Role of Technology in Long-Term Care

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Role of Technology in Long-Term Care

Using the South University Online Library and the Internet, find three articles describing the role technology will play in addressing the challenges ahead in long-term care. Summarize your findings and based on your learning, respond to the following questions:

  • Which challenges in long-term care system remain unmet? Why?
  • What changes can we expect to occur with the influx of baby boomers entering into the long-term care system?
  • Why do you think technology is important to long-term care? Support your answer with relevant examples.
  • What are the pros and cons of the implementation of technology in long-term care? Consider both providers and consumers while describing.
  • How does technology improve the type and quality of care received by long-term care consumers?
  • How important is the commitment by top management for the use of information technology in long-term care to be successful? Why?
  • How can the challenges be proactively addressed as opposed to being reactive? Role of Technology in Long-Term Care

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Legal and Ethical Issues: Case Study

Cathy Smith, an eighty-eight-year-old woman, was admitted to the emergency room from the nursing facility with acute respiratory distress. Although Smith does not have a living will, her daughter Rose, a health care professional, has the power of attorney (POA) to make her mother’s health decisions.

Smith suffers from end-stage Alzheimer’s disease and recently experienced congestive heart failure. Her condition is alarming. The doctors want to place her on life-support equipment, including a ventilator. Smith’s son, Andrew, agrees with the doctor’s decision. However, Rose states her mother would never want to be placed on life-support machines to prolong her life.

Analyze the scenario and answer the following questions:

  • What are the autonomy-beneficial conflicts between Rose and Andrew related to placing their mother on life support in this case? Who has the right to make the decision on behalf of the client? Why?
  • What are the ethical issues related to the competency and decision-making capacity of the client while making the health care decisions? Do these issues impact the services offered in long-term care? How?
  • What are some of the critical issues related to informed consent? Who has the right to assume this responsibility? Why? Role of Technology in Long-Term Care

Application: Developing a Health Advocacy Campaign (continued): Ethical Considerations

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Application: Developing a Health Advocacy Campaign (continued): Ethical Considerations

The final application builds upon the applications (Parts One and Two) completed in weeks 4 and 7.

Week 10 Application

To complete the final section of your paper:

  • Review provisions 7, 8, and 9 of the ANA Code of Ethics in relation to advocacy for population health.
  • Reflect on the ethical considerations you may need to take into account in your advocacy campaign.

  • Research the ethical considerations and lobbying laws relevant to the location where your advocacy campaign will occur.
  • Consider potential ethical dilemmas you might face in your campaign.

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To complete: Revise and combine Part one (week 4 application) and Part Two (week 7 application) with Part Three below.

  • Explain any ethical dilemmas that could arise during your advocacy campaign, and how you would resolve them.
  • Describe the ethics and lobbying laws that are applicable to your advocacy campaign.
  • Evaluate the special ethical challenges that are unique to the population you are addressing.
  • Provide a cohesive summary for your paper.

Reminder: You will submit one cogent paper that combines the previous applications from weeks 4 and 7 plus the new material mentioned in the week 8 application. Your paper should be about 10 pages of content, not including the title page and references. Be sure to paste the rubric at the end of your paper Application: Developing a Health Advocacy Campaign (continued): Ethical Considerations.

Curriculum Development

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Curriculum Development

Develop a 2,100-word paper including a lesson plan (lesson plan is included in word count) for an education program that is intended for a particular target audience.  Include learning needs and characteristics of the target audience, outcome objectives including two of the three categories from Bloom’s Taxonomy of analysis, synthesis or evaluation levels.  Include content that will be taught, teaching methods/strategies, evaluation of these methods, and rationale for using each of the teaching methods and evaluation methods. — Use attached week 2 assignment in developing the word paper and lesson plan Curriculum Development.

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Include in your paper:

a)    Identification of the educational need and rationale.

b)    Identification and discussion of instructional design methods, learner characteristics, and learning theory to support the methods chosen

c)     Identification and discussion of outcome objectives from Bloom’s Taxonomy

d)    Identification and discussion of competencies needed to achieve the identified outcomes

e)    Identification and discussion of evaluation methods.

Include  your lesson plan: (use the table format as shown below)

a) Well formulated outcome objective using higher cognitive outcomes from Bloom’s Taxonomy

b) Goals/learner outcomes for the lesson that relate to the learning objective

c) Instructional methods to be used for delivery.

d)    Instructional materials and resources to be used (articles, videos, handouts, etc).

e)Time frame allocated for teaching each learning objective Curriculum Development

Outcome objective: Write your higher level objective here 
Learner Goals/Outcomes Write your learner goals here Content Outline Provide an outline of the content you plan to teach here Method of Instruction Identify what method of instruction you will use to teach here Time Frame Identify how much time each segment of teaching will take Resources  What resources will you use to aid in your teaching? Method of Evaluation How will you evaluate whether your learners met their objectives?

