Entries by Linus

Quality and Safety

Preparation In this age of acute competition and alignment of providers, systems are evolving to improve contracting opportunities, including population health, accountable care organizations, and models of health care delivery. They are targeting quality care at a value price. This assignment explores a provider of your choice to determine their desirability to be a member […]

Hurricane Katrina and Emergency Responses

Unit 7 Final Project Submit Assignment Due Sunday by 11:59pm Points 220 Submitting a file upload Instructions Writing Assignment Assess the effectiveness of the emergency response to Hurricane Katrina. Identify problems that were encountered by law enforcement during the response. Outline and detail recommendations you would make to correct them. Address the health concerns that were identified during the crisis […]

Ethics and the Physical Therapy Profession

Write a reflection paper on How Our Choices Can Lead to Unethical Practices in the Future with a focus on ethics and the meaning of being a physical therapy professional.  This should be submitted as a formal paper include the following: 1) synthesis of a thorough review of the literature, 2) application information gleaned […]

Suicidal Act on Family Connection

Questions to Address What are the key arguments of the chapter by Cerel (2008)? What are the key themes of Ordinary People (1980)? How do the arguments presented in the article relate to the themes of the film? Are the themes of the film consistent with the article? If yes, how? If not, why not? […]

Developing the Theory of Caring in Nursing

1-Reflect on a theory or concept that you could develop as a nursing professional. If you could develop your own personal nursing theory, what would it be? How would you use it? ***Choose from one of the below theories: Introduction to Barrett Power Theory https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4UyLNN02xA Article Link/Weblink https://www.drelizabethbarrett.com/background/summary-barrett-power-knowing-participation-change-theory Theory of Caring: Kristen M. Swanson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGJZsAQLFMc […]

Leadership Traits Portrayed by Mother Teresa of Calcutta

The purpose of this assignment is to examine the theoretical framework, style, and leadership traits of effective leaders. In Topic 2, you selected a book about leadership by a successful leader whom you believe has adopted leadership as a vocation. In an analysis of minimum 750-900 words, examine the theoretical framework, style, and leadership traits […]

Stopping Outshopping Case Study

Case Study – Stopping Outshopping Read the case study, Stopping Outshopping. Then, use the Internet or Strayer library to research similar marketing strategies in the health care industry. Assignment Instructions Write a 4–6 page paper in which you: Based on the textbook’s summary of Timothy’s philosophy of continually striving for excellence, determine whether or not Scarlet […]

Death of A Patient Root Cause

Submit Assignment Due Apr 12 by 11:59pm Points 70 Submitting a text entry box, a website url, a media recording, or a file upload The death of a patient (as described in the Real Life Scenario (text Chapter 11, pages 233-234) is always classified as a sentinel event. The Joint Commission requires the organization to do a root-cause analysis when […]

Prevention of Co Occurring Disorders

In thinking about preventing co-occurring disorders and the policy implications related to prevention: Please describe three (3) current trends related to the prevention of co-occurring disorders. What are two (2) policy implications for each trend that you identified?