Category: Healthcare

Comprehensive Genogram 
This is a scaffolding assignment to help students understand how a genogram is created and how to use the various symbols to denote family relationships, marital status, family issues, family patterns of mental illness, and substance abuse.
Develop a genogram illustration that addresses the following criteria:
Choose a family (for this assignment this can be your own family)
Draw three generations of genealogy, legal family, pets, and others who have played an integral role in the family, if applicable.
Use only standardized genogram symbols.
Show structure of family members: siblings, aunts/uncles, grandparents, remarriages, blended families (step-members and half siblings), divorces, pets, close family friends, and god families.
List dates birth/death, dates of marriage, and divorce. Include the race, ethnicity, culture, place of birth, residency, cause of death, mental health, and substance abuse issues.
Identify family characteristics, i.e., type of family structure, type of marriage/parental union, length of the relationship, type of family, and authority pattern (who has the power).  
Identify emotional patterns i.e., close, conflicted, cut off, distant, unknown, passive-aggressive (or fused & conflicted).
Identify family or generational values and issues and patterns:  occupation, education, hobbies, military duty, work ethic, family business, religion, addiction/recovery, incarceration, homicide, suicide, reunions, parenting style, mental illness, emigration from the country of birth, marriage within or outside the culture, sexuality, cancer, longevity, foster care, adoption, and child abuse.  Every generation manifests its values and issues differently.
Identify social patterns i.e., neighborhoods, communities, places of worship, places of work and education, social clubs

Essay Requirement:
Write a 300 to 500-word essay addressing the following:
Why do you want to enroll in the Sterile Processing program and pursue a career as a sterile processor?
Describe how receiving the Sterile Processing Scholarship will impact your professional and personal life.
Discuss anticipated personal growth, challenges, and opportunities.
Explain how becoming a sterile processor aligns with your long-term goals.
Note: AI-generated essays will disqualify applicants from scholarship consideration.

Critical Assessment Presentation
Writing reports and analyzing papers is a major part of critical appraisal; however, there will undoubtedly be times in which you will have to communicate your knowledge and understanding verbally and, very likely to someone who does not have all of the skills that you do. To accomplish this, it is often very beneficial to use a slide presentation. For this assignment, you will develop a slide deck corresponding to your chosen article for the Critical Assessment Project.
You must, at a minimum, have 9 slides (one slide per header featured below). You may use as many slides as you need to ensure the content of your paper is understandable. That being said, please be sure that your slides are directly relevant to a greater understanding of the paper. You will have at least 10 minutes to present your paper (no less, but potentially more, depending on class size), but please be aware of the assigned time limit. A grading rubric for this assignment is provided below.
Please feel free to be creative with backgrounds, animations and graphics in your presentation, as long as they add (and do not detract) from viewership. I would recommend using either the Record function in Powerpoint, or simply doing a Screen Recording of the presentation (the software to use will depend on your operating system – reach out if you have questions).
As with the written assignment, to submit, click the header of this assignment and use the upload function.
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Your slide presentation must include slides for:
Title (1 slide)
Include the paper title, authors, journal of publication and year, as well as your name.
Background (1 slide)
Be sure to cover the literature / argument leading to the production of this study, as well as the study objectives and research question
Methodology (at least 1 slide)
Include details of the population of interest, study design, equipment, and metrics, as well as statistical analyses
Results (at least 1 slide)
Include results of the study. This is a great place to include figures and tables as well.
Discussion / Conclusion (at least 1 slide)
Discuss how the authors conclusions compare to the results of the study, as well as whether the study was novel, and how it fits into literature in this area.
Strengths (1 slide)
What makes this a good study?
Limitations (1 slide)
What makes this a weak study?
Summary (1 slide)
Given your understanding of this study and its design, provide a short summary of its main takeaway points.
References (1 slide)
List the citation for the paper you used, as well as any other references you may have used.

This week is about choosing your topic for your final paper.   Choose a topic that’s appropriate to the length of your paper (10 pages – not including title page and references).  Choose a topic that interests you!  (Needs approval by Instructor)
Submit your topic and a description ( 2 pages double spaced – Times Roman font 12 – APA format)
**Topic: 

Discuss the three main forces that have been responsible for hospital downsizing: changes in reimbursement, growth in managed care, and hospital closures. How has each of these forces been responsible for the decline in inpatient hospital utilization?
Make sure your paper is at least two pages in length, double spaced, font 12, Times New Roman.

