Write a 4-5 page population health improvement plan, based on your evaluation of the best available evidence from a minimum of 3-5 current scholarly or professional sources of demographic, environmental, and epidemiological data that focuses on your diagnosis of a widespread population health issue.
Part of effectively engaging in evidence-based practice is the ability to synthesize raw health data with research studies and other relevant information in the literature. This will enable you to develop sound interventions, initiatives, and outcomes to address health concerns that you find in data during the course of your practice.
In this assessment, you have an opportunity to evaluate community demographic, environmental, and epidemiological data to diagnose a widespread population health issue, which will be the focus of a health improvement plan that you develop.
Demonstration of Proficiency
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:

Competency 2: Apply evidence-based practice to design interventions to improve population health.

Evaluate community demographic, epidemiological, and environmental data to diagnose widespread population health issues.
Develop an ethical health improvement plan to address a population health issue within a community.

Competency 3: Evaluate outcomes of evidence-based interventions.

Propose criteria for evaluating population health improvement plan outcomes.

Competency 4: Evaluate the value and relative weight of available evidence upon which to make a clinical decision.

Justify the value and relevance of evidence used as the basis of a population health improvement plan.

Competency 5: Synthesize evidence-based practice and academic research to communicate effective solutions.

Develop a strategy for communicating with colleagues and members of the community in an ethical, culturally sensitive, and inclusive way.
Integrate relevant and credible sources of evidence to support assertions, correctly formatting citations and references using APA style.

Scenario
Your organization is undertaking a population health improvement initiative focused on one of the pervasive and chronic health concerns in the local community. Examples of health improvement initiatives include nationwide concerns, such as type 2 diabetes, HIV, obesity, insect bites, and Zika. However, your organization has asked you to determine which widespread health concern should be addressed in a population health improvement plan for your community and has entrusted you with gathering and evaluating the relevant data.
Your Role 
You are a nurse in a community clinic or hospital and you have a good idea about the most common chronic health issues among its patients. You have been asked to prepare a presentation for the next staff meeting about the issue and the plan that you are proposing to help improve the community’s health.
Instructions
The requirements outlined below correspond to the grading criteria in the scoring guide, so be sure to address each point. In addition, you may want to review the performance-level descriptions for each criterion to see how your work will be assessed.
Part 1: Data Evaluation
Evaluate the outcomes of a population health improvement initiative from community demographic, epidemiological, and environmental data.

Identify the relevant data.
Identify the level of evidence, validity, and reliability for each source.
Describe the major community health concerns suggested by the data.
Explain how environmental factors affect the health of community residents.

Part 2: Health Improvement Plan
Develop a health improvement plan that ethically and effectively addresses the population health concern that you identified in your evaluation of the relevant data.

Base your plan on the best available evidence from a minimum of 3–5 current scholarly or professional sources.

Apply correct APA formatting to all in-text citations and references.
Attach a reference list to your plan.

Ensure that your plan meets the cultural and environmental needs of your community and will likely lead to some improvement in the community’s health related to this concern.

Consider the environmental realities and challenges existing in the community.
Address potential barriers or misunderstandings related to the various cultures prevalent in the community.

Justify the value and relevance of the evidence you used as the basis of your plan.

Explain why the evidence is valuable and relevant to the community health concern you are addressing.
Explain why each piece of evidence is appropriate and informs the goal of improving the health of the community.

Propose relevant and measurable criteria for evaluating the outcomes of your plan.

Explain why your proposed criteria are appropriate and useful measures of success.

Explain how you will communicate with colleagues and members of the community, in an ethical, culturally sensitive, and inclusive way, with regard to the development and implementation of your plan.

Develop a clear communications strategy mindful of the cultural and ethical expectations of colleagues and community members regarding data privacy.
Ensure that your strategy enables you to make complex medical terms and concepts understandable to members of the community, regardless of language, disabilities, or level of education.

The headings for your Evidence-Based Population Health Improvement Plan should be the following:?

