Category: Healthcare

Learning Objectives:

1. Demonstrate comprehension of basic healthcare management concepts appropriate to the role of a healthcare professional.
2. Evaluate current healthcare issues.

Cultural Competency in Health Care

Recall from chapter 13 that cultural competency is an essential part of closing the gap in the disparity of health care services provided to different groups. In this activity, you will summarize a short video and provide insight into the role of cultural competency in health care.

Step 1: Watch

Step 2: Summarize the entire video (not just the first five minutes) in one full paragraph, then discuss why you think cultural competence is important in health care. Use Chapter 13 as a resource. Cite any outside sources used to support your ideas. (15 points)

Step 3: Reply to the post of one classmate. Comment on what you think about their summary and additional thoughts you have on the topic. (5 points)

This activity is worth 20 points.

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Let’s assume the following scenario. You are the health commissioner for a rural county in the Midwest. Health care professionals in your county have reported excessive drug overdoses, alcohol poisoning, and cancers associated with tobacco use in their practices and at the local community hospital. In statistically benchmarking your county against your own state and the nation, you concur with their observation. Reflect on what you believe you can do at the primary, secondary, and tertiary levels to combat these issues. Provide specific examples of community health strategies at each of prevention that you feel would be effect and explain why. Your journal entry must be at least 200 words in length. No references or citations are necessary.

A culture built on trust and support will achieve high performance.

For this discussion you will:

• Explain, from your perspective and knowledge of course content, what this statement really means to you.
• How do you build such a culture?
• How does leadership and administrative staff help assure that well-meaning, frontline employees understand this culture?
• How do you know if you have succeeded in establishing this kind of culture within your organization?
• Support your answer with information provided in your book, your own research, personal experiences, observations, etc.

This discussion forum is designed to explore your thoughts on how quality in health care differs from quality in non-healthcare settings. You must create your own thread and respond before you can view the other students’ posts.

Respond thoughtfully to the following inquiry/question:

1. Think about and do some independent research on the terms quality of life and quality of care.

2. Provide an explanation and definition of each of these terms (quality of life versus quality of care) in your own words. While defining these two terms, answer the following:

• How do these two terms differ yet how do they relate/similarities?
• Can you have one without the other?
• As healthcare providers and professionals, how can we promote, assure and measure care practices that maximize quality of life for residents/patients?

To receive full credit you must:

1. Provide a meaningful initial post that is supported by fact/evidence and not just opinion.
2. Provide one supporting source/reference of your initial thread, cited at the end of your discussion board in proper APA format.
3. Proofread and correct any grammar or spelling errors.
4. Respond to, compare your own thoughts or provide feedback to at least one other student’s post. Rating it does not count as a “response.”

This discussion forum is designed to explore your thoughts on the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program. This program is very well known by management/leadership teams in healthcare so it is IMPERATIVE that you, as a health care student, are at least vaguely aware of what it is!

Respond thoughtfully to the following inquiry/question:

Quickly review both attachments 1 and 2

A.Attachment 1 provides detail on Organization Profiles, Part 1 (P.1) and Part 2 (P.2)

2023-2024-Baldrige-Framework-Health-Care-Organizational-Profile.pdf

B.Attachment 2 also provides detail on the organization profile sections but also has detail on the seven (7) categories on which organizations are rated for the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program (leadership, strategy, customers, measurement, knowledge, operations, results)

2023-2024-Baldrige-Criteria-Health-Care-Commentary.pdf

C.After reviewing these attachments, find at least one full, current article about healthcare facilities that have been recognized by the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program or an article discussing the merits of this program. Cite this source at the end of your initial discussion thread!

2. Imagine you have been hired as manager of a healthcare facility that plans to apply for the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program in the next year. As a new manager, you are not familiar with this program but have been tasked with completing the application and starting needed initiatives for sections in which your organization may be lacking.

*You believe that all 7 categories are very important but all need work in your organization. Pick one of the 7 categories that you would choose to focus on and tackle first – and tell us what that choice is.

(leadership, strategy, customers, measurement, knowledge, operations, results)

*Why did you make this choice? Explain.

*Do you believe it is realistic that an organization can excel in all 7 of these categories? Explain your response.

*Why do you believe organizations seek out voluntary achievements such as the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program? They are a lot of work for people that are already overwhelmed with work.

What is the motivation for an organization?

What are the real benefits if any?

Would you pursue this for your organization some day? Why?

To receive full credit you must:

A. Provide a meaningful, thoughtful and scholarly initial post that is supported by fact/evidence and not just opinion.

B. Provide one supporting source/reference of your initial thread, cited at the end of your discussion board in proper APA format.

C. Proofread and correct any grammar or spelling errors.

The Connection between Mindfulness and Diaphragmatic

Breathing

Purpose

: The purpose of this assignment is to explore the relationship between mindfulness and diaphragmatic

breathing in reducing stress in the academic and clinical areas. Additionally, you will examine the physiologic

rationale for teaching diaphragmatic breathing to patients who have the diagnosis of COPD. (Chronic

Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) There are 2 portions/parts to the assignment: a reflective writing portion and a

question portion.

