Discussion indicate the value of planning. Whether it is planning your classwork, planning dinner for your family, planning for a major purchase, or planning to run a health care organization, the main point is the same.

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The six Ps in the title of this Discussion indicate the value of planning. Whether it is planning your classwork, planning dinner for your family, planning for a major purchase, or planning to run a health care organization, the main point is the same. When you analyze the situation and plan ahead, as well as check your resources and your progress, you go a lot further toward achieving your personal and professional goals.

To prepare for this Discussion, think about the elements of strategic planning in health care settings.

Post a comprehensive response to the following:

Using specific examples and support from your Learning Resources, identify the benefits and challenges of strategic planning in health care for each of the following:

  • Patient
  • Managers
  • Providers (physicians, nurses, and allied health professionals)
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ASSIGNMENT DUE SUNDAY BY 11:59PM- 2 OR 3 PAPERS NOT INCLUDING THE REFERENCE PAGE (ALL REFERENCE HAS TO BE CITED IN ASSIGNMENT)

To prepare for this Assignment, select one Strategic Plan from the two listed below and find another plan online or through the Walden University Library”s Gale Virtual Reference Library. Feel free to use the optional links to other Strategic Plans listed below or find your own. Be sure you include the link to the second Strategic Plan in your Assignment. If you work in a health care setting, you can ask for a copy of the Strategic Plan from your organization.

Strategic Plans

Minnesota Department of Veterans Affairs MN Veterans Homes Strategic Plan 2008″2013

Home Again Assisted Living

Links to Other Strategic Plans (optional)

Seattle Children’s Hospital: Laying the Foundation for the Next 100 Years
http://www.seattlechildrens.org/about/strategic-plan/

Trillium Health Centre’s Strategic Plan 2009/10-2011/12
http://trilliumhealthpartners.ca/strategy/public/Pages/Strategic-Plan-2013-2018.aspx

Nevada Strategic Health Care Plan
http://www.lyon-county.org/DocumentCenter/View/6294

The Michigan Prisoner Health Care Improvement Project
http://www.michigan.gov/documents/corrections/Health_Care_Strategic_Plan_222384_7.pdf

UC Davis Health System Strategic Plan
http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/aboutus/pdf/strategic_plan_web.pdf

Write a 2- to 3-page paper to compare and evaluate the two Strategic Plans you select. Address the following:

  • How are the strategies different?
  • What are the key elements of each Strategic Plan?
  • Compare the goals and strategies identified in each one. Which plan is likely to be more successful and why?
  • Put yourself in the role of a manager at one or both facilities. What are your responsibilities in ensuring one or both are successful?
  • What barriers are there to successful implementation of the strategies, and how could the manager overcome these barriers?

Be sure to support your work with specific citations from this week’s Learning Resources and additional scholarly sources as appropriate. Refer to the Essential Guide to APA Style for Walden Students to ensure that your in-text citations and reference list are correct.

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RESOURCES

Course Text: Introduction to Healthcare Management

Chapter 1, “Strategic Planning”

In this chapter, you will be introduced to the strategic planning process within health care settings. The author provides insight into the process of identifying a desired future state for a health care organization and planning a means to achieve it.

Chapter 5, “Planning”

Planning is a fundamental task for health care managers. This chapter addresses the role of planning in an organization’s mission and vision, goals and objectives.

Article: Zuckerman, A. (2006). Advancing the state of the art in healthcare strategic planning.Frontiers of Health Services Management, 23(2), 30-15. Retrieved from http://auth.waldenulibrary.org/ezpws.exe?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mnh&AN=17310806&site=ehost-live&scope=site

The author identifies the steps that health care organizations should take to increase the rigor and degree of sophistication of their strategic planning practices to be on par with non-health-related organizations. Current best practices are identified.

Article: Bartling, A. (1997). 25 pitfalls of strategic planning. Healthcare Executive, 12(5), 20-23. Retrieved from  http://auth.waldenulibrary.org/ezpws.exe?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mnh&AN=10170078&site=ehost-live&scope=site

This article identifies 25 pitfalls health care managers can avoid to make strategic planning a stronger tool for their organizations.

Article:  Begun, J., & Kaissi, A. (2005). An exploratory study of healthcare strategic planning in two metropolitan areas. Journal of Healthcare Management / American College of Healthcare Executives, 50(4), 264-274. Retrieved from  http://auth.waldenulibrary.org/ezpws.exe?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mnh&AN=16130809&site=ehost-live&scope=site

Interviews of leaders in 20 health care organizations in two major metropolitan areas provide insight into the value of strategic planning in health care.

