Healthcare Business Plan

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Healthcare Business Plan

Assignment #2: Health Care Business Plan

Due: Week 9

For this Assignment #2 “Heath Care Business Plan” you will have to complete a formal paper about your fictional Healthcare Business. The business plan must be related to the healthcare field (e.g., a doctor’s office, a home healthcare practice, a new hospital, etc.). This assignment is worth 100 points (20%) of your course weighted grade.

A businesses plan basic components include a current and pro forma balance sheet, an income statement and a cash flow analysis. It helps you allocate resources properly, handle unforeseen complications, and make the right decisions. Because it provides specific and organized information about your company and how you will repay borrowed money, a good business plan is a crucial part of any loan package. Additionally, it can tell your sales personnel, suppliers and others about your operations and goals. Your business plan should precisely define your business, identify your goals and serves as your companies resume.

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Use the following questions below as a template and answer all questions. This paper requires correct grammar, punctuation, and APA format. This assignment is worth 100 points (20%) of your course grade. Points are for thorough content, creativity in the formal paper and correct use of APA format. You are required to have a minimum of Three (3) references and your references can be from refereed peer reviewed journal articles, textbooks, and or credible Internet sources.

This assignment requires 10-20 pages (Excluding Title and Reference Page). The assignment should be APA format, typed and submitted on a Word Document, font size 12 font, font names that should be used are times new roman or Calabria (not both), normal margins (no more than 1 inch), double spaced.

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Do not wait to begin working on your business plan, as it will take some time to complete.

The business plan should include the following components:

  • The name of your business
  • A description of your business. Describe your idea; purpose, mission, vision, background information, and description of the product and or service. The business must be related to the healthcare field (e.g., a doctor’s office, a home healthcare practice, a new hospital, etc.) Discuss how your business will meet a significant marketplace need or solve a problem or challenge that currently exists in the community. Discuss why you believe it is worth pursuing.
  • Targeted location (Where you would propose to establish this business and explain your reasoning).
  • Market analysis: Define the target market for your idea, why you think it exists, what you believe to be the size of the market demand for your idea, and who your competitors will be. Discuss how you would bring your product or service to market (how you would go about building or developing your product, service or idea into a real, tangible product or service that customers would want and buy). Perform a S.W.O.T. Analysis.
  • Budget: Create a budget that shows and discuss what it would cost in terms of time and resources to bring it to market and make it available to the public. In doing so, outline your plans to manage revenue (compliance management), manufacture the product or perform the service (including the proposed manufacturing process or method of performing the service) and your projection of the production costs, which may include: material labor, employees, salaries, equipment facility, etc.).
  • Discuss risks and or uncertainties within your proposal: Outline what you believe are the most significant risks and uncertainties that you are likely to experience in bringing your idea to market and discuss how you would deal with them.
  • Marketing strategy: Discuss your marketing and sales strategies. In doing so, discuss: Your target market and how you plan to reach that market (e.g. distribution strategy, pricing strategy, promotion strategy). Discuss how your business will offer a unique value proposition and be able to sustain a competitive advantage in the market. Discuss your marketing plan and budget to promote the business online or offline.
  • Discuss expected Profit and Return on Investments (ROI): Estimate the revenues you expect to earn, as well as the costs and expenses you expect to incur, and the resulting profits you would expect to earn over the first 3–5 years. Remember, even a non-profit business needs to be able to bring in enough revenues to cover its expenses. Estimate the amount of money you think would have to be invested to get your business started.
  • Discuss your assessment of whether or not your business service is likely to be successful.

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Healthcare Discussion 8

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Healthcare Discussion 8

Instructions for this Discussion

You are the director of health information management services at Anywhere Hospital. Because of increased awareness of the role the revenue cycle process plays in your facility, you have resolved to minimize any delays that are within your level of control. Identify the measures you can take to improve the revenue cycle.

Use Chapter 16 in attached book.

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HIM 500 Milestone One Guidelines and Rubric

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HIM 500 Milestone One Guidelines and Rubric

Overview: Imagine you have been contracted to consult on the recent developments at the Featherfall Medical Center. Featherfall has been struggling of late; it

has had a series of problems that have prompted your hiring. It has faced the following issues:

1. Featherfall has recently violated several government regulations regarding the current state of its technology and how it is being used. The technology

system is vastly out of date, and staff are not always using the technology that is in place or they are using the technology inappropriately. These

problems have lost the institution lots of money for not meeting government regulations and have caused operational and ethical problems from

inefficient and ineffective use of technology.

2. The staff at Featherfall are not well-trained on the use of technology and do not communicate appropriately about technology use. The roles that

pertinent to your consult are the health information management team, the clinical staff (doctors, nurses, etc.), and administrative staff. The health

information management team uses proper coding practices, and the current technology system serves them well, despite its age. However, other roles

in the hospital have had issues with the system. Clinical staff, for instance, have had record-keeping issues both due to lack of training on the system and

the system itself being out of date. Administrative staff within the organization have taken issue with the lack of communication about the technology

and its use between the various roles. When the current technology system was chosen many years ago, the needs of these various roles were not

considered.

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In this milestone, you will submit a discussion of the history of healthcare information management/informatics and the current landscape in terms of

technology. This milestone will set the stage for your project.

