DQ: Factors in healthcare management
DQ: Factors in healthcare management
Collect the knowledge you gathered in this course and prepare a 10+ slide PowerPoint presentation as if you were presenting to your workgroup. Make sure you touch on a topic from each week and describe what things you would like to immediately implement. Your presentation should be APA formatted if outside research is cited and free from grammatical errors.
Gather your research from at least 2 sources, other than your textbook. Cite your sources using APA guidelines. All submitted work should be free of grammatical errors.
By the end of this module you should be able to:
Describe the role of a healthcare manager.
Explain the contributing factors in healthcare management.
Analyze the difference between healthcare management and other management fields.
Differentiate between clinical and non-clinical staff.
Describe how patient to staff ratios are used in manning decisions.
Define a profit margin.
Analyze how patient complications affect profit margins.
By the end of this module you should be able to:
Differentiate between the forces that affect the macro and micro environment.
Evaluate marketing decisions affected by changes in macro and micro environments.
Formulate the characteristics that affect consumer behavior.
Analyze the process in which consumers make buying decisions.
You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.
Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.
Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.
The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.