For this assignment, interview someone in a leadership position in a healthcare organization to ask about how that organization handles patient and employee education, and whether that organization participates in any research

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The purpose of this assignment is to benefit from the perspective of a leader in education and research in healthcare how they do their research. Most hospitals and other healthcare organizations offer education for patients and employees, and they conduct research (mostly market research). Major academic medical centers participate in major research studies, usually aimed at developing a better treatment, or curing some illness. Through the readings you will learn about various forms of research.
For this assignment, interview someone in a leadership position in a healthcare organization to ask about how that organization handles patient and employee education, and whether that organization participates in any research (if so, find out what types and whether it is mostly qualitative or quantitative research). In your paper, compare what this leader tells you to what you learned through your research for the Clinical Drug Trial.
This can be where you currently work or have access to members of the leadership team. You are asked to use Clinical Drug Trial, as this will allow you to see what you learned from your research in a real-world application.
Prepare and submit a paper responding to the following items:
1. Provide an overview of the area of Clinical Drug Trial.
2. Determine whether or not your research is qualitative or quantitative and why.

Expectations
Write a 4 page double-spaced paper (this does not include title and reference pages) in Times New Roman and 12 Font. Copy & paste the actual questions or task from the assignment onto your cover page for each paper.. It needs to be well written, based on information from scholarly research, and should demonstrate a thorough analysis of the topic.

What is the specific theme of the code that shows the organization’s main priorities?

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  • Ethics in Public Service Paper

Please read and answer the 3 fact patterns listed below. Each answer must be at least one (1) page for a total of 3 pages.  (typed, double spaced),

Fact Patterns

  • Carlos Chance, is a former United States Postal Service (USPS) manager. His son, Julio, who is also a former worker at the post office, was shot when a disgruntled employee, who was attempting to shoot Carlos, fired shots through the rear door, hitting Julio.  Carlos was not injured, but Julio will never walk again and has medical bills of $7 million dollars.  The postal service has not made any payments to help Julio with his medical bills. There is a rule at the office which states that the outer doors in the rear must remain closed, but many smokers prop the door open so that they can go and smoke and return through the door.  If the door had been shut, the gunman would not have been able to gain access and shoot Julio.   The smokers complain that there is not a specific place for them to smoke.  When several smokers were disciplined for leaving the door open, Betty, a smoker, said that at the time when the door was open, the smokers were not outside smoking, but were engaged in a protest to get a designated smoking area. Please assume that postal employees are public servants.

Also, while Carlos was employed by the postal service, he established a truck leasing company called Golden Pacific Logistics (GPL) to pay for the medical bills that were piling up because of Julio’s injury. From 2005 to 2009, the Carlos submitted a bid for GPL to be awarded truck leasing contracts with the postal service in the same unit that he managed. During this time, GPL billed the postal service for expenses that were never incurred for trucks, mileage, servicing, and maintenance costs. In his position with the USPS, the Carlos authorized the payments to GPL. GPL billed and received approximately $6.4 million from the post office; $4.4 million of this amount was the result of fraudulent billing.

Answer the following questions:

  • Using the Go/No Go decision model, should the smokers have engaged in a protest by leaving the door open?  Make sure to discuss whether a public servant can engage in conscientious dissent as a citizen.
  • Please analyze this question using the ethical theories It is clear from the facts that Carlos has broken the law.  Has Carlos also engaged in unethical activity by setting up a company to get contracts from the postal service? Does it matter that Carlos was attempting to pay for Julio’s medical bills?  What about the fact that the postal service has a duty to protect its employees?
  1. Timothy Carson, was the former human resources director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). He was responsible for the oversight, training, and administration of FEMA’s employees. In 2007, he had discussions with the Gallup Organization about hiring the firm to provide consulting services to FEMA on a human resources project. He subsequently began talking to Gallup about future employment at the firm. In August 2008, FEMA awarded the contract to Gallup without any input from Carson.  However, Carson supervised the contract, which was worth $6 million over a five-year period. In December 2008 and January 2009, the Carson requested and received additional funding for the contract. While supervising the contract, Carson met and fell in love with Ms. Bailey, the head of Human Resources at Gallup. As the head of Human Resources, she was responsible for hiring employees.  In an e-mail to Ms. Bailey on February 12, 2009, the Carson stated, “I got another 500k put on the contract. Cool huh?”

