Propose strategies to improve patient or population outcomes related to a health problem.

Use a provided template to develop a 2-4 page submission in which you research and define a patient, family, or population health problem relevant to personal practice.

Important: Complete this assessment first and complete all other assessments in the order they are presented.

In this assessment, you will lay the foundation for the work that will carry through your capstone experience and guide the practice hours to complete the work in this course. The purpose of this assessment is to allow you to define a patient, family, or population health problem that is relevant to your personal practice and to begin building a body of evidence that will inform your approach to your practice hours, the intervention you design, and the professional product you will deliver.

Demonstration of Proficiency

By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the course competencies through the following assessment scoring guide criteria:

  • Competency 1: Lead people and processes to improve patient, systems, and population outcomes.
    • Define a patient, family, or population health problem that is relevant to personal practice.
  • Competency 2: Make clinical and operational decisions based upon the best available evidence.
    • Analyze evidence from the literature and professional sources to define and guide nursing actions related to a health problem.
  • Competency 7: Implement patient-centered care to improve quality of care and the patient experience.
    • Propose strategies to improve patient or population outcomes related to a health problem.
  • Competency 8: Integrate professional standards and values into practice.
    • Reflect on state board nursing practice standards relevant to a selected health problem.
    • Communicate professionally in writing that is clear and logically organized, with correct grammar, spelling, and use of APA style.

Important: Complete this assessment first and complete all other assessments in the order they are presented.

Professional Context

Nurses are leaders in problem identification and solution, planning and implementing patient care strategies to address problems in the home, hospital, and community. This assessment will help you develop a problem statement for a patient, family, or population health concern.

Chapter 6 & 7 discuss the concept of internal customers. Some managers resist this concept arguing that the only customers people should worry about are the ones who are paying the bills. Discuss.

Book for Questions: Quality and Performance Excellence

Pleease read carefully, theses are all seprate discussion boards.  PLease read and ensure to respond carefddully . Each response must be at least 2-3 paragrphs. 2 at the lease . The price that is set is the proce that i am sticking to the assignment is due by friday

1)Think about a recent personal service you purchased (It could either be a separate service or part of a goods purchase).  Chapter 1 discusses the most important and reference page are required with each case studyfactors of see in Module 1 under Chapter 1’s PowerPoint slide #14.

2)Which quality philosophy discussed in Chapter 2, Deming, Juran, or Crosby, do you personally feel more comfortable with? Why? Which of these approaches do you think would possibly work best in your own organization?

 

3)Pick a tool, technique, or philosophy found in Chapter 4 and discuss why you selected it and how you could apply it to your life (or perhaps to the life of someone you know – you do not need to use real names!).

4)Chapter 6 & 7 discuss the concept of internal customers. Some managers resist this concept arguing that the only customers people should worry about are the ones who are paying the bills. Discuss.

5)Chapter 8 discusses Quality Teams. Think of a team you participated in recently (at work or otherwise) and analyze it using the criteria for effectiveness discussed in the chapter. Was it successful? Was it lacking in any of the dimensions? What could have been done to improve the teamwork?

What is the importance of the Medical Assistance attitude?

Read and study chapter 46: Making the transition from student to employee. Then, answer the following questions on a document with word format. Do not use pages format from MacBook as blackboard does not recognize this format. Finally, submit the document using the submission area. Do not use the comment area.

a) What is a practicum?

b) What is the importance of the Medical Assistance attitude?

c) What is a resume?

d) What is a cover letter?

Discuss how would you design a training program (e.g., to use a new software for tracking sales) for Malawi?

