Final Project: Milestone One

For additional details, please refer to the MILESTONE ONE RUBRIC AND GUIDELINES attached below – ALL INSTRUCTIONS ARE THERE

The Organization to use is for this project: Venice Family Clinic 

Further information to help answer assignment!

At the most basic level, every type of business, including healthcare organizations, must analyze their financial position through the lens of their ability to operate as a going concern. A going concern is essentially an accounting term that means the organization will continue to operate into the future. Is your organization (Joslin or Venice) operating as a going concern? Tell me!

This ability is really determined in three main ways:

1. Can the hospital cover its expenses with its revenues (or at the very least, do expenses equal revenues so there is no loss)?
2. Does the hospital have enough capital to finance operations in both the short and long term?
3. Does the hospital have the ability to renew itself?

The first metric will be our focus at this point in the course as it is the quickest way to determine the financial condition of an organization. The other two use many other metrics that take into account the organizations future ability to generate cash and income should certain scenarios / investment decisions be made.

#1. The easiest way to answer this question is to compute the margin which is determined as follows:

(Revenues – Expenses)
Revenues

Another way to answer this question is to compute the current ratio which is determined as follows:

Total Current Assets
Total Current Liabilities

There is not a fixed rule as to what is “good” or “bad.” Usually it really does just depend on the area the facility is operating in and what is going on that year. For example, an organization that decided to pay off a great deal of its long-term debt in one year (or purchase a large piece of equipment) may appear to have a lower margin that one year. In cases like that, you may have a low or even negative margin but a decent (say >2.0) current ratio. Seemingly, they conflict but put in context they make sense. If you are given more than one year of financial data (which you are…) then you should be able to calculate the ratio for each year and determine if you are getting better or worse and hopefully why. Look for large changes, such as big equipment purchases or debt financing.

 Now that you are writing your “A Note to Your Future Self” assignment, what have you enjoyed about reflecting on your academic goals and graduation day? Explain how you will stay motivated as an online student. What is the number one thing you need to do to make sure you manage your time effectively so you can fulfill your goals? 

Your quest to purchase a new car begins with an identification of the factors important to you. As you conduct a search of cars that rate high on those factors, you collect evidence and try to understand the extent of that evidence. A report that suggests a certain make and model of automobile has high mileage is encouraging. But who produced that report? How valid is it? How was the data collected, and what was the sample size?

In this Assignment, you will delve deeper into clinical inquiry by closely examining your PICO(T) question. You also begin to analyze the evidence you have collected.

To Prepare:

• Review the Resources and identify a clinical issue of interest that can form the basis of a clinical inquiry.
• Develop a PICO(T) question to address the clinical issue of interest for the Assignment.
• Use the key words from the PICO(T) question you developed and search at least four different databases in the Walden Library to identify at least four relevant peer-reviewed articles at the systematic-reviews level related to your research question.
• Reflect on the process of creating a PICO(T) question and searching for peer-reviewed research.

The Assignment (Evidence-Based Project)

Part 3: Advanced Levels of Clinical Inquiry and Systematic Reviews

Create a 6- to 7-slide PowerPoint presentation in which you do the following:

• Identify and briefly describe your chosen clinical issue of interest.
• Describe how you developed a PICO(T) question focused on your chosen clinical issue of interest.
• Identify the four research databases that you used to conduct your search for the peer-reviewed articles you selected.
• Provide APA citations of the four peer-reviewed articles you selected.
• Describe the levels of evidence in each of the four peer-reviewed articles you selected, including an explanation of the strengths of using systematic reviews for clinical research. Be specific and provide examples.
• 3 to 5 references within 5 years.

Fill the M5 table:

 This week, for your Module 5 FINAL Critical Thinking/Research Critique Assignment, you will must  complete answers on the final Module 5 section by merging all of your final revisions for a complete paper WITHOUT the REFERENCE LIST.  The Reference List will be submitted as a separate Assignment (See Module 5 Reference List Assignment).  

DUE DATE:  BEFORE 8am on Friday, of Module 5.  this FINAL assignment submission is a Safe Assign Assignment, that will report your FINAL Similarity Index score.  Please read ALL of the following assignment directions BEFORE completing and submitting your FINAL Module 5 Critical Thinking AssignmentWITHOUT your Reference List. The References will be submitted to a separate dropbox and do not submit your list to SafeAssign. his FINAL score that must meet the course requirement of 45 % or less.  

 

Important information to help you with the Module 5 Critical Thinking Assignment: in preparing your final paper, please note each of the following points:

 

• The M5 Answer Sheet has the questions, page numbers, directions removed to allow for lower originality scores when your final paper is submitted. Only use the provided worksheet for your final submission. 
• -Answers to ALL previous worksheet questions for ALL previous sections of the Critical Thinking Assignment must be included in the final paper (See note below for exception).
• -Questions 4b and 6c have a N/A designation. For these 2 questions only, you will NOT resubmit correct answers on the Module 5 papers.  Students will NOT be penalized for missing answers for these 2 questions only.
• -Do NOT include the “stems” for the questions.
• Previously accepted answers may need to be expanded or improved to reflect the additional knowledge you gained over the past few weeks. Each group/team is responsible to correct and refine their answers, applying information from:
• -the selected research article,
• -course content, readings, and presentations for ALL course modules,
• -the standard research review criteria.
• -guidance and feedback from course instructors
• APA expectations/deductions will apply to the Final Module 5 Critical thinking paper and Reference List.
• Before making your final revisions and BEFORE submitting your final paper, obtain a DRAFT “originality score and report