Advance Care Planning and Analysis

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Advance Care Planning and Analysis

For this assignment, make sure you post your initial response to the Discussion Area by the due date assigned.

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

Read the section titled “Reflective Practice: Pants on Fire” from chapter “Health Policy, Politics, and Professional Ethics” (see attached Chapter 15) and address the questions below:

· How do you judge Palin’s quote? [“And who will suffer the most when they ration care? The sick, the elderly, and the disabled, of course. The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s death panel so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their level of productivity in society, whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil.] Effective strategy to oppose Democrats’ plans for health care reform or unethical scaremongering?

· Reflect on what informs your judgment: commitment to advance care planning, analysis of facts, and/or political party loyalties?

· Is it right for nurses to endorse health reform legislation even if the legislation is not perfect? Does this apply to the recently failed American Health Care Act?

Determine best practices for establishing and maintaining strategic alliances within the health care industry or enterprise.

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Imagine that you are a senior consultant at Practical Health Care Consulting firm. Your supervisor has instructed you to spend three (3) months at the Caring Angel Hospital to help improve the quality of care, add value to the organization, improve employee morale, design an efficient organizational chart, create a strong team environment, and create the hospital’s competitive advantage. The hospital has traditionally made losses year after year. Furthermore, it is not performing well financially, and the banks are not willing to lend it large sums of money for more effective marketing.

After spending two (2) months within the hospital, you are very happy with your progress, and you think you are capable of acquiring more patient base and expanding the hospital market. However, with a closer look, you notice that your patients are still hopping from one specialized hospital to another in search of various specialized treatments. You also notice that the seats are not comfortable in the waiting area, and the patients continuously show up for appointments on the wrong dates. The nurses and the employees are not smiling during patient conversations, and everyone looks for ways to blame others for failures in the patient treatment process. Everyone seems to work alone and hide what they do from their colleagues.

At the end of the three (3) month period, you must provide a report with your recommended strategies designed to help Caring Angel Hospital achieve its goals.

Note: You may create and / or make all necessary assumptions needed for the completion of this assignment.

Write a four to six (4-6) page paper in which you:

1. From a consulting perspective, propose the major steps that Caring Angel Hospital could take to achieve each of the following goals:

a. Improve the quality of care

b. Add value to the organization

c. Improve employee morale

d. Design an efficient organizational chart

e. Create a strong team environment

f. Create the hospital’s competitive edge.

2. Recommend one (1) approach that the hospital could use for acquiring a larger market share given the prevailing financial circumstances. Justify your recommendation.

3. Investigate at least two (2) value-added services that Caring Angel Hospital could offer to strengthen its value proposition. Provide at least two (2) examples of the advantages of these value-added services to the hospital.

4. Use four (4) recent (within the last five [5] years) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other websites do not qualify as quality academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

  • Be typed, double      spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all      sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format.      Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
  • Include a cover      page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the      professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the      reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

  • Propose      methodologies that have been proven to increase value in health care      delivery systems.
  • Examine leadership      and management frameworks that are most applicable to a certain      organization type within the health care industry.

· Assess how politics in a health care organization motivates and demotivates employees, and recommend strategies to mitigate the challenges presented with each aspect.

  • Create a      communication strategy to address an ethical dilemma within a health care      organization regarding the quality of service and cost.
  • Craft a strategic      plan that leads to a competitive advantage within a certain market.

· Determine best practices for establishing and maintaining strategic alliances within the health care industry or enterprise.

· Use technology and information resources to research issues in health care management.

  • Write clearly and      concisely about health care management using proper writing mechanics.

In a minimum of 1,500-2,000 words, provide an ethical analysis based  upon the different belief systems, reinforcing major themes with  insights gained from your research, and answering the following  questions based on the research:

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The practice of health care providers at all levels brings you  into contact with people from a variety of faiths. This calls for  knowledge and acceptance of a diversity of faith expressions.

