Systems Engineering Initiative

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The purpose of this assignment is to assess how quality improvement can be used to reduce errors and improve patient safety.

Human error is a concern that affects every aspect of health care and is one that providers must account for when creating systems and processes to ensure patient safety. The Systems Engineering Initiative for Patient Safety (SEIPS) was created as a quality improvement tool to better understand the elements that threaten safety and to recommend ways organizations can improve quality outcomes by reducing risk.

In an essay of 1,000-1,250 words, evaluate the following aspects as they relate to SEIPS:

  • Describe the seven types of errors that can occur in a health care environment. Provide examples of each. Are all these errors preventable? Describe measures that could have been implemented to improve patient safety and reduce the occurrence of each error you described.
  • Discuss the framework of the SEIPS tool and how it is used within a health care environment. Compare the SEIPS tool with one other error-reduction strategy presented in the textbook and explain when each tool might be applied.
  • Explain the positive effect that the SEIPS tool can have on the reduction of errors in high-risk health care settings.
  • Discuss the relationship between CQI and SEIPS in producing quality outcomes for health care organizations. How does improving quality outcomes with a patient-centric focus help to promote a concern for the common good within the public arena?

Prepare this assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

Vivien Thomas Knowledge and Strategies

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Vivien Thomas Knowledge and Strategies

 

What will you do:

1) read about Vivien Thomas : http://reprints.longform.org/something-the-lord-ma…
2) learn about the scientific work of Vivien Thomas

After reviewing the background and scientific work of Vivien Thomas. write a 350 or more word reflection on what you discovered. You might wish to address some of the following: what;

  1. was most interesting to you in reviewing these resources?
  2.  did you learn from these resources about Tetralogy of Fallot?
  3.  new questions do you have after reviewing these resources?
  4. What do these resources tell you about the types of people that do science?

Scientist Spotlight: Vivien Thomas

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Vivien Thomas was a surgical technician and scientist who developed several groundbreaking cardiac surgeries. Although he was trained as a carpenter. And never went to medical school or even college because he had to work. After his first year of college he joined the lab of Dr. Alfred Blalock as a lab assistant. That began a close, decades-long collaboration where they used animal studies to, among other things. Discover the cause of circulatory shock and develop the first surgery to correct “blue baby syndrome.” Later, Thomas collaborated with Dr. Levi Watkins to become the first people to implant an automatic defibrillator. which detects and corrects irregular heartbeats, in a human patient.

He also was the supervisor of the surgical laboratories at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He trained countless surgical technicians and surgeons. After over three decades of working for the University, Johns Hopkins presented him with an honorary doctorate and appointed him as an Instructor of Surgery. Please read the biography of Vivien Thomas linked below, originally printed in The Washingtonian and now on longform.org: “Like Something the Lord Made.” Note: if you want to learn more about him, there has been a PBS documentary, Partners of the Heart, as well as an HBO movie, Something the Lord Made, about his life. One of the most famous surgeries Thomas and Blalock developed was one that helped children born with the condition Tetralogy of Fallot. Please read about this condition and compare it with typical human circulation.

 Hospital Healthcare & Information Technology

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 Hospital Healthcare & Information Technology

you would like to be employed in the future. Identify a need for an IT system to replace a paper/manual process or to upgrade an existing system.

In your paper:

  • Describe the need your new system will address and how it will improve quality, efficiency, and customer satisfaction, and/or how it will reduce expenses.
  • Describe the selection process required to acquire the appropriate system, including the person or team that will make the final selection. Within this section:
    • Describe at least three potential vendors and how they can be differentiated.
    • Once you identify the final vendor, complete a simple qualitative return on investment (ROI) analysis (what qualitative aspects are desirable).
    • List strategies that will ensure a successful implementation and describe potential barriers to success.
  • Create a high-level implementation plan (high-level steps to implement the system).
  • The body of your paper should be 5–7 pages long.
  • Include a Title page, a References page. Include four academic references to support your ideas and an Appendix section for marketing material and/or system implementation documents.

You should be researching the viable solution to the problem and supporting your ideas with examples from your readings and research.

Use APA 7th edition format to style your paper and to cite your sources. Your source(s) should be integrated into the paragraphs. Use internal citations pointing to evidence in the literature and supporting your ideas.