Data Evaluation.
Meeting Community Needs?.
Evidence.
Measuring Outcomes.
Communication Plan?.

please use these resources and please bold and outline each section thank you

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Write a quality improvement proposal, 5-7 pages in length and cite at LEAST 6 references, that provides your recommendations for expanding a hospital’s HIT to include quality metrics that will help the organization qualify as an accountable care organization. PLEASEUSE SCORING GUIDE TO ENSURE PASSING GRADE.IntroductionHealth care has undergone a transformation since the release of the Institute of Medicine’s 2000 report To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System. The report highlighted medical errors as a contributing factor leading to poor patient outcomes. The Institute of Medicine challenged organizations to implement evidence-based performance improvement strategies in order to improve patient quality and safety. Multiple governmental and regulatory agencies, such as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research (AHRQ), vowed to strengthen and improve incentives for participation, safety, quality, and efficiency in accountable care organizations (ACOs).Health information technology (HIT) performs an essential role in improving health outcomes of individuals, the community, and populations. Health organizations, consumer advocacy groups, and regulatory committees have made a commitment to explore current and future opportunities that HIT offers to continue momentum to meet the Institute of Medicine’s goal of improving safety and quality.Understanding HIT is important to improving individual, community, and population access to health care and health information. HIT enables quick and easy access to information for both patients and providers. Accessible information has been shown to improve the patient care experience and reduce redundancies, thereby reducing health care costs.This assessment provides an opportunity for you to make recommendations for expanding a hospital’s HIT in ways that will help the hospital qualify as an ACO.ReferenceInstitute of Medicine. (2000). To err is human: Building a safer health system. National Academies Press.PreparationIn this assessment, you will again assume the role of case manager at Sacred Heart Hospital. This time, you are asked to develop a strategy for tracking quality metrics to help facilitate the hospital’s qualification for ACO status.Before drafting your proposal, complete the following simulation exercise:Vila Health: Quality Metrics Tracking.Note: Remember that you can submit all or a portion of your draft to Smarthinking for feedback before you submit the final version of this assessment. If you plan on using this free service, be mindful of the turnaround time of 24–48 hours for receiving feedback.RequirementsDevelop a proposal to expand Sacred Heart Hospital’s HIT to better include quality metrics—with the ultimate goal of qualifying for ACO status. Use the following template for your proposal:APA Style Paper Template [DOCX].Writing the ProposalThe requirements outlined below correspond to the grading criteria in the scoring guide. Be sure that your proposal addresses each point, at a minimum. You may also want to read the Quality Improvement Proposal Scoring Guide to better understand how each criterion will be assessed.Recommend ways to expand the hospital’s HIT to include quality metrics.How will you collect information and solve the problem of coordinating care for patients who are not getting diagnostic tests, such as mammograms or colonoscopies?What can you do to track health information from the community or the target population to make necessary improvements?How can you most effectively and efficiently show the role of informatics in nursing care coordination?What evidence supports your recommendations?Describe the main focus of information gathering in health care and how it contributes to guiding the development of organizational practice.Provide examples to support your description.Identify potential problems that can arise with data gathering systems and output.What suggestions can you make for avoiding those problems?Write clearly and concisely, using correct grammar and mechanics.Express your main points and conclusions coherently.Proofread your writing to minimize errors that could distract readers and make it more difficult for them to focus on the substance of your proposal.Support main points, claims, and conclusions with relevant and credible evidence, correctly formatting citations and references using APA style.Is your supporting evidence clear and explicit?How or why does particular evidence support a claim?Will your audience see the connection?Additional RequirementsProposal Format and LengthFormat your proposal using APA style:Use the APA Style Paper Template [DOCX] provided. Be sure to include:A title page and references page. An abstract is not required.A running head on all pages.Appropriate section headings.See also the APA Style Paper Tutorial [DOCX] to help you in writing and formatting your proposal.Your proposal should be 5–7 pages in length, not including the title page and references page.Supporting EvidenceCite at least six sources of credible scholarly or professional evidence to support your proposal.Apply APA formatting to all in-text citations and references.Portfolio Prompt: You may choose to save your proposal to your ePortfolio.ePortfolio.This resource provides information about ePortfolio, including how to use the different features of the product.Online ePortfolio Guidelines [PDF].Competencies MeasuredBy successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:Competency 2: Explain the relationship between care coordination and evidence-based data.Recommend ways to expand an organization’s HIT to include quality metrics.Identify potential problems that can arise with data gathering systems and outputs.Competency 3: Use health information technology to guide care coordination and organizational practice.Describe the main focus of information gathering in health care and how it contributes to guiding the development of organizational practice.Competency 4: Communicate effectively with diverse audiences, in an appropriate form and style, consistent with applicable organizational, professional, and scholarly standards.Write clearly and concisely, using correct grammar and mechanics.Support main points, claims, and conclusions with relevant and credible evidence, correctly formatting citations and references using APA style.

