Assignment:
Maybe you are the manager or administrator for a clinic, hospital, or other healthcare organization. Or it could be that you are a lead researcher or program director in some sector of public health. What issue would you most want new employees to be aware of? Why is this issue the most important? How would you focus your training time to cover this area?
In this course, we have learned about issues that impact all areas of healthcare delivery. Ethics and practice; healthcare policy, financing, and cost; access to quality care; and advancing/changing approaches in healthcare system delivery all impact every professional working in the healthcare field. Current and future healthcare delivery professionals will need to be aware of each of these issues and be ready to teach, train, and lead new professionals in their organization.
Imagine you are the head of the department in your area of healthcare delivery. Perhaps you are a lead or charge person such as a physician, nurse or other allied health provider. Maybe you are the manager or administrator for a clinic, hospital, or other healthcare organization. Or it could be that you are a lead researcher or program director in some sector of public health. What issue would you most want new employees to be aware of? Why is this issue the most important? How would you focus your training time to cover this area?
For this assignment you have been tasked with putting yourself in the role of a healthcare leader. You select the position--pick one that aligns with your current or future goals! In your role as a leader you will prepare to educate new professionals who are beginning their career with your department or organization. You will choose one of the areas we have covered in the final five chapters of this course as the focus for your assignment.
Once you select a specific focus area you will complete the following two deliverables for this assignment:
• A 800 to 1000 word report that discusses the area of focus, why you selected it, what you learned and what new employees must learn about this area.
• A 15-slide PowerPoint training presentation for your new employees.
Step 1: Selecting your position and topic
Choose your imaginary position of leadership in your organization. Are you a provider, a manager, a researcher? You decide, and then plan, according to your role, which area you feel new employees who work for you should be educated about.
You covered a lot of information in the last five chapters! There is no way you can cover everything you learned in a 15 slide PowerPoint.
You will need to pick a topic that you feel is most important, then analyze the information and distill it down to core concepts that you feel need to be shared with new employees. The focus of your topic should come from one of the following areas:
• Access to Healthcare
• Ethics in Healthcare Delivery
• Healthcare Practice and Policy
• Understanding Healthcare Costs and Financing
• Providing Quality Healthcare
• Future Considerations for Our Health Care Organization
Step 2: Do your research and write your paper
Once you have selected your topic you must use Study.com lessons and at least two external, scholarly sources to adequately research your topic. Your paper should provide the following core components:
• Your imaginary healthcare leader role and the organization you serve in. Include why you selected that role and organization. If you are already in a leadership role and wish to write from this perspective, that is fine. Just make sure you specify that information in your paper.
• The specific topic you selected, and why you selected it. Justify your response. Why do new employees in your organization need to know about this topic? What makes it the most important of all the topics covered in class? How does this topic impact your role, and those who you are training, in the healthcare delivery system? How does it impact other professionals' roles? How does it affect consumers, clients, and patients?
• A review that shares what you have learned about the topic. You will have to analyze all of the information, and then synthesize the information to present an overview of the topic, with the most important issues highlighted. Use your course lessons and external research to build your informational section regarding this area.
• What new or applicable information did you learn from reviewing this material, and how will you apply it in your role in the healthcare delivery system? How will this information help you better serve your customers, patients, or clients?
• Your paper should include a coversheet that contains your name; the date submitted; the title of the paper and the class name. It should follow APA format, and include a reference page.
Step 3: Create your PowerPoint
Use your paper to help you create a PowerPoint presentation to educate new employees at your workplace about your topic. Remember that you are a leader in your organization, and you are training them in this area. Your presentation should not exceed 15 slides, including a title and reference slide. Use the information you learned researching for your paper. The core components of the presentation should include the following:
• Your name, your role, and your organization.
• The topic you are educating employees about:
o What information do employees need to know about this area?
o Why it is important for the employee to know this information?
o How will being knowledgeable in this area help them provide quality healthcare services to their clients/customers/patients?
o What resources, websites, etc. should employees review for additional information?
• A reference slide that provides all resources in APA format.
• You may use appropriate photos, charts or clip-art in your PowerPoint; however, each slide should contain information relevant to your focus area. Your slide layout, coloring, background and font should be professional in nature.
Using Sources
You should refer to the course material for supporting evidence, but you must also use at least two credible, scholarly resources from outside of the course. This information should be in support of your topic, directly link to your chosen area of advancement, and be cited in your reference page using APA format.
Please include a mix of both primary and secondary sources. If you use any Study.com lessons as sources, please also cite them in APA format (including the lesson title and the instructor's name).
• Primary sources are documents or records that report on a study, experiment, trial or research project; and are usually written by the person(s) who did the research, conducted the study, or ran the experiment. You may use resources like CIHNAL, Google Scholar, and/or Science/Direct to find articles that are considered primary sources.
• Secondary sources list, summarize, compare and evaluate primary information. Secondary sources include reviews, meta-analysis, newsletters and professional news sources, practice guidelines & standards, clinical care notes, or patient education information. Secondary sources may also come from reputable websites with .gov, .edu, or .org in the domain. (Wikipedia is not a reputable source, though the sources listed in Wikipedia articles may be acceptable.)
If you are unsure about how to use the APA format to cite your sources, please see the following lessons:
• What is APA Formatting
• How to Format APA Citations