Tools for Project management in Health Service Organizations

 

You are the health care administrator for a physician practice with five primary care physicians. Your practice has an existing electronic health record (EHR) system, which has been in place for three years. The EHR system has some existing functionalities to support the reporting of quality measures to Medicare to comply with public reporting requirements. However, there are some new requirements that require your practice to upgrade the EHR system’s software. To meet Medicare deadlines, this project will need to be completed within the next 12 months within a budget of $20,000.

For this Assignment, reflect on the scenario presented. Think about what considerations a health care administrator should keep in mind to track the resources needed for this project. Reflect on what types of tools explored this week will best support the health care administrator for the project detailed in the scenario.

The Assignment (3–5 pages, not including the Gantt Chart, Activity Cost Estimates, and Work Breakdown Structure templates):

  • Prepare a Gantt chart (including time and activities).
  • Prepare a budget (including dollar amounts).
  • Explain how you as a current or future health care administrator might use the Gantt chart and budget that you created to assess the project in the scenario presented. Be specific and provide examples.
  • Complete the Work Breakdown Structure template. Explain how you would break down the activities and why.

Organization behavior

For this assignment, please use the Big 5 personality scale in the link below and you will get specific % on each dimension of the Big 5. 

http://www.truity.com/test/big-five-personality-test• Free basic report is fine. 1. Discuss the positive and negative aspects of your Big 5 results on each dimension. You need to research this using peer reviewed articles plus text. Understanding the model now reflect on how this may affect the way you carry out your work and task. For example, if you got 75% on agreeableness, what is the positive and negative implication of this score when you work

If you have work experiences, please use your past experiences to support your arguments. If you do not have work experiences, then you can search from references or use school examples. 

2. Imagine that you are promoted to a managerial role. Based on your Big 5 results, determine what you think would be the best management style for you. Based on research peerreviewed articles plus text, why do you think a particular management style you chose is the “best fit” for your personality (based on the Big 5 results)? The purpose of this question is for you to apply your Big 5 results into a managerial setting.

essay and reflection

 

Individual Personal Values Art Project

This project consists of:
1) An artwork that connects a topic from this semester with your own values and ethics.
2) An artist statement: A 1 page (max) write-up of the topical issue, a reflection of how your own values connect to this topic.
We will hold an art gallery-style exhibition online for the first part of the session in Week 14. We will then continue into an open Q&A session for final projects and presentations for the remainder of class time.

From the list of class topics, think about a specific topic/concern that resonated with you. How might you showcase your personal values in relation to this topic? How might you represent this topic, and create a personally meaningful work of art?

Part 1: Part one is an artistic representation of your professional values statement. This piece of art should be a reflection on our class activities/topics so far and should include a manifestation of your moral philosophy. This assignment can take many forms and be as complex as you’d like to make it.

By creating an artistic rending of your professional values, you give your workplace values more thought and take the exercise seriously. The end result can be whatever you’d like it to be. 

You may create: Poems, drawings/paintings (From charcoal, watercolors, crayon, to pencil sketches), collages, digital artwork, sculpture, etc.

Part 2: The second part is a reflection of your art piece. The assignment is a succinct 1-page personal values statement. You should cite a specific topic in the text and at least 2 other legitimate reference sources in your reflection. Please use APA format for the citations. 

The format of the statement can vary: it could be (1) a label or accompanying explanation of your art; 2) “All-employee” memos from a CEO; (3) Newspaper editorials; (4) Public speeches; (5) Values statements for your actual business, (6) Others

Activity 11- Exe Project

Case Study 11.1: It’s an Agile WorldThis case illustrates a common problem in software and IT development, where programmers and IT staff are anxious to lock in specifications as early as possible so they can “get to work” without having to worry about invasive or disruptive input from the end users.  Unfortunately, what typically happens is that the finished product is not what the users needed or thought they needed and a long list of fixes and modifications are needed to make it work correctly.  This case is based on a true story in a hospital IT department that routinely struggled with these sorts of user conflicts until they sifted to an Agile methodology.Questions

  1. Why does the classic waterfall project planning model fail in this situation?  What is it about the IT department’s processes that leads to their finished systems being rejected constantly?
  2. How would an Agile methodology correct some of these problems?  What new development cycle would you propose?
  3. Why are “user stories” and system “features” critical components of an effective IT software development process?
  4. Using the terms “Scrum,” “Sprint,” and “User stories,” create an alternative development cycle for a hypothetical software

Text-

Title: Project Management 

ISBN: 9780134730332 

Authors: Pinto 

Publisher: Pearson 

Edition: 5TH 19

CSS/562: Programming Concepts – NetBeans JAVA Programming

I have  2 Assignments to be completed and I require for both of the assignments the use of only NetBeans. No other JAVA programming tool accepted. Therefore, programming only with NetBeans.

