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NHS 6008 Economics and Decision Making in Health Care All Assignments Tasks
NHS 6008 Economics and Decision Making in Health Care All Assignments Tasks
NHS6008 Economics
and Decision Making in Health Care
Unit 3 Assignment Executive Brief: Proposal of New Economic Opportunity
Professional Context
Master’s level health care practitioners are charged with
the responsibility of constantly scanning the external environment for shifts
in supply of and demand for services. Concurrently, leaders must examine
strategic fit with their organization’s directional strategy and determine if
adjustments need to be made for current service offerings, updates in
equipment, changes in staffing models, and a variety of other decisions. Each
decision that is proposed must be evaluated in terms of the health care setting
as a system, alignment with the mission and strategy, available internal
resources, potential contract and payer source implications, and the short- and
long-term economic effects at both the micro and macro levels.
Scenario
As an emerging health care leader, the senior management has
requested that you independently research and explore one of the economic
opportunities that may be available in your care setting. This may be offering
a new service line, working to improve a service line already offered, retiring
an outdated or unprofitable service line, or any other economic initiative that
you believe will be of benefit to your care setting in the short and long term.
One example of this is a recently launched partnership with a local bicycle
sharing company. Your care setting partners with them to host healthy community
events that offer free screenings for early detection of various health issues.
This helps fulfill some of your care setting’s preventive and healthy lifestyle
initiatives, while also potentially driving referrals to other services
provided by your care setting. You have been asked to submit your proposal in
the form of a 2–4 page executive summary that includes your proposed economic
initiative, supporting economic data, and an analysis of the proposal’s
benefits for your department and for the care setting overall.
Instructions
You have been asked to ensure that your report addresses the
following. Note: The bullet points below correspond to grading criteria in the
scoring guide. Be sure your work is, at minimum, addressing each of the bullets
below. You may also want to read the scoring guide and the Guiding Questions:
Executive Brief: Proposal of New Economic Opportunity document to better
understand the performance levels that relate to each grading criterion:
Propose an economic initiative that presents an opportunity
for your care setting at both the micro (departmental, neighborhood) and macro
(organizational, community) levels, and that you believe will provide ethical
and culturally equitable improvements to the quality of care.
Analyze the supply and demand for your proposed economic
initiative within contexts relevant to your care setting.
Explain relevant economic and environmental data that
support your proposal and analysis.
Communicate your economic proposal in a logically structured
and concise manner, writing content clearly with correct use of grammar,
punctuation, and spelling.
Effectively support your proposal with relevant economic
data and scholarly sources, correctly formatting citations and references using
current APA style.
Example assignment: You may use the assignment example,
linked in the Resources, to give you an idea of what a Proficient or higher
rating on the scoring guide would look like.
Submission Requirements
Length of paper: 2–4 double-spaced, typed pages. Your paper
should be succinct yet substantive.
APA formatting: Resources and citations are formatted
according to current APA style.
Resources: Cite a minimum of 3–5 authoritative and scholarly
resources. Be sure to include specific economic data and support as part of
your cited resources.
NHS6008 Economics
and Decision Making in Health Care
Unit 6
Assignment
Business Case for a New Economic Opportunity
Professional Context
As a Master’s level health care practitioner you are
expected to consider a number of factors when analyzing the feasibility of a
new initiative. For example, you need to keep in mind the various types of risk
(such as patient safety, physical plant, financial, or reputation), as well as
the present and future value of the service line or economic opportunity into
which you are investing resources. You also must balance the competing
considerations of your ethical and moral responsibility to provide quality care
to patients and populations, while also protecting your care setting’s assets
and economic viability in the near and long terms.
Scenario
The administrative leadership of your care setting has
reviewed your Executive Brief: Proposal of a New Economic Opportunity and has
decided that it has merit. As a result, you have been asked to take a more detailed
look at the feasibility and cost-benefit considerations of implementing your
proposed economic initiative over the next five years. The administrative
leaders are looking for a 3–5 page report that builds a business case for your
economic initiative by analyzing ways to mitigate the risks associated with
your original proposal and a completed cost-benefit analysis using the included
Cost-Benefit Analysis Template, linked in the Resources.
Instructions
You have been asked to ensure that your report addresses the
following. Note: The bullet points below correspond to grading criteria in the
scoring guide. Be sure your work is, at minimum, addressing each of the bullets
below. You may also want to read the scoring guide and the Guiding Questions:
Business Case for a New Economic Opportunity document to better understand the
performance levels that relate to each grading criterion:
Part 1: Risk and Mitigation Analysis
Analyze the opportunities and risks relevant to your
proposed economic initiative.
