Writing Homework Help

PLEASE COMPLETE ALL PARTS

PART 1

Within the Discussion Board area, write 300-500 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.

• Discuss a leader’s effectiveness using utilitarianism as the ethical decision-making approach in regard to the health care challenges set forth by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010.
• Answers can be in the form of classical utilitarianism, consequentialism, rule consequentialism, or rule utilitarianism.

PART 2

6-8 POWERPOINT SLIDES PLUS SPEAKER NOTES

You are the CEO of a 200-bed acute care facility and are challenged with the mandates of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) 2010. More specifically, you must lead your institution in changing reimbursement processes from fee-for-services to bundled payments.

• In a PowerPoint presentation of 6-8 slides, not including title slide and reference slide and with 100-200-word speaker notes per slide, identify and discuss the best and the least-effective leadership approaches to implement a process change within your finance department.

Your presentation should cover the following points (Lazerow, 2011):

• History of PPACA 2010
• How bundle payments are processed
• How health care facilities price their services
• How this service was established
• What benefits this has for the health care facility
• How physicians and hospitals determine better patient services, lower costs, and increase quality of patient encounters
• Halo or spillover effect

Include the following in your PowerPoint presentation:

• Speaker notes
• Cover page
• Conclusion
• References using APA formatting for all citations

Reference

Lazerow, R. (2011). The top questions about Medicare’s bundled payment program: You asked. We answered. The Daily Briefing. Retrieved from http://www.advisory.com/Daily-Briefing/2011/10/19/…

PART 3

Within the Discussion Board area, write 300–500 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.

• Discuss the ethical role of a manager in a long-term care facility when faced with a family decision to withhold nutrition and fluids to a terminal and semi-comatose patient.
  • Refer to Hodgson’s ethical decision-making framework or other ethical decision-making frameworks of your choice.

PART 4

3-4 PAGES

An Appalachian patient in your health care facility wishes to stop treatment for his stage 4 bone cancer. His family is adamant that he continue the treatments. There have been multiple incidents where the family has verbally abused the nursing staff for consenting to the patient’s wishes. You decide to convene the ethics committee. Discuss this in a paper of 3–4 pages, including the following:

• Using the ethical decision-making frameworks of your choice, how will you lead this committee?
• Who would you include in the committee?

PART 5

Within the Discussion Board area, write 300–500 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.

You are the chief financial officer (CFO) of a home health corporation. You have been asked by the board of directors to develop an overview of the cost reimbursement available from private, state, and federal agencies for high-technology home care being delivered to the corporation’s current patients. Discuss the following:

• Investigate and predict what impact the baby boomers will have on this issue (including the understanding that since 2011 more than 10,000 people are applying for and receiving Medicare each month).

PART 6

Your health care organization has decided to undergo a major restructuring to better align with the new Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) of 2010. You have been tasked with developing a managed care organization (MCO) and health maintenance organization (HMO) that will have as its core mission the ethical treatment of patients in their health care needs. Discuss the following in a double-spaced paper of 3–4 pages:

• Define and propose what structure your MCO/HMO will use to maximize the ethical delivery of health care to your patients.
• Research the library and other resources detailing best practices in MCO/HMO structuring to defend your answer.

PART 7

Your first task is to post your own Key Assignment Outline to the discussion area so that other students are able to review your plan. Attach your document to the main discussion post, and include any notes that you feel are appropriate. The purpose of this assignment is to help improve the quality of the Key Assignment Draft that you will complete next week.

PART 8

In a PowerPoint presentation of 6-8 slides not including title page and reference page (with 100–200 words of speaker notes per slide), complete the following:

• Develop a Health Organization Disaster Planning and Response Strategy that links federal, state, and local agency authorities and reflects the potential ethical decision-making that a health care leader may be confronted with.
• This Power Point presentation will be shown to your facility’s board of directors in their next planning meeting.
• Include ethical theories and principles that support the infrastructure of the strategy.

The presentation should cover the following points:

• Description of the ethical decision-making model
• The goal(s) of the strategy
• Details about using the ethical decision-making model of your choice
• Types of ethical decision-making problems
• Information on how federal, state, and local governments should distribute resources
• Information on compensation and allocation of resources
• A plan for deployment of personnel
• A plan for preparing the personnel and facility
• Practicing disaster preparedness competencies

The PowerPoint presentation should include the following:

• A cover slide
• Speaker notes
• A conclusion
• References

PART 9

Within the Discussion Board area, write 100 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.

Summative Discussion Board

Review and reflect on the knowledge you have gained from this course. Based on your review and reflection, write at least 3 paragraphs on the following:

• What were the most compelling topics learned in this course?
• How did participating in discussions help your understanding of the subject matter? Is anything still unclear that could be clarified?
• What approaches could have yielded additional valuable information?
• The main post should include at least 1 reference to research sources, and all sources should be cited using APA format.

PART 10

Part 1

Based on comments from your instructor and peers in Week 4, edit and refine any sections of your Health Organization Disaster Planning and Response Strategy. You should have done the following in Week 4:

• In a PowerPoint presentation of 6-8 slides not including title slide and reference slide (with 200–250 words of speaker notes per slide), complete the following:
  • Develop a Health Organization Disaster Planning and Response Strategy that links federal, state, and local agency authorities and reflects the potential ethical decision making that a health care leader may be confronted with.
  • This PowerPoint presentation will be shown to your facility’s board of directors in their next planning meeting.
  • Include ethical theories and principles that support the infrastructure of the strategy.

The presentation should cover the following points:

• Description of the ethical decision-making model
• The goal(s) of the strategy
• Details about using the ethical decision-making model of your choice
• Types of ethical decision-making problems
• Information on how federal, state, and local governments should distribute resources
• Information on compensation and allocation of resources
• A plan for deployment of personnel
• A plan for preparing the personnel and facility
• Practicing disaster preparedness competencies

The PowerPoint presentation should include the following:

• A cover slide
• Speaker notes
• A conclusion
• References

Part 2

To your presentation, add an additional 4-7 slides (with 200–250 words of speaker notes per slide) covering the following:

• Discuss 1 leadership approach using ethical decision-making models that a health care leader would use to implement the Health Organization Disaster Planning and Response Strategy.

To complete this part of the assignment, review the references listed below.

References

Bonde, S., & Firenze. P. (2013, May). A framework for making ethical decisions. Retrieved from https://www.brown.edu/academics/science-and-techno…

Bowen,S.A. (2015, July 15). How would Kant approach this? A model for ethical healthcare business decisions. Leadership+. Healthcare Financial Management Association. Retrieved from http://www.hfma.org/Leadership/E-Bulletins/2015/Ju…

Section C. Ethical Frameworks. Practical Guide to Clinical Ethics Support. (n.d.). UK Clinical Ethics Network. Retrieved from http://www.ukcen.net/education_resources/support_g…