Assignment: Centers for Medicare NR 447

Assignment: Centers for Medicare NR 447

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Assignment: Centers for Medicare NR 447

The purpose of this assignment is to locate and compare performance measurement data on common health conditions for the hospitals in your area. You will investigate the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services websites and locate hospital compare data for hospitals within a 50 mile radius of the community where you are working or had your pre licensure clinical experiences. You will prepare a PowerPoint presentation and share the results of your findings. Opportunities for improving performance measurement indicators will be shared.

Course Outcomes

Completion of this assignment enables the student to meet the following course outcomes.

CO 1: Apply leadership concepts, skills, and decision making in the provision of high-quality nursing care, healthcare team management, and the oversight and accountability for care delivery in a variety of settings. (PO 2)

CO 2: Implement patient safety and quality improvement initiatives within the context of the inter professional team through communication and relationship building. (PO 3)

CO 3: Participate in the development and implementation of imaginative and creative strategies to enable systems to change. (PO 7)

CO 7: Apply leadership concepts in the development and initiation of effective plans for the microsystems and system-wide practice improvements that will improve the quality of healthcare delivery. (POs 2 and 3)

CO 8: Apply concepts of quality and safety using structure, process and outcome measures to identify clinical questions as the beginning process of changing current practice. (PO 8)

Due Dates

This assignment is to be submitted to the Dropbox by Sunday, 11:59 p.m. MT, end of Week 6.

Points

This assignment is worth 200 points.

Directions

1. Review information found on the following website related to hospital compare Read the information carefully and then locate the following website. Search for hospitals within a 50 mile radius of the community where you are working or had your pre licensure clinical experiences. Type in your zip code. Select your hospital and two others. Select hospitals/facilities and choose compare. If you live in a remote area and there are no hospitals listed within a 50 mile radius, select a zip code for a family member or a close friend who does not live near you. The idea is to review comparative data.

2. Click on the following topics to learn more. a. Survey of patient’s experiences b. Timely and effective care (focus your search on two of the conditions that apply to services provided at the hospitals) c. Readmissions, complications, and deaths

3. Carefully read the information provided.

4. Develop a PowerPoint slideshow consisting of 8–10 slides. Include the following, keeping in mind what all this data means.

a. Title slide with information pertinent to the course.

b. List reasons to recommend hospital care to consumers (patients).

c. List reasons to recommend hospital compare to staff who may seek employment.

d. Summarize patient experiences data for each hospital.

e. Summarize timely and effective care data for two conditions.

f. Summarize data for readmissions or complications and deaths.

g. List recommendations for improving data for one selected facility.

h. Summarize what you learned from this experience.

5. Develop PowerPoint slides to include criteria listed above. For those not familiar with the development of a PowerPoint slideshow, the following link may be helpful. Submit your PowerPoint slide show to the Dropbox.

Grading Criteria: Performance Measurement PowerPoint Slideshow

Category
Points
%
Description
Title Slide
10
10%
Slide contains pertinent information related to assignment, course, student, date, and faculty member.
Reasons to recommend hospital compare to patients
20
20%
Format of reasons is logical, easy to read, and specific.
Reasons to recommend hospital compare to staff
30
20%
Format of reasons is logical, easy to read, and specific.
Data related to patient experiences
30
30%
Three hospitals are labeled A, B, and C and data related to patient experiences is displayed
Data related to timely and effective care
30
30%
Three hospitals are labeled A, B, and C. Two different conditions are named and applied to hospitals A, B, and C.
Data related to readmissions, complications, and deaths
30
30%
Three hospitals are labeled A, B, and C. Data related to readmissions, complications, and deaths are appropriately displayed.
Recommendations for improving data for one facility
20
20%
Either hospital A, B, or C is specified, and recommendations for improving data are appropriately displayed.
Summary of learning related to this assignment
20
20%
Learning about completing this assignment is stated. Summary of learning is displayed with lists, bulleted items, or other creative ways.
Scholarly writing and formatting
10
10%
Slides are provided and labeled appropriately. Punctuation and sentence structure are correct. There is evidence of spell and grammar check.
Total
200
100%
A quality assignment will meet or exceed all of the above requirements.

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.

Assignment: Centers for Medicare NR 447

ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE CLASS

Discussion Questions (DQ)

Initial responses to the DQ should address all components of the questions asked, include a minimum of one scholarly source, and be at least 250 words.
Successful responses are substantive (i.e., add something new to the discussion, engage others in the discussion, well-developed idea) and include at least one scholarly source.
One or two sentence responses, simple statements of agreement or “good post,” and responses that are off-topic will not count as substantive. Substantive responses should be at least 150 words.
I encourage you to incorporate the readings from the week (as applicable) into your responses.
Weekly Participation

Your initial responses to the mandatory DQ do not count toward participation and are graded separately.
In addition to the DQ responses, you must post at least one reply to peers (or me) on three separate days, for a total of three replies.
Participation posts do not require a scholarly source/citation (unless you cite someone else’s work).
Part of your weekly participation includes viewing the weekly announcement and attesting to watching it in the comments. These announcements are made to ensure you understand everything that is due during the week.
APA Format and Writing Quality

Familiarize yourself with APA format and practice using it correctly. It is used for most writing assignments for your degree. Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in LoudCloud for APA paper templates, citation examples, tips, etc. Points will be deducted for poor use of APA format or absence of APA format (if required).
Cite all sources of information! When in doubt, cite the source. Paraphrasing also requires a citation.
I highly recommend using the APA Publication Manual, 6th edition.
Use of Direct Quotes

I discourage overutilization of direct quotes in DQs and assignments at the Masters’ level and deduct points accordingly.
As Masters’ level students, it is important that you be able to critically analyze and interpret information from journal articles and other resources. Simply restating someone else’s words does not demonstrate an understanding of the content or critical analysis of the content.
It is best to paraphrase content and cite your source.
LopesWrite Policy

For assignments that need to be submitted to LopesWrite, please be sure you have received your report and Similarity Index (SI) percentage BEFORE you do a “final submit” to me.
Once you have received your report, please review it. This report will show you grammatical, punctuation, and spelling errors that can easily be fixed. Take the extra few minutes to review instead of getting counted off for these mistakes.
Review your similarities. Did you forget to cite something? Did you not paraphrase well enough? Is your paper made up of someone else’s thoughts more than your own?
Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in LoudCloud for tips on improving your paper and SI score.
Late Policy

The university’s policy on late assignments is 10% penalty PER DAY LATE. This also applies to late DQ replies.
Please communicate with me if you anticipate having to submit an assignment late. I am happy to be flexible, with advance notice. We may be able to work out an extension based on extenuating circumstances.
If you do not communicate with me before submitting an assignment late, the GCU late policy will be in effect.
I do not accept assignments that are two or more weeks late unless we have worked out an extension.
As per policy, no assignments are accepted after the last day of class. Any assignment submitted after midnight on the last day of class will not be accepted for grading.
Communication

Communication is so very important. There are multiple ways to communicate with me: Questions to Instructor Forum: This is a great place to ask course content or assignment questions. If you have a question, there is a good chance one of your peers does as well. This is a public forum for the class.
Individual Forum: This is a private forum to ask me questions or send me messages. This will be checked at least once every 24 hours.