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HLT-313v Week 1 Topic 1 Discussion 1
Select and profile (a) a high-level job position you aspire to secure in your chosen allied health field and (b) a same-level position in a different and unrelated allied health care field. What educational and professional qualifications must each individual in this high-level position possess? What is the typical career path to arrive at each position? Compare and contrast the responsibilities each position entails in regards to workplace safety, risk management, and/or quality of service, and identify one element from each career path that might benefit the other.
HLT-313v Week 1 Topic 1 Discussion 2
Review the biographical sketches of your classmates in this course and select an individual in an allied health career field or position that is different than your own current position or proposed career path. Using your readings, the GCU Library, and Internet association or government websites, identify the safety, risk-management, or quality-based scope of the classmate’s job. Engage in a dialog with the classmate about whether or not the stated responsibilities are those actually experienced by the individual. How are they the same? How are they different? What “real life” activities in this area does your classmate perform that are not discussed in the official literature? What factors may cause any discrepancies between stated and actual job responsibilities?
HLT-313v Week 1 Assignment – Workplace Safety Initiative Proposal
Allied health professionals are uniquely qualified in many ways to recommend, implement, and provide valuable feedback regarding safety considerations, risk management, and quality of service across multiple levels within a health care organization.
For this assignment, develop a 1,250-1,500 word proposal inclusive of the following elements:
The proposal identifies and promotes one specific safety, risk management or quality improvement initiative that is recognized or proven to be successful.
The proposed idea would benefit your employer/organization, or if you are not currently employed in this capacity, would benefit an organization in your city/region in your chosen health care field.
The proposal must include and define roles for the organization’s top/corporate management, facility/department management, and the role of the individual allied health professional in implementing the proposed initiative’s activities.
Use the “Topic 1 Assignment Template” for crafting your proposal. Appendices are optional; if needed to support a point or idea in your proposal, please attach tables or graph resources in this section and not in the body of the proposal.
You are required to use and cite a minimum of three qualified resources from the readings or the GCU Library in order to complete this assignment successfully.
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.
This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
You are required to submit this assignment to Turnitin. Please refer to the directions in the Student Success Center.
HLT-313v Week 2 Topic 2 Discussion 1
A formal risk management plan demonstrates a health care organization’s approach as well as support for risk management and, ultimately, patient safety. Access information from your own employer/organization or using the Internet to find an allied health care organization located in your city or region, and identify the goals and objectives, scope, and functions of an existing risk management plan. How does the plan “measure up” in terms of meeting ethical and legal responsibilities to stakeholders? How might you improve it? Explain.
You are required to use and cite a minimum of two references from the GCU Library to support your response.
HLT-313v Week 2 Topic 2 Discussion 2
Using the GCU Library, locate and summarize an allied health malpractice or negligence case study. If possible, select your chosen field of study. What went wrong? What workplace safety, risk management, or quality improvement steps were involved? What could have been done differently? If you were in charge of making sure this type of event never occurred again, what steps would you implement into the risk management plan?
You are required to use and cite a minimum of two references from the GCU Library to support your response.
HLT-313v Week 2 Assignment – Provision and Reimbursement of Health Care Services
The areas of provision and reimbursement of health care services have each undergone considerable changes in the past several years, with the following current trends identified as being the most significant contributors to change:
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (also referred to as the ACA or “Obamacare”) and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010
Bundled payment structure versus fee-for-service payment structure
Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs)
Technology and Telemedicine
Medicare Advantage Plans
Population health management strategies
Using your employer/organization’s resources, appropriate websites, and the GCU Library as your informational foundations, research these trends and others you may find relevant, and write a 1,200 word essay in which you examine the following:
Which of the currently identified health care trends overall are already impacting your employer/organization, or an organization in your city/region in your health care field?
Which of the currently identified health care trends are specifically impacting your sector of allied health, and why?
What emerging health care trends on the horizon may impact your employer/organization and/or your specific allied health sector?
