The employment of hospitalists is a growing trend

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https://www.medpagetoday.com/blogs/themethodsman/69237 (link)

Chapter 5 tackles the subject of physician employment.  The employment of hospitalists is a growing trend.  For this assignment, you will read this article, (Links to an external site.) then answer the following questions regarding the use of hospitalists versus primary care physicians as care providers for admitted patients.  Before reading the article, make sure to read the section in Chapter 5 “Employment and Earnings of Physicians”.  After reading the article and the text, answer the following questions in 300 words or more in paragraph format (5 or more sentences, correct spelling a grammar, one or more paragraphs).  Do NOT respond in questions and answer format.  Thoughtfully respond to one or more classmates after you submit your original post.  Remember to use your own words.  There are comments at the end of the article; don’t make the mistake of plagiarizing their words.  I want your opinion, not someone else’s.

  • What is a hospitalist?
  • What is the difference between a hospitalist and a primary care physician?
  • Why is the number of hospitalists growing?
  • What did the results of the study indicate?
  • Although the study has not been replicated for reliability, what did you learn from the study?  How did the results make you feel?
  • If the study is repeated and the results turn out to be reliable, what changes would you recommend?  If you do not recommend changes, explain why.

Health care organizations (HCOs) are complex systems.

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Healthcare managers

Health care organizations (HCOs) are complex systems. They train and organize resources such as staff, manage buildings full of medical equipment such as hospital beds, x-ray machines, and intravenous pumps, and provide services such as diagnosis, surgery, and a host of treatments. The end game is to maintain good health, return those with illness/injury to optimal health, and allocate a scarce resource. Management for these complex systems used to hold business degrees. Increasingly, they are being required to hold degrees in health care leadership. Emerging health systems require increasing sophistication from leaders who understand how to work in teams, optimize use of staff, and create a shared vision of the future.

View the video: Seven Challenges Facing Today’s Health Care Leaders

Illustrate the 7 challenges in health care.

Include the following aspects in the discussion:

  • Briefly outline the 7 challenges
  • Rank each of the 7 challenges
  • Determine the best leadership style to meet the challenges

Why are teams such an important part of health care?

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Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:

  • Why are teams such an important part of health care?
  • How will you use this strategy in your degree program while working on teams?

Employee Turnover and Future Staffing Needs

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Employee Turnover and Future Staffing Needs

A high employee turnover in any industry can be a concern, more so in those that are customer centered. Industries that deal with people’s health are in an even more precarious position. Healthcare organizations with high attrition must consider how a “revolving door” of care providers affects the quality of care the organization is able to provide and the satisfaction of patients with their overall experience. HR professionals are responsible for staffing positions, training employees, providing benefits, and handling any problems or disciplinary actions. The day-to-day responsibilities of managing the workforce can leave little time for long-range planning.

Tasks:

Post to the Discussion Area your responses to the following:

  • ****How does a high employee turnover rate impact the operations in a healthcare organization?
    Give examples of one clinical and one nonclinical position in your answer. For example, what is the effect of a high turnover among lab technicians and among billing staff?
  • ****What data may be gathered and analyzed to assess the reasons for employee turnover?
    What additional data might HRM gather?
  • ****What would you use for forecasting metrics for current and future staffing needs?
    Give an example of a particular healthcare setting (e.g., urban or rural, large or small hospital, or primary or tertiary care).
  • ****What best practices would you recommend for reducing healthcare employee turnover? Explain at least three such best practices and their positive affect on a healthcare organization.
  • ****Among clinical staff, would you target any particular age group for retention efforts? For example, would you make greater effort to retain younger staff for the organization’s long-term staffing needs or would you rather retain more experienced employees to improve the quality of care?

300-500 words; APA FORMAT

In this Assignment, you will be locating and using evidence to support a specific health-based concern or topic. Using the resources available to you, locate a health-related topic in your community (e.g., local, state, or regional). You will communicate this health-related topic to others.

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Instructions
In this Assignment, you will be locating and using evidence to support a specific health-based concern or topic. Using the resources available to you, locate a health-related topic in your community (e.g., local, state, or regional). You will communicate this health-related topic to others.

Requirements

  • Locate a health-related topic in your community (e.g., local, state, or regional).
  • Using one (1) of the methods below, develop a communication initiative that best educates your community on this health-related topic:
    • 2-page fact sheet on the health-related topic (e.g., disease, condition, addiction).
  • Your communication initiative should portray a real-life, health-related topic in your community. The use of factual data written primarily in your own words is required for this Assignment.
  • The use of first-person is permitted for this Assignment. APA formatting (title page, conclusion, reference page, etc.) should not be used. Remember, you are developing a current communication initiative for your community.
  • References should be cited according to APA formatting. APA formatting is not required for the content of the Assignment. However, proper grammar, spelling, and punctuation are expected. Please use footnotes to cite any references. If you complete a Public Service Announcement please submit references as a separate word document.

Create a separate reference page in APA format for the article

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Lesson Objectives: 1. Provide a brief 1-page summary of the article. 2. Create a separate reference page in APA format for the article 3. Link to APA Format- https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/apa_style/apa_style_introduction.html 5. Please read the FULL ARTICLE & WRITE A FULL PAGE SUMMARY 6.Article: https://ojin.nursingworld.org/MainMenuCategories/ANAMarketplace/ANAPeriodicals/OJIN/TableofContents/Vol-22-2017/No3-Sep-2017/Ethical-Issues-in-School-Nursing.html

How has your healthcare experience and/or community service activities influenced your decision to become a Physician Assistant?

