Prepare a short reflective essay entitled “Why I want to earn a graduate degree in Healthcare Administration (or Health Informatics) from UMUC”.
HCAD 600 Assignment 1-4 & Conference 1-2 Research Papers
As a first assignment, prepare a short reflective essay entitled “Why I want to earn a graduate degree in Healthcare Administration (or Health Informatics) from UMUC”.
Make sure that your final paper meets the following requirements:
Be between 600 – 800 words (inclusive)
Use 12 point Times New Roman font with 1 inch margins
Follow APA style as presented in pages 41- 59 of the assigned APA text.
Addresses the following topics:
The reasons you have selected healthcare administration as your profession.
What you hope to learn over the duration of the Program.
Your professional goals after you graduate.
Any barriers or challenges that you will need to overcome to achieve your professional goals.
Your strategy for being successful.
Assignment 2 (3 pages, 5 references)
For this paper, identify one important healthcare issue that is being currently debated by Americans or concerning global health, and then follow the instructions below. This paper provides you with an opportunity to explore how current events are affecting the role of the healthcare administrator.
Prepare an 800-1,000 word research brief that (1) summarizes a news story found on Kaiser Health News (https://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/)and then (2) discusses the implications of this news event on your future as a leader in healthcare.
Incorporate at least three (3) scholarly journal articles published in the last five years into your paper. In addition, you must use UMUC’s library to locate the articles and include at least one scholarly journal that provides a DOI = digital object identifier on the reference page (example: doi: 10.1108/03090560710821161).
Follow APA style guidelines for citations and the reference page.
Prepare your essay in MS Word with 1-inch margins on all sides, double-spaced and 12 pt. Times New Roman font. Please note that the 1000 word limit includes all components of your paper, including your name, title, citations, and references.
Assignment 3 (4 pages, 6 references)
For your second paper, you will assess the ethical aspects of a healthcare industry managerial practice. This analytical paper provides you with an opportunity to critically think about the challenging ethical/moral issues routinely faced by healthcare managers using the ethical code of the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE).
Instructions
Write a 1,000 – 1200 word essay using APA style that applies the relevant aspects of the ACHE Code of Ethics to one of the case’s found here: https://www.scu.edu/ethics/practicing/focusareas/cases.cfm?fam=HEALTH
The paper should include separate sections that summarize the relevant issues raised by the case, an explanation of why those issues raise ethical concerns, and howthe ACHE Code of Ethics can be used to determine the proper response by a healthcare manager.
A cover sheet, abstract, body of the paper, and reference list are all required for this paper and should not exceed 1200 words in total.
Prepare your essay in MS Word with 1-inch margins on all sides, double-spaced and 12 pt. Times New Roman font; and upload it to the assignment folder.
Assignment 4 (6 pages, 12 references)
Write a Six page Team report using APA style that:
1) Identifies and discusses the macro-trends affecting the future of the US healthcare system, including the overall economy, demographics, personal lifestyles and behaviors, technology (including biotechnology and smartphones), and federal and state government policies.
2) Use the above analysis to identify five (5) great job opportunities for healthcare managers in 2020. Be sure to EXPLICITLY link each job opportunity with the specific trends identified in your analysis.
A minimum of twelve references to independent research journals and/or non-vested technical reports must be incorporated and cited using APA style.
Be sure to support your conclusions with appropriate source material. Conclusions are not just “your opinion.” Each conclusion must be clearly linked to eternally valid sources of information.
Prepare your essay in MS Word with 1-inch margins on all sides, double-spaced and 12 pt. Times New Roman font; and upload it to the assignment folder. Please note that the 12 page limit INCLUDES all components of your paper, including your name, title, citations, and references. You may add an abstract that describes the focus of the paper, which will not count against the total word count.
Conference 1: Major trends affecting the future of healthcare administration (2 pages, 4 references)
Actions for Week 2: Major trends affecting the future of healthcare administration
After you conduct a research on some of the macro trends affecting the US healthcare system, think about how those big trends may be affecting the future of the healthcare profession. For example, what do you think about the following future possibilities?
“Chronic Care Management” companies take charge of care that keeps these folks out of the hospital as much as possible.
“Geriatric Care Management” companies use mobile technology as an alternative to institutionalization of old people.
Companies reduce the cost of care by moving services currently provided in a hospital out into the community.
New mobile, robotic, and AI technologies become standard tolls for improving quality by reducing variations in the provision of healthcare services.
The overall healthcare marketplace remains nervous as it faces major changes in the Medicare program and the still unclear future of the Affordable Care Act so keeps looking for all kinds of new ways to do more with less.
These questions are intended to get our thinking started.
What else do you see in the future of our profession as healthcare managers and administrators?
Conference 2: What will the job market look like in 5 or 10 years? (2 pages, 4 references)
Actions for Week 3: What will the job market look like in 5 or 10 years?
While the US healthcare system represents around $3 trillion in annual spending and is the largest single sector of the overall economy, it also sits inside larger “macro trends” that help define the landscape of jobs.
For example, such factors as globalization, the frantic pace of innovative handhold and genomic technology (like the iphone 6 and mapping the human genome project), 78 million Americans all hitting old age (and higher healthcare utilization) at the same time, and radically changing values and beliefs are all working together to create a larger “context” for new jobs in the healthcare system.
So what difference do all these big changes mean to us?
The answer is both obvious and complicated. I will answer the obvious part and leave the complicated part to you to discuss.
The obvious answer is that these big changes are changing the way we live our lives. Just think that it wasn’t that long ago that classes on the internet like ours didn’t exist. And now, we just sort of assume, without even thinking about it, that such classes are perfectly normal.
So the obvious part is that such factors as globalization, technology, the aging of our society, and changing cultural values are all working together to change pretty well everything that used to be – into something else.
The hard part – and the part you need to think about – is what do all the changes really mean to the careers of healthcare professionals?
If we think that healthcare professionals will continue to do exactly what they are doing now over the next ten years then we are not paying attention to how much the work world has already changed from the way it worked ten years ago.
How will smart phone create new jobs in healthcare?
Will genomic research eliminate certain diseases by modifying DNA?
How will the massive chronic care needs of a ton of old people create new careers opportunities?
How will healthcare systems evolve to best leverage a global market for their services?
What new jobs may be created to best meet new consumer demands for more patient-focused care? Less institutionalization of the elderly? And better access to culturally appropriate care givers?
So what do you think? What’s the job market likely to look like for you in ten or so years?
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