Essay Question 1:
Discuss how quality is measured in terms of structure, process, and outcomes within a health-care organization. For example, review the Baldrige Award criteria, and conduct research from credible journal articles. Go to https://research.strayer.edu to locate credible articles. In your opinion, what are the best three quality performance indicators for hospitals? Provide support for your position.
Essay Question 2:
Discuss a current issue that has both legal and ethical ramifications (the right to die varies by state: legal to a felony, ethical; medical marijuana: legal and who can provide; right-to-try laws: more accepted than the right to die and who gets the organ transplant; and whether the reporting of child abuse is legal or ethical). Take a position and provide support for your response. Are there applicable laws to support your answer?
Essay Question 3:
Discuss a current issue that has both legal and ethical ramifications (the right to die varies by state: legal to a felony, ethical; medical marijuana: legal and who can provide; right-to-try laws: more accepted than the right to die and who gets the organ transplant; and whether the reporting of child abuse is legal or ethical). Take a position and provide support for your response. Are there applicable laws to support your answer?
Essay Question 4:
Health-care organizations utilize an increasing number of types of health-care personnel, each with their own set of credentialing, licensure, and certification requirements. Nurses are the largest category, but advanced practice levels are developing for many categories of providers. Shortages are growing. Human resource management is critical and involves administrative and strategic elements. Environmental forces are impacting human resource management. Choose two environmental forces, and describe and provide suggestions on how they might best be addressed through human resource management initiatives/actions
