Read the required articles on health care workers’ legal liability for medical mistakes: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2155825615303653;
the IOM report “To Err is Human” chapter 8 on recommendations to reduce medical errors.
Analyze current events in legal liability for medical mistakes, either in nursing or another healthcare profession, and compare an example of legal liability with the IOM recommendations.
Please give 3 scientific citation
Week 5 – Assignment: Support Quality Performance Improvement through Enhanced Interprofessional Communication
For your assignment this week, you will use the case study found in the week's resources titled, Case Study: A Private Practice in the Pennsylvania Chronic Care Initiative.
After reading the case study, you will take on the role of a health administration intern hired by Dr. Johnson to run his office practice, and you will prepare a draft written communication in the form of a business letter or memorandum addressed to the local Chief Executive Officer Jamie Harper (fictitious) at Hospital Anywhere (fictitious).
According to the Agency for Health Research and Quality, a challenge to improving quality in private physician practices is the lack of communication with hospital organizations to increase the exchange of information related to the emergency room visits, hospital admissions, and discharges of their patients especially when the physician does not have privileges to practice at the hospital and is not notified of the patient's medical or surgical treatments.
Your communication in the form of a business letter or memorandum as the health administration intern wrote on Dr. Johnson's behalf to CEO Jamie Harper will include the following information:
A salutation and introduction of who you are and on whose behalf you are writing. Give Dr. Johnson a fictitious first name and give the medical practice a fictitious name.
Background information in synopsis form on the operation of your physician's office practice and how and why your practice has joined the
Pennsylvania Chronic Care Initiative (PCCI). Be sure to mention the quality outcome performance of the office before and since joining the
PCCI (this information is in the case study; so, be sure to summarize the important points regarding these quality measures as it relates to the diabetic patients).
State the reason for your written communication that includes the desire to improve the interdisciplinary communication between Hospital Anywhere and your office practice especially for your diabetic patients and the potential hospital services that would be beneficial to your diabetic patients (see the Miller-Rosales and Rodriguez (2021) resource in your Weekly Resources).
Propose how using the identified hospital services will benefit the hospital and your office practice from both a healthcare quality and financial perspective.
Provide a closing paragraph in your business letter/memorandum and the appropriate complimentary signoff. Be sure to mention the attachments you are providing.
Create a tool that you propose to collect the data from the identified hospital staff following their consultations with your diabetic patients and include it in your business letter or memorandum as an Attachment 1 (see the Miller-Rosales and Rodriguez (2021) resource in your Weekly Resources).
Lastly, create a draft checklist that you will provide to your office staff to assure your diabetic patients are completing their annual tests and screenings and include it in your business letter/memorandum as Attachment 2 (see the Florida Blue Medicare Caregiver Guide (2019) in your resources).
Be creative with this assignment and enjoy its real-world applicability. While it is not a requirement for this assignment, you may wish to embellish your business letter or memorandum. You can find a business or memo templates from the MS Word templates. Click
File at the top of your Word document, then click
More Templates. Remember, if you use a template, after the first page of a memorandum, the remaining pages usually are plain. Be sure to consult APA guidelines for the use of attachments which may be called appendices.
Length: A minimum of 3-4 pages, not including the title page, reference page, or the 2 attachments
https://www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/research-transform-primary-care/transform/profile/gabbay.html
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/20009666.2019.1593782
Florida Blue Medicare Family Caregiver Guide
Florida Blue Medicare Caregiver Guide (2019).
Florida Blue Medicare Resources.
Consult page 31 in this resource for your assignment this week to see a list of the annual tests required for diabetics.
https://www.jabfm.org/content/34/1/151
Interdisciplinary Primary Care Team Expertise and Diabetes Care Management
Miller-Rosales, C., & Rodriguez, H. P. (2021). Interdisciplinary primary care team expertise and diabetes care management.
Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine, 34(1), 151-161. doi: 10.3122/jabfm.2021.01.200187.
Use this resource to complete your assignment as the researchers discuss the use of interdisciplinary care to manage patients with diabetes.
Refer to the required reading: COVID-19 and the Need for Health Care Reform (King, 2020) NEJM.
