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HLT313V
(Safety, Quality, and Interdisciplinary Approaches to Care) Entire Course
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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