What are the principal features of U.S. health policy, and what are the various stages in the policy cycle?

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write 400–600 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.

Choose a health policy issue in your workplace or community that is related to healthcare cost, quality, or access, and then discuss the following questions:

  • What are the principal features of U.S. health policy, and what are the various stages in the policy cycle?
  • What is the role of public opinion in policy making?
  • What strategies and tools can be employed by various stakeholder groups?
  • What is the relationship between states and the federal government in policy making?
  • What has been the impact of presidential leadership on health policies?
  • How and why have health reform proposals been unsuccessful in the past?

Review the information in your textbook, and use material resources on the U.S. policy process and the political environment. You may need to conduct additional research to support your analysis.

Note: Your post must include 2 quality references, 1 of which is from a peer-reviewed source and published within the last 5 years.

CTU Online Library

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Write an executive summary of a recent (within the past 2 years) article from the CTU Online Library related to healthcare policy processes that is centered on improving healthcare quality and outcomes. Your summary must include the following:

  • Describe the health policy development process and the roles that various stakeholders have in that process associated with the article.
  • Include a brief description of the key health policy issues, and evaluate the potential of these issues to transform healthcare delivery in the United States.
  • Assess how this healthcare policy will impact the structure of the healthcare industry and the distribution of resources and services.
  • It should be 3–4 pages, in APA format, and with 4 quality references, 2 of which are from peer-reviewed sources and published within the last 5 years.

Emerging and current health care issues nearly always have an impact on health care management practices.

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Emerging and current health care issues nearly always have an impact on health care management practices. In this activity, you will identify and begin to examine a health care issue of your choosing. Your work in this activity sets the foundation for your Week 4 Assignment – Impacts of a Heath Issue on a Care Provider.

Instructions

Download the Week 2 Activity Template and use it to complete this assignment.Choose one of the following types of health care providers and an issue that significantly impacts its operations, policies, procedures, et cetera.Provider Type:

  • Nursing Home.
  • Hospital.
  • Out Patient Medical Clinic/Urgent Care Center.
  • Home Health Care.
  • Private Practice Physician(s).

Health Care Issue:Consider one of the following issues or choose one of your own. Make sure that the issue that you have chosen has a potentially significant impact on your chosen provider type.

  • Outbreaks such as COVID-19, measles, or Ebola.
  • Human trafficking.
  • Aging.
  • Medical tourism.
  • Consumer-directed health care.
  • Assisted suicide.
  • Medical marijuana.
  • Mandatory vaccinations.
  • Abortion.
  • Personalized medicine.
  • Drug abuse.
  • Climate change.
Deliverable

Use the Week 2 Activity Template to state your chosen provider type and introduce its associated issue. Next, briefly describe at least 5 areas where the issue could significantly impact the provider. These include operations, planning, logistics, training, community outreach, et cetera.

Requirements
  • 1/2-1-page double spaced, 12pt Times New

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Sub-group name and image with rationale

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  1. Sub-group name and image with rationale
  2. Purnell’s Model constructs and sub-group information (n = 12)
  3. Sub-group presence and issues 15 related to local and global community
  4. Summary of recommendations for providing culturally competent nursing care to this sub-group

 

  • Followed current APA format including citation of references.
  • Power point presentation with 10-15 slides were clear and easy to read. Speaker notes expanded upon and clarified content on the slides.
  • Incorporate a minimum of 5 current (published within last five years) scholarly journal articles or primary legal sources (statutes, court opinions) within your work. Journal articles and books should be referenced according to current APA style (the library has a copy of the APA Manual).

What’s your understanding of the role of interoperability in Healthcare and its impact on your practice.

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What’s your understanding of the role of interoperability in Healthcare and its impact on your practice.

Cite a scholarly article in APA format.

Provide background and history of the community

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Title

 

Introduction

Provide background and history of the community

 

 

Instructions for the following slides:

The slides have questions that can help compile the data needed for your windshield survey.

Emphasize and elaborate your answers.

Provide pictures of the community to enhance your PowerPoint slides.

 

 

Community Vitality

Are people visible in the community? What are they doing?

Who are the people living in the neighborhood? What is their age range? What is the predominant age (e.g., elderly, preschoolers, young mothers, or school-aged children)?

What ethnicity or race is most common?

Do you notice tourists or visitors to the community?

Do you observe any people who appear to be under the influence of drugs or alcohol?

Do you see any pregnant women? Do you see women with strollers and young children?

(This can be more than one slide due to all the information it entails)

 

Indicators of Social and Economic Conditions:

What is the general condition of the homes you observe? Are these single-family homes or multifamily structures? Is there any evidence of dilapidated housing or of areas undergoing urban renewal? Is there public housing? What is its condition?

How do people get from place to another? Is public transportation available? If so, what kind and how effective? How timely? Personal autos? Bikes, etc.? Are there any indicators of the kinds of work available to the residents? Are there job opportunities nearby, such as factories, small business, or military installations? Are there unemployed people visible, such as homeless people?

Do you observe any interest in political campaigns or issues, such as campaign signs?

What kinds of schools and day care centers are available?

(This can be more than one slide due to all the information it entails)

 

Health Resources:

Do you see evidence of clinics, hospitals, mental illness, substance abuse centers?

Do you see evidence of office of doctors and dentists, health department facilities, urgent care centers, and pharmacies?

Are these resources appropriate and sufficient to address the kinds of problems that exist in this community?

