PH 200 – Week 1 Unit 1 Certified Nursing Assistant at Touro Hospital Discussion

As a way of introducing yourselves to the instructor and your peers, please post the following:

  • Your name and a description of your current position (If not employed, what are your expectations when you complete your program?)
  • How do you see yourself applying knowledge from this course?
  • Post a photo of yourself (self-portrait or family)

In addition, answer the following:

  • What do you believe the role of law enforcement should be in a public health emergency and why?

Impact of Digital Transformations in Healthcare Essay

Week 9 Discussion Post

How is Digital Transformation Reshaping Healthcare Delivery?

Digital transformation is about changing Healthcare delivery. How do you see this happening? Share a concrete example. How can digital transformation improve the patient experience?

NURS 6241 – Strategic Planning in Health Care Organizations Discussion

Heather Davis

RE: Discussion – Week 1

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NURS 6241: Strategic Planning in Health Care Organizations

Week One Initial Discussion: Introduction to the Planning Process

Introduction

The purpose of this week’s discussion is to explain how this writer views the similarities and differences between the nursing process and the strategic planning process. Next, share an example that demonstrates why it is beneficial for a nurse leader to be aware of the planning hierarchy. Finally, to identify why one should be engaged in the strategic planning in addition to and in contrast with operational planning.

Nursing and Strategic Planning Process

In 1958, Ida Jean Orlando started the nursing process that still directs nursing today. It can be defined as a system of approaches to care using the fundamental principles of critical thinking, client-centered treatment, goal orientation, evidence e- based practice and nursing intuition (Toney-Butler, 2019). It is holistic and scientific while integrating compassion, quality-based care. There are five steps to this process, which are assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation. It is based on Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs in which the individual needs of the patient must be met before other less significant needs (Toney-Butler, 2019). An example of this is that the safety of the patient can not be addressed first if the patient cannot breathe properly. The breath issue must be addressed first.

The strategic plan process is an organizational management activity that is used to set priorities, focus energy and resources, strengthen operations, ensure that employees and other stakeholders are working toward common goals. Establish agreement around intended outcomes and results and assess and adjust the direction of organization response to the changing environment (Wilsey, Sterling, Burton, & Boo). This process helps to articulate where the organization is going, the actions that need to be taken to progress, and how successful it will be. There are steps to the strategic planning process, which are assessment, strategy formulation, strategic execution, and evaluation. The association of strategic planning or ASP is dedicated to advancing thought and practice in this planning process. They have developed a lead- think-plan-act rubric(Wilsey, Sterling, Burton, & Boo).

The nursing and strategic process have both similarities and differences that exist. First is that both have a process; however, strategic planning is less organized, and doe not has a one method process as the nursing process that arises from evidence-based practice. Lastly, in the nursing process, the diagnosis must be determined before moving towards a plan, whereas in strategic planning, this is not a step. Both of these planning processes are used in the healthcare system. One striking similarity between the two is that they both assess the situation, then make a plan and implement it and finally evaluate it. This similarity should help a nurse who becomes a leader to use the nursing process as a start point in understanding and implementing the strategic process. They are both critical thinking approaches.

Example of Benefits to Nurse Leaders

In one example, this writer discovered was how to teach nurses to reach the board room level. Often in this, writers experience nurses have an opinion about a subject but cannot see the big picture and the skill set to articulate a plan for the problem at hand. These skills are what is need to be at the board room level. It is in a nurse nature that they are strategic thinkers, which means they use both sides of the brain, and they are both logical and creative. They also, in many respects, are life- long learners (Strategic Thinking: A Nurse’s Skill. (n.d.)). They possess specific competencies such as anticipating change, challenge assumptions, interpret their environment, make tough decisions, look for lessons learned, and finally to engage stakeholders. These competencies are similar to those who sit in a board room, which is gaining buy-in, conducting environmental assessments, developing both planning and financial assumptions, development of strategic frameworks, and establishment of performance measures (Strategic Thinking: A Nurse’s Skill. (n.d.)). One aspect that nurses who reach this level struggle with is thinking from a metaphorical perspective. However, if they look at the organization as they did their patients on a healing path seeking to improve itself and aligned with its mission and open to opportunities that smooth its journey along the route (Strategic Thinking: A Nurse’s Skill. (n.d.)), this approach to thinking and using their previous experience is precisely what will enable them to one day become a board member. There is a growing need to have nurses that are at the board level; a recent survey completed determined that only 2.3 percent of board members were nurses in comparison to 22.6 percent being physicians (Institute of Medicine (US) Committee on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Initiative on the Future of Nursing & Medicine, 1970).

Engagement in Strategic and Operational Planning

The last area in which to review is why a nurse leader should be involved in strategic and operational planning. Nurse leaders must see the the value that their position brings to the healthcare organization. Their involvement will allow them to take responsibility for identification of areas of waste, devising and implementing a plan for improvement, tracking the progress over time and then making the needed adjustments to establish goals (Institute of Medicine (US) Committee on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Initiative on the Future of Nursing & Medicine, 1970). Also, it will help them to become a partner in the healthcare policy area in which they can see that policy is not something that happens to them but rather something a nurse leader can shape and develop based on strategic and operational goals. The needs for nurse leaders who are comfortable with the strategic and operational process will only grow due to the enactment of such bills like the ACA which will require strong leadership among nurse leaders and physicians to implement the needed increase in quality, access, value and delivery of patient-centered care (Institute of Medicine (US) Committee on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Initiative on the Future of Nursing & Medicine, 1970).

Conclusion

The nursing process is similar to the strategic plan process in many ways. Nurse leaders can use their experiences, competencies, and critical thinking skills that they used in their bead side practice to the organizational level. If the nurse leader can identify this connection, it will help them to excel at the board room level.

