Recognizing Comic Types

Choose a popular comedy (play, film, or television series) and discuss what kind or kinds of comedy seem to define it: satire, comedy of character, farce, or parody. Which of its features suggest this classification to you?

Community Health Assessment

Write a 2–4-page report on the concepts, processes, and tools needed to conduct a community health assessment, how to find the data, and how to validate the data. Explain the factors that can affect the health of a community, along with how to obtain that information.

Understanding community and state health care issues and concerns, the local resources available, and accessibility of those resources can inform health care practices and improve quality patient outcomes.  

Questions to Consider 

To deepen your understanding, you are encouraged to consider the questions below and discuss them with a fellow learner, a work associate, an interested friend, or a member of your professional community.

What types of techniques and activities should be included in a community health assessment?

How can these techniques and activities help determine both assets and gaps in health care services in a community?

Write an article for a community newsletter for a local retirement village that explains the laws, policies, and choices surrounding end-of-life health care decisions.

Nurses are at the bedside during the dying process; they spend entire shifts with patients and families; they develop trusting relationships; and they are competent to assess patient and family needs. Nurses gain a unique perspective that allows them to become aware when a patient is not responding to treatment. This perspective places nurses in a position to facilitate end-of-life decision making. (Adams, Bailey. Anderson, & Docherty, 2011, para. 4)

Assessment Instructions 

Your manager asked you to prepare an article for a community newsletter for a local retirement village. The editor wants you to talk about the laws, policies, and choices surrounding end-of-life health care decisions

Preparation 

Search the Capella library or the Internet for scholarly and professional peer-reviewed articles on end-of-life care. You will need at least three articles to use as support for your work on this assessment.

Directions

Write an article of 750–1,000 words (3–4 pages) that discusses the laws, policies, and choices surrounding end-of-life health care decisions. Address the following in your article: 

Describe the role of the nurse in end-of-life decision making with patients and their families.

Explain the legislation that generated end-of-life health care policies. Was the legislation an outcome of a specific medical case?

Identify the primary policies regarding current health care practices related to end-of-life health care decisions. How to these policies affect treatment decisions?

Explain the effect of end-of-life regulations and controls on patient outcomes. What effect does this have on the nurse-patient relationship?

Describe the ethical considerations that have influenced policy decisions in regard to end-of-life decisions.

Strategic Planning And Budgeting

Imagine you are considering the possibility of operating a small business or practice related to health care, either as a provider of some sort of care or as a service intended to support various provider organizations in their care-delivery activities.

Describe the kind of entity you plan to establish by stating the service or services you propose to deliver and the kinds of clients or customers you would be serving.  

Write a few sentences offering compelling reasons for your proposed venture, explaining why you believe it is needed and by whom it is needed.  Also discuss any competition you foresee.  

Develop an estimate of how much money you will require to become established in business, and state how you would finance your venture. Also discuss your plans for maintaining your budget.

Create a mission or vision statement for your organization.

Committees And Teams

Select either Option A or Option B to respond to and indicate within your post which option you chose. 

Option A: Identify what you believe are the top three challenges in setting up a hospital-based committee from a managerial perspective.  In a 250- to 300-word post, discuss your rationale and address the following questions: 

Why are committees advantageous for health care organizations? 

What are some of the steps that you as a manager, could take to overcome these challenges? 

How would you address conflict and/or divisiveness within the committee or team? 

Option B : Committees have been determined as a necessary component to health care organizations.  As a manager, you have been tasked to set up a committee with one of the hospital departments.  In doing so, consider the following questions:  

How much influence should the committee have in the overall management structure? 

How would you maintain authority without adopting an autocratic leadership style? 

How would you set up an employee team without violating union and labors laws? 

Healthcare Assignment

  describe in 2-3 pages, the therapeutic use of self “boundaries” that need to be established during the nurse-client relationship? Give examples. Explain how and what can be done if boundaries are violated by the client? What behaviors and actions must you exhibit to not violate boundaries? APA format with references

Marketing Plan

To prepare for this assignment, read this week’s required article by Firshein (1996). For your Final Project, you will compile the work you have completed throughout the course to develop a 10- to 15-page marketing plan that supports the goals of a strategic plan for a real-world healthcare organization, incorporating instructor and peer feedback as appropriate. The Marketing Plan must contain the following sections:

Executive Summary

Provide a brief summary of the marketing plan.

