Step 1: Business Understanding 1. There are wide discrepancies of charges and payments between institutions a. Larger hospitals charge more and receive higher payments b. Urban hospitals charge more, but do not receive higher payments 2. Are the variations due to excessive charging or lower payments? a. Excess Charge = Charge/Payment b. Cost-to-charge ratio = […]
Nursing Discussion: Common Barriers to Team Collaboration What were your initial reactions when you learned that this course consisted of an overarching team project? Did you have any concerns about working in a team? In general, teamwork and collaboration is viewed as a stressful endeavor. In fact, many students and professionals feel that they […]
Between 2004 and 2007, the National Institutes of Health conducted a STEP vaccine clinical trial—Phase IIB “test-of-concept” study. The STEP study is the name of a clinical trial to test an experimental human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) vaccine. The STEP study enrolled 3,000 participants at sites in Australia, Brazil, Canada, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Peru, […]
Macy’s and IBM are companies that sell two different products, both dealt with similar difficulties of organizational problems and change. IBM focused on coordinating activities to create the most value for each customer which would produce a supply chain of global operations, independent operations that each member focused and grow business based on local response. […]
ADAPTIVE RESPONSE: As an advanced practice nurse, you will examine patients presenting with a variety of disorders. You must, therefore, understand how the body normally functions so that you can identify when it is reacting to changes. Often, when changes occur in body systems, the body reacts with compensatory mechanisms. These compensatory mechanisms, such as […]
Assignment Assignment: Engaging your peer-mentor As you near the conclusion of this introductory public health course, there are certain emerging skills that you will demonstrate in a major project. These competencies relate to the decision-making process used by public health professionals. Therefore, for the Unit 9 Assignment, you will: Justify a decision to resolve a […]
This is a Collaborative Learning Community assignment. In your CLC group, design a rubric for assessing students with ID in an evaluation plan that attends to the considerations raised in the text. Each member of the group will be responsible for a different age level and will attend to the conceptual issues related to assessment.***(elementary […]
Week 10 , chapter 15 – Performance Improvement Dashboard Assignment You should already have developed or started developing a Dashboard for your Performance Improvement Project. I want you each of you to individually create a dashboard for presentation to ‘your’ facility PI team or Board of Directors (If you need help deciding what should be on your […]
Make a SOAP Note Not a narrative essay: Assessing Neurological Symptoms Note: Your Discussion post should be in the SOAP Note format, rather than the traditional narrative style Discussion posting format. Refer to the Comprehensive SOAP Template in the attachments below for guidance. CASE: Numbness and Pain A 47-year-old obese female complains of pain in […]
Planning for Data Collection Data collection is an important part of both quantitative and qualitative research. Although the actual approach to gathering information may vary, for either research design, researchers need to plan in advance how the data will be gathered, reported, and stored, and they need to ensure that their methods are both reliable […]