Week 4: The Process: Phase I – Organization and Summary of InformationLaureate Education (Producer). (2017d). Case file organization [Video file]. Baltimore, MD: Author.Note: The approximate length of this media piece is 5 minutes.

Credit: Provided courtesy of the Laureate International Network of Universities.Imagine that you have been asked by the local law enforcement agency to assist in the criminal investigation of a homicide. They present you with 20,000 pages of evidence and materials associated with the case. What do you do first? You get organized! Phase I in the criminal investigative process is Organization and Summary of Information. It is the foundation for thorough and accurate analysis. There are many different methods for organizing case files, but the method used must be logical and it must be tailored to the analyst. Once the case files are organized, the analyst can begin a structured review of the content. During this phase, information is summarized, but not analyzed.This week, you will be presented with case material that has been organized in a standard format. You will review the materials and begin to summarize your findings. In the Open Forum Discussion, you will discuss aspects of the case and seek clarification of elements of evidence.Learning ObjectivesStudents will:Analyze case materialIdentify salient factors in the case materialSummarize case materialLearning ResourcesRequired ReadingsTurvey, B. E. (2012). Criminal profiling: An introduction to behavioral evidence analysis (4th ed.). San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
Chapter 6, “An Introduction to Crime Scene Analysis” (pp. 144–152)Case EvidenceNote: This is a Zip file consisting of 195 individual files. Based on your Internet speed it may take extra time to download. It is recommended that once the Zip file is downloaded, you save the file to a separate folder on your computer for ease of access. The file titled “Document Index” will assist you locating specific evidence relevant to the case.Discussion: Open Forum for Criminal InvestigationDuring Weeks 4–7, you participate in an Open Forum Discussion concerning the criminal investigative analysis you are conducting for your assignments and Final Project. This is your opportunity to discuss aspects of the case and seek clarification about elements of evidence that will support your conclusion of the case and eventual report to the law enforcement agency that requested your services.When analyzing a case, it is essential that the analyst has access to all investigative material. As you review the case material, determine:Do you have all information relevant to the crime scene? PhotosReportsInterviewsForensic ReportsDo you have all information relevant to the medical examination? Autopsy ReportsAutopsy PhotosForensic ReportsDo you have all relevant information for the victim?In this Open Forum Discussion, you begin to collaborate with your colleagues to determine your initial thoughts about the case.To prepare for the Discussion:Review the evidence of the case.By Day 3Post a response to the following:What are your initial thoughts on the crime scene?What other things would you like to know about the victim?As you reviewed the documents, are there other areas about which you would like additional information?By Day 5Respond to at least two of your colleagues with a substantive, interactive discussion that continues through Day 7 by responding to their questions and providing additional insight into the case.Submission and Grading InformationGrading Criteria To access your rubric:Week 4 Discussion RubricPost by Day 3 and Respond by Day 5To participate in this Discussion:Week 4 DiscussionAssignment: Investigating a Crime: Phase I – Organization and Summary of InformationA local law enforcement agency has asked you to review the case evidence files of a crime and provide a report and presentation concerning the offender and the victim. All the evidence has been provided in the Learning Resources. It has been organized using a standard method for your convenience, but you might experiment with your own system of organization. The file titled “Document Index” will assist you locating specific evidence relevant to the case.For this Assignment, you will conduct Phase I of the process: Organization and Summary of Information.By Day 7In a 2- to 3-page report:Provide the facts of the case concerning the offense, victim, and offender. Also, provide a summary of notes specific to the victim. This should include:VictimCurrent relationship status (e.g., single, married, divorced)Employment historyHobbies/routine activitiesEducational historyFamily history (e.g., parents, children)Personality issuesMental health issuesCriminal historySubstance/alcohol use abuseUse of social mediaComplete and submit the Assignment.Submission and Grading InformationTo submit your completed Assignment for review and grading, do the following:Please save your Assignment using the naming convention “WK4Assgn+last name+first initial.(extension)” as the name. Click the Week 4 Assignment Rubric to review the Grading Criteria for the Assignment.Click the Week 4 Assignment link. You will also be able to “View Rubric” for grading criteria from this area.Next, from the Attach File area, click on the Browse My Computer button. Find the document you saved as “WK4Assgn+last name+first initial.(extension)” and click Open. If applicable: From the Plagiarism Tools area, click the checkbox for I agree to submit my paper(s) to the Global Reference Database.Click on the Submit button to complete your submission.Grading Criteria To access your rubric:Week 4 Assignment RubricCheck Your Assignment Draft for AuthenticityTo check your Assignment draft for authenticity:Submit your Week 4 Assignment draft and review the originality report.Submit Your Assignment by Day 7To submit your Assignment:Week 4 AssignmentMaking ConnectionsThis week, you reviewed case materials and began to summarize your findings. In the open forum for case investigation, you discussed aspects of the case and sought clarification of elements of evidence.Next week, you will start Phase II of the criminal investigative analysis process as you analyze the offense of the case study, looking directly at the evidence of the crime to determine if the crime was organized or disorganized. You will also consider if there is evidence to determine a motive, staging, modus operandi, and type of violence.

