Identify and describe a health care news situation that affects a health care organization such as a hospital, clinic, or insurance company

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Resource: University Library

Write a 1,400- to 1,750-word paper on a current health care situation. For example, common issues might include one of the following: physician or employee with a conflict of interest, health care fraud and abuse, medical error, quality of care issues, aging in America, privacy issues—selling names, losing patient information, or health care coverage for indigent or noncitizens.

Evaluate the effect of organizational structure and governance, culture, and social responsibility focus on what happened in your chosen situation. Recommend how you would change the organization to prevent this situation in the future. Include the following components:

  • Identify and describe a health care news situation that affects a health care organization such as a hospital, clinic, or insurance company.
  • Examine and evaluate how organizational structure and governance, culture and focus (or lack of focus) on social responsibility affected or influenced what happened.
  • Recommend what resources will be allocated to prevent this situation in the future and what ethical issues may be tied to this decision.
  • Recommend how you would change the structure, governance, culture, or focus on social responsibility to prevent this situation in the future.

Include at least three references.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines. Use an APA running head, 1st level headings, in-text citations, a title page, reference page, etc.

Grading Criteria

 

Current Health Care Situation Paper

 

This assignment is due in Week Five.

 

Content60 Percent Points Available9 Points EarnedX/9 Additional Comments:
  • Describes a health news situation that affects a health care organization
  • Examines and evaluation corporate structure and governance, culture, and focus on social responsibility
  • Recommends what resources will be allocated to prevent this situation in the future and what ethical issues may be tied to this decision
  • Recommends changes to structure, governance, culture, focus on social responsibility to prevent problem in the future
Organization/Development20 Percent Points Available3 Points EarnedX/3 Additional Comments:
  • The paper is 1,400 to 1,750 words in length.
  • The introduction provides sufficient background on the topic and previews major points.
  • The conclusion is logical, flows, and reviews the major points.
Mechanics20 Percent Points Available3 Points EarnedX/3 Additional Comments:
  • The paper—including the title page, reference page, tables, and any appendixes—is consistent with APA guidelines as directed by the facilitator. The paper is laid out with effective use of headings, font styles, and white space.
  • Rules of grammar, usage, and punctuation are followed; spelling is correct.
  • Paper includes three references
Total Available Total Earned
15

Describe what you feel to be the most important change arising from health care reform

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Please respond to following the questions in 100-250 words. Please support ALL posts with outside sources.

 

Describe the legal and ethical requirements of health care reform in health care delivery.

Choose one or 2 and discuss.

1) Health care program expansion

2) Health care quality

Describe what you feel to be the most important change arising from health care reform. What can an administrator do to comply with these changes?   Support your statements with an external source/s.

 

See a list below of some beginning of life ethical issues. It is not an exhaustive list; there may be others.

 

  • abortion

 

  • stem cell research

 

  • fetal reduction

 

  • fetal & maternal rights

 

  • eugenics

Below is a list of end of life ethical issues. This is also not an exhaustive list; there are others to include as well. Be creative; think of others.

 

  • euthanasia

 

  • physician assisted suicide

 

  • termination of life support

 

  • organ recovery and definitions of when death occurs

 

  • hospice care

*Choose one and discuss.

 

1) Termination of life support – This raises questions of what the most ethical action is when someone can no longer function yet their life continues with the assistance of life support. Please discuss an example of this or of one below.

 

2) Organ recovery and definitions of death – This raises issues about the ethics of defining death and taking organs from someone who is brain dead, but has a continued heartbeat. Please discuss an example of this or the one above.

Describe the basic premise of both the community and market-oriented approach to health care

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DQ #1

Describe the basic premise of both the community and market-oriented approach to health care. To what extent is each multidisciplinary?  How might each approach help and/or hinder health care access for immigrants and refugees?  What are ways in which these approaches can promote a culturally inclusive health care experience for this group?  Include a brief analysis of the role that health delivery models can play alongside these approaches in the provision of culturally competent care.

DQ #2

For this final forum, describe a multidisciplinary approach for a vulnerable population that we have not covered in class.
Imagine you are a policymaker for your city or town. Based on what you know, and what you have learned in this course, what would you modify or improve to make a positive change in the life of a Immigrants and refugees?  Would you consult the vulnerable group when developing programs or policies?  Why or why not?  Which policy would you create to improve health care services accessibility, cost, and quality related to your selected group?

