HLT 314V Complete Course Assignment
HLT 314V Week 1 Discussion 1
Select an allied health care profession and provide a description of the jobs and services provided by that profession. Research regulatory or professional organizations that serve the profession you chose, and describe an area in which the profession seeks to improve or expand. In what other ways might the profession grow to better serve the ever-changing health care population?
HLT 314V Week 1 Discussion 2
Select and describe one of the key factors that influenced the evolution of the U.S. health care delivery system to what it is today. What challenges and opportunities are still relevant? How is the selected key factor affecting health care delivery today? How might it affect future health care delivery?
HLT 314V Week 1 Assignment Health Care Timeline
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Review the Topic Material, “Timeline for the History of Public Health and Epidemiology” to complete this assignment. Using this resource as an example, create your own timeline in a Word document with significant dates that influenced and changed the healthcare delivery systems.
Your timeline should begin where the timeline in the topic material above ends (1988). Your timeline should end with the most current and significant information that you can find. You are required to add a minimum of 10 significant dates to this timeline in order to receive a passing grade.
Provide a detailed description for each significant date and event you add to the timeline.
Use appropriate and scholarly sources in order to complete this assignment successfully, such as peer-reviewed literature and web sources that have .edu, .gov, and.org domain addresses. Wikipedia, and most .com sources are not considered to be of sufficient scholarly rigor.
While APA format is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected and in-text citations and references should be presented using APA documentation guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.
This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
You are not required to submit this assignment to Turnitin.
HLT 314V Week 2 Discussion 1
Select one area of health policy and describe the impact that policy formation places on direct patient care delivery. What component of the policy area you selected could be improved to provide better care or patient outcomes, and how?
HLT 314V Week 2 Discussion 2
View the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act” video:
(http://lc.gcumedia.com/zwebassets/courseMaterialPages/nur508_healthcare-reform-v ideo-series-v1.1.php)
This video was developed just as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (commonly referred to as ACA) was due to be implemented. Now that the ACA is operational, contrast the information from the video with actual outcomes and provide your assessment of whether or not the stated goals of the ACA are being met for direct patient care. Support your position using sources inclusive of peer-reviewed literature as well as governmental statistics (state or national) or other nonpartisan resources.
Health Policy Formulation And Analysis
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Choose a topic on which to develop a health policy. This topic may address a needed change in technology, health care literacy, staffing, billing, diagnosis, etc. In a 1,000-1,250-word composition, construct a health policy and analysis according to the following:
Use the seven steps of policy formation to construct your health policy framework: (a) define the problem; (b) assemble the evidence of the problem or need for a policy; (c) construct alternative solutions to the problem; (d) select the criteria for choosing the correct solution from the alternatives; (e) predict the outcomes of the policy changes; (f) confront the trade-offs of not having a policy or addressing the problem; and (g) decide on a recommendation.
Using the resources found in your textbook, topic readings, and other appropriate resources, explain your health policy’s intended use and evaluate the effect that your policy may have on direct patient care in the United States.
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.
This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
You are required to submit this assignment to Turnitin. Please refer to the directions in the Student Success Center.
HLT 314V Week 3 Discussion 1
Review current types of healthcare delivery systems in the United States and contrast the current status with the reform models or revisions proposed in the readings for this topic. Select one area in health care delivery where change or reform to the current system could improve the delivery of allied health care and present your findings.
HLT 314V Week 3 Discussion 2
What are the needs driving the development of integrated health care delivery systems (IDS)? What benefits directly apply to the provision of allied health care services? What limitations exist at present that could be improved, and how so?
Health Care Delivery Systems Essay
Details:
In this assignment, you will compose an essay of 750–1,000 words examining the similarities and differences among health care delivery systems that currently exist in the United States.
Include the following in your assessment:
Select two or three health care delivery systems to examine.
Provide a description and relevant details of the selected delivery systems.
Summarize the mission or philosophy statement for each of the health care delivery systems you selected.
Formulate your own mission or philosophy statement, with rationale as to why you chose these elements to include.
Support your statements with appropriate and scholarly sources from the GCU Library or other qualified sources.
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.
This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
You are required to submit this assignment to Turnitin. Please refer to the directions in the Student Success Center.
HLT 314V Week 4 Discussion 1
Describe the role that professional health care organizations and societies play in (1) monitoring quality care, (2) disseminating preventative health care measures, and (3) the public’s health care literacy? Select one of the three areas above and discuss established or proposed standards that assist in explaining the role of professional health care organizations and societies.
