EXCELSIOR NUR533 Module 7 Discussion Latest 2019 March Question # 00599495 Course Code : NUR533 Subject: Health Care Due on: 03/16/2019 Posted On: 03/16/2019 09:19 AM Tutorials: 1 Rating: 4.9/5

NUR533 ETHICS AND POPULATION HEALTH

M7D1: Applying “Hot Spotting” to
Impact Health Costs and Outcomes and the Role of the Masters Prepared Nurse as
a Member of the Interdisciplinary Team

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FinanceThe
article The Hot Spotters (Links to an
external site.)Links to an external site.by Atul Gwande, describes a unique and
innovative approach to understanding the high cost of care across a vulnerable
population that lives with health disparities. The definition of Hot Spotting
is,

Healthcare
hot spotting is a data-driven process for the timely identification of extreme
patterns in a defined region of the healthcare system. It is used to guide
targeted intervention and follow-up to better address patient needs, improve
care quality, and reduce cost. Most often the data in question are hospital
reimbursement claims that are continuously produced, standardized by an
operational imperative, and bring together high-stakes diagnostic, temporal,
financial, spatial, and demographic data in a single set of records. Through
hot spotting, claims data can help reveal both a community’s healthcare
problems and their solutions (Gwande, n.d. ).

Hotspotting
can be used in many regions of the health care system; this type of data
analysis can be used to collect evidence and drive change in health care in
many settings, across many populations. Of interest is the potential for the
master’s prepared nurse to participate as member of a “Hot Spotting” team, in a
particular health care setting and the type of knowledge and skill this nurse
will need to be effective in this role.

To prepare
for this discussion, please complete all required reading and viewing,
including the Module Notes, prior to continuing. Reading the article on Hotspotting
as well as viewing the website, is necessary. You may also want to review the
reading and viewing from Modules 4 and 5 and 6, as well as any other readings
referenced within the notes for Module 7.

You are a
master’s prepared nurse working in a community based health clinic in an inner
city (part of a larger health system) with a population of older adults who
experience multiple health disparities, including poverty. The health system
wants to enhance the care delivered to this population, achieve better care
outcomes, and lower costs. You are directed to work as part of an
interdisciplinary team to do this. The team consists of physicians, social
workers, MSNs, RNs, community advocates and policy makers. You’ve been directed
to take a “Hotspotting” approach to accomplish the desired outcomes.

Include the
following information in your post:

Describe
your role as a master’s prepared nurse in this interdisciplinary team./span>

What
knowledge and skills will you bring to the team? (Hint: think about leadership,
communication, and clinical skills.)

Why it is
important to have a master’s prepared nurse on the team?

Why is an
interdisciplinary approach to this issue necessary?

As a member
of this interdisciplinary team, describe the data you need to collect in order
to understand and address the problem.

How would
you go about collecting the data to formulate an intervention? Note: Think
about health care costs, finance, reimbursement, care utilization, etc. The
resources on Hotspotting will be useful here.

Identify an
important and pertinent policy issue that you believe would need to be
addressed to effectively achieve the desired outcomes. (For example, if the
population were children with diabetes the policy issue could be funding for
health school lunches.) Explain how this policy issue relates to the problem.

For your
initial response, please be sure to address all of the above statements and/ or
questions.

Use these EC
Library and OWL resources for research assistance and to properly cite your work:

Master’s in
Nursing Research Guide (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

Plagiarism
& Copyright (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

Excelsior
Library Writing Help (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

APA Citation
Help (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

Excelsior
College Online Writing Lab (OWL) (Links to an external site.)Links to an
external site.

How You Are
Evaluated

You are
expected to participate in academic conversations with peers and faculty to
generate scholarly dialogue. Expectations for participation in the course
discussions are described under the Discussion Rubric: Exploration, Spirit of
Inquiry, and Engagement (interactions) when relating your experiences, opinions,
viewpoints, and ideas supported by evidence.

Consult the
Discussion Posting Guide for information about writing your discussion posts.
It is recommended that you write your post in a document first. Check your work
and correct any spelling or grammatical errors. When you are ready to make your
initial post, click “Reply.” Then copy/paste the text into the
message field, and click “Post Reply.”

To respond
to a peer, click “Reply” beneath her or his post and continue as with an
initial post.

Evaluation

This discussion
will be graded using the discussion board rubric. Please review this rubric,
located on the Rubrics page within the Start Here module of the course, prior
to beginning your work to ensure your participation meets the criteria in place
for this discussion. All discussions combined are worth 40% of your final
course grade.

Reference:

Gawande, A.
(2011, January 24). The hot spotters (Links to an external site.)Links to an
external site.. The New Yorker, 86, 41. Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers.
(n.d.). Introduction: What is hotspotting? Camden Coalition of Healthcare
Providers. Retrieved from http://healthcarehotspotting.com/wp/introduction/