Uncategorized

Showing 46–54 of 148 results

  • Implementation of risk management strategies

    $10.00

    The purpose of this assignment is to create an educational program that supports the implementation of risk management strategies in a health care organization.

    In this assignment, you will develop an outline for an “in‐service”‐style educational risk management program for employees of a particular health care organization that will then form the basis for a PowerPoint presentation in Topic 5. Select your topic for this educational session from one of the proposed recommendations or changes you suggested in the Risk Management Program Analysis – Part One assignment to enhance, improve, or secure compliance standards in your chosen risk management plan example.

    Create a 500‐750-word comprehensive outline that communicates the following about your chosen topic:

    1. Introduction: Identify the risk management topic you have chosen to address and why it is important within your health care sector.
    2. Rationale: Illustrate how this risk management strategy is lacking within your selected organization’s current risk management plan and explain how its implementation will better meet local, state, and federal compliance standards.
    3. Support: Provide data that indicate the need for this proposed risk management initiative and demonstrate how it falls under the organization’s legal responsibility to provide a safe health care facility and work environment.
    4. Implementation: Describe the steps to implement the proposed strategy in your selected health care organization.
    5. Challenges: Predict obstacles the health care organization may face in executing this risk management strategy and propose solutions to navigate or preempt these potentially difficult outcomes.
    6. Evaluation: Outline your plan to evaluate the success of the proposed risk management program and how well it meets the organization’s short-term, long-term, and end goals.
    7. Opportunities: Recommend additional risk management improvements in adjacent areas of influence that the organization could or should address moving forward.

    You are required to incorporate all instructor feedback from this assignment into Educational Program on Risk Management Part Two ‐ Slide Presentation assignment in Topic 5. To save time later in the course, consider addressing any feedback soon after this assignment has been graded and returned to you. It may be helpful to preview the requirements for the Topic 5 assignment to ensure that your outline addresses all required elements for submission of the final presentation.

    You are required to support your statements with a minimum of six citations from appropriate credible sources.

    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.

    You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. A link to the LopesWrite technical support articles is located in Class Resources if you need assistance.

    Download File

  • Appraise the Merits of Using the Qualitative Method

    $20.00

    Continue with the CITI training. This week’s readings and activities were introspective: you had to evaluate how your choice of a degree path and your worldview will affect your research. Now you will appraise the merits of qualitative research designs.

    Begin your paper with an overview of the value of qualitative research (1-2 cited paragraphs). Be sure to make the connection between the research problem and the qualitative approach.
    Determine if there is the potential to employ a mixed methods approach (1-2 cited paragraphs).
    Explain how your degree path informs your research approach (1-2 cited paragraphs).
    Based on your discovery of your worldview, share your thoughts about how this will affect your research (1-2 cited paragraphs).
    Justify and construct a theoretical or conceptual framework for the research problem; this section must be clearly written to ensure that the reader is seeing the proposed research through your framework.
    Include a brief discussion on how your degree type affected your framework selection.
    Length: 3-5 pages.

    References: Include a minimum of 5 scholarly sources; find 3 additional sources to support your framework.

    Your written assignment should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts presented in the course and provide new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic. Your response should reflect scholarly writing and current APA standards.

    Download File

  • Week 2 Self Help Kiosks

    $10.00

    DQ1:
    With the growing importance of increasing wage rates for employees, many health care organizations are implementing technology such as self-help kiosks to reduce staffing. Describe both an advantage and a disadvantage to this practice and discuss how patients may perceive reductions in dedicated staffing
    DQ2:
    Research the role of an administrator versus that of a nonmanagement staff member in dealing with a workers’ compensation incident in a typical health care organization. What are the minimal responsibilities and reporting duties for each? What recommendations would you suggest for improving organizational compliance with regulatory requirements at the staff level? Support your analysis with a minimum of one peer-reviewed reference.

    Download File

  • Health care risk management program

    $15.00

    The purpose of this assignment is to analyze a health care risk management program.