Which of the current or emerging trends do you see as most likely to positively impact your specific role and sector in allied health? Which trends are most likely to negatively impact it? (Examples: wages, job security, educational requirements, etc.)
How will the trends you identify impact safety, risk management, and/or quality improvement policies in your organization/and or an organization in your city/region in your health care field?
You are required to use and cite a minimum of three qualified resources from the readings or the GCU Library in order to complete this assignment successfully.
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.
This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
You are required to submit this assignment to Turnitin. Please refer to the directions in the Student Success Center.
HLT-313v Week 3 Topic 3 Discussion 1
Looking ahead to 2020, pick one area of the current National Patient Safety Goals program and make a prediction of what might change in that area based on technological or other advancements. Consider patient identification standards, communication processes, and infection control protocols, among others.
You are required to use and cite a minimum of two references to support your response.
HLT-313v Week 3 Topic 3 Discussion 2
The Joint Commission launched the National Patient Safety Goals in 2003. Many years have now passed since the inception of these goals. How has the overall focus of the goals changed in the intervening years? What conditions in the health care marketplace have driven the need for change?
You are required to use and cite a minimum of two references to support your response
HLT-313v Week 3 Assignment – The Joint Commission Workplace Violation PowerPoint
Perform an Internet search to identify and research and a situation where a health care organization or individual provider in your field of allied health was sanctioned by The Joint Commission or other regulatory body for a violation of one or more of The Joint Commission workplace safety, risk management, and quality care requirements.
Taking the role of the Chief Safety or Risk Management Officer in the organization or a provider’s office who now must deliver an accounting of the incident to the board of directors, develop a slide presentation, containing a title slide, 12 slides of content, and a references slide, focusing on the chosen incident. Your presentation must incorporate the following:
A brief summary of the incident , including a description as well as the outcome.
A summary of the applicable Joint Commission and other (e.g., local, state) regulatory standards that apply to the incident.
A discussion of the mistakes and/or oversights made by the health care organization or individual provider that did or may have led to the incident that occurred, and an accounting of the preventive steps that could have or should have been taken to avoid them.
A proposal outlining specific education or training the organization or provider will employ to ensure this type of incident does not occur in the future. Include concepts related to continuous quality improvement in your recommendations.
To create your presentation you can use PowerPoint or a program such as Prezi (www.prezi.com). Speaker’s notes must be included for each individual slide.
You are required to use and cite a minimum of three qualified resources from the readings or the GCU Library in order to complete this assignment successfully.
While APA format is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and in-text citations and references should be presented using APA documentation guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.
This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
You are required to submit this assignment to Turnitin. Please refer to the directions in the Student Success Center.
HLT-313v Week 4 Topic 4 Discussion 1
Locate and select an article which discusses performance-based trends in patient safety, risk management, or quality management in health care organizations. Provide a summary of your findings and explain how and why the trend(s) would or would not be effective or successful in your workplace or in an allied health organization in your chosen field.
You are required to use and cite a minimum of two references from the GCU Library to support your response.
HLT-313v Week 4 Topic 4 Discussion 2
Risk management functions and quality improvement functions in an organization can overlap in terms of addressing patient safety. Using information from your own employer/organization’s risk management plan, or that of an allied health care organization in your city or region, identify and summarize two such functions which commonly overlap in this manner. What common factors lead to the overlap? Does the structure work for the organization you selected? Why or why not?
You are required to use and cite a minimum of two references from the GCU Library to support your response.
HLT-313v Week 4 Assignment – Managing Quality Assurance in the Workplace Essay
Health care delivery and the organizations that provide it, manage it, and reimburse for it are growing at an explosive rate. As part of this trend, the growth in the allied health job sector is expected to grow significantly, with job growth projections in the 40% plus range for the period 2012-2022 (according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2012).
Expansive growth is a response to current and predicted need for services, and while encouraging, sustained, and rapid growth will inevitably impact safety, risk management, and quality provision on scales not yet seen by health care organizations.