Specifically the following critical elements must be addressed:

I. Preparation for Consult: In this section of your final project, you will prepare for your consultation on the organization’s technology choice. To prepare,

you will analyze the field of health information management for determining standard technologies and guidelines related to technology use in order to

inform your technology selection.

A. Analyze key historical events in the field of health informatics for how technology has been used that could inform the management of health

information. Be sure to support your response with appropriate examples.

B. Determine guidelines for technology use in the field of health information management that Featherfall could implement. Be sure to support

your response with research.

C. Determine the standard technologies currently used in the field of health information management. Be sure to support your response with

research. For example, what record-keeping technologies are typically used in the field?

D. Develop an overview of how the pertinent roles described at Featherfall would interact with technology.

E. Describe the process you would use to evaluate new health information technology systems. Be sure that your process will evaluate new

systems based on how they meet the needs of the organization and how they are compliant with health regulations and laws.

Rubric is attached as well.

This milestone must be 2–3 pages in length (plus a cover page and references) and must be written in APA format. Use double

spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, and one-inch margins. All references cited in APA format.

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Process Recordings

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Process Recordings

A process recording is a written tool used by field education experience students, field instructors, and faculty to examine the dynamics of social work interactions in time. Process recordings can help in developing and refining interviewing and intervention skills. By conceptualizing and organizing ongoing activities with social work clients, you are able to clarify the purpose of interviews and interventions, identify personal and professional strengths and weaknesses, and improve self-awareness. The process recording is also a useful tool in exploring the interpersonal dynamics and values operating between you and the client system through an analysis of filtering the process used in recording a session.

For this Assignment, you will submit a process recording of your field education experiences specific to this week.

(Please see attached examples as to how assignment should be done).

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Note: You are submitting a written transcript, not an audio or video recording.

The Assignment (2–4 pages) (Blank template is attached):

· Provide a transcript of what happened during your field education experience, including a dialogue of interaction with a client (students internship is an inpatient mental health hospital as a therapist. Serving clients with mental health and substance abuse).

· Explain your interpretation of what occurred in the dialogue, including social work practice theories, and explain how it might relate to diversity or cultural competence covered this week.

· Describe your reactions and/or any issues related to your interaction with a client during your field education experience.

· Explain how you applied social work practice skills when performing the activities during your process recording.

Template

Client information and presenting issue:  Sally Mae is an African American 26-year-old gay female who has been homeless for the past 6 months.  Most of that time has been spent couch surfing between the homes of friends.  She has a history of substance abuse, battery, assault, and juvenile justice as a teen and is currently on probation stemming from an altercation with her mother. Sally Mae’s mother and step-father highly disapprove of her “lifestyle” and refuse to let her remain at home due to it. In an effort to get Sally Mae off the streets her probation officer, Mike, suggested she join a program that she recently heard about, Turning Point.

 

Any relevant information about setting and demographics:  An interview with Sally Mae was arranged between myself, Laura, and Mike.  The agreed upon location was a at Coastal Harbor Behavior Health conference room which the inpatient facility client was recently admitted to in an attempt of overdose. When Mike arrived, I escorted him into the conference room where Sally Mae and Laura were seated.  We promptly stood up as we greeted Mike and Laura. The following conversation picks up after the initial greetings had taken place and the interview/assessment had started.

 
Dialogue Identify skills, techniques and theories, Analysis/assessment of dialogue Personal reactions and self-reflection to the interaction
Mike: Sally Mae, we aren’t sure what you know about Turning Point.  Can you share what you know, if anything at all.

 

 

      
Sally Mae: The most that I know is this place you name is a home for homeless gay kids like me. That’s it.

 

 

      
Mike:  Yes, they do provide a safe place for gay individuals, and for the rest of the LGBTQ community.  Along the way we will work with you to establish and meet goals that are important to you. There are of course rules that must be followed.      
 

 

 

      
 

 

 

      
 

 

 

      
 

 

 

      
 

 

 

      
 

 

 

      
 

 

 

      
 

 

 

      
 

 

 

      
 

 

 

      

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Critical Thinking: Case Study – Develop a Motivation Plan

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Critical Thinking: Case Study – Develop a Motivation Plan

First, read “Case Study 6-6 “Develop a Motivation Plan” on page 121 in Organizational Behavior in Health Care.

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Within the principles of the content theories of Maslow, Herzberg, and Alderfer:

1.            Explain why Susan is behaving the way she has been over the past three months.

2.            Offer three specific recommendations to address the problem of Susan’s job performance.

Your well-written paper should meet the following requirements:

●             Four-to-five pages in length, not including the cover sheet and reference page.

●             Formatted according to APA 7th edition and Saudi Electronic University writing standards.

●             Provide support for your statements with in-text citations from a minimum of four scholarly articles. Two of these sources may be from the class readings, textbook, or lectures, but the other two must be external. The Saudi Digital Library is a good place to find these references.

Recommended:

Batayneh, M., Ali, S., & Nashwan, A. (2019). The burnout among multinational nurses in Saudi Arabia. Open Journal of Nursing, 9, 603-619.

