Assignment Content

1. Resource: Annotated Bibliography Template
   
   Finalize your sustainability initiative by combining parts 1 through 5 of the sustainability initiative assignments:
   
   • Sustainability initiative proposal
   • Analysis of the costs and benefits associated with your initiative
   • Evaluation of how your initiative will improve patient care and outcomes
   • Evaluation of how your initiative will reduce waste
   • Suggestions for community partnerships and education programs
   • Petition to the leadership for resources to enact the initiative
   • Compile a 6- to 8-page paper of your sustainability initiative. Include diagrams, flowcharts, and other visuals that support your initiative.
     
     
     Create an annotated bibliography that contains each article you identified in the Weeks Two through Five Article Search assignments and include it in your paper.
     
     
     Create a 2-minute executive summary video to advocate for your initiative. Summarize the initiative, discuss short- and long-term sustainable needs, identify obstacles, and emphasize the benefits of the initiative.
     
     Cite 3 reputable references to support your assignment (e.g., trade or industry publications, government or agency websites, scholarly works, or other sources of similar quality).
     
     Format your assignment according to APA guidelines.
     
     
     Submit your assignment. For additional help, check out the ULTRA: Access your assignments page.
     
     

Its very important I cover all the competencies…!

Overview 

A new initiative has been introduced to educate nurses, health care workers, and social services workers on how to prevent workplace violence where you work. Write a 750–1,000-word article on workplace violence and prevention measures for the hospital employee newsletter.

By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria :

• Competency 1: Explain the effect of health care policies, legislation, and legal issues on health care delivery and patient outcomes.       
  • Identify the political, legal, and/or legislative factors that may contribute to violence in health care settings.
• Competency 2: Explain the effect of regulatory environments and controls on health care delivery and patient outcomes.       
  • Identify the main components of OSHA’s workplace violence prevention guidelines.
  • Explain the American Nursing Association’s position on violence in the workplace.
  • Explain safety policies and protocols for preventing and responding to violence against health care workers.
• Competency 4: Communicate in a manner that is consistent with expectations of nursing professionals.       
  • Write content clearly and logically, with correct use of grammar, punctuation, and mechanics.
  • Correctly format citations and references using APA style.
•  Assessment Instructions : 
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      Your workplace has experienced some serious problems with workplace violence that occurred between patients and caregivers. A new initiative has been introduced to educate nurses, health care workers, and social services workers on how to prevent workplace violence. You have been asked to write an article on workplace violence and prevention measures for the hospital employee newsletter.
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  Preparation
  Search the Capella library and the Internet for scholarly and professional peer-reviewed articles on workplace violence. You will need at least five articles to use as support for your work on this assessment.
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  Directions
  Write a 750–1,000-word article (3–4 pages) on workplace violence and prevention measures for the hospital employee newsletter. Address the following in your article:
   
  • Identify the political, legal, and/or legislative factors that may contribute to violence in health care settings. Consider the types of patients that may be treated within a clinical or hospital setting.
  • Compare OSHA regulations and the ANA position statement on workplace violence to organizational policies.
  • Explain safety policies and protocols for preventing and responding to violence against health care workers.
  • Additional Requirements
    Your presentation should meet the following requirements:
     
  • Written communication: Written communication should be free of errors that detract from the overall message.
  • References: Cite a minimum of five resources, with the majority being peer-reviewed sources. Your reference list should be appropriate to the body of literature available on this topic that has been published in the past 5 years.
  • APA format: Resources and citations should be formatted according to current APA style and formatting.
  • Length: 750– 1,000 words or 3–4 typed, double-spaced pages, excluding title page and reference page. Use Microsoft Word to complete the assessment.
  • Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12-point.
• I submitted a first paper and was non compliance; this is the professor’s feedback:

1-Non-Performance

Does not identify the political, legal, and/or legislative factors that may contribute to violence in health care settings.

Faculty Comments:“

I did not see where you identified any political, legal, or legislative factors that may contribute to violence in health care settings.  What are the actual laws that may lead to workplace violence. Additionally, you could include real-world examples. This is required for a higher performance. Please incorporate the scoring guide criteria in the 2nd attempt revision. In addition, please remember to highlight any added information. Thanks! 

2-Non-Performance

Does not identify the main components of OSHA’s workplace violence prevention guidelines.

Faculty Comments:“

I did not see this area of the scoring guide addressed in the paper. Can you identify the main components of OSHA’s workplace violence prevention guidelines? Also, you could suggest benchmarks to determine if the guidelines are being followed. In addition, please remember to highlight any added information. Thanks! 

3-Non-Performance

Does not explain the American Nursing Association’s position on violence in the workplace.