Develop a plan and specific steps to execute the plan in order to stay current with developments and issues in both general management and health care administration

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Introduction

Life long learning is a concept or really a process that has generated much enthusiasm in the business management world.  In the twenty-first century, I believe we will see more remarkable leaders and managers who develop their skills through lifelong learning, because a rapidly changing environment is increasingly rewarding that pattern of growth.  In an ever-changing world, we can never learn it all, even if we keep growing into our nineties.  As the rate of change increases, the willingness and ability to keep developing become central to career success for individuals and economic success for organizations.  Many successful leaders and manager I have known did not begin their careers with the most money or the most intelligence. They were successful nevertheless because they we able to out grow their rivals. They developed the capacity to handle a complex and changing health care environment.  They grow to become unusually competent in advancing organizational transformation.  The best of them learned to become leaders.

Just as health care organizations are going to be forced to learn, change, and constantly reinvent themselves in the twenty-first century, so will increasing numbers of individuals. So what are the habits of life long learners?  There is no single formula, and individuals accomplish it through varying paths, often with more than one major career change.   However, if I had to identify the five most important characteristics of life long learners, it would be the following:

· Risk taking: Willingness to push oneself out of comfort zones

· Humble self-reflection: Honest assessment of successes and failures, especially the latter.

· Solicitation of opinions: Aggressive collection of information and ideas from others

· Careful listening: Propensity to listen to others

· Openness to new ideas: Willingness to view life with an open mind.

The beauty is that that listening with an open mind, trying new things, or reflecting honestly on successes and failures do not require a high IQ, a Ph.D., or a privileged background.  But beware of the simplicity of these habits.  There is a major reason why so few individuals develop them — in the short term, its painful.  Risk taking brings failure as well as success.  Honest reflection, listening solicitation of opinions, and openness bring bad news and negative feedback as well as interesting ideas. In the short term, life is generally more pleasant without failure and negative feedback.

Effective lifelong learners overcome a natural human tendency to shy away from or abandon habits that produce short-term pain. By surviving difficult experiences, they build up certain immunity to hardship. With clarity of thought, they come to realize the importance of both these habits and lifelong learning. But most of all, their goals and aspirations facilitate the development of humility, openness, willingness to take risks, and the capacity to listen.

The very best lifelong learners and leaders I’ve known seem to have high standards, ambitious goals, and a real sense of mission in their lives. Such goals and aspirations spur them on, put their accomplishments in a humbling perspective, and help them endure the short-term pain associated with growth.  Their aspirations help keep them from sliding into a comfortable, safe routine characterized by little sensible risk taking, a relatively closed mind, a minimum of reaching out, and little listening.

Why are we dwelling on this?  Most of the successful white-collar workers in the past hundred years found reputable companies to work for early in life and then moved up narrow functional hierarchies while learning the art of management. This traditional career path did help people learn, but only in narrow functional spheres of influence. One had to grasp more and more knowledge about accounting or engineering, but little else. Most people believe successful 21st century careers will be more dynamic.  People won’t be moving linearly through hierarchies as frequently and fewer and fewer people will be doing the same job the same way over long periods of time. To put this in practical terms, in 1980, the average individual spent 21 years working for the same company. By the year 2000, that statistic was reduced to a maximum of 7 years in any one company. Thus, we will need to be more flexible, adaptable, and master more volatile career paths to reach success. The lifelong learning plan is a mechanism for you to define your pathway to such success in the 21st century health care industry.

Assignment

Please use the outline below to develop and present your plan.  The limit is seven pages (plus any attachments).

MISSION

Why are you doing this?

Develop a plan and specific steps to execute the plan in order to stay current with

developments and issues in both general management and health care administration.

ENVIRONMENT

The time horizon for this exercise is the next ten years (through 2021).

VISION

What is (or will be) the guiding management book that provides the basis for your understanding/approaches/actions as a manager?

What is (or will be) the guiding health care book that provides the basis for your understanding/approaches/actions in the health care arena?

GOALS:  (Limit to 4-6 major goals)

In terms of your learning over the next 10 years, what specific things do you want to be different in this period that will help you stay current and on top of your field?

STRATEGIES

The specific things you will work on to help you achieve each goal.

TACTICS

The specific steps that you will take to achieve each strategy (relatively short- term actions)

MONITORING

How will you know if you are succeeding and achieving expected outcomes?  How will you spot impending failure or the need to adjust either strategies or tactics?

RISK FACTORS

Identify the general environment (e.g., information technology), professional and personal factors that will help/hinder your success with the plan?