Assignment: Workplace Environment Assessment

Clearly, diagnosis is a critical aspect of healthcare. However, the ultimate purpose of a diagnosis is the development and application of a series of treatments or protocols. Isolated recognition of a health issue does little to resolve it.

In this module’s Discussion, you applied the Clark Healthy Workplace Inventory to diagnose potential problems with the civility of your organization. In this Portfolio Assignment, you will continue to analyze the results and apply published research to the development of a proposed treatment for any issues uncovered by the assessment.

To Prepare:

• Review the Resources and examine the Clark Healthy Workplace Inventory, found on page 20 of Clark (2015).
• Review the Work Environment Assessment Template.
• Reflect on the output of your Discussion post regarding your evaluation of workplace civility and the feedback received from colleagues.
• Select and review one or more of the following articles found in the Resources:
  • Clark, Olender, Cardoni, and Kenski (2011)
  • Clark (2018)
  • Clark (2015)
  • Griffin and Clark (2014)

The Assignment (3-6 pages total):

Part 1: Work Environment Assessment (1-2 pages)

• Review the Work Environment Assessment Template you completed for this Module’s Discussion.
• Describe the results of the Work Environment Assessment you completed on your workplace.
• Identify two things that surprised you about the results and one idea you believed prior to conducting the Assessment that was confirmed.
• Explain what the results of the Assessment suggest about the health and civility of your workplace.

Part 2: Reviewing the Literature (1-2 pages)

• Briefly describe the theory or concept presented in the article(s) you selected.
• Explain how the theory or concept presented in the article(s) relates to the results of your Work Environment Assessment.
• Explain how your organization could apply the theory highlighted in your selected article(s) to improve organizational health and/or create stronger work teams. Be specific and provide examples.

Part 3: Evidence-Based Strategies to Create High-Performance Interprofessional Teams (1–2 pages)

• Recommend at least two strategies, supported in the literature, that can be implemented to address any shortcomings revealed in your Work Environment Assessment.
• Recommend at least two strategies that can be implemented to bolster successful practices revealed in

Tuina A Nonbiomedical Health Practice

Non BioMed Example (next page) – In this discussion topic, you will be presenting your research of an example of traditional medicine. The tradition can be from any culture group of your choosing. This can be from any cultural group but must be documented, not just anecdotal. You will include a minimum of one image to exemplify and inform. Reguired for the presentation:

• information on the culture group who’s nonbiomedical health or healing practice you are presenting – this is who they are, where they live, how they live, etc. Give enough information that your readers have a good understanding of the people and a context for the practice.
• identify and describe the health-related practice – assume your readers have never heard of this practice, provide enough description and information that it is clear what it is and what its used for, also consider why its used.
• embed in the topic (not link to, it must be visible in the posting) at least one (1) relevant image, to helps to inform or clarify. Underneath the image give a detailed caption, meaning explain the image and include the citation for the picture, who’s image it is, where did you find it.
• explain how you chose this topic to research – there are so many different non biomed traditions in use, how did you come to this one? Is it something you have taken part in? Is it new to you and you found it through research? If so, why did you pick it?
• describe what you found to be the most interesting thing about the practice and why you found it so interesting – you did research, what did you find that compelling, fascinating, engrossing about the practice?
• cite a minimum of 3 sources, include reference list at end, use MLA, APA, or Chicago style – review citation styles from the Writing Guide module.. Totall of 5 paragraphs
• Culture Competency (final page) – this discussion topic is a wrap up to the class, in which you consider what you learned, and discuss the importance of cultural competency in health care. Conclude your posting with what you personally will take away from this course as a health care professional; what is something that you will keep in mind while working with patients? Is there something you had not thought of and now see the importance of? Whatever it is for you, describe it here…. the article related to Cultural competence —-https://www.texmed.org/Template.aspx?id=4704 and https://www.dentistryiq.com/dental-hygiene/career-…….. 3-4 paragraphs

Caregiver Role Strain

Post your initial response to one of the two topics below.

Topic 1

Review Healthy People 2020 Global Health Initiatives.