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hmgt 400 exercise 4

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hmgt 400 exercise 4

Instructions

Download file from here: WeeklyExercise-Questions

Download data file from here: HMGT400HOSPITAL

Video: https://youtu.be/AT8BiEBqeVg

Instruction: Step-by-Step-Guideline

Video: https://youtu.be/AT8BiEBqeVg

Download codes from here: E4-Codes

Download codes from here without running DYPLR package:E-Codes-No-Dplyr

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Week 1, Exercise:

The attached dataset, provides some information about hospitals in 2011 and 2012, download the data and then complete the descriptive table. Please use the following format to report your findings.

Table 1. Descriptive statistics between hospitals in 2011 & 2012

Variables 2011 2012 p-value
  N Mean St. Dev N Mean St. Dev  
Hospital beds 1505 376.6086 560.8998 1525 376.8 579.8366  < 2.2e-16
Number of paid Employee 1498 1237.276 1615.797 1515 1491.121 1961.637  < 2.2e-16
Number of non-paid Employee 30 39.973 72.58805 30 44.76976 81.29861 6.653e-05
Total hospital cost 1505 216873322 304570722 1525 214748023 294143536 < 2.2e-16
Total hospital revenues 1505 228706319 323339811 1525 229978391 321273114 < 2.2e-16
Available Medicare days 1499 16739.16 19214.29 1516 17110.14 19765.74 < 2.2e-16
Available Medicaid days 1484 5301.199 9207.699 1501 5366.333 9340.373 < 2.2e-16
Total Hospital Discharge 1500 9492.326 10898.6 1517 9544.051 10994.17 < 2.2e-16
Medicare discharge 1499 3230.624 3388.957 1516 3598.248 3785.675 < 2.2e-16
Medicaid discharge 1481 1130.727 1757.158 1498 1119.547 1740.423 < 2.2e-16

 

Based on your findings in which years hospitals had better performance? Please write a short paragraph and describe your findings.

The hospitals had better performance in 2012 compared to 2011. The mean number of hospital beds in 2012 was slightly higher than the mean number of hospital beds in 2011. In terms of revenue, the mean revenue in 2012 was higher than the mean revenue in 2011. The total cost in 2011 was also higher than the total cost in 2012. For these variables, the p. Value is less than 0.05 hence the null hypothesis is not rejected at 95% confidence interval. This implies that the means between the two groups are not different.

Week 2, Exercise:

Use the dataset from week1 exercise and then answer the following questions:

  • Compare the following information between teaching and non-teaching hospitals.
  • What are the main significant differences between teaching and non-teaching hospitals? (use ttest)
  • Comparing hospital net-benefit which hospitals has better performance? To answer this question first compute the hospital net benefits with subtracting hospital costs and revenues and then use ttest to compare the significant differences between teaching and non-teaching hospitals.
  • Use a box-plot and compare hospitals-cost and hospital-revenues between teaching and non-teaching hospitals.

The costs were higher for teaching hospitals (1) compared to non-teaching hospitals (0)

 

The Revenues were higher for teaching hospitals (1) compared to non-teaching hospitals (0)

 

  • Write a short paragraph and describe your findings.

Based on the t-.test results shown below, there were no significant differences between teaching and non-teaching hospitals for all the variables. This is because as shown below, the p.value is less than 0.05 hence at 95% confidence Interval, we do not reject the null hypothesis (There is no significant difference in the means).

 

For the hospital net benefit, the p. value is also less than 0.05 hence at 95% confidence interval, the null hypothesis is not rejected, hence there is no significant difference between teaching and non-teaching hospitals in terms of performance.

 

Table 2. Descriptive statistics between teaching and non-teaching hospitals, 2011 & 2012

Variables Teaching Non-Teaching p-value
  N Mean St. Dev N Mean St. Dev  
Hospital Characteristics 936 5.554487 1.743811 2094 3.637058 1.733039 < 2.2e-16
Hospital beds 936 549.0256 605.0675 2094 299.6791 536.7652 < 2.2e-16
Number of paid Employee 929 2475.563 2550.745 2084 869.8128 1001.237 < 2.2e-16
Number of non-paid Employee 30 57.08453 101.8859 30 27.65823 32.58495 6.653e-05
Internes and Residents 617 124.8958 179.446 308 41.52964 96.46728 < 2.2e-16
System Membership 936 0.6698718 0.4705105 2094 .5773639 0.4940966 < 2.2e-16
               
Total hospital cost 936 392976714 424408629 2094 136608825 169943309 < 2.2e-16
Total hospital revenues 936 417498875 457483256 2094 145244082 184064399 < 2.2e-16
Hospital net benefit 936 24522169 52182871 2094 8635291 30582257 < 2.2e-16
               
Available Medicare days 929 28825.6 24287.36 2086 11626.08 13979.94 < 2.2e-16
Available Medicaid days 929 10372.87 13102.66 2056 3057.124 5538.334 < 2.2e-16
               
Total Hospital Discharge 929 16649.56 13564.48 2088 6345.484 7654.591 < 2.2e-16
Medicare discharge 929 5571.574 4247.162 2086 2455.252 2773.352 < 2.2e-16
Medicaid discharge 929 2011.146 2310.712 2050 723.5776 1227.923 < 2.2e-16

(Note: Master RStudio script is available for this exercise, but you need to modify that for this analysis)

Week 3 Exercise:

The dataset provides Herfindahl–Hirschman Index, and herfindahel index categories, please use the herf_cat variable and answer the following questions:

Note: “The Herfindahl–Hirschman Index is a commonly accepted measure of market concentration used by antitrust enforcement agencies and scholars in the field. The HHI is calculated by squaring the market share of each firm competing in the market and then summing the resulting numbers” (NASI, 2015; pp: 14-16).  read more from here:

https://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/publication/50116/2000212-Addressing-Pricing-Power-in-Health-Care-Markets.pdf

For this exercise you do not need to compute the HHI, but if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask me, but try to learn more about this you will need that to report your findings.

