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Explains how nurse leaders use professional organizations to stay informed of political actions in the nursing and health care industry

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EXPLAINS HOW NURSE LEADERS USE PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS TO STAY INFORMED OF POLITICAL ACTIONS IN THE NURSING AND HEALTH CARE INDUSTRY

Political Awareness Paper in Nursing

  • Select a professional organization in the nursing industry.

 

  • Research a current political issue addressed through the organization.

 

  • Write a 350- to 700-word paper in which you explain how nurse leaders can use professional organizations to stay aware of political actions in the nursing and health care industry and the importance of doing so.

 

  • Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.
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·       Explains how nurse leaders use professional organizations to stay informed of political actions in the nursing and health care industry.1
·       Discusses importance of maintaining awareness of political actions related to the nursing and health care industry.2
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·       Follows rules of grammar, usage, and punctuation·       Has a structure that is clear, logical, and easy to follow

·       Consistent with APA guidelines for formatting and citation of outside works

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Compare the three (3) current health care financing and funding models

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The Convergence of Healthcare Financing and Economic Trends and ForcesNote: Use the textbook, course readings, online library, and other reputable online sources to complete this assignment.

Prepare a fifteen to twenty (15 to 20) slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation with detailed scholarly speaker notes in which you:

  1. Compare the three (3) current health care financing and funding models (i.e., employee based, government based, and individual based) used with the healthcare delivery system of the United States.
  2. Compare and contrast key economic goals of public and private health insurance plans.  Evaluate the success potential of key economic goals in terms of populations covered, services included, financing arrangements, reimbursement strategies, and economic competition policies.
  3. Analyze the key effects of labor market, insurance market, and competitive market factors on health care delivery requirements at your current or previous organization of employment.
  4. Determine what changes are occurring in the economy or concerning labor and regulatory factors that must be considered in the future.
  5. Suggest the key national trends that you believe currently affect competition and pricing initiatives. Justify your response.
  6. Suggest the main quality indicators that typically affect health insurance pricing at the local level. Justify your response.
  7. Use a minimum of six (6) reputable references sources including three (3) sources from peer reviewed journals.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

  • Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
  • Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

    • Assess current economic trends that influence the cost, quality, and access to care.
    • Analyze the impact of managed care on cost, quality, and access within managed care organizations and the health insurance market.
  • Use technology and information resources to research issues in health economics.
  • Write clearly and concisely about health economics using proper writing mechanics

Why is the problem important for health care administrators to study?

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WHY IS THE PROBLEM IMPORTANT FOR HEALTH CARE ADMINISTRATORS TO STUDY?

Choose an article from your annotated bibliography. Obtain faculty approval for your article to ensure that it is a peer-reviewed research article

Read the following:

  • Background: The background statement answers the following questions: How do you know a real problem, situation, or opportunity will be studied? Does evidence indicate you have chosen an important problem, situation, or opportunity that deserves more attention? What evidence indicates that the problem, situation, or opportunity relates to an organizational management issue or clinical concern?
  • Methodology: This part of a research study provides an overview of the scope of the study or how large, long, and comprehensive the study was. This is a brief overview explaining the gathering of the qualitative and quantitative data and where the data may be found. Implicit in this overview is the recognition by the researcher that both secondary data—document-based data, organizational material, library books, and journals—and primary data—empirical, qualitative, and quantitative data incorporated by a survey, experiment, and so on in a real-time fashion—was gathered to make the study comprehensive, fully researched, and as rigorous as a project must be within the scientific method of data planning, gathering, and analysis.

Respond to the following questions in a 700- to 1,050-word paper:

  • Definition of the problem
    • What is the problem the study was conducted to resolve?
    • Why is the problem important for health care administrators to study?
  • Study purpose: What is the purpose of the study?
  • Research question
    • What is the main research question?
    • If it is not stated, what would you say the research question is?
  • Hypothesis or hypotheses
    • What is the study hypothesis?
    • If it is not stated, what would you say the hypothesis is?
    • It there is more than one study hypothesis, state the hypothesis or hypotheses.
  • Study variables: What are the independent and dependent study variables?
  • Conceptual model or theoretical framework: In what way was a conceptual model or theoretical framework used to guide this study?
  • Review of related literature: In what ways does the literature review support the need for this study?
  • Study design
    • What study design is used?
    • How many subjects were studied?
    • Where are the subjects found?
    • What organization was studied?
    • How long did the study take?

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

Discuss, with examples, at least four (4) substantive ways in which a healthy population strengthens the economy of the country that you have selected.

