Author: chris

Workflow analysis aims to determine workflow patterns that maximize the effective use of resources and minimize activities that do not add value. There are a variety of tools that can be used to analyze the workflow of processes and clarify potential avenues for eliminating waste. Flowcharts are a basic and commonly used workflow analysis method that can help highlight areas in need of streamlining.

In this Assignment, you select a common event that occurs regularly in your organization and create a flowchart representing the workflow. You analyze the process you have diagrammed and propose changes for improvement.

To prepare:

• Identify a common, simple event that frequently occurs in your organization that you would like to evaluate.
• Consider how you would design a flowchart to represent the current workflow.
• Consider what metrics you would use to determine the effectiveness of the current workflow and identify areas of waste.

To complete:

Write a 3- to 5-page paper which includes the following:

• Create a simple flowchart of the activity you selected. (Review the Sample Workflow of Answering a Telephone in an Office document found in this week’s Learning Resources for an example.)
• Next, in your paper:

o    Explain the process you have diagrammed.

o    For each step or decision point in the process, identify the following:

• Who does this step? (It can be several people.)
• What technology is used?
• What policies and rules are involved in determining how, when, why, or where the step is executed?
• What information is needed for the execution of this step?

o    Describe the metric that is currently used to measure the soundness of the workflow. Is it effective?

o    Describe any areas where improvements could occur and propose changes that could bring about these improvements in the workflow.

o    Summarize why it is important to be aware of the flow of an activity.

Remember to include a cover page, introduction, and summary for your paper.

*Please follow the outline on the first uploaded file. Thank you.

 

Readings

• McGonigle, D., & Mastrian, K. G. (2012).Nursing informatics and the foundation of knowledge(Laureate Education, Inc., custom ed.). Burlington, MA: Jones and Bartlett Learning.

o    Chapter 16, “Nursing Informatics: Improving Workflow and Meaningful Use”

This chapter reviews the reasons for conducting workflow analysis and design. The author explains specific workflow analysis and redesign techniques.

Huser, V., Rasmussen, L. V., Oberg, R., & Starren, J. B. (2011). Implementation of workflow engine technology to deliver basic clinical decision support functionality. BMC Medical Research Methodology,11(1), 43–61.

Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.

In this article, the authors describe an implementation of workflow engine technology to support clinical decision making. The article describes some of the pitfalls of implementation, along with successful and future elements.

Koppel, R., & Kreda, D. A. (2010). Healthcare IT usability and suitability for clinical needs: Challenges of design, workflow, and contractual relations. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 157, 7–14.

Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.

This article points to many health information technology designs and workflow decisions that limit their value and usage. The authors also examine the structure of the conceptual relationships between HIT vendors and the clinical facilities that purchase HIT.

U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. (n.d.b). Workflow assessment for health IT toolkit.  Retrieved, June 18, 2012, fromhttp://healthit.ahrq.gov/portal/server.pt/community/health_it_tools_and_resources/919/workflow_assessment_for_health_it_toolkit/27865

This article supplies a toolkit on the planning, design, implementation, and use of health information technology. The sections of the website provide a definition of workflow, examples of workflow tools, related anecdotes, and research.

Document: Sample Workflow of Answering a Telephone in an Office (Word document)

Note: You will use this document to complete this week’s Assignment.

Media

• Laureate Education, Inc. (Executive Producer). (2012f).System design and workflow. Baltimore, MD: Author.

  Note: The approximate length of this media piece is 7 minutes.

  This video provides an overview of how workflow modeling can be used in a health care setting to target areas for revising current practices and procedures. The video also shows how technology and informatics can be used to improve workflow efficiency and increase the quality

Data collection is an important part of both quantitative and qualitative research. Although the actual approach to gathering information may vary, for either research design, researchers need to plan in advance how the data will be gathered, reported, and stored, and they need to ensure that their methods are both reliable and valid. As nurses review research when considering a new evidence-based practice, it is important to be familiar with sound collection practices in order to ascertain the credibility of the data presented.

Consider the following scenario:

Nurses and other health care professionals are often interested in assessing patient satisfaction with health care services. Imagine that you are a nurse working in a suburban primary care setting that serves 10,000 patients annually. Your organization is very interested in understanding the patient’s point of view to help determine areas of care that can be improved. With this focus in mind, consider how you would create a survey to assess patient satisfaction with the services your organization provides. You may wish to consider variables such as the ease of accessing care, patient wait time, friendliness of the staff, or the likelihood that a patient would recommend your organization to others.

For this Discussion, you generate questions and an overall plan for data collection that would be appropriate for a patient satisfaction survey in relation to the above scenario.

To prepare:

• Consider the guidelines for generating questions presented in this week’s Learning Resources.
• Review the scenario and formulate at least five questions that you could use to evaluate patient satisfaction.
• Reflect on the different methods or instruments that can be used for gathering data described in Chapter 13 and Chapter 22 of the course text. Which methods or instruments would work well for the scenario?
• Determine an appropriate sample size for the scenario.

Please answer these as your outline for my assignment:

1. The questions that you created for gathering information about patient satisfaction based on the above scenario.
2. Explain which method or instrument you would use to gather data.
3. Describe the sample size appropriate for the population and how you would select participants.
4. Provide a rationale for your choices, and explain how you can ensure high standard of reliability and validity.

