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ASHFORD HCA 340 Week 1 DQ 1 Leadership and
Management in Healthcare
HCA 340 Entire Course
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
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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ASHFORD HCA 340 Week 2 DQ 1 Organizational
Behavior and Management
ASHFORD HCA 340 Week 1 DQ 2 Management and
Motivation
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?
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.
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ASHFORD HCA 340 Week 3 DQ 1 Health Insurance
Benefits
ASHFORD HCA 340 Week 2 DQ 2 Strategic Planning
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.
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?
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ASHFORD HCA 340 Week 3 Final Project
Outline/Annotated Bibliography
ASHFORD HCA 340 Week 3 DQ 2 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.
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.    
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ASHFORD HCA 340 Week 4 DQ 2 Human Resources
ASHFORD HCA 340 Week 4 DQ 1 Managing
Multidisciplinary Professionals
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. 3. If you were employed as
an administrator in a small physician group
without a human resources department, how would
you carry out the strategic and administrative
responsibilities required?  
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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ASHFORD HCA 340 Week 5 DQ 1 Cultural Diversity in
Healthcare
ASHFORD HCA 340 Week 4 S.W.O.T. (Strengths,
Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats)
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, independent living,
in-home nursing, hospice, neonatal, and pediatric
services, advanced cardiac services, a major
trauma center, a center of excellence for
pulmonary services, and a neurosurgery center.
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?
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ASHFORD HCA 340 Week 5 Final Project
ASHFORD HCA 340 Week 5 DQ 2 Healthcare Ethics and
Law
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.
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.
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