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Prompt: Refer to the chapter readings and module resources to support your responses to each of the four critical elements below. Carefully read and address each critical element as written, using detailed and informative analysis that conveys critical thinking. The four critical elements are aligned to the people technical competency within the HR knowledge domain. 

Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed: 

1. Talent Acquisition: Determine appropriate strategies for acquiring qualified talent, and explain how the strategies support organizational goals.

2.  Employee Engagement and Retention: Determine appropriate employee engagement strategies and explain how this approach will increase retention. 

3. Learning and Development: Determine learning and development opportunities aimed toward attracting and retaining qualified talent within the organization.

4. Total Rewards: Identify appropriate total rewards strategies to increase employee retention, and explain how these strategies support the goals of the organization.

What is a managed care organization? Based on your reading, discuss how managed care organizations attempt to control costs. What are the benefits and disadvantages associated with these cost controlling measures?Assignments are to be a minimum of 2 full pages of text and 3 reputable references in proper APA format.

PEER #1 TERRANCE

Disease management programs (DMPs) are coordinated treatment plans that have three primary purposes to improve the quality of life for patients living with chronic disease which are:

1.     Aiding patients to be stewards in their healthcare needs.

2.     Revisions on therapeutic care administered for next generations.

3.     Both parties (patient and health care provider) are able to LEARN what treatments/medications should be implanted to maintain stability in humanity.

The latest intervention within the Sickle Cell community is mobile health (dos Santos Pereira, et. al. 2018) a practice based on the used of information technologies and communication for healthcare purposes for patients can embrace conditions for evaluating health parameters, encourage healthy eating habits, and continued support of self-management. In a medical setting, behavioral health providers are capable of conducting an assessment on their clients to determine symptoms and to notation any new progressions that have been beneficial in treatment process. The significance of chronic disease supervision amongst the co-occurrence of mental illness is to optimize health outcomes and health-related quality of life.

Individuals enduring complex issues will find it beneficial to have an effective approach to manage their healthcare needs.

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dos Santos Pereira, S. A., Cecilio, S. G., Sant’Anna de Lima, K. C., Silvina Pagano, A., Reis, I. A., & Carvalho Torres, H. (2018). Mobile applications for sickle cell disease management: an integrative review. Acta Paulista de Enfermagem, 31(2), 224–232. https://doi-org.lopes.idm.oclc.org/10.1590/1982-0194201800032

InformedHealth.org [Internet]. Cologne, Germany: Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG); 2006-. What are disease management programs (DMPs)? 2007 Sep 27 [Updated 2016 Dec 30]. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK279412/

Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes-2018 Abridged for Primary Care Providers. (2018). Clinical Diabetes: A Publication Of The American Diabetes Association, 36(1), 14-37. doi:10.2337/cd17-0119

PEER #2 CAROLYN 

A disease management model is a standard guideline for treating chronic illnesses , it also is preventive care. Preventive care is a way to cut cost by catching the disease early and to follow the models guidelines of the chronic illness. A good example is something that very dear to my heart is addiction. I have lost many friends and family to this illness and it has become my fight to help and educate those that suffer. A person that suffers from heroin use will have physical problems as well as mental health issues. To integrate the two, the substance use has to be controlled by means of medical intervention. If the patient continues to use they can have serious health issues like ,liver disease, lung complications and issues with their veins and nose due to constant use (National Institute of Drug Abuse 2021). By having the patient treated by a therapist and PCP, they will work together with this chronic illness and it can be monitored and be cost effective. I have seen where this action has worked. A patient comes into the clinic to be treated by a medication to help with withdrawal symptoms. The on site doctor requires that a patient has a regular PCP. The PCP will do a complete physical and check for any of the common effects from using that substance. Together they build a complete plan to treat the patient. Now if a patient has lung complications the patient will continued to be monitored (preventive care) and seen as needed and the use of medications as the guidelines suggest for that issue. With that all working together the patient is stable. The therapist will help the client with the mental health part of the illness and reporting all information to the PCP to know where that patient is physically and mentally, it is integrated and cost effective.