ROLE OF HEALTH ADMINISTRATION

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ROLE OF HEALTH ADMINISTRATION

Working on the same two facilities that you identified in W3 Assignment 2, prepare a 8- to 10-page report in a Microsoft Word document including the following:

  • Describe the roles and responsibilities of the administration in each department of your chosen facilities.
  • Identify and list the sources of financing available to consumers for the various programs provided by your chosen facilities. Identify the key public and private sources of reimbursement available. Also discuss the role played by managed care and its impact on long-term care reimbursement.
  • Describe the various government and private resources available that assist in developing and maintaining quality improvement programs in your chosen facilities. Describe the ways in which quality and cost are controlled in your chosen facilities. Also discuss the ethical aspect of access to care in the facilities, including rationing ROLE OF HEALTH ADMINISTRATION.

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Based on your observations and learning from the two facilities, discuss the changes brought in the long-term care system to make it reach full status as a competition-driven system. You may include the following points in your discussion:

  • Discuss the changes made in the control mechanisms (external and internal) in order to control the management, financing, and quality in the long-term care systems.
  • Discuss the changes taking place in long-term care reimbursement system in order to provide better reimbursement options both to consumers and providers.
  • Discuss the changes made in the efforts of providers to accommodate changing magnitude of the day-to-day needs of long-term care consumers.

Support your responses with examples.

Cite any sources in APA format ROLE OF HEALTH ADMINISTRATION.

Healthcare for Women

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Healthcare for Women

In a 4- to 5-page Microsoft Word document, express your views on the following:

  • Describe at least three (community, state, or national) organizations that are committed to improving access to healthcare for women and minorities. Also, identify the primary stakeholders of each organization as well as their target audiences.
  • Describe the mission statement of each organization and discuss the activities that each organization practices to decrease the barriers to healthcare access for women and/or minorities.
  • Are these strategies effective? Why or why not? If you were to design an intervention to address barriers to healthcare access who would your target audience be and why? What strategies would your intervention include? Healthcare for Women

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Support your responses with examples.

Cite any sources in APA format.

Understanding cultural phenomena is essential to the completion of an accurate and holistic health assessment. Please review a cultural group from Table 2-3 (p. 20) from your text and describe the cultural differences pertinent to that group (you may have to do some additional searching). Remember, the table may not include all cultural groups. Let’s try to include all the countries within the groups listed in the discussion, so please do not choose a group that has already been done. To expedite this, please use the group name in the title of your post.

Reference Require:

Jarvis, C. (2016). Physical examination & health assessment (7th ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Saunders.

  • Chapter 1: Evidence-Based Assessment 
  • Chapter 2: Cultural Competence: Cultural Care 
  • Chapter 4: The Complete Health History

Healthy People 2020: http://www.healthypeople.gov Healthcare for Women

The Process of Bench marking

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The Process of Bench marking

In order to be competitive in health care markets, organizations must ensure that the services they provide are consistent in pricing and quality with other comparable organizations. In this Discussion, you will examine how the process of benchmarking, or comparing organizations, is important in financial decision making.

To prepare:

Review the information on benchmarking found in this week’s Learning Resources.

Search the Walden Library or other reliable resources on the Internet and locate a journal article discussing how a health care organization has used the principle of benchmarking.

How could the concept of benchmarking be used in your own organization (or one with which you are familiar), regardless of size? The Process of Bench marking

Consider how benchmarking could be useful to you in decision making.

Analyze the potential risks of making a faulty comparison.

Post a summary of the article you found (including the APA reference) and explain how it informed your understanding of benchmarking. Discuss how benchmarking could be used for financial decision making in your own organization (or one with which you are familiar). Also analyze the potential risks of making comparisons with an organization that is not a credible match with your own.

And

Respond to at least two of your colleagues on two different days. Comment on a colleague with different options than your own. Describe what you like about their options and if you agree with their rankings. Justify your answers.

(I will send the responses soon)

Required Readings

Baker, J., & Baker, R. W. (2014). Health care finance: Basic tools for nonfinancial managers (4th ed.). Burlington, MA: Jones and Bartlett Learning.

Chapter 13, “Trend Analysis, Common Sizing, and Forecasted Data” (pp. 143–155)

The focus of this chapter is the use of trend analysis and forecasting to develop future budgets and make financial decisions about capital purchases, programs, and personnel.