    Conduct research on approaches to risk management processes, policies, and concerns in your current or anticipated professional arena to find an example of a risk management plan. Look for a plan with sufficient content to be able to complete this assignment successfully. In a 1,000‐1,250-word paper, provide an analysis of the risk management plan that includes the following:

    1. Summary of the type of risk management plan you selected (new employee, specific audience, community‐focused, etc.) and your rationale for selecting that example. Describe the health care organization to which the plan applies and the role risk management plays in that setting.
    2. Description of the standard administrative steps and processes in a typical health care organization’s risk management program compared to the administrative steps and processes you identify in your selected example plan. (Note: For standard risk management policies and procedures, look up the MIPPA-approved accrediting body that regulates the risk management standards in your chosen health care sector, and consider federal, state, and local statutes as well.)
    3. Analysis of the key agencies and organizations that regulate the administration of safe health care in your area of concentration and an evaluation of the roles each one plays in the risk management oversight process.
    4. Evaluation of your selected risk management plan’s compliance with the standards of its corresponding MIPPA-approved accrediting body relevant to privacy, health care worker safety, and patient safety.
    5. Proposed recommendations or changes you would implement in your risk management program example to enhance, improve, or secure the aforementioned compliance standards.

    In addition to your textbook, you are required to support your analysis with a minimum of three peer‐reviewed references.

    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.

    You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. A link to the LopesWrite technical support articles is located in Class Resources if you need assistance.

    Download File

  • Apply the Qualitative Method and the Research Problem

    $15.00

    The focus of this week’s assignment is on applying the qualitative method to the research problem. Begin with a one-page introduction about the circumstances that led to the development of the problem; do not state the problem in this section. Establish the existence of your research problem using three to four scholarly articles published within the last five years. Remember that the problem must have a business administration focus, and must relate to your degree specialization. Keep your research focus and problem simple for this assignment.

    NOTE: this framework must be used for your assignment response. Use one sentence for each of the following:

    Hook: An attention-grabbing statement that is supported by the literature.
    Anchor: An evidence of the problem statement that includes a statistic and is supported by primary research.
    A statement of the general business problem.
    A statement of the specific business problem.
    This script is helpful to (a) frame the problem, (b) validate that it exists with verifiable data, and (c) identify why and for whom the problem matters (Bakari 2018).

    Next, rationalize the use of the qualitative method for your research inquiry. Explain the features. Give examples of the intended research outcomes. Formulate a purpose statement using the framework.

    NOTE: this framework must be used for your assignment response.

    The purpose of this qualitative study is _________________ [content aim of the study]. A qualitative study design will be used in which narrative data will be collected and analyzed to _________. These data will represent ____________ [the bounding or description of the study]. Qualitative data will be gathered exploring _____________ [the central phenomenon] from _________ [participants] at _________ [the research site]. The reasons for using this form of data to ________ [support or generate] data, is to develop an in-depth understanding of ____________________. [Include scholarly sources to support these research decisions.]

    Create two research questions that will generate information for later analysis.

    Tip: Remember that this is qualitative research. This is a qualitative research method course and you will use a qualitative research method approach for this assignment.

    Length: 3-4 pages

    References: Include a minimum of 5 scholarly resources.

    Your essay should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts that are presented in the course and provide new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic. Your response should reflect graduate-level writing and APA standards.

    Download File

  • Accreditation DQ1 and 2

    $15.00

    DQ1

    Explain the role of accreditation in mitigating risk compliance issues.  Provide an example of a health care organization that was placed on probation by its accrediting body or by CMS within the last 3 years for a risk compliance issue. What caused the probation or loss of accreditation and how could it have been prevented?

    DQ2

    Briefly describe how the risk management program at the organization where you work (or at that of a typical health care organization) addresses social media and patient information privacy. Provide three examples of risk management steps your health care organization (or another health care organization) could take to further protect patient information. Support your analysis with a minimum of one peer-reviewed reference.

