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PART 1

Develop a 2-4 page review on the importance of the budgeting process to a health care organization, as well as demonstrate an understanding regarding the differences between an operational budget and a capital budget. Additionally, prepare an operational budget for the medical-surgical department at the St. Anthony Medical Center.

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Introduction

Note: This assessment uses Vila Health: Developing an Operating Budget media as the context for developing your budget. Please make sure you have reviewed this multimedia before you complete your assessment submission.

Financial management is something that touches us all. We are each responsible for our own personal and family budgets, and many of us are also responsible for budgets at work. Regardless of your experience with financial management, it is a critical skill to have, and it will be necessary to master this skill as you move forward in your health care administration career. Almost all health care administrators will be responsible for a budget at some point in their careers. Administrators must also know how to read basic financial statements and reports to assess the performance of their organization, other organizations, or their department.

Budgeting is an important consideration in strategic planning for any health care organization. The most basic definition of budget is a plan that identifies expected financial inputs and outputs. A budget should be closely aligned with a strategic plan, which is a strategy used by an organization to achieve its mission. Organizations may use different types of budgets, such as master budgets, statistics budgets, operating budgets, revenue budgets, expense budgets, and capital budgets (Reiter & Song, 2021). We will explore each at a high level.

For this assessment, you will be asked to consider the different types of budgets that are used in the health care field. By researching other organizations that use budgets, you will apply the course materials to a real-world situation. The assessment will further refine those skills as you navigate the St. Anthony Medical Center medical-surgical department budget (from the Vila Health multimedia). You will prepare a paper and a basic budget to demonstrate the knowledge that you acquired in this assessment.

Many learners enter the field with limited exposure to finances. Depending on your current knowledge and comfort level with the subject, it may be necessary to conduct additional research and spend extra time addressing some of the basics. In other words, the resources in this course will help to provide a foundation for you to complete the assessments, but it is possible that you will need to do your own research in the Capella University Library to fully address all scoring guide criteria.

Instructions

The assessment has two distinct parts:

Part 1: Medical-Surgical Department Operating Budget

Relevant scoring guide criteria:

• Provide this year’s correct revenue and expenses.
• Estimate the correct revenue, expenses, and net revenue/expenses for the next fiscal year.

For Part 1 of this assessment, use the information presented in the multimedia as context to create your operating budget. Using the data provided in the first three columns, develop an operating budget for the medical-surgical department at the St. Anthony Medical Center for the next fiscal year, as well as estimate the revenue and expenses for the remainder of the current fiscal year. (Assume that next year’s revenue will be unchanged from the current year’s revenue; however, the department will need to cut operating expenses by 5 percent for next fiscal year.)

You may download and use the Excel spreadsheet from the multimedia as your template for this part, or use the Excel spreadsheet .

Part 2: Types of Budgets and Their Importance

In the second part of the assessment, demonstrate your understanding of the importance of budgets within the context of financial and strategic planning for health care organizations. A comprehensive analysis of the budget consists of your interpretation of the numbers: What are the numbers telling you? Use the readings from your textbooks, and , as well as the independent research you conducted to fully develop a 24 page (excluding cover and references pages) response to the relevant scoring guide criteria:

• Explain why budgets are an important part of the planning process.
  • Explain means to make something (an idea, a situation, or a problem) clear to someone by describing it in more detail or revealing relevant facts or ideas.
• Explain the difference between operating, project, and capital budgets.
• Analyze the impact of the budget on the operations of the organization.
  • Analyze means to examine methodically and in detail the constitution or structure of something (especially information), typically for purposes of explanation and interpretation.
• Adhere to the rules of grammar, usage, and mechanics.
  • Grammar refers to the basic rules for how sentences are constructed and how words combine to make sentences (for example, word order, case, and tense).
  • Usage refers to correct word choice and phrasing, particularly with regard to the meanings of words and phrases.
  • Mechanics refers to correct use of capitalization, punctuation, and spelling.
• Apply APA formatting to in-text citations and references.
  • Be sure to include a separate References page.

You may use the template to complete this part of the assessment.