In January 2009, Carson interviewed for a job with Gallup, and in February 2009 he received a job offer from the firm. After he accepted the job with Gallup, and while he was still working at FEMA, he continued to oversee and work on the human resources project being performed by Gallup.  While supervising the project, Carson discovered that Bill, another FEMA employee had leaked information to another person at Gallup.  Had the information not been leaked, Gallup probably would not have gotten the contract.

Carson retired from FEMA on February 27, 2009. On his termination public financial disclosure report he indicated that he did not have any agreements or arrangements for future employment. He did not list his future employment with Gallup. On February 27, 2009, he asked Gallup, through Ms. Bailey, to provide him with an offer letter dated after the date that he left FEMA so that it would appear that he had received the offer of employment after he had resigned from FEMA. Gallup provided the letter and it was signed by Ms. Bailey. Subsequently, Ms. Bailey’s boss raised concerns about the hiring of Carson and then Gallup withdrew the offer of employment.  Carson filed a civil suit against Gallup alleging that they could not withdraw the offer of employment. Carson also leaked to FEMA that the contract with Gallup was obtained by fraud, and FEMA canceled the contract.

It is against organizational rules for an employee to leave a governmental agency and immediately work for a company that does business with FEMA.  Employees must wait a year before they can take a position with a firm that has a contract.  Also, FEMA has protections in place for employees or others who expose fraud and they cannot be fired.  If the fraud is proven, a reward of $100,000 can be paid out.  Lastly, all contractual information is confidential.

  • Is Carson a whistle blower? Please discuss Carson’s motives for leaking the information to FEMA and whether he is under an obligation to keep any information confidential.
  • Has Carson violated his ethical duty to FEMA? If he has, would it be fair for him to be rewarded with the $100,000?
  1. Using the Code of Conduct that you found, answer the following questions (1 page).
  2. a) Provide the name of the code of conduct and the group of individuals to which it applies
  3. b) What is the specific theme of the code that shows the organization’s main priorities?
  4. c) List three of the values of the organization found in the code.
  5. d) Is there a mix of codes of ethics and codes of conduct?  If so, list one of each.
  6. e) Does the code have individual procedures and for handling ethical problems?  List 2 procedures.

f). Does the code convey a tone of respect for group members and confidence? Provide a statement from the code that shows respect and confidence for the group to which the code applies.

  1. g) If the code is violated, are there specific provisions for leaving or remaining in the group?  List 2 of them.

After reviewing the Logic Model Development Guide from the readings, create a logic model for a new program you would like to fund to address this impact on the health delivery system. Discuss how the program can be applied to reduce the impact on the health delivery system.

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Instructions

There are many forces that impact health delivery systems. Choose one aspect that influences how health delivery systems are challenged, and describe the issue. Examples include, but are not limited to, access to care, quality health care improvement, lack of coordinated care, continuity of care (medical home), etc.

After reviewing the Logic Model Development Guide from the readings, create a logic model for a new program you would like to fund to address this impact on the health delivery system. Discuss how the program can be applied to reduce the impact on the health delivery system.

Requirements

The paper and included logic model should be at least 975 words in length.
Include a list of references in APA format, including the information used from the modules.

Evaluate the information technology and tools needed in each step of the decision-making process.

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Read the following case study regarding an adverse trend in a health care setting.

An elderly patient has been admitted to the medical/surgical unit from the local nursing care facility. The new lab results in her electronic health record (EHR) indicate that she has methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in her urine. She is placed on contact precautions per the hospital guidelines.

The health care provider arrives to examine her new patient and inquires about the need for contact precautions. The nurse explains the lab results reveal the patient has MRSA in her urine. The health care provider states that she reviewed the patient’s lab results in the emergency room and the urine results were normal. The unit coordinator reveals to the staff nurse and nurse manager that this is the third incident this month of lab results being uploaded to the wrong patient’s EHR when admitted from the emergency department.

Write a 1,050 to 1,400-word paper based on the case study in which you:

Analyze the adverse trend, including how it affects patient care.

Evaluate the data that needs to be collected, reviewed, and applied in the decision-making process to address the adverse trend.

Evaluate the information system methods that will be used to collect the data needed in the decision-making process, including the source(s) of the data.

Evaluate the information technology and tools needed in each step of the decision-making process.

Evaluate any regulatory, legal, ethical, political, sociocultural, and financial issues related to the data and information technologies that will be used in the decision-making process.

Analyze at least two strategies used to advocate and access social justice in health care design and delivery.