Assignment 1:  Wk 2 Assignment: GUI and Input, Output, and Variable

 

Assignment Content

  1. In your position as the leader of a programming team, sometimes you need to take on tasks when the team is overloaded with work. Your team is currently busy, so you are taking on a customer request to create a business application that allows the user to determine an approximate cost for a business trip. The customer will add functionality and features to the application throughout the development process. You will continue to modify this application throughout the remainder of the course.

    Create a Java™ travel authorization request graphical user interface (GUI) application via NetBeans to calculate the cost of a business trip.

    Include the following functionality:

    • Traveler name (text field)
    • Airfare cost (text field)
    • Food cost (text field)
    • Hotel cost (text field)
    • Car cost (text field)
    • Shuttle cost (text field)
    • Summary: Display request total in label (must use a variable to store each item and calculate totals)
    • Button
    • The user will enter the name of the traveler and the cost of each item for a trip request. When the user clicks the calculate button, 10% of the total amount will be added to the trip total and be displayed in the Summary field. The use of variables are required to store the costs of the individual items.

      Submit your assignment as follows the Netbeans project file (export/zip file), cut/paste the source to a MS Word document and a screen shoot of the output. Also, let me know if you are using a Mac or a PC platform.

Assignment 2:  Wk 3 Assignment: Condition/Objects

 

Assignment Content

  1. The customer is pleased with the first set of functionality and features added to the business application in Week 2. This week the customer wants you to add functionality and features to the application you created last week.

    Modify the deliverable from Week 2 to:

    • Include a combo box for the locations with five cities of your choice.
    • Modify the food field to make it automatically place a value in that field based on the location selected.
    • The values for the food field will be 70 when the first location is selected and 80 when the second location is selected.
    • The food values will then increase by 5 for the remaining locations when selected.
    • Add to the car field to allow for three rental car companies to select from using a radio button.
    • The value for the cost of the rental car will remain as a text field.
    • Submit your assignment.

Both assignments to be submitted by latest coming Monday 07.12.2020 6PM of USA Arozona Time

Required Files: NetBeans Exported ZIP File, Code copy to Word, a screenshot from the output showing that the displayed program GUI is working sucssesfully.

Unit V Research Paper

Instructions

Urban Problems in Puerto Rico, Part 1For this unit and Unit VII of this course, you are writing a four-page research paper about Puerto Rico. In this unit, you will complete the first two pages of the research paper.The research paper draft you complete in this unit should contain the following items:

  1. Briefly introduce Puerto Rico. Provide some background information about the people and the island.
  2. Identify one or more urban problems faced in Puerto Rico. Make sure to provide a discussion on what caused and continues to cause the problem or problems.
  3. Explain how globalization connects to the urban problem or problems you introduced in your paper.
  4. Discuss how geography connects to the urban problem or problems you introduced in your paper. 

Be sure that you fully address all of the required elements for this paper. You cannot simply fill the paper with background information about Puerto Rico and then address the urban problems in just a few sentences.You are required to cite the textbook and at least two additional scholarly sources from the CSU Online Library. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying APA citations.The CSU Online Library contains a good resource database for this assignment. It is called the World Scholar: Latin America & the Caribbeandatabase.Another good resource is the CIA-World Factbook. It can be found at https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/

Resources

The following resource(s) may help you with this assignment. 

Health Care Human resource managment

 

Week 4 Assignment – Health Care Human Resources Management

Overview

Company mergers are very busy and challenging times for corporate  leadership. The role that HR plays during a merger is often complex and  far reaching. In this assignment, you write an executive brief that  considers aspects of how an HR department might prioritize and operate  to support the union of two companies. 

Preparation

How to Brief an Executive

There is no single correct way to brief an executive or other  stakeholder. The final deliverable is your choice, but effective briefs  have common elements; they should be clear, concise, relevant,  well-structured, and provide decision-making information. Here are a  couple of resources you may use to get started:

Scenario

Imagine that Anchor Hospital, a 250-bed medical center, is merging  with the similar-sized Saint Mary’s Hospital to better serve the needs  of their metropolitan community. An administrative board has been formed  to guide all aspects of the merger. They have asked all departments to  submit an executive brief that states their roles, intended model of  operations, and initial steps to build interdepartmental relationships. 

The board’s primary concern for HR is how it will manage the merging  of the workforces into a single, cohesive, and effective team. They  want to understand HR’s primary role, guiding principles, and  application of current practice. Specifically, they want your vision for  the following:

  • A merger-related current best practice or trend that is being successfully employed by HR departments.
  • HR’s primary role in assimilating the workforces for the two hospitals.
  • The HR management model to be followed.
  • How to foster relationships between HR and department managers.