Propose ethical and culturally sensitive solutions to
address the risks associated with your economic initiative to ensure the future
security of your care setting.
Part 2: Cost-Benefit Analysis
Analyze the costs and benefits of your proposed economic
initiative over a five-year strategic outlook.
Propose potential ways to keep costs under control while
maximizing the benefits of your economic initiative and ensuring that it
remains ethical and culturally equitable
Address Generally Throughout Business Case
Justify the relevance and value of the quantitative and
qualitative economic, financial, and scholarly evidence you used to support
your recommendations throughout your report.
Communicate your business case in a logically structured and
concise manner, writing content clearly with correct use of grammar,
punctuation, and spelling.
Effectively support your report with relevant economic data
and scholarly sources, correctly formatting citations and references using
current APA style.
Example assignment: You may use the assignment example,
linked in the Resources, to give you an idea of what a Proficient or higher
rating on the scoring guide would look like.
Submission Requirements
Length of paper: 3–5 double-spaced, typed pages (not
including title page and reference list). Your paper should be succinct yet
substantive.
Be sure to include a separate title page and reference list.
Your completed Cost-Benefit Analysis Template should be
included as an appendix within your final business case submission.
APA formatting: Resources and citations are formatted
according to current APA style.
Resources: Cite a minimum of 4–5 authoritative and scholarly
resources. Be sure to include specific economic data and support as part of
your cited resources.
NHS6008 Economics
and Decision Making in Health Care
Unit 9
Assignment
Implementation Plan for a New Economic Opportunity
Professional Context
As a Master’s level health care practitioner you may be
expected to create budget and implementation plans to ensure that economic
opportunities for the organization are rolled out successfully and can be
sustained over multiple years. Additionally, it is important to be able to
envision how an economic initiative could be used for different contexts and
purposes to keep the investment a viable and positive asset to your
organization or care setting.
Scenario
The senior management members have sent you their thanks and
notes on your feasibility study for your proposed economic initiative. They
have determined that your proposal has the potential to benefit the
organization in both the short and long term. The last step in this process is
to complete a thorough implementation plan for your proposed initiative. This
plan will need to include a budget of relevant expected material, staffing, and
capital costs over the first five years of the initiative (see the Resources
for some examples and guides about budget planning), as well as projected
earnings from the initiative for the care setting. You must also include a plan
and timeline for rolling the initiative out, an analysis of how it may impact
other aspects of the care setting, an explanation how it can remain viable in
the face of environmental changes, and sufficient relevant supporting evidence.
Instructions
In your 6–10 page plan, you have been asked to be sure to
address the following. Note: The bullet points below correspond to grading
criteria in the scoring guide. Be sure your work is, at minimum, addressing
each of the bullets below. You may also want to read the scoring guide and the
Guiding Questions: Implementation Plan for a New Economic Opportunity document
to better understand the performance levels that relate to each grading
criterion:
Create a budget for relevant expected costs and earnings or
benefits over the first five years of your proposed economic initiative.
Propose a plan to roll out your economic initiative that
will enable your care setting to successfully implement it in an ethical and
culturally equitable way that will ensure achievement of quality or service
improvements.
Analyze how your proposed initiative, once implemented, may
impact other aspects of your care setting and ways in which negative impacts
could be mitigated.
Explain strategies you have integrated into your proposed
economic initiative that will ensure it can remain a viable asset to your care
setting in the face of dynamic environmental forces.
Justify the relevance and value of the quantitative and
qualitative economic, financial, and scholarly evidence you used to support
your recommendations throughout your plan.
Communicate your business and implementation plan in a
logically structured and concise manner, writing content clearly with correct
use of grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
Effectively support your plan and recommendations with
relevant economic data and scholarly sources, correctly formatting citations
and references using current APA style.
Example assignment: You may use the assignment example,
linked in the Resources, to give you an idea of what a Proficient or higher
rating on the scoring guide would look like.
Requirements
Length of paper: 6–10 double-spaced, typed pages (not
including title page and reference list). Your paper should be succinct yet
substantive.
Be sure to include a separate title page and reference list.
Your completed budget plan should be included as an appendix
within your final submission.
APA formatting: Resources and citations are formatted
according to current APA style.
Resources: Cite a minimum of 3–5 authoritative and scholarly
resources. Be sure to include specific economic data and support as part of
your cited resources.