Discuss why it is important to report your results to both of these groups. How will your communication strategies change for each group?

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Describe one internal and one external method for the dissemination of your EBP project results. For example, an internal method may be the hospital board, and an external method may be a professional nursing organization. Discuss why it is important to report your results to both of these groups. How will your communication strategies change for each group?

  Summarize preliminary, supporting evidence that provides justification that this problem is meaningful and relevant to the local setting as well as the broader field of nursing practice, citing key scholarly sources.

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Title: Management and prevention of type 2 diabetes

Student Name: Gloria Okoye

Name of program DNP– Name of specialization:

A0028547

INSTRUTIONS:  DNP Project Proposal (20–35 pages, plus references) is a detailed plan for carrying out the DNP Project. The Proposal builds on the approved Premise and will be presented to the DNP Project Committee in written form .

1.Abstract

2.Table of contents

3. Section 1: Nature of the Problem

4:Introduction

5:Background

6:Problem Statement

Provide a one- to two-paragraph statement that establishes the relevance of this problem:

1.     Summarize preliminary, supporting evidence that provides justification that this problem is meaningful and relevant to the local setting as well as the broader field of nursing practice, citing key scholarly sources.

2.     Explicitly state the gap in nursing practice or problem that will be your focus of this doctoral project

7: Problem Statement

8: Purpose Statement; 

9: Project Question

10: Framework for the Project

11: Implications for Social Change

How this will impact social change? Does this project support the mission of Walden University to promote positive social change?

12: Definition of Terms

13: Assumptions

14: Scope and Delimitations

15: Limitations

16: Significance

17: Summary

18: References

Use APA format for this prospectus. Include a minimum of five APA-formatted peer-reviewed references for all citations in the Doctoral Project Prospectus.

Compare one quality metric for managing chronic disease that applies to your practice setting to a metric that applies in a different practice setting (i.e. hospital nurse compared to home health nurse).

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According to the CDC, chronic diseases are the leading cause of death in the United States, with almost 50% of the population suffering from at least one chronic illness. As a result, almost 80% of health care spending is devoted to its management (CDC, 2010). To this end, the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) developed performance measures. These performance measures allow organizations to compare yearly quality improvement outcomes in the management of chronic diseases. As a nurse engaged in advanced practice, you may find yourself at the forefront of prevention and care management efforts.
To prepare:

  • Review      the National Committee for Quality Assurance report, presented in the      Learning Resources, and examine current trends and measures associated      with at least two chronic diseases. This information will form the basis      for this Discussion.
  • Review      examples of measures that address the management of chronic diseases for      an inpatient setting that might not be relevant in an outpatient setting.      Be sure to explore the companion metrics that influence a patient’s      ability to manage chronic disease.
  • Consider      how these metrics facilitate change and improve the management of chronic      disease.
  • Examine      the efficiency of current automated trigger systems for managing patient safety.      Ask yourself: How do these automated trigger systems help improve quality      of health care, patient education, and management of chronic illnesses?

By tomorrow 12/27/2017, write a minimum of 550 words essay in APA format with 2 references from the list below. Include the level one headers as numbered below:

post a cohesive response that addresses the following:

1) Compare one quality metric for managing chronic disease that applies to your practice setting to a metric that applies in a different practice setting (i.e. hospital nurse compared to home health nurse).

2) Evaluate how these quality metrics facilitate change and improve the management of chronic disease.

3) Take a stance on the efficiency of current automated trigger systems to help manage patient safety. Do you believe these to be proactive or reactive responses when educating patients on disease management?

Required Readings

Joshi, M.S., Ransom, E.R., Nash, D.B., & Ransom, S.B., (Eds.). (2014). The Healthcare Quality Book, 3rd ed. Chicago, IL: Health Administration Press.

Chapter 9: “Measuring and Improving Patient Experiences of Care”

Frith, K. H., Anderson, F., & Sewell, J. P. (2010). Assessing and selecting data for a nursing services dashboard. Journal of Nursing Administration, 40(1), 10–16. doi:10.1097/NNA.0b013e3181c47d45

This article highlights the benefits of nurses using dashboards to help with staffing issues. It considers the sharing of data that dashboard can facilitate from the perspectives of nurses, units, hospitals, and patients.

Grossmeier, J., Terry, P. E., Cipriotti, A., & Burtaine, J. E. (2010). Best practices in evaluating worksite health promotion programs. American Journal of Health Promotion, 24(3), TAHP 1–9.

