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• HCA 340 Week 1 DQ 1 Leadership and Management in
  Healthcare

• HCA 340 Week 1 DQ 2 Management and Motivation

• Leadership and Management in Health Care. Compare
  and contrast leadership roles and management
  responsibilities in a non-health care setting
  with that of a health care organization. In
  addition, present an overview of key leadership
  traits fundamental for health care organizational
  effectiveness, and discuss the essential
  functions of health care managers. What does it
  take to be a good leader or manager?

• Management and Motivation. Discuss the overall
  importance of motivation as it relates to
  management. What are the benefits of having a
  fully motivated staff, and what are the potential
  consequences of not having motivated staff? What
  do contemporary theories tell us about the
  significance of motivation as a function of
  employee needs, extrinsic and intrinsic factors?
  How do we motivate across generations

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• HCA 340 Week 2 DQ 1 Organizational Behavior and
  Management

• HCA 340 Week 2 DQ 2 Strategic Planning

• Organizational Behavior and Management. Review
  the following case study in your textbook,
  Prelude to a Medical Error (pp. 416-417). Examine
  the application and answer Discussion Question 1
  "Identify and discuss examples of preconceptions,
  assumptions, and mental models evident in this
  scenario. What are the consequences of the ways
  these health providers are thinking about the
  situation?" How might you, as the healthcare
  administrator of this organization, handle this
  situation and deal with each

• Strategic Planning. Strategic planning is
  essential in the sustainability of all healthcare
  organizations. Outline the processes, or steps,
  involved in the strategic planning process and
  continual monitoring of the internal and external
  environment. Discuss how strategic planning is a
  dynamic, verses linear, process.
• Why is this important? What roles, if any, do
  quality and information technology play in an
  organization's strategic direction? Use one
  scholarly reference, cited according to APA
  guidelines as outlined in the Writing Center

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• HCA 340 Week 3 DQ 1 Health Insurance Benefits

• HCA 340 Week 3 DQ 2 Managing Financial Budgets

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• Health Insurance Benefits. Managers need to
  understand the impact on the financial viability
  of a health service organization for providing
  care to the uninsured or underinsured. Review the
  following case scenario and answer the discussion
  questions.
• Joe Smith is a 27- year-old Caucasian male who
  works two part-time jobs for two different
  construction companies. Joe has been having dizzy
  spells off and on for the past two months. While
  driving to work one day, he loses consciousness
  and is involved in a motor vehicle accident. Joe
  is admitted to your not-for-profit hospital with
  a broken leg and multiple lacerations.
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• Managing Financial Budgets. Health care financial
  management is complex and an effective health
  care administrator must understand what makes up
  the foundation to financial operations. This
  includes health insurance (private and social)
  and reimbursements, private vs. not-for profit
  entities, costs and expenditures, capital,
  materials management, and budgeting.
• 1. Outline

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• HCA 340 Week 3 Final Project Outline

• HCA 340 Week 4 DQ 1 Managing Multidisciplinary
  Professionals

• Final Project Outline/Annotated Bibliography.
  Submit the following to your instructor for
  review
• 1. Identify the topic of your Final Project
• a. Describe

• Final Project Outline/Annotated Bibliography.
  Submit the following to your instructor for
  review
• 1. Identify the topic of your Final Project
• a. Describe the issue, why it was selected, the
  perspective of approach, and the scope of the
  paper.
• 2. Provide

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• HCA 340 Week 5 Final Project

• Focus of the Final Project
• Managing Health Care Organizations
• The Final Project should demonstrate
  understanding of the reading assignments, class
  discussions, your own research and the
  application of new knowledge. It should utilize
  previous skills developed in foundational health
  care courses and apply them within the context
  and viewpoint of health care administrator and
  his/her role managing health and human services.
• For the Final

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• HCA 340 Week 4 DQ 2 Human Resources

• HCA 340 Week 4 S.W.O.T. (Strengths, Weaknesses,
  Opportunities, Threats)

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• Human Resources. Human resources are an integral
  part of health care operations to recruit and
  retain high quality, and often highly specialized
  employees.
• 1. Describe why human resources management is
  comprised of strategic and administrative
  actions, providing examples of each.
• 2. Outline

• S.W.O.T. (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities,
  Threats). For this assignment, you will apply the
  S.W.O.T. Situational Planning Strategy introduced
  in Chapter 5 of your course text, based upon the
  following
• Situation You are the C.E.O. of Community South
  Medical Center, a large, urban for-profit
  healthcare facility. This institution has
  comprehensive health services including acute
  care, residential care, independent living,
  in-home nursing, hospice, neonatal, and pediatric
  services, advanced cardiac services, a major
  trauma center, a center of excellence for
  pulmonary services, and a neurosurgery center.

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• HCA 340 Week 5 DQ 1 Cultural Diversity in
  Healthcare

• HCA 340 Week 5 DQ 2 Healthcare Ethics and Law

• Cultural Diversity in Healthcare. Read over the
  information in The Providers Guide to Quality
  Culture website and examine the case study from
  your textbook titled, Heritage Valley Medical
  Center Are Your Managers Culturally Competent?.
  Then answer the following questions
• 1. How have the changing definitions of diversity
  affected healthcare management and the delivery
  of healthcare services in this organization?
• 2. What

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• Healthcare Ethics and Law. A woman arrives at a
  suburban emergency room in active labor. Both she
  and her husband speak little English. The staff
  determines that the mother (and baby) is
  uninsured and unable to pay for healthcare
  services out-of-pocket. The baby is showing signs
  of distress and needs to be delivered. The
  on-call OB-GYN physician refuses to come to the
  hospital. He recommends that the patient

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