The purpose of this paper is to complete a comparative ethical  analysis of George’s situation and decision from the perspective of two  worldviews or religions: Christianity and a second religion of your  choosing. For the second faith, choose a faith that is unfamiliar to  you. Examples of faiths to choose from include Sikh, Baha’i, Buddhism,  Shintoism, etc.

In your comparative analysis, address all of the worldview questions  in detail for Christianity and your selected faith. Refer to Chapter 2  of Called to Care for the list of questions. Once you have  outlined the worldview of each religion, begin your ethical analysis  from each perspective.

In a minimum of 1,500-2,000 words, provide an ethical analysis based  upon the different belief systems, reinforcing major themes with  insights gained from your research, and answering the following  questions based on the research:

  1. How would each religion interpret the nature of George’s malady and  suffering? Is there a “why” to his disease and suffering? (i.e., is  there a reason for why George is ill, beyond the reality of physical  malady?)
  2. In George’s analysis of his own life, how would each religion think  about the value of his life as a person, and value of his life with ALS?
  3. What sorts of values and considerations would each religion focus on  in deliberating about whether or not George should opt for euthanasia?
  4. Given the above, what options would be morally justified under each religion for George and why?
  5. Finally, present and defend your own view.

Support your position by referencing at least three academic  resources (preferably from the GCU Library) in addition to the course  readings, lectures, the Bible, and the textbooks for each religion. Each  religion must have a primary source included. A total of six references  are required according to the specifications listed above. Incorporate  the research into your writing in an appropriate, scholarly manner.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA  Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is  required.

Provide support for your statements with full APA in-text citations from a minimum of ten (10) scholarly references—five of these references must be from outside sources and five may be from course readings, lectures, and textbooks. 

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Providing healthcare services to residents in rural areas has presented increased challenges that include access and cost. For your Capstone Project, you will be using a case study that focuses on Pocahontas Memorial Hospital located in Pocahontas County, West Virginia.

Pocahontas Memorial Hospital (PMH) would like to offer a comprehensive satellite health clinic within Pocahontas County. You have been contracted to prepare a report for the PMH Board of Directors to guide them in determining the feasibility of opening a satellite clinic as part of a strategic initiative for their annual strategic management planning process.

Your report should be organized according to the following structure and contain the elements described:

  • Introduction: This is where you introduce your audience to what this report will cover.
    • Description of PMH and potential project
    • Discussion of whether the organization’s mission, vision, and goals support the project
  • Assessment: This is your evaluation of various factors that affect the feasibility and development of the project.
    • Internal and external stakeholders involved and their buy-in for this project
    • Internal and external environmental challenges (e.g., access for consumers, medical equipment, technology, community involvement required)
    • A market analysis
    • A SWOT analysis
  • Recommendations and Implementation: This is where you detail your recommendations and strategies for implementation. Your recommendations should be based directly on what you outlined in your assessment.
    • Strategies for attracting healthcare professionals and staff
    • Feasibility for development of a satellite clinic
    • Value-adding support and resources (e.g., equipment, technology, etc.)
    • Develop strategic initiatives
    • Short- and long-terms plans for implementation of strategic initiatives
    • Brief discussion of how you will evaluate and benchmark this project
  • Conclusion: This brief summary should pull together your assessment and recommendations and leave the audience with a clear sense of what can be done.

Your well-written report should meet the following requirements:

  • Be 12–15 pages in length, not including the cover or reference pages or appendices.
  • Include the strategic thinking maps and content you created for the earlier module assignments. They may be added in addition to/or as a part of the 12-15 pages of content or moved to the Appendix section.
  • Be formatted according to APA Requirements.
  • Provide support for your statements with full APA in-text citations from a minimum of ten (10) scholarly references—five of these references must be from outside sources and five may be from course readings, lectures, and textbooks.
  • Include full market analysis and SWOT analysis diagrams in the Appendix, but present your narrative discussion of each in the Assessment section of your report.