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HA3110D – Quality Improvement and Risk Management 

Discussion 07.2: Partnering with Families

For this discussion you will be accepting the role of patient advocate as well as a care provider. As you recall from week one, number two on the National Quality Strategy Priorities list is patient-and-family centered care.

 Prior to the 1980s, family and visitors were restricted to a few hours at a time and absolutely prohibited to stay overnight. When family arrived on discharge day, home care instructions were minimal at best. Invasive treatments, such as bladder irrigation (common at the time) were demonstrated to the patient and family, instructed them to perform the task every day and call if any problems. Family members DID call, and patients did return–with raging infections, wound dehiscence, and irreparable complications.

Fortunately, with the advent of patient-and family-centered care, adequate, on-going education, training and caregiver participation has reduced re-admissions and complications.

Reflect upon what you have learned about changing the concept from families as “visitors” to families as partners. Using the Institute for Family- and Patient-Centered Care website to view sample policies. Identify the policy you like best and respond as assigned below. 

In your initial response by Thursday,  1. Choose a policy and discuss what factors might be most important to the patient and family, and what factors might be most important to healthcare providers.* 2. What might be potential risk factors for implementing this policy?

*In this instance, providers refers to all employee who work in healthcare

HA3110D – Quality Improvement and Risk Management

Discussion 08

 After viewing the IHI’s “What Happened to Josie?,” one of the most compelling hospital error cases resulting in change, reflect back on Chapter 1’s National Quality Strategy Six Priorities.

Of these four a) patient safety, b) person-and family-centered care and c) communication and (d) coordination of care, discuss:

1.Identify safety measures that were missed throughout Josie’s hospitalization that contributed to her sudden change in condition. 

2.Which factor, communication, or coordination of care do you consider the most crucial factor in Josie’s case? Why? Support your response. 

3.What actions might have been taken to prevent Josie’s death?

4.From your learning, explain how reliability science could have been applied to prevent Josie’s death.

Portion 1- Due Today 

Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words: 

• Discuss at least two self-interested reasons that a top earner might favor policies to redistribute income.
• Discuss why the supply curve of labor for any specific occupation is likely to be upward-sloping, even if, for the economy as a whole, people work fewer hours when wage rates increase.

Portion 2- Due Saturday 

Reply to at least 2 of your classmates. Be constructive and professional in your responses.

** Classmate Responses Attached**

175 words to Discussion Post

125 Words Per Classmate Response (250 in total)

I’m paying a good price with a generous due date. Please provide a quality paper with the following guidelines:

1. Write your response as a future article for a local news page (for either a newspaper or as an article on a website).

2. Discuss what is meant by competitive advantage. 

3. Refer to examples of ways organizations create competitive advantage. 

4. Identify a specific real-life organization’s competitive advantage and determine what role HR plays in that process.

Four (4) page news article that’s relative to human resource management. Include tables, graphics, and/or other visuals.

Including a cover page, list of references, strong introduction and conclusion.

 The Pictures Chosen are in the attachment  below 

Question 1: Manuscripts of the Early Middle Ages

Before the invention of the printing press, books were copied by hand one at a time by illuminators, and the vellum was often embellished with beautiful calligraphy and intricate patterns and designs.

Using your course textbook locate three examples of illuminated manuscripts from the early Middle Ages. Read about each one in your textbook, course lectures, and through reliable internet resources

First, completely identify each manuscript and/or manuscript page by title, date, and location where it was created.

In a minimum of 2 well-developed paragraphs address the following questions:

1. Who commissioned the creation of the manuscript? Why?
2. What was the purpose of the manuscript?
3. How do the visual characteristics of each manuscript contribute to or enhance its message or meaning?
4. How do the reasons these manuscripts were created compare with religious texts created today?

Be sure to explain your ideas clearly and support them by discussing specific details about each manuscript.