Faculty Comments:“

I did not see this section of the scoring guide address in the paper.  Can you explain the American Nursing Association’s position on workplace violence? In addition, could you compare it to your organization’s policies.  This is needed for a higher performance score. In addition, please remember to highlight any added information. Thanks! 

4-Non-Performance

Does not explain safety policies and protocols for preventing and responding to violence against health care workers.

Faculty Comments:“

I did not see this section of the scoring guide address in the paper.  Can you explain the safety policies and protocols for preventing and responding to violence against health care workers? Additionally, can you examine the effectiveness of such policies on preventing violent cases.  This is needed for a higher performance score. In addition, please remember to highlight any added information. Thanks! 

5-Non-Performance

Does not format citations and references using APA style.

Faculty Comments:“

The paper was not in correct APA format. Next step, as you make your revisions, is to reach out to your tutor for assistance. Consider using the Smarthinking program link on the course room homepage. I hope that you will also use the supplemental resource link on the course room homepage to link you to many helpful APA resources. There is also a sample paper located in the instructions to this assessment that will be a good example to review for format. In addition, here’s a link to APA formatting that may be helpful: http://www.apastyle.org/learn/tutorials/basics-tutorial.aspx

In Week 4, you will continue to assume the role of the public health informatician and use your pre-intervention asthma surveillance data set from the CDC to calculate risk/odds ratios and prevalence/incidence rates. Review the data set from a population perspective and calculate various population ratios and rates for the asthma data in your Excel spreadsheet. You will then answer the following questions in a short application paper of 3–4-pages, explaining your results. You may refer to the suggested readings for this week.

Ratios and Rate Questions

[Note: School populations: Asthma elementary student count in this study is 800 for this school year. School’s population (A + B + C + D) = 7,200 students for this school year.]

• Does one school have a higher number of students with asthma?
• Which school has the highest number of students with wheezing?
• How many students had both asthma and wheezing?
• If you have asthma, what are the odds that you also have wheezing?
• Is the odds ratio for bronchitis and RAD lower or higher than asthma and wheezing?
• How many children with wheezing were prescribed medication? From those results, what is the risk ratio?
• Is the risk ratio for being prescribed medication for asthma higher or lower than being prescribed medication for wheezing?
• Are the risk ratios for asthma and wheezing higher for children under the age of 10 than they are for the survey population as a whole?
• What is the student asthma prevalence for the school district, i.e., A, B, C, D based on total student population as shown above?
• What is the student asthma incident rate for the school district, i.e., A, B, C, D based on total student population as shown above?

In a summary, provide your interpretation of what your statistical ratio and rate calculations results demonstrate about this grade school population of students’ asthma risk and odds ratios, prevalence, and incidence rates. Explain how you may use this data in supporting the need and development of a public health asthma prevention program. You may use the prevalence resources in the links provided for your summary response.

Submission Details:

• Give reasons and examples in support of your responses. Cite all sources using APA format.
• Submit a 3–4-page paper in a Microsoft Word document to the Submissions Area by the due date assigned.

Unit 9 [HS 499: Bachelor’s Capstone in Health Science]

Assignment Details and Rubric

Unit 9 Assignment

Unit outcomes addressed in this Assignment:

• Develop logic model to develop programs in the administration of health care.

Course outcome assessed/addressed in this Assignment:

HS499-5: Health Care Administration: Demonstrate an understanding of the forces impacting

health delivery systems and the effective management of health care administration.

Instructions

There are many forces that impact health delivery systems. Choose one aspect that influences how health delivery systems are challenged, and describe the issue. Examples include, but are not limited to, access to care, quality health care improvement, lack of coordinated care, continuity of care (medical home), etc.

After reviewing the Logic Model Development Guide from the readings, create a logic model for a new program you would like to fund to address this impact on the health delivery system.

Discuss how the program can be applied to reduce the impact on the health delivery system.

Requirements

 The paper should be at least 975 words in length.

 Include a list of references in APA format, including the information used from the

modules.

Please be sure to download the file “Writing Center Resources” from Doc Sharing to assist you with meeting APA expectations for written assignments.

Submitting Your Work

For directions on how to submit your work and review your graded Assignments, refer to the Dropbox Guide found on the Academic Tools tab. Make sure that you save a copy of your submitted work.

Unit 9 [HS 499: Bachelor’s Capstone in Health Science]

Unit 9 Assignment Grading Rubric = 160 points

Assignment Requirements

Points possible

Points earned by student

Describes the chosen issue that challenges the health delivery system.

0-45

Creates a logic model to assist in funding a program to address the issue.

0-65

Discusses how the program can be applied to reduce the impact on health delivery systems.

0-50

Total (Sum of all points)

Points deducted for spelling, grammar, and/or APA errors.

