¶ … resource file. These structures are typically found in hospitals but less frequently in other health care organizations. Select another health care organization and discuss how one or more of these structures could be adapted to it
Conducting in-depth interviews can be a vitally important part of an organization's ability to 'check in' in terms of how it provides critical services to patients. Structured interviews are designed to elicit specific responses about a particular component of the care that is bestowed, often with specific lists of questions to allow for quantitative comparisons of results; unstructured interviews solicit general information without a specific focus. Semi-structured interviews tend to have a purpose, but are less controlled in terms of their questioning and can allow for greater patient input.
One area of healthcare which often receives insufficient attention is the school environment. Schools provide health information for students in classes, and also provide mental health guidance in some instances. The school nurse may be asked to dispense medicine, or provide advice to parents on how to reduce the...
However, parents' education about childhood health issues may be lacking, and conducting structured and semi-structured interviews of selected parents from a wide array of demographics at the school would better enable the instructions to target the most high-priority health services and address knowledge deficits. Semi-structured interviews might be useful to identify as-yet unknown health deficits, such as parents who are unaware how to obtain low-cost dental care for their children or themselves, or who are unaware of the ability to gain assistance for subsidized breakfasts. The use of such interviews would not only improve the health of students and families served by the school, but also improve academic performance, given that poor health is often linked to poor grades.
Q2.Much has been reported about defensive medicine driving up the cost of health care. Discuss the concept of defensive medicine providing examples from the resource file as well as your personal experience.
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Creating and Driving Value Now that we have determined which group of employees can have the greatest impact on patient outcomes, and thus represent key drivers of value within the organization, our next task is to decide what they can do to achieve their goals. In order to answer these questions, we must develop an understanding of what determines patient outcomes, and the overall impressions of the hospital. We must ask
LEGAL ISSUE, STRUCTURE, and ANALYSIS A. LEGAL ISSUES-LIMITED PARTNERSHIP. According to Black's Law Dictionary (1991), a limited partnership is a "type of partnership of one or more general partners who manage business and who are personally liable for partnership debts, and one or more limited partners, who contribute capital and share in profits but who take no part in running business and incur no liability with respect to partnership obligations beyond contribution"
Some manufacturers have sought to improve their profitability by becoming more horizontally integrated in their supply chain management operations, but it does not appear feasible for the company to acquire the vendors that supply its component parts so viable alternatives must be identified that can facilitate the supply chain management process vertically. As Choy, Lee and Lo (2003) point out, "Very few manufactures now own all the activities along the
The attitude of being the "Little Emperor." Albeit, normally disappears by the time the child from the one child family begins working when an adult. Child psychologist David Elkind Ph.D. (2009), Professor Emeritus of Child Development at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, asserts in the article, "The only child," that many of the currently adolescent singletons regularly presenting with a variety of social and behavioral problems (¶ 1). This social
However, Switzerland has moved very slowly as a nation in accepting new cultures and outsiders. Swiss citizenship is nearly impossible to obtain. The nation is dependent upon a small, closely-knit band of citizen-soldiers for its defense. Socially, women were only given the right to vote in Switzerland in the second half of the 20th century, well after other nations. In other words, an American business manager must be prepared
Enterprise Resource Planning Enterprise Resource Management Planning for Business Success The Youtube video covers Enterprise resource planning (ERP) which is a process that integrates all external and internal management information across an entire business organization. This process embraces the finance/accounting, sales and service manufacturing, customer relationship management and other aspects of an organization. ERP systems fully automate all of this organizational activity with integrated software whose purpose is to help with the