Chapter 14, “Using Comparative Data” (pp. 157–169)

In this chapter, you are introduced to the criteria for identifying other health care organizations that are comparable to your own. Data from these organizations can then be used to evaluate your own organizational performance.

Chapter 18, “Estimates, Benchmarking, and Other Measurement Tools” (pp. 215–224) The Process of Bench marking

In this chapter, you continue exploring the concept of financial benchmarking. The chapter focuses on the importance of benchmarking for identifying performance gaps.

Zelman, W., McCue, M., & Glick, N. (2009). Financial management of health care organizations: An introduction to fundamental tools, concepts, and applications (3rd ed.). Hoboken, NJ: Jossey-Bass. 

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Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.

Chapter 5, “Working Capital Management” (pp. 187–231)

This chapter examines the concept of working capital. The authors explore the specifics of current assets and the management of the working capital cycle.

Chapter 11, “Responsibility Accounting” (pp. 468–497)

Review: This chapter explores the trend toward the decentralization of health care organizations and the challenges this presents. This chapter also describes responsibility centers, or organizational units intended to achieve specific tasks.

 Mulva, S., & Dai, J. (2009) Health care facility benchmarking. HERD, 3(1), 28–37.

Reprinted by permission of Sage Publications via the Copyright Clearance Center.

This article describes a national health care facility’s benchmarking program. It is designed to compare measures of capital project performance.

 Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. (2013). Measuring and benchmarking clinical performance. Retrieved from www.ahrq.gov

 Ettorchi-Tardy, A., Levif, M., & Michel, P. (2012). Benchmarking: A Method for Continuous Quality Improvement in Health. Healthcare Policy, e101-e119. Retrieved fromhttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3359088/

 Document: Week 10 Application Assignment Template (Excell Spreadsheet)

Required Media

Laureate Education (Producer). (2012). Expense forecasting. Baltimore, MD: Author. 

Note:  The approximate length of this media piece is 5 minutes.

In this video, Dr. William Ward discusses expense forecasting and demonstrates how to perform trend analysis, staff forecasting, comparative data analysis, and capacity forecasting. The Process of Bench marking

Accessible player  

 Laureate Education (Producer). (2015). Week 10 Application Assignment Tutorial: Benefit Cost Ratio. Baltimore, MD: Author.

 Laureate Education (Producer). (2015). Week 10 Application Assignment Tutorial: Breakeven Analysis. Baltimore, MD: Author. 

 Laureate Education (Producer). (2015). Week 10 Application Assignment Tutorial: Expense Forecasting. Baltimore, MD: Author. 

 Laureate Education (Producer). (2015). Week 10 Application Assignment Tutorial: Profit and Loss Scenario. Baltimore, MD: Author. 

Optional Resources

 Hurlock J. (2012). Get to know Excel 2010: Create your first spreadsheet. Retrieved from http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/get-to-know-excel-2010-create-your-first-spreadsheet-RZ101773335.aspx

 Goodwill Community Foundation, Inc. (n.d.). Excel 2010. Retrieved from http://www.gcflearnfree.org/excel2010 The Process of Bench marking

HEALTH PROBLEM STATEMENT

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In the Week 1 discussion forum you had an opportunity to present a potential problem and an innovative solution specific to your role specialization. In addition, you have reviewed the literature to identify qualitative and quantitative research articles and submitted annotated bibliographies to provide evidence supporting the problem.

Considering the feedback provided to you by the faculty member it is now time to prepare your problem statement, research purpose, and research question. HEALTH PROBLEM STATEMENT 

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First share your refined problem and proposed solution (given your review of literature this may have changed depending on the evidence you were able to provide). Next, follow the steps to help define your research question.

  1. Craft the problem statement and research purpose.
  2. Design your research question aimed at solving (a part of) the problem and include the following components which will focus the literature review.

PICOT Question:

Patient, Population or Problem

  1. What are the characteristics of the patient or population?
  2. What is the condition or disease you are interested in? HEALTH PROBLEM STATEMENT

Intervention or exposure

  1. What do you want to do with this patient (e.g. treat, diagnose, observe)? HEALTH PROBLEM STATEMENT

Comparison

  1. What is the alternative to the intervention (e.g. placebo, different drug, surgery)? HEALTH PROBLEM STATEMENT

Outcome

  1. What are the relevant outcomes (e.g. morbidity, death, complications)? HEALTH PROBLEM STATEMENT

3.   Ensure that the research question is answerable, feasible and clinically relevant

Community Based Nursing

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Read the below scenario and answer the questions that follow: Nursing services are an important part in caring for the patients and providing them the relief they need. From patients with chronic health conditions to patients who need elder care, nursing has proved itself as an important aspect. People now prefer sending their elder parents to a day-care nurses for nursing services. Community Based Nursing 