Identify 1 flaw in the US healthcare system that was made evident during the pandemic, and 1 innovation during the pandemic that improved healthcare.
** Add two (2) additional references to make a total of three references
Title: “The Benefits and Challenges of Breastfeeding: Exploring Breastfeeding Resources for Empowered Mothers and Healthy Infants”
Guidelines:
APA Format
MUST utilize credible data sources such as CINAHL, MEDLINE, Embase, ClinicalKey, The Cochrane Library. Library resources can be accessed from the Library page at the FNU.edu website. FNU Librarians are available to assist each student with retrieving the required scholarly content.
Research paper must be 650-1000 words.
3 or more scholarly sources must be utilized
Sources must be within the last 5 years
Must have a minimum of 3 Sources
All article sources must be cited by including them in reference sheet (separate).
APA FORMAT.
THEY CHECK FOR PLAGERISM.
INSTRUCTIONS IN THE ATTACHMENT
150-200 WORDS
Assignment Guide: The Compare/Contrast Essay
Assignment Prompt
For this assignment, you will be writing a
compare/
contrast essay–an
exploratory piece of writing in which you attempt to show readers how two topics are similar, different, or a combination of the two: both similar and different. Whether you
focus exclusively on comparing, exclusively on contrasting, or a mix of both, is totally up to you. However, regardless of which approach you decide to take, you will want to include a strong
thesis/
claim statement, at least three effective
supporting points, and a streamlined
point-by-point organizational strategy.
Assignment-Specific Requirements:
Length: This assignment should be at least 750 words.
Thesis
: Underline your
thesis statement or the main
claim of your essay.
Sources Needed: Two reliable and
credible sources are required for this assignment. Be sure to use
MLA guidelines for all in-text and
Works Cited citations.
While we encourage you to acquire sources from Gale’s Opposing Viewpoints, you may access credible,
scholarly sources from other resources. Tertiary sources, such as online encyclopedias, dictionaries and Wikipedia, are not
scholarly sources, and should not be cited within your work; however, they may offer helpful foundational information as you develop your understanding of an issue. (For more information, please review Berkley University’s resource on scholarly and popular sources:
“Evaluating Resources.”)
Page Formatting: See
Appendix C – Formatting and Submitting Your Work
MLA
Requirements: See
Formatting your Essay: MLA 8th Edition
Compare/
contrast essays are both creative and
analytical in nature. They are typically more formal than a personal narrative in the sense that they are written from a
third-person perspective, where a writer is not injecting their own opinion directly using “I” or “me”
language.
To prove points–
compare/
contrast essays rely on
researched evidence, and not personal opinion or experience, per se. When you choose two topics, you will have numerous options for comparing and contrasting them–much more than you can actually use in a single paper. Therefore, you will need to decide what elements are worth comparing and contrasting, and why. This is the seek and discover part of the essay, but also the creative part. For example, another writer may choose the same two topics as you, but their essay may rest entirely on
thesis and
supporting points. When you limit your
supporting points to those points you think you can prove most effectively, you are maximizing your creative and
analytical writing abilities.
Purpose:
Remember that this is an
exploratory paper: The piece of writing should show readers, through the inclusion of careful detail and specifics, and strong
supporting points, how your two topics are similar, different, or a combination of the two: similar and different.
The
compare/
contrast essay is written for someone else–either a single
reader or a community of readers. When choosing the points you want to use to show readers that your topics are similar, different, or a combination of the two, you should keep this
audience in mind, making sure that you are choosing the most effective points possible to show how your two topics are similar or different.
In this instance, you are writing to show readers that your two topics are similar, different, or a combination of the two (similar and different). Keep this
audience in mind by emphasizing the
compare/
contrast
claims throughout the essay.
Form:
This is a formal writing project, written in
third-person, relying on strong
organizational strategies, integrating
researched evidence, and following
MLA formatting guidelines.
Six Features of a
Compare and
Contrast Essay
1.
Compare
/
Contrast
Thesis
: Contains a strong and succinct
thesis/
claim statement that outlines whether the two topics are similar, different, or a combination of the two, and at least three
supporting points that can boost that
claim. A sample
compare/
contrast
thesis might look like this:
Although curriculum A and curriculum B are similar in their student success goals, they are very different when it comes to their structure, topics, and scoring.