 

References

Toney-Butler, T. J. (2019, July 30). Nursing Process. Retrieved February 23, 2020, from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK499937/

Wilsey, D., Sterling, T., Burton, B., & Boo, M. (n.d.). Strategic Planning Basics. Retrieved February 23, 2020, from https://balancedscorecard.org/strategic-planning-basics/

Strategic Thinking: A Nurse’s Skill. (n.d.). Retrieved February 23, 2020, from https://www.oregonnursesonboards.org/service/strategic-thinking-nurses-skill/

Institute of Medicine (US) Committee on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Initiative on the Future of Nursing, & Medicine, at the I. of. (1970, January 1). Transforming Leadership. Retrieved February 23, 2020, from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK209867/

APA format, 2 references, 2 paragraphs

HSA 405 SU – Health Insurance and the Affordable Care Act Paper

***Suppose you have been tasked with purchasing health insurance for your organization that has fifty full-time employees.

***Use the Internet or Strayer databases to research different types of health insurance.

***Write a 2-3 page paper in which you:

  1. Suggest one (1) plan that you would use to purchase health insurance for your organization. Determine the extent to which employee lifestyle choices and health economics would factor in to your chosen plan. Provide a rationale for your response.
  2. Analyze the implication of the Affordable Care Act on your decision to purchase insurance. Debate two (2) advantages and two (2) disadvantages of purchasing health insurance for your employees, as opposed to having your employees receive governmental insurance.
  3. Use at least two (2) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

  • This course requires use of new Strayer Writing Standards (SWS). The format is different than other Strayer University courses. Please take a moment to review the SWS documentation for details.
  • Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow SWS or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
  • Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

  • Analyze the impact of healthcare financing and health insurance on healthcare access, quality, and cost.
  • Analyze the influence of health policy and health reform on healthcare access, quality, and cost in the U.S.
  • Use technology and information resources to research issues in healthcare policy, law, and ethics.
  • Write clearly and concisely about healthcare policy and law using proper writing mechanics.

UMUC Organizational Behavior and Management Design Paper

Organizational Behavior and Management Design

Assignment Content

Using the organization Day Kimball Hospital Campus, write a 1,750- to 2,100-word paper in which you apply the concepts of organizational behavior and management in designing an organizational security plan.

SPECIAL NOTE: This assignment should focus on the Hospitals Campus organization’s security department NOT the organization itself. For example, you will be addressing the CVS Security Department, not the CVS organization.

Your design should be consistent with organizational behavior and management theory and practices and include:

Healthcare Research Discussion

This week, you will submit a draft poster presentation of your theoretical research study.

Your final project is based upon the work you’ve done all semester. This project is the culmination of your research question, your literature reviews, your sampling methods and study design, as well as your questions from your questionnaire. Each weekly assignment adds to your final project. All of that information should be included on the poster.

  1. Restate your research question.
  2. List and include your sampling/methods, questionnaire and other relevant elements from previous weeks’ assignments.
  3. Choose a professional association with an upcoming conference and determine the requirements for a poster presentation. Here are some examples of associations for which you can review their conference poster presentation requirements:

    APIC http://www.apic.org/
    IDSA https://www.idsociety.org/
    SHEA http://www.shea-online.org/
    ID Week http://www.idweek.org/
    APHA https://www.apha.org/
    AACN http://www.aacn.org/
    AORN http://www.aorn.org/

    If you have other healthcare associations that you prefer to use, that is fine, too.

  4. For the selected association, determine how well your poster presentation meets their requirements, and discuss this in your Week 8 video presentation.
  5. Create a draft submission for the conference you choose using one of these poster templates:

    Poster Template 1 Click for more options
    Poster Template 2
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    Poster Template 3
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    Be sure that your poster is easily readable and visually appealing with engaging graphical elements such as graphs or figures. It is easiest to create the poster in Powerpoint – as one slide; use one of the templates provided, but feel free to arrange the content as you see fit. The more content you include from your assignments, your text readings, and even the NIH online training course, the better.

    Your poster presentation must follow APA formatting and citation.

Your textbook may be used as a reference. The APA format for your text is as follows:

  • Jacobsen, K. H. (2017). Introduction to health research methods (2nd ed.). Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning.

Healthcare Researchers Discussion

Evaluate and provide examples of how hypothesis testing and confidence intervals are used together in health care research. Provide a workplace example that illustrates your ideas.

Emergency Manager Core Competencies Discussion

Please Think AS Emergency Manager working at the hospital.

Casual American language as possible, I have a background in EMS Field if you wanna induce “personal experience’

The Question;

PLEASE DO NOT KNOCK IF YOU DON’T KNOW ANY IDEA ABOUT DISASTER MANAGEMENT OR IF YOUR LANGUAGE IS LEVER 1 ( THIS IS MASTER LEVEL SO I REALLY NEED A COMPREHENSIVE WRITING OR OTHERWISE I WILL REFUND )

Describe ways to demonstrate the core competencies described by James et al.

Describe hazard specific competencies for a hospital emergency manager.

James et al, article

James, J. J., Benjamin, G. C., Burkle, F. M., Gebbie, K. M., &Kelen, G. D. (2010). Disaster medicine and public health preparedness: A discipline for all health professionals. Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness, 4(2), 102-107.

Retrospective Cohort Study Discussion

Provide two different examples of how research uses hypothesis testing, and describe the criteria for rejecting the null hypothesis. Discuss why this is important in your practice and with patient interactions.

GERO 365 Prescott College Still Alice Discussion

Help me study for my Health & Medical class. I’m stuck and don’t understand.

 

Please write about your reflections about the movie “Still Alice”.

Answer these questions: What are the early signs of memory loss? How did she reponse to her memory loss?

How did her spouse/family response to her memory loss? How did their responses change over time?