All articles/references must be from the period of 2011 to 2016. Make 2-3 pages… Thank you.

*This is for Masters of Science in Nursing.

 

Before the digital revolution, health information technology supplied very limited support for evidence-based practice. If nurses wanted to be informed about cutting-edge research, their best bet was to either subscribe to leading journals or make periodic trips to the library. With the establishment of research databases, however, nurses became empowered to learn about and facilitate interdisciplinary and translational research. Databases are just one example of how health information technology supports evidence-based practice.

To prepare:

• Read the following scenario from the text (McGonigle & Mastrian, 2011, p. 482):
  • Twelve-hour shifts are problematic for patient and nurse safety, and yet hospitals continue to keep the 12-hour shift schedule. In 2004, the Institute of Medicine (Board on Health Care Services & Institute of Medicine, 2004) published a report that referred to studies as early as 1988 that discussed the negative effects of rotating shifts on intervention accuracy. Workers with 12-hour shifts realized more fatigue than workers on 8-hour shifts. In another study done in Turkey by Ilhan, Durukan, Aras, Turkcuoglu, and Aygun (2006), factors relating to increased risk for injury were age of 24 or less, less than 4 years of nursing experience, working in the surgical intensive care units, and working for more than 8 hours.
• Consider how the resources identified in the scenario above could influence an organization’s practice.
• Select an issue in your practice that is of concern to you. Using health information technology, locate at least three evidence-based practice resources that address your concern and that could possibly inform further action.

Follow these for my assignment outline:

1. A description of your practice concern.

2. Outline how you used health information technology to locate evidence-based practices that address this concern.

3. Cite and include insights from the resources.

4. Analyze how health information technology supports evidence-based practice.

*Please use articles/references only from the period of 2011 to 2016… Make 2-3 pages…Thank you.

 

Prior to completing this discussion, please read Modules 10.6 and 15.1 in the textbook, watch the Environmental and Genetic Influences on Intelligence video, and review any relevant Instructor Guidance.     http://searchcenter.intelecomonline.net/playClipDirect.aspx?id=4870EEC7664070BBE995401AB5C129A1BAB9DCAB9E785EA58BE17CDD92FB806C7906AC9DEC494E0444B2807322542BF6

 

 

In this post, you will explore the role of society and community agencies (more specifically, schools) in developing the optimum learning and pro-social behavior of children.  Explain the major themes of Montessori-style education and typical education formats for children.  Analyze child development research and theory by creating a bulleted list or table describing 3 benefits and 3 drawbacks of each style. Within your lists, consider and comment upon the developmental domains: physical, cognitive, and psychosocial. In what ways does each style of education benefit or ignore each domain?  Explain the role of these in the development of optimum learning and pro-social behavior in children. Additionally, consider the stages of development from toddlerhood through adolescence.  In what ways are the educational needs of children and adolescents similar, and how do they differ?

Prepare a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper in which you examine the concept of the self. Address the following items:

• Define the concept of the self in the social world.
• Apply the self to your life, including self-concept, self-esteem, and self-efficacy.
• Describe at least two social experiences that affected your personal development.

Include at least two references in your paper.

Visit the website of the Congressional Budget Office (http://www.cbo.gov) and find the U.S. Federal deficit (surplus) and total debt.

 

As late as 1992, the United States was running budget deficits of nearly $300 billion. During the remainder of the 1990’s, deficits declined and became surpluses. As the new century began, these surpluses again turned into deficits.

 

Explain the decline in deficits and subsequent surpluses in the late 1990’s.

Explain the return to deficit spending since the turn of the century.

Consider the causes of the deficits and surpluses and provide your own insight as to whether these surpluses or deficits have a “positive” or “negative” effect on our economy.

 

Locate a real estate appraiser. Research to find out how properties are appraised. How do methods differ when the appraiser is looking at residential, multifamily, or commercial properties? What role do real estate agents and brokers play in the appraisal business? How are appraisers trained and ultimately licensed?

 

Narrate your findings in the discussion post and tell what you feel is the most important factor in the high appraisal of a property. Use a consent form and keep identities anonymous.

 

Instruction:

“Hofstede’s Cultural Typology and Sovereignty and Political Risks” Please respond to the following:

 

• Analyze the key differences between a high-context and a low-context country. Provide an example country from Table 4-2 of your textbook to support your response.
• Speculate on why sovereignty is an important consideration in the political environment of global marketing. Provide one (1) example to support your response.

• Instagram and Pinterest allow businesses to use pictures to create interest for their companies. Create a strategy for using Instagram and Pinterest to draw people in for a company event.  Discuss why you have created the strategy that you have. How would you try to bring awareness to a business by using Instagram and Pinterest?

• Through Instagram and Pinterest, visual marketing is clearly on the rise. How do you think marketers could leverage visual marketing within their marketing plans? What target market do you believe will be most receptive to visual marketing? Defend your answer.

How would you apply the four p’s to a service? Choose a service you use. What is the service? What is the name of the business that delivers the service? Describe the role of the four P’s in the company’s marketing for that service.