WK 8 – HCAD 620 – Mental Health Care – What is the best way to address the large and undeserved need for mental health care?

WK 8 – HCAD 620 – Mental Health Care – What is the best way to address the large and undeserved need for mental health care?

What is the best way to address the large and undeserved need for mental health care?

Questions to consider:

1. How can we significantly improve our ability to help people in need of mental health treatment?

2. What should we do about the stigma that some attach to seeing a mental health professional?

3. What about the equal stigma of being labeled as someone who is “mental?”

4. How do we, as healthcare professionals, best reach out to those that desperately need assistance –without making anyone think we are looking for “crazy” people?

Review:
UMGC Library Article on Vulnerable Populations: Access and Vulnerable Populations Article

AJMC . Vulnerable Populations: Who are They? Retrieved from http://www.ajmc.com/journals/supplement/2006/2006-11-vol12-n13suppl/nov06-2390ps348-s352/P-1

Focus on and discuss in a few paragraphs “The importance of fair and accurate financial reporting in the healthcare industry”.

Financial Compliance and Ethical Decision Making

APA-7, 500 words, 2 or more References, Support your statements

Focus on and discuss in a few paragraphs “The importance of fair and accurate financial reporting in the healthcare industry”.

Many of the regulations you have read about this week were developed from prior actions within the medical community that warranted changes to be made to protect patients, individuals, investors, and other stakeholders. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 was born out of several accounting scandals at the time. One of these accounting scandals was HealthSouth Corp., the nation’s largest provider of outpatient surgery, diagnostic and rehabilitative healthcare services at the time .

Assess and response prior to patients having physical or chemical restraints or due to disruptive behavior, new onset confusion or delirium.

Final Project Introduction, Stage 1 and 2 of Kotter’s Change model.
Synthesize the introduction of the project with a systems analysis of a large healthcare institution applying Stage 1 and 2 of Kotter’s change model to your topic.

Stage 1: Establishing a Sense of Urgency

Stage 2: Creating the Guiding Coalition

The institution is First Health of the Carolinas as described in the related order. and the project to be implemented is a behavioral assessment team designed to assess and response prior to patients having physical or chemical restraints or due to disruptive behavior, new onset confusion or delirium, etc.

What do you think are some of the major challenges facing the CDC? Provide a rationale for your answers.

Go to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | CDC website and review the mission, vision, and major responsibilities of the CDC. Based on what you have learned about epidemiology this week and your research into the CDC, answer the following questions?

What are some of the things that you might expect the CDC to do on a regular
basis related to epidemiology?
What do you think are some of the major challenges facing the CDC? Provide a rationale for your answers.

Describe how the effort of changing preadmission testing data collection from paper to the Electronic Health Record System can be approached.

Select two of the case studies located in the course textbook at the end of Chapters 21, 24, 25, or 27, and answer the questions associated with those case studies in a cohesive, APA-formatted paper.

Chapter 21:

Recommend where would you start to improve the user experience.
Pharmacists are asking for your help due to struggles with non-integrated systems. What methods would you use to examine this issue?
Describe how usability should be incorporated as part of the purchasing process for this institution.
Chapter 24:

Assuming that you are the clinical content manager leading reporting efforts, recommend the approach you would take to address the reporting problem.
Describe how the effort of changing preadmission testing data collection from paper to the Electronic Health Record System can be approached.
Using Patient Safety and Quality Research Design methodology, identifying area of quality improvement in the hospital setting, recommend a process plan and identify the expected outcomes.

Prepare a one to two-page patient identity management policy. Your policy should be one to two pages and include the following: Policy title.

Enterprise Master Person Identification Policy
Prior to beginning work on this assignment read Chapter 28 of Health Informatics: an Interprofessional Approach, Chapter 17 from the eBook Registries for Evaluating Patient Outcomes: A User’s Guide , and the article Will the Real John Smith Please Stand Up?

Prepare a one to two-page patient identity management policy. Your policy should be one to two pages and include the following:

Policy title
Version No.:
Effective Date:
Date Ratified:
Ratified By:
Introduction
Definition
Policy
General Guidelines
Excluding resources used in this course, include a minimum of two references in APA format as outlined by the Writing Center. Refer to the Health Informatics Journals  resource for additional resources available in the University of Arizona Global Campus Library.

Describe the report from Lui, Hahn, and their colleagues in 2010 on the origin of P. falciparum.

Spillover

• Read chapter 3 of spillover book by David giammen

• Provide a general review of the chapter

• Describe the report from Lui, Hahn, and their colleagues in 2010 on the origin of P. falciparum.

• What is the S->I->R model described by Kumagkand McKendrick? How is this explained in relation to the Ceylon epidemic.

• Write up two to three sentences about your overall opinion of the book so far.

Read chapter 4 of spillover book by bavidLQ,Arrolto
• Provide a general review of the chapter

• What are two aspects of SARS that made it so threatening? Describe why they were so threatening.

• What is Ro? What is a “super spreader in terms of Ro?

• What were two routes of international dispersal of SARS listed in the chapter?

• Mat were 2 factors that contributed to limiting the scope and impact of the SARS outbreak discussed in the chapter?

Analyze the key Joint Commission standards that apply to this organization. Accreditation Best Practices . Describe industry best practices for meeting accreditation requirements.

Develop a descriptive title of approximately 5–15 words

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To meet your senior leaders’ request, you will prepare a 10- to 12-page summary brief. A summary brief is a common document in management that is used to summarize concepts, issues, products, or projects. Summary briefs often vary in format. For academic purposes, the required format for this summary brief is current APA format, a common format for health care research and academics. Consult these resources for additional guidance on the appropriate use of APA guidelines:

Evidence and APA—This is a tutorial on the current APA style.
APA 7th Edition Example Paper [PDF]—This is an example to help you make sure your summary brief conforms to APA formatting guidelines.
Use the following headings to organize your summary brief for leadership:

Accreditation in Health Care
Provide a short overview of accreditation in health care.
Accreditation Requirements
Include an overview of the most common accreditation requirements.
Accreditation and Regulatory Compliance
Compare and contrast accreditation and regulation requirements.
Detail how accreditation helps health care organizations meet regulatory requirements.
Joint Commission Standards
Analyze the key Joint Commission standards that apply to this organization.
Accreditation Best Practices .
Describe industry best practices for meeting accreditation requirements.

What do you think prevents nurses from using their power to influence healthcare?

APRN/Nurse-Leader Policy-Influencer Interview
Choose policy influencer to interview, in which you identified a nurse practicing at an advanced-practice or leadership level with whom you planned to conduct a focused personal interview. The interview will provide us some real-life insight into the issues and topics under discussion in the course and will be submitted here as your initial post (IP).
Nursing is the largest profession in healthcare, which should lend nursing to have the greatest impact in healthcare policy. What do you think prevents nurses from using their power to influence healthcare?

Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of research methodologies and methods and the show ability to appraise them.

Using a systematic approach, search a range of appropriate databases to identify ONE original, peer reviewed primary research article. The research design of your chosen article will include either qualitative and/or quantitative data. Introduction: This section introduces and recognises the importance of evidence-based practice within pre-hospital care.

Critically reflect upon your own and other stakeholder; involvement in the research process. Provide a brief introduction of your chosen area of enquiry to signpost the assignment.

Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of research methodologies and methods and the show ability to appraise them.

Demonstrate the ability to formulate a research question and critically use search skills to undertake a literature search.

Demonstrate competence in appraising research and evidence. Understand and apply the necessary ethical considerations required of research specific to practice.

Critically reflect upon own and other stakeholder; involvement in the research process and the application of evidence-based practice in pre-hospital care.