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HCA 340 Entire Course (Ash) FOR MORE CLASSES
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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
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HCA 340 Week 1 DQ 1 Leadership and Management in
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Leadership and Management in Healthcare
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 1 DQ 2 Management and Motivation
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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.
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HCA 340 Week 2 DQ 1 Organizational Behavior and
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Organizational Behavior and Management
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 2 DQ 2 Strategic Planning (Ash)
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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
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HCA 340 Week 3 DQ 1 Health Insurance Benefits
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HCA 340 Week 3 DQ 1 Health Insurance Benefits
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 DQ 2 Managing Financial Budgets
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  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?
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HCA 340 Week 3 Final Project Outline/Annotated
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Outline/Annotated Bibliography 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
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HCA 340 Week 4 DQ 1 Managing Multidisciplinary
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Multidisciplinary Professionals 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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Week 4 DQ 2 Human Resources 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. 3. If you were employed as an
administrator in a small physician group without
a human resources department, how would you
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HCA 340 Week 4 S.W.O.T. (Strengths, Weaknesses,
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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
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HCA 340 Week 5 DQ 1 Cultural Diversity in
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Diversity in Healthcare 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?
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HCA 340 Week 5 DQ 2 Healthcare Ethics Law (Ash)
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340 Week 5 DQ 2 Healthcare Ethics Law
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?
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Final Project 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.
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