Competence in policy making
Part 1
Purpose
This assignment is intended to help you learn to do the
following:
·       Explore the means by
which health leaders contribute to policy making.
·       Develop professional
goals related to assuming or strengthening an advocacy role.
Overview
“Effective influence in the public policy environments of
organizations and interest groups, either individually or in collaboration,
depends on power and knowing where and when to focus efforts” (Longest,
2010, p. 208).
This is a two-part assignment:
·       In Part 1, Presentation
of Legislation, you will prepare a PowerPoint presentation regarding the
results of your role play that you began in Module 1 in Participating in
Policymaking
·       In Part 2, Reflection and Discussion, you will discuss how
you can assume, or strengthen your role as a public policy advocate.
Action Items for Part 1
1.   
Compile your notes from the Health Legislation Update
assignments that you worked on during Modules 3 and 4.
2.   
From the perspective of your assigned role (DEMANDER OF HEALTH POLICY AS AN
ORGANIZATION), prepare a PowerPoint presentation that addresses the
following items:
o   Introduce yourself,
including the key attributes of your role. Refer back to your work in Participating
in Policymaking (See attachment word document).
o   Introduce the legislation
that you have been tracking via GovTrack.us. Specifically, identify the
legislation and summarize its scope and intent.
o   Present the following
information about the legislation:
§  Status
§  Progress
§  Votes (as applicable)
§  Prognosis
§  Co-sponsors
§  Committees
o   Present information
regarding news and/or issues related to the legislation.
o   Given the current status
of the legislation, present a list of actions that you could take, from the
perspective of your role, to influence the legislation.

Create a presentation (15-20 slides) to prepare department heads for training their staff on the organization’s new compliance approach. Address the compliance content that department heads will need to convey and best practices for delivery of the compliance training.
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Introduction
At this point in your academic career, you know that health care is a heavily regulated industry. While applicable regulations may vary from one organization type to the next, the typical health care organization must navigate through a wide array of laws, quality standards, regulations, and ethical considerations as part of day-to-day operations. What this means is that the staff working in these organizations must also fully understand their organization’s regulatory environment and their role in regulatory compliance.
Successful compliance depends on how well the staff is trained. Managers need to be able to teach their staff compliance best practices. The compliance content in the training is one aspect of the health care manager’s job. The other critical aspect of the job is to be able to convey the compliance content effectively and efficiently. In today’s environment, it is not enough to simply place a checkmark next to the staff trained item on the manager’s to-do list. Staff members need to be able to retain the compliance best practices they’ve learned and apply them on the job. In successful health care organizations, compliance training doesn’t just need to be done, but it needs to be done effectively and efficiently. This is no easy task given health care regulations’ complexity.
For the purpose of this assessment, you will assume the role of quality assurance officer in your health care organization. You have been tasked with the responsibility of developing a presentation that prepares the organization’s department heads to deliver compliance training to their staff members.
Preparation
Conduct independent research on these following topics:
Regulations, accreditation requirements, and ethical standards that govern the health care industry.
Current best practices in compliance training and health care industry-accepted training programs.
Consult your suggested resources as a starting point for your research. You may also want to consult the Health Care Administration Undergraduate Library Research Guide for additional guidance on how to conduct scholarly, professional research.
Instructions
For the purpose of this assessment, you will assume the role of quality assurance officer at one of Vila Health’s community-based hospitals. Vila Health is a medium-sized system of health care operating facilities in Minnesota and Wisconsin. You recently received approval from your organization’s senior leaders to provide compliance training to all staff members based on the new approach to compliance your organization has adopted.