NIDA. 2021, June 1. Heroin DrugFacts. Retrieved from https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/drugfacts/h… on 2021, 

PEER #3 REBECCA 

A disease management model can be described as a program that assists patients with managing long-term illnesses such as chronic pain. Because this model is a person-centered approach, it can be very easily implemented by a behavioral health care provider in a medical setting. This model focuses on chronic “illness” and other co-occurring disorders. One population that comes to mind for me is substance abuse. Substance abuse is defined as a mental health illness, meaning the patient will experience long-term effects of this. Substance abuse more often than not also includes other disorders or illnesses. Person-centered care is a very common therapeutic approach to substance abuse care as well. A behavioral health care provider working in a medical setting can use disease management to include all members of the patient’s team including doctors, psychiatrists, nurses, and social workers to ensure that the patient’s treatment plan for their disease (SUD in this case), includes all areas of focus for managing their care.

Reference:

Norris, S.L., Glasgow, R.E., Engelgau, M.M. et al. Chronic Disease Management. Dis-Manage-Health-Outcomes 11, 477–488 (2003). https://doi.org/10.2165/00115677-200311080-00001

I’m working on a health & medical discussion question and need an explanation and answer to help me learn.

Research and discuss the use of ONE technology in personal training/fitness/instruction/health. How does this technology contribute to health and fitness behavior change? Discuss some of the limitations of the technologies you presented.

I’m working on a health & medical multi-part question and need an explanation and answer to help me learn.

Prepare a revenue cycle plan for a community hospital.  Include the following information in your plan:

• Introduction
• Evaluation of clinical data required for payment and reimbursement systems (PPS, DRG, RBRVS, RUGs, VBP, Billing/insurance plans).
• Explanation of chargemaster and claims management applications and processes.
• Assess the effect on healthcare finance of revenue management (cost reporting, budget variances).
• Summarize revenue cycle management and reporting processes (CCI, X12N).
• Evaluation of the severity of illness and how it impacts the healthcare payment systems.

Turning barriers into bridges is a skill you will want to develop as a care coordination expert. Today, care coordination is required often in rural areas where there are limited resources and the need to work creatively with inter-professional team members who may reside outside of the local area. The use of telehealth becomes a bridge to care coordination as a collaborative tool for health care providers as a team of specialist.

Preparation

For this assessment, you will develop prepare summary report for improved rural health in the form of a scholarly document.

Review the Resources for this assessment and conduct your own library research to develop and support your ideas.

As you prepare to complete this assessment, you may want to think about other related issues to deepen your understanding or broaden your viewpoint. You are encouraged to consider the questions below and discuss them with a fellow learner, a work associate, an interested friend, or a member of your professional community. Note that these questions are for your own development and exploration and do not need to be completed or submitted as part of your assessment.

As you think about rural areas and care coordination efforts, consider the importance of effectively utilizing interprofessional teams.

• What types of communication strategies would you, as a care coordination team leader of interprofessionals, consider to enhance collaborative understanding and respectful partnerships?
• How can you help the interprofessional team prepare to be a competent care delivery team of evidence-based care?

Implementing or changing the use of technology is ongoing in care coordination practice.

• What type of strategy would you consider to enhance collaborative efforts with interprofessional team members with technology?
• How does technology alter the care coordination efforts when used effectively?
• What types of issues do you need to keep at the forefront when using technology to enhance communication and care?

In each population or community, a care coordinator will have specific needs and challenges.

• What is most important when you consider cultural competence for the care coordination team within the context of legal and ethical care delivery?

Requirements

Prepare a 4–5 page summary report of a rural health care problem and potential solutions.

Summary Report Format

Use APA format. Create paragraph headings based on the scoring guide criteria. 

Supporting Evidence

Cite 5–7 sources of credible, scholarly, or professional evidence to support your claims and solutions.

Directions

There are many opportunities to turn barriers into bridges when working with limited resources. Imagine you are working as a care coordination consultant in a rural area and you need to find affordable solutions to many complex patient issues. You have decided to start with one type of patient population to design a path for care coordination using the resources in the community in conjunction with telehealth with regional outreach partners.

Following these instructions will help ensure you meet the scoring guide criteria:

• Identify and describe a rural community, the patient issues they face, and one specific population you can assist with this plan. Address any cultural or diversity-aware responsibilities the care coordinator should consider.
• Identify the interprofessional team providers currently available in the rural community. Analyze how they can be assisted by telehealth partners in the region, and any other stakeholders that may be involved.
• Describe the nuances for this population related to cultural competence for the interprofessional team, and how this affects care coordination and collaboration.
• Recommend technology-based outreach strategies supported by evidence-based research. Incorporate proven educational and evidence-based strategies, and how they might be modified using the outreach partners to enhance care in this rural community. Also, do consider the legal issues with telehealth and how this new strategy provides a clear path to ethical practice into the future.
• Support main points, claims, and conclusions with relevant and credible evidence, correctly formatting citations and references using APA style.

