Course Scenario

Chaparral Regional Hospital is a small, urban hospital of approximately 60 beds, and offers the following:

• Emergency room services
• Intensive care
• Surgical care
• Obstetrics
• Diagnostic services
• Some rehabilitation therapies
• Inpatient pharmacy services
• Geriatric services
• Consumer physician referral services 

Recently, the CEO has been hearing complaints from both patients and staff, varying from long wait times to rude physicians. You have been hired to design and implement a Quality Improvement Plan to help uncover quality problems and to satisfactorily resolve them.

Scenario Continued

The CEO has met with you to let you know that some members of the Board of Directors are questioning the value of developing a quality improvement plan. She has asked you to create an executive summary and an information sheet to be included in the next Board packet.

Instructions

Topics for the executive summary should include:

1. What is a Quality Improvement plan?
2. Why do healthcare facilities create improvement plans?
3. Why would you recommend the facility create and implement a QI plan? 

NOTE – APA formatting for the reference list, and proper grammar, punctuation, and form required.

After completing the Executive Summary, you will create a one-page information sheet for the Board that they can use to answer questions about QI plans.

1. The information sheet should give your CEO and the Board of Directors enough information to have an educated conversation with patients and other stakeholders on the value of QI plans.
2. Make sure to use audience-specific language and tone on your information sheet. Remember, you are writing this information sheet for your CEO and the Board of Directors.
3. Be creative, and make your information sheet fun and organized.

Need one page about your Leadership Reflection.

It should exhibit a personal reflection of your present leadership competencies and also possible adjustments that could be made to your leadership approach. Importantly, your Journal entry should be in light of the various concepts that have covered each week in the course. Also of importance, the Leadership Reflection should be far beyond a mere casual discussion. It should demonstrate a high level of understanding and should also provide adequate integration of authoritative sources with intext citation and in APA format.

  

Medical Question. 

Describe the rational drug choice, pharmacokinetics/dynamics, interactions, side effects, monitoring, and patient education for one of the following:

· Eczema

· Psoriasis

· Allergic dermatitis

· Fungal infection (feet, groin, vagina, ringworm)

Include lifespan information (for instance, does treatment differ in a child versus an older adult versus a man versus a female). Include a description of the categories of topical steroids with selection rationale to include cream versus lotion, and so on.

You can include tables in addition to narrative. Integrate two evidence-based articles no older than three years in addition to the course textbook.

Paper should be in four to five well-developed paragraphs (500–700 words total). Use APA formatting and integrate three evidence-based resources to include clinical practice guidelines within the last 5 yrs.

Write a 1-page paper that addresses the following: Directions Below

Explain your diagnosis for the patient, including your rationale for the diagnosis.

Describe an appropriate drug therapy plan based on the patient’s history, diagnosis, and drugs currently prescribed.

Justify why you would recommend this drug therapy plan for this patient. Be specific and provide examples.

CASE STUDY:

Patient HL comes into the clinic with the following symptoms: nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. 

The patient has a history of drug abuse and possible Hepatitis C. 

HL is currently taking the following prescription drugs:

Synthroid 100 mcg daily

Nifedipine 30 mg daily

Prednisone 10 mg daily

Once the underlying cause is identified, an appropriate drug therapy plan can be recommended based on medical history and individual patient factors. In this Assignment, you examine a case study above of a patient who presents with symptoms of a possible GI/hepatobiliary disorder, and you design an appropriate drug therapy plan.Review the case study above and reflect on the patient’s symptoms, medical history, and drugs currently prescribed.Think about a possible diagnosis for the patient. Consider whether the patient has a disorder related to the gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary system or whether the symptoms are the result of a disorder from another system or other factors, such as pregnancy, drugs, or a psychological disorder.Consider an appropriate drug therapy plan based on the patient’s history, diagnosis, and drugs currently prescribed.

  

1. Select a social topic that you would like to explore. 

a. Examples of topics poverty, discrimination, sex and gender, inequality, politics, economics, education, family.

2. Select a theoretical perspective through which to analyze your topic

a. Functionalism, Conflict, Symbolic Interactionism, Feminism

  

paper should include:

a. Cover Page 

b. An introduction paragraph with a strong thesis statement. This paragraph/section will explain what your topic is, why you picked it, some facts about this social problem.

c. Paragraph 2 and 3 should include historical context on your chosen topic, this information will come from the research you conducted in the library. In addition to the historical context, you will include information how your topic has changed over time and any social consequences.

d. Paragraph 4 and 5 will include the theoretical framework you selected; you will explain your theory and why you picked it. You will then analyze your problem through that theoretical perspective (what would a _______ say about the topic).

e. Paragraph 6 and 7 you will discuss your findings from your research (what you learned), you will also discuss why we should keep trying to study this topic (areas of future research).