Hca 340 Entire Course (Managing In Health And Human Services)

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HCA 340 Week 1 DQ 1 Leadership and Management in Healthcare

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Leadership and Management in Health Care. Compare and contrast leadership roles and management responsibilities in a non-health care setting with that of a health care organization. In addition, present an overview of key leadership traits fundamental for health care organizational effectiveness, and discuss the essential functions of health care managers. What does it take to be a “good” leader or manager? What are the primary barriers and challenges associated with health care leadership?

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HCA 340 Week 1 DQ 2 Management and Motivation

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Management and Motivation. Discuss the overall importance of motivation as it relates to management. What are the benefits of having a fully motivated staff, and what are the potential consequences of not having motivated staff? What do contemporary theories tell us about the significance of motivation as a function of employee needs, extrinsic and intrinsic factors? How do we motivate across generations? In your response, please be sure to identify and address at least two theories.

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HCA 340 Week 2 DQ 1 Organizational Behavior and Management

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Organizational Behavior and Management. Review the following case study in your textbook, Prelude to a Medical Error (pp. 416-417). Examine the application and answer Discussion Question 1: "Identify and discuss examples of preconceptions, assumptions, and mental models evident in this scenario. What are the consequences of the ways these health providers are thinking about the situation?" How might you, as the healthcare administrator of this organization, handle this situation and deal with each of the participants?

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HCA 340 Week 2 DQ 2 Strategic Planning

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Strategic Planning. Strategic planning is essential in the sustainability of all healthcare organizations. Outline the processes, or steps, involved in the strategic planning process and continual monitoring of the internal and external environment. Discuss how strategic planning is a dynamic, verses linear, process.
Why is this important? What roles, if any, do quality and information technology play in an organization's strategic direction? Use one scholarly reference, cited according to APA guidelines as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center, in addition to the textbook

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HCA 340 Week 3 DQ 1 Health Insurance Benefits

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Health Insurance Benefits. Managers need to understand the impact on the financial viability of a health service organization for providing care to the uninsured or underinsured. Review the following case scenario and answer the discussion questions.
Joe Smith is a 27- year-old Caucasian male who works two part-time jobs for two different construction companies. Joe has been having dizzy spells off and on for the past two months. While driving to work one day, he loses consciousness and is involved in a motor vehicle accident. Joe is admitted to your not-for-profit hospital with a broken leg and multiple lacerations.

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HCA 340 Week 3 DQ 2 Managing Financial Budgets

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Managing Financial Budgets. Health care financial management is complex and an effective health care administrator must understand what makes up the foundation to financial operations. This includes: health insurance (private and social) and reimbursements, private vs. not-for profit entities, costs and expenditures, capital, materials management, and budgeting.
1. Outline and discuss the major categories of reimbursements and costs in a health care organization. How do they influence each other?
2. In addition, how do expenses and revenues affect the specific types of budgets outlined?

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HCA 340 Week 3 Final Project Outline/Annotated Bibliography

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Final Project Outline/Annotated Bibliography. Submit the following to your instructor for review:
1. Identify the topic of your Final Project
a. Describe the issue, why it was selected, the perspective of approach, and the scope of the paper.
2. Provide an outline of your project
a. The outline should include a heading for each section of the Research Paper/PowerPoint Presentation (including one for the thesis and the conclusion) as well as heading descriptions. Subheadings should also be used with a description of each subheading. These should demonstrate that you have done significant research, evaluation, and critical thinking on the
issues involved and should illustrate the strategies you would incorporate and implement for the scenario you are creating.
3. Create an annotated bibliography

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HCA 340 Week 4 DQ 1 Managing Multidisciplinary Professionals

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Managing Multidisciplinary Professionals. Dr. White ordered an unusual dose of a medication for a patient. May Patterson, RN, sees the order and believes it to be the wrong dose. She is afraid to call Dr. White because he can be abrasive at times. Nurse Patterson asks the charge nurse who is not as familiar with the patient to call the doctor. The charge nurse calls Dr. White. He insists that he knows what is best for the patient and insists that the medication will be given as written. The charge nurse calls you, the administrator on call for the weekend, to resolve the issue.
1. What principles of effective teamwork have broken down?
2. How will you work to resolve the issue?
3. List and describe five potential strategies for conflict resolution within this team.
a. What types of information will you need to collect to have an intelligent conversation with this physician?

