describe the autocratic leadership theory

discuss how the autocratic leadership theory applies to nursing

discuss how the autocratic leadership theory is pertinent to delivering quality health care

include a reflection and explanation of:

Your opinion on the value and applications of autocratic leadership theory in the healthcare environment

Your own transformational or authentic leadership qualities and the role your qualities play in delivering quality healthcare

3 pages, APA, 3 peer reviewed articles less than 5 years old

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

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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

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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.

Complete the ATI Systems Disorder template (Tuberculosis) for your assigned infection topic. Every box on the template must be completed, a citation is needed for every box, and your reference list must be included (APA). 

This week you are leaning about the hypothesis testing method in statistics. This process starts out by stating the null and alternative hypotheses. Review the terms in “The Visual Learner: Statistics,” located in the Topic 3 Resources, to answer these questions.

Think of a research study that you would like to conduct at your current or future place of employment. In designing your research question, describe the null and alternative hypotheses. What would type I and type II errors look like in this hypothetical situation? Identify if this was a one-tailed or a two-tailed test?

Example: It is hypothesized that a follow-up phone call 2 weeks after discharge will improve patient compliance with the aftercare protocol.

Null Hypothesis: Communication with the patient 2 weeks after discharge will not change the compliance of patient aftercare protocol.

Alternative Hypothesis: Communication with the patient 2 weeks after discharge will improve compliance of patient aftercare protocol.

Type I Error: A type I error could occur if the data suggest an effect of the postdischarge phone call when there was not improvement in compliance of the aftercare protocol.

Type II Error: A type II error could have occurred if the data suggest that there was no improvement in compliance of the aftercare protocol when in fact there was an improvement.

One- or Two-Tailed Test: This is a one-tailed test because the researchers are predicting an increase in compliance of the aftercare protocol.

As mental health stigma continues to be a significant barrier to seeking and receiving appropriate care, what strategies can nurse practitioners employ to foster open communication and reduce stigma surrounding schizophrenia, mood disorders, anxiety disorders, PTSD, and OCD within their practice and in the broader community?