    Download File

  • Multicultural Communication

    $10.00

    Write a 650-1300 word response to the following questions:

    1. Explain multicultural communication and its origins.
    2. Compare and contrast culture, ethnicity, and acculturation.
    3. Explain how cultural and religious differences affect the health care professional and the issues that can arise in cross-cultural communications.
    4. Discuss family culture and its effect on patient education.
    5. List some approaches the health care professional can use to address religious and cultural diversity.
    6. List the types of illiteracy.
    7. Discuss illiteracy as a disability.
    8. Give examples of some myths about illiteracy.
    9. Explain how to assess literacy skills and evaluate written material for readability.
    10. Identify ways a health care professional may establish effective communication.
    11. Suggest ways the health care professional can help a patient remember instructions.

    This assignment is to be submitted as a Microsoft Word document.

    Download File

  • Primary Care Discussions

    $15.00
    • You are seeing a 55-year-old college professor in clinic today. He is complaining of a non-productive cough for the past 10 years. He states that he has “tried everything” for the cough without improvement. He denies heartburn, allergies, or any history of asthma. He is a non-smoker, no history No ACE inhibitor use. He has no other constitutional symptoms. Physical exam without significant findings.

    Questions:

    1. What additional questions may you ask this patient?
    2. What additional objective data will you assess for?
    3. What tests (if any) will you order?
    4. Will you be looking for a consult?
    5. What is your plan of care?
    6. What additional patient teaching is needed?

     

     

     

     

     

     

    2) A 66-year-old woman presents to your office complaining of shortness of breath and bilateral leg edema that has been worsening for three months. She emphatically tells you, “I get out of breath when I do housework, and I can’t even walk to the corner.” She has also noticed difficulty sleeping secondary to a dry cough that wakes her up at night and further worsening of her shortness of breath while lying flat. It has forced her to use three pillows for a good night’s sleep. She denies any chest pain, wheezing, or febrile illness. She has no past diseases and takes no medications. She never smoked and drank socially.

    On examination, her blood pressure (BP) is 187/90 mm Hg, her pulse is 97 beats/min, her respiratory rate is 16 breaths/min, her temperature is 98°F (36.6°C), and her oxygen saturation is 93% on room air by pulse oximetry. She has a pronounced jugular vein. The cardiac examination reveals a pansystolic murmur. Examination of her lung bases produces dullness bilaterally. You find 2+ pitting edema of both ankles. An electrocardiogram (ECG) shows normal sinus rhythm, and a chest x-ray demonstrates mild cardiomegaly with bilateral pleural effusions.

    Questions:

    1. What additional subjective data do you think the patient will share?
    2. What other objective data will you assess?
    3. What tests will you order?
    4. Will you be looking for a consult?
    5. What is your plan of care?

     

     

     

    Download File

  • Capstone Strategy Playbook for Exceptional Results: Meta Platforms, Inc.

    $50.00

    Capstone Strategy Playbook for Exceptional Results:

    Description of the Playbook

     

    Introduction

     

    A playbook in sports helps the general manager, coaches, and players map out how they intend to achieve excellence, respond to challenges, and reach for their goal. Playbooks in sports identify primary intended strategies to win, details on how to execute any number of unique individual plays that support the strategy, and also include plays and alternative strategies that anticipate what opponents might do to counter, or make the playbook irrelevant.

     

    Let’s take a look at some specific “plays” that you might see in a soccer/football, American football, or ice hockey playbook. In these examples, each play diagram reflects a way to execute a “re-direct” kind of strategy, where the offensive team sees an opening to take the play out towards the “side” of action, then back into primary scoring (goal) areas—seeking to spread out the defense.

     

    In soccer, such a play might look like this:

     

     

     

    In this instance, the center half back notices that a gap has opened “wide right” (1), and puts a lead pass out to the right (2). At the same time, the center sees this and moves right into the center of the defense, hoping to find a small gap where he or she could receive a pass from the right wing (3) and (shot).

