Leadership Competencies in Nursing

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Create a PowerPoint presentation that summarizes your Practicum Change Project.   Include a minimum of 8 slides (15 maximum) and the following information provided below. The PowerPoint Presentation is worth a maximum of 200 points and is posted in Week 6 Practicum Discussion. Points will be awarded as follows.

RequirementCriteriaPoints
Title PageFollows APA requirements for the title page10 points
Describe the proposed change including evidence to support the project.  Identify the quality and safety issue addressed by the project.Collaborates with professionals in the facility to discuss the need for the proposed change.Identifies the quality and safety issue addressed by the project.20 points
Describe the change theory and model used as framework for the project. Apply the steps of the change theory to the project development process.Selects one of the major change theories and applies the project development process to each step of the theory. Discusses how the project aligns with the facility mission, vision and values.30 points
Describe your collaborattion with multidisciplinary team members.Describes the members of the multidisciplinary team and their role in the proposed project.30 points
Present the proposed budget for the project.Develops a realistic budget for the project including salaries, equipment, supplies, education, travel and so forth.  Justifies the need for the budget items.30 points
Discuss the quality and safety issue addressed by the project.Discusses the quality and safety issue and how the project will help decrease the incidence of the issue in the facility.30 points
Describe dissemination strategies and justify the selection of the strategiesDescribes the most effective way to disseminate the final project if the opportunity were available to do so.  30 points
A minimum of 5 scholarly references are used in the project including peer-reviewed research articles and textbooks. References are current and are peer-reviewed research articles and/or current textbooks.20 points
Total 

Healthcare Finance

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  • Based on your readings, what might be the benefits of transitioning to EHRs over a period of time? All at once? What about challenges? Are there certain types of health care organizations that might do better with an all-at-once approach, versus a gradual transition? Would you prefer to schedule and supervise such a transition over time or all at once? Why?
  • Let’s now explore your personal/professional interests in other technology trends besides EHRs that will impact how health care is financed at the policy and organizational level. In a separate post from the first two questions in this discussion, share an article in the Excelsior library discussing a new trend of interest to you (smartphone apps, iPads, robotics, nanotechnology, automated care, telemedicine, etc..) that influences some aspect of health care finance (revenues, expenses, billing, coding, etc..). Provide a brief synopsis in your own words, including why you chose this particular trend and what its implications are for health care finance at the organizational and patient level. You might even ask your classmates questions concerning the technology’s impacts on finance! As you respond to your classmates’ posts on their technologies, share other implications that you may see and/or experiences you may have had with that particular technology. Be sure to provide the full citation and permanent link, so your classmates and instructor can also check it out. Where appropriate, please feel free to include related websites in addition to the article.

CHALLANGES FACING PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICES

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In the past weeks, you have examined and explored the challenges and issues facing delivery of public health services in a given community and across the nation. The goal of public health is to prevent disease and promote health.

To that end, take a moment to review your own communities health needs through a purview of current events, your own setting by informally interviewing public health professionals, or reviewing national databases like the ones listed below:

America’s Health Rankings. (2015). Retrieved from http://www.americashealthrankings.org/
The Commonwealth Fund. (2015). Overall Ranking, 2014. Retrieved from http://datacenter.commonwealthfund.org/#ind=1/sc=1

For this discussion, you are asked to do the following:

  1. Describe a significanat health issue in your community or state.
  2. Compare its significance to the national priorities of Healthy People 2020 goals (is it a national priority or just one found in your state/community).
  3. Explain what type of effort it will take to fully address it (leadership skills, financing, organizational buy-in, stakeholders, perceptions, barriers)
  4. Evaluate the efforts YOU can take to address this issue. (As a public health practitioner, what is YOUR role such as: Will you develop, lead or be part of a public health program to address the issue? Will you work on financing, organizational buy-in, stakeholders…what are you going to do to address this concern?)

HEALTH CARE FACILITY

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Combine all three parts of the QI plan into one document, making sure to include instructor feedback. Organize the plan as you would present it to the organization’s board of directors for approval. Use the QI Plan Template as a guide. (950-word)

In the QI Plan Template, complete the following:

  • Evaluate various data collection and display tools used in performance measurement.
  • Evaluate tools used to measure and report data.
  • Analyze various improvement methodologies for integrating quality improvement strategies into performance measurements.
  • Analyze the impact of information technology applications on performance measures.
  • Analyze the use of internal and external benchmarking and milestones in managing the utilization of quality indicators.
  • Evaluate criteria and tasks for developing quality improvement plans.
  • Analyze how performance and quality measures are aligned to the organizations mission, vision, strategic and operational plans.
  • Evaluate strategies for meeting regulatory and accreditation standards within health care organizations.
  • Evaluate measures used to monitor and revise quality program implementation.
  • Evaluate barriers that can interfere with the implementation of quality measures.
  • Evaluate strategies to ensure successful implementation of quality measures. 

