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Instruction Part 1: Work Environment Assessment (1-2 pages) Review the Work Environment Assessment Template you completed for this Module’s Discussion. Describe the results of the Work Environment Assessment you completed on your workplace. Identify two things that surprised you about the results and one idea you believed prior to conducting the Assessment that was confirmed. Explain what the results of the Assessment suggest about the health and civility of your workplace. Part 2: Reviewing the Literature article attached (1-2 pages) Briefly describe the theory or concept presented in the article(s) you selected. Explain how the theory or concept presented in the article(s) relates to the results of your Work Environment Assessment. Explain how your organization could apply the theory highlighted in your selected article(s) to improve organizational health and/or create stronger work teams. Be specific and provide examples. Part 3: Evidence-Based Strategies to Create High-Performance Interprofessional Teams (1–2 pages) Recommend at least two strategies, supported in the literature, that can be implemented to address any shortcomings revealed in your Work Environment Assessment. Recommend at least two strategies that can be implemented to bolster successful practices revealed in your Work Environment Assessment.

Scenario 3: A 74-year-old female presents to the clinic with complaints of increased difficulty in getting up from a seated position and worsening right knee pain over the last few months. The patient reports the pain is a 6/10 and is not relieved with Tylenol. The pain is sharp at times to her knees but aches at night when she is trying to rest. The patient denies any recent injuries to her knee. The patient has a history of diabetes type 2 and hypertension. The patient is taking metformin 500mg PO twice daily and lisinopril 10mg po daily. Patient is 5’8” and weighs 220 pounds. BP is 122/84, pulse is 72, resp 18, regular and non-labored, pulse ox 96%, and temp 98.8F. Physical exam reduced ROM to right knee and complaints of pain with flexion; bilateral knee crepitus worse in the right knee. No erythema to knee joints but mild edema noted bilaterally. The patient reports tenderness to both knees upon palpation. Diagnostic testing ESR 14 mm/hr. CMP otherwise normal except for non-fasting glucose of 220 mg/dL. Right and left knee xray: Moderate degenerative changes with joint space narrowing, no radiographic evidence of osteoporosis or joint effusion. Based on this result and exam findings the patient is given a diagnosis of osteoarthritis. Develop a 1- to 2-page case study analysis, examining the patient symptoms presented in the case study. Be sure to address the following: Explain the musculoskeletal pathophysiologic processes of why the patient presents these symptoms. Explain how the highlighted processes interact to affect the patient. Explain any racial/ethnic variables that may impact physiological functioning.

Compose a focused paper that explains and describes your healthcare issue/topic from the scientific and mathematical/analytical perspectives of inquiry. (You will cover two perspectives in one paper.) Address your general topic by forming and answering two levels of research questions for each inquiry. Choose a “Level 1 Research Question/Writing Prompt” from both of the lists below to answer in the paper. Compose a “Level 2 Research Question/Writing Prompt” for each kind of inquiry that provides detail, specificity, and focus to your inquiry, research, and writing. State your research questions in the introduction of your paper. Answer each research question and support your assertions with evidence (research) to form the body of your paper. In the conclusion of the paper, briefly review the issues, research questions, answers, and insights. Level 1 Research Questions/Writing Prompts SCIENTIFIC Perspective of Inquiry What are the anatomical, physiological, pathological, or epidemiological issues? Which body systems are affected? What happens at the cellular or genetic level? Which chemical or biological issues are most important? Level 1 Research Questions/Writing Prompts MATHEMATICAL/ANALYTICAL Perspective of Inquiry What are the economic issues involved? Which economic theories or approaches best explain the issue? What are the statistical facts related to the issue? Which statistical processes used to study the issue provide for the best explanation or understanding? Your paper must be five pages in length and reference four to six scholarly, peer-reviewed resources. Be sure to follow current APA Style (e.g., spacing, font, headers, titles, abstracts, page numbering).

