Day: May 18, 2022

 

Assume you are sharing an elevator while attending a conference when a fellow attendee notices your nametag and credentials and asks you what exactly you do as an MFT. Prepare an elevator to talk to sell your approach as a systemic thinker that could be delivered in about two minutes. Consider approaching this assignment from a place of selling yourself and your line of work. In fact, you may want to think of it as a way to offer your business cards to potential clients.

You could mention the following concepts in a way that allows your fellow elevator travelers to understand your philosophy:

• Feedback loops
• Homeostasis
• Causality
• The whole is greater than the sum of its parts

Remember that an elevator speech must be:

• Brief
• Easy to deliver
• Positive and non-defensive
• In everyday language that people can understand
• Free of therapy jargon

Length: 1-2 pages

References: References are not required for this assignment, but be sure to properly cite and reference any if included

Topic: Deviance & Crime: War on Drugs

Background

Since the 1960s, the U.S. has taken a very proactive and expansive role in the prohibition of illegal substance manufacturing, distribution, and usage. Widespread control has taken place in every level of governmentfederal, state, and local. Specific impacts are seen in spending, imprisonment, and the educational systems, which were designed to proactively address drugs with the younger generation. Based on this information, respond to the following questions as stipulated in the instructions.

Discussion Question(s)

Based on your personal opinion, is the war on drugs justifiable, e.g., morally, economically, and socially?
Should we continue to combat drug usage? If so, to what extent should we continue to combat the drug issue, i.e., no drugs, some drugs, or no limitations on drugs?
What is your reasoning for continuing or discontinuing federal, state, and/or local intervention in drug control?

 In this formative activity you will explore Lean and Six Sigma concepts applied to health care for process and performance improvement. Consider how Lean and Six Sigma could be applied to improve health care economics and the application of health care financial and funding models. You will write a paper to summarize the concepts of Lean and Six Sigma and the application of Lean and Six Sigma in a selected case study from the American Society for Quality resource, .

Instructions

Select a case study from . Then, write a 12 page paper in which you:

1. Summarize the application of Lean and Six Sigma in the case study.
2. Summarize ways in which Lean and Six Sigma could be applied to improve health care economics and the application of health care financial and funding models.
3. Use at least two sources to support your writing. Choose sources that are credible, relevant, and appropriate. Cite each source listed on your source page at least one time within your assignment. For help with research, writing, and citation, access the  or review .

Resources

• American Society for Quality. No date. . https://asq.org/healthcare-use/why-quality/case-studies.html
• American Society for Quality. No date.  https://asq.org/quality-resources/six-sigma
• American Society for Quality. No date. . https://asq.org/healthcaresixsigma/lean-six-sigma.html

 

1. If you have you been involved with a company doing a redesign of business processes, discuss what went right during the redesign and what went wrong from your perspective. Additionally, provide a discussion on what could have been done better to minimize the risk of failure. If you have not yet been involved with a business process redesign, research a company that has recently completed one and discuss what went wrong, what went right, and how the company could have done a better job minimizing the risk of failure.
   Your paper should meet the following requirements:
   Be approximately 4-6 pages in length, not including the required cover page and reference page.
   Follow APA7 guidelines. Your paper should include an introduction, a body with fully developed content, and a conclusion.
   Support your answers with the readings from the course and at least two scholarly journal articles to support your positions, claims, and observations, in addition to your textbook. The school Library is a great place to find resources.
   Be clearly and well-written, concise, and logical, using excellent grammar and style techniques. You are being graded in part on the quality of your writing.

