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1. Prepare examples of various coding and billing issues that you have experienced in the clinical setting (Peds and women’s health).

2. Provide a brief description about the NPI numbers for nurse practitioners.

Read the following article: 

https://journals.lww.co m/jwocnonline/Fulltext/ 2012/03001/Reimburse ment_of_Advanced_Pra ctice_Registered.4.aspx

Post-Policy Assessment (105 points)

Locate a policy that has been implemented by the Ministry of Health in Saudi Arabia in an effort to improve health.

Draft a post-policy assessment to determine whether the policy is effective and how it might be improved. Be sure to include the following information in your substantive evaluation:

• Identify the policy;
• The goals of the policy;
• Any interventions required of the policy;
• Positive and negative results of the policy, including whether the goals are being met;
• Metrics used to determine the results; and
• Recommendations for improving the policy.

Your report should meet the following structural requirements:

• Be five to six pages in length, not including the cover or reference pages.
• Be formatted according to Saudi Electronic University and APA writing guidelines.
• Provide support for your statements with in-text citations from a minimum of three scholarly articles. One of these sources may be from the class readings, textbook, or lectures, but the others must be external.
• Utilize headings to organize the content in your work.

• List some specific difficulties that might arise when a language barrier exists between you and a patient.
• How might those difficulties be addressed? Explain the steps you could take.

Write a 4–7-page analysis of your care setting that supports development of a strategic plan and includes both the discovery and dream phases of an appreciative inquiry (AI) project and a strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis of the care setting.

Note: Each assessment in this course builds on the work you completed in the previous assessment. Therefore, you must complete the assessments in this course in the order in which they are presented.

Identifying analysis techniques for assessing competitive advantage is important for building health care strategy. Sustaining health care competitive advantage requires that leaders understand environmental demands to assist with minimizing weakness and threats from the external environment. This assessment provides you with an opportunity to examine your health care environment to determine whether what is being accomplished in your organization, department, team, community project, or other care setting is making a positive difference.

By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:

• Competency 1: Evaluate qualities and skills that promote effective leadership within health care organizations.
  • Analyze the leadership characteristics and skills most desired in the person leading potential performance improvement projects, taking both an appreciative inquiry (AI) and a strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) approach.
• Competency 2: Apply strategies to lead high-performing health care teams to meet organizational quality and safety goals.
  • Synthesize stories and evidence about times when a care setting performed at its best with regard to quality and safety goals.
  • Conduct a SWOT analysis of a care setting, with respect to quality and safety goals.
  • Describe an area of concern identified in a SWOT analysis—relevant to a care setting’s mission, vision, and values—that should be improved.
  • Compare the AI and SWOT approaches to analysis with regard to data gathering and interactions with others.
• Competency 3: Apply cultural, ethical, and regulatory considerations to leadership decision making.
  • Propose positive, attainable quality and safety improvement goals for a care setting.
• Competency 5: Communicate with stakeholders and constituencies to build collaborative partnerships and create inclusive work environments.
  • Communicate analyses clearly and in a way that demonstrates professionalism and respect for stakeholders and colleagues.
  • Integrate relevant and credible sources of evidence to support assertions, correctly formatting citations and references using APA style.

 QUESTIONS TO CONSIDER

• As you prepare to complete this assessment, you may want to think about other related issues to deepen your understanding or broaden your viewpoint. You are encouraged to consider the questions below and discuss them with a fellow learner, a work associate, an interested friend, or a member of your professional community. Note that these questions are for your own development and exploration and do not need to be completed or submitted as part of your assessment.
  One key aspect to being an effective leader, manager, or administrator is an awareness of your leadership strengths, weaknesses, and style.
  • How would you assess your general leadership, communication, and relationship-building skills?
  • How would describe your leadership style?
  • Imagine the future for a care setting that is your place of practice or one in which you would like to work.
  • What aspirational goals can you envision that would lead to improvements in health care quality and safety?
  • How well do these goals align with the mission, vision, and values of your care setting?

Assessment Instructions

Note: You will use the results of this analysis to develop a strategic plan in Assessment 2.

Preparation

You have been asked to conduct an analysis of your care setting that will result in two potential pathways toward a strategic plan to improve health care quality and safety in your organization, department, team, community project, or other care setting. To accomplish this, you will take two approaches to the analysis:

1. Complete the discovery and dream phases of an appreciative inquiry (AI) project.
2. Conduct a strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) analysis.

To help ensure that your analysis is well-received, the requester has suggested that you:

• Present your analysis results in four parts:
  • Part 1: Appreciative Inquiry Discovery and Dream.
  • Part 2: SWOT Analysis.
  • Part 3: Comparison of Approaches.
  • Part 4: Analysis of Relevant Leadership Characteristics and Skills.
• Your analysis should be 4–7 pages in length.