Use the dataset from week1 exercise and then answer the following questions:

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  1. Compare the following information between hospitals located in high, moderate and low competitive markets? (table 1)

 

Table 3. Comparing hospital characteristics and market, 2011 and 2012

Variables High Competitive Market Moderate Competitive Market Low Competitive

Market

 ANOVA (results)
  N Mean STD N Mean STD N Mean STD  
Hospital Characteristics                    
Hospital beds 219 130.9178 386.1857 1332 420.5188 594.2665 1479 373.6403 562.2281 F value=6.3724

P value=0.01164
Number of paid Employee 219 499.8935 813.2644 1324 1570.1115 1954.9221 1470 1308.9686 1722.4468 F value=3.0271

P value=0.08198
Number of non-paid Employee 0 Null Null 25 35.87832 30.50019 35 47.00928 97.11851 F value=0.3055

P value=0.5826
Internes and Residents 22 38.32182 45.60323 423 112.20558 176.11024 480 86.55375 149.89660 F value=1.9973

P value=0.1579
System Membership 219 0.4246575 0.4954233 1332 0.6073574 0.4885218 1479 0.6315078 0.4825590 F value=21.572

P value=3.553e-06
                     
Total hospital cost 219 73687086 121326585 1332 255520655 341985822 1479 201077823 267368743 F value=0.83

P value=0.3623
Total hospital revenues 219 17.48018 1.029278 1332 18.71215 1.461939 1479 18.39917 1.627141 F value=4.4126

P value=0.03576
Hospital net benefit 219 4013058 19021599 1332 15320472 39434375 1479 13353106 41078313 F value=1.8043

P value=0.1793
                     
Available Medicare days 219 5377.214 9993.885 1324 18983.776 20297.62 1472 16792.697 19219.182 F value=12.292

P value=0.0004616
Available Medicaid days 217 1416.413 4429.091 1317 6553.995 10676.835 1451 4812.455 8164.626 F value=0.0876

P value=0.7673
                     
Total Hospital Discharge 219 2607.836 5065.392 1326 11100.959 11741.300 1472 9120.806 10397.483 F value=6.1548

P value=0.01316
Medicare discharge 219 1067.938 1753.820 1324 3781.610 3652.702 1472 3435.407 3623.243 F value=19.615

P value=9.81e-06
Medicaid discharge 217 309.8802 748.9359 1334 1324.1560 1961.7498 1448 1066.6464 1605.2900 F value=2.4087

P value=0.1208
                     
Herfindahel index 219 1.963470 0.1880338 1332 1.668919 0.6663497 1479 1.697769 0.6392140 F value=9.3585

P value=0.002239

 

  1. What are the main significant differences between hospitals in different markets? (use Anova test)

Hypothesis statement

 

H0: There is no significant difference between the three competitive market levels

H1: There is a significant difference between the competitive market levels

 

The main significant difference among the three different markets are on variables Hospital beds, System membership, total hospital revenues, Available medical days, Total hospital discharge, Medicare discharge and Herfindahel index. On these 7 variables the P values are less than the level of significance of 0.05 in all cases, therefore we reject the null hypothesis and conclude that there is a significant difference in the three market levels on these 7 variables. On the rest on the variables the P value of the Anova tests is greater than the level of significance of 0.05 hence we do not reject the null hypothesis and therefore conclude that there is no significant difference.

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  1. Use the density curves and compare hospitals cost and revenues between three markets.

For hospital cost as competition reduces the mean of the total hospital increases. This is evident by the decreasing frequency on figure 5.

For the hospital revenue, from the descriptive statistics it is clear high competitive have markets have the least revenue and moderate competitive markets have the greatest revenue. This has clearly been brought out by the distribution on figure 6.

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  1. What is the impact of being in high-competitive market on hospital revenues and cost? Do you think being in high-competitive market has positive impact on net hospital benefits? What about the number of Medicare and Medicaid discharge? Do you think hospitals in higher completive market more likely to accept more Medicare and Medicaid patients? What are the impact of other variables? Please discuss your findings in 1-2 paragraphs

 

(Note: to answer to the last question, please compute the ratio-medicare-discharge and ratio-medicaid-discharge first and then run 2 ttest ) high vs. moderate and high vs. low competitive market), please support your findings with box-plot

 

In high competitive market both the total hospital cost mean and the total hospital revenue mean are lowest compared to the other two levels of market. This implies that” a high competitive market leads to low hospital cost and subsequent low revenue. This is despite the fact that Anova test shows that total hospital cost shows there is no significant difference in the three market levels while total hospital revenue shows a significant difference.