     

     

    A conceptually very similar play in American football, the “sweep option right,” might look like this:

    Notice how each person in the offense has a task here, to help create a “gap” on the right side that the full-back could drive through if it appears (via blocking). Notice too, that the fullback has an option to pitch to the half-back if the gap is opening late—and, the quarterback has the option of faking the handoff to the fullback and going with a short slant pass to the left tight end, who is moving to support either option.

     

    Finally, a similar “redirect strategy” play in ice hockey might look like this:

     

     

    In this power play (the defense in this case has one player off-ice in the penalty box and is playing a person short), the left wing is the key. As they have the puck and appear to be driving to the net, they pass backwards and away to the left defense (1), to redirect the flow (and likely allow the center to “hide” behind the net). The left defense then rapidly passes to the right, while the left wing looks for a pass (just like the soccer variation above). When the left wing gets the puck again, however, rather than trying to beat the right defense, he or she passes to the center, who has essentially been “hiding” behind the net, and who comes out to the net to take a shot or re-direct a shot.

     

    So, what does this have to do with business strategy you might ask? More than you might think!

     

    For one, unless you already know the details and rules of each sport, you may have noticed that you struggled to figure out the play diagrams, and that they lacked some meaning—especially without some explanation. In business strategy it is the same, there are certain types questions and analyses hat must be asked and performed if you are going to develop a coherent “strategy playbook” for a company.

     

    Second, the big goal in most sports and business are the same—to better your competition in a fair competition (for customer’s purchases in this case), so that you can continue on (to the playoffs in sports, in serving your mission for a business). It is rare that championship teams win without an overall strategy (“to win” is a goal—not a strategy) that takes both internal and external factors into consideration—including the acquisition and training of talent.

    Third, in order to win, companies must rely on adaptive, real-time execution of skills, competencies, and capabilities to “make things happen” in ways that are consistent with, and support, the organization’s mission and purpose for existing. As such, organizations must be very knowledgeable about what they are capable of doing, what customers really want (or might want/need), and they must understand the competitive landscape very well.

     

    Fourth, sometimes plays, actions, and strategies are “off direction” and these types of strategies are often the most complex and difficult to execute. It takes a healthy, fully functioning team to “sell” and “execute” complex strategies. Sometimes such complexity is needed, sometimes it is not.

     

    Finally, everyone on the team—from the owners, general managers, coaches, players, and support staff—must understand the strategies, philosophies, and ambitions of the team, in order to support the organization so it can execute plays and “change on the fly.”

     

    In this Competency, you are going to be asked to develop a “Strategy Playbook to get to Exceptional Results,” which you will create as part of your MBA Capstone experience. This strategy playbook has the same purpose as a playbook for a sports team—it is where you can put your entire MBA education to use and build a roadmap that can help your current organization, or one you hope to work with in the future, achieve exceptional results.

     

     

    What kind of organization will you create your playbook for?

     

    You will develop a strategy playbook for a publicly traded company (with more than 100 employees).

     

     

    What will the playbook focus on?

     

    You will write the playbook from the perspective of a consultant. The “plays” you will develop will be responses, based on analysis, to the core questions that any solid business strategy must ask and answer[1]:

     

    1. What is your winning aspiration? (What to you stand for and believe deeply in?)
    2. Where will you play? (Who will you serve, and who will either help or compete against you?
    3. How will you win? (How will you create unique value?)
    4. Which capabilities must be in place (to win)? (What skills, competencies and capabilities do you need now, and in the future?)
    5. What management systems are required? (Do you have a supporting culture, structure, systems, and appropriate measures to implement a strategy?)

     

    The final compilation of your “Strategy Playbook for Exceptional Results” will be tangible evidence that you can put your MBA education to use, and it will provide you a template for how you can help your current organization, or one you hope to work with in the future, achieve exceptional results.

     

     

    How will I develop the playbook?

     

    Your playbook will be written and developed after you have completed Competency SF005. The process for building your playbook will have you review your work from SF005 and apply the same kind analyses as applied to a company that you have chosen. You will review your prior analyses of assigned case studies, and you will then identify key insights from your analysis, and apply lessons from the case study, recommended resources, and resources you identify from the “Walden MBA Program Capstone Bibliography,” into your playbook entries.

