Category: Healthcare

The discharge summary should facilitate the safe transition of care from the hospital setting back into the community, delivering information that is both relevant and accurate to aid continuing care. 
A formal discharge summary/note is often required for any patient who was admitted to inpatient status for longer than 24 hours. Discharge summaries serve as the primary documents communicating a patient’s care plan to the post-hospital care team.
High-quality discharge summaries are generally thought to be essential for promoting patient safety during transitions between care settings, particularly during the initial post-hospital period.
This discharge summary assignment must be submitted in a Word document with a title page and references as per APA 7th edition guidelines. Support your diagnostic, treatment, or follow-up rationales using appropriate evidence from outside sources with appropriate in-text citations.
Assignment Requirements:
Before finalizing your work, you should:
Read the assignment details carefully.
Review the Grading Rubric (under Course Resources) to ensure you have included all grading requirements.
Utilize the Discharge Summary template if needed.
Check spelling and grammar (using a word processing tool) to minimize errors.
Your assignment should:
Follow the conventions of standard English (i.e., correct grammar and punctuation).
Be well ordered, logical, and unified, as well as original and insightful.
Display superior content, organization, style, and mechanics.
Use APA 7th edition formatting for all citations and reference pages.
Discharge Summary
Select a patient that you examined during the last seven weeks of your clinical experiences.
With this patient in mind, address the following to complete a discharge summary:
Date of Admission: 
Date of Discharge: 
Admitting Diagnosis: 
This should be your working diagnosis at the time of admission.
Discharge Diagnosis: 
Make sure this is a diagnosis and not a symptom or sign.
Secondary Diagnoses:
Include all active medical problems.
Procedures
List all procedures with the date of occurrence and key findings when applicable.
Consultations
List all consultations obtained while inpatient.
History of Present Illness (HPI):
This is a brief synopsis of the initial presentation typically found on H&P.
Hospital Course
Summarized details of daily progression or worsening course while hospitalized; include floor transfers, ICU transfers, etc.
Discharge Physical Examination: 
A physical examination that was completed on the day of discharge.
Condition / Disposition
Make a brief statement about the patient’s overall condition at discharge (i.e., “stable,” “fair,” “declining”)
This is where the patient is going after discharge from the hospital (i.e., “home with home health,” “daughter’s house,” “rehab facility,” “hospice house”)
Hospital Diagnostics:
Include all pertinent radiology tests and diagnostic procedures with a brief description of findings.
Discharge Medications: 
List all medications that the patient will be taking at home (even if previously prescribed), including dosage, route, frequency, and date of the last dose, if applicable.
Pending Studies
List all studies that are pending a result so that the primary care provider or any other outpatient providers can follow up appropriately.
Recommendations
Include any recommendations for outpatient care, consultations, or studies you recommend the primary care provider consider.
Follow Up Instructions / Discharge Education:
Name of provider, specialty, and appointment location with time and date of appointment, if known.
If the patient is to schedule the appointment, then make sure you include the timeframe by which the patient should schedule the appointment. (i.e., “Patient to arrange an appointment time to be seen within two weeks.”).
Provide appropriate education for the patient, based on their reason for admission or other identified aspects affecting their overall care (i.e., social considerations, lack of medical).

