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Discuss how OSHA’s Field Operations Manual could be used by an organization’s management to improve the management of its safety and health program.

 

OSHA’s Voluntary Safety and Health Program Management Guidelines and the S&H Management Systems e-tool tend to get into the nitty-gritty of how to manage a safety program from a management systems perspective. Discuss whether you believe OSHA should be in the business of offering management suggestions.

Identify the different business structures.

Write a 350 to 700 words describing each of the three business structures (Sole proprietorship, Partnership and Corporation).  List the advantages and disadvantages of each.

 

Successful entrepreneurs follow a multi-step process that is based on four main elements to achieve their entrepreneurial goals. A clear understanding of the entrepreneurial process is an important step in understanding the functions of a business administrator or assessing if entrepreneurship is the right fit for you.

Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper on the entrepreneurial process. Include the following:

Describe the four steps of the entrepreneurial process.

Rank the importance of each element in the entrepreneurial process, and explain why you have placed the elements in that order.

Describe which elements are most important from an individual perspective.

Describe which elements are most important from a corporate perspective.

Discuss how the entrepreneurship process has influenced the delivery of health care services and products.

 

Describe what you believe to be the competitive advantages of developing and implementing a strategic HRM plan. Use concepts from real world examples and be sure to cite your evidence.

APA, cited, 2-3 paragraphs!

the subject is hospital

The health care industry, like other industries, is a very competitive environment. As organizational behavior within health care companies evolves, it will be even more important to consider its future and the need for continuing education.

Create a 10- to 12-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation that addresses the following:

• Explain the importance of continuing education.
• Using the company selected in Week One, describe the support it provides its employees for continuing education.
• Describe the future of organizational behavior.
• Based on the trends of the health care industry, describe what you think the future holds for the company selected in Week One.

Format your PowerPoint® according to APA guidelines. Include a title page, detailed speaker notes, and a references page.

Cite 2 peer-reviewed, scholarly, or similar references to support your presentation.

 the scenarios is scenarios 1

Many companies benefit from outsourcing services because it allows the company to lower costs, focus on its organizational culture, and increase the speed and quality of services. You have been asked to analyze how the outsourced service interacts with your company’s clients.

Read and select 1 of the following scenarios to complete the assignment:

1. In 2009, the U.S. Stimulus Act changed the way health care providers use electronic health records (EHR). A local clinic was informed that to avoid penalties it would need to adopt a qualified EHR system. The clinic managers discussed two options: 1) adopting an in house EHR system and 2) outsourcing the EHRs. After weighing the pros and cons of each option, the company decided to outsource the EHRs.
2. Recent research shows that many companies are starting to explore the idea of outsourcing for their human resources department. A large pharmaceutical company has begun discussing outsourcing their human resources department.
3. Atwood Laboratories is a small company that completes lab work and bills its patients using two staff members. A larger laboratory in the neighborhood closed its doors recently, which has increased Atwood’s patients and billing. The company is considering outsourcing its patient billing to accommodate the influx of patients.

Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper that includes the following:

• Identify the relationship of the outsourced service and the impact to the organizational structure.
• Describe the benefit and alignment of outsourcing services on organizational culture.
• Describe how a company can align the client experience with the outsourced service along with your organizational culture.

Format your paper according to APA guidelines.

vidence-Based Practice

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.

2. Consider how the resources identified in the scenario above could influence an organization’s practice.

Post 1 page response APA

1. Select an issue in your practice that is of concern (rotaing shifts) to you and provide a description of your practice concern.
2.  Using health information technology, locate at least three evidence-based practice resources that address your concern and that could possibly inform further action. Outline how you used health information technology to locate evidence-based practices that address this concern. Cite and include insights from the resources.