 1. Differentiate between private and public sector functions and responsibilities in the delivery of health care.
Public medical care is normally given by the public authority through public medical services frameworks. Private medical services can be given through “revenue driven” emergency clinics and independently employed specialists, and “not really for benefit” non-government suppliers, including religious associations. Public wellbeing administrations center around securing and advancing the strength of whole populaces, while medical care administrations center around diagnosing and treating individual patients. Detailed proficiency would in general be lower in the private than in the public area, bringing about part from unreasonable motivating forces for pointless testing and treatment. Public area administrations experienced more restricted accessibility of gear, drugs, and prepared medical care laborers. At the point when the meaning of “private area” included unlicensed and uncertified suppliers, for example, drug retailers, most patients seemed to get to mind in the private area; be that as it may, when unlicensed medical services suppliers were prohibited from the examination, most of individuals got to public area care. “Cutthroat elements” for subsidizing showed up between the two areas, to such an extent that public assets and faculty were diverted to private area improvement, trailed by decreases in public area administration financial plans and staff. The examination found that private short term centers frequently would be wise to sedate supplies and responsiveness than public facilities, however the investigation didn’t survey different components of wellbeing framework execution (like availability). The survey prohibited investigations of clinics, case reports, intercession studies, (for example, how an area answered quality improvement programs), or measurable investigations of populace level information.
2. Describe the mechanisms by which health care in the United States is financed in both the private sector and the public sectors.
Yes, financial plans and medical care suppliers in the United States are a mix of public and private, for-benefit and good cause. The central government subsidizes a few projects for veterans and low-pay individuals, including Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program, as well as the public Medicare program for people 65 and more seasoned and certain individuals with handicaps. Parts of neighborhood inclusion and the security net are overseen and paid for by states. Businesses are the essential suppliers of private protection, which is the most well-known sort of inclusion. The uninsured rate has dropped to 8.5 percent of the populace, down from 16% in 2010, the year the Affordable Care Act was endorsed into regulation. Inside government and state guidelines, public and business back up plans plan their own advantage bundles and cost-sharing designs.
3. Analyze the influence of health legislation on the health care delivery system.
Separately and altogether, Americans should approach great medical care benefits that are actually organized inside a hearty public wellbeing framework to accomplish ideal wellbeing. The panel started by thinking about one of the suggestions in the Institute of Medicine (IOM) report Crossing the Quality Chasm (2001b: 6): “All medical services associations, proficient gatherings, and private and public buyers ought to embrace as their express reason to persistently lessen the weight of disease, injury, and incapacity, and to work on the wellbeing and working of the country.” President Barak Obama marked the Affordable Care Act (ACA) into regulation in March 2010, a to some degree altered adaptation of the comprehensive inclusion imagined by presidents since the mid-1900s. The demonstration urges most Americans to look for health care coverage inclusion and forces a punishment on the individuals who don’t do as such, with a couple of exemptions for specific safeguarded gatherings. Organizations with in excess of 200 representatives are legally necessary to give health care coverage inclusion. The demonstration additionally made the American Health Benefits Exchange, which permits residents to analyze and survey protection plans.

References
Kumar. R. (2011). Technology and healthcare costs
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/51223548_Technology_and_healthcare_costs
Buttell, P. (2007). Quality in Healthcare: Concepts and Practice
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/255620653_Quality_in_Healthcare_Concepts_and_Practice
Jovic, S. (2012). Measures for Improving the Quality of Health Care
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262724426_Measures_for_Improving_the_Quality_of_Health_Care 

 

• Weight: 8% of course grade
• Due: Tuesday, 05/24/2022 11:59 PM (CST)

Instructions

Course Project, Executive Summary

For the project selected in Unit I, prepare a PowerPoint presentation of a minimum of 10 slides to provide an executive summary briefing. The minimum number of slides does not count the title slide or the references slide. The presentation should summarize each part of the course project that you developed throughout this course. The goal of the briefing PowerPoint presentation is to offer a succinct yet comprehensive view of your project stakeholder and communication plan. This includes the following elements:

• Part 1: Project Selection, Stakeholder Identification, And Stakeholder Analysis
• Part 2: Resource Management Plan and RACI (responsible, accountable, consulted, and informed) Chart
• Part 3: Communication Plan
• Part 4: Stakeholder Plan
• Part 5: Resource Acquisition Plan
• Part 6: Team Development Plan
• Part 7: Team Performance Reporting
• Part 8: Stakeholder Engagement Monitor and Control Plan (from the assignment also in this unit)

Adhere to APA Style when constructing this assignment, including in-text citations and references for all sources that are used. 

 

Influence health care through advocacy.

by  

The practice of health incidence in nursing has been defined as a process of promoting the independence and autonomy of users as well as health services, it is also characterized by providing information on decision making in the area of health and offering support to the decisions that are made for the defense of patients, this being an important responsibility of nursing (Heck et al., 2022).

Therefore, we can define the defenders who watch over the rights and interests of patients and guarantee the safety of those who cannot defend themselves. It is important the self-determination of patients, as nurses we have to act and help as a resource between patients and the health system, as influence the heath care through the process to translate hospital policies and clinical information into understandable language.

Nevertheless, nurses are approachable and familiarize themselves with the policy, politics and advocacy in the health care settings, being able to acquire and complement knowledge on professional practice in different work environments such as the educational field, in hospital practice, private and public health care settings.

It should be noted that the responsibility of the defense of nurses when it comes to offering direct care through the hospital and domestic care organizations, the role of nurses as patient advocates is not well understood. However, advocacy extends to the broader social system, nurses’ advocacy responsibility for providing direct care. It is important to establish the relationship between the patient and the nurse, and understand their interests, values and what they want and need from healthcare professionals. Moreover, our advocacy should focus on the following key pillars: improving the patient’s health, helping thought the process during access to information, ensuring the quality and integrity of health information, and advancing the transformation of health care (Riplinger, L. 2022).

