Describe and explain why the USA health system is considered to be neither a centralized or de-centralized system and what is the impact of healthcare reform of the combined federal state responsibility with substantial federal oversight and funding, imbued with state innovation and implementation.
What are the functions of the Agency of Healthcare Research and Quality and how can its nationwide and worldwide mission mandates influence healthcare reform?
What does the behavior of John’s co-workers toward John suggest about their attributions for his initial manner of dress?
Describe the kinds of biases that might have affected John’s co-workers as they formed impressions of him on his first day. Could they have been using a faulty schema to understand him? Is there evidence of the halo effect?
Explain why John changed his manner of dress so soon after starting his new job.
What processes were likely involved in his decision to do so?
John’s co-workers seemed very hesitant to “warm up” to John. How would you explain to John their initial reluctance to like him very much?
If you were the human resources director for this company, what strategies could you employ to prevent experiences like John’s?
How would you justify the implementation of these strategies to the company president?
Discuss the most important elements which directly influence the objectives, strategy and implementation.
Describe and assess the impact of the implementation of the recommendation on the organizational structure and performance relative to the forecasted demand for the services or products offered.
Explain how the implementation of the recommendation serves as a specific solution to a real health care problem that is facing the organization, and discuss elements of the proposed design that serve to improve balancing costs, quality, and access to care among all stakeholder groups (e.g., patients, providers, and third-party payers).
Present a forecasted strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis for at least 3 internal and 3 external stakeholder groups relative to expected outcomes after full implementation of the recommendation.
What is the clinical practice problem/issue selected?
Why do you think there needed to be a change?
What issues have you seen in practice or found in research that made you select this topic for a change proposal?
How will your leadership style and gifts be used to lead the change proposal?
Conduct a Literature review
Is your evidence valid to support the change you are proposing?
Develop a basic timeline for your project that shows the plan for implementation.
What is the role of the change agent/s?
Critical Self-Reflection—Personal Impact of Change Proposal
Analyze your personal assumptions and perspectives regarding your proposed change.
How did your personal perspective impact your proposal?
How was the content from this course integrated into the paper or proposal?
What perspective did you gain from formulating this proposal and doing research on this topic?
What have you learned?
Organizational Strategies
A brief description of the healthcare organization’s mission, vision, & current strategies.
Analysis of the organizational chart of the institution, including placement of the nurse executive within the organization & influence of the nurse executive based upon this placement.
Examination of how the strategic plan was developed based upon the mission, vision, values, & any identified current trends.
Roles & responsibilities of nursing leadership related to strategic planning, implementation, & management.
Creation of a concept map which describes nursing, economic, environmental, & healthcare trends & technology affecting the healthcare organization. Follow the grading below as you develop the concept map.
Summarize & analyze the key themes identified from the concept map.
SOW 6435 – EVALUATION EMPIRICALLY-BASED SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE
In this paper you will describe the implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of your intervention plan with your client.
Your paper, including references, should be double-spaced, APA style. Use the major headings below (Introduction, Implementation and Monitoring, Evaluation, Conclusion).
Your paper will be approximately 8-10 pages long (EXCLUDING title page and reference page, and progress notes).
1. Introduction
a. Briefly restate who the client is, what the objective is, and what the planned intervention is.
b. Describe what source(s) you used as the basis of the specific intervention activities (for example, a treatment manual, an article, a website, a book, an agency protocol) and why you chose this source
2. Implementation and Monitoring
a. Maintain regular progress notes (typed) using the handout on the instructor’s website. Progress notes need to be
completed at least once per week. Do not include any client identifying information in the notes. Attach the progress notes to the end of your paper
b. Based on the progress notes, describe whether the intervention as implemented deviated from the intervention plan (yes or no), and if so, why.
c. Based on the progress notes, describe the client’s progress over the course of treatment
3. Evaluation
a. Describe the measurement method (specific standardized scale or behavior/thought tracking method) used to evaluate client change. (3 points)
b. Provide the results of the client’s pretest and posttest. (2 points)
c. Was the client’s objective achieved? (yes or no). If no, what do you and the client think were the barriers to achieving it? (2 points)
d. Submit the completed client satisfaction questionnaire. Describe your reflections on the client’s responses. (4 points)
4. Conclusion
a. Describe what you learned in this course and how you do or do not see yourself using this material in your future practice. (3 points)
Part 1 and part 4 are each worth 10% of the grade. Part 2 and part 3 are each worth 40% of the grade.