Note: Remember, you can submit all, or a portion, of your draft plan to Smarthinking for feedback before you submit the final version for this assessment. However, be mindful of the turnaround time for receiving feedback, if you plan on using this free service.

Analysis Requirements

Note: The requirements outlined below correspond to the grading criteria in the scoring guide, so at a minimum, be sure to address each point. In addition, you are encouraged to review the performance level descriptions for each criterion to see how your work will be assessed.

Writing, Supporting Evidence, and APA Style

• Communicate professionally when conducting interviews and collecting data.
• Write clearly, with professionalism and respect for stakeholders and colleagues.
• Integrate relevant sources of evidence to support your assertions.
  • Cite at least 3–5 sources of scholarly or professional evidence.
  • Include relevant interview information.
• Format your document using APA style. The APA Style Paper Template and associated tutorial, linked in the Resources, are provided for your use. Be sure to include:
  • A title page and reference page. An abstract is not required.
  • A running head on all pages.
  • Appropriate section headings.
  • Properly formatted citations and references.
• Proofread your writing to minimize errors that could distract readers and make it more difficult to focus on the substance of your analysis.

Part 1: Appreciative Inquiry Discovery and Dream

• Synthesize stories and evidence about times when a care setting performed at its best with regard to quality and safety goals.
  • Collect stories from your care setting. You may collect stories through interviews or conversations with colleagues or provide your own.
  • Explain how your stories are related to quality and safety goals.
  • Describe the evidence you have that substantiates your stories.
  • Identify the positive themes reflected in your stories.
  • Describe other evidence (for example: data, awards, accreditations) that validates your care setting’s positive core.
• Propose positive, yet attainable, quality and safety improvement goals for your care setting.
  • Explain how accomplishing these goals will lead to ethical and culturally-sensitive improvements in quality and safety.
  • Explain how your proposed goals align with your care setting’s mission, vision, and values.

Part 2: SWOT Analysis

• Conduct a SWOT analysis of your care setting, with respect to quality and safety goals.
  • Provide a narrative description of your analysis.
  • Identify the assessment tool you used as the basis of your analysis.
  • Describe your key findings and their relationships to quality and safety goals.
• Describe one area of concern that you identified in your SWOT analysis—relevant to your care setting’s mission, vision, and values—for which you would propose pursuing improvements.
  • Explain how this area of concern relates to your care setting’s mission, vision, and values.
  • Explain why you believe it will be necessary and valuable to pursue improvements related to this area of concern.

Part 3: Comparison of Approaches

Compare the AI and SWOT approaches to analysis and reflect on the results.

• Describe your mindset when examining your care setting from an AI perspective and from a SWOT perspective.
• Describe the types of data and evidence you searched for when taking an AI approach and a SWOT approach.
• Describe the similarities and differences between the two approaches when communicating and interacting with colleagues.

Part 4: Analysis of Relevant Leadership Characteristics and Skills

Analyze the leadership characteristics and skills most desired in the person leading potential performance improvement projects, taking both an AI and SWOT approach.

• Explain how these characteristics and skills would help a leader facilitate a successful AI-based project and a successful SWOT-based project.
• Comment on any shared characteristics or skills you identified as helpful for both AI and SWOT approaches.

 GRADING RUBRIC

1-  Synthesize stories and evidence about times when a care setting performed at its best with regard to quality and safety goals. 

Passing Grade:  Synthesizes stories and evidence about times when a care setting performed at its best with regard to quality and safety goals. Identifies knowledge gaps, unknowns, missing information, unanswered questions, or areas of uncertainty (where further information could improve the synthesis). 

2-  Propose positive, attainable quality and safety improvement goals for a care setting. 

Passing Grade:  Proposes positive, attainable quality and safety improvement goals for a care setting, and identifies assumptions on which proposed goals are based. 

3-  Conduct a SWOT analysis of a care setting, with respect to quality and safety goals. 

Passing Grade:  Conducts a SWOT analysis of a care setting, with respect to quality and safety goals, and impartially considers conflicting data and other perspectives. 

4-  Describe an area of concern identified in a SWOT analysis—relevant to a care setting’s mission, vision, and values—that should be improved.
 

Passing Grade:  Describes an area of concern identified in a SWOT analysis—relevant to a care setting’s mission, vision, and values—that should be improved. Identifies criteria that could be used to evaluate such an improvement.

5-  Compare the AI and SWOT approaches to analysis with regard to data gathering and interactions with others. 

Passing Grade:  Compares the AI and SWOT approaches to analysis with regard to data gathering and interactions with others, and acknowledges one’s own assumptions and biases 

6-  Analyze the leadership characteristics and skills most desired in the person leading potential performance improvement projects, taking both an AI and SWOT approach. 

