Read chapter 5 PPT and answer those questions:

 

• What Emerging Disease are you concerned most about, and why? 
• What are the factors leading to emerging disease?
• Explain how West Niles Virus is contracted?

Read chapter 12&13 PPT and answer those questions:

 

• What Disease or Illness are you predisposed or do you think will cause your death someday?
• What Risks do you take or Risk factors are you concerned with?
• With your knowledge of your Risks to disease or illness, How could you change?

Read chapter 9&11 PPT and answer those questions:

 

• Do you drink tap water or bottled water? How much?
• Do you know what’s in it?
• Do you feel it’s safe to drink? Why?
• When you flush the toilet do you know where the wastewater goes?

  

Differentiate between licensure, certification, and accreditation as it applies to healthcare facilities.

Include the following in the discussion:

• Define each of the terms as they apply to healthcare      facilities.
• Are there differences and similarities between the three      terms?
• Discuss the impact and value of each of these three      regulations on operating systems within the healthcare facility, such as      health information systems.
• How would you known if the healthcare facility held any of      these designations?
• Cite any references.
• Proper grammar, sentence structure, and spelling is required.      Use your own words. Copying and pasting is not allowed.

REPLY TO MY CLASSMATE’S DISCUSSION TO THE ABOVE QUESTION AND EXPLAIN WHY YOU AGREE. (MINIMUM OF 200 WORDS EACH)

                                           CLASSMATE’S POST

Licensure, certification, and accreditation allow healthcare organizations to market themselves to patients to seek care there (Wager, Lee, & Glaser, 2017). Healthcare facilities, including hospitals, nursing homes, and home health agencies, can optimize their reimbursement for health services for medicaid and medicare patients must be licensed to operate, certified to file Medicare/Medicaid claims, and accredited to show quality performance. Quality performance is measured and categorized by type, structure, process, outcome, and patient experience. Licensure is given by a states health department and is needed to legally operate in that state. To be a licensed facility they must follow standards for equipment and personnel, and protection, integrity, and reliability of patient health information. CMS certification creates standards for conditions of participation for Medicare/Medicaid patients. These conditions include documentation standards, assessment requirements and outcomes inorder receive reimbursement for Medicare or Medicaid patients, however, private insurance companies follow CMS’s lead for reimbursement standards. Accreditation is a voluntary process and involves an external review by an accreditation organization to see if the facility has met predetermined performance standards. An accredited facility can be exempt from state surveys for CMS compliance (Wager, Lee, & Glaser, 2017).

These three type of regulations on healthcare facilities impact information systems by creating minimum standards that facilities to follow (Wager, Lee, & Glaser, 2017). Licensure requires the protection of patient health information. Patient health information needs to be reliable and maintain integrity to obtain licensing to operate. Certification creates further standards on how and what should be documented. Accreditation organizations such as the Joint Comission also create standards for documentation and protection of patient health information (Wager, Lee, & Glaser, 2017).

Patients can recognize whether a facility has these three regulations because their insurance or Medicare/Medcaid will not cover organizations who are not licensed or certified. Many facilities advertise their accredition to place them above other facilities.

Wager, K. A., Lee, F. W., & Glaser, J. P. (2017). Health Care Information Systems: A Practical Approach for Health Care Management (4th Edition). Wiley Professional Development (P&T). https://ambassadored.vitalsource.com/books/9781119337089

  

M4 Assignment 2: Case Study—The Case of the Misguided Supervisors

Writing Assignment

Recently, when a union sought to organize the nurses at a California hospital, the nursing supervisors, called charge nurses, didn’t understand their proper role in the process. While the union was distributing cards for the nurses to indicate their desire for a representation election, several of the charge nurses participated in the union’s meetings and decided they wanted to join. Some of these charge nurses also encouraged nurses who reported to them to support the union as well. 

        One month before the election, the hospital discovered that charge nurses had supported the union even though their positions in the organization qualified them as supervisors. The charge nurses stopped advocating for the union, and some even encouraged nonsupervisory nurses to vote against representation. The election went ahead, and the union won representation. The hospital challenged the election because of the pro-union activity by the nurses. However, the NLRB and the court both upheld the union. 

Questions 1. Why would an organization care whether its supervisors speak in favor of or against union representation?

 2. How could the hospital in this example have prepared its supervisors so they would have understood their proper role during the organizing campaign? 

SOURCES: National Labor Relations Boards, “The NLRB Process,” http://www.nlrb.gov, accessed May 3, 2012; National Labor Relations Board, “NLRB Representation Case Amendments Take Effect Today,” news release, April 30, 2012, http://www.nlrb.gov; Duane Morris LLP, “Two NLRB Rules Effective April 30 Affect Most Private-Sector Employers,” Mondaq Business Briefing, April 20, 2012, http://galenet.galegroup.com 

Read The Case of the Misguided Supervisors. Use the Argosy University online library for additional research, and do the following in a Word document:

· In 2 paragraphs, summarize the case and your research that relates to the case.

· In 3 pages, answer the following:
 

o Why would an organization care whether its supervisors speak in favor of or against union representation? Explain and justify your answer.

o How could the hospital in this example have prepared its supervisors to understand their proper role during an organizing campaign? Explain and justify your answer.

With your answers demonstrate that your understanding of the concepts is thorough and complete. Support your assertions with evidence, citing the appropriate sources.

Apply the APA current guidelines to your work and use at least four resources in your response.

, deliver your assignment to the Submissions Area.

  

Assignment 2 Grading Criteria

Maximum Points

 

Clearly and concisely summarized the case in 1–2   paragraphs.

15

 

Identified, explained, and justified why an organization   would care whether its supervisors speak in favor of or against union   representation.

35

 

Identified, explained, and justified how the hospital in   this example could have prepared its supervisors to understand their proper   role during an organizing campaign.

35

 

Applied current APA guidelines and supported assertions   with evidence by using appropriate sources. Demonstrated a thorough and   complete understanding of the concepts.

15

 

Total:

100

Baseball umpire Edwin Hickox was injured during a baseball game in Washington, D.C., while wearing a mask made by Wilson Sporting Goods Co. Hickox filed a suit in a court in the District of Columbia against Wilson, alleging product-liability claims. A jury issued a verdict in Hickox’s favor. Wilson appealed.

The District of Columbia Court of Appeals affirmed, holding that to determine whether the product’s design was defective, the consumer-expectations test was the appropriate standard in this case. Under that standard, “considering all the evidence, a reasonable juror could conclude that an ordinary consumer would have expected the mask to perform more safely than it did.”

1. What is the “consumer-expectations test”?

2. What factors did the court consider in determining whether the evidence in this case was

sufficient to establish reasonable consumer expectations?

3. Can a jury make “inferences” to arrive at a verdict?

4. How did the appellate court’s conclusion in this case affect the parties?

BUS 308 Week 4

Week 4 Discussion Question 1:

Simple Regression Analysis

1. Is the correlation between number of sick days and number of customer complaints statistically significant?
2. What is the best prediction for the number of complaints that will be registered for an installer who takes five sick days during the period?

Week 4

Discussion Question 2:

Multiple Regressions Analysis

Develop a multiple linear regression equation that describes the relationship between tenure and the other variables in the chart above. Use the Analysis Toolpak located in Excel to perform this multiple regression.  

Do these two variables explain a reasonable amount of the variation in the dependent variable?

·         ASHFORD BUS 308 Week 4 Problem Set Week Four.

·         ASHFORD BUS 308 Week 4 Quiz (10 Q’s & A’s).