Terry is a senior histology lab technician at a large urban hospital. He is responsible for overseeing a team of six junior technicians to process samples for testing. Recently, the hospital has introduced a new process whereby the senior histology lab technician must visually accept and approve the findings of the junior technicians in order for samples to be cleared and entered into the electronic health record for disease diagnosis. Terry has been able to meet this new need for the past few months. However, as more cases are entering the histology lab, cases have started to become backlogged. Additionally, the histology lab hours are restricted to business hours; this has severely impacted the processing of histology samples. Terry is worried that the approval process is not efficient and that perhaps a second senior histology lab technician should be hired to meet around-the-clock demand.

As a current or future health care administrator, how might you address the productivity lag in the histology lab in the scenario?

For this Assignment, review Case 2, “Noninvasive Cardiovascular Laboratory” in Chapter 8 of the text, Managing Health Services Organizations and Systems. Reflect on how you, as a current or future health care administrator, might be required to identify opportunities to improve productivity in an HSO. What types of information might you need to gather? How might you identify whether a process improvement opportunity exists? Then, review the Week 3 Case Questions document in this week’s Learning Resources to complete the Assignment.

The Assignment (3–5 pages):

• Complete the case questions presented.
• Create a fish bone diagram and a flow diagram that represent an analysis of the processes for improvement and implementation approaches to support your answers to the case questions.
• Be sure to support your answers with support from the literature.

 When politics and medical science intersect, there can be much debate. Sometimes anecdotes or hearsay are misused as evidence to support a particular point. Despite these and other challenges, however, evidence-based approaches are increasingly used to inform health policy decision-making regarding causes of disease, intervention strategies, and issues impacting society. One example is the introduction of childhood vaccinations and the use of evidence-based arguments surrounding their safety.In this Discussion, you will identify a recently proposed health policy and share your analysis of the evidence in support of this policy.To Prepare:

• Review the Congress website provided in the Resources and identify one recent (within the past 5 years) proposed health policy.
• Review the health policy you identified and reflect on the background and development of this health policy.

Post a description of the health policy you selected and a brief background for the problem or issue being addressed. Explain whether you believe there is an evidence base to support the proposed policy and explain why. Be specific and provide examples. 
APA format At least 3 resources1 paper
 

Discussion 2: The Role of the RN/APRN in Policy-Making

Word cloud generators have become popular tools for meetings and team-building events. Groups or teams are asked to use these applications to input words they feel best describe their team or their role. A “word cloud” is generated by the application that makes prominent the most-used terms, offering an image of the common thinking among participants of that role.What types of words would you use to build a nursing word cloud? Empathetic, organized, hard-working, or advocate would all certainly apply. Would you add policy-maker to your list? Do you think it would be a very prominent component of the word cloud?Nursing has become one of the largest professions in the world, and as such, nurses have the potential to influence policy and politics on a global scale. When nurses influence the politics that improve the delivery of healthcare, they are ultimately advocating for their patients. Hence, policy-making has become an increasingly popular term among nurses as they recognize a moral and professional obligation to be engaged in healthcare legislation.To Prepare:

• Revisit the Congress.gov website provided in the Resources and consider the role of RNs and APRNs in policy-making.
• Reflect on potential opportunities that may exist for RNs and APRNs to participate in the policy-making process.

Post an explanation of at least two opportunities that exist for RNs and APRNs to actively participate in policy-making. Explain some of the challenges that these opportunities may present and describe how you might overcome these challenges. Finally, recommend two strategies you might make to better advocate for or communicate the existence of these opportunities to participate in policy-making. Be specific and provide examples. APA format At least 3 resources1 paper
These are 2 papers 

Please, answer for your INITIAL posting and discuss ALL the following questions in great detail:

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• What is this Video Clip about? Please describe, explain, analyze, and discuss in great detail …
  • Your post for this question should be no less of 850 words.
• Which are the three most critical issues of  this Video Clip? Please explain why? and analyze, and discuss in great detail …
  • For EACH critical issue please post at least two strong comprehensive paragraphs
• Which are the three most relevant lessons learned of  this Video Clip? Please explain why? and analyze, and discuss in great detail …
  • For EACH lesson learned please post at least two strong comprehensive paragraphs

earning Assignment Guidelines

Please read our class syllabus section: 

        * 9. Course Delivery – Learning Assignments Guidelines – 9.4 On-Line Discussions

to double make sure what do we have to do in these discussions.