In this article, the authors discuss how to measure success when analyzing worksite health promotion (WHP). They then cover how to organize these measurements, assess WHP programs, and determine factors related to best-practice evaluation frameworks.

Stanley, R., Lillis, K. A., Zuspan, S. J., Lichenstein, R., Ruddy, R. M., Gerardi, M. J., & Dean, J. M. (2010). Development and implementation of a performance measure tool in an academic pediatric research network. Contemporary Clinical Trials, 31(5), 429–437.

The details of this article focus on a multi-center research network that initiated an evaluation method using balanced scorecards. The first three years of the measurement tool’s implementation are covered, and the achievements and challenges are discussed.

Required Media

Laureate Education, Inc. (Executive Producer). (2011). Organizational and systems leadership for quality improvement: Benchmarking outcomes. Baltimore: Author.

Note: The approximate length of this media piece is 10 minutes.

In this program, Barbara Epke and Carrie Brady discuss methods that health care organizations use to gather data for measuring outcomes, and explain how data are used to measure key indicators of quality and safety.

•Describe the current data available and leadership’s goal for improvement.

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Nurses use Quality Indicators (QIs) for several purposes. QIs highlight potential quality concerns, identify areas that need further study and investigation, and track changes over time. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) QIs include Prevention Quality Indicators, Inpatient Quality Indicators, Patient Safety Indicators, and Pediatric Quality Indicators (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, n.d.). You will use these quality indicators within your Assignment. •Draft a 2- to 3-page paper describing your selected QI in general, and then describe how this QI has the potential to improve the quality, safety, and outcomes of your patients and their families. •Describe the current data available and leadership’s goal for improvement. •Draft a solution using 2 sources from professional and scholarly literature to support your proposal. •Use the 2000/3000 AWE Level Assignment Template in the resources for this week to complete your Assignment. •Use in-text citations to support your paper. Use essay-level writing skills, including the use of transitional material and organizational frames. APA citation. Prefer any quality indicators related to percutaneous coronary intervention or acute myocardial infarction

Describe at least one quality-related measure that is currently being monitored within the organization.

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 Post a definition of quality for your selected organization. Describe at least one quality-related measure that is currently being monitored within the organization. Summarize the data collection process for this measure, and explain how this information is communicated to or among the staff. Identify at least one strength and one weakness related to how quality is defined, measured, and/or monitored within the organization.

Reflect on your specialty of interest and your practicum experience. What key topics, processes, best practices, advancements, and technologies have you seen or heard about?

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Revisit Miriam, the graduate nurse whose specialty area is critical care. As Miriam’s practicum experience proceeds, she is increasingly interested in new technology and best practices in the care of acutely ill patients. Looking ahead to her work as a nurse educator, Miriam has begun researching scholarly articles on new developments in critical care. Her purpose is to both expand her own knowledge and create an annotated bibliography that she can share with her students.

In this Assignment, you gather information on advancements in your practicum specialty.

To Prepare

Reflect on your specialty of interest and your practicum experience. What key topics, processes, best practices, advancements, and technologies have you seen or heard about?

Search the Walden Library for articles on any or all of these dimensions. Keep in mind that your focus is on current developments and that articles you select should have been published within the last three years.

To Complete

Create an annotated bibliography that consists of 10 scholarly, peer-reviewed articles.

For each article:

Provide a brief summary (4–5 sentences).

Explain why this article is relevant (1–2 sentences).

Explain the application of the findings of the article to practice (1–2 sentences).

. Provide specific examples from your own practicum experiences.

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Post an explanation of how the use of CBT in families compares to CBT in individual settings. Provide specific examples from your own practicum experiences. Then, explain challenges counselors might encounter when using CBT in the family setting. Support your position with specific examples from this week’s media.

How would you use demographic data to characterize this disease? How would you incorporate further research to address this disease?

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Characteristics  of a person or people, geographical location, and era help to better  understand the development and pervasiveness of a disease. Descriptions  of persons, places, and time help to effectively describe disease and  health status within a population.

Using  the South University Online Library or the Internet, research about a  disease of global concern (HIV, AIDS, or any such disorder). Based on  your research, answer the following questions:

  • How would you use demographic data to characterize this disease?
  • How would you incorporate further research to address this disease?
  • How would you  use morbidity and mortality in developing prevention strategies aimed at  increasing attention to disease and decreasing adverse health outcomes?
  • Which phenomenon—morbidity or mortality—is better to study to develop preventive strategies? Why?