HLT 308V (HLT308V)

Health care organizations continually face challenges from various regulatory and government agencies while also beingbound by Managed Care Organization (MCO) standards. View the video located in the study materials entitled "Collegeof Nursing and Health Care Professions: Do We Know What Our Future Is?" for insight into the challenges of healthcare reform. Based on the video, describe two key reform factors that you believe will need to be addressed by futurehealth care workers or leaders and ex...

The purpose of this assignment is to create an educational risk management presentation. Building upon the outline for an educational session you created in the Educational Program on Risk Management Part One: Outline of Topic 2 assignment, develop a 12-15 slide PowerPoint presentation that expands in greater detail on how and why your organization should implement your proposed risk management strategy. Incorporate any instructor feedback from the Topic 2 assignment into this presentation and ...

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS),and the Joint Commission (JC) require that health care organizations maintain risk management programs to addressinfection control. Detail three measures that your health care organization (or any health care organization) couldimplement, beyond what is currently in practice, to support the delivery of safe health care services and avoid the spread of infection (e.g., placing hand washi...

Describe one of the safety committees your organization uses and how it reduces risk within your organization. Who are the general members of the group, how often do they meet, and is there a regulatory requirement that they report or publish notes? Is this a good use of the staff's time or would another method that still addresses the safety goal of this group be more efficient?

The purpose of this assignment is to gain real-world insight into how risk management programs operate within health care organizations. Select a local health care organization where you can conduct an interview with an employee who is involved in risk management processes. This organization can be your current employer or a different health care facility in your community. Acute care, urgent care, large multiprovider private medical clinics, assisted living facilities, and community/public hea...

The Patient Self-Determination Act (PSDA) was implemented to allow patients to state “Do Not Resuscitate” (DNS), or to assign a surrogate decision maker in the event the individual is unable to make the decision. What relationship does an ethics committee have in enforcing the advance directives of the patients in their care? Support your analysis with one peer-reviewed article.

The purpose of this assignment is to analyze how an organization's quality and improvement processes contribute to its risk management program. This assignment builds on the Risk Management Program Analysis – Part One assignment you completed in Topic 1 of this course. Assume that the sample risk management program you analyzed in Topic 1 was implemented and is now currently in use by your health care employer/organization. Further assume that your supervisor has asked you to create a highle...

Research the role of an administrator versus that of a nonmanagement staff member in dealing with a workers'compensation incident in a typical health care organization. What are the minimal responsibilities and reporting dutiesfor each? What recommendations would you suggest for improving organizational compliance with regulatoryrequirements at the staff level? Support your analysis with a minimum of one peer-reviewed reference.

The purpose of this assignment is to create an educational program that supports the implementation of risk management strategies in a health care organization. In this assignment, you will develop an outline for an "inservice"style educational risk management program for employees of a particular health care organization that will then form the basis for a PowerPoint presentation in Topic 5. Select your topic for this educational session from one of the proposed recommendations or changes you ...

Explain the role of accreditation in mitigating risk compliance issues. Provide an example of a health care organization that was placed on probation by its accrediting body or by CMS within the last 3 years for a risk compliance issue. What caused the probation or loss of accreditation and how could it have been prevented?