Portfolio Prompt: You are required to save this learning
activity to your ePortfolio.
NHS6008 Economics
and Decision Making in Health Care
Unit 3
Assignment
Executive Brief: Proposal of New Economic Opportunity
Professional Context
Master’s level health care practitioners are charged with
the responsibility of constantly scanning the external environment for shifts
in supply of and demand for services. Concurrently, leaders must examine
strategic fit with their organization’s directional strategy and determine if
adjustments need to be made for current service offerings, updates in
equipment, changes in staffing models, and a variety of other decisions. Each
decision that is proposed must be evaluated in terms of the health care setting
as a system, alignment with the mission and strategy, available internal
resources, potential contract and payer source implications, and the short- and
long-term economic effects at both the micro and macro levels.
Scenario
As an emerging health care leader, the senior management has
requested that you independently research and explore one of the economic
opportunities that may be available in your care setting. This may be offering
a new service line, working to improve a service line already offered, retiring
an outdated or unprofitable service line, or any other economic initiative that
you believe will be of benefit to your care setting in the short and long term.
One example of this is a recently launched partnership with a local bicycle
sharing company. Your care setting partners with them to host healthy community
events that offer free screenings for early detection of various health issues.
This helps fulfill some of your care setting’s preventive and healthy lifestyle
initiatives, while also potentially driving referrals to other services
provided by your care setting. You have been asked to submit your proposal in
the form of a 2–4 page executive summary that includes your proposed economic
initiative, supporting economic data, and an analysis of the proposal’s
benefits for your department and for the care setting overall.
Instructions
You have been asked to ensure that your report addresses the
following. Note: The bullet points below correspond to grading criteria in the
scoring guide. Be sure your work is, at minimum, addressing each of the bullets
below. You may also want to read the scoring guide and the Guiding Questions:
Executive Brief: Proposal of New Economic Opportunity document to better
understand the performance levels that relate to each grading criterion:
Propose an economic initiative that presents an opportunity
for your care setting at both the micro (departmental, neighborhood) and macro
(organizational, community) levels, and that you believe will provide ethical
and culturally equitable improvements to the quality of care.
Analyze the supply and demand for your proposed economic
initiative within contexts relevant to your care setting.
Explain relevant economic and environmental data that
support your proposal and analysis.
Communicate your economic proposal in a logically structured
and concise manner, writing content clearly with correct use of grammar,
punctuation, and spelling.
Effectively support your proposal with relevant economic
data and scholarly sources, correctly formatting citations and references using
current APA style.
Example assignment: You may use the assignment example,
linked in the Resources, to give you an idea of what a Proficient or higher
rating on the scoring guide would look like.
Submission Requirements
Length of paper: 2–4 double-spaced, typed pages. Your paper
should be succinct yet substantive.
APA formatting: Resources and citations are formatted
according to current APA style.
Resources: Cite a minimum of 3–5 authoritative and scholarly
resources. Be sure to include specific economic data and support as part of
your cited resources.
NHS6008 Economics
and Decision Making in Health Care
Unit 6
Assignment
Business Case for a New Economic Opportunity
Professional Context
As a Master’s level health care practitioner you are
expected to consider a number of factors when analyzing the feasibility of a
new initiative. For example, you need to keep in mind the various types of risk
(such as patient safety, physical plant, financial, or reputation), as well as
the present and future value of the service line or economic opportunity into
which you are investing resources. You also must balance the competing
considerations of your ethical and moral responsibility to provide quality care
to patients and populations, while also protecting your care setting’s assets
and economic viability in the near and long terms.
Scenario
The administrative leadership of your care setting has
reviewed your Executive Brief: Proposal of a New Economic Opportunity and has
decided that it has merit. As a result, you have been asked to take a more detailed
look at the feasibility and cost-benefit considerations of implementing your
proposed economic initiative over the next five years. The administrative
leaders are looking for a 3–5 page report that builds a business case for your
economic initiative by analyzing ways to mitigate the risks associated with
your original proposal and a completed cost-benefit analysis using the included
Cost-Benefit Analysis Template, linked in the Resources.
Instructions
You have been asked to ensure that your report addresses the
following. Note: The bullet points below correspond to grading criteria in the
scoring guide. Be sure your work is, at minimum, addressing each of the bullets
below. You may also want to read the scoring guide and the Guiding Questions:
Business Case for a New Economic Opportunity document to better understand the
performance levels that relate to each grading criterion:
Part 1: Risk and Mitigation Analysis
Analyze the opportunities and risks relevant to your
proposed economic initiative.