At this point in your academic career, you know that health care is a heavily regulated industry. While applicable regulations may vary from one organization type to the next, the typical health care organization must navigate through a wide array of laws, quality standards, regulations, and ethical considerations as part of day-to-day operations. What this means is that the staff working in these organizations must also fully understand their organization’s regulatory environment and their role in regulatory compliance.
Successful compliance depends on how well the staff is trained. Managers need to be able to teach their staff compliance best practices. The compliance content in the training is one aspect of the health care manager’s job. The other critical aspect of the job is to be able to convey the compliance content effectively and efficiently. In today’s environment, it is not enough to simply place a check mark next to the staff trained item on the manager’s to-do list. Staff members need to be able to retain the compliance best practices they have learned and apply them on the job. In successful health care organizations, compliance training does not just need to be done; it needs to be done effectively and efficiently. This is no easy task, given the complexity of health care regulations.
In this assignment, you will continue your work on a team-based initiative for Vila Health’s chief compliance officer. For the purpose of this assignment, you will assume the role of quality assurance officer in your health care organization. You have been tasked with the responsibility of developing a presentation that prepares the organization’s department heads to deliver the compliance training to their staff members.
Preparation
Conduct independent research on these topics:
Regulations, accreditation requirements, and ethical standards that govern the health care industry. Current best practices in compliance training and health care industry-accepted training programs.
Consult the resources in the weekly readings as a starting point for your research. You may also want to consult the Health Care Administration Undergraduate Library Research Guide for additional guidance on how to conduct scholarly, professional research.
Instructions
Assume the role of a quality assurance officer at one of Vila Health’s community-based hospitals. You recently received approval from your organization’s senior leaders to provide compliance training to all staff members based on the new approach to compliance your organization has adopted.
Because of the number of staff requiring training, you will not be able to deliver the compliance training yourself. Instead, your organization’s department heads will conduct the training for their departments. Your job is to develop a presentation to help the department heads train their staff on the organization’s new approach to compliance.
You have scheduled a meeting with the department heads to introduce the compliance training. For most presentations like this, you will get only 3–5 minutes to make your points, so you must keep it concise. As you are doing your planning for your presentation to department heads, you have decided that your presentation needs to consist of two parts:
Part One: Background on Regulation, Accreditation, and Ethics in Health Care.
This addresses the compliance content department heads need to cover in their staff training sessions. Part Two: Compliance Training Effectiveness.
This addresses how to design and deliver compliance training that staff members retain and apply on the job. You have determined you will need 7–10 slides to cover the content you plan to deliver to the department heads. You have also created an outline of what specifically you need to include in your presentation. Here is the outline you created:
Part One: Background on Regulation, Accreditation, and Ethics in Health Care
In four to six slides:
Analyze regulatory, ethical, and accreditation compliance in health care (one slide).
Distinguish accreditation from regulations and ethical considerations in health care. Highlight the risks and consequences of noncompliance and ethical breaches (1–2 slides). Analyze important health care regulations, such as privacy laws, quality standards, and patient rights (three slides).
Present key ethical considerations all staff must understand (one slide).
Explain how the concept of continuous readiness applies to compliance (one slide).
Part Two: Compliance Training Effectiveness
In three to four slides:
Explain best practices for training health care staff on compliance (1–2 slides).
Conclude with a final meaningful compliance message, such as a motivational statement or a quote about compliance (one slide).
Include your reference slide with APA-formatted references (one slide). See Evidence and APA.
Now that you have your outline in hand, develop your presentation to department heads on the organization’s new compliance training program that they will be delivering to their staff members.
Additional Requirements
Your assignment should meet the following requirements:
Written communication: Your slides need to include bullet points highlighting the key concepts. Avoid using block paragraphs or pictures only. Make sure your content is clear, persuasive, well organized, and free of errors in grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
Title slide: Develop a descriptive title for your presentation of 5–15 words. It should stir interest yet maintain professional decorum. Length: 7–10 slides. Slides should be professional and appropriately balance text and visuals. Avoid making your slides too text heavy. Instead make use of speaker notes to include additional content. References and reference slide: Include a minimum of three citations of peer-reviewed sources in current APA format on a final reference slide.
Review the Compliance Training Scoring Guide so that you understand how your faculty member is going to evaluate your work. Submit your assignment as a PowerPoint presentation. Review the resource, Guidelines for Effective PowerPoint Presentations [PPTX] for PowerPoint tips.