As well as there is an ethical imperative to do so, driven by the defense role of the nurse and rooted in the value base of nursing. In addition, the role of patient advocacy is important as the core of the nursing role, for this two things are required of nurses: first, we must expand the conceptualization of patient advocacy beyond the patient as an individual to the system, and second, see systemic change as an important and key factor in influencing human health (Scott, S.M., & Scott, P. A. 2021).

Today it is questioned whether nurses apply advocacy in different levels of nursing practice. Today, the nurses are engaged more than ever before, thought the lived experience provides during the global pandemic. Nurses are promoting health, advocating for patients, and advancing the science of care. Overall, nurses have high rates of exposure to infectious diseases and have been facing a global shortage of staff, studies of the disease, studies about effective treatment, and institutions have implemented unconventional practices. The most important Nurses being especially susceptible to burnout and can be be psychologically and physically affected. Instead, nurses are facing the pandemic, alongside advocacy for more support.

Heck, L. O., Carrara, B. S., Mendes, I. A. C., & Arena Ventura, C. A. (2022). Nursing and advocacy in health: An integrative review. Nursing Ethics, 09697330211062981.

Riplinger, L. (2022). Transforming health and healthcare through advocacy. Journal of AHIMA, 2.

Scott, S. M., & Scott, P. A. (2021). Nursing, advocacy and public policy. Nursing Ethics, 28(5), 723733. https://doi.org/10.1177/0969733020961823

 Assess real-world project failure due to poor stakeholder management.Search the  internet to find an example of a project that failed due to poor stakeholder management. (Note: While the reasons for project failure are many, not all failures are linked to stakeholder management deficiencies. Projects with many stakeholders such as highly visible public projects and/or failed product development launches are good examples to begin your search.) Your submission should include the following:

1. Brief summary of project,
2. Explanation of why the project is considered to be a failure,
3. Description of the stakeholder issue linked to the project failure along with your supporting rationale, and
4. Recommendations for what the project team could have done to avoid the problem.

Submit a minimum one-page document, not counting the title page or the reference list. Your submission should include at least one external source.
Adhere to APA Style when constructing this assignment, including in-text citations and references for all sources that are used. Please note that no abstract is needed. 

 

The Euro-Disney Project: Stakeholders Misunderstood?

Disney launched a new theme park in Europe in 1992 and faced immediate disappointing results. Read the articles in Required Resources, and in addition, feel free to search for additional articles in the CSU Online library to use in answering the following questions:

1. Assume that you were the project manager for the Euro Disney theme park launch. What in your view are the top five stakeholder groups that you would have identified?
2. What categories would you assign to each of the identified categories? (Use unaware, resistant, neutral, supportive, and leading as your categories.)
3. What strategies would you employ to address resistant stakeholder groups? Would your selected strategies differ in any way from managing stakeholders within your home country? Why, or why not?
4. Briefly describe what you believe Disney got wrong in their stakeholder identification and management.

Your submission should be a minimum of two pages in length. Adhere to APA Style when constructing this assignment, including in-text citations and references for all sources that are used. Please note that no abstract is needed. 

 

• Weight: 9% of course grade
• Due: Tuesday, 05/24/2022 11:59 PM (CST)

Instructions

Part 8: Stakeholder Engagement Monitor and Control Plan

For the project selected in Unit I, create a simple stakeholder engagement monitor and control plan. Your plan should follow the process for managing and monitoring stakeholder engagement, as referred to in Figures 9.1 and 9.2 in the textbook. Your plan should include an introduction, and should answer the following questions:

• What specific soft skills will you employ in managing project stakeholders?
• What ground rules will you establish for managing project stakeholders?
• What types of meetings do you plan to have with project stakeholders? How often do you plan to hold them?
• How will you manage change requests from stakeholders?
• How will you monitor stakeholders and levels of stakeholder engagement?
• How will you manage changes to stakeholder requirements?
• What historical documents will you update in the process of managing and monitoring stakeholders?

Create the stakeholder management and control plan that addresses the questions above. Feel free to use tables, graphics, or document template examples to summarize your policy and approach. As a guide to depth, your stakeholder management and control plan should be a minimum of two pages in length. If you use tables, you may either create your table in Word and include it at the end of the document, or submit it as a separate Excel file.Adhere to APA Style when constructing this assignment, including in-text citations and references for all sources that are used. Please note that no abstract is needed.