2.
Transition
s: Utilizes
transitional words and phrases that help the
audience (or
reader) move more easily from idea to idea, sentence to sentence, and paragraph to paragraph.
1. *Note–
transitions do not only occur in topic sentences but throughout the essay. When you are moving from one idea to the next, whether between two sentences or between two paragraphs, you will want to include
language that can help bridge your ideas (and sentences/paragraphs). Some examples might be “in addition to,” “next.”
3.
Compare
/
Contrast
Signals: In addition to more typical
transitional words and phrases, this essay should also include
compare/
contrast specific signals, emphasizing for readers how and why your topics are alike or different. Here are some example:
1. similar: in addition, by comparison, similarly
2. different: however, in
contrast, differing from
4.
Point-by-Point Organizational Strategy
: The essay should follow the point-by-point approach to showcase the use of
transitions,
synthesize your own
supporting points with
researched evidence, and build a fully developed essay with an
introduction, several body paragraphs, and a
conclusion. For this kind of
organization, you will create a
topic sentence for each
body paragraph that outlines a
compare/
contrast point regarding both topics and use the
body paragraph to show readers how your two topics are similar, different, or similar and different.
5.
Reliable and
Credible Sources
: The essay should integrate at least two reliable and
credible sources (also known as “
scholarly sources”) to help prove the
compare/
contrast
claims to readers and to boost or substantiate the
supporting points that you have created for your two topics.
Proofreading
and
Revising
: As with any writing project, the final draft of this essay should be carefully reviewed for clarity and correctness. This includes checking
word choice,
sentence structure,
organization,
transitions/coherence, and
MLA formatting.
Choosing a Topic for Your
Compare/
Contrast Essay
Selecting the right topic is an important step in ensuring your success in writing a
Compare
/
Contrast
essay. You’ll want to choose a topic that has the following features:
· Of interest to you
· Relevant
· Current
· Debatable
· Well-researched
·
Narrow in scope
· Academic or “scholarly” in nature
Topics to avoid, as they are either too complex to
compare
and/or
contrast
in a single essay, or not considered appropriate for an academic or scholarly argument, are as follows:
For/against . . .
· The death penalty
· Euthanasia or self-assisted death
· Abortion
· The (il)legalization of drugs (e.g. marijuana)
· Religion or religious readings (e.g. existence of a higher order/being, or life after death)
· Gun rights/rules
· Global warming
Please do not select one of the above topics, as your essay may be returned without grading, and you will be asked to rewrite it.
Need assignment ideas?
Take a look at this valuable resource from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Writing Center:
Topic Ideas
It is one of the most cliché of clichés, but it nevertheless rings true: The only constant is change. As a nursing professional, you are no doubt aware that success in the healthcare field requires the ability to adapt to change, as the pace of change in healthcare may be without rival.
As a professional, you will be called upon to share expertise, inform, educate, and advocate. Your efforts in these areas can help lead others through change. In this Assignment, you will propose a change within your organization and present a comprehensive plan to implement the change you propose.
To Prepare:
The Assignment (5-6-minute narrated PowerPoint presentation):
Change Implementation and Management Plan
Create a 5- or 6-slide narrated PowerPoint that presents a comprehensive plan to implement changes you propose.
Your narrated presentation should be 5–6 minutes in length.
Your Change Implementation and Management Plan should include the following:
Alternate Submission Method
You may also use Kaltura Personal Capture to record your narrated PowerPoint. This option will require you to create your PowerPoint slides first. Then, follow the Personal Capture instructions outlined on the Kaltura Media UploaderLinks to an external site. page. This page will walk you through downloading the tool and help you become familiar with the features of Personal Capture. When you are ready to begin recording, you may turn off the webcam option so that only “Screen” and “Audio” are enabled. Start your recording and then open your PowerPoint to slide show view. Once the recording is complete, follow the instructions found on the “Posting Your Video in the Classroom Guide” found on the Kaltura Media page for instructions on how to submit your video. For this option, in addition to submitting your video, you must also upload your PowerPoint file which must include your speaker notes.