Because of the number of staff requiring training, you will not be able to deliver the compliance training yourself. Instead, your organization’s department heads will conduct the training for their departments. Your job is to develop a presentation to help the department heads train their staff on the organization’s new approach to compliance.
You have scheduled a meeting with the department heads to introduce the compliance training. As you are doing your planning for your presentation to department heads, you have decided that your presentation needs to consist of two parts:
Part One: Background on Health Care Regulation, Accreditation, and Ethics
This addresses the compliance content department heads need to cover in their staff training sessions.
Part Two: Compliance Training Effectiveness
This addresses how to design and deliver compliance training that staff members retain and apply on the job.
You have determined you will need 15–20 slides to cover the content you plan to deliver to the department heads. You have also created an outline of what specifically you need to include in your presentation. Here is the outline you created:
Part One: Background on Regulation, Accreditation, and Ethics in Health Care (10–12 slides)
Introduce regulatory, ethical, and accreditation compliance in health care (2–3 slides).
Distinguish accreditation from regulations and ethical considerations in health care.
Highlight the risks and consequences of non-compliance (1–2 slides).
Analyze important health care regulations, such as privacy laws, quality standards, and patient rights (3–4 slides).
Present key ethical considerations all staff must understand (1–2 slides).
Explain how the concept of continuous readiness applies to compliance (1–2 slides).
Part 2: Compliance Training Effectiveness (6–8 slides)
Explain best practices for training health care staff on compliance (2–3 slides).
Conclude with a final meaningful compliance message, such as a motivational statement or a quote about compliance (1 slide).
Include your reference slide with current APA formatted references (1 slide).
Now that you have your outline in hand, develop your presentation to department heads on the organization’s new compliance training program that they will be delivering to their staff members.
Additional Requirements
Written communication: Your slides need to include bullet points highlighting the key concepts. Avoid using block paragraphs or pictures only. Make sure your content is clear, persuasive, well-organized, and free of errors in grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
Title slide: Develop a descriptive title for your presentation of approximately 5–15 words. It should stir interest, yet maintain professional decorum.
Length: Approximately 15–20 slides. Slides should be professional and appropriately balance text and visuals. Avoid making your slides too text-heavy. Instead, make use of speaker notes to include additional content.
References and reference slide: Include a minimum of 3 citations of peer-reviewed sources in current APA format on a final reference slide.
Scoring guide: Please review the scoring guide for this assessment so that you understand how your faculty member will evaluate your work.
Competencies Measured
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:
Competency 1: Analyze health care laws and regulations from a local, state, and federal level.
Analyze regulatory compliance and ethical considerations in the health care setting.
Describe common health care regulations, compliance requirements, and laws.
Competency 2: Explain the concept of accreditation in health care.
Distinguish accreditation from regulations and ethical considerations in health care.
Competency 3: Assess the importance of continuous readiness in the health care organization.
Explain best practices for training health care staff on compliance.
Competency 4: Explain how governing body and regulatory agency standards exercise oversight authority within a health care organizational setting.
Explain the consequences for noncompliance or ethical breaches.
Competency 5: Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and respectful of the diversity, dignity, and integrity of others and is consistent with the expectations of health care professionals.
Develop a clear, persuasive, well-organized, and generally error-free presentation for department heads that prepares them to conduct compliance training for their departments.