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How has your healthcare experience and/or community service activities influenced your decision to become a Physician Assistant?

How has your approach to your academic coursework prepared you to be a successful PA student?

Describe your greatest strength and your greatest weakness as it pertains to becoming a PA student and a graduate PA.

Describe your exposure to PAs in clinical practice.

Why did you choose to apply to the RBHS – SHP PA Program?

Select a healthcare setting you want to focus on for your sustainability initiative

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Select a healthcare setting you want to focus on for your sustainability initiative (e.g., local hospital, veterans hospital, ambulance service, urgent care, nursing home, etc.). Analyze the setting you have selected and break it down to the main departments, employee roles, operating activities, etc. While doing so, brainstorm opportunities to reduce costs or eliminate waste while improving patient care or outcomes. Review the list of sustainable initiatives from the list below, and select one that you want to promote for your course project:

  • Energy efficiency
  • Lighting
  • IR scanning
  • Cogeneration
  • Kanban Inventory
  • Device exchange
  • CR pack reformation
  • Device reprocessing
  • Red bag waste reduction
  • Blue wrap recycling

Note: Ensure that the opportunity you select correlates with the setting you select.
Write a 525- to 700-word proposal of the sustainability initiative you want to promote at the health care setting you selected. Your proposal should:

  • Create a clear vision or mission statement that defines the scope of the initiative and would generate buy-in.
  • Define what outcomes you expect to achieve over time.
  • Be specific with what you can realistically deliver.

Cite 3 reputable references to support your assignment (e.g., trade or industry publications, government or agency websites, scholarly works, or other sources of similar quality).

Topic Introduction

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Topic Introduction

Brooklyn Maasch

Rasmussen College

08/23/2020

 

For as long as I can remember, I wanted to work in a hospital. However, I could never figure out which role exactly it was that I wanted to play in that hospital. When I was a freshman in high school, I hurt my knee in a golf meet. I played it off for weeks, thinking that it wasn’t actually as bad as it felt, until I couldn’t walk more than a block without my knee becoming the size of a softball. When I finally decided to go to the doctor, they took some scans. It was then that I became interested in Radiology. From then on, I had a fascination with scans of the body. Weather it be x rays, CAT scans, MRI’s, I wanted to do them. I couldn’t tell you quite what it was, but I knew I found it interesting. When I was a junior, I took a day off school and job shadowed my local hospital, focusing mainly on the radiology department. I loved every single second of the day, but I knew something was off. To this day, I could never put my finger on what didn’t feel right about it, but I never pursued that career.

It is for that reason that I have chosen to focus on the area of Radiology for my project. I may never be able to figure out the exact reason that I couldn’t commit to going to school for Radiology, but I’m hoping this project will give me some sort of comfort in still getting to research about it and learn more about it. I often wonder where I would be in life if I had taken that path of Radiology, but everything happens for a reason, that I believe in. And I am loving what I am going to school for now, which is Healthcare Management. I have always loved the office setting, and I’m glad I will still get to do what I love while helping people as much as I can in the process.

Policy Formulation: Development of Legislation

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Supporting Lectures:

Review the following lecture:

  • Policy Formulation: Development of Legislation (see below)

Legislative Process for Health Policy

While hundreds of bills are introduced during each congressional session, only a very small percentage moves on to be evaluated by the President. Understanding the legislative process for health policy is important for administrators, who are in a position to lobby for effective health policy.

From the Internet, review the following:

  • U.S. Congress. (n.d.). Health. Retrieved from https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/subjects/health/6130

Choose a healthy policy item that has been “Introduced” and present the following:

  • **Title of the bill
  • **Status and sponsor      
  • **Summary
  • **Recommended revisions

To support your work, use your course and textbook readings and also use the South University Online Library. As in all assignments, cite your sources in your work and provide references for the citations in APA format.

 

Policy Formulation: Development of Legislation

The steps in the legislation process are numerous so as to include a system of checks and balances that prevent the enactment of bills that do not contain full support from the political arena representing the people. Bills are drafted by both the House of Representatives and the Senate. The process is relatively independent at this time and the bill moves forward to presentation, committee assessment, and approval from each side. Once the bill is approved by the House or Senate, it must be approved by the other side; that is, the bill passed by the House must be sent to the Senate for review and approval and vice versa. Conference committees are created to resolve differences until an identical bill is passed by both, the House and Senate. At this stage, the bill is forwarded to the President, who has one of four options:

  1. The president may sign the bill into law.
  2. The president may, during congressional session, ignore the bill, which automatically becomes law after 10 days without signature.
  3. The president may, when congress is out of session, hold the bill, which cannot become law without presidential signature.
  4. The president may veto the bill, which requires a two-thirds vote in the House and Senate to override.

It is important to note that the development of legislation follows this process whether the legislation is new law or an amendment to an existing law. Any proposals that are not enacted by the end of a congressional session must be reintroduced during the next session, starting the process over for each piece of legislation that does not evoke majority agreement. As such, only a small percentage of proposed legislation culminates in the enactment of law.