Reading and understanding food labels can often feel like having to understand an entirely new language. However, it is important that consumers are able to read and interpret the nutrient content in the foods they consume.
For this assignment, you will need to compare the nutrition labels (provided) for two types of crackers, and then answer a series of questions. Use the Food Label Worksheet below.
File:
Food Label Worksheet
Introduction
In your health care career, you will be confronted with many problems that demand a solution. By using research skills, you can learn what others are doing and saying about similar problems. Then, you can analyze the problem and the people and systems it affects. You can also examine potential solutions and their ramifications. This assessment allows you to practice this approach with a real-world problem.
Instructions
Note: The requirements outlined below correspond to the grading criteria in the scoring guide. At a minimum, be sure to address each point. In addition, you are encouraged to review the performance-level descriptions for each criterion to see how your work will be assessed.
1. Describe the health care problem or issue you selected for use in Assessment 2 (from the
Assessment Topic Areas
media piece) and provide details about it.
· Explore your chosen topic. For this, you should use the first four steps of the
Socratic Problem-Solving Approach
to aid your critical thinking. This approach was introduced in Assessment 2.
· Identify possible causes for the problem or issue.
2. Use scholarly information to describe and explain the health care problem or issue and identify possible causes for it.
· Identify at least three scholarly or academic peer-reviewed journal articles about the topic.
· You may find the
How Do I Find Peer-Reviewed Articles?
library guide helpful in locating appropriate references.
· You may use articles you found while working on Assessment 2 or you may search the Capella library for other articles.
· You may find the applicable Undergraduate Library Research Guide helpful in your search.
· Review the
Think Critically About Source Quality
to help you complete the following:
· Assess the credibility of the information sources.
· Assess the relevance of the information sources.
3. Analyze the health care problem or issue.
· Describe the setting or context for the problem or issue.
· Describe why the problem or issue is important to you.
· Identify groups of people affected by the problem or issue.
· Provide examples that support your analysis of the problem or issue.
4. Discuss potential solutions for the health care problem or issue.
· Describe what would be required to implement a solution.
· Describe potential consequences of ignoring the problem or issue.
· Provide the pros and cons for one of the solutions you are proposing.
5. Explain the ethical principles (Beneficence, Nonmaleficence, Autonomy, and Justice) if potential solution was implemented.
· Describe what would be necessary to implement the proposed solution.
· Explain the ethical principles that need to be considered (Beneficence, Nonmaleficence, Autonomy, and Justice) if the potential solution was implemented.
· Provide examples from the literature to support the points you are making.
Example Assessment: You may use the following to give you an idea of what a Proficient or higher rating on the scoring guide would look like:
·
Assessment 4 Example [PDF]
Download Assessment 4 Example [PDF]
.
Additional Requirements
Your assessment should also meet the following requirements:
·
Length: 4–6 typed, double-spaced pages, not including the title page and reference page.
·
Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.
·
APA tutorial: Use the
APA Style Paper Tutorial [DOCX]
for guidance.
·
Written communication: Write clearly and logically, with correct use of spelling, grammar, punctuation, and mechanics.
·
Using outside sources: Integrate information from outside sources into academic writing by appropriately quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing, following APA style.
·
References: Integrate information from outside sources to include at least three scholarly or academic peer-reviewed journal articles and three in-text citations within the paper.
·
APA format: Follow current APA guidelines for in-text citations of outside sources in the body of your paper and also on the reference page.
Organize your paper using the following structure and headings:
·
Title page. A separate page.
·
Introduction. A brief one-paragraph statement about the purpose of the paper.
·
Elements of the problem/issue. Identify the elements of the problem or issue or question.
·
Analysis. Analyze, define, and frame the problem or issue.
·
Considering options. Consider solutions, responses, or answers.
·
Solution. Choose a solution, response, or answer.
·
Ethical implications. Ethical implications of implementing the solution.
·
Implementation. Implementation of the potential solution.
·
Conclusion. One paragraph.
A 72-year-old woman presents to her regular primary care physician (PCP) with a 2-day history of fatigue, malaise
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