DQ1 The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) governs and influences compliance policy at all health care organizations including policy that drives patient data protection workflows. What do you believe is the most significant way that HIPAA influences the use of technology in the patient data communication workflow? Why?   DQ2 Regulatory changes often […]

DQ1 Health care leaders need to understand community demographics in order to plan for population health including changing demographics across a continuum. On which aspects of the demographic continuum should healthcare leaders focus? Why is this focus important?   DQ2 Find the U.S. Census Bureau data for the last three surveys for your state. Which […]

DQ1 Describe a situation that could have benefitted from the application of the processes of a learning organization. What would have been different had these processes been applied? Explain. How might this application of processes have produced a different outcome? Support your reasoning with current research.   DQ2 The practical use of theories may be […]

DQ1 How is standardized assessment beneficial for ELLs in terms of placement, progress, and exiting ELL programs? How should teachers use this data to plan their instruction?   DQ2 What are some reasons why ELL instructors would differentiate instruction in their classrooms? List and explain at least four reasons.

DQ1 What are some individual and sociocultural factors that may affect ELL students? How might these factors affect their success in meeting learning goals in the classroom setting?   DQ2 What are some of the potential effects of bilingualism and home language use for a student attending classes that are delivered in English? How might […]

CHANGE AND THE LEARNING ORGANIZATION   Health care leaders must embrace a lifestyle of change in order to create the culture of a learning organization that is amenable to and supportive of innovation, adaptation, and change. Rogers’ diffusion of innovation theory can be used to create a significant conceptual framework for change. In this assignment, […]

LITERATURE REVIEW RESOURCES   Successful completion of a doctoral dissertation requires significant amounts of independent reading on the research topic. By this point in the program, this reading should have allowed the doctoral learner/researcher to become familiar with the scope of the topic and to identify gaps or tensions within the existing literature on the […]

Stakeholder feedback comes from a variety of sources in the contemporary, connected world including patient and employee perspectives as well as the views of community and government. There is a trend toward including patients on committees and boards, and the garnering of positive feedback is a primary component in pay-for-performance programs that utilize patient satisfaction […]

Changing economic conditions are commonplace in the current global marketplace. With these changing economic conditions come changes in the services needed. This leads, in turn, to a need for staff development to adequately provide these new services. This staff development must be fiscally sound in order for the organization to remain viable while preparing staff […]

A small, rural community has had, since its founding nearly a century ago, a stable population, including a steady median age and a relatively homogenous ethnicity. However, in the last 5 years, the area’s natural beauty and its suitability for outdoor activities have transformed the community into a tourist and recreational destination. This has created […]