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PowerPoint Presentation: Narrative Presentation to the Board of Trustees

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has taken on a more visible role in health care. A great deal of change has transpired to improve patient safety and implementation of additional quality metrics.

The new health care reform has begun to change the fees/structure of Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement for health care services.

For this assignment, write a narrative presentation that you will deliver to the members of your organization’s board of trustees on how the new reimbursement structure will impact the organization’s revenue structure. In your presentation, address the following questions:

• Why did CMS become more involved in the reimbursement component of health care? How does this involvement impact health care organizations?
• What tools can be implemented to ensure that an organization is meeting the policies and procedures set forth by CMS?
• Identify three tools from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website that are helpful to achieving the goals set forth by your organization.

Read the IHI Triple Aim Initiative page on the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s website and watch the video “Design of a Triple Aim Enterprise”.
Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper that evaluates the impact of implementing Triple Aim goals nationally. Determine whether the three dimensions of Triple Aim would be achievable:

Improving quality and satisfaction for the patient experience of care
Improving the health of populations
Reducing the per capita cost of health care

Cite 3 reputable references to support your assignment (e.g., trade or industry publications, government or agency websites, scholarly works, or other sources of similar quality).
 
The following will need to be used to complete assignment

The IHI Triple Aim   http://www.ihi.org/Engage/Initiatives/TripleAim/Pages/default.aspx
Triple Aim for Populations  http://www.ihi.org/Topics/TripleAim/Pages/default.aspx
Design of a Triple Aim Enterprise  http://www.ihi.org/Engage/Initiatives/TripleAim/PublishingImages/IHI_DesignofTripleAimEnterprise.JPG

Nursing knowledge is classified in a variety of ways, one of which is Carper’s Patterns of Knowing (Carper, 1978). Carper’s framework offers a lens through which the nurse can reflect upon insights acquired through empirical, ethical, personal, and aesthetic knowledge (Carper, 1978). Through intentional reflection using Carper’s Patterns of Knowing, nurses can process experiential learning and knowledge acquired through practice. The purpose of this assignment is to reflect upon a specific practice situation and better understand the professional knowledge and insights obtained through that experience.

Requirements

Criteria for Content

1. Think of a surprising or challenging practice situation in which you felt underprepared, unprepared, or uncomfortable.

2. Select an important nursing issue/topic that was inherent to the identified situation.

3. As a method of refection, use Carper’s Patterns of Knowing to analyze the situation. In a two- to three-page paperaddress the following:

a. Briefly explain the situation

b. Identify the nursing issue inherent in the identified situation

c. What do you think was the underlying reason for the situation? (Esthetics)

d. What were your thoughts and feeling in the situation? (Personal)

e. What was one personal belief that impacted your actions? (Ethics)

f. What evidence in nursing literature supports the nursing importance of the identified issue? (Empirical)

g. What new insights did you gain through this reflective practice opportunity?

Preparing the paper

Submission Requirements

1. Application: Use Microsoft Word 2013™ to create the written component of this assessment.

2. Length:

a. The paper (excluding the title page and reference page) should be at least two but no more than three pages.

3. A minimum of two (2) scholarly literature sources must be used.

4. Submission: Submit your file to the Canvas course site by the due date/time indicated.

Best Practices in Preparing the Reflective Essay

The following are best practices in preparing this reflective essay.

1. Review directions thoroughly.

2. Follow assignment requirements.

3. Make sure all elements on the grading rubric are included.

4. Rules of grammar, spelling, word usage, and punctuation are followed and consistent with formal, scholarly writing.

5. Because the paper is a reflective essay, first person is acceptable for this assignment.

6. Title page, running head, body of paper, and reference page must follow APA guidelines as found in the 6th edition of the manual. This includes the use of headings for each section of the paper except for the introduction where no heading is used.

7. Ideas and information that come from scholarly literature must be cited and referenced correctly.

8. A minimum of two (2) scholarly literature sources must be used.

9. Abide by CCN academic integrity policy.

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Starting a project without a plan is like going on a road trip without any directions. You may progress along the way, but you might not end up at your desired destination. A project plan provides basic information that guides the execution and control of the project. At its most fundamental level, a project plan will describe the “who, what, when, and why” of a project. Microsoft Project is one of the most widely used project planning tools. The ability to understand and create project plans in Microsoft Project enables a project manager to effectively plan and manage project implementations.

In this Assignment, you generate a project plan using Microsoft Project.

To prepare:

• Review the information in this week’s Learning Resources on using Microsoft Project.
• Consider how to efficiently schedule tasks in a project plan.
• Think about how you should sequence tasks that have dependencies.

To complete this Assignment, you will create a Microsoft Project plan for a patient information management system. The primary deliverable for the plan is the patient information management system itself, but it is comprised of many modules. Include the following tasks, subtasks, and timeframes:

1) Create the Admission, Discharge, and Transfer Module (requires subtask I, configuration period: 25 days, training period: 10 days) 

2) Subtask I: Create the Patient Registration Module (requires subtask II, configuration period: 4 days, training period: 4 days)

3) Subtask II: Create the Master Patient Index (configuration period: 4 days)

4) Subtask III: Create the Patient Scheduling Module (requires subtask II, configuration period: 7 days, training period: 15 days)

Required Readings

Biafore, B. (2010). Microsoft Project 2010: The missing manual. Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly.

• Chapter 2, “Planning a Project” (pp. 39–57)

 This chapter supplies a brief introduction on project planning. The chapter describes the contents of a project plan along with the process of creating relevant documents.

Coplan, S., & Masuda, D. (2011). Project management for healthcare information technology. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.

• Chapter 5, “Change Management” (pp. 193–237)

 In this chapter, the authors review change management knowledge areas. The authors describe a variety of analysis methods applicable to change management processes and outputs.

Project Management Institute. (2013). A guide to the project management body of knowledge (PMBOK guide) (5th ed.). Newtown Square, PA: Author.

• Chapter 3, “Project Management Processes” (pp. 47–61)

 This chapter supplies information on managing a project that uses networked processes. The chapter describes project management processes related to each phase of a project.

Campbell, R. J. (2008). Change management in health care. The Health Care Manager, 27(1), 23–39. 

Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.

 In this article, the author highlights the work of two leaders in the field of change management. The author demonstrates how the work of these leaders can be applied to health care organizations.

Merrell, P. (2012). Effective change management: The simple truth. Management Services, 56(2), 20–23. 

Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.

 In this article, the author provides six steps for effective change management. The author also supplies supplementary information on the importance of learning activities, measuring success, and managing change management strategies.

Required Media

Laureate Education (Producer). (2013a). Establishing a team [Video file]. Retrieved from https://class.waldenu.edu

Note: The approximate length of this media piece is 8 minutes.

 In this video, Dr. Mimi Hassett discusses important considerations when assembling a project team, such as who to include and whom to consult. She talks about how project size, goals, and timelines can impact those decisions, and she also offers examples of how to keep enthusiasm for a project moving forward as the challenges toward completion arise.

Schifalacqua, M., Costello, C., & Denman, W. (2009). Roadmap for planned change, part 1: Change leadership and project management. Nurse Leader, 7(2), 26–29. 

Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.

 In this article, the authors explore the essential elements of change theory and project management. The article details many tools and concepts that assist in managing and planning change at various scales.

Microsoft Corporation. (2012). Getting started: Introduction to project management. Retrieved from http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/project-help/getting-started-introduction-to-project-management-HA010359477.aspx?CTT=3

 Review this web page, which provides an overview of basic project management concepts. It also provides links to other pages which demonstrate how to apply the aforementioned concepts in Microsoft Project 2010.