Social Media Campaign Problem Definition Data and Statistics

Develop a social media campaign to bring awareness to hazardous alcohol consumption and/or alcohol abuse among a determined target population.

  • Define the problem among the target population
  • Research and gather data and statistics on alcohol use among the target population
  • Identify evidence-based practices used for the target population http://adai.washington.edu/ebp/matrix.pdf
  • Identify a social media platform for the campaign (ex. Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Instagram, etc) and describe the rationale for the platform
  • Develop health promotional strategies targeted for the population
  • Describe how you plan to monitor the success of your campaign.

References:

  • Start with the learning resources in the classroom.
  • Locate 7-10 journal articles or book chapters related to your special population.
  • Use only scholarly, objective sources for your project. Peer-reviewed articles found in the UMUC Library databases are generally good sources. Web-based information such as Wikipedia and About.com and popular news outlets such as Time or Newsweek are NOT acceptable sources for this project.
  • If you are unclear as to whether a source is acceptable, contact the instructor or visit the UMUC Library’s page on locating and evaluating scholarly articles:

Ethical Code of Conduct

Create an ethical code of conduct for those in governance, management, and professional staff for any one of these health care organizations:

 

Accountable Care Organization

The Assignment

In a matrix, analyze evidence-based services/initiatives that the ACO you selected is using for each of the following:

  • Quality of care
  • IT
  • Marketing
  • Financial outcomes
  • Population health programs
  • Vertical versus horizontal integration
  • Operational excellence

Include whether the ACO is using approaches that CMS recognizes for reimbursements and how these initiatives/services increase health care consumerism.

Synthesize the information you have gathered from your analysis so that each bullet point clearly represents the most significant considerations within each category. While this is a 1-page document that might appear to be simple, each point must be the result of deep and critical thinking.

Technology in Medical Service Delivery

Explore the technology systems offered by Nanthealth, a provider of “telehealth” and health management services via the following link:

http://nanthealth.com/

Prepare a brief (8-10 slides) PowerPoint presentation in which you do the following:

  1. Identify at least two technology innovations to connect patients, providers, and insurers across the care continuum.
  2. Describe how the technologies work to provide patients and providers with data necessary for health care decision making.
  3. Discuss how the real-time data encourages outcome-focused planning.
  4. Predict what impact the technology will have on future health care delivery. Provide rationale and examples.

Presentations must include speakers’ notes on each slide, as well as references for the presentation. A minimum of three academic references from credible sources are required for this assignment. The slide count (8-10 slides) does not include the introduction and References slide(s).

Prepare this assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide

Reducing Obesity in Emerald City

Scenario

Government officials are taking action to address a chronic population health concern in your area. As a member of this community, you have a good understanding of the local demographics and population health issues, including the potential implications for policy making, health care systems, service utilization, clinical practice, education, and the workforce. In your role as a doctoral graduate and health care practitioner, you have been asked to evaluate key aspects of the situation and lead an interprofessional team of your choosing (a coalition of community members and organizations, clinical providers, health care organizations, and civic and governmental agencies), to achieve the stated goal. This leadership position requires the ability to promote prevention efforts, quality improvement, service utilization and the reduction of health care costs.

Prepare

For this assignment, you will use what you have learned about population health; interprofessional collaboration and communication; the principles of ethics, diversity, and inclusion in health care; and the ways in which scholar-practitioners lead the implementation of best practices in health care. You will apply these leadership competencies to plan the formation of a collaborative, interprofessional coalition to address a population-based health concern from a nursing, public health, or health administration perspective.

In your assignment preparation you chose one case scenario as the chronic population health concern that you and your assembled coalition will address:

Identify four or five credible sources, published within the past five years (from peer-reviewed journals, other scholarly resources, professional industry publications, or assigned readings) to support your case assessments and recommendations. (You may use additional sources, if you wish.)

Write Your Paper

To complete this assignment, you need to:

  • Analyze the impact of factors that contribute to this chronic population health concern.
    • Examine the situation from a population health perspective.
    • Provide context surrounding this concern.
    • Identify the affected groups, and the environmental, social, and financial factors.
  • Form a collaborative, interprofessional coalition to address this chronic population health concern.
    • Consider, among others, key community members and organizations, clinical providers, and local and state agencies when making your selections.
    • Select 5–10 members.
      • Who must be included?
      • Why?