Scoring Guide Criteria

Your assessment should meet the following scoring guide criteria:

1. Describe a specific population need and the community.
2. Analyze current available interprofessional team providers and resources.
3. Identify areas of cultural competency the team must address.
4. Recommend technology-based outreach strategies supported by evidence-based research.
5. Identify possible legal issues.
6. Explain the continuation of ethical care in the updated system.
7. Communicate effectively in an appropriate form and style, consistent with applicable professional and scholarly standards.

Additional Requirements

Your assessment should also meet the following requirements:

• Written communication: Written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message.
• APA formatting: Your paper should demonstrate current APA style and formatting.
• Number of resources: Include 5–7 resources, appropriately cited throughout your paper and in your reference list.
• Length: 4–5 pages, typed and double-spaced, not including the title page and reference list.
• Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.

Portfolio Prompt: You may choose to save this learning activity to your ePortfolio.

Competencies Measured

By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:

• Competency 1: Analyze the use of ethics to enhance coordinated care.
  • Explain the continuation of ethical care in the updated system.
• Competency 2: Evaluate the legal implications in care coordination.
  • Identify possible legal issues.
• Competency 3: Critically appraise collaborative and interprofessional relationships with care coordination stakeholders.
  • Analyze current available interprofessional team providers and resources.
• Competency 4: Recommend care coordination standards of practice for working with stakeholders.
  • Recommend technology-based outreach strategies supported by evidence-based research.
• Competency 5: Determine components of an effective, culturally competent, diversity-aware care coordination environment.
  • Describe a specific population need and the community.
  • Identify areas of cultural competency the team must address.
• Competency 7: Communicate effectively with diverse audiences, in an appropriate form and style, consistent with applicable organizational, professional, and scholarly standards.
  • Communicate effectively in an appropriate form and style, consistent with applicable professional and scholarly standards.
  • Optional Resources:
  • COMMUNICATION AND CULTURAL COMPETENCE
• Ghaffari, A., Wells, R., Creel, L., & Siañez, M. (2018, March). A relational perspective on care coordination [PDF]. Health Care Management Review, 1–10.
• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. (n.d.). TeamSTEPPS: Team strategies & tools to enhance performance & patient safety. https://www.ahrq.gov/teamstepps/index.html
  • This resource offers information and toolkits about cohesive team building.
• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. (n.d.). TeamSTEPPS helps St. Louis Hospital keep C-section rate low. https://www.ahrq.gov/news/newsroom/case-studies/20…
  • This case study offers an example of successful interdisciplinary communicatioN
• COORDINATION, STRATEGY AND TECHNOLOGY RESOURCES
  • Chang, L., Wanner, K. J., Kovalsky, D., Smith, K. L., & Rhod, K. V. (2018). It’s really overwhelming: Patient perspectives on care coordination. Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine, 31(5), 682–690. https://www.jabfm.org/content/31/5/682
  • Rea, C. J., Wenren, L. M., Tran, K. D., Zwemer, E., Mallon, D., Bernson-Leung, M., Samuels, R. C., & Toomey, S. L. (2018). Shared care: Using an electronic consult form to facilitate primary care provider–specialty care coordination. Academic Pediatrics, 18(7), 797–804.
  • Fernandez, J., McGuire, A., & Raikou, M. (2018). Hospital coordination and integration with social care in England: The effect on post-operative length of stay. Journal of Health Economics, 61, 233–243.

Prepare a job description, 4-6 interview questions, and a 2-3 page narrative overview. Please use APA format with references within the past 5 years. Attached below is the scoring guide that must be used to ensure satisfying assignment. OPTIONAL references are provided if you wish to use.

Introduction

Communities and organizations are in need of care coordination experts who can lead inter-professional team efforts across a region and for multiple populations. Organizations and communities need to be able to define and assess the best fit for these highly important roles. An expert who is capable of this type of role should have comprehensive knowledge related to the scope and standard of practice for care coordination and how they are applied in practical ways to achieve best practice outcomes for care coordination. Having a toolkit as a guide can help organizations to understand and achieve the selection of the best candidate for this type of critical position.