Managed care programs come in several varieties. HMOs (health maintenance organizations) and PPOs (preferred provider organizations) are two of the most common. The majority of others combine the two. With the exception that each managed care plan’s duties differ significantly from the next, the fundamental role of governance and control in HMOs, PPOs, and other plans are the same as those in any other organization.
The use of a provider network with discounts, prior approval of procedures, utilization management of treatment guidelines, utilization review, case management, peer review and second opinions, prospective, concurrent, and retrospective audits, and grievance procedures are just some of the cost-controlling strategies employed by managed care programs.
Review the resources listed in the weekly resources to prepare for this week’s assignment(s).
“Identify a local non-profit health care organization that uses a managed care model. You can either conduct an interview with a senior leader of the organization (this may be the CEO, COO, a Senior Vice-President, Vice-President or other such position) OR research about the organization itself. A useful example can be found in many issues of the Journal of Healthcare Management, which often publishes interviews with health care leaders, including on this topic. Interview the individual or research on their managed care model, challenges, its advantages and disadvantages, and why their system does not use other models of managed care. You may also include other interview questions of your choosing, as long as they are relevant to the overall topic of the paper.”
Once you conduct your interview or research, summarize your findings on the main managed care model utilized.
Requirements:
Submit ONE (minimum) to TWO-PAGE (maximum) PAPER by Sunday 11:59pm. Ensure that the paper is formatted as a single page without exceeding the page limit.
Use Times New Roman or Arial, size 12.
Set 1-inch margins on all sides of the paper.
1.15 space the entire document.
Use concise language and avoid unnecessary words or phrases.
Provide a minimum of three references in APA format. Lists all sources cited in the paper on a separate references page. 
Provides accurate and properly formatted in-text citations for all sources referenced in the paper. 
Save the document in a commonly used file format (e.g., Microsoft Word, PDF) and save it as “your last name” dash week1. Example: Wongkargut-week2

Write a 1,225- to 1,550-word report of the US veterans affairs organization’s SWOT and how economics in your market impact the strategy and future of your organization. Include the following: Summarize the major economic trends in your market. Evaluate whether these trends benefit or harm your organization’s strategic goals. Provide a rationale for your response. Evaluate whether the economy in your market presents opportunities or threats for your organization, or both. Describe them and how they apply to your organization. Examine whether your organization can influence the economics in your area. Explain your perspective. Cite any references to support your assignment. Format your citations according to APA guidelines.

Theory and research inform evidence-based practice (EBP) in nursing. In this discussion, you will address the relationships among theory, research, and EBP.
Use the questions to guide an original response:
Why is theory important to research design and evidence-based nursing practice?
How can the findings in quantitative research impact nursing practice and patient outcomes?
Respond to the posts of at least two classmates. APA citations are required only in the original response.

Module 03 Content
Are you ready to present the policies for your two compliance plans in a way that all employees will understand at a large medical facility where you are the Compliance Officer?
In 4-page paper describe the policies for each of the two compliance plans.
Break each policy section into 2 pages each.
Remember to support your policies for the two plans with a total of three research sources, cited at the end in APA format. (That’s 1-2 research sources per plan).
Then, summarize your plan in a 5-8 slide PowerPoint presentation.
Polices you should consider covering for each plan come under the key compliance elements:
Compliance Standards
High-Level (personal) Responsibility
Education
Communication
Monitoring/Auditing (for Safety)
Enforcement/Discipline
Response/Prevention
Look these over in your research, and then select just two of these key elements and write your policies under them for each of your two compliance plans. (Your policies for each plan can zero in on different key elements.)
Example:
A compliance plan about washing hands between patients might describe policies for High Level (personal) Responsibility and Monitoring/Auditing (for Safety)
A compliance plan about charging patients for Diabetes Management Education as a Physician Visit might describe policies for Compliance Standards and Enforcement/Discipline.

Like it or not, advertising has an effect on our purchasing habits and that is why it is so important to use the trustworthy sites listed in Box 2.5 to obtain reliable health information.
Choose an advertisement (written ad or TV commercial) for a drug or health product to analyze.  Answer the following questions:
What is the Product Name and the web link to view the advertisement?
What is the Target Audience?
Which advertising techniques from p. Table 3.1 are being used?
What is the hidden message and/or unrealistic promises being made?
What are the pros and cons of this product being advertised to consumers?