Question 2: Romanesque and Gothic Cathedrals

Both Romanesque and Gothic architecture displayed distinctive characteristics and features. For this assignment, select one example of Romanesque church architecture and one example of Gothic church architecture from your course textbook. Read about each one in your textbook, course lectures, and through reliable internet resources.

First, completely identify the two cathedrals you have selected by name, date, and location.

Then, in a minimum of 3 well-developed paragraphs, address the following questions:

1. What architectural details are evident in each cathedral that make it representative of either the Romanesque or Gothic style?
2. What sort of decoration (interior and exterior) was employed in each cathedral? What was the meaning of the sculptures, paintings, windows that adorned each cathedral?
3. What was the visitor or viewer experience in each cathedral?

Human resources (HR) and other policies are critical to the effective and efficient management of any organization. Discuss the following:

• Provide  examples of HR (or other) policies and how they support or inhibit organizational performance. 
• What  actions should management take to identify and change policies that  inhibit organizational performance? 

answer the four questions:

1. no reference

2. 2 pages for 2 question and 1 page for other two (6 pages in total)

3. due date 25 september noon sharp

read the case study and answer the questions 

Sometimes, during heated discussions and debates about social policy, the underlying reasons for the policy go unnoticed. Advocates and policymakers may become so committed to their perspectives and to winning the debates that they lose focus on the larger context surrounding an issue. The purpose of policy is to improve the lives and well-being of individuals and groups in our society. As you assume the role of a social work policymaker, consider the importance of keeping the needs and experiences of vulnerable populations at the forefront of your mind in your advocacy efforts. This can help to assure effective policy practice.

For this Assignment, you will analyze a state, federal, or global social welfare policy that affects an at-risk, marginalized, oppressed, underrepresented, or over looked group population. Finally, consider the impact of social policy from the perspective of the group you selected.

Assignment (5-7 double-spaced pages, APA format). In addition to a minimum of eight scholarly references, which may include electronic government documents and reputable websites, your paper should include:

• A description of the current policy approach for addressing the social issue you selected
• A description of the current policy goals for addressing the social issue you selected
• A description of the population the current policy approach covers
• An explanation of the funding levels for the current policy approach and whether they are sufficient to address the issue
• An explanation of how this policy may affect at-risk, marginalized, underrepresented, overlooked, or oppressed populations. Identify a specific at-risk population.
• An analysis of whether or not the policy meets the needs of the population groups most affected by the policy.
• Recommendations for alternative policies that would address the gaps identified in the policy. Please be specific in recommendations.

You need to find a peer reviewed journal article, that has been published within the last 5 years. A peer reviewed journal article is an article published in a peer review journal only after it has been reviewed by numerous experts in the field.  This review is to make sure the article is not rubbish and provides useful information.  

If you using websites, remember many websites that information comes from are suspect in terms of factual and unbiased information. In a nutshell, never use Wikipedia, About.com, Answers.com, or similar websites.  Though some .com sites are acceptable, most students have trouble identifying whether they can be trusted, so an easy guideline to follow is to avoid them. Websites ending in .gov, .net, .edu, .org, and so forth are typically more trustworthy than a .com source.

Your written assignment is point heavy (190 points).  It will be a very intensive paper and there are specific sections which need to be addressed.  To help provide an organized paper, APA headings must be used.  Below I included information on how to format the headings.  

APA HEADINGS

APA Style uses a unique headings system to separate and classify paper sections. There are 5 heading levels in APA. The 6th edition of the APA manual revises and simplifies previous heading guidelines. Regardless of the number of levels, always use the headings in order, beginning with level 1. The format of each level is illustrated below:

APA Headings: Level  Format

  1. Centered, Boldface, Uppercase and Lowercase Headings

  2. Left-aligned, Boldface, Uppercase and Lowercase Heading

  3. Indented, boldface, lowercase heading with a period. Begin body text after the period. 

  4. Indented, boldface, italicized, lowercase heading with a period. Begin body text after the period. 

  5. Indented, italicized, lowercase heading with a period. Begin body text after the period. 

 
This assignment will be submitted to Turnitin®.Instructions

Assignment 2: Union Representation Memo (Paper/Memo)
(25 points) 3-4 pages, not including cover or References pages

You have recently joined an organization in an entry level HR position. The organization is now subject to union representation. You have been asked by your supervisor to write a memo for your HR colleagues that provides an overview of the expectations for managing human resources in a unionized environment.