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  • How often have you come across the terms public health nursing, community health nursing, and community based nursing in your environment? Do you think it is a good idea to distinguish between them? Justify your answer.
  • Compare the nursing codes of ethics for your specialty practice, national, and international practice areas. How do they differ? Does it make sense to have more than one code of ethics for nurses? Give reasons for your point of view. Community Based Nursing 

Role of the Community Health Nurse Obtain a job description for a community health nurse or interview a public health nurse to answer the following questions: Community Based Nursing 

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  • Which concept of public health nursing does their practice reflect?
  • Which concept is emphasized in their job description?
  • Does a correlation exist between their job description and their practice?
  • Are the nurses involved in policy formulation that affects client services?
  • In the settings you have observed, which concept (in your opinion) is the most effective for implementation? What is your rationale? Community Based Nursing 

Qualitative Research Critique

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Some of the most significant current information on patient care in nursing comes from scholarly, peer-reviewed journals, and articles. Within this category of information sources, we can further divide studies into qualitative and quantitative sources, each with their own set of methods and standards. Within each of these categories, nurses must be able to differentiate between sources of published data that are used to develop evidence-based practice.

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For this assignment, you will: Qualitative Research Critique 

  • Choose a topic, issue, or a phenomenon that informs nursing practice and has been researched qualitatively.
  • Select one nursing qualitative research article, published in a peer-reviewed journal, on your chosen topic and follow the steps below:
    • Summarize the research study to including the following:
      • Purpose.
      • Study design.
      • Setting.
      • Data collection methods.
      • Data analysis methods.
    • Critique the study in a narrative format addressing each of the following questions:
      • Is the problem significant to nursing and health care?
      • How will it generate or refine knowledge in nursing practice?
      • Was the review of background literature provided?
      • What topics or concepts were discussed in the review of literature?
      • Were ethical standards for research followed and how?
      • What do the findings of the study add to the current body of knowledge? Qualitative Research Critique

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    • Conclusion:
      • Explain how the study will inform your practice or the practice of professional nursing.
      • Prepare the critique.
      • Follow APA style guidelines.
      • 4-6 pages
      • Use 12-point Times New Roman font.
      • Include a title and reference page.
      • Use the following subheadings:
        1. Summary.
        2. Critique.
        3. Conclusion.
  • State your conclusions about how the study did or did not advance nursing knowledge in terms of building an evidence-based practice (EBP). Keep in mind that it takes more than one study to provide a knowledge base for EBP, but this exercise will give you an idea of how the process works. Qualitative Research Critique 
  • Cite all references using APA style and formatting guidelines.

SCORING GUIDE TO FOLLOW:

Criteria Non-performance Basic Proficient Distinguished
Discuss the professional perspective for selection of the qualitative research study.
19% 		Does not discuss the professional perspective for selection of the qualitative research study. Identifies the topic used for the qualitative research study selected. Discusses the professional perspective for selection of the qualitative research study. Discusses the professional perspective for selection of the qualitative study and the anticipated application to the profession.
Summarize the purpose, study design, data collection and analysis methods for the qualitative research study.
19% 		Does not summarize the purpose, study design, data collection and analysis methods for the qualitative research study. Summarizes some of the basic elements of the selected qualitative research study. Summarizes the purpose, study design, data collection and analysis methods for the qualitative research study. Summarizes the purpose, study design, data collection and analysis methods for the qualitative research study including how the literature review was conducted.
Critically analyze the significance of the study and the contribution to nursing and health care.
19% 		Does not critically analyze the significance of the study and the contribution to nursing and health care. Provides a basic overview of the study and relation to nursing and health care. Critically analyzes the significance of the study and the contribution to nursing and health care. Critically analyzes the significance of the study and the contribution to nursing and health care including actual and potential populations served.
Discuss the review of literature, ethical standards and findings of the study.
19% 		Does not discuss the review of literature, ethical standards and findings of the study. Provides a basic overview of literature reviewed, ethical standards and findings of the study. Discusses the review of literature, ethical standards and findings of the study. Discusses the review of literature, ethical standards and findings of the study including limitations and potential alternate explanations for the findings.
Explain how the study will inform current practice and the future of nursing practice.
19% 		Does not explain how the study will inform current practice and the future of nursing practice. Explains how the study relates to nursing practice. Explains how the study will inform current practice and the future of nursing practice. Explains how the study will inform current practice and the future of nursing practice and inter-professional collaboration.
Effectively communicates by integrating research into written documents that follow APA format, as well as the consistent use of grammar, punctuation, and mechanics expected of a nursing professional.
5% 		Does not effectively communicate by integrating research into written documents that follow APA format, as well as the consistent use of grammar, punctuation, and mechanics expected of a nursing professional. Communicates by integrating research into written documents that lack consistency in APA format, grammar, punctuation, and mechanics expected of a nursing professional. Effectively communicates by integrating research into written documents that follow APA format, as well as the consistent use of grammar, punctuation, and mechanics expected of a nursing professional. Effectively communicates by integrating research into written documents that follow APA format, as well as the consistent use of grammar, punctuation, and mechanics expected of a nursing professional and leade

