Author: chris

 

Powerpoint Presentation with notes. 5-7 Slides. with references.

 

TOPIC:

 

1. Discuss the fundamentals of cloud computing

6-8) page paper

1. Analyze the current health care delivery structure in Virginia. Compare and contrast the major determinants of health care market power.

2. Analyze the main competitive forces in the your health care delivery system in Virginia, and compare the major factors that influence the fundamental manner in which these competitive forces determine prices, supply and demand, quality of care, consumerism, and providers’ compensation.

3. Evaluate the positive benefits and negative aspects, respectively, of HMO managed care from the provider’s point of view—i.e., a physician and a health care facility—and from a patient’s point of view. Provide a rationale for your response.

4. Assess the efficiency of the types of economic incentives available to providers in the delivery of health care services in your own state.

5. Propose who bears the financial risk of a capitation payment system: the provider, the patient, or the consumer-driven health plan itself.

6. Use at least five (5) current references. Three (3) of these references must be from current peer-reviewed sources to support and substantiate your comments and perspectives.

The Human Resource Environment

 

When you have completed your exam and reviewed your answers,

 

Questions 1 to 20: Select the best answer to each question. Note that a question and its answers may be split across a page

 

break, so be sure that you have seen the entire question and all the answers before choosing an answer.

 

1. Which of the following cases would most likely be filed under the theory of disparate impact?

 

1. A black employee is fired for testifying in a discrimination suit filed against an employer.

 

1. A white applicant is told he won’t be hired because the employer doesn’t like whites.

 

1. Black applicants are being disproportionately rejected relative to whites by a paper-and-pencil test.

 

1. White applicants with high test scores are rejected due to an affirmative-action plan.

 

2. Which of the following terms describes the best possible fit between a company’s social system and its

 

technical system?

 

1. Self-service system

 

1. Outsourcing

 

1. High-performance work system

 

1. Total quality management

 

3. People’s right to freedom of speech is the right to

 

1. do as they wish in their private life.

 

1. refuse to do something that’s environmentally unsafe.

 

1. be treated only as they knowingly and willingly consent to be treated.

 

1. criticize an organization’s ethics if they do it in good conscience.

 

4. Which of the following categories of workers is not covered under OSHA’s Hazard Communication

 

Standards?

 

1. A technician servicing copy machines for most of the day

 

1. A receptionist changing the toner in a copier machine

 

1. Health-care workers exposed to latex and disinfectants

 

1. Production engineers manufacturing car batteries

 

5. The largest number of immigrants to the U.S. workforce are from

 

1. North America.

 

1. Europe.

 

1. Africa.

 

1. Asia.

 

6. Which of the following is a correct statement about dejobbing?

 

1. Dejobbing involves the use of task-based organization structures.

 

1. Dejobbing involves the downsizing or elimination of jobs.

 

1. Dejobbing involves emphasizing on detailed job descriptions which will be applicable year after year.

 

1. Dejobbing involves viewing organizations as a field of work to be done.

 

7. Which of the following decisions does not come under HRM?

 

1. Whom to hire

 

1. How to achieve sales targets

 

1. What training to offer

 

1. How to evaluate employee performance

 

8. Which of the following is a false statement about the Position Analysis Questionnaire?

 

1. It’s one of the broadest and best-researched instruments for analyzing jobs.

 

1. It’s a standardized, commercial instrument.

 

1. It describes specific duties and tasks that comprise the actual job.

 

1. It requires trained job analysts to complete it.

 

9. Which of the following is a false statement about the Occupational Safety and Health Act?

 

1. The act applies to organizations that employ 50 or more persons working 20 or more weeks a year and that are involved in

 

interstate commerce.

 

1. Under the act, covered employers must keep records of work-related injuries and illnesses and post an annual summary of

 

these records.

 

1. It’s the most comprehensive U.S. law regarding worker safety.

 

1. Enforcement responsibilities for the act are divided between the Department of Labor and the Department of Health.

 

10. Which of the following approaches would be most appropriate when gathering information for jobs that

 

are repetitive and involve physical activity?

 

1. A job analyst questions the peers about a particular job.

 

1. A job analyst visits the workplace and videotapes an employee performing the job.

 

1. A manager imagines what a well-done job would look like.

 

1. A job analyst visits the workplace and asks employees to show what the job entails.

 

11. Which of the following is a true statement about Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

 

1. The act applies to organizations with 15 employees or more.

 

1. The act is enforced by the U.S. Department of Labor.

 

1. The act protects employers from employee threats.

 

1. The act prohibits employers from discriminating against workers due to their age.

 

12. The processing and transmission of digitized HR information, especially using computer networking and

 

the Internet, is known as

 

1. e-business.