Write a 600-word executive summary related to your QI plan which includes an evaluation of the  following:

  • Evaluate the current state of QI at the organization, its organizational and operational QI structure, authority, mission, methodology, and tools used.
  • Recommend how the organization will achieve its objectives over the long term.
  • Evaluate challenges that may impact the future of health care quality improvement.
  • Evaluate effect of health care quality improvement on operational and financial performance.

Format your paper according to APA guidelines.

Cite 6 peer-reviewed, scholarly, or similar references to support your paper.

IMPORTANCE OF BEING LIABLE IN HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION

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Imagine you have been working for a health care organization for an extended period of time. It is clear that you have a wealth of information about the accountability and liability that individuals and organizations should be aware of. You have been asked to create an informational handout for new employees to inform them of the importance of being an accountable and liable individual in a health care organization.

Select a representative from the health care industry below, who will represent the perspective of your paper:

  • Long-term care manager
  • Physician’s front office manager
  • Billing specialist

Create a 1,050- to 1,400-word pamphlet that conveys the following information:

  • Evaluate accountability and liability implications for individuals and organizations in the health care industry.
    • Evaluate standards of care and potential liability for health care professionals and organizations.
    • Evaluate the status of provider rights and responsibilities in the delivery of health care.
    • Evaluate the state and federal statutory and regulatory enactments relative to patient rights and responsibilities.
    • Evaluate various forms of health care fraud.
    • Evaluate civil and criminal penalties associated with fraudulent activities.
    • Analyze the legal and ethical implications of using technology in the health care industry.

Format your assignment consistent with APA guidelines.

Leadership for health professionals

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Leadership for health professionals

Analyze and Apply Dashboard Data

Create a presentation (maximum of 20 slides with detailed speaker notes) for senior leadership in which four organizational leaders analyze the impact of a health care organization’s new safety and quality dashboard. Include an analysis of what the new metrics mean and how they will inform departmental activities for the next quarter.

“Being in a position of leadership is the most important job of any health professional anywhere along the continuum of care” (Ledlow & Coppola, 2013, p. 3). Leaders and ultimately the boards of directors of health care organizations are accountable for the safety of those they serve.” National quality organizations and regulatory bodies … are growing in their emphasis on leadership accountabilities for safe, reliable care as well as excellence in the experience of care” (Youngberg, 2013, p. 39)Leadership for health professionals.

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With this emphasis on leadership accountability for the delivery of safe, high-quality health care services, health care leaders need to be able to drill down on what exactly safety and quality mean in the health care environment. Likewise, they also need to be able to design measures that help to ensure their organizations are able to deliver those kinds of outcomes. Read Measurement Perspectives attached to question [PDF]to examine key elements related to this issue.

In this final course assessment, you will have a unique opportunity to examine a health care organization’s safety and quality dashboard from the perspective of four organizational leaders. You will explore each leader’s specific interests regarding patient safety and quality. In particular, you will have the opportunity to perform a more in-depth analysis of the dashboard, the type of analysis a quality director might perform to further the organization’s safety and quality objectives Leadership for health professionals.

References

Ledlow, G. R., & Coppola, M. N. (2013). Leadership for health professionals (2nd ed.). Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning.

Youngberg, B. J. (2013). Patient safety handbook (2nd ed.). Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning.

Demonstration of Proficiency

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

  • Competency 1: Analyze the quality and performance improvement activities within the health care organization.
    • Recommend evidence-based actions to improve a selected measure on a health care organization’s safety and quality dashboard.
  • Competency 2: Explain the risk management function in the health care organization.
    • Analyze areas of a safety and quality dashboard of concern to a risk manager.
  • Competency 3: Analyze the importance of patient safety in health care.
    • Describe how a health care organization chooses the metrics to include in its safety and quality dashboard.
    • Analyze areas of a safety and quality dashboard of concern to a patient safety officer. Leadership for health professionals
  • Competency 4: Apply leadership strategies to quality improvement in a health care organization.
    • Assess senior leadership’s role in setting a health care organization’s strategic safety and quality objectives.
  • Competency 5: Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and respectful of the diversity, dignity, and integrity of others and is consistent with health care professionals.
    • Create a clear, organized, persuasive, and generally error-free presentation on a leadership team’s assessment of an organization’s safety and quality dashboard that is reflective of professional communication in the health care field.
    • Provide citations and title and reference pages that conform to APA style and format  Leadership for health professionals

Preparation

To help prepare for successfully completing this assessment:

  • Download the Sample Presentation Guide [PPTX]. Use this as a starting point or guide as you develop your presentation.