Additional Requirements

Your assessment should also meet the following requirements:

• Structure: Include a title page and reference page. You will submit two documents for your assessment:
  • Excel spreadsheet (Part 1: ).
  • Word document (Part 2: ).
• Length: Part 2 should be 24 double-spaced pages in length, excluding the title and reference pages.
• References: Cite at least four current scholarly or professional resources.
  • Your textbook can be one of the four resources.
• APA formatting: You may wish to refer to the following APA resources to help with your structure, formatting, and style:
  • .
  • .
• Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point, for narrative portions only.

PART 2

Develop a 4-6 page analysis of St. Anthony Medical Center’s finances over three fiscal years, which includes considerations such as assets, liabilities, revenues, and changes in financial position.

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Introduction

Note: This assessment uses Vila Health: Financial Statement Analysis media as the context for developing your analysis. Please make sure you have reviewed this multimedia before you complete your assessment submission.

Costs are evaluated very closely by all levels of health care administrators. Costs are broken down into different categories, such as direct costs versus indirect costs, and fixed costs versus variable costs (Nowicki, 2024). You will examine these types of costs and learn analytical methods such as break-even analyses and cost allocation methodologies. These methodologies explore the relationship between volume and cost and demonstrate why volume plays an important role in the planning process.

For this assessment, you will research how costs are allocated from overhead departments to revenue-generating departments. You will conduct independent research on cost allocation methodologies in addition to using the materials provided in the text. You will also consider the steps involved in preparing a cost-benefit analysis (CBA) when deciding to purchase a capital item such as an MRI machine.

The balance sheet, activity statement (also known as an income statement), and statement of cash flows are three of the most common types of financial statements that organizations prepare. You can think of balance sheets as a picture of the financial position of an organization at a given period in timefor example, as of December 31, 20xx. On the other hand, an activity statement or income statement will show the financial position of an organization over a longer period of timefor example, an entire month, quarter, or year (Reiter & Song, 2021).

You will explore these types of statements and apply your new knowledge to the health care administration field. You will analyze specific financial statements and think about the financial health of an organization based on the statements provided. You will have several opportunities to practice your analytical skills within this assessment by exploring the concept of ratio analysis. Ratio analysis is one more way that both internal and external stakeholders can increase understanding of the financial position of an organization. Ratio analysis compares financial statement data to provide another view that may then be benchmarked or compared to other organizations. Some common ratio types include liquidity ratios, profitability ratios, activity ratios and capital structure ratios (Nowicki, 2024).

Additionally, it is important to support your analysis with reference to relevant literature. While it is appropriate to use your textbook as part of that support, your paper should reference at least three outside articles in addition to the text.

Preparation

Instructions

This assessment has two main parts.

Analysis of the Balance Sheet

This part of the assessment focuses on analyzing the balance sheet for St. Anthony Medical Center. Relevant scoring guide criteria:

• Explain the financial position of St. Anthony Medical Center by comparing assets and liabilities shown in the .
  • Explain means to make something (an idea, a situation, or a problem) clear to someone by describing it in more detail or revealing relevant facts or ideas.
• Explain the financial position of St. Anthony Medical Center compared to previous years.
• Explain how accounts receivable changed from previous years.
• Analyze the financial obligations of St. Anthony Medical Center and their implications for the upcoming year.
  • Analyze means to examine methodically and in detail the constitution or structure of something (especially information), typically for purposes of explanation and interpretation.
• Adhere to the rules of grammar, usage, and mechanics.
  • Grammar refers to the basic rules for how sentences are constructed and how words combine to make sentences (for example, word order, case, and tense).
  • Usage refers to correct word choice and phrasing, particularly with regard to the meanings of words and phrases.
  • Mechanics refers to correct use of capitalization, punctuation, and spelling.
• Apply APA formatting to in-text citations and references.
  • Be sure to include a separate references page.

Some prompts to help guide you in your analysis are:

• Do assets exceed liabilities?
• What does this tell you about the financial position of St. Anthony Medical Center?
• How has the financial position of St. Anthony Medical Center changed since last year?
  • How has it changed since the year prior?
• How have the accounts receivable changed from previous years, and what does this tell you?
• Using the balance sheet, what financial obligations does St. Anthony Medical Center need to consider in the upcoming year?

