• Describe one cancer that predominately impacts women (i.e. breast, lung, colorectal, endometrial, cervical, uterine, ovarian, skin).
  • How many people are diagnosed with this cancer every year? Has the rate gone up/down?
  • What are the signs and symptoms of cancer?
  • What (if any) is the screening recommendations? How can you prevent this cancer?
• Describe risk factors for cardiovascular disease.
  • What are the risk factors for cardiovascular disease? Which risk factors are modifiable?
  • Why are women at increased risk for cardiovascular disease? Other than gender, who (race/ethnicity, age, income) is more at risk for cardiovascular disease?
  • What can you do to decrease your risk factors?
• In the U.S. there are more than 30 million cases of diabetes, equally common in men and women. Why?
  • What are the three forms of diabetes?
  • What are the risk factors for diabetes? What are the rates of these risk factors?
  • Provide 1-2 reasons and justify why this might be the case.

Competency

Analyze the importance of managing a diverse workforce.

 

Scenario

You work for a company that has employees from each of the five generations: Traditionalists, Baby Boomers, Generation X, Millennials, and Generation Z. Because there is a great deal of generational diversity in your company, your managers have sometimes struggled to effectively communicate with their teams. In order to help your colleagues, you decide to put together a part of a training plan to discuss the importance of managing a diverse workforce and provide guidance to managers.

Instructions

Create  training plan that:

• Researches and summarizes each of the five generations in the workforce:
• Traditionalists
• Baby Boomers
• Generation X
• Millennials
• Generation Z
• Identifies effective strategies for communicating with, motivating, and supporting a generationally diverse workforce.
• How does each generation prefer to communicate?
• How do you keep them engaged?
• Examines the benefits that companies have experienced employing multigenerational workforces and why these are important for organizational success.
• Analyzes potential communication and collaboration challenges that could occur among the different generations and why these are important to understand when managing a diverse workforce.

 

Healthcare Macro Trends within Washington DC

Prompted in part by the ideas presented for the technology innovation project, the Human Resources Committee of the Board of Directors has become increasingly concerned about the ability to identify, recruit, and retain the appropriate skill mix for the organization.

The CEO has designated an interdisciplinary team and asked it to prepare an analysis of current trends and their impact on the organization’s human resources in 2025. More specifically, the CEO relays that the Board Chair has expressed concern about workforce shortages in such key areas as nursing, medical technology, and long-term care.

1) Identifies and discusses the macro-trends affecting the health workforce in Washington, DC, the future of the US healthcare system, including such aspects as the overall economy, demographics, personal lifestyles and behaviors, technology (including biotechnology and smartphones), and federal and state government policies. Note that these factors are neither exhaustive nor are they offered as a mandatory framework; your research will identify macro-trends relevant to your findings.

2) Using the above analysis, identify current and projected occupational shortages for your selected region, efforts to address these shortages, and your recommendations for a solution. Be sure to explicitly link each aspect with the specific trends identified in your analysis.

The provision of percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI) for patients with occlusive cardiac vascular disease has been a growing trend since the procedure debuted in the late 1970s. The nursing continuum of care that ushers the patient through the PCI process can have a large impact on short- and long-term clinical outcomes.

How can epidemiology be used to improve outcomes for patients who have undergone Percutaneous Coronary Interventions?

Describe the procurement process for a health care system (including hardware and software) before creating the request for proposal (RFP). Describe a case where vendor demonstrations might be of vital importance in aiding your final purchase decision. How does the RFP form the basis of the contract?