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HCA 340 Entire Course (Ash)

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HCA 340 Week 1 DQ 1 Leadership and Management

in Healthcare
HCA 340 Week 1 DQ 2 Management and Motivation
HCA 340 Week 2 DQ 1 Organizational Behavior and
Management
HCA 340 Week 2 DQ 2 Strategic Planning
HCA 340 Week 3 DQ 1 Health Insurance Benefits

HCA 340 Week 1 DQ 1 Leadership and Managem

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HCA 340 Week 1 DQ 1 Leadership and Management

in Healthcare
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? What are the primary
barriers and challenges associated with health care

HCA 340 Week 1 DQ 2 Management and Motivat

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HCA 340 Week 1 DQ 2 Management and Motivation

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? In your response,
please be sure to identify and address at least two
theories.

HCA 340 Week 2 DQ 1 Organizational Behavior

and Management (Ash)
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HCA 340 Week 2 DQ 1 Organizational Behavior and

Management
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

HCA 340 Week 2 DQ 2 Strategic Planning (Ash)

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HCA 340 Week 2 DQ 2 Strategic Planning

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

HCA 340 Week 3 DQ 1 Health Insurance Benef

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HCA 340 Week 3 DQ 1 Health Insurance Benefits
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

HCA 340 Week 3 DQ 2 Managing Financial Budg

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HCA 340 Week 3 DQ 2 Managing Financial Budgets

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 and discuss the major categories of
reimbursements and costs in a health care
organization. How do they influence each other?

HCA 340 Week 3 Final Project Outline/Annotate

d Bibliography (Ash)
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HCA 340 Week 3 Final Project Outline/Annotated

Bibliography
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 an outline of your project

HCA 340 Week 4 DQ 1 Managing Multidisciplina

ry Professionals (Ash)
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HCA 340 Week 4 DQ 1 Managing Multidisciplinary

Professionals
Managing Multidisciplinary Professionals. Dr. White
ordered an unusual dose of a medication for a
patient. May Patterson, RN, sees the order and
believes it to be the wrong dose. She is afraid to call
Dr. White because he can be abrasive at times.
Nurse Patterson asks the charge nurse who is not as
familiar with the patient to call the doctor. The
charge nurse calls Dr. White. He insists that he
knows what is best for the patient and insists that
the medication will be given as written. The charge

HCA 340 Week 4 DQ 2 Human Resources (Ash)

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HCA 340 Week 4 DQ 2 Human Resources

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 specific activities that encompass the
strategic and administrative responsibilities of the
human resources department.
3. If you were employed as an administrator in a

HCA 340 Week 4 S.W.O.T. (Strengths, Weakness

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

Opportunities, Threats)
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,

HCA 340 Week 5 DQ 1 Cultural Diversity in Hea

lthcare (Ash)
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HCA 340 Week 5 DQ 1 Cultural Diversity in

Healthcare
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?

HCA 340 Week 5 DQ 2 Healthcare Ethics & Law

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HCA 340 Week 5 DQ 2 Healthcare Ethics & Law

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-ofpocket. 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 be transferred to another facility.
1. What ethical principles relate to this case
scenario?

HCA 340 Week 5 Final Project (Ash)

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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.

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