 

1. reengineering.

 

1. human resource information system implementation.

 

1. electronic human resource management.

 

13. One of the most common grievances that employees at Craines Tech have is that they don’t get

 

performance feedback. That is, they don’t get proper information as to how they’ve performed and where

 

they need to improve, and the performance goals are vague and not measurable. Which HR function does

 

Craines Tech need to improve?

 

1. Employee relations

 

1. Recruitment and selection

 

1. Performance management

 

1. Training and development

 

14. Which of the following refers to the KSAOs that an individual must have to perform the job?

 

1. Job specifications

 

1. Job analysis

 

1. Dictionary of Occupational Titles

 

1. Job descriptions

 

15. For which of the following occupations would it be easiest to implement telework?

 

1. Machine operator

 

1. Quality management

 

1. Production technician

 

1. Graphic designer

 

16. Which of the following refers to an employer’s obligation to do something to enable an otherwise

 

qualified person to perform a job?

 

1. Reasonable accommodation

 

1. Reverse discrimination

 

1. General-duty clause

 

1. Utilization analysis

 

17. Which of the following managerial functions is often assumed by work teams?

 

1. Conducting performance reviews

 

1. Controlling finances allocated for the project

 

1. Making strategy-related decisions such as areas to diversify in

 

1. Performing inspection and quality-control activities

 

18. Which of the following responsibilities is associated with the HR function of support for strategy?

 

1. Human resource discipline

 

1. Human resource relocation and outplacement services

 

1. Human resource planning and forecasting

 

1. Orientation

 

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19. Which of the following is not an action that OSHA can take, under the Occupational Safety and Health

 

Act?

 

1. Issue citations and require that they be posted in a prominent place near the location of the violations

 

1. Conduct unannounced workplace inspections

 

1. Close a workplace that represents an occupational hazard

 

1. Assess fines ranging from $20,000 for violations that result in the death of an employee to $1,000 for less serious violations

 

20. Managers and economists traditionally have seen HRM as a(n)

 

1. source of value to their organization.

 

1. asset.

 

1. necessary expense.

 

6-8) page paper

1. Analyze the current health care delivery structure in Virginia. Compare and contrast the major determinants of health care market power.
2. Analyze the main competitive forces in the your health care delivery system in Virginia, and compare the major factors that influence the fundamental manner in which these competitive forces determine prices, supply and demand, quality of care, consumerism, and providers’ compensation.
3. Evaluate the positive benefits and negative aspects, respectively, of HMO managed care from the provider’s point of view—i.e., a physician and a health care facility—and from a patient’s point of view. Provide a rationale for your response.
4. Assess the efficiency of the types of economic incentives available to providers in the delivery of health care services in your own state.
5. Propose who bears the financial risk of a capitation payment system: the provider, the patient, or the consumer-driven health plan itself.

 

6. Use at least five (5) current references. Three (3) of these references must be from current peer-reviewed sources to support and substantiate your comments and perspectives.

Assignment

To complete the following assignment, go to this week’s Assignment link in the left navigation.

9 of the 20 slides are already completed and will be provided upon signing of handshake

Senior Project

To start, select one of the following approved topics for your Senior Project. You may also have a topic of your choice approved by the instructor in Week One.  Many of the approved topics have specific subtopics outlined and, while these topics are not all-inclusive, they do provide insight into specific areas to consider.

Approved Topics:

1. Examine how participative leadership functions in today’s modern health care organization and compare it to other types of leadership styles. Evaluate how each type of leadership style may impact organizational culture, employee performance, and how it may help or hinder the legitimacy of authority.
2. As an administrator, address the challenges of employee recruitment and retention of health care professionals. Additional subtopics may include trends in the nursing workforce, shortage of primary care physicians, staff turnover, retention, and staffing patterns.
3. Analyze the dual role of a manager and healthcare professional. Examine challenges that the health professional compared to those of a non-health professional, may face in terms of leadership style, and the impact these challenges have on organizational culture. The benefits of a health professional manager as an organizational resource may also be included. Explore the career trends of health professionals in organizational leadership positions, such as the types of health professional training that leaders tend to have in common, and the typical demographic background of health professional managers.
4. The health care industry must anticipate and monitor trends that could possibly affect its overall survival. Analyze how regulation of the health care industry impacts a health care organization. Explore some of the possible survival organizational strategies such as, but not limited to, mergers, and affiliations, achieving accreditation status, professional licensure.
5. Analyze the impact of technology on how health care services are delivered. The impact of technology on employee performance, organizational structure, and management planning may also be considered.
6. Analyze the impact of any recent social and/or ethical trends on the health care industry. Discuss at least two issues.