PurposeStudying rhetoric means studying the way a text, a performance, or an object makes meaning. By writing a rhetorical analysis paper, you will describe how a text or object makes meaning by identifying the author’s purpose, target audience, message, and rhetorical strategies and then describing them in the form of an academic paper. Before writing your paper, we will practice rhetorical analysis together in our class discussions and you will have a chance to practice writing about rhetoric in short informal assignments. It is helpful to develop rhetorical analysis strategies in a first-year writing class because you can draw on these strategies in future classes when you are asked to respond to readings, analyze an issue, or write to reach a specific audience.This assignment has two purposes: 1.) for you to carefully analyze the parts of a text or object (purpose, audience, rhetorical strategies) and explain how those parts come together to effectively convey a message to an audience, and 2.) for you to discuss your analysis in the form of an academic essay organized around claims and evidence.TaskThe first choice you’ll make in your rhetorical analysis is to choose the artifact that you will analyze. For this, you need to choose an example of rhetoric that focuses on some current event that is important to a specific culture. This can be a newspaper article, a speech, a Ted Talk, or whatever else you can think of. The only requirements are that it is persuasive in nature and current, meaning within the last 2 years. I encourage you to choose something you want to learn more about, and something that is meaningful, meaning that it had or will have an impact. Once you choose your artifact, you’ll conduct a rhetorical analysis based on Carroll’s article “Backpacks vs. Briefcases: Steps Toward Rhetorical Analysis.” To do this, you should:1. Introduce the artifact you chose to analyze and discuss the significance of the artifact 2. Rhetorically analyze the methods the writer/speaker uses to persuade the audience 3. Support your analysis by connecting examples of quotes from the course readings4. Discuss the relation of the rhetorical strategies used to the current event they are discussing and argue whether or not the artifact was effective In your analysis of the rhetorical strategies used, you might want to consider the following:How does meaning-making work in specific cultures and/or communities of practice? What are the rhetorical affordances of understanding those practices? What situates those practices discursively? Historically?How is the relationship between speaker/writer, meaning, and culture important in a given context?What are the rhetorical strategies of specific cultural practices? How do those strategies relate with other rhetorical practices?Requirements For the final draft, a cover letter that explains your purpose, writing process, and concerns for feedbackAn engaging introduction that clearly indicates the type of artifact you’ll be analyzing and showcases your understanding of rhetoric and rhetorical analysis An analysis of the rhetorical situation and rhetorical appeals used by the speaker/writer An analysis of how effectively those appeals and other rhetorical strategies matched that rhetorical situationReferences to the course readingsReferences to specific examples from the artifact to illustrate your pointsA conclusion that effectively ties together your analysis and the “point” you are trying to make4+ pages in MLA format with a Works Cited.