Read the article “Four Ways to Develop a Better Strategic Plan” on the Forbes website. What are your thoughts

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Read the article “Four Ways to Develop a Better Strategic Plan” on the Forbes website. What are your thoughts

 

 

 

http://www.forbes.com/forbes/welcome/?toURL=http://www.forbes.com/sites/ronashkenas/2014/08/08/four-ways-to-develop-a-better-strategic-plan/&refURL=&referrer=

Explain the influence of lifestyles, socioeconomic status, and disease management.

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For the next newsletter, you have been asked to write about the effect of a specific communicable disease on your community.

Identify a communicable disease to research.

Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper summarizing your research. Include the following information:

  • Describe the disease and discuss efforts to control it.
  • Identify the environmental factors related to this disease.
  • Explain the influence of lifestyles, socioeconomic status, and disease management.
    • Identify gaps and how you might connect to other resources to meet needs that are not locally available.
    • Include recommendations to expand the community’s programs if there are gaps.
  • Describe what the public health department is doing to reduce the threat of the disease.
  • Include data findings, evidence-based intervention, and a plan to ensure quality health.

Include at least 3 APA formatted references.

What steps could be taken to streamline the medical records department process?

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12/6/16 @12:00 p.m. PowerPoint Presentation 10-12 slides including title and reference page. 75-100 words of speaker notes per slide. No speaker notes on title page or reference page. 100 percent original work with at least 2 references.

As a manager of a health care facility, you have had numerous patient complaints regarding the accessibility and readability of their requested patient records. Some of the complaints include incomplete chart files, disorganized records, illegible information because of multiple handwriting styles, and quality of printing with the copy or fax transmissions. In addition, many of the complaints concern the vast amount of time waiting until the files can be located, assembled, copied, and delivered. Some wait times were up to 3 weeks in length, delaying patient treatment. Lastly, the complaints also center on the $0.75 per-page fee that the patients and physician offices pay for the hard copies created from the original pages. Even with this charge, the medical records department remains a large cost expenditure for the health care facility because of break downs in the chart retrieval machinery, personnel costs, supplies, and maintenance of equipment that is associated with creating hard copies of the original charts.

Part 1 Task:

As manager of this health care facility, create a presentation from a cost-savings point of view to address the following questions:

What steps could be taken to streamline the medical records department process?
How could this department be incorporated into the Health Level Seven (HL7) electronic system in terms of application, collection, warehousing, and evaluation regarding the storing and retrieval of patient charts?

Compare the structure and functions of the CNS and PNS.

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Neurological System Case Study

A 35-year-old male is admitted to a hospital following a minor car accident. He was driving home and fell asleep at the wheel. This is the third accident he has had in the past year. He also falls asleep regularly at work, at the dinner table, at church, and, in fact, anywhere. When he becomes excited or enraged, he suddenly becomes weak and falls. At night, he often has bizarre, terrifying dreams. During these dreams, he feels as if he were paralyzed.

Based on the scenario given above, answer the following questions:

  • Compare the structure and functions of the CNS and PNS.
  • What is the probable diagnosis for this man’s condition?
  • What parts of the person’s brain could have been affected?
  • What sleep state do these symptoms resemble?
  • How would an electroencephalogram (EEG) look like during the sleep condition of this patient?
  • What type of treatments (physical or chemical) would you prescribe for the patient?

Define, measure, analyze, describe the environment,the organization, and the department or program within the organization that is the basis for your project.

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The project is modeled on the Shewhart Cycle (plan, do, check, act) you will modify the shewhart cycle to make it applicable to your selected healthcare service or program.  Seek additional resources that will help you understand the process being studied as well as planning and quality improvement in general.  Visit the goleansixsigma.com

Click resources and then select Lean six sigma tools review the steps in sequence they provide direction to a quality process improvement plan.  while you do not need to use the steps in sequence, they provide direction, as given below. Define, measure, analyze, describe the environment,the organization, and the department or program within the organization that is the basis for your project.  Describe the selected healthcare setting, specifically its service, staff equipment and patients.  identify and describe the scope and nature of the problem.  assess the environemnt using strengths weaknesses opportunities and threats (SWOT) analysis.  interview some stakeholders such as managers, staff or customers.  use the interview information to conduct the SWOT analysis.  you may also summarize or quote any important or interesting information gathered during the interview.  Select one of the weaknessess determined by the SWOT analysis to create a plan for improvement.  Present the description of the organization, the SWOT analyais, and any interview summaries in a 5 page word