     

     

    The table below provides an overview of what you will be analyzing for your playbook:

     

    Strategy Playbook Elements

     

    Area Playbook Analysis Completed?
     

    One

    		  

    Evaluate candidate companies to study and make your choice

     

    		  
     

    Two

    		  

    Evaluate the stated mission, vision, and values, within the context-level of analysis, of your chosen organization.

     

    		  
     

    Three

    		  

    Apply insights from internal strategy analysis tools and concepts towards the development of relevant portions of your strategy playbook.

     

    		  
     

    Four

    		  

    Apply key insights from P.E.S.T. and stakeholder strategy analysis tools and concepts towards the development of relevant portions of a strategy playbook.

     

    		  
     

    Five

    		  

    Apply key insights from competitive strategy analysis tools and concepts towards the development of relevant portions of a strategy playbook.

     

    		  
     

    Six

    		  

    Apply key insights from key success factor strategy analysis tools and concepts towards the development of relevant portions of a strategy playbook.

     

    		  
     

    Seven

    		  

    Explicitly identify, provide a name for, explain the basics of, and evaluate a preliminary company-wide strategy that you recommend for your company.

     

    		  
     

    Eight

    		  

    Synthesize all prior entries into a single document,

    which aligns with your identified strategy.

     

    Write an executive summary that explains your proposed strategy and how the playbook can help you analyze it further.

     

    Develop a Strategy Playbook Diagram or table that summaries your playbook elements.

    		  

     

    What will be in the final draft of the playbook?

     

    To complete Assessment SF006, you will put together all of your playbook analyses elements into a single appendix. Then, you will extract out the core, most important, and interesting elements and recommendations from those analyses, and you will write an Executive Summary, and develop a strategy playbook diagram. These will be the two primary components of the playbook—plus the analysis appendix and all your references.

     

    So, the playbook will consist of:

    • Cover page: This should include a title for your strategy (which becomes the title of your playbook), your name, and the date
    • Executive Summary: A written summary, which provides the key highlights of your playbook.
    • Strategy Map (or other playbook summary diagram)
    • Analysis Appendix: This will be comprised of your synthesized, integrated work from your previous Playbook entries.

     

    What purpose does the executive summary for the playbook serve?

     

    The Executive Summary for your playbook is where you, in a single page (of single-spaced writing), explain to your audience (senior executives at the company you are studying) what you have found in your analysis that is most interesting, and what it means in terms of what you think the future goals, strategies, and initiatives for the company should be. This is very difficult writing, and it should relate directly to both your appendix information, and your strategy playbook diagram or table.

     

     

    What should my strategy playbook diagram or scorecard look like?

     

    One of the elements of the playbook is a strategy playbook summary diagram. Think of this as a visual summary of “plays,” “actions,” “goals,” “metrics,” etc.

     

    Here are some examples to consider as guides:

     

    1. An example of a scorecard format is provided by George Joseph in “Mapping, Measurement and Alignment of Strategy Using the Balanced Scorecard: The Tata Steel Case.”

     

    1. The Strategy Playbook gives details – descriptions, types, tools, funding sources and benefits – about strategy in Our Great Region 2040.

     

     

    What will the format of the final playbook be?

    General Format:

    1. All sections should be single spaced.
    2. Start with a cover page, then start page numbering with the Executive Summary.
    3. Continue page numbering through the very end (appendix included).
    4. References should be included after the appendix and follow APA 6th format.

    Note: Your paper should have a cover page with a title for the recommended strategy that describes the strategy, like “Maru-C” (“Encircle Caterpillar”), which was a large scale strategy that Komatsu strove for in the 1980s.

    [1] Lafley, A. G., Martin, R., & Riel, J. (2013). A playbook for strategy: The five essential questions at the heart of any winning strategy. Rotman Magazine, Winter, 5–9.

     

    Download File

Showing 46–54 of 148 results