In an essay of 1,200 words, provide your assessment, with recommendations, of how the United States, as a country, can best manage quality assurance in the health care workplace going into the future. Questions to consider include:
How best can the United States, as a country, manage this growth in the allied health sector? Provide examples.
What steps might the United States take, from the global down to organizational level, to maintain high standards to provide outstanding care-based services?
What steps might the United States take, from the global down to organizational level, to provide exceptional employment opportunities in in-demand allied health fields?
In addition to your readings and resources from the GCU Library, the AHRQ National Quality Measures Clearinghouse (http://www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov), and the National Quality Forum(http://www.qualityforum.org) can provide you with excellent data to develop and support your analysis.
You are required to use and cite a minimum of four qualified resources from the readings, the GCU Library, or cited sources in order to complete this assignment successfully.
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.
This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
You are required to submit this assignment to Turnitin. Please refer to the directions in the Student Success Center.
HLT-313v Week 5 Topic 5 Discussion 1
Review and summarize the organizational model and structure for your own employer/organization or that of an allied health organization in your chose field. What features of the model work well and contribute to overall performance of the organization? Which features do not work well, or do not work at all? If you had the authority to do so, what elements of your organizational model would you change, and why?
You are required to use and cite a minimum of two references from the GCU Library to support your response.
HLT-313v Week 5 Topic 5 Discussion 2
The assignment in this topic required you to develop a performance management plan for a hypothetical new allied care organization in your field. What regulatory standards will apply to your organization? What accreditation standards? How will these regulations affect the development of your plan, and what measures will you take to ensure your organization is in compliance?
You are required to use and cite a minimum of two references from the GCU Library to support your response.
HLT-313v Week 5 Assignment – Benchmark Assignment – Performance Management Plan Proposal
Performance management is, ideally, an ongoing quality-assurance-based process to provide an organization, its employees, regulatory agencies, accreditors, and other stakeholders with a structured means to support and accomplish mutually identified strategic goals and objectives.
Assume the role of a newly-hired risk management officer for a hypothetical new allied health organization in your chosen career field. You and your team will need to develop the organization’s policies.
The first item you will create will be a performance management plan. Using the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) (http://www.hrsa.gov/quality/toolbox/methodology/performancemanagement/index.html) or other qualified framework, craft a proposal (1,200 words) for a performance management plan for your new organization that includes the following:
Organizational Goals. Provide a statement of your organization’s goals in terms of workplace safety, risk management, or quality improvement. Pick one area, and develop five goals for that one area.
Outline of Organizational Objectives. Outline and provide a brief evaluation of specific objectives that support the organizational goals you previously identified.
Summary of Relevant Performance Measures. Summarize the steps and measures your new organization will adopt to measure performance. Consider: (a) How well measures will align with your stated goals? (b) How do these measures demonstrate a relationship to positive health outcomes? (c) Are the measures you select able to be controlled by your organization (i.e., can your organization effect change in this area?)? (d) Which measures meet criteria related to reliability and validity, and which are standardized?
Performance Baseline. Determine a performance baseline for the measures you have selected. This will enable your organization to conduct comparisons of desired goals versus actual results as time moves on.
Performance Evaluation. Select one of three commonly accepted methods to measure provider quality and summarize the features and why it applies best to your organization. Refer to the assigned reading, “The Measurement of Health Care Performance: A Primer From the Council of Medical Specialty Societies,” by the Council of Medical Specialty Societies (CPSS) (http://www.cmss.org/uploadedFiles/CMSS_Quality_Primer.pdf).
Definition of Success. Define what success means to the organization. Now that you have chosen measures to assess organizational performance, you need to identify what success means to your organization; otherwise, you are chasing a moving target. Be explicit in the level of performance you see as acceptable. This will change as an organization grows, but you need to start somewhere in order to get anywhere.
You are required to use and cite a minimum of three qualified resources from the readings, qualified websites, or the GCU Library in order to complete this assignment successfully.
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.
This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
You are required to submit this assignment to Turnitin. Please refer to the directions in the Student Success Center.
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