Please answer the following Discussion Question.  Please be certain to answer the three questions on this week DQ and to provide a well-developed and complete answer to receive credit. 

Case Study, Chapter 3, Developing Effective Leaders to Meet 21st-Century Health Care Challenges

An experienced registered professional nurse has just been promoted as the nurse manager of a nursing unit. The nurse had been a very effective leader on the unit prior to the promotion of becoming the nurse manager. The new nurse manager is making a list of essential characteristic of effective leaders.

1. What are factors that are driving the need for innovative and transformational leaders in health care for the 21st century?

2. What are essential characteristics of an effective leader that the new nurse manager needs to incorporate into the nursing unit culture?

3. The nurse manager is reviewing the strengths and weaknesses of three leadership models: transactional, transformational, and complexity. What are the essential characteristics of the three leadership models? Which model do you think is most effective to use in leading a nursing unit? Why?  

 

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Case Study: Healthcare Data Standardization

Assignment Overview

This assignment is intended to demonstrate your comprehension of the primary applications of health informatics in healthcare organizations as well as your familiarity with the various informatics applications such as electronic health records (EHR) and telemedicine.

For this assignment, you will read a case study that examines issues concerned with data standardization in informatics. Based on the scenario described in the case study, you will create a presentation related to informatics education and training.

Assignment Details:

Perform the following tasks:

• Complete the reading assignment and the interactive lesson before attempting this assignment.
• To complete this assignment:
  • Review the case study.
  • Download the provided PowerPoint template to create a presentation that includes:
    • Your name on the title slide of the presentation
    • Identification of two or more issues with existing system
    • Identification of appropriate “work-a-round” solutions for using existing system
    • Overview of standard language used only in nursing
    • Overview of multidisciplinary standard language
    • Set of five (5) survey questions for staff input on transitioning to new system
    • Presentation is free of spelling and grammar errors.
    • Submit the Week 10 Assignment via Blackboard by clicking on the “Week 10 Assignment” link. Include the proper file naming convention:
      • CMP105_wk10_assn_jsmith_mmddyyyy.

Grading:

Grading Criteria	Points Possible	Points Earned
Name on title slide of PowerPoint presentation	5
Identified two or more issues with existing system	25
Indicates appropriate “work-a-around” solutions when using existing system	30
Provided overview of standard language used only in nursing from provided list; meets criteria expectations	25
Provided overview of a multidisciplinary standard language from provided list; meets criteria expectations	25
Created a set of five (5) open-ended survey questions to elicit staff input	30
Presentation is free of spelling and grammar errors.	20
Total Points	160

• Case Study

Read the following case study:

A small community hospital in the Midwest has used a homegrown information system for years. The system began in the early 1970s with a financial module. Over time, additional modules were added. A limited number of departments selected a commercial system and interfaces were used to integrate these into the overall functionality of the hospital information system. Except for physicians, most in-house clinical or care-related documentation is online. However, about 15% to 20% of this documentation is done by free text and is not effectively searchable. In addition, the screens, including the drop-down and default values, were built using terms selected by the in-house development team in consultation with clinical staff; thus there is no data dictionary or specific standard language. In the last few years, the hospital has purchased two outpatient clinics (obstetrics and mental health) and a number of local doctor practices. The clinics and doctors’ offices are now being converted to the hospital administrative systems. A few of the clinical applications that are tied directly to the administrative systems such as order entry and results reporting are also being installed.

A major change is being planned. A new chief information officer (CIO) was hired last year and she has appointed a chief medical information officer (CMIO) and a chief nursing information officer (CNIO). No other significant staff changes were made. With her team in place, one of the CIO’s first activities was to complete an inventory of all applications. Rather than continue to build, a decision was made to switch to a commercial vendor and the hospital selected a commercial system.

As a member of the clinical staff with informatics education, the CIO has requested that you develop a training and information presentation for the clinical staff that will:

• Identify two or more issues with the existing system
• Provide staff with appropriate “work-around” for using the existing system
• Provide an overview of two of the standard languages used within the new system including discipline or specialty, updating frequency, and available cross-maps
  • One standard language should pertain only to nursing
  • One standard language should be multidisciplinary.
• Obtain clinical staff input, using a five-question survey, of specific methods to support transition to the new system; questions should be open-ended.

