Week 6 - Discussion Question 1
Describe two strategies for developing clarity and conciseness in communication. Discuss some problems that could occur when the peer-review process "breaks down."
Week 6 - Discussion Question 2
Discuss the value of peer reviews in business research. Why is a peer review important in a project that utilizes business research for planning?..
Week 7 - Discussion Question 1
Compare and contrast the types and applications of oral and visual presentation. Describe which applications you will be using for your presentation. Discuss why you are choosing these methods, and why they will be best for your audience.
Week 7 - Discussion Question 2
Describe a "best practice" for designing effective written, visual, and oral presentation materials to share with organizational stakeholders. Discuss what tools or strategies to use during a pre..
Week 8 - Discussion Question 1
Describe the role of business research in promoting continuous improvement in health care organizations. Discuss the parameters of using business research to make changes or decisions in a health care environment or organization.
Week 8 - Discussion Question 2
Discuss two potential obstacles to implementing the plan you outlined in your research paper. What strategies would you initiate to overcome these obstacles? Reflecting on what you have learned, what chan..
Compare and contrast quantitative and qualitative research.
Present the categories and components that are common to a research publication.
In addition to the table, in 250 words or less, explain how evidence impacts scientific discovery, as well as effective business planning. Include at least two documented examples in your explanation.
While APA format is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected and in-text citations and references should be presented ..
Health care administrators must be able to make evidence-based decisions in a rapidly changing climate in order to succeed. Identify a specific health care administration issue or barrier that you want to utilize as the focus for your business research paper. In 250-500 words, propose the topic for your business research paper. Include the following:
Describe the health care administration issue or barrier.
Summarize the stakeholders affected by the health care issue or barrier.
Discus..
Conduct a literature review using the GCU Library. Evaluate qualitative or quantitative articles and find six to eight peer-reviewed primary research articles that provide critical support for the specific health care administration problem or barrier you want to address in your Business Research Paper.
Use the "Literature Review: Table of Evidence" template to document your detailed assessment of each primary study. This document helps break down the components of each article to ensure the art..
In order to develop an organized process that supports program development to resolve a health care administration issue or barrier, it is important to identify the resources, stakeholders, and outcomes. Use the "Logic Model Template" and create detailed inputs, outputs, and outcomes for your identified health care administration issue or barrier. Make sure to consider any legislation or regulation that governs your field or your programmatic development. You will use your logic model to develop..
Write a 1,250-1,500 word draft of your business research paper. Use your logic model to develop the sequence for your paper. Include:
Describe the health care administration issue or barrier you are addressing.
Discuss resources needed, including key stakeholders, and the role they play in your plan.
Identify any external or internal regulation that must be considered to ensure compliance with any legislative, institutional, or agency policy or expectation.
Describe the organizational and strat..
Exchange your Business Research Paper in the Individual Forum with a peer as assigned by the instructor. Refer to the "Guidelines for Peer Review" to complete this assignment. If you need additional assistance, you may also use rubric for the final draft of the Business Research Paper to guide your evaluation. Communicate your feedback in an encouraging, professional manner. All edits should be made on the actual document. The draft paper should be at least 1,250-1,500.
You will use the feedback..
A research presentation must effectively articulate the findings of a research paper and still be engaging to an audience. Investigate best practices for effective presentations. Create a PowerPoint (10-15 slides) or Poster to effectively convey your business research to a specific audience. Prepare your presentation using effective report page design (backgrounds, fonts, headings, page layout, etc.).
Include the following:
Define the problem or barrier you are addressing.
Explain why your ..
Using the feedback you received from the peer reviewer and instructor regarding your first draft, revise your final paper accordingly.
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.
This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
The Solution:
Introduction
Resources & Stak..
Week 1 DQ1A patient is in a coma that appears irreversible. His mother, who is his surrogate, firmly believes that he will recover and that God is taking a hand to work a miracle if everyone will just wait long enough. She wants everything done for the patient, including resuscitation if he arrests. She insists that he stay in the hospital, and is very upset that he was transferred out of the ICU and his care was moved to comfort measures, rather than aggressive treatment. The mother does not sp..
Week 2 DQ1
Discuss the four components of a valid contract and apply them to a contract with a vendor to purchase a new CT scanner. What would you include in the contract? How would you be sure it would be valid?
Week 2 DQ2
Since the hospital/patient relationship is considered a contract of sorts, how is it affected if the patient decides to disconnect himself from telemetry and leave the hospital for 4 hours to go score some cocaine on the street? What would you do as a hospital adm..