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

Rotating shift references

1. Shahriari, M., Shamali, M., & Yazdannik, A. (2014). The relationship between fixed and rotating shifts with job burnout in nurses working in critical care areas. Iranian Journal Of Nursing & Midwifery Research, 19(4), 360-365.
2. Korompeli, A., Sourtzi, P., Tzavara, C., & Velonakis, E. (2009). Rotating shift-related changes in hormone levels in intensive care unit nurses. Journal Of Advanced Nursing, 65(6), 1274-1282. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2648.2009.04987.x
3. Yu-San, C., Hsiang-Lan, C., Yu-Hsuan, W., Chung-Yao, H., Ching-Kuan, L., & Chin, H. (2014). Rotating night shifts too quickly may cause anxiety and decreased attentional performance, and impact prolactin levels during the subsequent day: a case control study. BMC Psychiatry, 14(1), 126-146. doi:10.1186/s12888-014-0218-7
4. Rotating night shift increases risk of disease. (2015). Australian Nursing & Midwifery Journal, 22(7), 17.

 Course 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 26, “Nursing Research: Data Collection, Processing, and Analysis”

The authors of this chapter relate nursing research to the foundation of knowledge model. The chapter assesses informatics tools for collecting data, storing information, and processing and analyzing data.

o   Chapter 27, “Translational Research: Generating Evidence for Practice”

In this chapter, the authors differentiate evidence-based practice and translation research. They also describe models used to introduce research findings intro practice.

• Hynes, D. M., Weddle, T., Smith, N., Whittier, E., Atkins, D., & Francis, J. (2010). Use of health information technology to advance evidence-based care: Lessons from the VA QUERI program.Journal of General Internal Medicine, 25(Suppl. 1), S44–S49.

  Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.

  This article presents a study that evaluated the role of health information technology (HIT) in the Department of Veteran Affairs’ Quality Enhancement Research Initiative. The authors convey their findings on how HIT provided data and information to aid implementation research, and how implementation research helped further HIT development. Additionally, the text details methods of overcoming common HIT barriers to implementation research.

• Jamal, A., McKenzie, K., & Clark, M. (2009). The impact of health information technology on the quality of medical and health care: A systematic review.Health Information Management Journal, 38(3), 26–37.

  Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.

  This text details a study that reviews the published evidence concerning the impact of health information technology (HIT) on the quality of health care. The study investigated the use of HIT in medical care and allied health and preventive services. The authors primarily focus on the impact of electronic health records, computerized provider order-entry, and decision support systems.

 

• Umscheid, C. A., Williams, K., & Brennan, P. (2010). Hospital-based comparative effectiveness centers: Translating research into practice to improve the quality, safety and value of patient care.JGIM: Journal of General Internal Medicine,25(12), 1,352–1,355.

  Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.

  This article revolves around the usage of the hospital-based comparative effectiveness (CE) center model. The authors highlight the model’s benefits and the increasing usage of CE evidence. The article also reviews solutions to overcoming many of the challenges to operating hospital-based CE centers.

• In your own words, contrast the core differences between off-line and online Organizational Learning Mechanisms (OLMs). Then, create a scenario in which one (1) of the following types of OLMs would be an effective structure: off-line/internal OLMs, online/internal OLMs, off-line/external OLMs and online/external OLMs. Justify your reasoning for selecting the OLM for the scenario.
• Use the Internet or the Strayer Library to research the impact of organizational culture on a productive learning environment. Next, examine the extent to which organizational culture can impact productive learning within an organization. Next, select two (2) cultural norms (i.e., inquiry, issue orientation, transparency, integrity, and accountability) that you believe generate knowledge and lead people to act on this knowledge within your organization or an organization with which you are familiar. Justify your selection.

 

Discussion #1

 Select an organization with which you are familiar, and determine the number of bargaining units that would be appropriate for its structure. Please use a minimum of one reference to support your discussion.

[Or, as an alternative to No. 1 “The proposed Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) would fundamentally change the 80 year old system through which employees choose to be represented by a union (or not).  Do you favor EFCA or the current secret ballot system? Please justify your response.]

Discussion #2

 

Explain the following statement, “It is not the union that organizes the employees, it is management.” Please use a minimum of one reference to support your discussion.