Discussion Board Topic:
In this module we learned about outpatient hospital coding.
Discuss the following:
What is the difference between emergency services and critical care? Give examples of each.
How do you code when critical care services are provided during an emergency department encounter?
How do you properly code same day surgeries and observation cases?
Compare the O’Neill sister’s original plan with the organization’s current activities. Based on your readings, discuss two strengths and two weaknesses of their approach. Explain two or three components that could be added to the O’Neill sisters’ plan that would make it more effective.
November 2, 2021/in Healthcare /by Sam
Disaster Preparedness and Relief
First watch this TED Talk video
Review their current work at Recovers and post answers to the following questions:
Compare the O’Neill sister’s original plan with the organization’s current activities. Based on your readings, discuss two strengths and two weaknesses of their approach.
Propose and explain two or three components that could be added to the O’Neill sisters’ plan that would make it more effective.
Provide at least three scholarly, peer-reviewed references to support your proposed components. One of these references should be from Corbett and Fikkert’s When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor and Yourself (2014).
What steps should Judy or the hospital’s leaders take with the nurse who administered the wrong medication to the patient? Should this employee be terminated as a result of the error?
October 29, 2021/in Healthcare /by Sam
Case Study
Read the case study “It Could Have Happened to Anyone”from Quantum Leadership. Then answer the following questions:
If you are Judy, what steps would you take with your nursing staff to stabilize their emotions about the situation?
What should Judy do to heal the brokenness on the unit and to prevent the potential reoccurrence?
What steps should Judy or the hospital’s leaders take with the nurse who administered the wrong medication to the patient? Should this employee be terminated as a result of the error?
Identify both the individual errors and the system errors that contributed to the medication error.
What work needs to be done by the hospital’s leadership to manage the internal and external (public) reaction to the error and the patient’s death?
What should leadership do to help the hospital recover from this error?
Discuss ethical issues that can arise in your study design.
October 29, 2021/in Healthcare /by Sam
Randomized Control Style
This assignment addresses design strategies and ethical issues associated with experimental studies.
Instructions
design your own randomized controlled trial using the steps given in Chapter 8 of your textbook.
You can use the example of a drug study in which is it appropriate to use a placebo or you can choose your own topic.
Discuss ethical issues that can arise in your study design.
What did you learn about yourself, about the world, or about public or global health? What people were you serving? Identify (or create) a strategic objective and an intermediate indicator for the place you volunteered. Did you see or experience anything unexpected?
October 29, 2021/in Healthcare /by Sam
Volunteer Activity Reflection
After your volunteer experience is concluded, write a two-page reflection on your experiences. The reflection should include the dates and hours you volunteered and the name(s) of the contact person or persons you worked with from the organization.
Explain what you did for your volunteer activity. Be sure to address all of the 8 following questions:
What did you learn about yourself, about the world, or about public or global health?
What people were you serving?
Identify (or create) a strategic objective and an intermediate indicator for the place you volunteered.
Did you see or experience anything unexpected? Explain in detail.
Was there some specific aspect of your experience that you found especially helpful?
What cross-cultural aspect was present in your volunteer work? Consider the content presented in When Helping Hurts by Corbett & Fikkert when answering this question.
How will this volunteer activity have an impact on your life-long learning, professional practice, and future work?
Would you volunteer again? Explain your answer.
Explain the legal parameters for patient rights and the role that Dr. S and Dr. V play in protecting those rights. Explain the federal, statutory, or case laws that apply in this scenario.
October 28, 2021/in Healthcare /by Sam
Stark and Anti-Kickback Laws Limit Lab-Marketing Methods
Two physicians, Dr. S. and Dr. V., leased a nuclear camera so they would no longer have to refer their patients to the local hospital for nuclear imaging. Faced with the prospect of losing over a third of its $2,274,094 in annual gross nuclear medicine revenues, the hospital responded by threatening to revoke the doctors’ admitting privileges. Lengthy negotiations ensued, at the end of which the hospital agreed to sublease the camera from the two physicians; the camera remained at the physicians’ offices but other physicians with privileges at the hospital could use it. Four other local physicians who provided the same or similar services to patients as Dr. S. and Dr. V. brought a qui tam action alleging that the sublease violated the Anti-Kickback and Stark Acts and that the defendants falsely certified compliance with those laws in connection with claims submitted to Medicare in violation of the False Claims Act.
Analyze whether the actions of Dr. S. and Dr. V. violated Stark Law.
Explain the legal parameters for patient rights and the role that Dr. S and Dr. V play in protecting those rights.
Explain the federal, statutory, or case laws that apply in this scenario.
Provide solid evidence supporting your decision by utilizing information from the University of Arizona Global Campus Library as well as the law itself.
What trends do you see affecting the future of independent practices? Also, include how independent practices affect public health.
October 28, 2021/in Healthcare /by Sam
Effects of Change on Independent Practices
As a health leader, use evidence to discuss the effects of hospital mergers, consolidations, and expansions on independent practices. Also, include in your discussion how independent practices affect public health. What trends do you see affecting the future of independent practices?
How have these changes in profitability affected these organizations? How does uncertainty about future health care reforms and policy changes affect these organizations?
October 28, 2021/in Healthcare /by Sam
Health Care Reform and Policy Changes
As a patient-consumer and health leader, use evidence to discuss the effects of health care reforms and policy changes on private and nonprofit organizations’ profitability. Examples of health care reforms include things such as the quality management component of the Affordable Care Act. How have these changes in profitability affected these organizations? How does uncertainty about future health care reforms and policy changes affect these organizations?
In post operative adults, who are at risk for opioid addictions, what is the effect of education on the signs of addiction, pain management and the use of NSAIDs in reducing opioid dependency in post operative surgical patients?
October 27, 2021/in Healthcare /by Sam
EBP Question.
In post operative adults, who are at risk for opioid addictions, what is the effect of education on the signs of addiction, pain management and the use of NSAIDs in reducing opioid dependency in post operative surgical patients?
Key search
Patient education
Opioid crisis/dependency
Post surgical patient/ post op
Pain management or opioids risk /opiates
The ARTICLES/EVIDENCE THAT ANSWER THE EBP QUESTION
r enters the citation of their ONE quantitative article.
Use APA 7th edition format (Use ‘hanging indent’)AHL Complete, PubMed, Medline, Cochrane library
How is this information relevant to me? How is this information connected to microbiology content studied in class?
October 26, 2021/in Healthcare /by Sam
Microbiology
Articles must be a news piece no more than 3 months old, and must have a length of at least 250 words. A news video must be at least 1.5 minutes. A general educational summary or encyclopedia-style article will not count – it must be current events news. Do not use articles posted or covered by the instructor.
Summary Format
Put the title, date the article was published, and source of the article as the heading of your summary.
First Paragraph: In 50 to 75 words, write a summary of the article. Describe what subjects the article talks about, but keep it concise!
Second Paragraph: Address the following questions: 1) “How is this information relevant to me?” and 2) “How is this information connected to microbiology content studied in class?” There is no word limit for this paragraph, but try to keep the entire abstract at 1-2 pages.
Bottom: Put the web browser URL of the article or video at the end. Double check the URL; if the article can’t be found, the abstract can’t be graded. You may wish to save a copy in case there is a problem