Week 3 DQ1
If a physician develops a history of disruptive behavior, belittling staff, cursing at coworkers, and being rude and curt to patients, what are the responsibilities of the medical staff, the hospital, and the other professionals involved? Why do you believe that so many staff may be reluctant to report a poorly behaving physician?
Week 3 DQ2
What do you see as the pros and cons of obtaining fair market value analyses on the compensation paid to physicians, especially when the ..
Week 4 DQ1
Discuss your opinion of the Stark laws, what they are designed to do, the impact of the exceptions, and whether you think they are successful in preventing unethical behavior.
Week 4 DQ2
What kinds of fraudulent or abusive behavior relating to health care services can occur in hospital operations? How does the role of the compliance committee help to monitor and prevent these?..
Week 5 DQ1
You are a hospital administrator, and you receive a call from a colleague at another hospital. Your colleague, who is a friend, informs you that he has received a demand for a stipend from the ophthalmologists who take ED calls at his hospital, and they want a sizeable raise. He asks you what you pay for that type of call, and suggests that you could both benefit by coming up with a standard rate of pay over which neither of you will go in response to physician demands. It could save..
Week 6 DQ1
Examine the concept of "employment at will" and the public policy exceptions to it. How does it fit with the issue of "wrongful discharge"?
Week 6 DQ2
What do you see as the pros and cons of a unionized environment in a health care facility? How can the right to collective bargaining by employees and the mandate to provide care to patients be reconciled?..
Week 7 DQ1
Explore the issues of how to determine if a patient is mentally competent to make his or her own decisions, especially in situations where the decisions do not appear to make sense.
Week 7 DQ2
What are the differences between a permanent vegetative state and a coma? How do these differences affect the ethical choices faced by the family and caregivers of the patient? What importance should the patient's own wishes have? How would the presence of a living will affect the decision..
Week 8 DQ1
A baby is born with anencephaly, or absence of the entire brain above the brainstem. The brainstem is intact, which means that the baby can breathe and have a heartbeat and blood pressure, but there is no chance for any human brain function or cognition, due to this birth defect. The health care team begins to educate the mother, since children with this deficit generally die shortly after birth. However, the mother is devoutly religious, and her minister has told her that if she ..
Requirement:
Write a 1,250-1,500 word paper in which you explore decision making methods that can be used to resolve an ethical dilemma using the scenario provided in the assigned reading, “An Unconscious Patient With a DNR Tattoo.” Describe how to use the principles of ethical decision making (reviewed in this topic) to help resolve this ethical dilemma. Address the scenario to generate your conclusions about how you would proceed.
What are the dimensions of the ethical dilemma?
What are the..
Scenario:
A physician is claiming injury and damages from a hospital that notified him they were not renewing his contract for services provided. The hospital gave him a 4-month notice and stated that they were exercising this right because they wanted the department in which the physician functioned "to go in a new direction." The physician has filed notice of intention to sue.
Requirement:
As the hospital administrator, write a paper (750-1,000-words) that explores the options for defendi..
Requirement:
Write a 1,000-1,250 word paper analyzing the 2016 Alaska Supreme Court case, Thomas v. Archer. Include the following in your analysis:
Did Dr. Archer breach her fiduciary duty to the Thomases?
Did the promise create an enforceable contract?
Should the promise be enforced through the doctrine of promissory estoppel?
What others issues from an administrative or legal perspective be considered here?
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the..
Scenario:
You are the administrator on call for Hospital A and are responsible for accepting and rejecting patients. You receive a call at 2:00 a.m. from Health Hospital B regarding a patient with a severed ear.
The ED physician is calling to arrange an EMTALA-qualified transfer from his hospital to yours, but the ENT physician on call at your hospital is refusing to accept the transfer, stating that the patient does not need a higher level of care.
You call your ENT on call, and he admits he ha..
The Cases:
Case 1: Oscar Insurance Company Of Florida (Plaintiff), V. Blue Cross And Blue Shield Of Florida, Inc (Defendants.)Case 2: United States Of America, et al., (Plaintiff), V. Aetna Inc., and Humana Inc., (Defendants.)Case 2: Oscar Insurance Company Of Florida (Plaintiff), V. Oklahoma State Chiropractic, Independent Physicians, Association And Larry Bridges (Defendants.)
Requirements:
Using the Health Care page of the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division website, locate three..
Scenarios and Requirements:
Write a 750-1,000 (500 words each scenario) word paper in which you review public policy and how it affects employment. Address the following scenarios:
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.
