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For a hospital to operate efficiently and effectively, the three important influences in its governance, medical staff, board of trustees, and administration, must work together in reasonable harmony.

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Nursing homework help
Chapter 4-Hospitals: Origin, Organization and Performance
Due at 5PM CST, Monday, September 11, 2017
Assigned Readings: Chapter 4
Answer the following questions:
For a hospital to operate efficiently and effectively, the three important influences in its governance, medical staff, board of trustees, and administration, must work together in reasonable harmony. What factors might contribute to tensions among these groups?
As the nursing profession has expanded through advanced degrees, specialization, and clinical practice, nurses’ salaries and responsibilities have also increased. Now, hospitals substitute non-nurses for nurses to perform all but the most technical tasks. What are the implications for the nursing profession? Have nurses lost their traditional role of hands-on patient care and, if so, is that to their advantage or disadvantage?
The traditional management style of hospitals has been hierarchical and internally focused. What are three important challenges that face hospitals to accommodate new payer and consumer expectations?
The availability of hospital insurance removed an important cost constraint from hospital services and charges. What were some positive and negative consequences of that development?
The organization and practices of modern hospitals reflect the promotion of specialization and sub-specialization by academic health centers. What were the advantages and disadvantages to patients of increasing the number of physicians who limit their activities to narrower fields of practice?
With significant oversupply of hospital beds in the U.S. what is the rationale for taxpayer support of the separate and costly hospital system of the Department of Veterans Affairs?

evaluation of the quality improvement program that you have created.

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This assignment has two parts.
Part 1:
Write a 2–3 page evaluation of the quality improvement program that you have created. This should be the annual summary of the hypothetical data. Make sure your hypothetical data are credible.
Part 2:
As you may recall from Week 1, your Course Project was to prepare a total quality improvement program, with a focus on one high-risk area. Continuous quality improvement covers many areas. Throughout the course, you have learned about the attributes that constitute a quality improvement team and what questions this team attempts to answer. The assignments toward this project that you completed each week can now be assembled into a single instructional document.
Make necessary adjustments to your document so that each segment flows smoothly into the next. Evaluate your project using the criteria given below.
1.Are the indicators and their measurements appropriate to the high-risk area?
2.Do the indicators capture the risk?
3.Are the fictional incidents realistic and plausible?
4.Is the filled chart consistent with the fictional incident?
5.Is the plan of correction feasible? Will it prevent the occurrence of the incident in future?
6.How do you know the plan worked? What measures will you use to identify effectiveness?
7.On a separate page, cite all sources using the APA format.
8.They should be your own, original, and free from plagiarism.

Create three fictional incidents for the risk area you selected

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We saw that risk management involves playing the devil’s advocate and asking, “What could go wrong?” Creating scenarios and thinking through situations will help you understand the nature of the risk better. This is your exercise for the week.
Create three fictional incidents for the risk area you selected in Week 1. Write about each scenario in not more than a page. Include the following information about each scenario:
1.Details of the incident—What, where, when, and who?
2.Explain the cause—How and why?
On a separate page, cite all sources using the APA style.
Assignment 2 Grading Criteria
Maximum Points
Developed three plausible fictional incidents.
40
Described the details of each incident.
60
Explained the cause of each incident.
80
Presented a structured document free of spelling and grammatical errors.
10
Cited sources in the APA format.
10
Total
200

Identify current evidence-based treatment modalities for the selected cancer and discuss how the treatment impacts the disease process.

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The purpose of the case study is to have you expand upon the pathophysiological disease process by searching for evidence-based practice treatment and advanced practice nursing role implications related to the disease.
Case Study Topic: Lung cancer
Identify current evidence-based treatment modalities for the selected cancer and discuss how the treatment impacts the disease process.
Conduct an evidence-based literature search to identify the most recent standards of care/treatment modalities from peer-reviewed articles and professional association guidelines (www.guideline.gov). These articles and guidelines can be referenced, but not directly copied into the clinical case presentation. Cite a minimum of three resources.
Include the following in your clinical case presentation:
The pathophysiology of the disease, including signs and symptoms
An explanation of diagnostic testing and rationales for each
A review of different evidence-based treatment modalities for the Lung cancer obtained from guideline.gov or a professional organization such as thyroid (American Thyroid Association), OB-GYN (ACOG), urology (AUA), etc.
Next, address the following questions:
How does the information in this case inform the practice of a master’s prepared nurse?
How should the master’s prepared nurse use this information to design a patient education session for someone with this condition?
What was the most important information presented in this case?
What was the most confusing or challenging information presented in this case?
Discuss a patient safety issue that can be addressed for a patient with the condition presented in this case.
The use of medical terminology and appropriate graduate level writing is expected.
Your paper should be 3–4 pages (excluding cover page and reference page).
Use APA format to style your paper and to cite your sources.