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HCA 340 Entire Course For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com 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
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HCA 340 Week 1 DQ 1 Leadership and Management in
Healthcare For more classes visit www.snaptutorial
.com 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 For
more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com 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
Management For more classes visit www.snaptutorial
.com   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?"
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HCA 340 Week 2 DQ 2 Strategic Planning For more
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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?
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HCA 340 Week 3 DQ 1 Health Insurance Benefits For
more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   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
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HCA 340 Week 3 DQ 2 Managing Financial
Budgets For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.co
m 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
Bibliography For more classes visit www.snaptutori
al.com   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
Paper/PowerPoint Presentation (including one for
the thesis and the conclusion) as well as heading
descriptions.
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HCA 340 Week 4 DQ 1 Managing Multidisciplinary
Professionals For more classes visit www.snaptutor
ial.com 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.
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HCA 340 Week 4 DQ 2 Human Resources For more
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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.
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HCA 340 Week 4 S.W.O.T. (Strengths, Weaknesses,
Opportunities, Threats) For more classes
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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 DQ 1 Cultural Diversity in
Healthcare For more classes visit www.snaptutorial
.com 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 For
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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.
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HCA 340 Week 5 Final Project For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   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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