UNE HCA601 Assignments Latest 2021 January (Full)

HCA601 INTRODUCTION TO HEALTH ADMINISTRATION

Week 2 Assignment  

Slide Presentation

In this assignment, you will choose one of the topics below from this week’s reading and describe it in a slide presentation. Slide presentations are a standard way professionals communicate and a common assignment in this graduate program. This week’s assignment will help you to develop the skill needed to present information in a slide format.

Choose one topic:

Describe the events in history that have impacted the evolution of healthcare in the American healthcare system.

OR

Describe how American culture has played a part in the development of the current infrastructure.

Create a 5-10 slide presentation using PowerPoint or Google Slides. Use APA format for all citations.

Refer to the Slide Presentation Rubric in the syllabus or under the assignment in My Grades for submission guidelines. Use the resources below for assistance in completing this assignment:

The resources below are comprehensive guides for creating effective slide presentations. Save these resources as a reference for creating future presentations. While the current assignment is a small project, these resources will help you improve your slide presentation skills.

The Center for Teaching and Learning with Technology & The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. (n.d). Designing and writing an effective capstone presentation.

Better Presentations from UNE Online

 

HCA601 INTRODUCTION TO HEALTH ADMINISTRATION

Week 3 Assignment  

Data Visualization

This week you will explore the healthcare payor models in your state. This assignment will provide you with some insight into this important public policy topic and how your state manages it. Also, it is essential to consider how healthcare payment impacts the state’s economy and well-being of the population. This assignment also provides practice gathering and communicating data visually, an important professional skill to develop.

Using the keywords below, perform an internet search on the data for your state and create a pie or bar chart that includes the percentage of recipients whose healthcare is funded through:

Employer

Non-group

Medicaid

Medicare

Other public

Uninsured

You may use any software you prefer to create your chart such as Word, Excel, Google Sheets, etc.

Based on the data in your chart, consider how the healthcare funding in your state may impact the greater state’s socio-economic situation. Write one-page offering your perspective (opinion) on the results you found.

Your submission should include:

Pie or bar chart

One written page

APA formatted reference page listing your data source(s) used.

Refer to the Data Visualization Rubric in the syllabus or under the assignment in My Grades for submission guidelines.

 

HCA601 INTRODUCTION TO HEALTH ADMINISTRATION

Week 3 Assignment  

Topic and Research Question

In preparation for the final project, you will begin creating the parts that go into writing a research paper. From now through the end of the term, you will submit a component of the paper that will culminate in the final project research paper. Make sure to review the Instructor feedback for each component and integrate that into your submitted final paper.

This week you will identify a topic and formulate a research question. To begin, identify a healthcare challenge or problem. This challenge or problem can be something you have encountered in your professional career, experienced as a healthcare consumer, or a topic of interest. Once the challenge or problem is identified, then you must be specific about the setting where this problem occurs. Is it a primary care issue, an Intensive care unit, lab service, etc.? Choose a potential solution (based on peer-reviewed literature) that may help solve the challenge or problem in the defined healthcare setting and formulate a research question

Here are two topic and research question examples:

Problem/Setting: Behavioral health patient overcrowding in Emergency Departments

Research Question (solution): Does the use of telehealth address behavioral health patient overcrowding in Emergency Departments?

Problem/Setting: High use of ER for non-emergencies by families who are low-income, recent immigrants, or undocumented

Research Question (solution): What can hospitals do to divert these populations from using the ER for non-emergencies?

 

HCA601 INTRODUCTION TO HEALTH ADMINISTRATION

Week 4 Assignment  

Annotated Bibliography

At this point, you should have an approved topic and research question for your final project and know how to use RefWorks for saving and organizing library resources. Now it’s time to start collecting research articles from quality peer-reviewed journals that you will use in your final paper. An annotated bibliography supports research paper writing by helping you to focus on the relevance and quality of the research in the articles you find.

In this week’s assignment, you will start gathering, summarizing, and examining peer-reviewed articles that are relevant to your topic and research question. From these articles, you will select 5, one of which directly addresses your topic’s defined healthcare delivery setting; the other four should be related to the topic or research question. For each of the five articles:

Write a brief summary of the article.

Examine how the article relates to your topic, healthcare setting, and/or research question and write a few sentences on your findings. Consider the following in your examination:

Background or authority of the author(s)

How the research relates to your topic or contributes to your thesis

Submit an APA style, Annotated Bibliography as a word document. See the UNE Library web page on Writing an annotated bibliography for assistance. Refer to the Annotated Bibliography Rubric in the syllabus or under the assignment in My Grades for submission guidelines.

 

HCA601 INTRODUCTION TO HEALTH ADMINISTRATION

Week 5 Assignment  

Research Paper Outline or Mind-map

Drawing on your previous week’s work and Instructor feedback, it’s time to organize your thoughts around the final paper before writing the first draft. There are several strategies for organizing ideas, you will choose between creating an outline or creating a mind-map. Use the following examples as a guide:

Sample Outline

Sample Mind-map (please note mind maps can be created in Word and PowerPoint or by using free mind-map tools)

A thesis statement is part of most academic writings. This is a sentence that sums up the writer’s central response to the research question. It directly states or “tells” what the body of the paper will “show” through evidence, examples, and explanation. A thesis statement is usually located at the end of the introduction and links to the paper’s title and conclusion. An example thesis statement is: A review of several articles indicates collaborative group work can socially motivate students who make excuses for inappropriate social behavior.

As you develop your outline or mind-map, include a working thesis statement. Keep in mind that revising the thesis statement after you’ve completed a rough draft of your paper is recommended. As we write about a topic we often gain a clearer understanding of it and of our ideas around it. Your thesis revision in later drafts of your paper should reflect that deeper thought process.

Submit an outline or mind-map for your topic and research question. Your submission should include enough detail to make your thoughts on the organization of this paper explicit. Refer to the Research Paper Outline or Mind-map Rubric in the syllabus or under the assignment in My Grades for submission guidelines. Your Instructor will provide feedback and considerations for you to incorporate into your research paper submission in week 7.

Please note, if you are requested by your Instructor to redo your outline or mind-map, there will be a link to resubmit in week 6.

HCA601 INTRODUCTION TO HEALTH ADMINISTRATION

Week 7 Assignment  

Final Project Research Paper

In this research paper, you will fully integrate the Instructor feedback received on previous assignments into the final draft. Your research paper should be between 5-6 pages long (not including the title, abstract, and reference pages) and include the following elements:

Introduce and describe a challenge or problem in a defined healthcare setting (ambulatory care, critical care, lab service, etc.). Explain the significance of the problem. Include relevant background information on the topic and healthcare setting to provide context for the reader.

Identify a potential solution based on research. State the solution and a summary argument in a thesis statement.

Summarize the findings of your research articles and describe how it addresses your research question. Provide evidence to support your main points and arguments.

What are the ethical considerations of your potential solution?

Develop a conclusion that makes the final “argument” for the technology solution (thesis statement) and healthcare setting.

Include at least 5 peer-reviewed journal articles published within the past 5 years.

Use APA Style citations and paper formatting.

Refer to the Student Sample APA Paper from APA Style website for an example of using APA. Review the Final Project Research Paper Rubric in the syllabus or under the assignment in My Grades for submission guidelines.