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Assignment Details
During the COVID-19 pandemic, people saw major disruptions to supply lines throughout the country. Nowhere was this more evident than in the healthcare industry. Among the biggest impact was the disruption in supply lines related to personal protective equipment (PPE) and patient care needs (e.g., beds, ventilators, and medications). Use your text as a resource to complete the following assignment as well as one other resource from the library. Please cite your sources.
Describe the concept of supply and demand and how it relates to the provision of healthcare.
Once the concept of supply and demand has been explained as it relates to healthcare explain how the pandemic contributed to major shortages of needed supplies and equipment.
Imagine yourself as a leader of a provider group of some type – MANAGER FOR RADIOLOGY DEPARTM. Indicate some of the supply shortages that your group may see in a similar scenario in the future. How can these be offset or averted?
Identify, evaluate, and present a strategy that healthcare leaders can implement to avoid real-world supply chain disruption in the future.

Each response shuld be wriiten academically with 100 minimum words and 1 citation.
DQ1
List the eight data collection strategies and discuss which strategy would best fit with your research topic.
R1
When conducting research, it is essential to carefully consider the various data collection strategies available. The choice of methodology and analytical approach adopted by a researcher significantly impacts how the collected information is utilized and the depth of explanations it can offer (Paradis et al., 2016). Understanding the different data collection strategies is crucial, as they ultimately influence the insights and conclusions drawn from the data (Paradis et al., 2016). There are eight primary data collection strategies, including interviews, case studies, questionnaires, observations, focus groups, text analysis, existing data, and random sampling. For my current project, which focuses on comparing the effects of technological services on reducing medication errors and increasing safety for older patients compared with traditional services, the most suitable data collection strategies would be existing data and case studies. By concentrating on examining existing data and studies on different technological services and their effects on older patients, I aim to develop comprehensive research that will help convey the true impact of technological services on medication errors and patient safety. This approach will allow for a robust analysis based on established research and real-world case examples, contributing to a more insightful and impactful study.
Paradis, E., Nimmon, L., & Bandiera, G. (2016). Design: Selection of Data Collection Methods. Journal of Graduate Medical Education, 8(2), 263-264. https://doi.org/10.4300/JGME-D-16-00098.1
R2
In my research into patient satisfaction within pediatric therapy services, I am particularly focused on understanding how communication between therapists, pediatric patients, and caregivers impacts overall satisfaction levels and treatment outcomes. Considering this research focus, selecting the appropriate data collection strategy is crucial. Below are the eight data collection strategies commonly used in research:
Surveys/Questionnaires
Interviews
Focus Groups
Observations
Existing Data/Records
Case Studies
Experiments
Mixed Methods 
(Drossman, D. A., et al., 2021)
I find that a combination of surveys/questionnaires and interviews would likely be the most suitable strategy. Surveys will enable me to gather structured feedback on satisfaction levels and communication experiences quantitatively, offering broad insights across a larger sample. Meanwhile, interviews will provide a deeper qualitative understanding of the specific communication dynamics and perceived outcomes from the perspective of therapists, pediatric patients, and caregivers. This dual approach would provide a comprehensive understanding of how communication influences satisfaction and treatment efficacy in pediatric therapy services (Curry, L. A., et al., 2009). 
REFERENCES:
Curry, L. A., Nembhard, I. M., & Bradley, E. H. (2009). Qualitative and mixed methods provide unique contributions to outcomes research. Circulation, 119(10), 1442-1452. 
Drossman, D. A., Chang, L., Deutsch, J. K., Ford, A. C., Halpert, A., Kroenke, K., … & Sperber, A. (2021). A review of the evidence and recommendations on communication skills and the patient–provider relationship: a Rome foundation working team report. Gastroenterology, 161(5), 1670-1688 
PROF RESPONSE TO R2
Isabella and class,
Many healthcare companies are looking for ways to further advance their analytics to gain competitive advantage. Advanced analytics have the ability to analyze terabytes of data and spotlight areas of opportunity to improve clinical quality and efficiency (Merkley, n.d.). How might healthcare administration professionals use analytics to conduct business research to identify potential barriers or problems? 
Merkley, K. (n.d.) Leveraging Healthcare Analytics to Reduce Heart Failure Readmission Rates. 
PROF Q1
Class,
One research method, longitudinal qualitative research, can add depth and show relationships between research such as for chronic conditions and health care policies (Grossoehme & Lipstein, 2016). There is benefit to this type of research as we try to understand links between conditions, geography, socio-economic status, racial/ethnic groups, genetic markers, etc.   
Grossoehme, D., & Lipstein, E. (2016). Analyzing longitudinal qualitative data: the application of trajectory and recurrent cross-sectional approaches. BMC Research Notes, 91-5. doi:10.1186/s13104-016-1954-1. Retrieved from http://eds.a.ebscohost.com.lopes.idm.oclc.org/eds/detail/detail?vid=1&sid=a051beca-e021-4b43-9249-ed7ecfe4fe70%40sessionmgr4009&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWRzLWxpdmUmc2NvcGU9c2l0ZQ%3d%3d#AN=113533269&db=a9h 
PROF Q2
Week 3 CAT: Christian Worldview 
How would your research enhance the Christian worldview of ethical patient care? In what way could a quality team or ethics committee benefit from the strategy you chose to implement your research in other areas of the organization? 
Participation in this CAT is optional- responses can count towards your participation points though.  
DQ2
Discuss the role of ethics within health care research. As a researcher, identify five ethical considerations that you would need to evaluate in regard to your selected topic.
R1
Ethics in healthcare research are crucial as they ensure the protection and well-being of participants while maintaining integrity and validity in findings (Weinbaum, C., et al., 2019). In my research on patient satisfaction in pediatric therapy services, several ethical considerations must be carefully evaluated:
1. Informed Consent
2. Confidentiality
3. Voluntary Participation
4. Beneficence and Non-maleficence
5. Respect for Autonomy
The above-mentioned ethical considerations are essential to uphold throughout the study, ensuring that the research is conducted ethically and responsibly while yielding valuable insights into improving communication, satisfaction levels, and treatment outcomes in pediatric therapy services. Furthermore, integrating mechanisms for ongoing ethical review and reflection throughout the study can help navigate complex ethical dilemmas that may arise, ensuring continued adherence to ethical standards and the highest level of research integrity (Slade, S., & Prinsloo, P., 2013). 
REFERENCES:
Slade, S., & Prinsloo, P. (2013). Learning analytics: Ethical issues and dilemmas. American Behavioral Scientist, 57(10), 1510-1529.
Weinbaum, C., Landree, E., Blumenthal, M. S., Piquado, T., & Gutierrez, C. I. (2019). Ethics in scientific research. Rand Corporation, California, USA

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