Creating Culturally Competent in Health Care Organizations
Read chapter 9 of the class textbook and review the attached PowerPoint presentation.  Once done present an analysis of the following case study answering the questions below.
Mrs. Li Huan, a 79-year-old Chinese American widow who lives alone in New York City’s Chinatown recently had a cerebrovascular accident (CVA) or stroke. Mrs. Li has right-sided paralysis with partial loss of voluntary movement and sensation in her right arm and leg. Mrs. Li has weak facial muscles, difficulty with speech, and drooling. She experiences numbness and tingling in her arms and legs. Mrs. Li is going to a rehabilitation center known for delivering culturally competent interprofessional care where she is cared for by a team of credentialed health care providers: Dr. Indira Patel, nurse J.J. Johnson, physical therapist Mohammad Abu Said, dietician Maria Gonzalez, and Chinese American herbalist, Chen Minzhe.
(Note: In traditional Chinese culture, a person’s last name or surname is written first, followed by his/her first name. Therefore, the patient’s last name is Li and the herbalist’s last name is Chen. It is proper etiquette to call a person of Chinese background by his/her title, in this case, Mrs. Li and Mr. Chen until the individual gives you permission to use his/her first name. To further confuse matters, many acculturated Chinese Americans are likely to reverse their first and last names in the typical US or Canadian order. Therefore, it is important to ask the patient, “What is your first name? What is your last name?” Note the correct order on the patient’s chart for other members of the team.)

1. How do members of the interprofessional team assess Mrs. Li’s literacy, diet, and medications, including herbal medicines being provided by her herbalist, Mr. Chen?
2. How do the nurse and other members of the team determine if complementary or integrative treatments, such as medicinal herbs, are helpful, harmful, or neutral to Mrs. Li’s recovery?
3. If you were seeking advice or consultation from a traditional Chinese herbalist in your community, how would you locate one?
4. Why do patients seek treatment from alternative and integrative healers?
5. How can credentialed health care providers work collaboratively with Mr. Chen to ensure that prescription medicines and herbs are compatible and that there are no adverse or harmful interactions between various medicines?
6. What strategies would you recommend in promoting Mrs. Li’s optimum functioning and health following her CVA? (Andrews & Boyle, Transcultural Concepts in Nursing Care, 7th Edition).

A minimum of 2 evidence-based references besides the class textbook no older than 5 years must be used (excluding the class textbook).  You must post two replies to any of your peers on different dates sustained with the proper references no older than 5 years as well and make sure the references are properly quoted in your assignment.  A minimum of 800 words is required.  Please make sure to follow the instructions as given and use either spell-check or Grammarly before you post your assignment.
Please check your assignment after the week is due because I either made comments or ask for clarification in some statements.
 

 
 
Open book, open notes, open internet, no collaboration
 
 
Read each question thoroughly; submit the term, phrase, multiple choice answer or explanation that best fits.
 
Fill in the blank (4pts each)

1. The worth or desirability of a thing, subjectively assessed or calculated:
2. The processes that ensure the effective and efficient use of IT in enabling an organization to achieve its goals:
3. Translation, Tailoring, Transparency, Thinking, Talking and Listening:
4. The model associated with business adapting to a new technology:
5. How the effectiveness of communication is measured:
6. The two key categories of IT budgets:
7. The three components delivering IT value:
8. The three fundamental factors to balance when selecting the right projects:
9. The two general categories of a qualities that make a good IT leader:
10. The five principles of a good business metrics program for IT:

 
 
True/False (4pts each)

11. There is one industry accepted way to measure IT value. T or F.

 

12. Business benefits are not expected during the deployment of new technology. T or F.

 

13. A business metrics program should be used as a method of control. T or F.

 

14. Realizing IT value is the IT value proposition component that is most often ignored. T or F.

 

15. Traditional budget cycles are a barrier to effective IT strategy development. T or F.

 

16. Studies have shown that IT investment alone delivers superior business performance. T or F.

 

17. It is more important that the IT team learn the business than the business team learn IT. T or F.

 
 
 
Short answer
 

16. (15pts) Consider four ways a company can prioritize (IT) projects.
17. Name them

 
 
 
 

1. Provide a brief description for each of the methods

 
 
 
 
 

1. Name a benefit and a shortcoming of each of the methods and when you would recommend using each.

 
 
 
 
 

17. (10pts) Name two significant barriers to IT conversion that exist and provide real world examples in which each of the barriers were overcome by implementation of a digital strategy or otherwise for a project’s success or in which they were not overcome and the projects were impaired or failed as a result.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

18. (10pts) A real world example (with URL) of each of the five types of IT initiatives.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

19. (10pts) Find a company that you believe or can prove is not delivering IT value successfully. Evaluate which principle(s) you believe they are not following (with references for why you believe that to be the case) and propose how you improve the situation (with actionable specifics).

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

20. (10pts) Find a current or former company that has been disrupted (ie significant loss of revenue, market share, bankruptcy). Reference the year that this occurred and the cause. Using critical success factors, what changes would you have made 2 years prior as the CTO of that company?

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

21. (15pts) Identify a company that uses shared services.

1. List one or more of their shared services

 
 
 
 

1. Determine the actual cost of outsourcing one of the shared services.
   (Make assumptions where necessary, use references, actual numbers)

 
 
 
 

1. Make a recommendation of another shared service not currently utilized today and list pros and cons for evaluating whether to make it a shared service.

(be specific to this service proposal)
 
 
 

1. Indicate which stage of IT maturity both the evaluated and proposed service are.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

22. (10pts) You are the CIO of a retail company, make the case for your preferred delivery option for Application Development. Include evaluation of each of the applicable criteria in your justification.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

23. (2pts) What is the hardest part of generating an IT budget.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Read “Kant and the Aesthetic Imagination” by Michael Podro
Where do ideas come from?
How do artists make meaning?
How do the philosophies of Kant and Podro correspond to cultural critique?
*At least 250 words.

(1) Summarize major arguments of the literature being reviewed, and then reflect
upon: (2) how its content relates to your experience, and (3) does the content make sense
(and why)? Please write a 6-page report (minimum 1 page per question)