Why is health care such an important field?

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Reflect on the influence and effect of health care in your life. What questions or concerns have you developed about health care delivery in the United States? Think about your experiences in one or more of the following roles:

 

  • Patient/consumer
  • Friend or family member
  • Health services professional
  • Member of your local, national, and global communities

 

With these thoughts in mind, review this week’s Learning Resources. Consider the following questions:

  • Why is health care such an important field? (Consider this question from your personal perspective, as well as from a societal perspective.)
  • What health care issues or challenges do you think are particularly significant?
  • What is it about the U.S. health care delivery system that creates or contributes to these issues/challenges?
  • What implications could these issues/challenges have for health care administrators?
  • Explain why health care is important—from your personal perspective, as well as from a societal perspective.
  • Describe and analyze one or more significant issues or challenges related to health care delivery, and explain potential implications for health care administrators.

 

Note: Formulate this Discussion posting as one cohesive response that integrates information related to both of the bullet points above.

APA STYLE…  2-4 SOURCES… 350 WORD

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?