Which side of the issue or problem are you going to write about, and what solution will you offer? Know the purpose of your essay.
Analyze your audience. Decide if your audience agrees with you, is neutral, or disagrees with your position.
Research your topic. A persuasive essay must provide specific and convincing evidence.
How does the GNE Demonstration Program impact current and/or future APRN programs in Texas?Discuss.
Based on the type of security issues , select an health information exchange architectural model to base on one of the four healthcare facilities: inpatient, outpatient, pharmacy, or other health care facilities.
Develop the two appropriate operational policies and procedures you recommend to ensure information privacy and security of information submitted to and through the Health Information Exchange (HIE).
Discuss the general concept of insurance and its general principles. Describe the various types of private health insurance options, pointing out the differences among them.
Identify the best practice that you think is most essential for ensuring that an organization’s capital plan will be successful, and explain why you think it is most essential.
What is one solution or policy change to the PPACA that a nurse practitioner could propose to not only provider higher payout for services, but better care for patients?
Economic and political equity and health/socioeconomic status:Discuss?
Provide a brief overview of one of the scenarios you played through.
Describe which of the five ways you would select to describe prognosis in this scenario and why (case-fatality, five-year survival, observed survival, median survival time, or relative survival).
Would you suggest a life-table approach or the Kaplan-Meier method for calculating observed survival over time? Why?
Include a current scholarly citation in addition to your textbook to support your answers.
In the Solve the Outbreak activity on the following link: https://www.cdc.gov/mobile/applications/sto/web-app.html
Explain how your goals for a PA career align with the Northeastern university PA programs mission, goals, vision of educating clinicians who exhibit innovation, leadership, cultural humility, inter professionalism, and compassion. Discuss
How would you as a healthcare executive / policymaker increase the effiency of the U.S. healthcare system?Discuss.
To answer this question, consider that there are reasons for the current high U.S. healthcare expenditures:
The USA does not regulate the price for healthcare services – using, in most cases, a free-market approach to determine prices.
The demographics of the U.S. population is skewed towards the elderly and age and cost increase together.
The U.S. population as a whole is a nation of people with multiple chronic diseases like HTN and DM and obesity. The consequences of several lifestyle choices contribute to the high cost of chronic care.
The U.S. healthcare system does not seem to work as well as other healthcare systems in the world.
Make sure to provide credible evidence to support your ideas.
Health Belief Model: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4530978/
The Value of Human Life: https://www.npr.org/2020/04/23/843310123/how-government-agencies-determine-the-dollar-value-of-human-life
Ortega, A. N., Rodriguez, H. P., & Vargas Bustamante, A. (2015). Policy dilemmas in Latino health care and implementation of the Affordable Care Act. Annual review of public health, 36, 525–544.
https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-publhealth-031914-122421
Joynt Maddox KE, Bauchner H, Fontanarosa PB. US Health Policy—2020 and Beyond: Introducing a New JAMA Series. JAMA. 2019;321(17):1670–1672. doi:10.1001/jama.2019.3451
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2730484
Meskó, B. (2015). Ethical Issues of the Future of Medicine: The Top 10. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ethical-issues-future-medicine-top-10-bertalan-mesk%C3%B3-md-phd/
ODPHP (2016). Determinants of Health. Retrieved from http://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/about/foundation-health-measures/Determinants-of-Health
Healthcare Providers’ vs. Patients’ Understanding of Heath Beliefs and Values
HIPAA
https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/index.html
EMTALA
https://www.cms.gov/Regulations-and-Guidance/Legislation/EMTALA/index?redirect=/EMTALA/01_overview.asp
HITECH Act
https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/special-topics/hitech-act-enforcement-interim-final-rule/index.html
McKinney Homeless Assistance Act
https://nche.ed.gov/mckinney-vento/
Federally Qualified Health Centers
https://www.hrsa.gov/opa/eligibility-and-registration/health-centers/fqhc/index.html
Health Management and Policy Productions (2013). Plagues and People. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IrPWxTFWE0&list=PLFZ4bOip24k9whZp-vKO1yBAIkR3KgWdN (51:01)
Empathy: The Human Connection to Patient Care
Porter, M. (2012) Michael Porter on “Value-Based Health Care Delivery”. Harvard Business School.
