 2-3 postings from your peers to analyze in your personal assignment response. For your personal assignment this week:Write a 1-2 page summary on your analysis of the discussion comments and how you believe this content has increased your ethical self-awareness. Please include alternatives, analysis, application, and action.The assignment should be submitted as a Word document and APA format is required. The title page and reference page are not counted in the 1-2 page req

Select a healthcare organization in South Florida (i.e Baptist Health, Memorial, Broward Health, etc.). The one you work for is a good choice because you have knowledge, access and experience with its inner workings. You may need to talk with managers in your facility to obtain information. In a 2-3 page paper, APA format including headings, analyze the following:1. Discuss the mission and philosophy of a healthcare organization in relation to its strategic plan. (Another way of thinking about it – What is the organization’s mission and philosophy and how is this seen in its strategic plan?)2. Describe methods used to meet the goals of a strategic plan using best practices. (Another way of thinking about it- What methods are being used by the organization to meet the goals of its strategic plan? Are these methods based on best practices?)3. Critique evaluative effectiveness of a strategic plan. (Another way of thinking about it – How well is the strategic plan working? How is the organization evaluating what is being done? Are changes to the methods or plan being made based on results achieved?)

Healthcare Policy and Law In the most general sense, this domain is concerned with an individual’s access to care (e.g., What poli- cies and laws impact an individual’s ability to access needed care?), the quality of the care the person receives (e.g., Is it appropriate, cost-effective, and non- negligent?), and how the person’s care will be financed (e.g., Is the person insured?). However, “access,” “qual- ity,” and “financing” are themselves rather large sub- domains, with their own sets of complex policy and legal issues; in fact, it is common for students to take semester-long policy and/or law courses focused on just one of these subdomains.Public Health Policy and Law The second large topical domain is that of public health policy and law. A central focus here is on why and how the government regulates private individuals and cor- porations in the name of protecting the health, safety, and welfare of the general public. Imagine, for example, that the federal government is considering a blanket policy decision to vaccinate individuals across the coun- try against the deadly smallpox disease, believing that the decision is in the best interests of national security. Would this decision be desirable from a national policy perspective? Would it be legal? If the program’s desir- ability and legality are not immediately clear, how would you go about analyzing and assessing them? These are the kinds of questions with which public health policy and law practitioners and scholars grapple.Bioethics Finally, there is the bioethics domain to health policy and law. Strictly speaking, the term bioethics is used to describe ethical issues raised in the context of med- ical practice or biomedical research. More compre- hensively, bioethics can be thought of as the point at which public policy, law, individual morals, societal values, and medicine intersect. The bioethics domain houses some of the most explosive questions in health policy, including the morality and legality of abortion, conflicting values around the meaning of death and the rights of individuals nearing the end of life, and the policy and legal consequences of mapping the human genetic code.Social, Political, and Economic Historical Context Dividing the substance of health policy and law into broad topical categories is only one way to conceptual- ize them. A second way to consider health policy and

Discussion Question:Explain the difference between internal and external evidence. How can each of these types of evidence be utilized for quality improvement in the clinical setting? Provide an example for both.

The purpose of this assignment is to analyze the importance of vision, mission, and values in strategic planning.Conduct additional research about the health care organization you selected in Topic 1. Identify the organization’s mission, vision, and values. Refer back to textbook Chapter 6 to review the characteristics of good mission and vision statements so you can use these criteria in the analysis of the selected company.Write a 1,000-1,250 word paper that analyzes the mission, vision, and value statements for the healthcare organization you have selected. The paper should address the following:Explain the importance of strategic direction and the purpose of the mission and vision statements in the strategic planning process.State the mission and vision of the selected organization.Utilize the criteria found in Chapter 6 to evaluate the mission and vision of the selected organization. Include discussion of whether the mission and vision statements contain the characteristics of good mission and vision statements and justify your position.Summarize the organization’s values and describe how they align to key tenets of the Christian worldview perspective. Include discussion about how adherence to these values can affect strategic planning and initiatives.Identify the major organizational resources needed to accomplish the mission and vision and uphold the company values.Identify strategies that can be employed to effectively manage resources to fulfill the organization’s mission and vision.Describe the substance of an organization’s strategic objectives and the contributions they make to the strategic planning process.Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.This assignment uses a rubric. Review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Refer to the LopesWrite Technical Support articles for assistance.This benchmark assignment assesses the following programmatic competencies:BSHealthCareAdministration1.3:Identify the major organizational resources needed to accomplish strategic health care initiatives.1.4:Determine the impact that an organization’s vision and mission have on effectively managing resources.

For this paper, you need to conduct research in peer-reviewed journals or other sources that are considered to have reliable information. In addition to your required course text, you will need at least six professional scholarly sources, three of which must be peer-reviewed journal articles.Must begin with an introductory paragraph that has a succinct thesis statement.Must address the topic of the paper with critical thought.Must end with a conclusion that reaffirms your thesis.Must use at least six scholarly resourcesMust document all sources in APA style.Must include a separate reference page, formatted according to APA style

Compare standards of practice in the community and compared to state or national practices for caring for heart failure patient. Analyze and provide substantial support for heart failure care disparities on a national and international basis.

Explain how the following question is in PICOT format and delve into why it is an important question and how it affects the subjects.Question to be utilized:For an overweight/obese healthcare professional, how does a training regimen improve morale , health and job performance in comparison to non-complaint HCP within a timeframe of 8 weeks.P:Overweight/obese HCPI: Education along with Exercise and nutritional regimenC: Non-compliant overweight/obese HCPO: Boost of morale, better job performance, lowering risk of developing health conditions, reducing BMIT: 8 weeksReferences should be no older than 5 years.

Program evaluation procedures can help you identify the needs of a population as you develop programs. They can also help you identify portions of the population who are not accessing services once a program is implemented. In this assignment, you examine issues related to access to services and how program evaluation procedures can be used to address those issues.To PrepareReview the Interactive Learning Community’s Community Center and High School in this week’s Learning Resources. Consider the demographics present in the New Harbor High School. Then consider how you could apply research methods to increasing participation in marriage and relationship education programs to one of the largest disadvantaged and/or ethnically diverse families in the community. Use the data from the High School, to choose a population. Finally, consider the measurement and data collection methods presented in the course text and how they could be applied to this issue.The Assignment (2–3 pages)Identify the disadvantaged and/or ethnically diverse population you have chosen in this week’s Interactive Learning Community and why you choose that population to focus on.Explain how, as a researcher, you would increase participation of your chosen disadvantaged and/or ethnically diverse populations in marriage and relationship education programs based on their needs.The combination of qualitative and quantitative methods to provide more valid, reliable, and generalizable results in research is known as “Mixed Methods” Research. Explain the types of quantitative measures (detailed in this week’s readings) and qualitative data collection methods (detailed in Week 4’s readings) you would employ to obtain more valid, reliable and generalizable results for a program evaluation of the marriage and relationship education programs.