The goal of this analysis is to create an accurate picture of the financial trends for St. Anthony Medical Center, its current financial obligations, and how the upcoming fiscal year projects in light of this information.

Analysis of the Income Statement

This part of the assessment focuses on analyzing the income statement for St. Anthony Medical Center. Relevant scoring guide criteria:

• Analyze patient revenue compared to previous years and the implications for the financial health of St. Anthony Medical Center.
• Adhere to the rules of grammar, usage, and mechanics.
• Apply APA formatting to in-text citations and references.

Some prompts to help guide you in your analysis are:

• Has patient revenue increased or decreased from previous years?
  • What could this indicate about the financial position of St. Anthony Medical Center?

The goal of this analysis is to create an accurate picture of trends tied to the overall financial health of St. Anthony Medical Center.

Additional Requirements

Your assessment should also meet the following requirements:

• Structure: Include a cover page and reference page when submitting your assessment. You are encouraged to use the template for this assessment.
• Length: 46 double-spaced pages, excluding title page and reference page.
• References: Cite at least four current scholarly or professional resources.
  • Your textbook can be one of the four resources.
• Format: Use current APA style for references and citations.
  • You may wish to refer to the following APA resources to help with your structure, formatting, and style:
    • .
• Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.

PART 1

Write a 35 page academic paper or a 23 page executive summary, or create a 10-slide PowerPoint presentation, examining a specific patient safety incident that took place and provide insights to senior leaders on the significance of addressing this issue.

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Introduction

Healthcare organizations have always searched for ways to identify and reduce risks. “Over the years, health care risk management has moved from a discipline focused almost exclusively on medical professional liability issues to a profession concerned with all of the risks associated with accidental losses facing a health care organization” (Carroll, 2009, p. 2).

Alarming numbers of unnecessary patient deaths occur in the U.S. hospitals and around the world. “Quality and patient safety in health care have been on the forefront of the public’s mind since the publication of the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) seminal report, ‘To Err Is Human,’ in 1999” (Johnson et al., 2016, p. xv). The literature supports revising systems and processes in an effort to narrow the difficult safety and quality gaps. Worldwide, issues of patient safety and patient-centered quality care drive healthcare reform. Current approaches are not adequate; patients remain at risk for needless harm.

Demonstrating a firm understanding of the various components of patient safety is fundamental to understanding healthcare quality, risk management, and patient safety overall.

References

Carroll, R. A. (2009). Risk management handbook for health care organizations. Jossey-Bass.

Johnson, J. K., Haskell, H. W., & Barach, P. R. (2016). Case studies in patient safety. Jones & Bartlett Learning.

Preparation

Instructions

Assume the role of a patient safety officer at your local hospital. Analyze a patient safety issue that occurred and then recommend to senior leaders about why it is important to address the issue, along with your recommendations about how to address it. Also provide details of the role you, as the patient safety officer, will play in helping the organization resolve the issue.

Be sure to include all of the following in your chosen format and to address all of the points:

• Apply the healthcare safety imperative to a patient safety issue.
  • Identify the issue you selected from the Vila Health simulation as the potential safety threat.
  • Describe the issue that occurred with sufficient detail so that leadership has a clear understanding of what happened.
  • Identify the implications of not addressing threat.
• Evaluate the risk to the patients, employees, and organization, if patient safety threats are not addressed.
  • What does the healthcare safety imperative say about the issue?
  • How does the healthcare safety imperative apply in this case?
  • Which regulatory agencies have oversight about the issue?
• Analyze the patient safety officer’s role in implementing patient safety plans.
  • Explain the role patient safety officers assume in implementing patient safety plans in healthcare organizations.
  • Clarify your responsibility and role as the patient safety officer in this specific instance.
  • Provide one example from the literature to illustrate your points.
• Recommend evidence-based best practice tools and techniques to reduce or eliminate patient safety threats.
  • Describe your five-point plan to reduce or eliminate this patient safety threat.
    • What best practice tools or techniques does your plan include to reduce or eliminate these types of errors? Consider processes for responding, rounding, detecting, incident reporting, operational considerations, et cetera.

