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    Successful Strategic Decisions

    Identify and discuss some of the types of strategic decisions health care organizations or organizations in general has to make to be successful.

    Challenges of ineffective leadership in a work setting

    Identify some of the challenges/problems of ineffective leadership in a work setting. with these identified challenges/problems provide potential solutions. What barriers are encountered when implementing such solutions.

    Level of prevention paper

    Explain level of prevention for pregnant women who smoke, how might this level of prevention be addressed in a community experiencing increasing rates of family violence? why would a comprehensive health program address all three levels of prevention? Is addressing a health concern at this level of prevention cost effective? wh

    Describe three esential elements of health care leadership.

    What are three essential elements of health care leadership? Explain why they are essential. Use examples from your personal experiences to illustrate each essential element you have identified and why it is essential to health care leadership.

    Control and budget in management theory

    1.Controlling without the ability to take fast and effective corrective actions makes no sense. Explain why this is the case. 2.To a large degree, controlling is a forward-looking function. Do you agree? Explain why or why not. 3.What are the three basic types of control systems? What are the basic requirements of a cont

    CPT or HCPCS Modifiers

    The Health Care Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) is used to help code services for Medicare patients. Just like many other coding systems, they use modifiers. However, the modifiers are not the same ones used by CPT codes even though some HCPCS codes are the same as the CPT level one codes. While you are going through your

    Ways to prevent Preterm Birth occurences.

    A comprehensive prevention agenda is needed to better understand the multiple and complex causes and risk factors associated with preterm birth and implement effective strategies. Future trials need to include biochemical validation of non-smoking status, collection of outcome data on birth-weight, preterm birth and perinatal de

    Emphysema

    Concerning emphysema, I need to describe the diagnostic techniques (techniques commonly used in making the diagnosis and the typical results), the differential diagnosis (other diagnoses which are similar in signs, symptoms, or diagnostic results), medical management (treatment of this condition that will commonly occur and not

    What is the difference between diagnostic and procedural coding?

    Lisa is a new medical assistant at the local family practice physician office. She is nervous about her first job in health care and really wants to learn all that she can. During her training, the other employees teach her about coding for processing claims. She is a bit confused by the difference between diagnostic and procedu

    Fluids and Electrolytes

    1. The patient has a blood arterial gas ph of 7.48. How should the nurse intrepret this clients acid base status? A the client has no blood hydrogen ions B the client has a deficit in the blood hydrogen ion concentration C the client has an excess in the blood hydrogen ion concentration

    Strategies to Extend or Terminate a Health Program

    Strategies to ensure the education program (Hormone replacement therapy) that worked continues. -How to extend the program -When to discontinue an educational program - what project outcomes should be developed for the community for feed back on the project?

    Difference Between Hard and Soft Data

    How would you answer a question if your friend stated that you were using qualitative research findings in your research support base that is not hard data. What is the difference in hard data and soft data; when do you apply them in your research in your research support base.

    Employees' tasks

    What has been the primary reason for the growth in the number of necessary employee-related tasks over the past four to five decades? What impact has this trend had on job satisfication and organizational outcomes? Are job satisfaction and organizational outcomes different in a learning organization? Be sure to support your r

    Community health leadership helps build wellness

    I need some help in drafting a letter to send to potential panel advisors requesting them to serve as advisors for a new wellbeing index study. As you can imagine we will need a multi-disciplinary team with experience in (economics, aging, obesity and lifestyles experts, psychology, religion, spirituality--and other important co

    Questions to incorporate into Paper

    I have chosen to write about "Top Ten Killers in the US in 2004 or data for the latest year available" The topics I want to address are as follows; 1 Diseases of heart claiming about 329,238 yearly 2 Chronic lower respiratory disease claiming about 68,497 yearly

    Evaluate and discuss the potential liability (negligence or other torts) of the various parties in the scenario involving Bobby, the nurse, the surgeon and City General. Be sure to discuss the elements of negligence as they apply to each party separately, and also discuss the application of EMTALA.

    Bobby and Rachel were playing basketball on the school playground with a brand new backboard and rim build and installed by ACE Sports. When Bobby, with a boost from Rachel, tried to slam dunk the ball, he injured his wrists cutting them on the rim which had small pieces of metal sticking out from it. There were no teach

    Article Summary: Pain Management

    I need help to write a summary of this article: "Opsite Flexifix: An effective adjunct in the management of pain and hypersensitivity in the hand," (Boscheinen-Morrin & Shannon, 2001). It can be as needed long aas required (no page limit.). References please.