Questions About a Nursing Position

Leadership What are 3 ways to evaluate a health leader's performance and 3 ways to evaluate an organizations performance. Please explain. Evaluating a health leader's performance can be evaluating along organizational goals and how they are move the healthcare organization towards these objectives. Another measure could be a quality of care metric or an evaluation of health outcomes. Finally, there is generally some measurement of financial information that is used to make sure the organization is operating profitably.

The organization will also have to use some set of financial measures to ensure that it provides an adequate return to the investors. However other measures that the organization could use would be customer satisfaction levels as gauged by feedback from patients most likely gathered by survey data. Finally, another common benchmark for organizations are some set of performance metrics such as wait time for patients or even something like employee satisfaction or the turnover rate of employees. 2.

What is the Iron triangle? What is the managed care quaternion and how does it relate to the parity of health care model. "The Iron Triangle" is a term coined to describe the relationship between cost, quality, and access in all sorts of institutions because you can't affect one aspect without affecting the other two aspects, it is a concept full of trade-offs (Johnson, 2012). For example, to provide high quality healthcare that expands access, it is likely that the costs will be excessively higher than they would have been otherwise.

Human Resources 1. What is leadership development, succession planning, mentoring and coaching? Leadership development refers to the process of preparing someone for a leadership role as well as continuing to improve their performance once they reach a leadership position. Often when a leader is planning to retire or leave the organization, a replacement will be chosen and succession planning will allow the new leader to be better prepared to fill the role.

The current leader can mentor and coach the new individual by transferring their knowledge and helping the leader to be effective in the new role. 2. What is the fair labor standards act, Civil rights act, equal pay act of 1963, ADA Act and equal employment opportunity act. Please explain. The fair labor standards act established the forty-hour work week as well as a national minimum wage.

The Civil rights act prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin; the equal pay act prevents women from being paid substantially less for the same work; the ADA act prevents qualified individuals from discrimination if they have a disability, and the EEO act established a system for federal regulations protecting workers (EEOC, N.d.). Statistics 1. Discuss in your own words, when we use the binomial distribution. Give at least ten (10) characteristics of distribution.

The binomial distribution is used to try to estimate how likely it is for one of the values given will represent one of the two independent variables used. Characteristics of a binomial experiment (EDedu, 2012): A. The same action is repeated n times 1. Conditions for repetition must be identical 2. Each trial must be independent of all others B. Only 2 outcomes are possible; considered Success and Failure C. On an individual trial P (success).