discussion week 8 12
Discussion 1 : Health management
Research and discuss with your colleagues two health care challenges in the future for public or private health care organizations. You must select two challenges and discuss: How will these challenges affect patients and the health care organization? Be specific as to which type of health care organization you are dealing with [i.e. HMOs. PPOs, POS, urgent care centers, physician outpatient care surgical centers, etc.]. Peers are expected to demonstrate critical thinking in their questions related to the classmates’ descriptions. See Discussion Expectations and Grading for rules on discussions.
Assigned reading materials:
- Improving Ethical Decision Making in Healthcare Leadership https://www.omicsonline.org/open-access/improving-ethical-decision-making-in-health-care-leadership-2151-6219-4-e101.pdf
- Ruger, J.P. (2011). Shared Health Governance. The American Journal of Bioethics, 11 (7), 32-45. See http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1752295 [you can download entire paper for free]
Discussion 5:
What are the advantages and disadvantages of hospitals selecting and developing a limited number of service lines?
Discussion 6:
This week you need to answer these questions:
1. The process of developing a researchable question.
2. What type of background evidence and defined problem serve as a base of the researchable question.
3. Think about what will happen after the question is formulated.
Please review this webside (https://nursing.vanderbilt.edu/phd/clinicalfaq.php) and consider examples of research questions below:
- Does the organization of renal transplant nurse coordinators’ responsibilities influence live donor rates?
- How, if at all, are the timing and location of suicide prevention appointments linked to veterans‘ suicide rates?”Examples of Research Questions | PhD | School of Nursing | Vanderbilt University,” n.d.)
Reference
Examples of Research Questions | PhD | School of Nursing | Vanderbilt University. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://nursing.vanderbilt.edu/phd/clinicalfaq.php
