Public Health Question-Identify a specific, relevant problem and associated rationale for the selection for the problem.

The healthcare problem i chose for this assignment is “MEDICATION ERRORS”
Effective health care leaders maintain simultaneous internal organizational and external industry environmental awareness. Leaders are challenged to focus upon vision, mission, strategic direction, goals, and objectives while remaining mindful of emerging trends that may affect an organization’s viability. Monitoring the external environment for issues that may represent major challenges to an organization requires ongoing diligence. Health care administrators must identify and prioritize issues affecting their organizations.

Leaders must select methods and tools with which to analyze data for identification of potential solutions. You will have an opportunity to select a health care problem that is relevant to your career interests, and one that adds value to a current or future health care organization. Your discussion question will provide a supportive environment in which to practice problem solving related competencies for health care leaders.

For this assignment, you will identify a relevant, contemporary health care problem that may affect your current or future desired workplace (such as a hospital, home health, hospice, or ambulatory clinic). The problem should be addressed in health care literature and should be one for which data is readily available. Your selected problem should be specific enough that you can articulate the current state or baseline by describing major factors and how each factor is measured. For example, your selected problem may be analyzed by data that includes average length of stay (in days) and cost (dollars).

You will be challenged to provide a rationale for how the analysis of data is relevant to your career interests, as well as those of a health care organization. This assessment allows an opportunity to explore relevant issues in the health care industry and apply your health care administration competencies in the first step toward analysis and recommendation of solutions.

Instructions

Create a 3–6 page paper that uses at least six authoritative sources that will support the identification of a relevant problem, rationale for the selection of the problem, and the selections of appropriate measures. The goal is to be succinct yet substantive and to provide sufficient detail for adequate coverage of your topic. The material from this assignment will be condensed and utilized as part of your final PowerPoint presentation in Week 9.

Identify a specific, relevant problem and associated rationale for the selection for the problem.

Describe, using an authoritative source, how the selected health care problem is assessed and measured for quality improvement purposes. Your performance metrics, and the associated benchmarks, should examine the causes of the problem, rather than the results of the problem.

Identify an industry measure of performance (benchmark) that is relevant to the type of organization you have selected for problem analysis. There are several keys in selecting performance benchmarks: specificity, relevance, reliability, and validity. Be sure to consider specific metrics that the organization can use to set goals and compare (benchmark) performance. Be sure to review recent scholarly literature – this can help you make a well-informed choice.

Provide a bulleted list of the preliminary action plan steps to review the problem and propose solutions. The action plan should offer specific steps that will improve organizational performance. In creating an action plan, be sensitive to organizational mission, limitations, and constraints. Actions should be realistic, specific, and feasible – be sensitive to the idea that resources (especially financial and staffing) are always scarce, and organizations must make wise choices in allocating those resources.

 

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