Developing a Strategic Plan

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Strategic planning involves reciprocity of analysis and action. Over the previous weeks of this course, you have been examining foundational elements of the strategic planning process. As you move forward, you will apply these concepts to the development of a strategic plan.

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Through the Course Project, you will identify an unmet need within a group, unit, or organization and develop a comprehensive strategic plan to address the need. You will develop your project over the next several weeks, culminating in Last week.

Note: Your complete project will serve as your Portfolio Assignment for this course.

To prepare for the upcoming work on this project:

Review the Course Project Overview in this week’s Learning Resources to become familiar with the project components and due dates.

Reflect on the trends addressed in this week’s Discussion. Think about which of these trends, or any additional ones, stand out as being particularly relevant to your own interests and the professional contributions you would like to make now and in the future. Developing a Strategic Plan 

Think about how one or more of these trends relates to an unmet need evident in a specific group, unit, or organization. For example, you might choose the unit in which you currently work or a professional association to which you belong. Developing a Strategic Plan 

Consider how you could address this unmet need through strategic planning. What is your vision and goal(s)?

Begin to analyze historical data and engage in forecasting to investigate opportunities for change.

Course Project: Developing a Strategic Plan

Section 1: Summary of the Issue

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To prepare for and set the stage for your Course Project, this week you begin to develop a summary of the issue you will address through the creation of a strategic plan.

You may wish to review the Course Project Overview, which outlines the project components and due dates.

To prepare:

Consider the information on strategic planning presented by Dr. Huston in this week’s media program, as well as in the other Learning Resources.

Reflect on the unmet need you identified in this week’s Discussion, and consider any feedback you have received to your posting from your Instructor and colleagues. If appropriate, refine your focus to clarify the unmet need.

In addition to the steps you took in preparation for the Discussion, proceed as follows:

Investigate the background related to this unmet need. What conditions have contributed to this situation? Is there data (beyond what you identified for the Discussion) that should be examined?

Conduct research to assess what has been attempted in the past, by various individuals or organizations, to address this unmet need.

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Think about any broader issues that should be examined to better understand this unmet need. For instance, consider economic, political, and/or social considerations.

Begin to draft your 2- to 3-page summary of the Issue (which will be submitted next week). In your summary, identify and/or describe:

  • The unmet need and how it is evident in the specific group, unit, or organization
  • The mission, vision, and values of the group, unit, or organization
  • Background, including:
  • Data from historical analysis and forecasting
  • Evidence from the literature
  • What has been attempted in the past by various individuals and groups to address this need
  • Which stakeholders should be included in the strategic planning process
  • Initial vision for addressing this need at the organizational or systems level, including at least one strategic goal
  • Broader issues to be considered

Section 2: SWOT Analysis

Conducting a SWOT analysis can have tremendous value in preparing for planned change.

To prepare:

  • Conduct a SWOT analysis for your Course Project, incorporating any insights you have gained from this week’s Discussion. Identify two strengths, two weaknesses, two opportunities, and two threats that warrant attention relative to the identified unmet need.
  • Reflect on how you distinguished between weaknesses and threats and consider whether the threats or weaknesses also pose opportunities.

To complete:

Write a 2- to 3-page summary that conveys the results of your SWOT analysis. Include:

  • Two strengths
  • Two weaknesses
  • Two opportunities
  • Two threats
  • An explanation of whether the threats or weaknesses also pose opportunities

So, in nutshell you need to submit,

Submit:

Section 1: Summary of the Issue (2–3 pages)

Section 2: SWOT Analysis (2–3 pages)

Please use the Refetrences from the week 5 6 and 7 Discussion Posts.

Minimum of 4 references in each section papers.

Just to summarize, there are two papers to be submitted, section 1 and section 2. These are part of project that will be the final submission as a portfolio assignemnt.