Assignment 2: Human Resources and Staffing Crisis at Blumberg’s Nursing Home

NO PLAGIARISM

Blumberg’s Nursing Home (BNH) is a 100-bed Medicare and Medicaid certified facility in suburban Philadelphia, PA. The administrator recently terminated the facility’s Director of Nursing (DON), receptionist, and dietary aid for inappropriate conduct. They had all been involved in purchasing and using illegal substances on facility grounds. Facility staff, as well as many of the more lucid residents, have found out about the incident.

The charge nurse has been appointed interim DON. The human resource manager has sent a memo to all staff informing them of a mandatory staff meeting to discuss BNH’s code of ethics and to provide additional training on workplace culture. Because federal law requires that there be at least one (1) registered nurse on duty for a minimum of eight (8) hours a day, seven (7) days a week, and that the DON must be a registered nurse (RN) – which the interim DON is not – BNH is out of compliance.

Write a six (6) page paper in which you:
1.Assess the immediate staffing needs at BNH. Prioritize the order in which BNH should fill the main unstaffed position(s). Justify your selection(s).
2.Considering the reason behind the termination of the employees, formulate a human resources policy that addresses inappropriate conduct in the workplace, the process of reporting inappropriate conduct, and the consequences of violating the policy. Explain your rationale. 
3.Per the text, an effective long-term care facility administrator must have both leadership and management skills. Propose at least one (1) way the administrator in this case must demonstrate quality leadership skills, and one (1) way the administrator must demonstrate quality management skills in the aftermath of this crisis so as to improve and maintain staff and resident morale.
4.Recommend a strategy for BNH to use the Quality Indicator Survey to improve administrative practices and ensure future compliance at the facility. Justify your recommendation.
5.Use at least three (3) quality academic resources. Note: Wikipedia and other similar websites do not qualify as academic resources.  

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
•Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
•Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length

You are a team leader in a clinic inside of a medium security state prison. Many of the inmates have been diagnosed with brain disorders and the attending prison physicians have indicated medications that the prisoners must take while incarcerated in the facility. A state legislator visiting the prison has been advised of this program forcing inmates to take medications to treat their mental illnesses and is concerned about the reasons this is being done against the inmates will. The legislator asks for a meeting with members of the prison clinic and you are tasked to explain the reasoning for the forced medication program. The following are questions being asked by the legislator that need to be addressed:

• Why are diagnosed mental health problem inmates being held in a jail type facility?
• What is the reason the inmates are being given the drugs?
• How can the prison clinic be forcing inmates to take the drugs against their will?

APA format. 3 paragraphs. . references throughout and reference page.

Q2

Need to write a 700 word article on THE FUTURE OF SUSTAINABLE HEALTH CARE

I need the following subtopics

1)Introduction that will also explain what the rest of the paper will be about,

and those bullet points are: a. Identifying opportunities for innovation; b. Explain how innovation contributes to a sustainable health care organizaton; b. Identify challenges to becoming a sustainable health care organization; d. Identify examples of health care sustainability successes

Unit outcome(s) addressed in this Assignment:• Evaluate reasons for sound corporate compliance and penalties for failure to comply• Compare and contrast abuse and fraud in the health care settings• Discuss how Qui Tam lawsuits impact the healthcare industryIllustrate legal principles and laws that affect professional and administrative decisions found in health care services. Analyze conflict between cost, access, and quality of care as it relates to legal parameters. Evaluate inherent limitations to the delivery of health care due to legal mandates. Contrast the roles of legislatures, regulators, and the courts in health care services. Evaluate how the law of contract and malpractice mold health care delivery.InstructionsMuch of this course is, about compliance with quality standards. It is important to understand that compliance extends to every phone call, computer entry, claim submission, patient contact, visit, provider interaction, nursing care and so on. For this, your Final project, you will prepare a report about the role of the Joint Commission (JC).To begin, please visit the Joint Commission website:Source: The Joint Commission: The Joint Commission. Retrieved from http://www.jointcommission.org/Additional research will be necessary.

1 Identify one area of nursing research that has improved patient outcomes. State the study and its impact on patient care. How have these findings changed your nursing practice?

2 What similarities and differences can you identify between the nursing process and the research process? Explain your answer.

3 Nursing research is used to study a dilemma or a problem in nursing. Examine a problem you have seen in nursing. Why should it be studied? Justify your rationale.

Healthcare reform is a term that is ever present in our practice settings and will not disappear any time soon.
Review the article below and answer the following questions.
Buerhaus, P. I., Skinner, L. E., Auerbach, D. I., & Staiger, D. O. (2017). Four challenges facing the nursing workforce in the United States. Journal of Nursing Regulation, 8(2), 40-46. . doi:10.1016/S2155-8256(17)30097-https://chamberlainuniversity.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edselp&AN=S2155825617300972&site=eds-live&scope=site
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1.       Select one of the four challenges and expand on how your workforce has responded to the change.

2.       How have these challenges affected the access to care for your patients?

3.       What can you do to decrease the effect on your patients? Provide a specific example.

Question Description

This week, you will learn how to plan care for patients while considering their diverse cultural backgrounds. This is an APA paper, which requires a title page, double spacing, and set up as per the example papers in your APA book. Please select a culture different from the one you chose to research in week 2. PLEASE USE ASIANS!!

Then, address the following:

1. Describe the key components of conducting a comprehensive cultural assessment (rationales, interventions and evaluations may be found on the internet).
2. Choose two of the components, reflect on your own culture and how it impacts your own attitude toward those aspects of providing culturally diverse care.
3. Imagine that you are working in a physician’s office. A patient of a background different from your own comes in to be seen for a newly diagnosed problem. Create two nursing diagnoses that reflect cultural diversity (look at Appendix A for guidance ie., “Barrier to communication”); then give rationale for each diagnosis and describe how you would intervene and evaluate for success of your plan of care.

Minimum of four (4) total references: two (2) references from required course materials and two (2) peer-reviewed references. All references must be no older than five years (unless making a specific point using a seminal piece of information)

Peer-reviewed references include references from professional data bases such as PubMedor CINHAL applicable to population and practice area, along with evidence based clinical practice guidelines. Examples of unacceptable references are Wikipedia, UpToDate,Epocrates, Medscape, WebMD, hospital organizations, insurance recommendations, & secondary clinical databases.

o Title of Paper (centered, not bolded)—do not include the word Introduction

o Comprehensive Cultural Assessment Components (centered, bolded)

o Title of 1st Component (left margin, bolded)—please use the topic of your component as this heading

o Title of 2nd Component (left margin, bolded)—please use the topic of your component as this heading

o Nursing Diagnoses One (centered, bolded)

o Nursing Diagnosis Two (centered, bolded)

o Conclusion (generally not used as a heading and instead you should use the words In conclusion, to begin the conclusion)