It is expected that the final version of your Healthcare Policy Analysis Paper will be 8-10 pages in length, with 6-8 sources identified. Your paper should be 12-pt.

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It is expected that the final version of your Healthcare Policy Analysis Paper will be 8-10 pages in length, with 6-8 sources identified. Your paper should be 12-pt.

Times New Roman font, double spaced, with standard margins. You should have a thesis statement in your introduction identifying the legislation/policy that your paper will be addressing.

APA in-text citation is required in addition to listing all of your sources on a Works Cited Page at the end of the document. Your grade will be affected if you do not cite or identify your sources correctly.

Below is a list of questions that should be addressed in the body of your paper.

What is the legislation/policy that will be analyzed in this paper?

What is the problem/issue that this legislation attempts to address?

What is the history of the legislation?

Has (or will) the legislation been effective in addressing the problem or issue?

What group(s) of people have been the most affected by the problem?

Is there any information on the future of this legislation? (Revision, obsolete, status of bill, etc.)

 

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Financing plays a significant role in the process and structure of the U.S. health care system. It is impacted by politics, health consumers, reimbursement systems, for-profit industries, and special interest groups.

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Financing plays a significant role in the process and structure of the U.S. health care system. It is impacted by politics, health consumers, reimbursement systems, for-profit industries, and special interest groups.

Financing plays a significant role in the process and structure of the U.S. health care system. It is impacted by politics, health consumers, reimbursement systems, for-profit industries, and special interest groups. The result is that many different groups work to place their agenda for health care spending and reimbursement in the forefront. This places a burden upon society and contributes to a disjointed system.

How health care is financed shapes the types of services provided, who receives services, and how health care professionals are reimbursed for services. To prepare for this Discussion, reflect on your readings as well as the information provided by the experts in this week’s video presentation.

With these thoughts in mind, select and evaluate one of the financing options/programs that pay for health care in the U.S. Then, address the following:
use Medicaid/Medicare

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Describe how lactic acidosis and ketoacidosis affect blood pH levels and oxygen transport in the blood. Biochemistry

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Describe how lactic acidosis and ketoacidosis affect blood pH levels and oxygen transport in the blood.
Biochemistry

Competency 208.5.3: Myoglobin and Hemoglobin – The graduate constructs models of various states of hemoglobin, demonstrates how changes in the usual configuration of hemoglobin can lead to molecular disease, and distinguishes between the chemical structure and function of hemoglobin and myoglobin.

Competency 208.5.5: Carbohydrate Metabolism, Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP) – The graduate constructs models of carbohydrates and demonstrates metabolism of carbohydrates; and demonstrates how adenosine triphosphate (ATP) is essential to energy transfer in the cell and how irregularities in ATP synthesis in the cell can cause cytopathologies.

Competency 208.5.6: Lipids – The graduate constructs models of fatty acids and demonstrates why lipids are essential to the functioning of cells.

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Introduction:

You are the lead nurse on a medical team caring for a patient who has been recently diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. One of the new nurses on the team is curious about the early prescription for metformin given by the attending physician and has asked for clarification to better understand the benefits and risks of this medication. Because you have a working knowledge of biochemical concepts as well as a good relationship with the new nurse, the physician has asked you to help the nurse understand the effects of metformin and why it is used as a treatment for type 2 diabetes.

 

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Explain the role of quality oversight in health care organizations and elaborate on how non-clinical personnel contribute to the process.’

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Explain the role of quality oversight in health care organizations and elaborate on how non-clinical personnel contribute to the process.’

Quality of care and patient safety has become a driving force in the delivery of health care in the twenty-first century. Your paper should address the following:

Explain the role of quality oversight in health care organizations and elaborate on how non-clinical personnel contribute to the process.
Identify and describe three stakeholder organizations or agencies that contribute to quality oversight within health care organizations in a substantial way. Include at least one government and one non-government organization/agency that focuses on quality of care within the health care field.
Answer the following questions for each organization/agency:
a. How does this organization/agency contribute to quality of care and patient safety?

b. What specific types of oversight does this organization/agency provide?

c. What are some of the repercussions that a health care organization could face for violating the standards of the organization/agency?