(This can be more than one slide due to all the information it entails)

 

Environmental Conditions Related to Health:

Do you observe recreational facilities and playgrounds?

Do you see preschools and daycare facilities?

Do you see any restaurants? Is there food being sold on the streets?

What evidence of nuisances like ants, mosquitoes, flies, or rodents do you observe?

Description of the clinical manifestations and assessments.

(This can be more than one slide due to all the information it entails)

 

 

Social Functioning:

How many types of churches, synagogues, or other places of worship are there?

What evidence of a sense of neighborliness can you observe?

Can you observe anything that would make you suspicious for social problems such as gang activity, juvenile delinquency, drug or alcohol abuse, and adolescent pregnancy

Assessment of the learning needs of the population.

(This can be more than one slide due to all the information it entails)

 

 

Attitude Toward Health and Health Care:

Do you observe any evidence of folk medicine practice, such as a botanical or herbal medicine shop?

Do you observe that health resources are well utilized or underutilized?

Is there evidence of preventive or wellness care?

Provide nursing diagnoses based on your assessment of the community or the most prevalent disorder.

(This can be more than one slide due to all the information it entails.)

 

Conclusion

Summation of your community.

This is where you can mention the conditions and trends in the community that could affect the health of the population.

References

Community Assessment Tool,

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Using a variety of instruments (Windshield Survey, Community Assessment Tool, Screening interviews, etc.) while in your community, you will assess the community location. This will lead to a list of identified, prioritized health needs and your recommendations for intervention.

You will complete a windshield survey of your community. The objective of a windshield survey is to assess a community in a short, simple way, compiling data to help form an analysis of that community. Simply put, a windshield survey is the equivalent of a community head-to-toe assessment. You will drive through your community and document your findings on a PowerPoint presentation. Take pictures of your community to enhance your PowerPoint presentation.

preparing for redesignation of its Magnet Status

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Scenario

Oakridge Hospital is preparing for redesignation of its Magnet Status, which represents diverse populations in primary, secondary and tertiary settings. As the clinical analyst for the hospital, it is your responsibility to ensure that all of the collected and submitted data meets criteria to maintain the covenant status. The Board of Directors asked The Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) to give an update on the hospital’s Magnet status and redesignation efforts.

Instructions

You have been asked by the hospital’s Chief Nursing Officer to create a PowerPoint presentation (using speaker notes for each slide or voiceover narration) on Magnet designation, quality measures and patient outcomes to be presented to the Board of Directors. This presentation should include:

  1. Background on Magnet Recognition Program®.
  2. Summary of the Magnet status model components and diverse data elements that can be used in the hospital’s Quality Improvement initiatives that will be measured for redesignation.
  3. Explain the use of hospital, state and national data comparison requirements in Magnet redesignation and quality improvement.
  4. Three goals that align to Magnet status with an explanation of how these goals can positively impact the hospital’s patient outcomes.

Rubric

– Clear and thorough background information on Magnet Recognition Program. Included comprehensive details on the model components and data elements that can be used in QI initiatives. Includes multiple supporting examples.

– Clear and thorough explanation of hospital, state and national data comparison requirements in Magnet redesignation. Included comprehensive explanation with multiple supporting examples for comparison of hospital, state, and national data comparisons quality improvement.

– Comprehensive list of more than three goals aligned to Magnet status. Included multiple supporting examples of how all of the goals can positively impact the hospital’s patient outcomes.

long-term care facility

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Scenario You are the risk manager for a local, long-term care facility. Part of your role is to develop processes that fosters an environment that prioritizes patient safety. Conduct a comparative analysis of two of the most widely published briefs from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) in recent years – To Err is Human and Crossing the Quality Chasm. According to the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering Medicine (2018), To Err is Human illuminated how tens of thousands of Americans die each year from medical errors and effectively put the issue of patient safety and quality on the radar screen of public and private policymakers. The Quality Chasm report described broader quality issues and defines six aims—care should be safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient and equitable—and 10 rules for care delivery redesign. Instructions In a comparative analysis, discuss the significance of each report on recent quality initiatives implemented by entities such as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), and the Joint Commission. Your comparative analysis should also contain an examination of the quantitative data collection methods used in each report. Make a recommendation based on your analysis on how your organization and similar organizations can utilize the findings from the reports to assist in continuous quality improvement of operations and the achievement of organizational goals.

health clinic

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Scenario

XYZ health clinic has operated in the local area for 10 years. Due to an economic decline as a result of the state’s increasing number of uninsured residents, XYZ health clinic must adjust its current service offerings in order to recoup lost revenue. The state has elected to opt out of the Medicaid expansion program; therefore, many of the residents remain uninsured. This has proven extremely problematic for XYZ as many of the patients in the area are low income, but do not qualify for traditional Medicaid. As a result, XYZ’s payer mix is unfavorable as 33% of the residents have public insurance, 12% are uninsured, and only 5% are covered by private insurance. XYZ would like to implement telehealth as part of a new strategy to reach a wider demographic of patients.

Instructions

You will conduct a case study analysis of the aforementioned case. Your case analysis will address XYZ’s health clinic challenges reflected in the scenario.

  • Utilizing a mind map or Root Cause Analysis, provide an assessment of the issues facing XYZ health clinic.
  • Assess the strategy by XYZ to implement a telehealth program in order to address current issues facing XYZ.
  • Develop a proposed solution to the issues facing XYZ.
  • Include a discussion on the staffing models necessary, technology requirements, and legal requirements of implementing telehealth.