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HCA 340 Entire Course (Ash)
HCA 340 Week 1 DQ 1 Leadership and Management in
Healthcare HCA 340 Week 1 DQ 2 Management and
Motivation HCA 340 Week 2 DQ 1 Organizational
Behavior and Management HCA 340 Week 2 DQ 2
Strategic Planning HCA 340 Week 3 DQ 1 Health
Insurance Benefits HCA 340 Week 3 DQ 2 Managing
Financial Budgets HCA 340 Week 3 Final Project
Outline/Annotated Bibliography HCA 340 Week 4 DQ
1 Managing Multidisciplinary Professionals
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HCA 340 Slingshot Academy / hca340.com
HCA 340 Week 1 DQ 1 Leadership and Management in
Healthcare (Ash)
HCA 340 Week 1 DQ 1 Leadership and Management in
Healthcare Leadership and Management in Health
Care. Compare and contrast leadership roles and
management responsibilities in a non-health care
setting with that of a health care organization.
In addition, present an overview of key
leadership traits fundamental for health care
organizational effectiveness, and discuss the
essential functions of health care managers. What
does it take to be a good leader or manager?
What are the primary barriers and challenges
associated with health care leadership?
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HCA 340 Slingshot Academy / hca340.com
HCA 340 Week 1 DQ 1 Leadership and Management in
Healthcare (Ash)
HCA 340 Week 1 DQ 1 Leadership and Management in
Healthcare Leadership and Management in Health
Care. Compare and contrast leadership roles and
management responsibilities in a non-health care
setting with that of a health care organization.
In addition, present an overview of key
leadership traits fundamental for health care
organizational effectiveness, and discuss the
essential functions of health care managers. What
does it take to be a good leader or manager?
What are the primary barriers and challenges
associated with health care leadership?
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HCA 340 Week 1 DQ 2 Management and Motivation
(Ash)
HCA 340 Week 1 DQ 2 Management and Motivation
Management and Motivation. Discuss the overall
importance of motivation as it relates to
management. What are the benefits of having a
fully motivated staff, and what are the potential
consequences of not having motivated staff? What
do contemporary theories tell us about the
significance of motivation as a function of
employee needs, extrinsic and intrinsic factors?
How do we motivate across generations? In your
response, please be sure to identify and address
at least two theories.  
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HCA 340 Week 2 DQ 2 Strategic Planning (Ash)
HCA 340 Week 2 DQ 2 Strategic Planning Strategic
Planning. Strategic planning is essential in the
sustainability of all healthcare organizations.
Outline the processes, or steps, involved in the
strategic planning process and continual
monitoring of the internal and external
environment. Discuss how strategic planning is a
dynamic, verses linear, process.
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HCA 340 Week 2 DQ 1 Organizational Behavior and
Management (Ash)
HCA 340 Week 2 DQ 1 Organizational Behavior and
Management Organizational Behavior and
Management. Review the following case study in
your textbook, Prelude to a Medical Error (pp.
416-417). Examine the application and answer
Discussion Question 1 "Identify and discuss
examples of preconceptions, assumptions, and
mental models evident in this scenario. What are
the consequences of the ways these health
providers are thinking about the situation?" How
might you, as the healthcare administrator of
this organization, handle this situation and deal
with each of the participants?
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HCA 340 Week 3 DQ 1 Health Insurance Benefits
(Ash)
HCA 340 Week 3 DQ 1 Health Insurance Benefits
Health Insurance Benefits. Managers need to
understand the impact on the financial viability
of a health service organization for providing
care to the uninsured or underinsured. Review the
following case scenario and answer the discussion
questions.
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HCA 340 Week 3 DQ 2 Managing Financial Budgets
(Ash)
HCA 340 Week 3 DQ 2 Managing Financial Budgets
Managing Financial Budgets. Health care financial
management is complex and an effective health
care administrator must understand what makes up
the foundation to financial operations. This
includes health insurance (private and social)
and reimbursements, private vs. not-for profit
entities, costs and expenditures, capital,
materials management, and budgeting.
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HCA 340 Week 3 Final Project Outline/Annotated
Bibliography (Ash)
HCA 340 Week 3 Final Project Outline/Annotated
Bibliography Final Project Outline/Annotated
Bibliography. Submit the following to your
instructor for review 1. Identify the topic of
your Final Project a. Describe the issue, why it
was selected, the perspective of approach, and
the scope of the paper.
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HCA 340 Week 4 DQ 1 Managing Multidisciplinary
Professionals (Ash)
HCA 340 Week 4 DQ 1 Managing Multidisciplinary
Professionals Managing Multidisciplinary
Professionals. Dr. White ordered an unusual dose
of a medication for a patient. May Patterson, RN,
sees the order and believes it to be the wrong
dose. She is afraid to call Dr. White because he
can be abrasive at times. Nurse Patterson asks
the charge nurse who is not as familiar with the
patient to call the doctor. The charge nurse
calls Dr. White. He insists that he knows what is
best for the patient and insists that the
medication will be given as written.
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HCA 340 Week 4 DQ 2 Human Resources (Ash)
HCA 340 Week 4 DQ 2 Human Resources Human
Resources. Human resources are an integral part
of health care operations to recruit and retain
high quality, and often highly specialized
employees. 1. Describe why human resources
management is comprised of strategic and
administrative actions, providing examples of
each.
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HCA 340 Week 4 S.W.O.T. (Strengths, Weaknesses,
Opportunities, Threats) (Ash)
HCA 340 Week 4 S.W.O.T. (Strengths, Weaknesses,
Opportunities, Threats) S.W.O.T. (Strengths,
Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats). For this
assignment, you will apply the S.W.O.T.
Situational Planning Strategy introduced in
Chapter 5 of your course text, based upon the
following Situation You are the C.E.O. of
Community South Medical Center, a large, urban
for-profit healthcare facility.
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HCA 340 Week 5 DQ 1 Cultural Diversity in
Healthcare (Ash)
HCA 340 Week 5 DQ 1 Cultural Diversity in
Healthcare Cultural Diversity in Healthcare.
Read over the information in The Providers Guide
to Quality Culture website and examine the case
study from your textbook titled, Heritage Valley
Medical Center Are Your Managers Culturally
Competent?. Then answer the following
questions 1. How have the changing definitions
of diversity affected healthcare management and
the delivery of healthcare services in this
organization?
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HCA 340 Week 5 DQ 2 Healthcare Ethics Law (Ash)
HCA 340 Week 5 DQ 2 Healthcare Ethics Law
Healthcare Ethics and Law. A woman arrives at a
suburban emergency room in active labor. Both she
and her husband speak little English. The staff
determines that the mother (and baby) is
uninsured and unable to pay for healthcare
services out-of-pocket. The baby is showing signs
of distress and needs to be delivered. The
on-call OB-GYN physician refuses to come to the
hospital. He recommends that the patient be
transferred to another facility.
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HCA 340 Week 5 Final Project (Ash)
HCA 340 Week 5 Final Project Focus of the Final
Project Managing Health Care Organizations The
Final Project should demonstrate understanding of
the reading assignments, class discussions, your
own research and the application of new
knowledge. It should utilize previous skills
developed in foundational health care courses and
apply them within the context and viewpoint of
health care administrator and his/her role
managing health and human services.
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HCA 340 Slingshot Academy / hca340.com
The goal of higher education should be to
champion the airing of all honest viewpoints.
Nothing less is acceptable
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