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HLT 308V Week 4 DQ 1 The Joint Commission introduced the National Patient Safety Goals to address patient safety issues within health care organizations. Determine three patient safety issues that are being addressed by your health care organization. Identify the actions the organization is taking or identify three issues that you think need to be…
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HLT 308V Week 3 DQ 2 In 2011, the Center for Medicine and Medicaid Services (CMS) published a list of health care-acquired conditions (HACs). What actions has your health care organization (or health care organizations in general) implemented to manage or prevent these “never events” from happening within their health care facilities? Support your response…
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HLT 308V Week 2 DQ 2 Describe the purpose of a root-cause analysis. Discuss an example of any issue that would necessitate a root-cause analysis. You may use an incident from a referenced article, textbook, or personal experience. Support your analysis with one peer-reviewed reference. Identify the actions that would need to be taken to…
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HLT 308V Week 1 DQ 2 Briefly describe how your organization’s risk management program (or a health care organization) could addresses social media and patient information privacy. Provide three examples and support your analysis with one peer-reviewed reference. MORE NFO Social media and patient information privacy Introduction Social media is a part of our…
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HLT 308V Week 3 DQ 1 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…
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HLT308V HLT 308V Week 1 DQ 1 The American Society of Healthcare Risk Management (ASHRM) has outlined the minimal components of a risk management program. Describe a minimum of three of those elements and evaluate if the elements are present in your organization’s risk management program, or describe how they can be included in a…
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HLT 307V Grand Canyon Week 5 DQ 1 Why must health care providers must grow as professionals? What benefits does this give to all interested parties (the organization, the patients, and the health care providers themselves)? Make a list of at least five benefits and then pick two from among the list that you most…
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HLT 307V Grand Canyon Week 2 DQ 1 The vision statement of The Association of Schools of Allied Health Professions (ASAHP) says that it is “the unifying voice and leading advocate for allied health education.” How does it define the allied health professions? How is this definition consistent with the interdependence described in this week’s…
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HLT 307V Grand Canyon Week 3 DQ 1 The focus of this week’s readings is interdisciplinary collaboration. How does Freshman, in the Collaborative Practice and Primary Care textbook, define interdisciplinary collaboration in health care organizations? Is this definition consistent with the current practice in your organization? What would need to change in order to improve…
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HLT 307V Grand Canyon Week 2 DQ 2 Hunt, in the article, “Patient-Centered Care and Cultural Practices: Process and Criteria for Evaluating Adaptations of Norms and Standards in Health Care Institutions,” writes, “Patient-centeredness suggests that health care providers and organizations adapt the services they provide to reflect the goals, needs and values of individual patients.”…