 

The mean net hospital benefit in high competitive market is 4,013,058, that of moderate competitive market is 15,320,472 and in low competitive market is 13,353,106. It is very clear that net hospital benefit is lowest in high competitive market from the mean. This implies that a high competitive market does not have a positive impact on the net hospital benefit. Despite this, there is no significant difference in net hospital benefit in the three competitive market levels.

The medicare discharge is lowest at the highest competitive market level(0) and greatest at moderate competition market level (1)

The medicaid discharge is lowest at the highest competitive market level (0) and greatest at moderate competition market level (1) although the difference in moderate competitive market level (1) and low competitive level (2) is minimal.

I believe hospitals in higher competitive market are more likely to accept more Medicare and Medicaid patients due to the low mean discharges at the high competitive market which implies there should be room to accept more Medicare and Medicaid discharges

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TWO PART ASSIGNMENT: Interdisciplinary Plan Proposal

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TWO PART ASSIGNMENT: Interdisciplinary Plan Proposal

Assessment 3 Instructions: Interdisciplinary Plan Proposal

For this assessment you will create a 2-4 page plan proposal for an interprofessional team to collaborate and work toward driving improvements in the organizational issue you identified in the second assessment.
The health care industry is always striving to improve patient outcomes and attain organizational goals. Nurses can play a critical role in achieving these goals; one way to encourage nurse participation in larger organizational efforts is to create a culture of ownership and shared responsibility (Berkow et al., 2012). Participation in interdisciplinary teams can also offer nurses opportunities to share their expertise and leadership skills, fostering a sense of ownership and collegiality.
You are encouraged to complete the Budgeting for Nurses activity before you develop the plan proposal. The activity consists of seven questions that will allow you the opportunity to check your knowledge of budgeting basics and as well as the value of financial resource management. The information gained from completing this formative will promote success with the Interdisciplinary Plan Proposal. Completing this activity also demonstrates your engagement in the course, requires just a few minutes of your time, and is not graded.
Demonstration of Proficiency

  • Competency 1: Explain strategies for managing human and financial resources to promote organizational health.
    • Explain organizational resources, including a financial budget, needed for the plan to be a success and the impacts on those resources if nothing is done, related to the improvements sought by the plan.
  • Competency 2: Explain how interdisciplinary collaboration can be used to achieve desired patient and systems outcomes.
    • Describe an objective and predictions for an evidence-based interdisciplinary plan to achieve a specific objective related to improving patient or organizational outcomes.
    • Explain the collaboration needed by an interdisciplinary team to improve the likelihood of achieving the plan’s objective. Include best practices of interdisciplinary collaboration from the literature.
  • Competency 4: Explain how change management theories and leadership strategies can enable interdisciplinary teams to achieve specific organizational goals.
    • Explain a change theory and a leadership strategy, supported by relevant evidence, that are most likely to help an interdisciplinary team succeed in collaborating and implementing, or creating buy-in for, the project plan.
  • Competency 5: Apply professional, scholarly, evidence-based communication strategies to impact patient, interdisciplinary team, and systems outcomes.
    • Communicate the interdisciplinary plan with writing that is clear, logically organized, and professional, with correct grammar and spelling, using current APA style.
  • Reference
    Berkow, S., Workman, J., Aronson, S., Stewart, J., Virkstis, K., & Kahn, M. (2012). Strengthening frontline nurse investment in organizational goals. JONA: The Journal of Nursing Administration, 42(3), 165–169.
    Professional Context
    This assessment will allow you to describe a plan proposal that includes an analysis of best practices of interprofessional collaboration, change theory, leadership strategies, and organizational resources with a financial budget that can be used to solve the problem identified through the interview you conducted in the prior assessment.
    Scenario
    Having reviewed the information gleaned from your professional interview and identified the issue, you will determine and present an objective for an interdisciplinary intervention to address the issue.
    Note: You will not be expected to implement the plan during this course. However, the plan should be evidence-based and realistic within the context of the issue and your interviewee’s organization.
    Instructions
    For this assessment, use the context of the organization where you conducted your interview to develop a viable plan for an interdisciplinary team to address the issue you identified. Define a specific patient or organizational outcome or objective based on the information gathered in your interview.
    The goal of this assessment is to clearly lay out the improvement objective for your planned interdisciplinary intervention of the issue you identified. Additionally, be sure to further build on the leadership, change, and collaboration research you completed in the previous assessment. Look for specific, real-world ways in which those strategies and best practices could be applied to encourage buy-in for the plan or facilitate the implementation of the plan for the best possible outcome.
    Using the Interdisciplinary Plan Proposal Template [DOCX] will help you stay organized and concise. As you complete each section of the template, make sure you apply APA format to in-text citations for the evidence and best practices that inform your plan, as well as the reference list at the end.
    Additionally, be sure that your plan addresses the following, which corresponds to the grading criteria in the scoring guide. Please study the scoring guide carefully so you understand what is needed for a distinguished score.
  • Describe an objective and predictions for an evidence-based interdisciplinary plan to achieve a specific goal related to improving patient or organizational outcomes.
  • Explain a change theory and a leadership strategy, supported by relevant evidence, that is most likely to help an interdisciplinary team succeed in collaborating and implementing, or creating buy-in for, the project plan.
  • Explain the collaboration needed by an interdisciplinary team to improve the likelihood of achieving the plan’s objective. Include best practices of interdisciplinary collaboration from the literature.
  • Explain organizational resources, including a financial budget, needed for the plan to succeed and the impacts on those resources if the improvements described in the plan are not made.
  • Communicate the interdisciplinary plan, with writing that is clear, logically organized, and professional, with correct grammar and spelling, using current APA style.
  • Additional Requirements
  • Length of submission: Use the provided template. Remember that part of this assessment is to make the plan easy to understand and use, so it is critical that you are clear and concise. Most submissions will be 2 to 4 pages in length. Be sure to include a reference page at the end of the plan.
  • Number of references: Cite a minimum of 3 sources of scholarly or professional evidence that support your central ideas. Resources should be no more than 5 years old.
  • APA formatting: Make sure that in-text citations and reference list follow current APA style.
  • Note: Faculty may use the Writing Feedback Tool when grading this assessment. The Writing Feedback Tool is designed to provide you with guidance and resources to develop your writing based on five core skills. You will find writing feedback in the Scoring Guide for the assessment, once your work has been evaluated.
    Portfolio Prompt: Remember to save the final assessment to your ePortfolio so that you may refer to it as you complete the final Capstone course.