PowerPoint Presentation

Directions:

1. Review the case study.
2. Download the provided PowerPoint template to create a presentation that includes:
   1. Your name on the title slide of the presentation
   1. Identification of two or more issues with existing system
   1. Identification of “work-a-round” solutions when using existing system
   1. Overview of standard language used only in nursing
   1. Overview of multidisciplinary standard language
   1. Set of five (5) open-ended survey questions for staff input on transitioning to the new system
   1. Presentation is free of spelling and grammar errors.
3. Submit the Week 10 Assignment via Blackboard by clicking on the “Week 10 Assignment” link. Include the proper file naming convention:
   1. CMP105_wk10_assn_jsmith_mmddyyyy.

 

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Regardless of political affiliation, individuals often grow concerned when considering perceived competing interests of government and their impact on topics of interest to them. The realm of healthcare is no different. Some people feel that local, state, and federal policies and legislation can be either helped or hindered by interests other than the benefit to society.

The suppliers of legislative benefits are legislators, and their primary goal is to be re-elected. Thus, legislators need to maximize their chances for re-election, which requires political support. Legislators are assumed to be rational and to make cost-benefit calculations when faced with demands for legislation. However, the legislator’s cost-benefit calculations are not the cost-benefits to society of enacting particular legislation. Instead, the benefits are the additional political support the legislator would receive from supporting legislation and the lost political support they would incur as a result of their action. When the benefit to legislators (positive political support) exceeds their costs (negative political support) they will support legislation. (page 27)

Source: Feldstein, P. (2006). The politics of health legislation: An economic perspective (3rd ed.). Chicago, IL: Health Administration Press. 

To Prepare:

· Review the Resources and reflect on efforts to repeal/replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

· Consider who benefits the most when policy is developed and in the context of policy implementation.

By Day 3 of Week 3

Post an explanation for how you think the cost-benefit analysis in the statement from page 27 of Feldstein (2006) affected efforts to repeal/replace the ACA. Then, explain how analyses such as the one portrayed by the Feldstein statement may affect decisions by legislative leaders in recommending or positioning national policies (e.g., Congress’ decisions impacting Medicare or Medicaid).

 

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A health impact assessment (HIA), described in Chapter 4 of your textbook, is a process for describing and estimating the effects a proposed project or policy may have on the health of a population. For this assignment, imagine you asked to conduct a HIA for a proposed waste management facility in your community.

In a paper of 1,250-1,500-words address the following questions and issues:

1. Provide an overview and description of the stages of an health impact assessment. How is it different from other forms of assessment, such as an environmental impact assessment or a community health assessment?
2. What information would you need about the proposed project?
3. What information would you need about the community to understand the potential health effects?
4. What recommendations would you propose to promote positive health effects? What recommendations would you propose to mitigate adverse health effects?
5. Which decision makers would need this information? Why?

You are required to use a minimum of five additional references in your paper.

Prepare this assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required

 

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Please read the following case and answer all questions. This assignment is to be scholarly; it is not enough for you to simply post your article and add cursory reviews. CITED REFERENCES ARE REQUIRED. 

Case Study: BBC DIGITAL MEDIA INITIATIVE REVISITED

The National Audit Office (NAO) scrutinizes public spending in the United Kingdom. Its memorandum on the BBC’s DMI project reported on several key findings. First, the in-house team was severely challenged by the fact that the project was already 18 months behind schedule when they  began work on the project. Second, the technology team issued releases throughout the project  that did not meet end-user expectations and eroded confidence in the project. Third, the BBC  focused more on the technological development rather than on encouraging organization-wide  changes in workflow that would encourage adoption. Finally, the NAO concluded, the DMI lacked  governance arrangements for the scale, risk, and complexity of the project.  

– Do research online to identify the capabilities of digital asset management software. What are  the top rated digital asset management software products? Who uses this software?  

– Given the NAO’s findings and what you discover about available off-the-shelf products, would  it have been wiser for the BBC to adopt a collection of these existing products? What actions  would be necessary to gain the cooperation of the business units to incorporate this collection of  products into their work processes? 

 

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