(4 Content pages work cited doesnt count as a page) Cover Letter Requirement As we’ll read in Giles’ piece “Reflective Writing and the Revision Process: What Were You Thinking?” sometimes it’s useful to include a “Letter to the Reader” or a cover letter as we’ll call it for our class that contextualizes the work you’re submitting to me. This cover letter is your chance to explain your work to me as I assess it and should go on the first page of your work before your MLA header. Your cover letter should discuss the following aspects in about a page:First, tell me what you intend for your essay to do for its reader. Describe the purpose of your work and the effect you want it to have on your audience. Are you imagining me as your only audience? Or me and your peers? Or me, your peers, and maybe a publication like Stylus? How have these different audiences impacted the way you wrote your work? Then, describe your process of working on the essay. How did you narrow the assigned topic? What kind of planning did you do? What steps did you go through, what changes did you make along the way, what decisions did you face, and how did you make the decisions? How did comments from your peers, in peer workshop, help you? How did any class activities on style, editing, etc., help you?Finally, discuss some aspects of the work you’d like me to be mindful of or pay particular attention to. Which sections do you feel need the most feedback and the most development?After you’ve drafted it, think about whether your letter and essay match up. Does the essay really do what your letter promises? If not, then use the draft of your letter as a revising tool to make a few more adjustments to your essay.You will submit the cover letter in the same document as the essay on the first page. -When talking about the rhetorical situation(exigence, rhetor, audience, constraints and their definitions) please quote Grant Davie and throughout the essay you can quote Caroll and Grant-Davie. -I was told to consider: The video is a TedTalk and it’s uploaded on Youtube, this can be a discussion to have about constraints and audience analysis (how does this change/expand the audience and constraints). – I will also attach an outline I made that was approved. -This is the link to Caroll’s essay: https://wac.colostate.edu/books/writingspaces1/carroll–backpacks-vs-briefcases.pdf – The second essay you can use to quote etc i cannot provide it to you but it is: Keith Grant-Davie, “Rhetorical Situations and Their Constituents” Writing about Writing pages 397-412. -Steps to write the analysis:1)introduce the artifact. 2) Caroll’s step1 :identifying rhtorical situation using grant-davie situation: exigence,rhetor, audience, constraints. 3) Caroll’s step2: identify argument and rhetorical appeals. 4)use pages 55, 56 to argue if the argument fits the situation. 6)Conclusion: power of rhetoric in the world. -This is the video i chose:

