Imagine your team has been given the task of consulting with a local health care facility that has been experiencing some issues with its staff. The facility’s leadership has noted communication, motivation, and teamwork as the primary issues, and they have asked your group to provide some strategies to improve these areas.

Assignment Directions:

Part 1: Preparing For Your Group’s Assignment

Note: Your group’s Part 1 assignment components won’t be turned in as part of this assignment, but the components will serve as research and preparation for Part 2 of this assignment that will be turned in.

Individually, research components of effective teams and communication.

Choose your top 3 components, including the citations, and share them with your group.

As a group, decide on the top 5 components of those the group members contributed to use for this assignment.

Part 2: Completing Your Group’s Assignment

Create a proposal in a 10- to 15-slide presentation to the health care facility’s leadership team in which your team addresses the following prompts and explains how your choices would be effective:

• Identify key components of an effective team.
• Identify methods and environments for encouraging teams to work well with each other.
• Discuss motivational techniques to encourage all individual employees, along with the entire team, to work efficiently and effectively.
• Recommend a plan(s) to create a space where good conflict is encouraged and bad conflict is managed.
• Discuss strategies to improve communication from the top down, the bottom up, and between coworkers.
• Conclude with a few strategies on how the health care facility’s leadership team can determine if their changes were successful.

Cite 3 references to support your assignment. 1 reference may be the course textbook.

Format your citations and references according to APA guidelines. 

  

1. – 250 word count

Describe professionalism in the context of public health. What skills, attributes, and behaviors are expected of the public health professional? What distinctive characteristics of public health would be necessary to implement in order to fully support your community?

2. – 250 word count

Professionalism in public health involves valuing a commitment to lifelong learning and professional service. Outline three goals you will strive to achieve over the next 3 years that will help you strengthen and improve your professionalism skills. 

 

Structure of Health Insurance

The present health care system relies on public and private health insurance systems. On the basis of your understanding of the health insurance system, answer the following questions:

• Explain the basic structure of health insurance and analyze its most important part. Describe the main purpose of health insurance in your own words.
• What impact do you think health insurance has on our economy today?
• Explain why managed care was incorporated in the US health care system long ago? Describe and contrast the three types of managed care plans—HMOs, PPOs, and POS?.
• Should the same individuals who pay for your health care (managed care organizations [MCOs]) also make your treatment decisions? Why or why not?
• Is the fee-for-service (FFS) system more beneficial for the consumer than the current MCO system? Why or why not? Explain.

Post by Nicole Vasquez
1 day agoAn Open InvitationThe most significant insight from class is the importance of costly discipleship. There is a verse from Luke that is very convicting it says this about costly discipleship, “Whoever comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and even life itself, cannot be my disciple.Whoever does not carry the cross and follow me cannot be my disciple” (NRSV, Luke 14:26-27). Costly discipleship makes all the difference in my life because it hits the exact thing that I am not willing to let go of. This verse shows me exactly what is hardest for me to give up and that is my family. It is good to read things like in the bible because we need to be challenged in order to see where we stand in our faith and who we have on our throne. Jesus wants the throne and he will not accept anything less. 

My biggest surprise is the way in which God works. Even though I know God is all-powerful and all-knowing when I learn about how intricate his plans are for his people and just how much he loves us I continue to be surprised. I am also surprised at how I can read the same bible stories yet get different things out of it every time I read it. The stories never get old because the Bible is God’s living word.

The question that still remains is what next? Although I have this new knowledge about who Jesus is and what discipleship looks like I am unsure of where I go from here. I feel empowered when I am learning about the plans God has for us but I get stuck on the next step I am supposed to take. 

Post by Gabby Bains

1 day agoWeek 8 Discussion

• As you consider the lessons of this class, what is your most significant insight? What difference does it make to you?

 The most significant insight that I gained was the examination of the power the Holy Spirit has. I felt like I had a lack of understanding of the purpose and of the possibilities of the Spirit until learning as much as I did this semester. It astonished me the ways of God and how He utilizes the Spirit as a means of expanding His kingdom. It was great to read and get insight on something so crucial to His plan.

• What was your biggest surprise?

 My biggest surprise was what I felt was the most significant insight that I gained which was the wonders the Holy Spirit. I felt like how could I be so taken aback about the power that the Spirit possesses when it comes from God? It was really great to gain so much intel about one of the three trinities so that for the future I can see and process better when it comes to my role in His plan.

• What questions still remain?

 Questions that still remain are just pertaining to the ways and wonders of God and trying to understand more so the requirements and guidelines to being a true disciple. Thinking of this, I understand how these questions can only be answered by studying more and engrossing myself more into His word to strengthen my relationship with Him.