Instructions

Your organization has just updated its safety and quality dashboard. Please review the Vila Health Mercy Hospital Safety and Quality Dashboard Attached to this question [PDF]. Note: You do not need to create a dashboard for this assessment. You are simply being asked to work with the one provided.

The CEO has asked each of the organizational leaders below to prepare a joint PowerPoint presentation. In it, they are to prepare a set of slides outlining their analysis of how the new numbers will inform their particular activities for the next quarter. The organizational leaders include:

  • The quality director.
  • The patient safety officer.
  • The risk manager.
  • Senior leadership.

Because of the quality director’s critical role in implementing the organization’s safety and quality strategic objectives, this individual will open the presentation and provide additional background about how the new dashboard was developed. This individual will also close the presentation. Use the following outline to organize your presentation. Be sure to include the introduction and conclusion and address all the questions listed under these headings. Also be sure to address each role and the corresponding questions Leadership for health professionals.

Introduction (3–4 slides)
  • What is a safety and quality dashboard?
  • What role do safety and quality dashboards play in helping health care organizations drive their strategic safety and quality objectives?
  • How do health care organization determine what they want to measure? Be sure to consider:
    • Pressures from regulators, payors, and the industry.
    • Self-identified improvement areas. For example, one organization’s safety and quality dashboard may highlight patient falls because its rate of falls is higher than the national average. This may also have resulted in increased costs to the organization.
  • What CQI tools did the organization use to obtain, measure, and report data?
  • What was the quality improvement team’s role in addressing the reported measures? Leadership for health professionals
Quality Director (2–3 slides)
  • Which metric on the dashboard would draw the quality director’s attention the most?
  • What does this dashboard metric mean and why is it important?
  • What three recommendations to leadership would help to address this metric?
  • What (if any) quality models could be used to increase the quality of patient care and outcomes for this metric? Consider PDCA, Six Sigma, Lean, Hoshin Kanri planning, et cetera.
Patient Safety Officer (2–3 slides)
  • Which metric on the dashboard would draw the patient safety officer’s attention the most?
  • What does this dashboard metric mean and why is it important?
  • What role does the patient safety officer play in improving this metric?
Risk Manager (2–3 slides)
  • Which metric on the dashboard would draw the risk manager’s attention the most?
  • What does this dashboard metric mean and why is it important?
  • What role does the risk manager play in improving this metric?
Senior Leader (1 slide)
  • What is the role of senior leadership (for example, CEO, COO, president, senior VP) in driving safety and quality improvement initiatives?
  • What next steps might senior leadership take given the dashboard findings and the quality director’s three improvement recommendations?
Conclusion (2–3 slides)
  • Which regulatory agency(ies) may be concerned about the findings in this dashboard?
  • Why would regulators be concerned about these findings?
  • Why are safety and quality dashboards important for monitoring key metrics in health care organizations? Leadership for health professionals

Your slides need to be concise and offer main ideas in bulleted format. Use the speaker notes to expand upon your findings as if they were the transcript of your presentation for the leadership team.

In the health care environment, it is unlikely for a presentation and speaker notes to be in APA style. Do make sure they are concise, organized, clear, and free of errors in grammar, punctuation, and spelling. Do make sure they address all the required headings and all of the questions under each heading.

Your senior leaders will want to know the sources of your information. Be sure to cite your sources in APA style in your speaker notes Leadership for health professionals.

Additional Requirements

  • Presentation length: Your presentation should be a maximum of 20 slides, including title and reference slides. Format your title and reference slides according to APA format.
  • Speaker notes: Be sure to include these with your slides. They provide an opportunity for you to expand on the information you are highlighting in your slides.
  • Number of references: Cite a minimum of two references.
  • Scoring Guide: Please read the scoring guide for this assessment so you understand how your faculty member is going to evaluate your work Leadership for health professionals.

HEALTH STATUS

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Analyze the health status of a specific minority group. Select a minority group that is represented in the United States (examples include: American Indian/Alaskan Native, Asian American, Black or African American, Hispanic or Latino, Native Hawaiian, or Pacific Islander.)

In an essay of 750-1,000 words, compare and contrast the health status of the minority group you have selected to the national average. Consider the cultural, socioeconomic, and sociopolitical barriers to health. How do race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and education influence health for the minority group you have selected? Address the following in your essay:

  1. What is the current health status of this minority group?
  2. How is health promotion defined by the group?
  3. What health disparities exist for this group?