Compare and contrast the three organizations/agencies.
Who are some of the other stakeholders involved in promoting quality of care in health care and what role do they play?
Given the vast amount of mandatory regulations imposed upon the health care industry, explain why a health care organization might subject itself to participate in voluntary accreditation activities.
Your Paper:

Must be three to four double-spaced pages in length (excluding the title and reference pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
Must include a title page with the following information:
a. Title of paper

b. Student’s name

c. Course name and number

d. Instructor’s name

e. Date submitted

Must begin with an introductory paragraph that has a succinct thesis statement.
Must address the topic of the paper with critical thought.
Must end with a conclusion that reaffirms the thesis.
Must use at least three scholarly sources; one source must be obtained at the Ashford library. Sources must be cited according to APA style, as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
Must include a reference page.
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Explain case mix and why it is important in evaluating different health care providers. To help you to better understand why case mix is important, here are some fictional heart attack mortality rates for three different hospitals. Consider the national average for heart attack death rates to be 16%.

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Explain case mix and why it is important in evaluating different health care providers.
To help you to better understand why case mix is important, here are some fictional heart attack mortality rates for three different hospitals. Consider the national average for heart attack death rates to be 16%.

Hospital

Mortality Rate

National Mortality Rate

Hospital A

16.1%

16%
Hospital B

18.6%

Hospital C

15.7%

Write a brief report in which you answer the following questions:

Explain case mix and why it is important in evaluating different health care providers.
Refer to the table of heart attack mortality rates for Hospitals A, B, and C. From your reading this week, what variables might be impacting the rates in the table? Please explain.
Note. When you have submitted your assignment, you are ready to participate in your hospital’s press conference in Case Mix Crisis – Hospital B Meets the Press.

Submit your completed assignment to the drop box below. Please check the Course Calendar for specific due dates.

Save your assignment as a Microsoft Word document. (Mac users, please remember to append the “.docx” extension to the filename.) The name of the file should be your first initial and last name, followed by an underscore and the name of the assignment, and an underscore and the date. An example is shown below:

Jstudent_exampleproblem_101504

 

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Did you discover that illness and stress amplified the spiritual concern and needs of your interviewee? Explain your answer with examples.

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Did you discover that illness and stress amplified the spiritual concern and needs of your interviewee? Explain your answer with examples.

Details:
This assignment requires you to interview one person and requires an analysis of your interview experience.
Part I: Interview
Select a patient, a family member, or a friend to interview. Be sure to focus on the interviewee’s experience as a patient, regardless of whom you choose to interview.
Review The Joint Commission resource found in topic materials, which provides some guidelines for creating spiritual assessment tools for evaluating the spiritual needs of patients. Using this resource and any other guidelines/examples that you can find, create your own tool for assessing the spiritual needs of patients.
Your spiritual needs assessment survey must include a minimum of five questions that can be answered during the interview. During the interview, document the interviewee’s responses.
The transcript should include the questions asked and the answers provided. Be sure to record the responses during the interview by taking detailed notes. Omit specific names and other personal information through which the interviewee can be determined.
Part II: Analysis
Write a 500-750 word analysis of your interview experience. Be sure to exclude specific names and other personal information from the interview. Instead, provide demographics such as sex, age, ethnicity, and religion. Include the following in your response:
1. What went well?
2. Were there any barriers or challenges that inhibited your ability to complete the assessment tool? How would you address these in the future or change your assessment to better address these challenges?
3. How can this tool assist you in providing appropriate interventions to meet the needs of your patient?
4. Did you discover that illness and stress amplified the spiritual concern and needs of your interviewee? Explain your answer with examples.

 

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Discuss aspects of the population health concern not being addressed despite the efforts of the partners involved. Outcomes Identification

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Write a narrative description of your field project by doing the following:

Assessment
Describe the community where you performed your fieldwork by identifying each of the following items:
geographical area (e.g., county, city, town)
area size
population size
demographics
physical and social environment (use the windshield survey from task 1 of C228)
Discuss the health concern you studied in your fieldwork.
Provide background information in relation to Healthy People 2020 and local public health data that characterizes the health concern.
Provide data from national, state, and/or local levels related to the health concern.
Describe the target population affected by the health concern you studied in your fieldwork, including each of the following components:
gender
age
demographics, including socioeconomic status and educational level
Explain how the health concern is linked to a health inequity/health disparity for the population of interest.
Provide specific data to support the health inequity/disparity conclusion.
Discuss the primary community resources and partners currently involved with the health concern.
Describe how your fieldwork interviews support your chosen health concern, including a summary of the interviews.
Discuss aspects of the population health concern not being addressed despite the efforts of the partners involved.
Outcomes Identification
Explain the desired outcome(s) or goal(s) for improvement related to the health concern.
Note: This outcome or goal should be in alignment with Healthy People 2020 objective.