Preparation

For this assessment, you will create a toolkit that includes a brief job description, interview questions, and a narrative overview in the form of a scholarly document.

Review the Resources for this assessment and conduct your own library research to develop and support your ideas.

As you prepare to complete this assessment, you may want to think about other related issues to deepen your understanding or broaden your viewpoint. You are encouraged to consider the questions below and discuss them with a fellow learner, a work associate, an interested friend, or a member of your professional community. Note that these questions are for your own development and exploration and do not need to be completed or submitted as part of your assessment.

Data and quality outcomes are a vital piece of planning and measuring care coordination practices.

What are the key elements that leaders in care coordination should understand about measuring quality outcomes?

What type of data do you want any type of care coordination to monitor and evaluate when effecting change for care delivery?

As a leader in practice, you will have many stakeholders to consider with every care coordination effort.

• How do you define and build stakeholder engagement to create and sustain change with the care coordination team?
• How would you define responsible and accountable care coordination, when leading a team for enhanced care?

What type of characteristics does a care coordination team leader need to embody to be an advocate for continual care improvements?

Requirements

• Prepare a job description, 4–6 interview questions, and a 2–3 page narrative overview.
• Toolkit Format
• Use APA format. Create paragraph headings based on the scoring guide criteria. 

Supporting Evidence

Cite 5–7 sources of credible, scholarly, or professional evidence to support your claims and solutions.

Directions

Your community is in need of a new care coordination role to assist with care in an organization or on larger scope in the region. For this assessment, you, as a care coordination leader, design the role of a care coordinator by creating a job description and describing the attributes that you are looking for in a candidate to fill this position.

Following these instructions will help ensure you meet the scoring guide criteria:

Describe the care coordinator role need specific to your chosen community or region. This description should include the attributes you deem essential to the role, related to standards of practice.

Provide 4–6 interview questions that demonstrate the qualities of an effective, ethical, and culturally aware nurse leader. Think about the standards of practice for care coordination and transition management, leading the interprofessional team in collaborative change, and the candidate’s ability to be a visionary for change in the organization or community.

Analyze the ideal candidate’s knowledge related to legal and ethical considerations, stakeholder and interprofessional teams, cultural competence, and data use to improve care coordination in a 2–3 page narrative. In other words, explain what knowledge and skills a care coordinator should demonstrate for this role, such as knowledge of legal and ethical considerations as well as stakeholder and interprofessional team collaboration, being culturally competent, and knowing how to assess and use data to enhance care.

The result will be a toolkit to assist the interview team in understanding how to choose the best candidate.

Scoring Guide Criteria

Your assessment should meet the following scoring guide criteria:

Create a job description and interview questions for a care coordination leadership position.

• Analyze the candidate’s knowledge related to ethical guidelines and practices to improve care coordination.
• Analyze the candidate’s knowledge of laws and policies within care coordination.
• Analyzes the candidate’s knowledge related to stakeholder and interprofessional teams to implement care coordination.

Analyze the candidate’s knowledge related to data outcomes use to enhance care.

Communicate effectively in an appropriate form and style, consistent with applicable professional and scholarly standards

**Please see and use all 3 attachments to help with this assignment.

Position Paper Topic selection

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Directions: Healthcare policy impacts nursing professionals and the broader public. Regardless of where the registered nurse practices, healthcare policy is an important aspect of professional nursing and guides how nurses will practice, “amplifies the views of nursing, and educates consumers and decision makers” (American Nurses Association, n.d.).