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Assignment 2: Lending Institutions, Health Care, and Human Capital
Use the Internet to research one (1) developing nation of your choice. Your research should include an examination of lending institutions, health care, and human capital, as well as the material covered by the Webtext and lectures in Weeks 6 through 9.
Write a three to four (3-4) page research paper in which you:
  1. Explore whether or not funding from international lending institutions like the World Bank and the IMF are helping or hindering the social, economic, or political development of the country that you have selected. Support your response with examples.
  2. Discuss, with examples, at least four (4) substantive ways in which a healthy population strengthens the economy of the country that you have selected.
  3. Ascertain the degree to which the leadership of your chosen country has used foreign aid to improve its health care system. Support your response with concrete examples.
  4. Use at least five (5) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note:Wikipedia, blogs, and other nonacademic websites do not qualify as academic resources. Approval of resources is at the instructor’s discretion. Resources must also be within the last seven (7) years.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

  • Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions. 
  • Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

Determine the direct impact of marketing for the health care provider you selected.

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OUTLINE A MARKETING STRATEGY FOR THE HEALTH CARE PROVIDER YOU SELECTED.

Select a health care provided with which you are familiar and write a four to six (4-6) page paper in which you:

  1. Determine the direct impact of marketing for the health care provider you selected.
  2. Outline a strategy for the health care provider you selected to determine the utilization of its products or services.
  3. Outline a marketing strategy for the health care provider you selected.
  4. Recommend at least three (3) separate ways the health care provider you selected could shape the buying decisions of its customers.
  5. Provide at least three (3) qualified sources, e.g., peer-reviewed journals, professional organization Website, or health care provider Websites.

 

Thoroughly determined the direct impact of marketing for the health care provider you selected.

Thoroughly outlined a strategy for the health care provider you selected to determine the utilization of its products or services.

Thoroughly outlined a marketing strategy for the health care provider you selected.

Thoroughly recommended at least three (3) separate ways the health care provider you selected could shape the buying decisions of its customers.Exceeds number of required references; all references high quality choice

Explain the impact that policy, social, and economic forces have on health care access and quality of care in the United States.

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EXPLAIN THE IMPACT THAT POLICY, SOCIAL, AND ECONOMIC FORCES HAVE ON HEALTH CARE ACCESS AND QUALITY OF CARE IN THE UNITED STATES.

Based on the changing environment, as well as demographics in 21st Century America, there are many burgeoning issues and hurdles the U.S. Health Care System faces. As part of the preparation for your assignment, view the video titled “Health Care Issues and Problems in USA”

Write a four to five (4-5) page paper in which you:

  1. Based on the video, analyze the main points presented by the narrator concerning issues and problems inherent in overall health care in the U.S.
  2. Ascertain whether the narrator’s views are in sync with your opinion of 21st Century U.S. health care. Provide support for your rationale.
  3. Provide a financial rationale for following the current U.S. health care policies. Discuss your position in which you highlight, at a minimum, economic and ethical considerations of the ACA as it has been implemented from 2010 to present day.
  4. Reflecting upon the material covered in this course, outline a five (5) stage plan which articulates the main ways in which you would improve the present U.S. health care system.
  5. Use at least four (4) recent (i.e., last five [5] years), quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

  • Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
  • Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

  • Explain the impact that policy, social, and economic forces have on health care access and quality of care in the United States.
  • Use technology and information resources to research issues in health services organization.
  • Write clearly and concisely about health services organization using proper writing mechanics.

Examine the financial characteristics of health care delivery along with managing costs, revenues, and human resources.

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EXAMINE THE FINANCIAL CHARACTERISTICS OF HEALTH CARE DELIVERY ALONG WITH MANAGING COSTS REVENUES AND HUMAN RESOURCES.

The Final Project should demonstrate an understanding of the reading assignments, class discussions, your own research and the application of new knowledge.  It should utilize previous skills developed in foundational health care courses and apply them within the context and viewpoint of  a health care administrator and their role in managing health and human services.For the Final Project, select one of the following topics and conduct scholarly and professional research while integrating the course’s learning outcomes to address a selected topic:

  • specific leadership and management traits and theories necessary for managing a multidisciplinary and multicultural health care organization to promote organizational effectiveness.
  • Present how strategic planning, performance improvement, and information systems are interrelated and fundamental to the delivery of quality health care.
  • Examine the financial characteristics of health care delivery along with managing costs, revenues, and human resources.
  • Analyze ethical and legal concepts, including specific federal regulations, required of health care organizations to ensure the delivery of high quality health care that protects patient safety.

