Explain how adverse events are handled in your organization from the public’s perspective and well as internally.

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When attempting to garner support for a quality improvement initiative, it is important to demonstrate how the initiative supports the organization’s mission, vision, and values, as well as external factors that influence an organization’s priorities. Delivering a proposal for a quality improvement initiative requires clear, concise communication of the plan.
1) Choose a QI initiative which has been the subject of focus in any healthcare setting. Explain the rationale that your senior leaders used in selecting this initiative for attention and focus.

2) Explain how adverse events are handled in your organization from the public’s perspective and well as internally.

3) Find a scholarly article or one from the public press, published within the last 5 years which recounts a serious error. Relate this error to any organization with which you have some familiarity.

Compare and contrast the economic challenges and incentives this type of health care model presents.

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Prior to engaging in this discussion, please read Chapter 12 in the text and review any relevant Instructor Guidance. It is suggested that you review the recommended articles to glean any helpful information. Imagine that you run a nursing home facility in your area. Analyze and comment on the role public policy has in the economic aspect of running this type of health services center. Compare and contrast the economic challenges and incentives this type of health care model presents. What are some of the ways in which you could inform or signal potential consumers that your nursing home is of high quality? Evaluate the social-cultural issues that influence the consumers of this type of health service. Which of your proposed methods are most apt to be reliable signals that significantly communicate to consumers so they are able to make more informed decisions?

Select and examine a disease or health condition that requires a pharmacological intervention.

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Pharmacological Treatments For this assignment, you will select and examine a disease or health condition that requires a pharmacological intervention. You may choose any disease or health condition you wish, but the disease or health condition must be relevant to nurses in a variety of settings (for example, the E.R., pediatrics, public health). Once you have selected and identified a disease or health condition, identify the areas where nurses are likely to see the disease or health condition.

Instructions
•Identify the disease or health condition.
•Describe the health issues or symptoms associated with the condition.
•Identify drugs most often used in the treatment of the condition.
•Explain the types of actions, side effects, indications, and contraindications that could be expected from this pharmacological treatment.
•Describe the treatment regime (including pharmacology) that is most often prescribed for this condition.
•Explain how this treatment regime, including pharmacology, impacts a client’s lifestyle (including financials, ease of administration – complexity, how hard are instructions to understand – frequency, length of medication).
◦Are there any controversies related to the medication? For example, is there a black box warning with this medication?
•Describe how a nurse should monitor a client being treated for this condition in order to obtain a quality patient outcome.

For the study you are designing, be sure to include information on who the participants would be and how you would measure the exposure and outcome variables. Discuss why your study design is stronger or more limited than the original study design, and how you arrived at this conclusion.

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Understanding the differences among the types of epidemiological study designs is important for translating the results to public health practice. For this paper, you will identify and design epidemiological research studies. Go to any scholarly library and find an epidemiological research study that was published in the last 3 months and uses one of the study designs we are learning about in this module.
Briefly summarize the study in your own words, identify the study design it uses, and discuss what features it has that identify it as that type of study design.(1) PAGE… Do not just copy the abstract or parts of the article. Then, redesign the same study using a different study design than the authors did. This does not mean finding another article on the topic. Instead, pretend you are the epidemiologist and design your own study on the topic, using the information about study designs, exposures, outcomes, and measures of association. You are the researcher! For the study you are designing, be sure to include information on who the participants would be and how you would measure the exposure and outcome variables. Discuss why your study design is stronger or more limited than the original study design, and how you arrived at this conclusion. Finally, pose a question about study designs to your peers that is based on your post.