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Compose a focused paper that explains and describes your healthcare issue/topic from the scientific and mathematical/analytical perspectives of inquiry. (You will cover two perspectives in one paper.) Address your general topic by forming and answering two levels of research questions for each inquiry. Choose a “Level 1 Research Question/Writing Prompt” from both of the lists below to answer in the paper. Compose a “Level 2 Research Question/Writing Prompt” for each kind of inquiry that provides detail, specificity, and focus to your inquiry, research, and writing. State your research questions in the introduction of your paper. Answer each research question and support your assertions with evidence (research) to form the body of your paper. In the conclusion of the paper, briefly review the issues, research questions, answers, and insights. Level 1 Research Questions/Writing Prompts SCIENTIFIC Perspective of Inquiry What are the anatomical, physiological, pathological, or epidemiological issues? Which body systems are affected? What happens at the cellular or genetic level? Which chemical or biological issues are most important? Level 1 Research Questions/Writing Prompts MATHEMATICAL/ANALYTICAL Perspective of Inquiry What are the economic issues involved? Which economic theories or approaches best explain the issue? What are the statistical facts related to the issue? Which statistical processes used to study the issue provide for the best explanation or understanding? Your paper must be five pages in length and reference four to six scholarly, peer-reviewed resources. Be sure to follow current APA Style (e.g., spacing, font, headers, titles, abstracts, page numbering).

This section should be 6–7 pages in length******You are designing an executable population-based change project addressing identified practice-related problems or questions. This strongly emphasizes collaboration between advanced practice nurses and community agencies and includes working with an agency using practice data to provide answers, which are responsive to the needs of clinicians, administrators, and policy makers for improvement of programs or practices.

I have uploaded PDF of the chapter REQUIRED TEXTBOOK(S): Walston, Stephen L. (2014). Strategic Healthcare Management. Chicago, IL: Health Administrative Press. 1st edition.

In what other ways might optimization be used to maximize healthcare delivery? What types of processes and workflows are best served by optimization in health services organizations? Optimization is a vital prescriptive analytic technique that healthcare administrators can use to help address challenges in effective and efficient healthcare delivery. Health decision makers may seek to find optimal solutions for a particular objective given various constraints. For example, optimization is often used for generating nursing staff schedules to ensure appropriate staff coverage with varying patient inflows. For this Assignment, you will be using optimization techniques to evaluate two separate medical problems, one involving mechanical heart valves and another involving a pharmaceutical company. Review the resources for this week, and examine the different optimization techniques that can be used for this Assignment. For Chapter 13, problems 36 and 42, you will need to download the files P13_36.xlsx and P13_42.xlsx from the textbook companion website http://www.cengage.com/cgi-wadsworth/course_products_wp.pl?fid=M20b&product_isbn_issn=9781305947542 Links to an external site.. Under “Book Resources”, click on “Student Downloads” to view the downloadable files. Click “Problem Files” and download the zipped file 1305947541_538885.zip. Open the zipped file, and select folder “Problem Files” and then select folder “Chapter 13” to access the files P13_36.xlsx and P13_42.xlsx.

Your assessment consists of two pieces: Handout In the handout: Identify the team dynamics that have the greatest impact on desired outcomes for disasters and public health emergencies. Acknowledge the team dynamics that can have the most significant impact on whether or not your disaster management plan is successfully implemented. Give examples of potential conflicts. Facilitate improvements in interprofessional communication of individual information. Give strategies for effective communication, especially the ones that would address the potential conflicts you’ve highlighted. Support these with examples. Provide resources and speaking points. Narrative Along with your handout, submit a separate narrative of how you arrived at the recommendations you suggested in your handout. Evaluate the impact of team dynamics and performance on desired outcomes for disasters and public health emergencies. Why did you prioritize the team dynamics you focused on in your handout? Why were these the most important to focus on as opposed to others? Evaluate effectiveness of interprofessional communication tools and techniques to support and improve the efficacy of team-based interactions. What strategies, tools, and techniques did you come across in your research? Why were the ones you included in your handout the most appropriate? Convey purpose, in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly communication standards. Is your handout and narrative clear and persuasive for the different people who make up your professional audience, and do they use APA style? Additional Requirements To achieve a successful assessment experience and outcome, you are expected to meet the following requirements. Written communication: Make sure your writing is succinct and clear, and is free of errors that detract from the overall message. Resources: Include a minimum of three current scholarly sources (peer-reviewed articles, books, websites, and dissertations) to support your case. APA formatting: Resources and citations are formatted according to current APA style and formatting guidelines. Refer to the Evidence and APA section of the Writing Center for guidance. Length: 1–2 single-spaced pages for the handout and 3–4 double-spaced pages for the narrative, not including title and reference pages. Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point. Competencies Measured By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria: Competency 3: Collaborate to protect population health. Evaluate the impact of team dynamics and performance on desired outcomes for disasters and public health emergencies. Competency 4: Propose communication tools and techniques that can improve interprofessional team dynamics and strengthen partnerships to achieve effective outcomes. Facilitate improvements in interprofessional communication of individual information, using examples and tips that illustrate the strategies. Evaluate effectiveness of interprofessional communication tools and techniques to support and improve the efficacy of team-based interactions. Competency 5: Communicate effectively with diverse audiences, in an appropriate form and style, consistent with organizational, professional, and scholarly standards. Convey purpose, in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly communication standards.

