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My Capstone Practicum topic is childhood obesity. 

In collaboration with your approved course mentor, you will identify a specific evidence-based practice proposal topic for the capstone project. Consider the clinical environment in which you are currently working or have recently worked. The capstone project topic can be a clinical practice problem, an organizational issue, a quality improvement suggestion, a leadership initiative, or an educational need appropriate to your area of interest as well as your practice immersion (practicum) setting. Examples of the integration of community health, leadership, and an EBP can be found on the “Educational and Community-Based Programs” page of the Healthy People 2020 website.

Write a 500-750-word description of your proposed capstone project topic. Make sure to include the following:

1. The problem, issue, suggestion, initiative, or educational need that will be the focus of the project

2. The setting or context in which the problem, issue, suggestion, initiative, or educational need can be observed.

3. A description providing a high level of detail regarding the problem, issue, suggestion, initiative, or educational need.

4. Impact of the problem, issue, suggestion, initiative, or educational need on the work environment, the quality of care provided by staff, and patient outcomes.

5. Significance of the problem, issue, suggestion, initiative, or educational need and its implications to nursing.

6. A proposed solution to the identified project topic

You are required to retrieve and assess a minimum of 8 peer-reviewed articles.  An abstract is not required.

This is also a useful website, navigate for each scholar article: http://library.gcu.edu/Database/Subject?subject=Nursing_And_Health_Sciences

 APA format,  3 references

In a paper of 500-1,000 words, describe the relationship between health care cost and quality. Address the following:

1. Select one public agency and one private agency and differentiate their roles and major activities in addressing cost and quality in health care. See Topic 4 readings for sources regarding health care agencies.
2. Analyze current and projected initiatives to improve quality while simultaneously controlling costs. Describe any unintended consequences.
3. Synthesize implications for staff nurses and advanced practice nurses, including evidence-based practice, relative to cost and quality.

Read chapter 6 and 7 of the class textbook.  Once done answer the following questions;

1.  Describe the health beliefs of the African American and Amish people and how they are differ

2.  Mention the difference between the African American and the Amish communities regarding health care.

3.  If there any similarity between the African American and the Amish population.

As always your assignment in an APA format.  Assignment must be presented in an Arial 12 font with at least 3 evidence based references. A minimum of 500 words are required.

due date: Saturday, sept 16, 2017 at 2:00pm

CASE STUDY DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

1.       What diversity issues are present in the case?

2.        2. How would you define diversity? What makes an organization diverse?

3.        3. How should Ralph open up the diversity conversation to the Corporate Leadership Team (CLT) as a whole?

4.        4. What conflict management tools should Ralph use to address the perceived cultural bias issues with the Corporate Leadership Team (CLT)?

5.        5. What effect did promoting Roosevelt to Senior Vice President (SVP) have on the organization? Why?

6.        6. Why did Ralph promote Roosevelt to Senior Vice President (SVP)? What did that signal to the organization and CLT?

7.        7. Which team is more important to have as high performers, the Corporate Leadership Team (CLT) or the Corporate Diversity Department (COD)? Why?

8.        8. What impact will increasing diversity have on team performance? Why?

9.        9. What leadership traits will be important for Mikayla to develop for the Chief Diversity Officer (COO) position?

10.   10. Is the current workforce diverse? In all professions?

11.    11. How much does the composition of the Board of Directors contribute to Ralph’s decision-making?

Performance management is, ideally, an ongoing quality-assurance-based process. The process provides an organization, its employees, regulatory agencies, accreditors, and other stakeholders with a structured means to support and accomplish mutually identified strategic goals and objectives.

Assume the role of a newly-hired risk management officer for a hypothetical new allied health organization in your chosen career field. You and your team will need to develop the organization’s policies.

The first item you will create will be a performance management plan. The HIM Briefings (2019) article, which includes Lean, Six Sigma, or PDSA, is located in the Topic Materials. Using the resources in HIM Briefings or another qualified framework, craft a proposal (1,250-1,500 words) for a performance management plan for the new organization that includes the following:

• Organizational Goals: Provide a statement of the organization’s goals regarding workplace safety, risk management, or quality improvement; select one area, and develop five goals for that specific area.
• Outline of Organizational Objectives: Outline and provide a brief evaluation of specific objectives that support the organizational goals you previously identified, to include the use of an interdisciplinary approach to patient care.
• Rationale: Evaluate the use of the interdisciplinary approach to patient care in the performance management plan. What provisions were planned in order to include this approach effectively?
• Quality and Process Outcomes: Describe the importance of quality and process outcomes within one’s scope of practice.
• Summary of Relevant Performance Measures: Summarize the steps and measures the new organization will adopt to measure performance. Consider (a) how well measures will align with the stated goals, (b) how these measures demonstrate the importance of quality and the relationship to positive health outcomes, (c) how the measures are able to be controlled by the organization (i.e., how the organization can affect change in this area), and (d) how the measures meet criteria related to reliability and validity, and are standardized.
• Performance Baseline: Determine a performance baseline for the measures selected. This will enable the organization to conduct comparisons of desired goals versus actual results over time.
• Performance Evaluation: Select one of three commonly accepted methods to measure provider quality. Summarize the features and why it applies best to the organization. Refer to the assigned reading, “The Measurement of Health Care Performance: A Primer from the Council of Medical Specialty Societies.” 
• Definition of Success: Define what success means to the organization. Now that you have chosen measures to assess organizational performance, identify what success means to the organization; otherwise, you are chasing a moving target. Be explicit in the level of performance you see as acceptable. This will change as an organization grows, but you need to start somewhere in order to get anywhere.