causes and consequences of prejudice

you will reflect on the causes and consequences of prejudice, and apply the theories and strategies of conflict resolution to a fictional situation.

• Respond to the following statement:

“All those women on welfare have it made. All they do is stay home and make babies while the rest of us have to work and pay taxes to support them.”

• Reflect on this statement in the context of what we have learned about prejudice.
• Propose strategies that could resolve this particular prejudice.

Current Evidence Based Quality Improvements

Prepare an executive summary regarding current evidence based quality improvements and make recommendations to integrate evidence-based practices into the quality improvement initiatives. The summary should include the following information:

1. Differentiate between evidence-based practice and quality improvement processes.
2. Summarize common threats to quality and patient safety initiatives and the role quality improvement processes can neutralize these threats.
3. Develop a strategic plan based on a quality improvement model to address patient safety.

Rubric:

Detailed recommendations to integrate evidence-based practices into the quality improvement initiative with complete explanation of how it will improve initiative.

Comprehensive list of differences between evidence based practice and quality improvement processes. Included multiple supporting rationales for each item on the list.

Clear and thorough summary of the common threats to quality and patient safety initiatives. Provided multiple supporting rationales for how quality improvement processes can neutralize these threats.

Clear and thorough information included in the strategic plan. Provided multiple supporting rationales for how the quality improvement model will increase patient safety.

you are working with a member of HR to create a quality improvement strategy and training for the hospital.

Being a member of the quality team, you are working with a member of HR to create a quality improvement strategy and training for the hospital. This training will engage the healthcare staff in promoting diversity and inclusion in healthcare to improve patient satisfaction and employee satisfaction.

Instructions

Develop a PowerPoint presentation (using speaker notes for each slide) that will be presented to the Director of Quality. Include the following information in the training:

1. Devise one quality improvement goal and one objective addressing cultural competence in healthcare for the hospital
2. Develop three initiatives to meet the objective within the next year.
3. Select one initiative and create a staff training that can be implemented within the next 30 days. The training should include:

• An analysis of the growing need for diversity awareness and inclusion
• Discuss the value of cultural competence in healthcare quality improvement
• Evaluate the relationship of patient satisfaction and employee satisfaction related to diversity awareness and inclusion
• A training activity related to cultural competence and quality improvement

Rubric

Clear and thorough explanation of one quality improvement goal and one quality improvement objective addressing cultural competence in healthcare. Provided multiple supporting rationales for the goal and objective.

Comprehensive list of at least three initiatives designed to meet the quality improvement objective. Included multiple examples for each item on the list.

Clear and thorough training plan. Included comprehensive descriptions with multiple supporting examples for each sub-bullet.

: Integrate non-Western healing methods and wellness approaches into psychosocial interventions with individuals and groups

The purpose of this assignment is to gain some experience with mindfulness meditation so that you are better equipped to integrate it into your repertoire of interventions

Information Governance and Legal Functions

Information Governance and Legal Functions: According to the authors, Smallwood, Kahn, and Murphy, IG is perhaps one of the functional areas that impact legal functions most. Failure to meet them could be literally put an organization out of business or land executives in prison.  Privacy, security, records management, information technology (IT), and business management functions are very important. However, the most significant aspect of all of these functions relates to legality and regulatory compliance from a critical perspective.

For this discussion, identify the industry you will be writing about in your final paper and discuss the regulatory compliance requirements that the company has to meet and the corresponding security, privacy, and records management functions that would need to be enabled for that organization.

outline a plan to develop a strategy for optimizing your organization’s workforce management strategy

Assume the role of the chief operations strategist for a multi-specialty health care organization. You have determined that the organization could benefit from creating a workforce management strategy for the purpose of optimizing staffing levels. With worsening staffing shortages in critical areas such as nursing and primary care physicians, there is a concern that staffing shortages will result in higher labor costs across the healthcare spectrum. This could pose a significant challenge to the goal of balancing costs, quality and access to care.

Instructions

Draft a memo to the CEO outlining a plan to develop a strategy for optimizing your organization’s workforce management strategy. Your memo should:

• Describe the looming shortages of critical supply areas (nursing shortages, primary care physician shortages, etc.);
• Explain the impact of the growing baby boom population on the system and how their complex needs may affect the cost, access, and quality of care;
• Assess the use of analytics in optimizing recruitment and retention efforts for healthcare workers in critical roles;
• Advocate for value-based strategies such as virtual care (telehealth) and other patient-support roles such as health educators and community health workers.

Conclude your memo with a discussion on how workforce management strategies and value-based strategies may improve operational efficiency.

Nursing plan care

Nursing plan of care including: Pathophysiology, Signs and Symptoms, Diagnostic,  Medication, Nursing interventions and PatientTeaching.

 Do you think it is okay for external workers to reply on the work of internal auditors? 

Do you think it is okay for external workers to reply on the work of internal auditors?

Describe in detail at least one example where the choice of words you or someone else used to describe something had consequences.

Giving something a name makes it possible to talk about it. For example, the phrase “sexual harassment” was not common in English until around 1975. (See the screen shot below of how often it was used in print in English since 1900.) Before then, it was called “being fresh” or “making a pass”. You can’t solve a problem, for example, if something doesn’t have a name.

Describe in detail at least one example where the choice of words you or someone else used to describe something had consequences.

Patient advocacy

Advocacy is described as helping others to grow, providing informed consent and alternative options, and speaking up for a patient when they cannot speak up for themselves (Marquis & Huston, 2021). Patient advocacy is also described as safeguarding and championing social justice for patients (Abbasinia et al., 2020). On our inpatient/covid unit, covid patients were not permitted to have any visitors. At times, one visitor per non-covid patients was allowed but it was mandated that it be the same visitor throughout the entire stay. My covid patient was about to get intubated and had been with use for 4 weeks under covid precautions (this in itself was a fight to get her off of covid precautions). I had a gut feeling that she was not going to come off of the ventilator and wanted her to be able to say goodbye. I had called all of her 4 children and the 4th one answered the phone and happened to be at the hospital for a doctor’s appointment. Without approval, I made the decision to tell her to come to the floor to be able to talk to her mother before she was intubated because I did not want to take a chance at hearing “no” as an answer. After my supervisor came back from a meeting, she noticed the patient’s daughter leaving the floor and I explained why I made that decision. I also discussed with my hospitalist that I had called the daughter and he offered to put in an order for a visitor if needed. She ended up supporting my decision and I knew that she would have advocated for me if there was an issue stemming from her supervisors. My patient ended up passing away a week later at the higher acuity facility and I will never regret that decision to allow one of her family members to get that last hug.