Please read and view the information in the Document Folder. Please read them in numerical order.

Assignment Objectives:

Upon completion this activity the student will be able to

1.

Define the term mindfulness.

2.

Demonstrate the technique of diaphragmatic breathing

3.

Relate the practice of mindfulness to diaphragmatic breathing.

4.

Describe how these practices reduce stress and anxiety while taking a test.

5.

Describe the physiologic benefits of diaphragmatic breathing for the pulmonary patient.

Reflective Writing:

Please complete the reading assignment for mindfulness, watching the video and practice diaphragmatic

breathing technique for a minimum of 3 days.

After completing these requirements, please respond to the

following questions:

1)

How did this practice affect you, any positive or negative impacts you would like to share?

2)

How does this practice bring an increased sense of awareness within you?

3)

Is there a way to apply increased mindfulness in your everyday life? Can you practice belly breathing

while on the bus, while waiting for the green light in traffic, while walking, while standing in line,

during a formal presentation, during an exam?

4)

Consider the chapter titled The Power of Mindfulness. How does the practice of diaphragmatic

breathing relate to this? Describe your island.

This assignment should be a minimum of three paragraphs of four sentences and a maximum of five paragraphs

of four sentences. Please be sure to use APA citation if you use any sources. Submit your work as a Word

document.

1

Questions:

Using the articles posted in your assignment folder, please answer the following questions:

1.

Discuss the effects that stress and anxiety have on the body.

2.

Discuss the effects of diaphragmatic breathing on the sympathetic nervous system?

3.

Discuss the positive physiologic effects of diaphragmatic breathing on the patients with COPD.

(Diaphragmatic breathing helps/reduces which signs and/or symptoms experienced by COPD patient?)

4.

Discuss the negative physiologic effects of diaphragmatic breathing on the patients with COPD.

(Diaphragmatic breathing does not help/or worsens which signs and/or symptoms experienced by the

COPD patient?)

5.

What impact will this information and experience with diaphragmatic breathing have on your clinical

practice? What changes in clinical practice will you implement?

Your answers to each question should be one paragraph of four to five sentences. Please sure to use APA

citation if you use any sources. Submit your work as a Word document. https://www.cslewisinstitute.org/resources/biblical-meditation/

PMR SBS (Progressive Muscle Relaxation, Step By Step)

Once you are comfortably supported in a quiet place, follow the instructions for each

muscle group below (or just listen along to your recording):

1)

To begin, take three deep abdominal breaths, exhaling slowly each time. As you exhale,

imagine that tension throughout your body begins to flow away.

2)

Clench your

left fist

. Hold for 7-10 seconds, and then release for 15-20 seconds. Repeat

with the

right fist

. (Use the same time intervals for all muscle groups.)

3)

Tighten your

forearms

by straightening your fingers and pointing them at the ceiling, then

back towards your body. Hold…and then relax.

4)

Tighten your

biceps

by drawing your forearms up towards your shoulders and making a

m

uscle. Hold…and then relax.

5)

Shrug your

shoulders

up towards your ears, tightening the muscles. Hold…and then relax.

6)

Wrinkle up your

forehead

and brow, focusing on the tension in the muscles…and then relax.

7)

Squeeze your

eyes

shut as tightly as you can, feeling the tension in the muscles around the

eyes. Hold…and then relax.

8)

Clench your

jaw

, hard, flexing the muscles in your jaw and cheek. Hold…and then relax.

9)

Press your

lips

together tightly, pursing them so the muscles around your mouth

tighten…and then allow them to relax.

10)

Press your head back against the chair or bed, hard, feeling the tension in the

back of your

neck

. Hold…and then relax.

11)

Allow your head to fall forward, as though trying to bury your chin in your chest, and feel the

tension in the

front of your neck

. Hold…and then allow your head to fall back, very naturally.

12)

Arch your back, sticking out your chest, and feel the tension in your

upper back

…and relax.

13)

Take a deep breath and hold it, feeling the tightness in the muscles around your

chest

.

Hold it…and then relax, breathing deeply from the abdomen.

14)

Tighten the muscles of your

stomach

, making the stomach very hard. Hold…and relax.

15)

Stretch both of your legs, straight out in front of you, until you can feel the tension in the

backs of your

thighs

. Hold…and then relax.

16)

Tense both

calf muscles by stretching your feet and pointing your toes up toward your

Topic: Ambulatory EMRs

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Topic: Augmented Reality in Healthcare

200 words for each questionQuestion 1

Why is an understanding of civil procedure important for healthcare administrators, even if they are not attorneys?

Question 2

A hospital fails to adequately review a physicians credentials before granting privileges. The physician later commits malpractice. Which legal theory most directly applies?