• Choose one disease process and discuss the disease process.
• Discuss the goals for this disease presented in Healthy People 2020.
• How does the CDC play a role in meeting the goals?

Topic 2

Search Online Library for information about caregiver role strain.

• What is the most important factor that causes caregiver role strain?
• How do you assess for caregiver strain?
• What can be done to prevent or decrease caregiver role strain?

Compliance Program Implementation and Ethical Decision Making

Instructions

In this assessment, you are assuming the role of an early careerist in risk management and quality improvement at

one of Vila Health’s community-based hospitals. Vila Health is a medium-sized system of health operating facilities in

Minnesota and Wisconsin. You are working on a team-based initiative under the supervision of the Vila Health Chief

Compliance Officer. Your role is to assist in addressing a specific compliance risk regarding a breach of privacy and

potential HIPAA violation. A Vila Health employee has disclosed—without prior written authorization—a patient’s

protected personal health information.

Here is the information the team has collected about the privacy breach and potential HIPAA violation to date. A

Vila Health supervisor instructed an employee to obtain pre-authorization for an upcoming surgical procedure for a

patient. The Vila Health employee submitted confidential, protected health care information about the patient to

the insurance company. The Member Services Representative at the insurance company contacted the Vila Health

supervisor. The insurance company representative indicated that further discussion of the matter without prior

written consent from the patient is prohibited.

As part of the team exploring the privacy breach, you will prepare a workplace brief with authoritative, evidencebased

references to support your work.

Preparation

You are already familiar with HIPAA but may want to conduct independent research to enhance your

knowledge. Consult this resource for additional guidance on how to conduct research using credible sources: Health

Care Administration Undergraduate Library Research Guide.

Instructions

This is a workplace brief rather than an academic paper. Download the Compliance Program Implementation and

Ethical Decision-Making Template [DOCX]. Be sure to address all of the following in your brief:

Background

Include a short paragraph of no more than five or six sentences describing the known details about the privacy

breach and HIPAA violation.

Privacy Breach—HIPAA Violation

Summarize the relevant health care compliance concepts that apply to this privacy breach and HIPAA violation. Be

sure to consider the following:

Federal, state, and local laws and associated regulations.

Disclosure.

Human resource concepts and law(s).

Seven Essential Elements of an Effective Compliance Program

Apply to this HIPAA breach the seven essential components of an effective health care compliance program, as

determined within the Federal Register.

Privacy Breach Consequences

Provide a synopsis of the consequences for an individual leader and for other internal health care organization

stakeholders for not taking immediate actions to address a privacy breach. At a minimum, be sure to consider all of

the following in your synopsis:

Patient safety.

Financial losses.

Individual and organizational violations of the law.

Evidence-Based Recommendations

Construct evidence-based recommendations to resolve the HIPAA-related privacy breach. You may also want to

include relevant information related to:

Human resource laws.

Professional codes of ethical conduct and standards.

Previous case precedents.

Current alleged health care legal violations.

For help in identifying appropriate evidence-based recommendations, you may want to visit some of the

authoritative sources, such as the DOJ/OIG, CMS/HHS, et cetera, listed under the suggested resources for this

assessment.

Ethical Decision-Making Framework for Health Care Leaders

Describe an ethical decision making framework as one of your concluding recommendations. Tip: You may want to

use the ACHE’s ethical decision-making framework:

Nelson, W. (2015). Making ethical decisions. Healthcare Executive, 46–48. Retrieved

Conclusion

Write a paragraph that summarizes the following:

Key concepts.

Importance of compliance.

Best practices to monitor for future quality improvements.

Short list of resources.

Note: Be sure to include all appropriate citations.

Additional Requirements

Written communication: Use the Compliance Program Implementation and Ethical Decision-

Making Template linked above. Your workplace brief needs to be clear, concise, well-organized, and generally

free of errors in grammar, punctuation, and spelling. The title page, citations, and references need to be in

current APA format.

Length: Approximately 8–10 typed, double-spaced content pages in Times New Roman, 12-point font,

including the reference page.