Summarize the purpose of ARRA/HITECH and the key benefits it offers your selected health care setting.

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SUMMARIZE THE PURPOSE OF ARRA/HITECH AND THE KEY BENEFITS IT OFFERS YOUR SELECTED HEALTH CARE SETTING.

Application: A Stimulus for Health Information Technology in Health Care Organizations

The HITECH provision of ARRA will facilitate the use of new health information technology in a range of health care organizations, from hospitals to physicians’ practices. To encourage a timely transition, HITECH includes incentives for providers and organizations based on how quickly and how well they incorporate certain kinds of technology in their practices.

Prepare for this Application Assignment as follows:

  • In light of this week’s Learning Resources, what do you think are major challenges facing health care organizations as they seek to interpret and implement ARRA/HITECH?
  • Select a particular health care setting, such as a physician’s practice, academic hospital, or outpatient clinic, and consider the management implications of ARRA/HITECH in your selected setting. Do further research in the Walden Library and elsewhere online to understand the issues facing this type of organization as they expand their use of health information technology. (You will be examining the technological issues in some detail later in the course; for this Application Assignment, focus on the breadth of management challenges that ARRA/HITECH raises.)
  • What solutions have been found? How might you, as a manager in this particular setting, contribute to the process? What tools and knowledge would you need to be effective?

Then write a 1- to 2-page paper that addresses the following:

  • Summarize the purpose of ARRA/HITECH and the key benefits it offers your selected health care setting.
  • What kinds of management challenges does ARRA/HITECH pose to this kind of organization? How are these being addressed?
  • What additional solutions might you propose, and why?

EVALUATE THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND THE FINANCIAL POSITION OF HEALTH CARE INSTITUTIONS

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EVALUATE THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND THE FINANCIAL POSITION OF HEALTH CARE INSTITUTIONS.

Assignment 2: Using Financial Ratios to Assess Organizational Performance

Due Week 6 and worth 240 points

Using the financial statements from your selected health care organization in Assignment 1, develop a financial plan for the next three (3) years.

Write a four to five (4-5) page paper in which you:

  1. Suggest the financial ratio that most financial analysts would use to evaluate the financial condition of the company. Provide support for your rationale.
  2. Speculate on the organization’s ability to meet its financial obligations as they come due. Provide support for your rationale.
  3. Based on your ratio analysis, determine whether the profitability trends are favorable or unfavorable and explain your rationale.
  4. Using financial ratio analysis, predict whether or not the company will be viable in five (5) years based on its performance over the past three (3) years. Provide support for your prediction.
  5. Use at least two (2) quality academic resources. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

  • Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
  • Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

  • Evaluate the financial statements and the financial position of health care institutions.
  • Describe the overall planning process and the key components of the financial plan.
  • Use technology and information resources to research issues in health financial management.

THE KEY FINANCIAL DRIVERS THAT MOST LIKELY WILL CAUSE HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATIONS TO MERGE.

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THE KEY FINANCIAL DRIVERS THAT MOST LIKELY WILL CAUSE HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATIONS TO MERGE.

Assignment 3: Post-Merger Analysis

Due Week 10 and worth 280 points

In today’s uncertain economic and regulatory environment for the health services industry, many organizations may be presented with merger and acquisition opportunities to gain market share and drive financial and operational efficiencies. Given the current state of this market segment:

Write a five to six (5-6) page paper in which you:

  1. Suggest the key financial drivers that most likely will cause health care organizations to merge. Provide support for your rationale.
  2. Assuming that two (2) health care organizations have merged. Determine the evaluation criteria that a financial analyst would use to evaluate the financial performance of the organization post-merger, and identify the determinants that the analyst would use to decide whether or not the merger generated favorable financial results for the organization. Provide support for your evaluation.
  3. Determine the key factors that will drive the financial planning process for most organizations in the post-merger phase, and examine the related impact to the organization process. Provide support for your rationale.
  4. Create an argument to assert that the financial planning process is of high value to a health care organization. Provide support for your argument.
  5. Predict the financial stability of the health care industry over the next five (5) years. Provide support for your prediction.
  6. Use at least three (3) quality academic resources. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

  • Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
  • Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

  • Evaluate the financial statements and the financial position of health care institutions.
  • Describe the overall planning process and the key components of the financial plan.
  • Use technology and information resources to research issues in health financial management.
  • Write clearly and concisely about health financial management using proper writing mechanics.