Discuss how the policy influences clinical practice and is used to promote best outcomes

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Assignment 2: Course Project: Health Policy Paper  (Domestic Violence)

 

Health policy unfolds daily and drives clinical practice in the US. The student will investigate current policies or legislation underway for a specific health-related issue. The Student will develop a scholarly APA formatted paper supported by evidence. The policy paper rubric:

  • Introduction to population or problem (incidence, prevalence, epidemiology, cost burden etc)
  • Description of how the policy is intended for a specific population, program or organization
  • Specific legislators involved in the policy development and dissemination
  • Identify the role of the APRN in assisting with the policy or refuting the policy – this requires the evidence to support opinion, ideas and/or concepts
  • Discuss how the policy influences clinical practice and is used to promote best outcomes
  • Examine how the policy can be used by the interprofessional team to ensure coordinated and comprehensive care for the specific population
  • Conclusion – summarize findings
  • APA format – use of primary peer-reviewed references as much as possible less than 5 years old

Due dateDecember 09, 2016, post your strategies for addressing the key focus in your community in a two-to-three-page Word document

 

2) Explain which ideas/accomplishments you found to be most compelling, and why.

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Second-Generation HIT Informaticists

Great discoveries can transform the world. In 400 BC, Hippocrates theorized that the body was composed of four “humors”—blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile. Now think of the impact of the seminal work of William Harvey, who, in the 1600s, accurately described the circulation system and the role of the heart for the first time. It was not until the early 1900s that the Austrian biologist Karl Landsteiner identified four distinct blood groups. Today, knowledge about the nature and properties of blood is so complicated that the entire field of blood chemistry is devoted to its study.

This same type of expansion of knowledge within a scientific field is mirrored within the field of informatics. As new technologies develop, subsequent changes occur in the fiel that are, built upon the earlier work of others. In this Discussion, you examine the continuing evolution of the field of health informatics and assess how researchers built on the work of preceding scientists.

You will focus on the following individuals:

Joan Ash
Nancy Lorenzi
Ben Shneiderman
Diane Forsythe
Chuck Friedman
Sue Bakken
Patty Brennan
Diane Skiba
Danny Sands
Lucian Leape
To prepare:

Select and read at least one article from this week’s Learning Resources for at least five individuals listed above.
Consider how the work of each individual has built upon the work of earlier pioneers in the informatics field.
Assess the areas of growth in informatics research from the informatics pioneers you researched last week to the individuals you read about this week, and the ways in which health informatics has continued to evolve.
Select one individual from this week you found to be of particular interest, and read at least one additional article written by him or her from the list provided in the Learning Resources.
Conduct further research to determine recent contributions or additions to the individual’s research.
By Tomorrow 12/06/16, post a minimum of 550 words in APA format with a minimum of three references from the list provided below. Include the level one headings as numbered below:

1) A brief summary of key contributions of the individual you selected.

2) Explain which ideas/accomplishments you found to be most compelling, and why.

3) Assess the evolution of the field of nursing informatics from the first group of pioneers (Week 1 Discussion) to the second generation of HIT nurse informaticists.

4) Provide specific examples of how this evolution is evident in the field.

Does repositioning of bed bound patients every two hours decrease the risk of pressure ulcer versus repositioning every 5 hours?

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Topic 1: EBP and PICOT

Discuss how you used the three components inherent to Evidence-Based Practice inquiry to direct your clinical question database search.

The PICOT question: Does repositioning of bed bound patients every two hours decrease the risk of pressure ulcer versus repositioning every 5 hours?

Please adhere to nursing information that is related to my PICOT question

Needs to be 1 page

Use Peer reviewed nursing articles that are less than 5 years old

Please give 4 references

 

Additional information

The three components inherent to any evidence-based practice change are validity, reliability, and credibility. These three components are the check system to determine whether the practice is based on evidence-based research.