 

The Health Risks of Childs & Adolescents Disaster Management

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The Health Risks of Childs & Adolescents Disaster Management

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

Health Risks, Disasters, and Nursing

Topic 1: Child and Adolescent Health Risks

As you discovered in this week’s lectures and readings, several populations face multiple health risks across their lifespan. Children and adolescents are a population that is at a higher health risk for obesity. A national movement is underway to reduce risk factors for developing obesity in children. Part of this movement is the “Let’s Move!” campaign, which is a comprehensive and coordinated initiative to prevent childhood obesity. The initiative emphasizes four primary components: healthy schools, access to affordable and healthy food, raising children’s physical activity levels, and empowering families to make healthy choices. Review Healthy People 2020:

  • Identify risk factors for childhood obesity.
  • Do the risk factors differ and how do they differ between children and adolescents?
  • Identify objectives that will combat childhood and adolescent obesity.
  • Provide suggestions on how community health nurses can contribute to these national health objectives and accomplish the goal of decreasing obesity among this population.

Topic 2: Disaster Management

Contact your local public health department to learn about its role in a local disaster, including the role of the nurses who work there.

  • What did you learn from your discussion with the local health department?
  • Would you be a good candidate to serve on a disaster team?
  • Would your current employer be flexible in allowing you to participate in a disaster situation?
  • What is your personal preparedness to face a disaster?

Global Presenting Health Information as an Infographic

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Global Presenting Health Information as an Infographic

To see the grading rubric, go to Course Resources / Grading Rubrics

Unit outcomes:

Course outcome:

HS311-6: Create visual representations of summary data with given health data.

Instructions

An effective infographic presents information visually, efficiently, and clearly. Your task is to create an original infographic about a health-related topic of your choice.

The infographic should include the following:

  • A description of the health-related topic.
  • Descriptive data (at least four statistics)
  • Three risk factors or determinants.
  • Two relevant prevention strategies specific to the target audience.

Create your infographic using the free templates provided at piktochart.com. Submit your infographic as an image file (jpg, png or pdf). Please submit the sources for the descriptive data in APA style in a separate Word document.

For more information on using infographics, and for examples on what an infographic looks like, please review this CDC Website.

Information Technology & Systems for Health Care

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HI300: Information Technology and Systems for Health Care

TOPIC #1: EHR Implementation: Gathering Information

This is your first day on the job as Assistant Director in the HIM department at Community Medical Center (CMC). You meet with the HIM Director and she explains that CMC has given her the go-ahead to begin the process of implementing an electronic medical record. As Assistant Director, you will have responsibility for several phases of this important project. Your Director knows that while you have earned an RHIT certification, you still need to learn some background before you begin.

EHR Implementation: Investigating Vendors

The HIM Director assigns you a very important task in rolling out an EHR: investigating vendors. She recommends researching different vendors. The two of you discuss some important questions to determine which software best meets your organization’s needs: What features are must-haves? What features are strong wants, but not absolutely necessary? What does one vendor have that another doesn’t? Your budget has a limit. Will this vendor meet your budget? How might this impact staffing?

Compare alternatives: The lower-cost product does not have a physician order component, which means physician orders will be hand-written and you will have to scan them to add to the EHR. The mid-cost product does not link to diagnostic reports. The higher-cost product gives you the convenience of a fully electronic record, but at a price. You still must budget for scanners, because you know there are still paper documents that the HIM department receives that will need to be added to the EHR.

Deliverable:

Implementation: Gathering Information

1. In your initial post, research and evaluate two different vendors and recommend one of them to the Director and add the reasons why you picked one vendor over the other. (150 words minimum)

HI305: Management of Health Information

TOPIC #2: Risk Management

Please review the Discussion Board grading rubric.

Your initial response to the prompt should be a minimum of 175 words

Go to the following website:

Source: AHIMA body of knowledge: AHIMA. Retrieved from http://library.ahima.org/xpedio/groups/public/documents/web_assets/bok_home.hcsp

 

As you navigate the website, you will notice that there are some articles that are for members only, but there are several articles that are public documents. Search for Practice Briefs related to Risk Management. In your initial post you will discuss opportunities, challenges, and best practices, related to Risk Management, and the role of the HIM professional.

Wedding Planning Schedule Report

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Wedding Planning Schedule Report

In this assignment, you will be creating a full Gantt Chart for your project using the software application that you have selected. Make sure you include:

  • Resources
  • Dependencies
  • Critical path

Next, you will be creating a schedule for your project that is in a suitable format to be presented to third parties, including your project sponsor or executives. You should create this schedule after completing your Gantt chart with critical path. There are excellent free template examples for this assignment available at the sites listed below:

Prepare the schedule in a Word document.

