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Describe how healthcare leaders can employ organizational behavior concepts/strategies in order to boost the quality of healthcare delivered by their organization.
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Definition
Natural Integrations:
Organizational Behavior, Leadership, Quality, Ethics |
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How do you see healthcare changing under the ACA? |
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Definition
Natural Integrations:
US Healthcare Systems, Health Policy, Quality, Population Health. |
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A disease that has not been seen in the US in nearly 15 years presents in 3 patients at your facility; it is brought to your attention by your providers as a concern for the patients, the hospital, and the community. What steps do you take to mitigate the risk of a potential outbreak. FYI- This is happening now with the resurfacing of measles in the US. |
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Definition
Natural Integrations:
Organizational Behavior, Population Health, Emergency Management, Leadership. |
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For your leadership class, you had to read a book that discussed five leadership principles. Discuss three of them, why you think they are important, and talk about some examples of leaders that you have experienced, who may or who may not have demonstrated these in practice. |
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Natural Integrations:
Leadership, Organizational Behavior, Ethics, Quality |
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The physicians at your hospital want to buy an infection control robot for the operating room. If you are going to do a statistical analysis, what would be the outcomes variables and the causing variables that you might use? What test would you use for the analysis? |
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Definition
Natural Integrations:
Quant, Finance, Population Health, Quality |
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If your organization is going to implement an Electronic Health Record system, how would you do it? What factors must you take into account, what goals will you set, and how will you lead it?
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Natural Integrations:
HMIS, Leadership, Organizational Behavior, Operations Management, Quality |
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You get to your new assignment on 01 Aug and have a deficit in the final quarter...what do you do? Describe steps you would take to "land the plane" so to speak. How do you get the hospital back in the black - without breaking the system? |
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Natural Integrations:
Finance, Microeconomics, Leadership, Organizational Behavior, Quality |
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How will the PPACA affect the MHS and VHA? |
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Definition
Natural Integrations:
US Healthcare Systems, Finance III, Health Policy, Leadership |
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To which of the WHO's determinants of health should government dedicate resources to influence? |
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Definition
Natural Integrations:
US Healthcare Systems, Health Policy, Population Health |
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From a strategic management perspective, what are five controversial elements of the PPACA and what ethical principles either conflict or support them? |
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Natural Integrations:
Strategic Managment, US Healthcare Systems, Ethics, Jurisprudence,
Health Policy |
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During residency the DCA asks you “What are the types of financial statements and can you explain two ratios to determine how we’ll we are doing financially?
Also, why are financial statements important to both Healthcare Administrators and outside parties? |
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Definition
Natural Integrations:
Finance, Microeconomics,
US Healthcare Systems
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You are faced with an ethical dilemma regarding an end of life decision for a patient. The patient is not conscious, has DNR orders per his living will, and his youngest son now claims that he wants him on life support when the time comes. How would you make a decision on how to handle this situation? |
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Definition
Natural Integrations:
Ethics, Jurisprudence, Leadership, Quality |
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You are the administrator at a facility. You were just told that a patient just entered with the potential of having MERS.
What are your first actions? Who do you call? What are your next steps? |
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Definition
Natural Integrations:
Population Health, Organizational Behavior, Emergency Management, Leadership |
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What is the difference between a leader and a manager? |
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Definition
Natural Integrations:
Leadership, Organizational Behavior, HR |
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In terms of mergers and acquisitions, what is the difference between a horizontal merger and a vertical merger? |
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Definition
Natural Integrations:
Microeconomics, Finance |
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As the Hospital Administrator, which type of cost allocation method would you choose to implement and why? |
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Definition
Natural Integrations:
Finance, Microeconomics, Quality |
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What is insurance? What are the economic impacts (with regard to insurance) as a result of the Affordable Care Act?
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Definition
Natural Integrations:
US Healthcare Systems, Health Policy, Economics |
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| What is quality? How is it measured, and how do you create a quality culture in order to make a quality organization? |
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Definition
Natural Integrations:
Quality, Quant, Leadership,
Organizational Behavior |
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Many people feel that a not-for-profit healthcare organization should
return value for the tax benefits it has received. How would you justify a
healthy profit margin to somebody with those beliefs? |
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Definition
Natural Integration:
Finance, US Healthcare System, Ethics, Marketing, Quality, Pop Health |
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