Describe at least one approach using the three levels of health promotion prevention (primary, secondary, and tertiary) that is likely to be the most effective given the unique needs of the minority group you have selected. Provide an explanation of why it might be the most effective choice. Cite a minimum of three references in the paper.

You will find important health information regarding minority groups by exploring the following Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) links:

  1. Minority Health: http://www.cdc.gov/minorityhealth/index.html
  2. Racial and Ethnic Minority Populations: http://www.cdc.gov/minorityhealth/populations/remp.html

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

Case Study Analysis

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Case Study Analysis

In your Case Study Analysis related to the scenario provided, explain the following: (2 page minimum required) Explanations need to reflect the given scenario.

  • The factors that affect fertility (STDs).
  • Why inflammatory markers rise in STD/PID.
  • Why prostatitis and infection happens. Also explain the causes of systemic reaction.
  • Why a patient would need a splenectomy after a diagnosis of ITP.
  • Anemia and the different kinds of anemia (i.e., micro and macrocytic)Case Study Analysis.

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Scenario: A 32-year-old female presents to the ED with a chief complaint of fever, chills, nausea, vomiting, and vaginal discharge. She states these symptoms started about 3 days ago, but she thought she had the flu. She has begun to have LLQ pain and notes bilateral lower back pain. She denies dysuria, foul-smelling urine, or frequency. States she is married and has sexual intercourse with her husband. PMH negative.

Labs: CBC-WBC 18, Hgb 16, Hct 44, Plat 325, ­ Neuts & Lymphs, sed rate 46 mm/hr, C-reactive protein 67 mg/L CMP wnl

Vital signs T 103.2 F Pulse 120 Resp 22 and PaO2 Case Study Analysis

99% on room air.

Cardio-respiratory exam WNL with the exception of tachycardia but no murmurs, rubs, clicks, or gallops.

Abdominal exam + for LLQ pain on deep palpation but no rebound or rigidity.

Pelvic exam demonstrates copious foul-smelling green drainage with reddened cervix and + bilateral adenexal tenderness. + chandelier sign. Wet prep in ER + clue cells and gram stain in ER + gram negative diplococci Case Study Analysis

Advancing Health Paper

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Advancing Health Paper

The Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) landmark publication – The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health has significantly changed the nursing profession. Review the IOM 2010 Report – The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health. Identify and discuss one (1) example of the impact the Future of Nursing report has had on the Advanced Practice Nurse role – Clinician, Educator, Researcher, Administrator, Entrepreneur, Consultant, or Leader. IOM Report Retrieved August 20, 2018 from The Future of Nursing

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*Note: You can read the book online or download a free PDF copy. See the right side of the website. Do not purchase the book Advancing Health Paper.

Additional Resource:

Campaign for action. (2018). Progress continues on IOM future of nursing report recommendations. Retrieved August 20, 2018 from https://campaignforaction.org/progress-continues-iom-future-nursing-report-recommendations/

Expectations

Initial Post:

  • Length: A minimum of 250 words, not including references
  • Citations: At least one high-level scholarly reference in APA from within the last 5 years Advancing Health Paper

Case Study On Death And Dying

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Case Study On Death And Dying

The practice of health care providers at all levels brings you into contact with people from a variety of faiths. This calls for knowledge and understanding of a diversity of faith expressions; for the purpose of this course, the focus will be on the Christian worldview.

Based on “Case Study: End of Life Decisions,” (attached) the Christian worldview, and the worldview questions presented in the required topic study materials you will complete an ethical analysis of George’s situation and his decision from the perspective of the Christian worldview. Case Study On Death And Dying

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Provide a 1,500 word ethical analysis while answering the following questions:

  1. How would George interpret his suffering in light of the Christian narrative, with an emphasis on the fallenness of the world?
  2. How would George interpret his suffering in light of the Christian narrative, with an emphasis on the hope of resurrection?
  3. As George contemplates life with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), how would the Christian worldview inform his view about the value of his life as a person?
  4. What sorts of values and considerations would the Christian worldview focus on in deliberating about whether or not George should opt for euthanasia?
  5. Given the above, what options would be morally justified in the Christian worldview for George and why?
  6. Based on your worldview, what decision would you make if you were in George’s situation? Case Study On Death And Dying

Remember to support your responses with the topic study materials. (Chapter 4 from Practicing Dignity.

URL:https://www.gcumedia.com/digital-resources/grand-canyon-university/2020/practicing-dignity_an-introduction-to-christian-values-and-decision-making-in-health-care_1e.php)

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

An abstract is required. An abstract for me is at the beginning of the paper on a separate page telling the reader where you the writer intend to take us in this paper.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please 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 Case Study On Death And Dying.