Instructions

Write a 3–4-page executive brief that address the following merger-related items:   

  1. Recommend a relevant HR trend or practice that would be useful to consider as part of this merger. Justify your recommendation.
  2. Analyze HR’s primary role(s) as a strategic corporate partner in merging the workforces of the organizations. 
  3. Recommend an HRM model that would effectively steer the joining of  each organization’s employees into a single, cohesive workforce.  Justify your recommendation.
  4. Recommend two initial steps that HR should initiate to develop an  effective relationship between HR and management. Justify your  recommendation.

Additional Requirements

  • Resources: Use four sources to support your  writing. Choose sources that are credible, relevant, and appropriate.  Cite each source listed on your source page at least one time within  your assignment. For help with research, writing, and citation, access  the library or review library guides.
  • SWS: This course requires the use of Strayer  Writing Standards. For assistance and information, please refer to the  Strayer Writing Standards link in the left-hand menu of your course.  Check with your professor for any additional instructions.

The specific course learning outcome associated with this assignment is:

  • Determine strategies for HR operations including defining organizational roles and relations with leadership.

Essays

1. In Plato’s Ring of Gyges how is the concept of good/justice explained? Do you think this is the way good/justice actually is, or do you think it’s something more?

2. According to Max Stirner, the concepts of good, bad and the State are phantasms and are simply determined by power. In detail, what does he mean by this? Do you agree with him? Why or why not? 

3. In Jon Stuart Mill’s On The Freedom of Thought & Discussion, he uses four arguments (and objections and replies) in favor of freedom of speech. What is at least one of the arguments (along with an objection and reply)? How would this argument support allowing a controversial speaker on campus, such as a Neo-Nazi, ISIS, or a member of NAMBLA? Do you agree with this? Why or why not?

4. What does Arendt mean by the “banality of evil”? How did this concept apply to Eichmann and his deeds? Has there been anyone else in history, past or present, that this concept can apply to?

5. In Martin Luther King’s letter from Birmingham Jail, he talks about how the “white moderate” is a bigger stumbling block to the freedom of black people than even the Ku Klux Klan. Explain what he means by this statement. Taking into consideration Arendt’s concept of the “banality of evil”, do you think this concept is applicable to King’s view of the “white moderate”? Why or why not?

Capstone Project Part IV: The Technicals: Measuring and Evaluating Performance

 Most human and social services professionals come into their professions to make a difference. Doing so at the societal level is both a challenge and an opportunity. Being a successful social change agent, leader, and advocate requires both skill and commitment. To accomplish large-scale change to address societal issues as part of the technical aspects of a strategic plan, human and social services professionals need to address indicators of success and performance targets.

To prepare:

  • This Assignment is the second part of developing the technicals for your Capstone Project.
  • Think about how you might apply the theories and processes of change, leadership, and advocacy when implementing a strategic plan that addresses indicators of success and performance targets.

The Assignment (2–3 pages):

  • Describe leading indicators of success. To determine whether the agency, organization, or community will benefit from the strategic plan, you must identify those things which would serve as indicators of success. These indicators must be observable, measurable, and quantifiable in some way.
    • Identify four indicators that would signify success with regard to the strategic plan.
    • Discuss specifically how you would measure each indicator.
  • Identify performance targets. Performance targets represent the level at which you would like to observe performance on each indicator. They represent the desired level of performance. For each performance indicator that you have identified, specify the targeted level of performance.

GUIDED VIEWING Worksheet 4

Visit MoMA, the Museum of Modern Art, in New York City, on Google’s Arts & Culture platform. Explore the collection and look at the different works of art on display.

From the collection, select two works of art and respond to the series of questions provided to discover a relationship between them and the art of printmaking.

1. Describe the two works by providing the following information for each.

a. Who is the artist?

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b. What is the title of the work?

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c. When was the work created?

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d. What medium is the work in (e.g., sculpture, painting)? What medium was used (e.g., clay, bronze, oil, acrylic)?

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e. How large is the work? Provide dimensions.

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f. Is the work representational? Naturalistic? Abstract? Stylized? Nonrepresentational? Give details that demonstrate your answer.

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2. Compare and contrast the two works of art by analyzing their similarities to the various techniques employed in printmaking:

a. The most common types of prints are relief, intaglio, lithography, and monotype. Which style would fit this work the best? Why?

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b. If this work were a print, how would its meaning change? What would the benefits and drawbacks be?

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c. Identify items and figures that are emphasized in each work. How are they emphasized? Would the more graphic quality of printmaking further this? How would it change it?

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d. Describe the proportions employed in each work. How would they change if it were a print? What would the effect be?

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3. With the technological revolution, many new options have become available for printmakers beyond the traditional processes, fundamentally changing the practice. Think of a digital print version of the works you selected.

a. Describe the proportions employed in each work. How would they change if it were a print? What would the effect be?

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b. How would it differ from the tradition print version you discussed above?

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4. Recall your initial reasons for selecting the two works.

a. What were your first impressions?

b. How have your impressions changed after you looked at the two works closely?

Link of  MoMA, the Museum of Modern Art, in New York City– https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/moma-the-museum-of-modern-art