Passing Grade:  Analyzes the leadership characteristics and skills most desired in the person leading potential performance improvement projects, taking both an AI and SWOT approach. Identifies areas of uncertainty or knowledge gaps.
 

7-  Communicate analyses clearly and in a way that demonstrates professionalism and respect for stakeholders and colleagues. 

Passing Grade:  Communicates analyses clearly, logically, and persuasively, demonstrating professionalism and respect for stakeholders and colleagues. Grammar and mechanics are virtually error-free. 

8-  Integrate relevant and credible sources of evidence to support assertions, correctly formatting citations and references using APA style. 

Passing Grade:  Integrates relevant and credible sources of evidence to support assertions, correctly formatting citations and references using APA style. Citations are error-free.
 

During a home visit for a 72-year-old Asian woman, the home health nurse notices that her prescription medications for hypertension and diabetes are untouched. Her daughter explains that she cannot get her mother to take the “Western pills” and that her mother has been using a variety of herbal remedies.

You are asked by your supervisor to provide a summary report that address the following:

• How do you provide care for this patient that is culturally competent?
• How does her culture play a role into her nursing care?
• What techniques can you utilize to enhance the data collection process?
• How will you incorporate patient centered care values while trying to complete a head to toe assessment?

Your report should be coherent and precise, and should address all the required components in a research-based manner using text support and outside research to create a set of responses to the supervisor prompts above.

The essay should be 1000-1250 words and should include at least three (3) citations. The sections should be clearly marked with headings so that your instructor knows which points you are addressing. Follow the guidelines for APA writing style. The title page and references page do not count towards the minimum word amount for this assignment.

Assignment Expectations

Length: 1000 – 1250 words; answers must thoroughly address the questions in a clear, concise manner.

Structure: Include a title page and reference page in APA style. These do not count towards the minimal word count for this assignment.

References: Use the appropriate APA style in-text citations and references for all resources utilized to answer the questions. Include at least three (3) scholarly sources to support your claims.

Complete your week 8 required discussion prompt. You must complete:

• Select one of the future issues presented this week. Examine the issue in terms of cultural diversity, health promotion, and communication methods. Discuss in detail how this issue affects healthcare delivery and advanced nursing.

future issues. includes:

major shift in demographic patterns.

significant changes in the health care delivery system 

affordable care act emphasis on:

health care financing 

community based care

health promotion 

Access to care 

Take your stance and defend whether Facebook, WhatsApp, and Twitter be banned permanently?

Write a 5 paragraph argumentative essay 

Follow APA style guidelines. It includes the following:

 The Title page 

 Introduction

        Thesis statement

 Supporting paragraph 1

 Supporting paragraph 2

Counterview along with Rebuttal

 Conclusion

 References

Now that Barbara has an understanding of the factors that influence clinic performance, it is time to set priorities and develop a preliminary strategy. A clear strategy helps to focus energy and resources, establish organizational direction, and strengthen operations where there are opportunities for improvement.

For this project assignment on UCCO, complete a minimum of a 2-page report to describe a high-level strategy with associated action items for, to include the following concepts:

• Based on the results of the SWOT analysis, what should Barbara recommend as an overall strategy?
• How will the selection of the chosen EHR system contribute to the strategy? Further explain why it was the best choice.
• On what basis should she develop actions items? What should the action items be, as they directly relate to the strategy?
• What should the recommended outcomes and/ or long-term goals be, based on the action items?

Visit the Rasmussen online Library and search for a minimum of 2 articles covering the topics of strategic planning and healthcare management. Conduct academic research using the library’s databases, like:

• CINAHL
• Discovery
• Business Source Complete via EBSCO
• Business via ProQuest

Remember to integrate citations accurately and appropriately for all resource types; use attribution (credit) as a method to avoid plagiarism. Use NoodleBib to document your sources and to complete your APA formatted reference page and in-text citations.

Transferable Skills for this Project Stage:Critical Thinking

A 42-year-old male reports pain in his lower back for the past month. The pain sometimes radiates to his left leg. In determining the cause of the back pain, based on your knowledge of anatomy, what nerve roots might be involved? How would you test for each of them? What other symptoms need to be explored? What are your differential diagnoses for acute low back pain? Consider the possible origins using the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) guidelines as a framework. What physical examination will you perform? What special maneuvers will you perform?

• Identify at least five possible      conditions that may be considered in a differential diagnosis for the      patient.
•  Also, your Case Study Assignment should be in the Episodic/Focused SOAP Note format rather than the traditional narrative style format 

Write a personal nursing philosophy reflecting growth and evolution during your tenure as a nursing student. This is a personal philosophy that prospective employers may be invited to see.

• Submit a minimum of two paragraphs explaining your personal nursing philosophy. Include your view of health and your thoughts on your future role as a nurse.
• Use APA Style.

 Review the rubric for more information on how your assignment will be graded.