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Grading Requisite

In order for me to grade these discussions, you have to have your INITIAL posting plus

TWO additional SOLID and well supported postings to other people’s postings and/or discussions.

EACH posting to other people’s postings and/or discussions should be no less of 250 words.

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               Please do NOT attach any files for this OnLine Discussion.

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               Discussions and Posting submitted as Document ATTACHMENTS WILL NOT be GRADED. 

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Grading Rubric

This learning assignment will be graded according to the following grading rubrics :

• “Grading Rubric for On-Line Forums and Discussions” and
• “Grading Rubric for Writing and APA Style use”

located at our Canvas Learning Management System section:

Course Content: 2. Class Learning Assignments Guidelines, Grading Rubrics, and Peer Evaluation Forms

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Some Learning Tips for this Learning Assignment

                Please take a moment to read and get familiarized with the following learning concepts:

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Lessons Learned vs Best Practices

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Tips for Turning Lessons Learned into Best Practices:

http://www.projectsmart.co.uk/tips-for-turning-lessons-learned-into-best-practices.html (Links to an external site.)

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Using APA Style and Tips in Writing

You can find several readings and support material for your writing learning assignments and APA Style use at our Canvas Learning Management System section:

Course Content: 1.2 Using APA Style and Tips in Writing

 Listen to the PowerPoint lecture on Ethics. What do you think you can do in your first speech to reflect some of the concepts presented? For instance; you can answer the question with this consideration: How will ethics guide your speech preparation in this class as you select a topic and, also, as you find and present researched information during the speech?  I look forward to a lively discussion.

  

· Weekly discussion topics will be posted by the instructor as a “Forum” topic. 

· Each student should answer this initial question presented by the instructor to get the Forum “rolling.” Students will develop discussions on this weekly topic using material from the text, outside readings, and research about the particular subject to be discussed. You must post your first comments by Wednesday each week to allow your classmates enough time to read, think about, and then respond to your post.

· Students should build from one another’s postings to foster a “class discussion” rather than a bunch of individual “answers” to initial instructor posting. You cannot go online and read several posts and then submit your 3 required posts. This promotes full involvement of all students to all of the ideas presented in the multiple forum posts. Take your time and interact with your classmates.

· All postings should be read by each student prior to posting your two replies – students creating duplicate posts will not be considered as a separate post. 

· Posts to the forum should be appropriate in length, tone, and content for these discussions. Please read the “Netiquette” document on Moodle.

· Spelling and grammar are important – since what we see in the post is our only measure of your personality and academic expertise. Please take the time to run the imbedded spell check before finalizing your posting.

· Use professional and objective language to expand on points made by other students even when taking the opposite view. Avoid first-person constructions such as “I” or “my”; use third person language to keep the discussion impersonal and objective.

· Please Note: While personal opinions are welcome, they are ONLY a starting point for a discussion. Also, just agreeing or disagreeing with a post or comment is insufficient. You must fully explain your ideas in these forums. You may also support your ideas by finding some credible source or expert that agrees with your opinion. You may use your text or class lectures or outside research for this component.

· Tips for outside sources : In order to demonstrate research depth and earn full credit for discussion contributions you should include a reference to at least one web link and/or a research article.  Articles can be retrieved from the Noel Library database holdings. It is important to give a brief summary of the major points made in the reference (web site, article, etc.) rather than to simply provide a link. 

· This requires some effort and shows that you have read (at least a portion of) the article. Your reference to ANY outside reading or research should have a proper source citation to include the author’s name, date, article title, and the name of the organization responsible for producing or publishing this information.

1. Forum Tips