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Select one of the ANA Official Position Statements and then select one of the subcategories (i.e. position statement: Nursing Practice; subcategory: Delegation)

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For this assignment, you will review and analyze one of the ANA Official Position Statements (https://www.nursingworld.org/practice-policy/nursing-excellence/official-position-statements/

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ANA position statements – the category and select subcategories are listed below:

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• Drug and Alcohol Abuse
  • Abuse of Prescription Drugs
  • Drug Testing for Health Care Workers
  • Substance Use Among Nurses and Nursing Students
• Electronic Health Record
  • Electronic Health Record
  • Inclusion of Recognized Terminologies Supporting Nursing Practice within Electronic Health Records and Other Health Information Technology Solutions
  • Standardization and Interoperability of Health Information Technology: Supporting Nursing and the National Quality Strategy for Better Patient Outcomes
• Ethics and Human Rights
  • Nursing Care and Do-not-resuscitate (DNR) Decisions (Approved 2/19/2020)
  • Nurse’s Role in Providing Ethically and Developmentally Appropriate Care to People With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (Approved 10/10/19)
  • The Nurse’s Role When a Patient Requests Medical Aid in Dying (Approved 6/22/19)
  • The Nurse’s Role in Addressing Discrimination: Protecting and Promoting Inclusive Strategies in Practice Settings, Policy, and
  • The Ethical Responsibility to Manage Pain and the Suffering It Causes (Approved 2/23/2018)
  • Nursing Advocacy for LGBTQ+ Populations (Approved 4/19/18)
  • Capital Punishment and Nurses’ Participation in Capital Punishment (Approved 12/2/16)
  • Nurses’ Roles and Responsibilities in Providing Care and Support at the End of Life (Approved 2016)
  • The Nurse’s Role in Ethics and Human Rights: Protecting and Promoting Individual Worth, Dignity, and Human Rights in Practice Settings (February 2016)
  • Privacy and Confidentiality (Revised 6/15)
  • Risk and Responsibility in Providing Nursing Care (Revised 6/15)
• HIV and Viral Hepatitis
  • Prevention and Care for HIV and Related Conditions
• Nursing Practice
  • Addressing Nurse Fatigue to Promote Safety and Health
  • Delegation
  • Incivility, Bullying, and Workplace Violence
• Patient Safety
  • Patient Safety: Rights of Registered Nurses When Considering a Patient Assignment
  • Promoting Safe Medication Use in the Older Adult
• Privacy and Confidentiality
  • Privacy and Confidentiality
• Social Causes and Health Care
  • ANA and AAN Joint Statement on Family Separation Policy
  • NAPNAP Position Statement on Immunizations
  • Promotion and Disease Prevention
  • Violence Against Women
• Role of the Registered Nurse
  • Professional Role Competence
  • Care coordination and Registered Nurses’ Essential Role
  • Registered Nurses Utilization of Nursing Assistive Personnel in All Settings
• Workplace Advocacy
  • Just Culture
  • Nursing Staffing Requirements to Meet the Demands of Today’s Long Term Care Consumer
  • Sexual Harassment
  • Work Release During a Disaster – Registered Nurses’ Rights and Responsibilities

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Below are the contents of the paper for the assignment:

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• Introduction
• Identify the topic and the ANA Official Position
• Compare and Contrast the position with another federal, national, or global organization on the same or similar position – must show similarities and differences
• Using QSEN Competencies – Describe how the position supports at least one QSEN competency and relevant KSA’s
• Analyze the impact of the position on the nursing profession and the broader public – most important section – spend time on this!
• Discuss how a coach leader would promote this position with novice nurses.
• Conclusion
• References

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The paper is due on the TurnItIn forum (less than 20% unoriginality) and in the grading forum

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This is an APA formatted paper. Use the MEAL acronym for developing your paper.

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APA requirements for all papers is on the moodle page near the APA references and information.

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There should be at least references for the position statement, QSEN competency, the comparison organization, and at least two peer-reviewed journals for the analysis section. Do not use .com or .net websites at all. Use scholarly peer-reviewed articles, websites can be.gov,.org, .edu .

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Review the rubric that will be used for grading before you turn it in for a grade.

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Reference

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American Nurses Association. (n.d.). ANA official position statements. Retrieved from https://www.nursingworld.org/practice-policy/nursing-excellence/official-position-statements/

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Quality and Safety Education for Nurses. (n.d.). QSEN competencies. Retrieved from https://qsen.org/competencies/pre-licensure-ksas/

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*** Note: I left the links in these references hyperlinked for your convenience. For APA formatted papers, these should NOT be hyperlinked or underlined.

In what ways can Nurses, specifically BSN-prepared nurses,
demonstrate leadership during the current COVID 19 pandemic?

No less than 10 references, you should do an appropriate
evaluation of all references used. At least 3-5 paragraphs

APA format

This will be graded for content, grammar, punctuation, proper
APA format, and even your references.