REview: Perceived Workload Using Separate (Filtering Facepiece Respirator and Face Shield) and Powered Air-Purifying Respirator and Integrated Lightweight Protective Air-Purifying Respirator: Protocol for an International Multisite Human Factors Randomized Crossover Feasibility Study. Click on the doi to read the article: doi: 10.2196/36549Links to an external site. The purpose of these article summaries is to educate … Read more
Description As health care manager, your facility will soon be implementing an electronic health record (EHR). Some employees feel that they are not technologically gifted. Some employees feel the computer will soon cause them to be laid off. Employees are discussing this implementation and passing rumors about whether the implementation will actually improve the medical … Read more
Competencies Evaluate the effect of individual personality, behaviors, and values on personal and professional relationships. Analyze the importance of adjusting individual behavior as it relates to personal and professional goals. Create individual strategies for self-management. Evaluate the importance of affecting and managing relationships. Evaluate time management tools that can impact individual well-being and relationships. Demonstrate … Read more
Competency Evaluate time management tools that can impact individual well-being and relationships. Student Success Criteria View the grading rubric for this deliverable by selecting the “This item is graded with a rubric” link, which is located in the Details & Information pane. Scenario You recently have been given five projects, all with high priority and … Read more
As a health care department manager, you have 10 employees under your supervision. The attendance policy at your facility requires employees to uphold good attendance. If an employee is late more than 5 times in 1 month, the department manager must begin corrective action. One employee has been late to work 10 times this … Read more
Goal: To assess a clinical issue that is the focus of the Quality Improvement Project. Evaluate the clinical project. Putting it all together for the final Quality Improvement Project. Content Requirements: A description of the clinical issue (SEPSIS education for providers(nurses doctors etc) to be addressed in the project. A SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats) … Read more
Ethical Issues Surrounding Death When is a person dead? How do we define death? Do people have a right to die? This issue becomes convoluted when attempting to revive a person or artificially sustain them. Death is, legally speaking, an irreversible state involving no response to stimulation, no movement or breathing, no reflexes, and … Read more
Hospice Myths. I found this article about Hospice Myths. https://www.agingcare.com/articles/common-hospice-myths-151476.htm Can you think of other things people think about hospice that turn out to not be true? Can you suggest other links? How can we educate people about the benefits of hospice? A friend of mine died this year. She had hospice for many months. I … Read more
Health Care in the United States Watch this video from the Crash Course Sociology Site via YouTube.#42 Health and Medicine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NGlENS1qgo Did you learn anything about our health care system that stood out?
Select an existing healthcare program or policy evaluation or choose one of interest to you. Review community, state, or federal policy evaluation and reflect on the criteria used to measure the effectiveness of the program or policy described. Post an evaluation topic and a brief description of the evaluation. Discuss how social determinants impact this … Read more