Project Software Options

There are many project management software applications that are designed to help develop project plans and schedules as well as keeping track of these plans and creating reports. Ten years ago, the de facto standard was Microsoft Project Professional. This product is still the most widely used and accepted within the profession. That being said, there are many competing applications that are available today that provide much, if not all of the same functionality. Some of these tools are more appropriate to be used with smaller project teams or to be used in conjunction with other project communication tools with distributed teams.

For this assignment you will need to select a project management application that can be used to create Gantt charts and other reports. Some of the available options are listed below. Please take your time and consider the advantages and disadvantages of each of these choices. Free trials or free versions are available for all of these options, but you must ensure that the free trial will allow you to complete all of the work for the class and that this application is compatible with your computer.

ONLINE PROJECT MANAGEMENT TOOLS

ASSIGNMENT FILE(S)

assignment 2

In this assignment, you will be creating a Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RAM) for your project. Leveraging your WBS, identify resources responsibility against task (Primary / Secondary). Please create your RAM using the format found on page 117 figure 4.4 of your textbook.

  • Prepare the RAM or RACIin a Word or Excel (consider using Excel)..

Dialysis Time Out Safety Check

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Dialysis Time Out Safety Check

Select one question below (only 1 question)

Follow the 3 x 3 rule: minimum three paragraphs, with a minimum of three sentences each paragraph (125 words per paragraph minimum)

Format: APA format according to Publication Manual American Psychological Association (APA) (7th ed.) ISBN: 978-1-4338-3216-1

Format: APA style 7th Edition. Please make sure it is in 7th Edition and if the references have any doi or URL include it.

Minimum of two references, not older than 2015.

I am a nursing student in Florida and hispanic (cuban) in case you need to know for this discussion.

Chapter 10: Patient Education and Patient-Centered Care in Professional Nursing Practice. PowerPoint and book attached.

nursing units

1. One recent change on some nursing units has been the establishment of walking rounds to patient rooms during change of shift report. Using this model, the nurses, patient, and family members (if the patient wishes) are all involved in the exchange of information during the transition of care to the nurse coming on shift. Can you think of any other changes that you have observed in the healthcare setting that help to facilitate a PCC environment?

2. Think about your own life. Do you act to prevent a disease or accident when you perceive that you are not susceptible to the disease or at risk for the accident?

3. Have you ever been assigned to read a book that had so many big words in it that you had to keep the dictionary by your side? If it was assigned for school, you probably struggled through it for the sake of not failing the test, but what about if you were not being graded? Would you bother to read it? If you did read it because you knew it would help you, would you have enough understanding to actually apply the information?

important to managed care

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 important to managed care

To help you to better understand why case mix is important to managed care and reimbursement methods; 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%

Part I

Write a 3-4 page report in which you answer the following questions:

  1. Explain case mix and why it is important in evaluating different health care providers.
  2. 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 and discuss the use of data analysis for evaluating this kind of information.

Part II

You are a staff member at Hospital B, which has the worst mortality rate from heart attacks as seen in the table. Imagine that the administrator for Hospital B has asked you to appear at a Press Conference to share your knowledge about case mix.

Hospital Mortality Rate National Mortality Rate
Hospital A 16.1% 16%
Hospital B 18.6%
Hospital C 15.7%

After participating in the Press Conference, write a 2-page summary to explain the use of date for decision-making purposes, and how the technology department performs critical core business processes essential to the managed care organization.

Medical Job Description of a Healthcare Needs

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Medical Job Description of a Healthcare Needs

Peter R Kongstvedt states, “The case manager is consistently challenged with managing fiscal constraints with patient expectations in light of orders and expectations articulated by the care team. This requires a highly skilled individual, certainly not a job for the faint of heart.” The case manager can also play a role in identifying disease prevention strategies.

In 2 pages, develop a “job description” or job outline for a case manager. Consider disease prevention as part of the responsibilities of the role. Also consider education and skills. Feel free to set up your information in a table. Give your work a professional look, and be sure to include each of the following headings or sections:

  • Facility name
  • Department
  • Position title
  • Classification
  • Position grade or level
  • Shift and/or days of the week
  • Reporting relationships
  • Summary statement
  • Responsibilities
  • Required competencies or position requirements
  • Physical requirements or working conditions
  • Date written
  • Date revised

For information on case managers, see your reading. You may also want to conduct research in the following websites:

Do not simply reproduce a position description that already exists! This is plagiarism. Be creative. You will be evaluated on the information contained in the position description, as well as how professional your document looks.