In a healthcare professional setting, recommendations to leadership would typically not be in APA format. However, your paper does need to conform to current APA format and style guidelines. It does need to be clear, persuasive, organized, and well-written, without spelling, grammar, and/or punctuation errors. In addition, recommendations you write in a professional setting would be single-spaced. For the purpose of this assessment, however, please use double-spacing. See the for more information about APA style.

Also, healthcare is an evidence-based field. Your senior leaders will want to know the sources of your information, so be sure to include at least two peer-reviewed sources. You may use the suggested resources for this assessment. Your citations and references do need to conform to current APA guidelines.

Please review the Address a Patient Safety Issue scoring guide to ensure you understand the grading requirements for this assessment.

PART 2

Choose either a 24 page academic paper or a 810 slide PowerPoint presentation with audio to explain risk management function, given a patient safety scenario.

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Introduction

Healthcare organizations have always searched for ways to identify and reduce risks. An organization’s ability to identify and analyze its risk exposure is a determining factor in the effectiveness of its risk management program (Hoarle, 2015). Early identification and analysis are essential.

Current healthcare risk management practices were developed in the mid-1970s as a result of a surge in malpractice suits. These suits caused rapid increases in claims costs for the industry, which later resulted in increased insurance premiums. Today, healthcare delivery systems and organizations realize the value of risk management and have developed formalized programs (Hoarle, 2015). In addition, organizations have established mechanisms to review potential incidents of risk and safety concerns (Pelletier & Beaudin, 2018). While risk management programs are responsible for daily management and risk operations, all healthcare stakeholders are responsible for participating in activities that will reduce unnecessary risks and improve safety and quality (Hoarle, 2015).

References

Hoarle, K. (2015). Risk management poised to grow as healthcare evolves. Biomedical Instrumentation & Technology, 49(6), 433435.

Pelletier, L. R., & Beaudin, C. L. (2018). HQ solutions: Resource for the healthcare quality professional (4th ed.). Wolters Kluwer.

Preparation

Instructions

1. Introduction.
   • Briefly describe the Vila Health: Patient Safety scenario you selected.
   • Explain the importance of risk management functions in healthcare settings.
2. Define key risk management terms.
   • Risk prevention.
   • Risk reduction.
   • Regulatory compliance.
   • Patient safety.
   • Adverse event.
   • Near miss.
3. Major risk categories and risk identification techniques in healthcare.
   • Describe the major risk categories in a healthcare organization.
     • Clinical risks.
     • Operational risks.
     • Financial risks.
     • Compliance risks.
   • Define what risk identification is and explain its importance in healthcare.
     • Clinical audits.
     • Incident reporting systems.
     • Financial audits.
     • Compliance audits.
4. Role of the risk manager.
   • Analyze the risk manager’s role in effective management of the organization’s risk management program.
   • What is the risk manager’s role in risk management program implementation and compliance?
   • How can a risk manager impact the effective management of the organization’s risk management program?
   • What is one example from the literature that shows how the risk manager role can positively impact a healthcare organization’s management of its risk management program?
5. Overview of specific risks
   • Provide an overview of the risk to patients, employees, and organization if risk is not addressed, including a description, implications, and management strategies for your chosen scenario.
6. Evidence-based risk management strategies.
   • Propose evidence-based risk management strategies and techniques to identify and eliminate or reduce a particular risk for your chosen scenario.
7. Importance of a risk management program.
   • Explain the importance of a risk management program to healthcare organizations.
   • Why is a risk management program important to an organization?
   • What are some important elements of a risk management program?
   • What is the organizational impact of not having a risk management program?
8. Conclusion.

Summarize the key points discussed in the assessment.

Reflect on the importance of a risk management plan in ensuring patient safety and organizational success.

PART 3

Create a presentation (one-page poster and one-page reflection paper or a 68 slide PowerPoint presentation with audio) describing steps you will take as the quality manager to influence the organization’s leadership to cultivate a fair and just culture.

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Introduction

The quality manager at any hospital is required to address deficiencies by improving organizational culture, providing leadership oversight, and cultivating staff relationships within the organization. This role has many priorities. For example, a quality manager is tasked with analyzing any incidents that occur within the organization and creating a leadership action plan with recommended strategies and tactics to address not just the specific incident but to drive safety and quality improvement throughout the organization.