HE008 Assessment Instructions
 
Overview
In this Assessment, you will analyze how healthcare administrators respond to global health issues such as infections, disease, and medical tourism.
Instructions
To complete this Assessment, do the following:

Be sure to adhere to the indicated assignment length.
Download the APA course paper template available here.
Download the Academic Writing Expectations Checklist to review prior to submitting your Assessment.
Performance Task Scenario: Tuberculosis Outbreak
Communicable and Other Infectious Diseases Reportable in Massachusetts by Healthcare Providers
Tuberculosis Outbreak Line List
Demographic Characteristics of Worcester, MA
Tuberculosis Epidemic Curve
National Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Healthcare (CLAS) Standards

Before submitting your Assessment, carefully review the rubric. This is the same rubric the SME will use to evaluate your submission and it provides detailed criteria describing how to achieve or master the Competency. Many students find that understanding the requirements of the Assessment and the rubric criteria help them direct their focus and use their time most productively.
To pass this Competency, you must achieve a minimum rubric score of “Meets Expectations” (“Achieved”) or “Above Expectations” (“Mastered”). You will have three attempts to successfully complete this Assessment. Each attempt will count towards your total three attempts to achieve this Competency.
 
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This assessment has three parts. Click each of the items below for more information on this Assessment.
PART 1: PRESENTING A CRISIS ACTION PLAN
Read the document, “Performance Task Scenario: Tuberculosis Outbreak,” and the supporting documents including:

Communicable and Other Infectious Diseases Reportable in Massachusetts by Healthcare Providers
Tuberculosis Outbreak Line List
Demographic Characteristics of Worcester, MA
Tuberculosis Epidemic Curve

You are a healthcare administrator at Worcester General Hospital (WGH). Create an 18–21 slide presentation, with presenter notes. The presentation will be shown to the board of directors of WGH. It should describe your proposed plan, step-by-step, for containing this potential tuberculosis (TB) outbreak in partnership with federal, state, and local entities, including the local health department and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Your slide presentation should:

First, describe the healthcare system in El Salvador, where the patient originated before arrival in Massachusetts.

Include information about health insurance coverage and payers of each country
Data on the rate of insured; the healthcare delivery mechanism (public and private services, public and private funding sources, and requirements for individuals to pay for insurance) physician density
Methods for healthcare provision in remote and underserved areas
Vaccination requirements; and similar indicators used to measure health-system operations
Explain how this system compares to the U.S. healthcare system

Explain the connection between global health issues and local healthcare management, and which Millennium Development Goals and Healthy People 2030 Goals apply to this scenario.
Explain how infectious diseases are identified and tracked, including an explanation of how the hospital and local health department (LHD) worked together to create the line list, and which locations in the community merit further investigation.
Explain at least eight action steps to manage this potential health threat. Describe the collaborative approach between the Massachusetts state and local health department and the hospital to investigate and contain the outbreak.
Describe at least three responsibilities of the Massachusetts state and local health department in this specific outbreak scenario.
Explain the role of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in responding to an outbreak like the one in the scenario.
Explain the role of the World Health Organization (WHO) in responding to an outbreak like the one in the scenario. Include a description of at least three specific programs or initiatives that illustrate the role of the WHO in public health.

Save this file as HE008_PartI_firstinitial_lastname (for example, HE008_PartI_J_Smith).
PART 2: EDITORIAL: MEDICAL TOURISM
It has come to your attention that an international hospital aggressively recruits brain cancer patients in your local area. Their innovative treatment is approved in their country; however is considered experimental in your own country. Many patients in the late stages of brain cancer travel to their location as a last hope for a treatment that might stop the aggressive progression of their otherwise terminal illness.
Write a persuasive letter to an editor in your local community making a case for or against seeking this international medical care. Consider as many options for domestic and international treatment as possible, including traditional local treatment options as well as holistic or experimental treatments abroad. Be sure your letter addresses both the local- and destination-country’s perspective on this issue. (1–2 pages)
PART 3: CULTURALLY COMPETENT RESPONSE
Develop a half-page, culturally competent script for a phone call to reach out to the contacts of infected persons that encourages them to get tested for tuberculosis (TB). In addition, submit an appendix to your script that explains which National Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Healthcare (CLAS) Standards were applied and your rationale for selecting the cultural demographic upon which your script is based.