Please See Attachment with The Required Reading Resources

Mukherjee, T., Al Rahahleh, N., Lane, W., & Dunn, J. (2016). The capital budgeting process of healthcare organizations: A review of surveys. Journal of Healthcare Management, 61(1), 58-77. Available in the Trident Online Library.

Nowicki, M. (2018). Introduction to the Financial Management of Healthcare Organizations (Vol. Seventh edition). Chicago, Illinois: Health Administration Press. Part 4, pages 295-351. Available in the Trident Online Library.

Healthcare budgets are often classified by their managerial approach and their design characteristics. This Module’s Case will examine your understanding of the central types of healthcare budgets, and how they are used in the current setting. Production units, as specifically measured units of work volume in a given department or setting of service provision, will also be examined.

Homework Case Assignment

Using the information in the required readings, as well as some additional research in peer-reviewed sources, complete your Case assignment by answering the following:

1. Summarize both the benefits and the drawbacks of top-down vs. bottom-up budgeting. Which works best in your current or future setting?
2. Concisely describe the eight design characteristics of budgeting. Which do you feel would be most effective in running a for-profit hospital, and why?
3. Choose any department in the healthcare setting, and explain how their production units would be effectively measured. How do these production units tie into the larger budgeting process?

Assignment Expectations

1. Conduct additional research to gather sufficient information to support your analysis.
2. Provide a response of 3-5 pages, not including title page and references
3. As we have multiple required items to be addressed herein, please use subheadings to show where you’re responding to each required item and to ensure that none are omitted.
4. Support your paper with peer-reviewed articles and reliable sources. Use at least three references, and a minimum of two of these from peer-reviewed sources. For additional information on how to recognize peer-reviewed journals, see http://www.angelo.edu/services/library/handouts/peerrev.php and for evaluating internet sources:
   https://www.library.georgetown.edu/tutorials/research-guides/evaluating-internet-content
5. You may use the following source to assist in your formatting your assignment: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/. Paraphrase all source information into your own words carefully, and use in-text citations.

 

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Question 1 :

Identify one health care reform initiative put forth by a  politician. Briefly discuss the initiative. Who do you feel the  initiative benefits? Who does it harm? Should it be passed? Why or why  not?

Question 2 :

For this reflective discussion:  Reflect upon two concepts that you learned in this course.

• What are the concepts? What insight or ideas did you gain from  learning each of these concepts? Were there aspects of the concepts that  you would challenge?
• What is the importance of these concepts to public health? How will you use this new wisdom in your current or future career?
• Optional: Offer feedback on how the course and/or facilitation of the course can be improved.

Reflection is a mental process that challenges you to use critical  thinking to examine the course information, analyze it carefully, make  connections with previous knowledge and experience, and draw conclusions  based on the resulting ideas. A well-cultivated critical thinker raises  vital questions and problems, formulating them clearly and precisely;  gathers and assesses relevant information, using abstract ideas to  interpret it effectively; comes to well-reasoned conclusions and  solutions, testing them against relevant criteria and standards; thinks  open-mindedly within alternative systems of thought, recognizing and  assessing, as need be, their assumptions, implications, and practical  consequences; and communicates effectively with others in figuring out  solutions to complex problems. (Paul & Elder, 2008)

In order to earn maximum credit, the comment should be more than your  opinion, and more than a quick “off the top of your head” response. Be  sure to support your statements, cite sources properly, cite within the  text of your comments, and list your reference(s). The response must be a  minimum of 250 words.

 

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ISBARR for Nurses

  

I-Introduce   Yourself: Introduce yourself and your role in the patient’s care

State the unit you are calling   from when speaking with a physician over the phone

 

S-Situation

Specify the patient’s name and   current condition or situation. Explain what has happened to trigger this   conversation

Patient   name: ____________________________ Room: ___________ Sex/Age: ___________

Diagnosis:   ____________________________________________________________________

 

B-Background:   State the admission date of the   patient, his or her diagnosis, and pertinent medical history. Give a brief synopsis of what’s been done so far   (e.g., lab test)

History:

Allergies:

Labs:

 

A-Assessment:   Give a summary of the patient’s   condition. Explain what you think the problem is or say, “I’m not sure what   the problem is, but the patient is deteriorating”. Expand upon your statement   with specific signs and symptoms.

Current VS: T: ______ P: _____   BP: ____/_____, RR: _____, O2Sat______ @ _________(O2)

Heart Rhythm:   ___________________________ Lugs sounds: ____________________

Blood Sugar: ____________ LOC:   __________________

 

R-Recommendation

Explain what you would like to   see done (e.g., lab tests, treatments, or “I need you to see the patient   now”) State any new treatments or changes ordered (e.g., monitoring   and frequency or when to re-notify the physician if there is no improvement   in the patient)

 

R-Read   Back: repeat any orders received   back to the prescriber for accuracy.

 

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Assume you are recently hired as the department manager for the surgical unit at a 300-bed acute care hospital. There has been an ongoing problem with hospital-acquired infections in the surgical unit. The hospital does not get paid for treating these infections and it is extremely costly. As a result, the prior manager was terminated. Describe your approach from both an operations and quality perspective in addressing the problem. What would you do first? What tactics would you use? Who would you get involved? Develop critical thinking around the urgent problem.

Be sure to cite reliable sources to support your response.

 

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