This assessment differs from the first two assessments in that, acting as the quality manager, your focus is broader. Rather than focusing only on identifying specific actions the organization can take to remedy a particular incident that occurred, you will concentrate on what steps you will take as the quality manager to influence the organization’s leadership to cultivate a fair and just culture. What departments, leaders, and personnel will you collaborate with to improve quality for the whole organization? In a fair and just culture, safety is at the forefront of everyone’s job and all associates welcome the opportunity to highlight issueswithout fear of reprisalso that they can be addressed at a systemic level throughout the organization.

Overview

Preparation

Step 1

Choose a scenario from the Vila Health: Patient Safety activity: patient identification, medication error, or HIPAA.

Step 2

Choose a format for this assessment.

Poster Presentation and Reflection Paper

• Font size for title: 72100 point.
• Length of poster: 1 page.
• Length of reflection paper: 1 page.
• APA format: Your submission, including the body, citations, and title and references pages, should conform to current APA format and style guidelines. Do make sure that it is clear, persuasive, organized, and well-written, without grammatical, punctuation, or spelling errors. You also must cite your sources according to current APA guidelines.
• Spacing: Single space.
• Headings: 4872 point.
• Body text: 2436 point.

PowerPoint Presentation With Audio

• Length: 35 minutes, 68 slides, including title and reference slides. Use 35 bullet points per slide, 57 words per bullet, using size 24 font.
• Speaker notes: Be sure to include speaker notes with your slides. These notes provide the opportunity for you to expand on the information you are highlighting in your slides. Speaker notes should use size 12 font and be single-spaced, paragraph-indented.
• APA format: Your submission, including the body, citations, and title and references pages, should conform to current APA format and style guidelines. Do make sure that it is clear, persuasive, organized, and well-written, without grammatical, punctuation, or spelling errors. You also must cite your sources according to current APA guidelines.

For recording the presentation, choose Kaltura or similar software. You may find it useful to review the following resources:

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Step 3

Find resources. You are expected to use at least two professional or academic resources from the library.

Instructions

Describe steps you, as a quality manager, will take to influence the organization’s leadership to cultivate a fair and just culture.

Reflection Paper

In an APA-formatted paper:

• Briefly introduce the concept of a fair and just culture in the context of quality management.
• State the importance of collaboration between leadership and various departments to enhance safety and quality in the organization.

Use the following to create paragraphs in your paper:

• Identify key leadership roles: Discuss the leaders or departments you will collaborate with to promote a fair culture (for example, HR, operations, and safety).
• Collaboration strategies: Highlight specific strategies you will employ to encourage leaders to embrace and promote safety as a core value (for example, training sessions and workshops).
• Engagement of personnel: Explain methods to engage employees at all levels in identifying and addressing safety and quality issues without fear of reprisal, using initiatives like safety committees or open forums.
• Systemic approach: Emphasize the goal of addressing issues at a systemic level, ensuring that the organization collectively tackles challenges rather than placing blame on individuals.
• Conclusion: Summarize the key points made in the paper. Reinforce the significance of a collaborative and just culture in enhancing organizational quality and safety.

Poster or PowerPoint Presentation

Creating a poster or PowerPoint presentation involves organizing your content in a visually appealing and easy-to-read format. Heres a step-by-step guide to help you create a sample poster or PowerPoint presentation.

Here’s a step-by-step guide for you to follow:

Title

• Title: Cultivating a Fair and Just Culture in Healthcare: A Quality Managers Approach.
• Subtitle: Your name, date.
• Visuals: Include a relevant image or graphic related to healthcare culture.

Introduction

• Content: Define what culture is in the context of healthcare and explain why it is a critical priority for safety and quality.
• Visuals: Use an infographic or image that represents healthcare culture.
• Example:
  • Text: “Culture in healthcare refers to the shared values, beliefs, and norms that influence the behavior of healthcare professionals. A positive culture is essential for ensuring safety and quality.”
  • Image: A graphic showing healthcare professionals collaborating.

Section 1: Importance of Culture for Safety and Quality

• Content: Explain the importance of culture for safety and quality and provide at least two evidence-based strategies for cultivating a culture of safety.
• Visuals: Use charts or graphs to illustrate the impact of a positive culture on safety and quality.
• Example:
  • Text: “A strong safety culture reduces errors and improves patient outcomes. Strategies include regular safety training programs and encouraging open communication.”
  • Chart: A bar graph showing the reduction in errors after implementing safety training.