Introduction

State the objectives of the strategic plan.

Explain how your marketing plan will achieve specific objectives and support the organization’s business plan and strategic plan.

Market Analysis

Describe the organization’s products and services

Explain how these products and services meet the needs of the organization’s determined customer base.

Include relevant aspects from the SWOT analysis you conducted in Week Two.

State the competitive advantage your plan provides.

Environmental Analyses

Internal: Include an analysis of the role of leadership and employees, the communication processes, and the culture of the workplace.

External: Include an analysis of socioeconomic, legal, ethical, political, and technological factors that could affect the organization.

Describe how data, based on the quadrants presented in the Boston Consulting Group Matrix, would apply to your marketing plan.

Marketing Mix

Describe the marketing opportunities and marketing goals for your chosen HCO.

Explain the marketing strategies that are employed in your plan.    

Apply market segmentation to your plan based on the target markets you have identified.

Explain how database marketing was used or why it was not included in your marketing plan.

Plan Evaluation

Discuss methods of performance evaluation and monitoring that will be used to evaluate the success of your chosen healthcare organization’s marketing plan.

Explain why reports for a particular timeframe (weekly, monthly, quarterly) would be important and how you would use feedback in these reports to control the future of your marketing.

Patient Self Determination

Read the case below on Dax Cowart which will be the topic of the Ethical Issue Paper. You will identify both sides of the issue and then analyze the case using ethical theory and principle to support your comments.See the guidelines and grading rubric for details on the assignment. Once completed, the paper will be submitted in the Assignment Submission Area to the link labeled Ethical Issues Paper. Once submitted, the paper will go directly to Turnitin which is a plagiarism tool. Once you have received your similarity report and made any required edits to ensure the similarity percent is below 24%, submit the final paper to the link under the Assignment Submission area labeled Final Paper Submission for grading

Implementation Of The IOM Future Of Nursing Report

Details:

In a formal paper of 1,000-1,250 words you will discuss the work of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Committee Initiative on the Future of Nursing and the Institute of Medicine research that led to the IOM report, “Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health.” Identify the importance of the IOM “Future of Nursing” report related to nursing practice, nursing education and nursing workforce development. What is the role of state-based action coalitions and how do they advance goals of the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action?

Explore the Campaign for Action webpage (you may need to research your state’s website independently if it is not active on this site): http://campaignforaction.org/states

Review your state’s progress report by locating your state and clicking on one of the six progress icons for: education, leadership, practice, interpersonal collaboration, diversity, and data. You can also download a full progress report for your state by clicking on the box located at the bottom of the webpage.

In a paper of 1,000-1,250 words:

Discuss the work of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Committee Initiative on the Future of Nursing and the Institute of Medicine research that led to the IOM report, “Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health.”

Identify the importance of the IOM “Future of Nursing” report related to nursing practice, nursing education and nursing workforce development.

What is the role of state-based action coalitions and how do they advance goals of the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action?

Summarize two initiatives spearheaded by your state’s action coalition. In what ways do these initiatives advance the nursing profession? What barriers to advancement currently exist in your state? How can nursing advocates in your state overcome these barriers?

Details:

Prepare a 10-minute presentation (10-15 slides, not including title or reference slide) on organizational culture and values.

1. Describe how alignment between the values of an organization and the values of the nurse impact nurse engagement and patient outcomes.
2. Discuss how an individual can use effective communication techniques to overcome workplace challenges, encourage collaboration across groups, and promote effective problem solving. Incorporate how system needs and the culture of health may influence the outcomes. How does this relate to health promotion and disease prevention in the larger picture?
3. Identify a specific instance from your own professional experience in which the values of the organization and the values of the individual nurses did or did not align. Describe the impact this had on nurse engagement and patient outcomes.

While APA style format is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected and in-text citations and references should be presented using APA documentation guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.