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HCA 340 Week 4 DQ 2 Human Resources

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Human Resources. Human resources are an integral part of health care operations to recruit and retain high quality, and often highly specialized employees.
1. Describe why human resources management is comprised of strategic and administrative actions, providing examples of each.
2. Outline specific activities that encompass the strategic and administrative responsibilities of the human resources department.
3. If you were employed as an administrator in a small physician group without a human resources department, how would you carry out the strategic and administrative responsibilities required?Human Resources. Human resources are an integral part of health care operations to recruit and retain high quality, and often highly specialized employees.
1. Describe why human resources management is comprised of strategic and administrative actions, providing examples of each.
2. Outline specific activities that encompass the strategic and administrative responsibilities of the human resour

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HCA 340 Week 4 S.W.O.T. (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats)

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S.W.O.T. (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats). For this assignment, you will apply the S.W.O.T. Situational Planning Strategy introduced in Chapter 5 of your course text, based upon the following:
Situation: You are the C.E.O. of Community South Medical Center, a large, urban for-profit healthcare facility. This institution has comprehensive health services including acute care, residential care, independent living, in-home nursing, hospice, neonatal, and pediatric services, advanced cardiac services, a major trauma center, a center of excellence for pulmonary services, and a neurosurgery center.
Community South Medical Center has a positive bottom line and is striving to enhance health services for the population it serves. The patient care mix has shifted in the last three years and its reimbursement source is currently: 25% Medicaid (up 20%); 35% Medicare (down 12 %); 25% employer sponsored health insurance (unchanged), 8% managed care (down 20 percent), 4% private pay (u

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HCA 340 Week 5 DQ 1 Cultural Diversity in Healthcare

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Cultural Diversity in Healthcare. Read over the information in The Provider’s Guide to Quality & Culture website and examine the case study from your textbook titled, Heritage Valley Medical Center: Are Your Managers Culturally Competent?. Then answer the following questions:
1. How have the changing definitions of diversity affected healthcare management and the delivery of healthcare services in this organization?
2. What does this situation say about Heritage Valley Medical Center's organizational culture and organizational competency, if anything?
3. If you were Ms. Harper, how would you handle this and what information would you present to the executive team, including measures and steps to change the attitudes and opinions presented?

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HCA 340 Week 5 DQ 2 Healthcare Ethics & Law

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Healthcare Ethics and Law. A woman arrives at a suburban emergency room in active labor. Both she and her husband speak little English. The staff determines that the mother (and baby) is uninsured and unable to pay for healthcare services out-of-pocket. The baby is showing signs of distress and needs to be delivered. The on-call OB-GYN physician refuses to come to the hospital. He recommends that the patient be transferred to another facility.
1. What ethical principles relate to this case scenario?
2. What legal principles relate to this scenario?
3. What might the legal consequences be to the health care organization if there is a delay in treatment?

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HCA 340 Week 5 Final Project

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Managing Health Care Organizations
The Final Project should demonstrate understanding of the reading assignments, class discussions, your own research and the application of new knowledge. It should utilize previous skills developed in foundational health care courses and apply them within the context and viewpoint of health care administrator and his/her role managing health and human services.
For the Final Project, the student will select one of the following topics and conduct scholarly and professional research while integrating course learning outcomes to address a selected topic:
1. Research specific leadership and management traits and theories necessary for managing a multidisciplinary and multicultural health care organization to promote organizational effectiveness.
2. Present how strategic planning, performance improvement, and information systems are interrelated and fundamental to the delivery of quality health care.
3. Examine the financial characteristics of health care