Write a 1,250-1,500-word essay about quality improvement. Include the following points in your essay:

1. Describe which accrediting body would be most appropriate for your health care organization.
2. Summarize the requirements to obtain accreditation.
3. Based on your research and experience, what performance or quality metrics could you focus on for a quality improvement project to present to the accrediting body?
4. How does the quality performance financially impact the organization?

Include at least three references, including the textbook.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is required.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

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To date, the effects of disaster events have been introduced through our course materials as well as the ways to interact with survivors of these disaster events. At particular risk for negative reaction in disaster situations, natural or man-made, are children and adolescents. Dependent upon the child’s/adolescent’s stage of development, responses to disaster events can vary significantly. Our course materials provide excellent guidance for those charged with aiding children and adolescents in disaster events.

• After review of the course materials, share your understanding of assessing and providing appropriate disaster behavioral health care for children and adolescents.
• Outlining how the process differs from that of disaster behavioral health with typical adult populations, note any significant factors you feel contribute to or hinder the recovery process with children and adolescents.

  

Design and conduct a health needs assessment of a community or group with a specific illness or issue. A 4,000-word Essay -Weighting: 100% 

Got to be Public Health illness/issue. Community can be anything small or large – for instance, a community of people with type 2 diabetes or a community of people suffering from food insecurity. You need to focus on the definition of a health needs assessment and ensure you address all of the elements in it 

Choose anywhere you want, any Country. 

Introduce the importance of a health needs assessment and describe the process to set up what you are intending to do. However, it is crucial to critique what you will be doing to address the deeply entrenched health inequalities that impinges on peoples access to health and wellbeing resources. Louisa will be assisting you with critical writing after this assessment guidance. 

Remember there is nothing more powerful than the voice of the marginalised. Therefore, how do you intend to engage with and meet the needs of members of the community to reduce these health inequalities – who are your stakeholders – co-production with a full understanding of the needs/voices of the marginalised. This requires critique. 

Always check that you have fully met the LOS before submission. It’s a good idea to have these in front of you when writing the essay/presentation and tick off the LO’s that you have met 

Good tip here is to possibly choose a topic throughout whole of the programme, so if type 2 diabetes or Food insecurity is your passion then build up your specialism for other modules including the dissertation — same topic different focus but a deep understanding of the complexities in and around your specialised topic area. 

Follow the following Assessment Guidelines (Weighting – 100%)

Essay 4000 words 

Design and conduct a health needs assessment of a community or group with a specific illness/issue

• Introduction conveying the remit of the essay/presentation.

• Identify the specific population or group and critically interpret the epidemiological and demographic data about the health issue and social determinants of health.

• Develop a sound argument for the choices that you make in terms of identifying and prioritising the health needs.

• Provide a rationale for your chosen design of health needs assessment and discuss the conduct of the health need assessment. Endeavour to recognise and address barriers and facilitators. 

• Discuss must be critical and synthesis must be evidenced with reference to key issues such as power, stigma, empowerment, inequalities, culture, economics, deprivation etc.

• Conclusion should recap your key points and clearly articulate the implication for public health practice.

• References – cite 20 academic sources and apply Harvard referencing correctly and there should be in-text citations after every two to three sentences within each paragraph. 

• Proof read to avoid errors associated with grammar, spelling and syntax.

  

Examples

1. The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the profound insecurity as felt by marginalised populations such as Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic (BAME) groups in Bradford.  A decade of austerity policies has resulted in reduced working hours; prevalence of zero-hour contracts; increased unemployment; and the inefficient implementation of the UK welfare system have led  to an increase in food insecurity in the UK (House of Commons Women and Equalities Committee HCWEC 2020; Marmot et al. 2020; National Institute for Health Research NIHR 2020; Human Rights Watch 2019). 

The pandemic has disproportionately impacted segments of populations, with BAME groups identified as being at significant risk to the effects of the virus due to overcrowded households, health inequalities and deprivation (HCWEC 2020; Whitehead 2020). Additionally, the pandemic has exacerbated pre-existing food-related inequalities (differences in the ability to access food across social groups) experienced by BAME groups (HCWEC 2020; Sustain 2020). 

Whilst most of us Whilst most of us take food for granted, we are witnessing stark differences in the way that some people experience the food system in the UK. Despite being the fifth richest country in the world, an estimated 8.4 million people are cited as encountering instability in terms of their access to food and a healthy diet (Coufopoulos and Mooney 2012; HCWEC 2020; NIHR 2020). Current evidence suggests that due to the deeply entrenched health inequalities BAME people’s risk to food insecurity is 1.5 times higher than their White British counterparts (Power et al. 2017; Weekes-Bernard 2017; Loopstra et al. 2019; Loopstra 2020; The Food Foundation 2020; Westwater 2020).

In a systematic way working with our stakeholders, we need to assess the food related health problems facing the BAME a population due to their experiences of food insecurity. As demonstrated above, the COVID pandemic has exposed how, why and to what extent certain groups such as BAME appear more prone to illness than others and pinpointing any inequalities in terms of service provision. 

We have now identified that the BAME or sub-sections of the BAME community in Bradford requires a health need assessment. Can now do a HNA focusing on its definition and ensure that we address all of its elements to agree on a list of priorities to improve healthcare for the BAME community in terms of food insecurity in a particular area – Bradford. 

