part 1
Assignment – Graphic Presentation of Quality Data
As the manager of an ED, you are faced with the challenge of improving flow and matching your staffing plan to patient demand. Your monthly reports from the finance department present the ED’s volume statistics in a spreadsheet according to this month, last month, year to date, and the same month in the previous year. You decide to graph the data. You experiment with the following three graphs using the same information.
Based on the textbook Chapters 9 and 10, Applying Quality Management in Healthcare: A Systems Approach, FifthEditionBy Patrice L. Spa
- Select the graph you feel provides the most insight and explain why you chose that graph.
- Would it be correct to say that statistical data can improve the quality of healthcare delivery? Explain why or why not.
Part 2
Looking at this cartoon through the lens of healthcare in the United States, discuss the following: Picture is attached https://www.mediafire.com/file/78sgbb5dd3cuioa/pic.docx/file
- What healthcare point is the cartoonist trying to make?
- What healthcare conditions might have given rise to this cartoon?
- Explain why it is important for healthcare leaders to understand, acknowledge and value the difference between healthcare equality and healthcare equity.