Malawi was once a British colony—but is now a relatively small (population about 17.4 million) but independent country in Central Africa. Thus, it inherited a British administrative tradition, which is very Western and very bureaucratic. And thus it also benefits from significant investment from Western MNEs, with many local subsidiaries. However, traditional Malawi cultural values, which emphasize family membership and attention to status, are also superimposed onto local and multinational business administrative systems, mostly imported from Europe and the US. In the Malawian culture, workers view employers as an extension of their families. They expect to be provided with a broad array of benefits from their employers, such as housing and transportation. Malawi society also places great importance on status differences. The relationship between managers and subordinates is viewed as authoritative; workers give deference and expect managers to act paternally. Malawians view proper protocol as very important. Managers often resist accepting individual blame for their mistakes and do not directly criticize their subordinates. Malawian managers rarely delegate authority because the culture believes that delegation strips managers of their authority and thus lowers their status in the eyes of their subordinates. How do these cultural practices influence the development of T&D programs by MNEs in Malawi? MNEs setting up local operations in Malawi must consider the following three realities when developing training programs:

■ Western models of innovation, motivation, leadership, etc. will not work well in Malawi. For example, most Western (European and Anglo) management experts believe that proper leader behavior depends on the situation: there is no one right way to lead. However, the Malawian culture believes that leaders should always be authoritative. Consequently, HR professionals must first learn how these issues apply in a Malawian culture and then train Malawian workers accordingly.

■ Status-conscious Malawian managers will resent being told to attend a training program. They will interpret this gesture as an indication that they are considered “below-average” performers—and will assume that their subordinates will make the same assumption. A company must thus carefully prepare a strategy to solicit trainee attendance in a way that will not cause managers to “lose face” with their peers or subordinates.

■ Training methods must be congruent with employee learning styles. Malawians learn best in “process-oriented” education settings. Consequently, training methods that use experiential and small-group techniques and other “supportive learning” techniques should be used in lieu of those that focus on lectures and rote learning.

Source: Adapted from Jones, M. L. (1989). Management development: An African focus. International Studies of Management and Organization, 19(1), 74–90; and updated (2014) from the following: http://www.afribiz.info/content/2014/foreign-transnational-corporations-in-malawi; and 2014 CIA World Factbook. Available at https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/.

Discussion Questions

1 Are there any training techniques that are culture free? Why or why not?

2 How would you design a training program (e.g., to use a new software for tracking sales) for Malawi? What would it look like? Who should deliver it? How should it be delivered? What language and cultural variables would you take into consideration?

Ross claims that our obligations sometimes conflict with each other. Give an example from your own life that involves conflicting obligations. Which of them is the prima facie obligation? Why?

Ross claims that our obligations sometimes conflict with each other. Give an example from your own life that involves conflicting obligations. Which of them is the prima facie obligation? Why?

Using the sources of conflict outlined by Shearhouse, identify which one is at the root of a conflict you are currently facing. What advice might be helpful?

  • Based on your completion of this week’s Apply Assignment, record your conflict resolution style below.
  • Make two separate lists highlighting those personal features (personality, culture, interests, etc.) that make you the same, and make you different from a group with which you have regular contact (preferably a work-related group, or one involving an organization with which you are involved).
  • Using the five spectrums of cultural differences, identify your preferences. Just for the fun of it, also identify the perspectives of the individuals with which you are most likely to experience conflict.
  • Using the sources of conflict outlined by Shearhouse, identify which one is at the root of a conflict you are currently facing. What advice might be helpful?
  • The authors of both texts have identified trust as a key element of conflict. In your own words, why is trust such an important issue?
  •  Conflict 101 A Manager’s Guide to Resolving Problems So Everyone Can Get Back to Work Susan H. Shearouse  ch. 5-7

Discuss specific areas, both within and outside, eGovernance, in which citizens living in a country that lags behind the rest of the world in ICT capacity are lacking.

The impact of the global digital divide. According to the authors, countries that lag behind the rest of the world’s ICT capabilities encounter difficulties at various levels. Discuss specific areas, both within and outside, eGovernance, in which citizens living in a country that lags behind the rest of the world in ICT capacity are lacking. Include in your discussion quality of life, sustainability, safety, affluence, and any other areas that you find of interest.