2. Another example could be the prevalence of type 2 Diabetes in the UK-based South Asian men living in Bradford. Here, you could highlight the gaps in our understanding of Type 2 diabetes in the UK-based South Asian population as well as to identify the health needs of this community. Here, Population migration from the Indian subcontinent countries of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh (South Asia) to many parts of the world has resulted in over two million South Asian people living in the UK today, which represents 4 per cent of the total UK population ( Daiabetes UK 2017). Alarmingly, South Asian people who live in the UK are up to six times more likely to have Type 2 diabetes than the white population, and with Type 2 diabetes prevalence in England predicted to increase by 47 per cent by 2025, the condition will continue to have a considerable impact on South Asian communities across the UK. 

With South Asian people living in Bradford at such an increased risk of developing Type 2 diabetes and more likely to experience some of the serious complications associated with diabetes, this Health Needs Assessment is both timely and essential. It is hoped that this NNA will encourage collaborative relationships and dynamic partnerships to flourish between researchers and organisations alike, to work towards achieving leaps forward in our understanding of Type 2 diabetes and all its complexities in the South Asian male population living in the Bradford. 

Source – Diabetes UK (2017) 

https://www.diabetes.org.uk/resources-s3/2017-11/south_asian_report.pdf

             

 

Goal:

Identify the process for decision making regarding technology. Discuss nursing role in identifying appropriate technology for practice.

Your paper should include the following:

1. One technology application used in health care to facilitate decision making.
2. The application’s impact on quality of decision making.
3. The process for selecting and implementing the application.
4. The costs associated with the application.
5. Nurses’ role(s) in selecting and evaluating the application.

Submission Instructions:

• The paper is to be clear and concise and students will lose points for improper grammar, punctuation and misspelling.
• The paper should be formatted per current APA and 4-5 pages in length, excluding the title, abstract and references page.
• Incorporate a minimum of 5 current (published within last five years) scholarly journal articles or primary legal sources (statutes, court opinions) within your work.
• Complete and submit the assignment by 11:59 PM ET Sunday.

**Write a 100-word reply to the 3 individual questions below.** 

To help you with your discussion, please consider the following questions: 

• What clarification do you need regarding the posting? 
• What differences or similarities do you see between your posting and other classmates’ postings? 
• What additional questions do you have after reading the posting? 
• What item you found to be compelling and enlightening.  

1.- Gloria:    Before we get into what activities are involved in strategic management let’s first discuss what it does. Strategic management deals with finding relationships in order to secure that various sector within the company goal to meet what is required by the company. It creates room for objectives, researching the environment where competition is coming from, looking for data within the inside of the organization strategies of evaluation, making sure management gives way for approaches going around the organization at hand. Strategic management uses both short-term and long-term actions: before beginning short term activities a written list of long term activities should be made available so that you can located where the position of the market is. Make a choice as to where your place is, and what will the futuristic vision of the company be in years to come. Give a written history once again of long term goals which offer assistance for you to spot the mission. Carrying out these steps is a vital resource in reaching all purposes with the company as well as getting specified positions in market at an set  time frame. Employees feedback should be a valuable tool in before even writing long term goal and gives clarity to the direction of the vision for the company. Understanding is provided by the manager in charge of what steps will be taken to bring goal formed to come to life. Short term activities are connected to long term activities and have a set time frame as well as being precise and within the bonds of the organization. It give detailed information on how to carryout goals that are long term. Management once again has this responsibility to look after the ins and outs when appointing what goals happen when or to whom it is given to. When business check up on goals that where set and discover such goals have be carried out from different sectors and single persons. If a move occurred within  in the business you have to be willing to work with them as to adjust activities in the short term nature. If and when these goal don’t make the standards of achievement you may want to change around workers from one department to the next and in other functions that give more successful outcomes.

strategic management is a guide that connects to functions with this plan that produce goals set in order. Offers direction in conversations when making choices centered on resources within the cost budget that accomplish standards set which boosts effectiveness in operations. Allows you to look in the future to better prepare for unforeseen risk. When a facility implements strategic management they can prevent high risk situations before they happen, this enables them to adhere to changing trends happening in the market and giving them added advantage from their competition. It defines what the direction is and assist to create real time objectives and goals that connect to the vision and mission charted for it.

2.- Adrienne :            Strategic management includes both long-term and short-term activities as it happens on an ongoing basis. When a health care facility uses strategic management, this allows them to sustain their operations with long term in mind by completing short term goals with all levels of management and employees involved. Strategic management allows the management team to create the vision, mission, and the processes of the business. As the facility environment changes, the focus can be adjusted to help accomplish the strategic goals (Contributor, 2020). By following the business plan, the set deadlines and milestones will be completed as planned while meeting your long-term strategic goals. Strategic management starts with planning the activities for the future now and making sure all departments are aligned with the same plan for success of the whole business. 

            Strategic management is important to the future of a health care facility as you are essentially managing every single area of the facility with the future in mind and doing the absolute best you can in all areas (Contributor, 2020). With the constant changes taking place in the health care industry today, it is wise to have an ongoing plan that will put together the strategy and mission of the facility into play. The standard strategic plan is a three-to-five-year plan with scheduled reviews taking place to ensure the progress being made is correct and changes made as the health industry grows are being added. A strategic management plan is typically made up of these four different areas:

1. Analysis and assessment – allows the facility to review their current and internal environment assessment.
2. Strategy formulation – the development of the strategic plan.
3. Strategy execution – the translation of the plan into a plan of action.
4. Evaluation – completing the elevations of the performance that has been completed.

By continuously planning, analyzing, and monitoring that all areas are meeting their projected goals, this will ensure the success of the facility in the future (The SHSMD Team, 2017). Strategic management has also provided many benefits to the health care industries as it has allowed them to be nimble, focused on performance, future results and more engaged than ever before.  

3.- Word document Located in the attached files