Scenario 1: Nurse Deb was due for her annual flu vaccination as mandated by her hospital’s policy. Nurse Deb is a big supporter of the antivaccination movement and ref..
Scenario and Requirements:
Scenario: You are the hospital administrator and are told by your ICU unit director of a patient in the unit that has suffered serious brain damage, but is not currently meeting the criteria for complete brain death. Half of the family is insisting that the patient “wouldn’t want to live this way” and the other half is accusing them of wanting to kill the patient. Some allegations have been raised about a substantial inheritance for some family members upon the patient..
Scenario and Requirements:
Scenario: You are the hospital administrator and are told by your ICU unit director of a patient in the unit that has suffered serious brain damage, but is not currently meeting the criteria for complete brain death. Half of the family is insisting that the patient “wouldn’t want to live this way” and the other half is accusing them of wanting to kill the patient. Some allegations have been raised about a substantial inheritance for some family members upon the patient..
Week 1Discussion Question 1: Intentional Torts In Healthcare (Graded)Select one of the intentional torts discussed in your text
and provide an example of how this tort takes place in healthcare. As leader of
your own healthcare facility, what steps could you take and what processes
could you implement to reduce the risk of this tort occurring in your own
facility?
Discussion Question 2: Most Pressing Ethical Issues (Graded)
What do you see as the most pressing ethical issue in healthcare
today?..
Week 2
Discussion Question 1: Delineation Of Clinical Privileges (Graded)
How does a hospital medical staff determine that a physician applicant is qualified and competent to perform all procedures requested on his or her delineation of clinical privileges? By way of process, what happens next once the medical staff has completed this assessment process? Why is regular reappointment to the medical staff important for patient safety?
Discussion Question 2: Ethics Committee (Graded)Identify an is..
Week 3
Discussion Question 1: Roe V. Wade (Graded)What were the key elements of the court's holding in Roe v. Wade? Should the stage of pregnancy determine a woman's right to an abortion? What are the rights of fathers? Regardless of your personal opinions and religious beliefs on abortion, try to identify the legal principles and parameters outlined in your readings. We'll refer to these as we continue our discussion this week.
Discussion Question
2: New Reproductive Technologies (Grade..
Week 4
Discussion Question 1: Informed Consent (Graded)
Explore what is meant by informed consent from a legal perspective. What are the key elements that must be covered in order to obtain legal informed consent? And why is this concept so important to patients, providers, and healthcare organizations?
Discussion Question 2: Patient Self-Determination Act (Graded)
What are the key provisions of the Patient Self-Determination Act (PSDA)? Why was this legislation enacted and what wer..
Week 4
Questions: 1-51. (TCO G) You are the risk
manager for a large hospital and recently have been assigned to review a
potential malpractice case for Dr. Johnson. The hospital CEO has asked you to
assess whether the physician and hospital are negligent in the care of the
patient. Discuss and describe the elements you will be looking for to determine
if negligence may have occurred. (Points : 25)
2. (TCO C) Advanced directives
have made it possible for patients to have important n..
Week 5
Discussion Question 1: Death With Dignity Act (Graded)
Discuss the legal and moral implications of physician-assisted suicide. What are the key provisions of Oregon’s Death with Dignity Act? What has been the experience with this process in Oregon since passage of the act in 1997?
Discussion Question
2: Schiavo Case (Graded)
Read the account of the 2003 Terri Schiavo case in your supplemental textbook. If you were the CEO of the organization that cared for Terri Schiavo, ..
Week 6
Discussion Question 1: Professional Liability (Graded)How does the existing U.S. legal system, as well as the need for professional liability insurance coverage, impact patient care, physician behavior, and healthcare costs?
Discussion Question 2: Risk Management (Graded)You’ve been appointed as chair of your hospital’s risk management committee. Describe the most pressing issues that should be considered by your committee related to risk management, corporate liability, ethical com..
Week 7
Discussion Question 1: Healthcare Reform (Graded)
Based upon your learning in this course and your own personal and/or professional experiences, what are the essential reforms that must occur in the U.S. healthcare system in order to improve access, cost, and quality of care for all Americans? What does this legislation look like?
Discussion Question 2: Healthcare War Rooms (Graded)
What is a healthcare war room? As CEO of your own healthcare facility, how would you go about..
Week 8
Discussion Question 1: Looking Ahead (Graded)
Class, looking back over the Course Objectives, what are you
looking forward to learn as you move forward with your education and career?..