Discuss how integrity, ethics, and accountability play a role in ensuring appropriate communication

Discuss how integrity, ethics, and accountability play a role in ensuring appropriate communication in the workplace, both among professionals and between health care professionals and patients.

Explain the essential components of interprofessional communication

Explain the essential components of interprofessional communication. Identify a standardized communication tool used within health care and discuss how this tool can assist with clear and professional communication across disciplines.

Types of dialysis and when a particular type might be chosen

Discuss the differences and similarities of the three types of dialysis and when a particular type might be chosen.

Discuss various complications that can occur during pregnancy

Discuss various complications that can occur during pregnancy. Identify any known preventative measures that could be taken.

Certification in healthcare management and administration

There are several professional organizations that offer certification in healthcare management and administration.  For example, the competency model used to develop your program of study was developed in part by the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE), one of the premier professional organizations dedicated to helping leaders in healthcare excel and offers board certification in healthcare management. Discuss a professional organization that offers certification or credentialing for healthcare professionals that interests you.  Provide a brief overview of the organization including the requirements for certification. Explain why you are interested in the organization and describe the benefits that the organization’s certification provides and how it can help you in your professional career. Discuss, a professional organization that offers certification or credentialing for healthcare professionals that interests you.  Provide a brief overview of the organization including the requirements for certification. Explain why someone be interested in the organization and describes the benefits that the organization’s certification provides and how it can help you in your professional career.

Examples of professional organizations that provide certification include, but are not limited to the American College of Healthcare Executives, Healthcare Financial Management Association, Medical Group Management Association, American Association of Healthcare Administrative Management, Professional Association of Healthcare Office Management, American Health Information Management Association, Society for Human Resource Management, and the National Association for Healthcare Quality.

Health and epidemiology

For population, health and epidemiology can you

  • Provide the definitions of each term.
  • Briefly explain key similarities between population health and epidemiology.
  • Briefly explain key differences between population health and epidemiology.
  • Based on the definitions, similarities, and differences, what new knowledge did you gain? How was this different from your initial assumptions or understanding?

Discuss ways your organization as a home health care uses technology

Discuss ways your organization as a home health care uses technology to gather patient and health care information, and how this information and data are used to direct patient care and outcomes.

Describe the legal relationship between patient and provider

Describe the legal relationship between patient and provider. Discuss the importance of the original Patient Bill of Rights.

 

Significant health challenge in low-income countries

Which of the following from the list below currently presents a significant health challenge in low-income countries? Choose two and provide a brief explanation.

  • HIV/AIDS
  • Malaria
  • Cardiovascular disease
  • Diarrhoeal disease
  • Malnutrition

Obesity

Describe how epidemiologists identify causes of disease

Describe how epidemiologists identify causes of disease by studying populations, using an example of a named risk factor for a named disease.