Reflect on the role that the electoral process and government plays in one’s daily work and family life. As nurses, health policy can influence both arenas of our lives. What policy issues might drive nurses to lobby Congress and/or get involved in campaign politics? What strategies might nurses use to have their voices heard?
Respond to both case studies in a single document.
Unit VI Case Study One
HHS is a medium-sized hospital with about 1,000 employees. Most of their training and development needs have been provided by third-party contractors in the past. Now, the CEO has come to you for advice about how to bring training back into the Flynn, W. J., Mathis, R. L., Jackson, J. H., & Valentine, S. R. (2016). Healthcare human resource management (3rd ed.). Boston, MA: Cengage Learning. . Primarily, she is concerned about structure: should training and development functions be centralized (to HR or to a training team) or decentralized (to management and other department leaders)? What do you suggest? How will the decision you make affect the development of the organization as a whole? In your response also address the following: 1. Assess the integration of job performance, training, and learning; 2. critique the training process, and 3. discuss instructional strategies. In your response to the scenario, be sure to include academic sources to support your positions/conclusions. You are required to use at least two outside sources beyond the required reading for this unit. Be sure that your analysis is highly relevant, thorough, and on topic. Accuracy should be strong, with close attention to detail in all parts of the assignment. Writing should be clear and concise with solid sentence structure and should be free of grammar, punctuation, and spelling errors.
Unit VI Case Study Two
While reviewing the organization’s 360-degree feedback reports, human resources (HR) staff member notices discrepancies in the feedback provided for the nurse leader in the ICU department. The individual’s supervisor has rated the team lead’s performance highly, but the team itself is dissatisfied with the way the team lead treats them. They see the team lead as rude, abrupt, and unwilling to listen to them. They are afraid to disagree, however, because the team lead berates them for voicing their opinions. The HR staff member has heard rumors about this behavior and asks to view the team lead’s performance self-evaluation feedback report. 1. What is the best way to address the team lead’s performance issues? 2. What is the best way to handle the request by the HR staff member to view the team lead’s feedback report? 3. Is the request to view the feedback a normal part of the performance assessment process? Discuss how to conduct a performance assessment. 4. What other types of performance assessments are there? 5. Also, consider the performance management linkage between organizational strategies and results in your responses. In your response to the scenario, be sure to include academic sources to support your positions/conclusions.
Describe why you were to choose a specific method to select a sample over other methods. Defend the method you preferred.
Step 1: Briefly describe the policy and the health issue that the policy is designed to impact upon (include country, health context and the population group this policy aims to benefit). (approx. 500 words)
Step 2: Discuss the social determinants of health which are relevant to this health issue and this population, and explore how the identified social determinants are inter-related? (approx. 1000 words)
Step 3: Consider the trends associated with health inequalities and access to healthcare in this country, as a result of your policy being implemented. (approx. 500 words)
Step 4: Address how effective the policy has been in dealing with this health issue and the underlying social determinants of health and use evidence to support this. (approx. 500 words)
Which type of retention policy does your place of employment use or write about your own experience?
Describe some of the risks that social engineering creates for the company?
Describe 3 ways that you would protect your company’s data.
Conflict is multifaceted problem that takes understanding its parts and how each individual approaches it such that you can make a constructive solution. This assignment requires you to assess a destructive conflict, your own conflict style, and how to appropriately resolve it.
Write a paper discussing how do research and statistics help to determine the needed changes in healthcare.
A nurse manager is reviewing occurrence reports of medical errors over the last six months. The nurse manager knows that medical errors are not the only indicator of quality of care. They are, however, a pervasive problem in the current health care system and one of the greatest threats to quality health care. The nurse manager is putting together a list of possible solutions to decrease the number of occurrences of medication errors.
1. Recognizing that health care errors affect at least one in every 10 patients around the world, the World Health Organization’s World Alliance for Patient Safety and the Collaborating Centre identified priority program areas related to patient safety. What are the patient safety program areas the nurse manager should consider for implementation?
2. Describe the Joint Commission 2017 National Patient Safety Goals for Hospitals.
3. Discuss the Institute of Medicine’s four-pronged approach to reducing medical mistakes?
Describe the similarities and differences between Eugene V. Debs, and Samuel Gompers, both were early labor leaders . What impact did each have on the labor movement in the US? Who’s model ultimately played a bigger role in shaping the labor movement of today and why?
What role have minorities played in shaping the labor movement of today? Find and discuss three examples of labor disputes that revolved around minorities. Describe the circumstances surrounding these disputes and their outcomes.
Describe the impact that the regulation of the Finance industry after the great depression had on the US economy, and the impact on the economy since de-regulation began in the 1990s. Also discuss the arguments by both sides for and against regulation.
Consider all the areas of HRM that have been discussed in this course:
Performance management
Human resources planning, recruitment, and selection
Human resources development
Compensation and benefits
Employment and labor laws and regulations
In your final paper,
Provide a high-level overview of each HRM area listed above.
Discuss HR functions within a performance management system that contribute to effective training and development.
Explain how an effective performance management system along with compensation and benefits can attract, develop, and retain talented employees.
Analyze employment and labor laws and regulations that impact these areas of HRM listed above and the relationships between employees and employers.
Explain how the functions of HRM work together in order to optimize organizational and employee behavior.
