Purpose

The purpose of this PowerPoint presentation is to locate and compare performance measurement data on common health conditions for the hospitals in your area. You will investigate the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services websites and locate the section called Hospital Compare. There you will find data for hospitals within a 50-mile radius of the community where you are working or had your prelicensure clinical experiences. You will prepare a PowerPoint presentation and share the results of your findings. Opportunities for improving performance measurement indicators will be shared.

Course Outcomes

Completion of this assignment enables the student to meet the following course outcomes.

CO1: Apply leadership concepts, skills, and decision making in the provision of high-quality nursing care, healthcare team management, and the oversight and accountability for care delivery in a variety of settings. (PO2)

CO2: Implement patient safety and quality improvement initiatives within the context of the interprofessional team through communication and relationship building. (PO3)

CO3: Participate in the development and implementation of imaginative and creative strategies to enable systems to change. (PO7)

CO7: Apply leadership concepts in the development and initiation of effective plans for the microsystems and system-wide practice improvements that will improve the quality of healthcare delivery. (POs 2 and 3)

CO8: Apply concepts of quality and safety using structure, process and outcome measures to identify clinical questions as the beginning process of changing current practice. (PO8)

Due Dates

This assignment is to be submitted by Sunday, 11:59 p.m. MT, end of Week 6.

Points

This assignment is worth 200 points.

Please follow Directions very, very carefully. Points are very easily deducted.

Review information found on the following website related to hospital compare http://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Quality-Initiatives-Patient-Assessment-Instruments/HospitalQualityInits/HospitalCompare.html
Read the information carefully and then locate the following website. http://www.medicare.gov/hospitalcompare
Search for hospitals within a 50-mile radius of the community where you are working or had your prelicensure clinical experiences. Type in your zip code. Select your hospital and two others. Select hospitals/facilities and choose compare. If you live in a remote area and there are no hospitals listed within a 50-mile radius, select a zip code for a family member or a close friend who does not live near you. The idea is to review comparative data.
Click on the following topics to learn more.
Survey of patient’s experiences
Timely and effective care (focus your search on two of the conditions that apply to services provided at the hospitals)
Readmissions, complications, and deaths
Carefully read the information provided.
Develop a PowerPoint slideshow consisting of 8-10 slides. Include the following, keeping in mind what all this data means.
Title slide with information pertinent to the course.
List reasons to recommend the website Hospital Compare to consumers (patients).
List reasons to recommend the website Hospital Compare to staff who may seek employment.
For the slides below, clearly label the name of each hospital:
Summarize patient experiences data for each hospital.
Summarize timely and effective care data for two conditions.
Summarize data for readmissions and complications and deaths.
List recommendations for improving data for one selected facility.
Summarize what you learned from this experience.
Tutorial: For those not familiar with the development of a PowerPoint slideshow, the following link to the Microsoft website may be helpful. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/support/training-FX101782702.aspx The Chamberlain Student Success Strategies (CCSSS) offers a module on Computer Literacy that contains a section on PowerPoint. The link to SSP CCSSS may be found in the course list in the student portal.
Submit your PowerPoint slideshow by 11:59 p.m. MT, Sunday, end of Week 6.
Best Practices in Preparing PowerPoint Presentations

 

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You have just been hired as a consultant to the chief executive officer (CEO) of a healthcare organization.Your duty is to improve the management tools and practices needed to work in teams, build cross-functional teams,and facilitate collaborative decision-making.

You need to identify elements found in an effective healthcare work group and identify barriers to communication that may cause conflict within a group.Suggest some types of communication techniques that can be used to avoid conflicts within a team.

You need to address ways to improve communication among departments in an organization to avoid conflict. Finally,identify strategies that may be used to avoid recurring conflicts and ways a leader can prevent conflict within the team in the organization.

Based upon what you have learned in this class,prepare a 1,250–1,500-wordpaper in which you propose a quality improvement plan to present to the CEO addressing these issues.

4 references APA format

 

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Please find the attached file and make sure to avoid plagiarism

1. Make sure you are doing this article regarding healthcare mainly
2. Be four to five pages in length, not including the cover or reference pages.
3. Formatted according to APA writing guidelines.
4. Provide support for your  statements with in-text citations from a minimum of seven scholarly      articles. 
5. Use headings of your choosing to organize the content in your work:

• Introduction
• Forming Teams
• Barriers to Team Success and Viability
• Advantages and Disadvantages of Team Cohesiveness
• Conclusion
• References

 

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ASSIGNMENT CONTENT:

Get together with your Learning Team and review the feedback from your instructor about the Week Three Systems Thinking on a National Level, Part 1 assignment. Discuss what changes or additions need to be made to the systems thinking diagram to better define and develop the components and relationships of the health care issue you selected.

INSTRUCTIONS:

Create a second draft of your systems thinking diagram that provides more details regarding the stock, inflows, outflows, and feedback loops and other system components you have read about in the textbook.

TEAM RESPONSIBLITIES:

Inflow: Elana (BLUE) COMPLETE BY 04.27.2019

Stocks: Jennifer (PURPLE) COMPLETE BY 04.25.2019

Outflow: Eddie (RED) COMPLETE BY 04.27.2019

Feedback Loops for Inflow: Nicolette (ORANGE) COMPLETE BY 04.29.2019

****Feedback Loops for Outflow: Ziomara (GREEN)  ****  COMPLET

DUE DATE FOR OVERALL INDIVIDUAL CONTRIBUTION: SUNDAY, APRIL 29 @ 1900 EST FOR NECESSARY REVISIONS

DEFINITIONS:

INFLOW- Any aspect of the system that makes our MRSA problem worse (ineffective hand-washing, staff turn-over, policy noncompliance, abuse of antibiotics, over prescribing, abuse of antibacterial soap, etc.)

STOCKS – Key aspects such as employees, providers, the community, regulatory, evidence-based practice, etc.

OUTFLOW: Any aspect of the system that makes our MRSA problem better (effective training, evidence-based practice, etc.)

********This is where that research and familiarity to MRSA via SHEA or CDC will be beneficial to you***************

AS A TEAM, WE ARE DEPENDENT ON EACH OTHER TO COMPLETE THIS TASK SEAMLESSLY, PLEASE NOTE YOUR PERSONAL TIMELINE. 

YOU ALL CANNOT COMPLETE YOUR TASK WITHOUT MY REVIEWING STOCKS AND ADDING/SUBTRACTING – NICOLETTE & ZIOMARA CANNOT COMPLETE THEIR CONTRIBUTION EFFICIENTLY WITHOUT THE ELANA’S AND EDDIE’S CLOSURE ON THEIR ASSIGNMENT. EACH OF OUR SUCCESS IS DEPENDENT ON THE OTHER.

Please note the your color assignment. 

This is important to track team contribution. I have attached a copy of our Week 3 submission. Please look at this closely & DOWNLOAD IT. Any additional text boxes you will insert, arrows, changes in current colors to the draft, etc. must be in your designated color. 

Each of you will submit your own revision of our rough draft system map and once I have received everyone’s, I will combine all our contributions into one map & this will be color coordinated.

****PLEASE RENAME YOUR CONTRIBUTION TO INCLUDE YOUR NAME SO THAT I CAN OPEN MULTIPLE FILES WITHOUT GETTING LOST IN THE SIMILARITIES******

 

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