    PART TWO:

Assessment 4 Instructions: Stakeholder Presentation

For this assessment you will create an 8-12 slide PowerPoint presentation for one or more stakeholder or leadership groups to generate interest and buy-in for the plan proposal you developed for the third assessment.
As a current or future nurse leader, you may be called upon to present to stakeholders and leadership about projects that you have been involved in or wish to implement. The ability to communicate a plan—and potential implications of not pursuing such a plan—to stakeholders effectively can be critically important in creating awareness and buy-in, as well as building your personal and professional brand in your organization. It is equally important that you know how to create compelling presentations for others’ delivery and ensure that they convey the same content you would deliver if you were the presenter.
You are encouraged to complete the Evidence-Based Practice: Basics and Guidelines activity before you develop the presentation. This activity consists of six questions that will create the opportunity to check your understanding of the fundamentals of evidence-based practice as well as ways to identify EBP in practice. The information gained from completing this formative will help promote success in the Stakeholder Presentation and demonstrate courseroom engagement—it requires just a few minutes of your time and is not graded.
Demonstration of Proficiency

  • Competency 1: Explain strategies for managing human and financial resources to promote organizational health.
    • Explain how the interdisciplinary plan could be implemented and how the human and financial resources would be managed.
  • Competency 2: Explain how interdisciplinary collaboration can be used to achieve desired patient and systems outcomes.
    • Explain an organizational or patient issue for which a collaborative interdisciplinary team approach would help achieve a specific improvement goal.
  • Competency 3: Describe ways to incorporate evidence-based practice within an interdisciplinary team.
    • Summarize an evidence-based interdisciplinary plan to address an organizational or patient issue.
  • Propose evidence-based criteria that could be used to evaluate the degree to which the project was successful in achieving the improvement goal.
    • Competency 5: Apply professional, scholarly, evidence-based communication strategies to impact patient, interdisciplinary team, and systems outcomes.
  • Communicate the PowerPoint presentation of the interdisciplinary improvement plan to stakeholders in a professional, respectful manner, with writing that is clear, logically organized, with correct grammar and spelling, using current APA style.
  • Professional Context
    This assessment will provide you with an opportunity to sharpen your ability to create a professional presentation to stakeholders. In this presentation, you will explain the Plan-Do-Study-Act cycle and how it can be used to introduce the plan (P), implement the plan (D), study the effectiveness of the plan (S), and act on what is learned (A) to drive continuous improvement. By using this cycle, the stakeholders will have a tool and a proposal to expand on these ideas to drive workplace change and create improved processes to solve an interprofessional collaboration problem.
    Scenario