On February 7, 2018, a nurse employed at the Flinn Corporation noticed an increase in the number of employees who were sick. She was concerned that there may be a Salmonella outbreak at the company. She has interviewed each of the employees at the corporation. She has taken samples and sent them out for testing but has not received the results. She asks you, the local epidemiologist, to investigate to see if an outbreak exists and if so what the source of the outbreak is. You follow the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s steps in outbreak investigation https://www.cdc.gov/foodsafety/outbreaks/steps/detection.html) and report your findings to her. Please note that we will not address all outbreak investigation steps in this assignment. Here is an additional resource on epidemiology, https://www.cdc.gov/training/publichealth101/epidemiology.html
Use the attached Excel worksheet to produce graphs and statistics to answer the questions below. Submit your report as a Word doc and include figures and tables you generate. The report should be easy to follow and interpret and should be written as an academic paper in proper APA formatting. This paper should be 8-10 pages in length (not including the title page, abstract or references. The paper should also include properly formatted tables and graphs of the data you are given (please refer to the week 7 learning material on formatting tables and graphs), as well as, the data you analyzed.
1. Look at the Excel Spreadsheet attached. There are 3 worksheets (see tabs on bottom of page – “Nurse’s Interview”, “Epi Curve”, “Retrospective Cohort Study”). The first sheet “Nurse’s Interview” has a line list of employees who work at Flinn Corporation. This sheet represents the data the nurse has collected from those employees in an interview. Do you think that an outbreak exists? Why would you recommend to further investigate? Discuss your reasoning. (Step 2: Establish outbreak) 
2. Research salmonellosis using academic sources. Are the symptoms that the ill employees exhibit consistent with salmonellosis? Provide a brief summary (1-2 paragraphs) of the disease and discuss the chain of infection for this disease. Use in-text citations in proper APA format and include all sources in your reference section. (Step 3: Verify diagnosis) 
3. Identify the percentage of ill employees with each symptom. For example, 1 out of 12 ill employees had blood in stool (Bs) = 8.3%. (Step 4: Working case definition) 
4. Conduct descriptive epidemiology (Step 6). Describe the characteristics of the ill employees to determine trends and risk factors.
a. Person – Calculate the percentage of ill employees that are male/female. Determine the mean age of the ill employees.
b. Place – What percentage of ill employees ate at the cafeteria? What percentage of well employees ate at the cafeteria?
c. Time – Using the data collected in the Nurse’s Interview, fill in the column “# of cases” in the “Epi Curve” worksheet. Use 0 if there are no cases. As you fill in the data, the graph will automatically generate. Choose an appropriate title for the graph. Copy and paste graph into your report. What type of epidemic curve is it ? (Hint: read https://www.cdc.gov/foodsafety/outbreaks/steps/detection.html)
5. Based on the information you have gathered, you have developed an hypothesis that there is a food being served at the cafeteria that is causing the employees to become ill. You need to further test this hypothesis by conducting a retrospective cohort study (Step 8). Use the worksheet “Retrospective Cohort Study” to calculate attack rates and risk ratios. The first food item Baked Chicken is done for you. You can also consult https://www.cdc.gov/foodsafety/outbreaks/steps/detection.html for help. Report the Risk ratio for each food item. Based on risk ratios, which is food is most likely to be the source of the illness? Explain.
6. Based on your findings, what would you recommend for prevention and control measures? Apply food safety principles from academic sources to discuss further prevention of Salmonella outbreaks in the cafeteria. (Step 11) Use in-text citations and include sources in reference section. 
7. Include a properly formatted reference section in APA format that includes at least 3 academic sources (popular sources should not be used). 
8. Tips for writing your paper: Include the entire table of risk ratios and attack rates as one table, make sure to include the graph of cases reported, and you can also include the tables from the Nurses interview in the attached Excel file.

mental health and addiction services in New Zealand
Please check the attached files.
one is question,other one points to include and the poster how it should be example one.
also template of a3 size is attached.

Overview
You will submit a draft for Section I, parts A and B (see below) of your final project. In your draft proposal, define the major forces affecting the delivery of healthcare. You must also describe the opportunities and challenges as they relate to healthcare leaders. Additionally, you should include the types of leases that might be considered for financial operations. Please consider the opportunities and challenges for today’s healthcare leaders. This assignment is meant to be a general introduction to your paper and does not need to be informed by a particular company.
Prompt
Specifically, you should address the following critical elements:
Introduction
What are the major forces affecting the delivery of healthcare today? Discuss these forces and their corresponding impacts on today’s healthcare environment.
Impact of Forces: What healthcare service and delivery opportunities and challenges exist because of the forces discussed above? Define the challenges and opportunities that exist for today’s healthcare leaders.
What to Submit
Your paper must be submitted as a Microsoft Word document and should be a minimum of 2 pages in length, with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, one-inch margins, and at least two sources cited in APA format. Your paper must use APA formatting throughout, including headings, references, citations, and cover page.