Risk and Family Factor Leading to Youth Violence

youth violence is a very serious problem. Please note that there are certain risk factors that are leading to violent behavior in our youth. They include hyperactivity, impulsiveness, poor behavioral control, attention problems, history of early aggressive behavior, and low educational achievement.

Please choose one risk factor and one family factor from the list above, and provide suggestion(s) to answer the following question: What do you think needs to be done in order minimize the level of risk associated with the risk factor of your choosing and to improve the overall family environment (associated with the risk factor you have chosen) so the violent behavior or adolescent violence is minimized significantly.

Your response should be at least 200 words in length.

The Role and Functions of HR in A Healthcare Organization

As part of an orientation program for new managers, HR has developed a section of the orientation designed to help new managers learn more about HR’s functions and role in helping them be more effective in handling their HR responsibilities.

Using the course readings and articles, address the role of human resource management. Support your analysis with a minimum of three credible sources of research. (Keep in mind this document is meant for an orientation. The new managers may or may not have a strong understanding of the role of HR in healthcare.)

Write an informational two-page handout that addresses the following:

  1. Determine key roles that human resource management plays in today’s healthcare organizations.
  2. Evaluate 3–5 core functions of human resource management in terms of their level of support to a health care organization.
  3. Justify which HR function you believe is the most important in helping a healthcare organization achieve its strategy.
  4. Analyze the role of human resource management in an organization’s strategic plan.
  5. Go to the Strayer Online Library and locate at least three quality academic resources for this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Performance Improvement Data

Unit 7 Assignment 1 – Performance Improvement Data

Submit Assignment

  • Due Sunday by 11:59pm
  • Points 35
  • Submitting a text entry box, a website url, a media recording, or a file upload

Because performance improvement activities are information intensive, organizations must provide the proper resources and systems to support improvements. It’s important to recognize that PI programs need to meet accreditation standards such as The Joint Commission and Medicare and Medicaid Conditions of Participation, which require access to national comparative data collections. This assignment, based on a textbook case study, will help students to understand Joint Commission information management standards by analyzing how a scenario relates those standards.

Instructions

  • Your assignment will focus on the Case study on pages 444-447. After reading Chapter 17 and the Case Study, please complete the tasks at the end of the case study:
  • Review the collected data
  • Assign the appropriate quality code using the key provided in figure 17.5
  • Analyze the data:
    • Which code is most common?
    • Is there one service that seems to be a problem?
    • What can you conclude from the data?
  • Establish a plan. How you are going to fix the problem?
  • Your submission should be a minimum of two pages but does not require APA style or outside research.
  • Be sure to fully address each of the questions in the assignment. If you do use outside research, list your references in proper APA style.

Abuse Reporting

What is abuse?

How to recognizing and reporting.

Who could be a victims.

How to stop abuse?

Improving the Quality of Care

Discussion: Unit 7, Due Wednesday by 11:59 pm CT

INSTRUCTIONS:

  • This unit discussion is based on the video interview “Improving the Quality of Care at the Practice Level” in the Required Resources. Addressing the following questions:
    • Why is it important for physicians to engage in quality improvement activities?
    • What’s the best way to get physicians involved in these programs, and to educate them about the importance of ongoing quality improvement?
    • What are some obstacles to getting physicians engaged in these programs?
    • Your primary post should address all three of the questions listed, and be a minimum of 200 words.

Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.

The post and responses are valued at 40 points. Please review post and response expectations. Please review the rubric to ensure that your response meets criteria.

Peer Response: Unit 7, Due Sunday by 11:59 pm CT

INSTRUCTIONS:

  • Always construct your response in a word processing program like Word. Check for grammar, spelling, and mechanical errors. Make the corrections and save the file to your computer.
  • Find the posts that you are going to reply to; respond to at least 2 other classmates.
  • Submit your peer response.
  • Your responses should demonstrate an understanding as well as critical thinking. Do not simply state “I agree” – add relevant information to your response.

Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.