Adjusted total points

Instructor Feedback:

Nursing Management 

Reference textbook: Sullivan, E.J. (2012). Effective leadership and management in nursing. (8th Ed.). Upper Saddle      River, NJ: Prentice-Hall. ISBN-10: 0132814544 | ISBN-13: 978-0132814546

Chapters: 14, 15,16

6.1 Module VI Overview

MODULE VI

Budget, Finance, Staffing,

Scheduling, FTEs

Learning Objectives

Module VI concentrates on the following course outcomes—

· Identify the human, fiscal and material resources necessary to efficiently achieve quality health care outcomes.

· Definitions of financial terms often used in healthcare will be identified. Different types of budgets and budget preparation will be reviewed. The role of the nurse manager in the budget process will be discussed in detail, as well as ethical issues associated with budgets in healthcare.

Reading Assignment

Sullivan: Chapters 14, 15, 16

American Nurses Association Policy Statement on Workplace Advocacy:http://nursingworld.org/MainMenuCategories/HealthcareandPolicyIssues/ANAPositionStatements/workplace.aspx (Links to an external site.)

Overview

Budget and Finance

Financial issues in healthcare often seem remote to the nurse and the nurse must have an understanding of financial matters of the health care delivery system, including the viability of the workplace, and the opportunities to optimize healthcare for the welfare of their patient. Key behaviors needed by nurse managers and those who care for groups of patients is ability to: understand the budgeting process; recognize general types of budgets; distinguish between direct and indirect costs; be familiar with the steps of a typical budgetary process and cost out nursing services. Different types of budgets include: operating budget, performance budget, capital budget, expense budget, zero-based budget, product line budget, cash budget. Operational plans, cost center, expense, revenue and profit are other key concept that will be addressed in the readings.

A budget is a formal plan for managing financial resources. The budget document indicates the expected income and expected expenses of an organization, department, or individual. It provides a method of tracking cost and, therefore, a way to examine where saving s could be made. The total organizational budget is usually separated into two distinct sections: the operating budget and the capital budget.

Budget planning procedures vary from organization to organization. However, some parts of the process are common to all organizations. These include steps to gather information before budget preparation such as making an environmental assessment, stating mission and goals, making assumptions about the future setting operational objectives, obtaining the budget guidelines, preparing budget manuals and budget projections packages (last year’s budgets, sets of forms all used in estimating future expenses).

Environmental assessment for budget purposes includes the environments that are both internal and external to the organization. As part of the internal assessment, the budget planners will identify the strengths and weaknesses of the organization. The external environment takes into account the changing needs of the population, shifts in third-party payment patterns, reimbursement, service contracts and loss or gain of physicians/programs and mergers.

With the economic climate of health care in turmoil, greater attention is being given to reduce cost while maintaining or improving the quality of care. The nursing budget can account for as much as half an organization’s total expenses nurse managers at all levels are facing significant pressure to become proficient in the budgeting process, to allocate resources, and control and monitor expenses.

Staffing, Scheduling

When asked “what professional issues keep you up at night?” nurse managers will often report staffing issues as the cause. The science of allocating the right human resources for the right work at the right time, taking care of the right population of patients is combined with the art of effective communication to create a healthy and healing environment for both patients and their caregivers. Staffing plans are based on a projected year and need to be closely aligned with the budgeting process. Staffing of personnel in healthcare facilities is regulated and directed by federal and state laws, professional accrediting organizations and professional standards. Forecasting and calculating full time equivalent (FTE). Forecasting takes into account both productive and non-productive time. A number of variables are involved in calculating FTEs. Some of these include shift rotation, weekend needs, length of shifts. The Power Point slides for this unit will outline calculation of FTEs. Also, state laws such as the Nurse Practice Act guide the responsibility of the nurse in regards to floating to another unit or not. These laws may vary from state to state. The nurse needs to know the organization’s policy and its congruency with state and federal laws. Scheduling process in an organization may be centralized or staff may do self-scheduling. This may vary from unit to unit based on philosophy and organizational guidelines. There is also computer software for scheduling. Managers in healthcare as in other organizations need to evaluate productivity. Each unit has different numbers for calculating productivity. How is nurse productivity evaluated on your S482 clinical unit? Leadership has a great deal of influence on productivity. Environments that have a culture of civility, team work and respect for the worker are a few examples of factors that contribute to productivity.

Assignment questions: Post answers in Forums Module VI. See calendar for due date.

1. Discuss steps in developing the unit or department budget. Who all is involved?

2. How is the cost of nursing care incorporated into a budget?

3. How does a nursing unit determine how many nurses are needed for a 12 month period?

4. Differentiate among various types of budgets: fixed, variable, capital budgets.

5. Describe how to calculate hours necessary to equate to one FTE.