In your presentation: Design evidence-based interventions to mitigate population health risks. Your disaster management plan should provide the specific steps of your plan to reduce risks of infection during the natural or manmade disaster you chose for your first assessment. Draw from current research to provide evidence to support the steps you’re planning. By doing that, you’ll strengthen your case among your audience for why these are important steps in this situation. Demonstrate ethical decision making that includes diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in advanced preparedness to protect populations. Just as when you identified risks in your first assessment, it should be clear in your disaster management plan how the recommended steps best address the specific needs of the different affected populations of the location you’ve selected. Lead and collaborate with teams by developing a comprehensive plan that takes into consideration interprofessional roles and responsibilities. Your plan should take into account the perspectives of the different interprofessional teams that will need to implement the plan, and it should clearly let those teams know their roles and points of collaboration. It should address the totality of what has to be managed: who should be involved and what steps should they implement? For example, how would you coordinate the implementation of infection control measures, such as proper use of personal protective equipment? Evaluate emergency preparedness and readiness of partners to organize during natural and manmade disasters on a systems level. As with any plan, provide not only the action steps, but rationales for why these are the best-suited steps for the situation. Your process of evaluation will call out the typical strengths and weaknesses of disaster response plans and partner organizations, and how this plan addresses those. Support your evaluation with research. Evaluate and make recommendations for improvements in interprofessional communication of individual information. Include a communication plan. How would you recommend communicating with people about infection control to help them make better choices about mitigating their risk related to infection? Your evaluation process will share research and insight about why you prioritized these steps. Convey purpose, in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly communication standards. Is your presentation clear and persuasive for the different people who make up your professional audience, and does it use APA style? Use PowerPoint or similar software. Additional Requirements To achieve a successful assessment experience and outcome, you are expected to meet the following requirements. Tools and technology: You may use PowerPoint or other presentation software of your choice. Written communication: Make sure your writing is succinct and clear, and is free of errors that detract from the overall message. Speaker notes: Submit your PowerPoint (or similar file) and include your speaker notes in your PowerPoint. Design quality: Employ effective design strategies to visually organize the information. Avoid colored slide backgrounds and backgrounds with texture, as they have the effect of reducing viewer comprehension. Use graphics to call attention to, highlight, and clarify information for the viewer. Graphics that do not directly support specific content on your slide are distracting and reduce viewer comprehension. Length of presentation: About 15 slides. Resources: Include a minimum of three current scholarly sources (peer-reviewed articles, books, websites, and dissertations) to support your case. APA formatting: Resources and citations are formatted according to current APA style and formatting guidelines. Refer to the Evidence and APA section of the Writing Center for guidance. Competencies Measured By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria: Competency 1: Design person-centered care that integrates biological, psychological, and social factors and considers their complex interactions. Demonstrate ethical decision making that includes DEI in advanced preparedness to protect populations. Competency 2: Propose improvements to system-level interventions to protect populations. Design evidence-based interventions to mitigate population health risks. Competency 3: Collaborate to protect population health. Lead and collaborate with teams by developing a comprehensive plan that takes into consideration interprofessional roles and responsibilities. Evaluate emergency preparedness and readiness of partners to organize during natural and manmade disasters on a systems level. Evaluate and make recommendations for improvements in interprofessional communication of individual information. Competency 5: Communicate effectively with diverse audiences, in an appropriate form and style, consistent with organizational, professional, and scholarly standards. Convey purpose, in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly communication standards.