After identifying your topic, choose a health care organization in your area. This organization may be small or large and may provide single inpatient health service or multiple outpatient services; it is your choice. Consider your topic in light of the leadership of this organization and research the challenges and successes it has faced in managing operational effectiveness.  You are welcome to use as many research methods as possible to obtain information for your organization and its managers (e.g., web-based resources, electronic articles, or personal interviews). The more informed you are, the better prepared you will be to complete your project.

Finally, develop a management training program that includes relevant guidelines and information to combat the issues identified in the selected topic, as well as recommendations for managers to more effectively lead health care organizations. Your training program should be in the form of a 20 to 25 slide PowerPoint presentation (excluding title and reference slides) that includes comprehensive speaker’s notes (i.e., at least 150 words) for each slide. Utilize at least three to five scholarly sources from the Ashford University Library and two to three current, scholarly web sources (total of five to eight references required). All sources must be cited according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. Your presentation must be engaging and relevant to your audience. Lines of text on a slide will not be sufficient for this project. It should contain at least five images, graphics, and/or multimedia that communicate your training clearly to your audience. For tips on creating an excellent presentation, read this overview.

Creating the Senior Project

The Senior Project:

1. Must be 20 to 25 PowerPoint slides (excluding title and reference slides) in length. There are 20 content criteria worth a total of 10 points.
2. Must include a title slide that contains the following:
   1. Title of project
   2. Your name
   3. Course name and number
   4. Instructor’s name
   5. Date submitted
3. Must include an introduction with a succinct thesis statement.
4. Must address the topic of the project with critical thought in the areas of:
   1. Organization details
   2. Challenges and opportunities
   3. Training program outcomes
   4. Impact on at least three stakeholder groups involved delineated by cost, quality, and access to service
   5. Suggested actions
5. Must include a conclusion that reaffirms your thesis.
6. Must use at least five supporting graphics (images, graphics, and/ or multimedia) are included and relevant communicating the training content (two points).
7. Must include speaker’s notes that have evidence of critical thinking and application (content analysis, synthesis, evaluation) related to the research methodology used to develop (six points):
   1. Project content
   2. Practical and relevant solutions to the organizational challenges/opportunities
   3. Appropriate evaluation of individual stakeholder groups involved
8. Must use at least three to five scholarly sources from the Ashford University Library and two to three current, scholarly web sources.
9. Must document all sources in APA style, as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
10. Must include a separate reference slide, formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

Assignment 1: Discussion Assignment

The discussion assignment provides a forum for discussing relevant topics for this week based on the course competencies covered.

For this assignment, make sure you post your initial response to the Discussion Area.

To support your work, use your course and text readings and also use outside sources. As in all assignments, cite your sources in your work and provide references for the citations in APA format.

Start reviewing and responding to the postings of your classmates as early in the week as possible. Respond to at least two of your classmates. Participate in the discussion by asking a question, providing a statement of clarification, providing a point of view with a rationale, challenging an aspect of the discussion, or indicating a relationship between two or more lines of reasoning in the discussion. Complete your participation for this assignment.

Health Care Research

Using the South University Online Library or the Internet, research the two major study designs–cohort and case-control–used in health care research. Find a research article on any topic in health care.

Based on your research, please express your views on the following:

• Which study design has been used for research?
• What is your learning from the chosen article and its study design?
• Is the design selected for the research, best for this particular study? Why or why not?

In addition to the above, your response should also include answers to the following questions:

• Although cohort studies are very powerful, case-control studies tend to be more popular. Do you agree with the statement? Why or why not?
• How does the cohort study design differ from the case-control study design?
• What is essentially the main use or purpose of the cohort study design and case-control study design?
• When it is best to use the cohort study design and when is it best to use the case-control study design?
• What characteristics of cohort study design make it important in health care research?
• Cohort studies can be retrospective or prospective. What makes a cohort study retrospective or prospective?

Follow the instructions below and use the data in the spreadsheet attached to submit your results/answers based on the information provided.

 

Instructions:

Please evaluate, display, and interpret the attached dataset (tab named “Data”).

Your results and discussions should be created and entered on additional worksheets within this Excel file.