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  • In addition to summarizing the key points of Assessments 2 and 3, you will provide stakeholders and/or leadership with an overview of project specifics as well as how success would be evaluated—you will essentially be presenting a discussion of the Plan, Do, and Study parts of the PDSA cycle. Again, you will not be expected to execute the project, so you will not have any results to study. However, by carefully examining the ways in which your plan could be carried out and evaluated, you will get some of the experience of the thinking required for PDSA.
    When creating your PowerPoint for this assessment, it is important to keep in mind the target audience: your interviewee’s organizational leadership. The overall goal of this assessment is to create a presentation that your interviewee could potentially give in his or her organization.
    Instructions
    Please follow the Capella Guidelines for Effective PowerPoint Presentations [PPTX]. If you need technical information on using PowerPoint, refer to Capella University Library: PowerPoint Presentations.
    Be sure that your plan addresses the following, which corresponds to the grading criteria in the scoring guide. Please study the scoring guide carefully so you understand what is needed for a distinguished score.
  • Explain an organizational or patient issue for which a collaborative interdisciplinary team approach would help achieve a specific improvement goal.
  • Summarize an evidence-based interdisciplinary plan to address an organizational or patient issue.
  • Explain how the interdisciplinary plan could be implemented and how the human and financial resources would be managed.
  • Propose evidence-based criteria that could be used to evaluate the degree to which the project was successful in achieving the improvement goal.
  • Communicate the PowerPoint presentation of the interdisciplinary improvement plan to stakeholders in a professional manner, with writing that is clear, logically organized, and respectful with correct grammar and spelling using current APA style.
  • There are various ways to structure your presentation; following is one example:
  • Part 1: Organizational or Patient Issue.
    • What is the issue that you are trying to solve or improve?
    • Why should the audience care about solving it?
  • Part 2: Relevance of an Interdisciplinary Team Approach.
    • Why is using an interdisciplinary team relevant, or the best approach, to addressing the issue?
    • How will it help to achieve improved outcomes or reach a goal?
  • Part 3: Interdisciplinary Plan Summary.
    • What is the objective?
    • How likely is it to work?
    • What will the interdisciplinary team do?
  • Part 4: Implementation and Resource Management.
    • How could the plan be implemented to ensure effective use of resources?
    • How could the plan be managed to ensure that resources were not wasted?
    • How does the plan justify the resource expenditure?
  • Part 5: Evaluation.
    • What would a successful outcome of the project look like?
    • What are the criteria that could be used to measure that success?
      • How could this be used to show the degree of success?
  • Again, keep in mind that your audience for this presentation is a specific group (or groups) at your interviewee’s organization and tailor your language and messaging accordingly. Remember, also, that another person will ultimately be giving the presentation. Include thorough speaker’s notes that flesh out the bullet points on each slide.
    Additional Requirements
  • Number of slides: Plan on using one or two slides for each part of your presentation as needed, so the content of your presentation will be 8–12 slides in length. Remember that slides should contain concise talking points, and you will use presenter’s notes to go into detail. Be sure to include a reference slide as the last slide of your presentation.
  • Number of references: Cite a minimum of 3 sources of scholarly or professional evidence that support your central ideas. Resources should be no more than five years old.
  • APA formatting: Make sure that in-text citations on your slides and in your notes pages and reference slide reflect current APA Style and Format.
  • Portfolio Prompt: Remember to save the final assessment to your ePortfolio so that you may refer to it as you complete the final Capstone course.

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Healthcare system comparison

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Healthcare system comparison

 

  1. Compare the U.S. healthcare system with the healthcare system of Great Britain, Japan, Germany, or Switzerland, by doing the following:

 

  1. Identify one country from the following list whose healthcare system you will compare to the U.S. healthcare system: Great Britain, Japan, Germany, or Switzerland.

The identified country for comparison is from the given list.

 

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  1. Compare access between the two healthcare systems for children, people who are unemployed, and people who are retired.

The comparison accurately describes access to healthcare systems in both the U.S. and the country chosen in part A1 for children, people who are unemployed, and people who are retired. The comparison logically describes the similarities and differences between access to each of the healthcare systems for all of the given groups of people.

 

  1. Discuss coverage for medications in the two healthcare systems.

The discussion of coverage for medications is accurate and relevant to both the U.S. healthcare system and the healthcare system of the country chosen in part A1.

 

  1. Determine the requirements to get a referral to see a specialist in the two healthcare systems.

The submission accurately determines the requirements to get a referral to see a specialist for both the U.S. healthcare system and the healthcare system of the country chosen in part A1.

 

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  1. Discuss coverage for preexisting conditions in the two healthcare systems.

The discussion of coverage for preexisting conditions is accurate and relevant to both the U.S. healthcare system and the healthcare system of the country chosen in part A1.

 

 

  1. Explain two financial implications for patients with regard to the healthcare delivery differences between the two countries (i.e.; how are the patients financially impacted).

 

The explanation logically discusses 2 financial implications for the patient in regards to the delivery differences in both the U.S. healthcare system and the healthcare system of the country chosen in part A1.

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personality theory matrix

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Behavioral, Social-Cognitive, and Humanistic Personality Theories Matrix

Introduction

The behavioral perspective believes that personality is the result of your interactions with your environment. The social-cognitive perspective suggests you learn from observing others not just what you learn from your own experiences. And the humanistic perspective stresses the whole individual and delves into free will, self-efficacy, and self-actualization.

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Instructions

This assignment will allow you to demonstrate how effectively you can compare and contrast behavioral, social-cognitive, and humanistic perspectives of personality (Course Learning Outcome #3).

For your final assignment at the publishing house, you have once again been asked to work with the author on a chapter for the personality theories book being published. You have been tasked with developing a matrix which will compare and contrast behavioral, social-cognitive, and humanistic perspectives of personality theories. This chapter will focus on how these theories can improve the readers’ personal and professional lives.

Complete the Personality Theories Matrix below. The information you develop in this matrix will inform the chapter on behavioral, social-cognitive, and humanistic perspectives of personality theories.

  • Discuss how each criterion is represented in each personality theory. Respond in approximately 40 words per criterion. Explain your answers.
  • Provide the page number from the textbook where you found the information for each response.

 

Use a citation generator, such as the Reference & Citation Generator in the Center for Writing Excellence for guidance on formatting your reference list using APA format. Consult the References page on the APA Style website for assistance. Don’t worry about perfection. If you make a mistake, your faculty member can help, so please let your faculty member know if you have any questions.