Paper must be double-space, Times New Roman font 12, cover page, page numbers, and APA format. Paper must be in narrative format, not bullets. [in word document not pdf] -.5pt if fail in any of these formatting requirements.

Late penalties: Paper is due by due date but if there occurs an extraordinary event beyond your control, then you need to contact me as to the reason and then we can discuss a new due date if I agree with your excuse. In every case of an extension you will be still be penalized 11% [-2.75pts, no chance for an A, for failing to submit paper by due date and time and -.5pt for each additional day late, no matter the excuse]. There are 25pts in the rubric so if one day late you will lose -2.75pts. Which equates to an 89B before paper is even graded.

Be uploaded to your Assignments Folder #2 by 23:59 p.m. eastern time on the due date.

Your memo must address the following questions below: [Must use the underlined headings below in paper and in order provided below. -.5pt if fail to use the underlined headings in paper and in order provided.]

1. The differences, from the organization’s perspective, in operating in a union-free environment versus a unionized environment
2. The rights of the union, management, and employees
3. The impacts of the union on human resource functions, including
   • Work restructuring  
   • Performance Management
   • Employee Discipline and Job Security
   • Wages and Benefits
   • Health and Safety
4. Any costs the organization may expect based upon these impacts

Support your answers! In responding, you must use five references including three from the course materials. They should be from a scholarly journal or credible news source from within the past three years. At least three should be from course materials. 

What’s the importance of health insurance? No one plans to get sick or hurt, but most people need to access health care services at some point in their lives. Health insurance status in the United States is varied and inconsistent – and it is changing over time. Critics argue both in favor of or against universal coverage, citing both benefits and drawbacks of coverages and their associated costs.

Assessing the impact of health insurance coverage on a person’s health is complex; health effects may take a long time to be realized, can vary based on insurance benefits/lack thereof, and are often clouded by confounding variables. Let’s begin our Case by examining the purposes of health insurance, the current health insurance status of the U.S.population, and what current research tells us regarding the use vs. outcomes of health insurance coverage.

Case Assignment

Using the information in the required readings, as well as some additional research in peer-reviewed sources, complete your Case assignment by addressing the following:

1. Articulate the specific purposes of health insurance.
2. Provide a summary of the current health insurance status of the U.S. population. Who is covered, and by what type of insurance? What portion of the population is uninsured and underinsured? What are the trends in coverages over time?
3. Explain how health insurance coverage affects health care utilization, disease treatment and outcomes, self-reported health, and mortality.

Assignment Expectations

1. Conduct additional research to gather sufficient information to support your analysis.
2. Provide a response of 3-5 pages, not including title page and references.
3. There are multiple required items to be addressed herein; please use subheadings to show where you are responding to each required item and to ensure that none are omitted.
4. Support your paper with peer-reviewed articles, with at least 3 references. Use the following link for additional information on how to recognize peer-reviewed journals:
   Angelo State University Library. (n.d.). Library Guides: How to recognize peer-reviewed (refereed) journals. Retrieved from https://www.angelo.edu/services/library/handouts/peerrev.php
5. You may use the following source to assist in formatting your assignment:
   Purdue Online Writing Lab. (n.d.). General APA guidelines. Retrieved from https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/.
6. For additional information on reliability of sources, review the following source:
   Georgetown University Library. (n.d.). Evaluating internet resources. Retrieved from https://www.library.georgetown.edu/tutorials/research-guides/evaluating-internet-content