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Purpose The purpose of this assignment is to provide learners with the opportunity to develop break-even-analysis skills…Week 5 Break Even Analysis Assignment and Guidelines (Links to an external site.) Due Date: Sunday 11:59 p.m. MT at the end of Week 5 Students are given the opportunity to request an extension on assignments for emergent situations. Supporting documentation must be submitted to the assigned faculty. If the student's request is not approved, the assignment is graded and a...

NR 533 Week 4 Lesson-Readings

Staffing is one of the largest expenditures for healthcare organizations. It stands to reason that for some organizations a mandatory staffing ratio could negatively impact their financial bottom line. Sometimes ratios can be different within an organization based on acuity of patients or type of unit. Explore your own organization staffing ratio policy. What is/are the ratio(s) and how they are determined? What variables affect the ratios? Have they been mandated by state legislation or organiz...

NR 533 Week 4 Assignment; Staffing Budgets-FTEs-Variance Analysis Assignment (2 Version)

EXPERIENCE This week's readings contained a great deal of information on financial and budgeting principles. Some of you may have had some familiarity with the concepts and maybe even experience in working with them. However, there is always something new to learn. Describe your prior experiences with financial and budgeting principles, whether personally or professionally. Include your current involvement in budgeting at your institution. REFLECTION What pre-conceived notions related to hea...

After exploration of the types of budgets and the processes for their development at your institution. How and from whom is input into the budgets acquired and used? Where does control of the budget lie? What influence do unit and midlevel managers have on the various kinds of budgets?

Guidelines for Touchpoint Reflections: A downloadable version of the guidelines, which includes further information, is available for access in the week 1 discussion thread. Reflection Information EXPERIENCE Using the data collected in Week 1 about your institution’s, provide an overview of the payer mix , delivery system type, and the population demographics. Describe the type of reimbursement system relied upon most heavily by your institution; value- or volume-based. REFLECTION Descr...

Consider Jim, who is 69 years old and comes to your Emergency Department (ED) with severe abdominal pain. His evaluation, besides a physical exam, includes an abdominal ultrasound, a CT scan with and without contrast, multiple lab studies, all lead to his having an emergency appendectomy. Other than having Type II diabetes well controlled on diet and exercise, he is in otherwise good health. Jim is treated as an outpatient and is discharged home the next morning. Two weeks later he returns to th...

Understanding how your organization is reimbursed for services depends on several components. Assess your organization and identify its care delivery system and payer mix make up. Include percentages represented by each payer group. Identify the key people in your organization from whom you obtained your information. Perhaps it is your unit director, operational directors, financial officers, CNOs. Your direct supervisor might be able to point you in the right direction, Since the information re...

Understanding how your organization is reimbursed for services depends on several components. Assess your organization and identify its care delivery system and payer mix make up. Include percentages represented by each payer group. Identify the key people in your organization from whom you obtained your information. Perhaps it is your unit director, operational directors, financial officers, CNOs. Your direct supervisor might be able to point you in the right direction, Since the information re...

Because you have been in the program for a while now, you have had many opportunities to get to know others in the group fairly well. For this introduction, we're going to shift gears a bit. During this course you will be relating many of your discussions and assignments to the project proposal you created in NR505. Please introduce yourself to the class and instructor and include the following information. • Describe the type of facility by which you areemployed. • Your current positio...

NR 532 Assignments Week 3, 5, 7 (Bundle)

NR 532 Discussions Week 1 - 7 (Bundle)

Please share what specific knowledge of healthcare operational planning and management that you gained through this experience will be most important as you take on your future nurse executive role? How will you use the concepts in this course to identify, guide, and evaluate your final MSN practicum project? Please share your topic or idea for your practicum project if you have one identified. Review the ANCC nurse executive board certification examination test content outline. Share how bec...

NR532 Week 7 Quality of Healthcare Assignment The purposes of this assignment are to: (a) identify and articulate a new nursing care delivery model to increase the economic and quality outcomes for your organization, (b) articulate howkey concepts of the new nursing care delivery model will reduce costs and improve the quality of healthcare in the organization, and (c) provide empirical, scholarly evidence to support yourideas. NOTE: You are to choose two patient safety goals to focus on for ...

Defining patient acuity has been a challenge related to staffing. As the Chief Nursing Officer (CNO), would you measure patient acuity? Explain your rationale. Please share how would you measure it? Be specific. Additionally, how would patient acuity affect staffing ratios? Please share your rationale.

NR532 Week 7 Quality of Healthcare Assignment The purposes of this assignment are to: (a) identify and articulate a new nursing care delivery model to increase the economic and quality outcomes for your organization, (b) articulate howkey concepts of the new nursing care delivery model will reduce costs and improve the quality of healthcare in the organization, and (c) provide empirical, scholarly evidence to support yourideas. NOTE: You are to choose two patient safety goals to focus on for ...

Discuss one example where simulation technology could be beneficial for nursing. Explain your rationale.

Discuss one example where simulation technology could be beneficial for nursing or for patient care. Explain your rationale. In addition, discuss two strategies you could implement to ensure the confidentiality and protection of patient health information at your facility

A difficult situation can result when personal and working relationships are combined. You have been assigned to a new area as the nurse leader, where a good friend of the family has worked for many years. You are made aware of multiple issues of tardiness by your friend over the last few months. Discuss how you would handle the situation.