Submit your assignment.

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Matrix

Personality Theories Criterion – How does each theory:
Define personality and how personalities develop Explain intelligence and creativity Contribute to your personal and professional growth Define how your environment and past experiences play a part in your personality Identify with your basic human needs View behavior motivation of yourself and others Describe how your personality is affected by human observation
Behavioral perspective              
Social-cognitive perspective              
Humanistic perspective              

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Psy 4900 number 1

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Psy 4900 number 1

For this assessment, you will choose a case study and analyze the cultural implications of the situation described. In Assessment 2, you will analyze ethical aspects of the same case. In Assessment 3, you will record a presentation to communicate your research and plan for this case.

Preparation

Complete the following Capella multimedia presentation and select which case you wish to analyze.

Use the following resource to identify and address some of the cultural concerns in the case you select.

  • Introduction to Hays’s ADDRESSING Model [PDF].​
    • Hays’s ADDRESSING model includes 10 major factors of cultural difference that are most common in the United States. This model is very helpful for recognizing cultural differences and potential bias.

Think of this assessment as a report you would make in a professional context.

  • Analyze how the problem described in the case study you selected may unfairly impact members of the populations described in the Introduction to Hays’s ADDRESSING Model document. Initially, you should brainstorm as many such effects as possible that relate to the case you selected.
  • When you have developed many entries, combine ideas that are similar.
  • Assess each of your remaining entries in terms of importance:
    • In what ways is it inequitable?
    • How great or severe is the effect?
    • How many people may be affected?
  • Take care that you do not allow your own biases to minimize your assessments.
  • Choose the entry that seems to be of greatest importance on the basis of your evaluation, and elaborate on that aspect for your selected case.

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Instructions

Write a 6–8 page paper in which you examine three main areas as they relate to the specific case you have selected:

  • Theory: Application of theory to the specific case.
  • Research: Understanding of research methods and application of findings.
  • Cultural Competence:Knowledge and application of cultural competency skills.
Theory
  1. Select a minimum of two theories that are relevant to the case you chose. The theories should help explain concerns for the client, such as developmental or contextual issues. Analyze how those psychological theories point toward potential solutions for a problem.
    • Of the theories you select, make sure at least one provides a framework for understanding the cultural issues between the individuals in the case.
  2. Explain how these theories help us to understand the individual client or patient in the case and how they can direct the professionals in the case to a potential solution.
    • Note that theory can help us understand where the individual (client or patient) is in her development. For example, psychosocial theory would help explain individual development, or ecological systems theory would help explain the impact of environmental interaction on the individual.
Research
  1. Select two original research studies that help us understand the situation in the case you selected and potentially lead to interventions in the case.
    • Cite the research studies, using APA style.
  2. Explain the research design and methods used in the research studies. What type of research was conducted, who was studied, and how?
  3. Describe the researchers’ findings.
  4. Next, explain how the findings in the studies relate to the case you selected. How do these findings help us formulate a potential solution or intervention in the case?
Cultural Competence
  1. Use a model of cultural competency to explain the competencies needed for working in a culturally diverse environment.
  2. Apply those cultural competencies to assist the professional in your case to help resolve a particular culture-related issue.
  3. Construct a plan to develop your own professional cultural sensitivity. For this section you may write in first person.
    • Explain how the guidelines you developed for the professional will help guide you in your future work as a professional.
    • Discuss some steps you could take to further your own growth in cultural competencies.

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CASE STUDY BELOW FOR ASSIGNMENTS

Hannah Kennard, High school counselor

Adara Watson, High school student

Hannah and Adara

Hannah, a 36-year old African American woman, moved to Riverbend City ten years ago. She loves her work as a school counselor and, although she does not have children of her own, she says that “children are my life.” The principal and teachers at Cargill Academy appreciate her hard work with the students. She often puts in long hours.

Hannah is working with Adara, a 15-year old Muslim-American. Her parents immigrated to Detroit, Michigan from Iraq in 1999. She and her siblings were born and grew up in Dearborn, a suburb of Detroit. They moved to Riverbend City when Adara was 11 years old.

Adara is feeling depressed but isn’t sure why. Lately she has been wishing she wasn’t alive. She decided to talk to Hannah.

She talks about feeling “different” from others in school. She has friends at school, with whom she spends some time outside of school; however, she is acutely aware that she is the only Muslim-American among all the people she knows. She is the only person to wear a headscarf that her parents require her to wear, following their cultural and religious traditions. She often feels other kids staring at her, and sometimes they make rude comments. She has been bullied on social media, with other kids accusing her of being a “terrorist.”

She has enjoyed her conversations with Hannah and feels better after she leaves her office. Hannah has encouraged her to talk with her parents about seeing a therapist. Adara has resisted, and says her parents will not support her seeing a therapist.

During their last visit, Adara told Hannah that she wishes she was dead. Hannah called her parents to let them know. Now Adara is angry with Hannah and feels her trust has been violated. She says, “My counselor told my mother about everything. Now I feel like I can’t trust her. Doesn’t she have to keep what I say to herself?”

Consider the individual, family, societal, cultural, and ethical issues that Hannah must think about as she interacts with Adara and her parents.

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