Planning
Create a nursing action plan to address the identified population health concern.
Recommend two population-focused specific objectives.
Note: The recommended objectives should be measurable ones.

Recommend two population-focused specific nursing interventions to improve the health concern.
Note: Use the attached “Minnesota Intervention Wheel” as an aid in selecting the broad areas for nursing action. Select primary and secondary prevention activities only. For example, explain how you and other nurses might work with the community and your chosen target population of interest to improve the health concern.

Discuss potential public and private partnerships from your field experience that could be formed to implement your recommendations from parts D1a and D1b.
Create a specific timeline for your population-focused nursing interventions.
Evaluation
Explain how you would evaluate the effectiveness of the nursing action plan created in part D.
Identify the measurable tools necessary to perform the evaluation.
Conclusion
1. Reflect on how your perspective of the community’s health and the national, state, and local efforts toward a healthier population has changed as a result of your fieldwork.

 

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Examine the attributes of leadership that may be needed for graduate level nurses.The graduate nurse evidences leadership as seen in the four domains: the profession of nursing, clinical practice arena, health policy arena, and systems level.

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Examine the attributes of leadership that may be needed for graduate level nurses.The graduate nurse evidences leadership as seen in the four domains: the profession of nursing, clinical practice arena, health policy arena, and systems level.

In order to complete this assignment, complete the short eighteen-question quiz (this takes approximately five minutes) about your leadership style at

About.com Psychology. (n.d.). Quiz – What’s your leadership style? Retrieved
from http://psychology.about.com/library/quiz/bl-leadershipquiz.htm

In a 3- to 5-page paper (excluding the title page, references and appendices), you will address the following criteria:

Report your findings from the quiz:
What kind of leader were you?
How does this fit into your beliefs about your leadership style?
Examine the attributes of leadership that may be needed for graduate level nurses.
Analyze your personal leadership attributes you feel you have that will help you in your graduate nursing role. Also discuss those attributes that you feel you may need to develop in your graduate nursing role.
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When you ask about the cane, he says he began using the cane because the pain in his right hip had increased significantly over the past 6 months.

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Consider which assessment tools would be appropriate for the patient in this case study:
79 yr old male, reports for an annual physical examination. He says he is doing well. His only known problem is osteoarthritis. He also requests a flu shot. He takes no medications other than Tylenol for arthritis pain. When he walks into the exam room, you notice that he is using a straight cane in his right hand. When you ask about the cane, he says he began using the cane because the pain in his right hip had increased significantly over the past 6 months.
Consider a possible patient evaluation plan. As part of your evaluation planning, consider where the evaluation would take place, whether any other professionals or family members should be present, appropriate assessment tools and guidelines, and any other relevant information that should be addressed.
Consider whether the assessment tool identified was validated for use with this specific patient population and if this poses issues. Think about additional factors that might present issues when performing assessments, such as language, education, prosthetics, missing limbs, etc.
Resnick, B. (Ed.). (2016). Geriatric nursing review syllabus: A core curriculum in advanced practice geriatric nursing (5th ed.). New York, NY: American Geriatrics Society.

 

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Develop the definition and characteristics of various leadership theories and approaches to leadership. Theories of Leadership

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Develop the definition and characteristics of various leadership theories and approaches to leadership.
Theories of Leadership
Resources: The Art and Science of Leadership, Ch. 3 and Leadership Theories Matrix

As a leader, you often need to display or clarify a concept. A matrix is a grid that contains information and offers a visual model of ideas. For this assignment, you will create a matrix that explains leadership theories.

Research the following five leadership theories and include these in your matrix (use the matrix template provided):

Trait theories of leadership
Behavioral theories of leadership
Contingency models of leadership
Skills approaches to leadership
Situational methods of leadership
Develop the definition and characteristics of various leadership theories and approaches to leadership (trait leadership, behavioral leadership, contingency leadership, skills leadership and situational leadership).

Provide one or more examples to support the definition or characteristics of each form of leadership.

Write out your explanations in each section using about 350 words for each section.

Format your Leadership Theory Matrix with the template and consistent with APA guidelines.

Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment.

 

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