Please use descriptive and inferential statistics as well as generally accepted continuous quality improvement (CQI) tools, i.e., charts, tables, and graphs, for evaluation purposes.

Please display and interpret the data using easy to understand format(s)

Please provide a report  that the data presents to exective leadership. Report must be very profession

What is your given “authority” at your work place and/or professional life? Describe a time when you have exercised this authority in your journey as a professional nurse? How does your response compare to the secular view of power? How does your response compare to the secular view of authority? How does your response compare to the view of power according to servant leadership? How does your response compare to the view of authority according to servant leadership?

From moment to moment, a nurse leader’s day involves communication—with patients, families, colleagues, supervisors, and so on.

Think of a particular day you spent working in a health care environment, and consider three or four distinct points in time. For each point of time, consider the following: With whom did you interact? Which forms of communication did you use? What issues were communicated about—did they seem to be light-hearted or sensitive? Straightforward or complicated? How would you describe the pace of the interactions and your work?

As you consider these questions, it becomes clear that communication can be quite complex, with many layers of meaning that shape the experience for everyone involved. How could this awareness help you to understand instances of ineffective communication when they arise?

To prepare:

• Review the information in Chapter 19 of the course text, as well as the assigned articles.
• Reflect on an incident involving ineffective communication within your organization or another health care setting. Consider this incident through the lens of the communication process outlined in Figure 19.1 of the course text (p. 439).
• What barriers contributed to this incident? What other challenges may have influenced this situation?
• Using the information presented in the other Learning Resources, consider what could have been done to prevent or address the ineffective communication. Why do you think the use of these strategies would have resulted in better outcome(s)?

On the Week 7 Discussion Board, post 3 

1. a summary of an incident involving ineffective communication.
2. Describe communication barriers and other challenges that contributed to the incident.
3. Propose one or more strategies that could have been employed to promote a better outcome.
4. Be sure to refer to elements of the communication process.

 

Course readings

Readings

• Marquis, B. L., & Huston, C. J. (2015).Leadership roles and management functions in nursing: Theory and application (8th ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins.

o   Review Chapter 19, “Organizational, Interpersonal, and Group Communication”

• Gifu, D., Dima, I. C., & Teodorescu, M. (2014). New communication approaches vs. traditional communication. International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences, (20), 46-55.

  Retrieved from Walden Library Databases.

  The study highlights some communication instances of actual approach of human society evolution in contrast with traditional communication.

• Johansson, C., Miller, V. D., Hamrin, S. (2014) Conceptualizing communicative leadership: A framework for analyzing and developing leaders’ communication competence, Corporate Communications: An International Journal, 19(2), 147 – 165.

  Retrieved from Walden Library Databases.

  Excerpt from Abstract: Four central communicative behaviors of leaders (i.e. structuring, facilitating, relating, and representing), eight principles of communicative leadership, and a tentative definition are presented. A communicative leader is defined as someone who engages employees in dialogue, actively shares and seeks feedback, practices participative decision making, and is perceived as open and involved.

• Manojlovich, M., Harrod, M., Holtz, B., Hofer, T., Kuhn, L., & Krein, S. L. (2015). The Use of Multiple Qualitative Methods to Characterize Communication Events Between Physicians and Nurses. Health communication, 30(1), 61-69.

  Retrieved from Walden Library Databases.

  The purpose of this study was to develop a methodology for identifying and characterizing communication events between physicians and nurses to better understand communication patterns on general medical–surgical units.

• Seyranian, V. (2014). Social Identity Framing communication strategies for mobilizing social change. The Leadership Quarterly, 25(3), 468-486.

  Retrieved from Walden Library Databases.

  Except from Abstract: Social identity framing delineates a set of communication tactics that leaders may use to harness follower support for a vision of social change.  Results showed that participants exposed to inclusive language were more likely to indicate that renewable energy was in-group normative; intend to engage in collective action to bring renewable energy to campus; experience positive emotions and confidence about change; and to view the leader more positively. The combination of inclusive language and positive social identity increased ratings of leader charisma.

• Van Keer, R. V., Deschepper, R. D., Huyghens, L. H., Distelmans, W. D., & Bilsen, J. B. (2014). Dealing with cultural diversity during the process of communication and decision-making in the ICU: a literature review. Critical Care, 18(Suppl 1), P24. doi:10.1186/cc13214

  Retrieved from Walden Library Databases.

  Excerpt from Abstract: The aim of this study is to review the experiences of the involved actors, namely the care providers, the patients and their family members, with cultural diversity during the process of communication and decision-making in the ICU.