Section 2: Applying the IHI Triple Aim

• Content: Apply the IHI Triple Aim to develop a healthcare leadership strategy that focuses on optimizing healthcare system performance.
• Visuals: Use a diagram to illustrate the IHI Triple Aim framework.
• Example:
  • Text: “The IHI Triple Aim focuses on improving patient experience, population health, and reducing costs. Leadership strategies include implementing patient-centered care practices and promoting preventive care.”
  • Diagram: A Venn diagram showing the three components of the IHI Triple Aim.

Section 3: Leadership and Collaboration Strategies

• Content: Propose evidence-based leadership and collaboration strategies to enlist the aid of key organizational leaders in establishing a safety and quality culture.
• Visuals: Use images of leadership activities or collaboration meetings.
• Example:
  • Text: “Effective leadership strategies include leading by example and providing resources for safety initiatives. Collaboration strategies involve engaging staff at all levels.”
  • Image: A photo of a team meeting discussing safety protocols.

Section 4: Evidence-Based Action Plan

• Content: Create an evidence-based action plan that includes leadership strategies to establish a safety and quality culture.
• Visuals: Use a flowchart to outline the action plan steps.
• Example:
  • Text: “The action plan includes setting clear safety goals, regularly reviewing protocols, and providing continuous education.”
  • Flowchart: A step-by-step flowchart of the action plan.

Section 5: Engaging the Governing Board

• Content: Determine opportunities to enlist the governing boards aid in fostering a fair and just culture.
• Visuals: Use a table to list the opportunities and their benefits.
• Example:
  • Text: “Opportunities include presenting regular safety reports to the board and involving board members in safety walk-rounds.”
  • Table: A table listing opportunities and their expected outcomes.

Conclusion

• Content: Summarize the key points of your presentation and emphasize the importance of a fair and just culture in achieving safety and quality in healthcare.
• Visuals: Use a summary graphic or key takeaways box.
• Example:
  • Text: “A fair and just culture is crucial for safety and quality in healthcare. Leadership and collaboration are key to achieving this goal.”
  • Graphic: A summary box highlighting the main points.

References

• Content: Include all sources and references used in your presentation.
• Visuals: Use a simple list format.
• Example:
  • Text: References: [List of sources].

Write your answer clearly with correct grammar and punctuation. Write it in word or on a google doc first to check the grammar and punctuation. Do not cut and paste or quote from other sources. The answers to these questions are to be from your own ideas and thoughts. This should be 2-4 paragraphs long. You should respond to at least two other comments, and don’t let your only comment for a question be “I agree with…” Explain why you feel that way.

Drawing

Have you ever tried to explain an idea by drawing it? Are you an artist that keeps a sketchbook or have you just doodled on your notes? Most artists draw in sketchbooks. Why do artists begin by sketching their ideas? What kind of changes did Picasso’s Guernica go through from drawing to final painting? What are the advantages and limitations of using drawing as a primary medium for exploring complex ideas and emotions? How does the immediacy of drawing influence the way artists communicate with their audience?

Painting

Discuss the technique of fresco, highlighting Diego Riveras public murals. Include Michelangelos Sistine Chapel (Chapter 17), Leonardo da Vincis Last Supper (Chapter 17), and Raphaels The School of Athens (Chapter 3) in your discussion. Why do artists use the fresco technique? What is the typical subject matter? We have several murals in the area that are just painting on walls, not frescoes. Why are murals important to a city’s cultural personality? What do they offer to the public that a painting in a museum doesn’t?

Printmaking

Discuss the historical significance of printmaking as a means of disseminating information and artistic expression. How was printmaking important to the development of books and posters? Will electronic devices ultimately replace the printed forms? How has the digital age changed the notion of multiples in printmaking media?

Photography

How much of what we see in a photograph is real? Do you always pose for pictures or act naturally? There are lots of ways to alter photos. How many times do you take pictures just to capture the moment or to share with friends on social networks? What kind of photographs do you take? Family? Vacation? Ceremonies? Explain the importance of photography in your life.