Competency

Assess the roles and impacts of various stakeholders within U.S. healthcare systems.

Scenario

Due to your background as an expert consultant for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (or CMS), you have been encouraged to apply as Director of the agency. You are scheduled to interview with the top government executives in healthcare and must present information on the roles and impacts your future stakeholders have on healthcare.

Instructions

Research the impact of various stakeholders on balancing quality, access, and costs. Stakeholders to include in your research are:

1. Patients
2. Patient’s families
3. Physicians
4. Employers
5. Insurance companies
6. Pharmaceutical firms
7. Government

Report your findings on the role of each stakeholder and the impact they have on the U.S. healthcare system in a detailed issue brief, including recommendations for improvements each stakeholder can make to improve quality, access, and costs.

Resources

For writing assistance, please visit the Rasmussen College Writing Guide.

APA formatting for the reference list, and proper grammar, punctuation, and form are required. APA help is available here.

Click this link for help on creating an issue brief.

RUBRICS

1. Report includes comprehensive descriptions of the impacts of each of the following stakeholders:

1. Patients
2. Patient’s families
3. Physicians
4. Employers
5. Insurance companies
6. Pharmaceutical firms
7. Government

2. Report includes clear and thorough recommendations for improvements each stakeholder can make to the following:

1. quality
2. access
3. costs

3. 

No errors or omissions in APA formatting.

No spelling nor grammar errors.

Please submit your write-up of no more than 400 words: 

What is the association between coffee drinking and risk of Parkinson’s disease? 

In your write-up, address each of the following points:

• Choose one of these three study designs to answer your research question: a cohort study, case-control study, or cross-sectional study. Justify why you are picking that study design. In other words, provide at least one strength of your chosen study design for addressing your chosen research question. 

• Identify the target population for your study. 

• Identify the source population for your study. 

• How is the exposure defined in your study? When and how will it be measured? 

• What are the main comparison groups of participants in your study? 

• How is the main outcome defined in your study? When and how will it be measured? 

• For the main outcome of interest in your study, what measure of disease frequency would be most appropriate, and why? 

• What measure of association (between the exposure and outcome) would be most appropriate for your chosen study design and research question, and why?

Deliverable Length: 5–7 pages

Note: Use APA style and 3 scholarly references. (Abstract, Body, Conclusion, & Reference Page)

Write a paper that discusses the following 3 elements:

• Provide an overview of how health care in the United States has evolved since the postindustrial period.

• How has the evolution of medical technology, graduate medical education, and the professionalization of medical and nursing staff affected the delivery of care?

• Why has the United States been unsuccessful in evolving the current health care system into a national health care system?

 In the 21st century, one of the most significant areas of religious conflict may quite possibly be between a growing Islam, a revived Hinduism, and a vibrant Christianity in Africa and Asia.

For your thread, select a country from or Africa and discuss the growth of contemporary Christianity there. (ex. Sudan, India, Uganda, and Singapore). For your replies, find a country—different from the one you selected in your thread—from both Asia and Africa. Compare your peers’ results to your own research. 

Essay #2 is the Division and Classification Essay. 

Read the section within The Prentice Hall Reader on “Division and Classification” (163-176).

The general topic for this essay is “People.”  However, you must focus on a specific focus group of people to break into three categories.  Some examples of specific focus groups of people include: celebrities, authors, athletes, friends, actors, students, teachers, politicians, parents, men, women…etc.

Once you’ve decided on which focus group of people to categorize, you must come up with 3 “labels” for your groups.

Your thesis statement format is as follows:

___________________________ may be classified into three categories: ______________________, ____________________, and ________________________.

An example thesis statement for “teachers” is as follows:

Teachers may be classified into three categories: Professor McConagals, Snapes, and Trelawnys.

A theme is a really nice way to put this essay together.  The above example has a Harry Potter theme.

The names of your categories must be creative.  Even though the example above includes labels that are names of fictional characters, the essay is not about those characters.  The essay is about teachers who fit the characteristics those fictional characters represent.  

The names of your categories may not be adjectives (mean, nice, scary, funny)

The names of your categories must be plural (use s not ‘s).  

The names of your categories must begin with cap letters.  

The names of your categories must be italicized.

The names of your categories must be used throughout the essay.

The 5 paragraph format for the above essay would be as follows:

Introduction – open up the conversation, include thesis statement as the last sentence of the paragraph, should be one of the two shortest paragraphs in the essay.

Body Paragraph #1 – Paragraph about Professor McGonagal kind of teachers, including description, the characteristics that make a teacher a Professor McGonagal teacher (kind, knowledgeable, cares about students, teaches the whole student, not just the academic side, etc.).

Body Paragraph #2 – Paragraph about Snape kind of teachers, including description, the characteristics that makea  teacher a Snape teacher (black greasy hair, never smiles, evil, lonely life, gives all students a hard time but for the ones he hates, he pretty much undercuts everything they try to do, lets a select few students get away with anything and everything, etc.).

Body Paragraph #3 – Paragraph about Trelawny kind of teachers, including description, the characteristics that make a teacher a Trelawny teacher (fluffy subject matter, big thick glasses, ditsy, clumsy, high pitched, silly voice, easy to trick, students take advantage of and do not respect, etc.)

Conclusion – close out the conversation.  There should be nothing new introduced here, but the reader should be reminded of the point of the essay.

Per the English Handout, this essay must be 600 words, but not more than 625 words.

MLA Format, 3rd person

Thesis Statement: Basketball players may be classified into three categories: Point Guards, Post Players, and Dribblers.