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The Health Care Scene: Contemporary Trends
As health care leaders it is important to understand that health care is quite a dynamic field. Its constant changes are a result of continuing trends in regulation policy patient and provider advocacy efforts as well as increasingly sophisticated technology and industry benchmarking guidelines. For your assignment you review the possible topics for your Senior Project located in Week Five of your online course or in the Components of Course Evaluation section of this guide and select the topic your training program will address. If you choose not to select a topic from the approved topic list you must have your original topic approved by your instructor prior to submitting this assignment. For this assignment focus on a specific contemporary trend in health care and be sure to include all of the following influences:
Address the information above as it pertains to your selected topic in an eight to ten slide (excluding title and reference slides) PowerPoint presentation. Your presentation should conclude with a summary describing the following concerns:
The information in this presentation will later be used as part of your Senior Project to set the context for the audience you select for a training program on the contemporary trend identified here. Your presentation must include detailed speakers notes (i.e. at least 150 words) for each slide as well as a minimum of one to two scholarly sources from theAshford Universityand one to two current scholarly web sources. Your presentation and any citations used must be in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. Examples of scholarly web sources are available in this weeks recommended websites. These sources will also count toward the required sources for your Senior Project. Your presentation must be engaging and relevant to your audience. Lines of text on a slide will not be sufficient for this assignment. It should contain images graphics and/or multimedia that communicate your training program clearly to your audience. For tips on creating an excellent presentation read this overview.
This will be the topics to pick from. Pick only one and we will use at the end of the five weeks for the last project
Approved Topics:
After identifying your topic choose a health care organization in your area. This organization may be small or large and may provide single inpatient health service or multiple outpatient services; it is your choice. Consider your topic in light of the leadership of this organization and research the challenges and successes it has faced in managing operational effectiveness. You are welcome to use as many research methods as possible to obtain information for your organization and its managers (e.g. web-based resources electronic articles or personal interviews). The more informed you are the better prepared you will be to complete your project.