Propose ethical and culturally sensitive solutions to
address the risks associated with your economic initiative to ensure the future
security of your care setting.
Part 2: Cost-Benefit Analysis
Analyze the costs and benefits of your proposed economic
initiative over a five-year strategic outlook.
Propose potential ways to keep costs under control while
maximizing the benefits of your economic initiative and ensuring that it
remains ethical and culturally equitable
Address Generally Throughout Business Case
Justify the relevance and value of the quantitative and
qualitative economic, financial, and scholarly evidence you used to support
your recommendations throughout your report.
Communicate your business case in a logically structured and
concise manner, writing content clearly with correct use of grammar,
punctuation, and spelling.
Effectively support your report with relevant economic data
and scholarly sources, correctly formatting citations and references using
current APA style.
Example assignment: You may use the assignment example,
linked in the Resources, to give you an idea of what a Proficient or higher
rating on the scoring guide would look like.
Submission Requirements
Length of paper: 3–5 double-spaced, typed pages (not
including title page and reference list). Your paper should be succinct yet
substantive.
Be sure to include a separate title page and reference list.
Your completed Cost-Benefit Analysis Template should be
included as an appendix within your final business case submission.
APA formatting: Resources and citations are formatted
according to current APA style.
Resources: Cite a minimum of 4–5 authoritative and scholarly
resources. Be sure to include specific economic data and support as part of
your cited resources.
NHS6008 Economics
and Decision Making in Health Care
Unit 9
Assignment
Implementation Plan for a New Economic Opportunity
Professional Context
As a Master’s level health care practitioner you may be
expected to create budget and implementation plans to ensure that economic
opportunities for the organization are rolled out successfully and can be
sustained over multiple years. Additionally, it is important to be able to
envision how an economic initiative could be used for different contexts and
purposes to keep the investment a viable and positive asset to your
organization or care setting.
Scenario
The senior management members have sent you their thanks and
notes on your feasibility study for your proposed economic initiative. They
have determined that your proposal has the potential to benefit the
organization in both the short and long term. The last step in this process is
to complete a thorough implementation plan for your proposed initiative. This
plan will need to include a budget of relevant expected material, staffing, and
capital costs over the first five years of the initiative (see the Resources
for some examples and guides about budget planning), as well as projected
earnings from the initiative for the care setting. You must also include a plan
and timeline for rolling the initiative out, an analysis of how it may impact
other aspects of the care setting, an explanation how it can remain viable in
the face of environmental changes, and sufficient relevant supporting evidence.
Instructions
In your 6–10 page plan, you have been asked to be sure to
address the following. Note: The bullet points below correspond to grading
criteria in the scoring guide. Be sure your work is, at minimum, addressing
each of the bullets below. You may also want to read the scoring guide and the
Guiding Questions: Implementation Plan for a New Economic Opportunity document
to better understand the performance levels that relate to each grading
criterion:
Create a budget for relevant expected costs and earnings or
benefits over the first five years of your proposed economic initiative.
Propose a plan to roll out your economic initiative that
will enable your care setting to successfully implement it in an ethical and
culturally equitable way that will ensure achievement of quality or service
improvements.
Analyze how your proposed initiative, once implemented, may
impact other aspects of your care setting and ways in which negative impacts
could be mitigated.
Explain strategies you have integrated into your proposed
economic initiative that will ensure it can remain a viable asset to your care
setting in the face of dynamic environmental forces.
Justify the relevance and value of the quantitative and
qualitative economic, financial, and scholarly evidence you used to support
your recommendations throughout your plan.
Communicate your business and implementation plan in a
logically structured and concise manner, writing content clearly with correct
use of grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
Effectively support your plan and recommendations with
relevant economic data and scholarly sources, correctly formatting citations
and references using current APA style.
Example assignment: You may use the assignment example,
linked in the Resources, to give you an idea of what a Proficient or higher
rating on the scoring guide would look like.
Requirements
Length of paper: 6–10 double-spaced, typed pages (not
including title page and reference list). Your paper should be succinct yet
substantive.
Be sure to include a separate title page and reference list.
Your completed budget plan should be included as an appendix
within your final submission.
APA formatting: Resources and citations are formatted
according to current APA style.
Resources: Cite a minimum of 3–5 authoritative and scholarly
resources. Be sure to include specific economic data and support as part of
your cited resources.
Portfolio Prompt: You are required to save this learning
activity to your ePortfolio.