Discussion Prompt
How does U.S. government reimbursement policies for healthcare providers impact the use of telemedicine in your state? (California)
Expectations
Initial Post:
Length: A minimum of 250 words, not including references
Citations: At least two high-level scholarly reference in APA from within the last 5 years
Discussion Prompt
Discuss an example of how a nurse leader was successful in spearheading change within an organization, institution, or the government that impacted healthcare policy.
What driving forces led to the nurse leader’s success? What obstacles were encountered and how were they addressed?
Expectations
Length: A minimum of 250 words, not including references
Citations: At least two high-level scholarly reference in APA from within the last 5 years
Post a detailed description of your experience of working with a nurse leader.Include the following aspects in your description. Of the leadership Theories discussed this week, which one did this nurse leader subscribe to? Why?How has your experience been with the nurse leader? Provide a description of your interactions with him or her?
Community health nurses
In order to intervene effectively to address health issues and concerns and develop initiatives that will improve the health of the community you must analyze relevant data.
Community health nurses need to collaborate with other health professionals and community partners to understand the strengths and challenges that affect the health of vulnerable populations.
To accomplish this, the nurse must have knowledge of the health status of the defined aggregates.
This knowledge can be obtained by means of a SWOT analysis.
Using the community’s profile and characteristics as well as Epidemiologic data that influences and defines the health of the population you will identify:
Strengths of the community related to the public’s health
Weaknesses in the community that can be barriers or deficiencies affecting access and delivery of care
Opportunities for improvement Threats to health Once you have analyzed data related to key health indicators in your community. Using the worksheet provided, you will address the four elements of the SWOT (S= Strengths; W= Weaknesses; O= Opportunities; and T= Threats) analysis. You will meet the criteria listed below.
Identify three strengths of the community related to the public’s health.
Identify three weaknesses in the community that can be barriers to access and delivery of health care.
Identify three opportunities for improvement.
Identify three threats to health.
Your paper should include an introductory paragraph and one concluding paragraph that provides a succinct summary of the health of the community based your analysis.
A. Explain the general purpose of conducting a root cause analysis (RCA)?
1. Explain each of the six steps used to conduct an RCA, as defined by NI.
2. Apply the RCA process to the scenario to describe the causative and contributing factors that led to the sentinel event outcome.
B. Propose a process improvement plan that would decrease the likelihood of a reoccurrence of the scenario outcome.
1. Discuss how each phase of Lewin’s change theory on the human side of change could be applied to the proposed improvement plan.
C. Explain the general purpose of the failure mode and effects analysis (FM EA) process.
1. Describe the steps of the FMEA process as defined by HI.
2. Complete the attached FMEA table by appropriately applying the scales of severity, occurrence, and detection to the process improvement plan proposed in part B.
Note: You are not expected to carry out the full FMEA.
D. Explain how you would test the interventions from the process improvement plan from part B to improve care.
E. Explain how a professional nurse can competently demonstrate leadership in each of the following
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