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HCA 340 Entire Course
HCA 340 Week 1 DQ 1 Leadership and Management in
Healthcare
HCA 340 Week 1 DQ 1 Leadership and Management in
Healthcare HCA 340 Week 1 DQ 2 Management and
Motivation HCA 340 Week 2 DQ 1 Organizational
Behavior and Management HCA 340 Week 2 DQ 2
Strategic Planning HCA 340 Week 3 DQ 1 Health
Insurance Benefits HCA 340 Week 3 DQ 2 Managing
Financial Budgets HCA 340 Week 3 Final Project
Outline/Annotated Bibliography HCA 340 Week 4 DQ
1 Managing Multidisciplinary Professionals HCA
340 Week 4 DQ 2 Human Resources HCA 340 Week 4
S.W.O.T. (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities,
Threats) HCA 340 Week 5 DQ 1 Cultural Diversity
in Healthcare HCA 340 Week 5 DQ 2 Healthcare
Ethics Law HCA 340 Week 5 Final Project
Leadership and Management in Health Care.
Compare and contrast leadership roles and
management responsibilities in a non-health care
setting with that of a health care organization.
In addition, present an overview of key
leadership traits fundamental for health care
organizational effectiveness, and discuss the
essential functions of health care managers. What
does it take to be a good leader or manager?
What are the primary barriers and challenges
associated with health care leadership? 
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HCA 340 Week 2 DQ 1 Organizational Behavior and
Management
HCA 340 Week 1 DQ 2 Management and Motivation
    Management and Motivation. Discuss the
overall importance of motivation as it relates to
management. What are the benefits of having a
fully motivated staff, and what are the potential
consequences of not having motivated staff? What
do contemporary theories tell us about the
significance of motivation as a function of
employee needs, extrinsic and intrinsic factors?
How do we motivate across generations? In your
response, please be sure to identify and address
at least two theories.   
Organizational Behavior and Management. Review
the following case study in your textbook,
Prelude to a Medical Error (pp. 416-417). Examine
the application and answer Discussion Question 1
"Identify and discuss examples of preconceptions,
assumptions, and mental models evident in this
scenario. What are the consequences of the ways
these health providers are thinking about the
situation?" How might you, as the healthcare
administrator of this organization, handle this
situation and deal with each of the
participants?     
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HCA 340 Week 3 DQ 1 Health Insurance Benefits
HCA 340 Week 2 DQ 2 Strategic Planning
Strategic Planning. Strategic planning is
essential in the sustainability of all healthcare
organizations. Outline the processes, or steps,
involved in the strategic planning process and
continual monitoring of the internal and external
environment. Discuss how strategic planning is a
dynamic, verses linear, process. Why is this
important? What roles, if any, do quality and
information technology play in an organization's
strategic direction? Use one scholarly reference,
cited according to APA guidelines as outlined in
the Writing Center, in addition to the textbook 
Health Insurance Benefits. Managers need to
understand the impact on the financial viability
of a health service organization for providing
care to the uninsured or underinsured. Review the
following case scenario and answer the discussion
questions. Joe Smith is a 27- year-old Caucasian
male who works two part-time jobs for two
different construction companies. Joe has been
having dizzy spells off and on for the past two
months. While driving to work one day, he loses
consciousness and is involved in a motor vehicle
accident. Joe is admitted to your not-for-profit
hospital with a broken leg and multiple
lacerations.    
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HCA 340 Week 3 Final Project Outline Annotated
Bibliography
HCA 340 Week 3 DQ 2 Managing Financial Budgets
Managing Financial Budgets. Health care financial
management is complex and an effective health
care administrator must understand what makes up
the foundation to financial operations. This
includes health insurance (private and social)
and reimbursements, private vs. not-for profit
entities, costs and expenditures, capital,
materials management, and budgeting. 1. Outline
and discuss the major categories of
reimbursements and costs in a health care
organization. How do they influence each
other? 2. In addition, how do expenses and
revenues affect the specific types of budgets
outlined?   
Final Project Outline/Annotated Bibliography.
Submit the following to your instructor for
review 1. Identify the topic of your Final
Project a. Describe the issue, why it was
selected, the perspective of approach, and the
scope of the paper. 2. Provide an outline of your
project a. The outline should include a heading
for each section of the Research
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HCA 340 Week 4 DQ 2 Human Resources
HCA 340 Week 4 DQ 1 Managing Multidisciplinary
Professionals
Human Resources. Human resources are an
integral part of health care operations to
recruit and retain high quality, and often highly
specialized employees. 1. Describe why human
resources management is comprised of strategic
and administrative actions, providing examples of
each. 2. Outline specific activities that
encompass the strategic and administrative
responsibilities of the human resources
department.
Managing Multidisciplinary Professionals. Dr.
White ordered an unusual dose of a medication for
a patient. May Patterson, RN, sees the order and
believes it to be the wrong dose. She is afraid
to call Dr. White because he can be abrasive at
times. Nurse Patterson asks the charge nurse who
is not as familiar with the patient to call the
doctor. The charge nurse calls Dr. White. He
insists that he knows what is best for the
patient and insists that the medication will be
given as written. The charge nurse calls you, the
administrator on call for the weekend, to resolve
the issue.
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HCA 340 Week 5 DQ 1 Cultural Diversity in
Healthcare
HCA 340 Week 4 S.W.O.T. (Strengths, Weaknesses,
Opportunities, Threats)
Cultural Diversity in Healthcare. Read over the
information in The Providers Guide to Quality
Culture website and examine the case study from
your textbook titled, Heritage Valley Medical
Center Are Your Managers Culturally Competent?.
Then answer the following questions 1. How have
the changing definitions of diversity affected
healthcare management and the delivery of
healthcare services in this organization? 2. What
does this situation say about Heritage Valley
Medical Center's organizational culture and
organizational competency, if anything?
S.W.O.T. (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities,
Threats). For this assignment, you will apply the
S.W.O.T. Situational Planning Strategy introduced
in Chapter 5 of your course text, based upon the
following Situation You are the C.E.O. of
Community South Medical Center, a large, urban
for-profit healthcare facility. This institution
has comprehensive health services including acute
care, residential care
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HCA 340 Week 5 Final Project
HCA 340 Week 5 DQ 2 Healthcare Ethics Law
Focus of the Final Project Managing Health Care
Organizations The Final Project should
demonstrate understanding of the reading
assignments, class discussions, your own research
and the application of new knowledge. It should
utilize previous skills developed in foundational
health care courses and apply them within the
context and viewpoint of health care
administrator and his/her role managing health
and human services. For the Final Project, the
student will select one of the following topics
and conduct scholarly and professional research
while integrating course learning outcomes to
address a selected topic
Healthcare Ethics and Law. A woman arrives at a
suburban emergency room in active labor. Both she
and her husband speak little English. The staff
determines that the mother (and baby) is
uninsured and unable to pay for healthcare
services out-of-pocket. The baby is showing signs
of distress and needs to be delivered. The
on-call OB-GYN physician refuses to come to the
hospital. He recommends that the patient be
transferred to another facility. 1. What ethical
principles relate to this case scenario? 2. What
legal principles relate to this scenario? 3. What
might the legal consequences be to the health
care organization if there is a delay in
treatment?     
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