HLT 314V Week 4 Discussion 2
Access the Healthy People in Action section of the Healthy People 2020 website: https://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/Healthy-People-in-Action
Select State Plans from the drop-down menu of the “Healthy People in Action” tab above the main page content. Pick a state (or territory) which has not already been selected by a classmate, and access that state’s 2020 Healthy People Plans. Select and summarize one area in the plan you selected that pertains to allied health care delivery in that state (for example, medical sonography, respiratory therapy, radiography, speech pathology, etc.). For the area you picked, what do you think the state plan does well? What could it do better, and how so?
HLT 314V Week 4 Assignment Comparison Of Research Articles
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Choose two research articles published by a scholarly (peer-reviewed) journal on a current health care issue in the United States, controversial or otherwise.
Topics:
Suggested topics may include:
A study of vaccinations and autism rates Maternal health, fetal health, or elder health Disease-based studies, such as diabetes, hypertension, and heart disease The increasing rates of cesarean sections in birthrates Managed health care in the United States Any of the leading Health Indicator topics (2020 LHI Topics) profiled in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Healthy People 2020 initiative website HLT 314V Complete Course Assignment
Part One
Complete the attached “Article Comparison Table” to compare the two articles in terms of content, research methods, focus of the study, target audiences and subjects, and their possible impacts on the future of health care delivery.
Part Two
Write a 500-750 words analysis that includes the following:
A summary of the topic you chose with rationale. (This may have personal significance to you or it may be a topic of particular interest that you have seen in the news.)
An explanation of the significance of the two research studies to health care delivery in the United States.
A description of the major functions provided by research and data monitoring of health care delivery in the United States.
Identification of potential environments within health care delivery appropriate to research and data monitoring.
Your assessment of the impact of the studies in your chosen articles in regards to health care delivery, incorporating and expanding on the information you provided in Part One. Were the studies intended to change or influence health care delivery? If so, how? If not, what are the implications of each study for health care delivery?
Your assessment of the role the allied health professional plays, or could play, in research and data monitoring of health care delivery in the United States.
Attach the “Article Comparison Table” to your written analysis and submit it as one document.
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.
This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
You are required to submit this assignment to Turnitin. Please refer to the directions in the Student Success Center.
Week 5 Discussion 1
Explain telemedicine, and describe how it is typically being used in either a rural or an urban setting at the present time. For the setting you chose, what are telemedicine’s overall strengths? What are its overall weaknesses?
Next, select an allied health profession and describe how telemedicine is now or could affect patient care in that field. In your responses to colleagues, select posts that discuss different settings and professions (if possible) and offer a fresh perspective or a novel approach as to how telemedicine could be more fully used.
HLT 314V Week 5 Discussion 2
Select a current or emerging trend in the delivery of health care or in professional practice from the allied health perspective in one of the following areas: (1) health care reform, (2) provider shortages, (3) practice trends, (4) leadership challenges, or (5) health IT. Provide a summary analysis of the trend, expected impacts on health care delivery or professional practice, and your assessment of the pros and cons.
HLT 314V Week 5 Assignment CLC – Health Care Literacy Presentation
Details:
This is a Collaborative Learning Community (CLC) assignment.
Select two strategies focused on health care literacy for developing an intervention targeted to a selected population or cultural community. Use information and knowledge you have collectively gained from the course to create a PowerPoint slide presentation that accomplishes the following:
The presentation must incorporate information on policy formation, research, and technology.
You are required to use a minimum of six scholarly (peer-reviewed) articles, with citations.
Your presentation is to contain 12-15 slides, exclusive of title and reference slides, complete with speaker notes.
While APA format is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected and in-text citations and references should be presented using APA documentation guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.
This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
You are required to submit this assignment to Turnitin. Please refer to the directions in the Student Success Center.
Week 5 Assignment Technological Advances Essay
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Technology in health care has taken many forms over the years. In 1796, Edward Jenner developed the first smallpox vaccination method. A hundred years later, Wilhelm Roentgen discovered how to use x-rays for medical imaging. And in 2013, Japanese researchers grew the first human liver from stem cells. What is next? How does one technological advance set the stage for further discoveries?
For this assignment you will compose an analysis of 750-1,000 words incorporating the following:
Evaluate at a minimum of two different historical perspectives regarding the delivery of healthcare in the United States. How has technology and the lack of developing technology affected and shaped these perspectives?
Contrast and describe two technological advances that have positively impacted health care delivery in the United States.
Explain how the two technological advances you selected have influenced public opinion of the changing health care system in the United States? Provide a brief summary of both positive and negative opinions.
Forecast how you believe these two technological advances will affect delivery and utilization of health care in the United States in the future. What other factors may simultaneously affect health care utilization?
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.
This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
You are required to submit this assignment to Turnitin. Please refer to the directions in the Student Success Center.
