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NHS6008 Economics
and Decision Making in Health Care

Unit 3
Assignment

 

Professional Context

Master’s level health care practitioners are charged with
the responsibility of constantly scanning the external environment for shifts
in supply of and demand for services. Concurrently, leaders must examine
strategic fit with their organization’s directional strategy and determine if
adjustments need to be made for current service offerings, updates in
equipment, changes in staffing models, and a variety of other decisions. Each
decision that is proposed must be evaluated in terms of the health care setting
as a system, alignment with the mission and strategy, available internal
resources, potential contract and payer source implications, and the short- and
long-term economic effects at both the micro and macro levels.

Scenario

As an emerging health care leader, the senior management has
requested that you independently research and explore one of the economic
opportunities that may be available in your care setting. This may be offering
a new service line, working to improve a service line already offered, retiring
an outdated or unprofitable service line, or any other economic initiative that
you believe will be of benefit to your care setting in the short and long term.
One example of this is a recently launched partnership with a local bicycle
sharing company. Your care setting partners with them to host healthy community
events that offer free screenings for early detection of various health issues.
This helps fulfill some of your care setting’s preventive and healthy lifestyle
initiatives, while also potentially driving referrals to other services
provided by your care setting. You have been asked to submit your proposal in
the form of a 2–4 page executive summary that includes your proposed economic
initiative, supporting economic data, and an analysis of the proposal’s
benefits for your department and for the care setting overall.

Instructions

You have been asked to ensure that your report addresses the
following. Note: The bullet points below correspond to grading criteria in the
scoring guide. Be sure your work is, at minimum, addressing each of the bullets
below. You may also want to read the scoring guide and the Guiding Questions:
Executive Brief: Proposal of New Economic Opportunity document to better
understand the performance levels that relate to each grading criterion:

Propose an economic initiative that presents an opportunity
for your care setting at both the micro (departmental, neighborhood) and macro
(organizational, community) levels, and that you believe will provide ethical
and culturally equitable improvements to the quality of care.

Analyze the supply and demand for your proposed economic
initiative within contexts relevant to your care setting.

Explain relevant economic and environmental data that
support your proposal and analysis.

Communicate your economic proposal in a logically structured
and concise manner, writing content clearly with correct use of grammar,
punctuation, and spelling.

Effectively support your proposal with relevant economic
data and scholarly sources, correctly formatting citations and references using
current APA style.

Example assignment: You may use the assignment example,
linked in the Resources, to give you an idea of what a Proficient or higher
rating on the scoring guide would look like.

Submission Requirements

Length of paper: 2–4 double-spaced, typed pages. Your paper
should be succinct yet substantive.

APA formatting: Resources and citations are formatted
according to current APA style.

Resources: Cite a minimum of 3–5 authoritative and scholarly
resources. Be sure to include specific economic data and support as part of
your cited resources.

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APA Writing Checklist

Use this document as a checklist for each paper you will write throughout your GCU graduate program. Follow specific instructions indicated in the assignment and use this checklist to help ensure correct grammar and APA formatting. Refer to the APA resources available in the GCU Library and Student Success Center.

☐ APA paper template (located in the Student Success Center/Writing Center) is utilized for the correct format of the paper. APA style is applied, and format is correct throughout.

☐  The title page is present. APA format is applied correctly. There are no errors.

☐ The introduction is present. APA format is applied correctly. There are no errors.

☐ Topic is well defined.

☐ Strong thesis statement is included in the introduction of the paper.

☐ The thesis statement is consistently threaded throughout the paper and included in the conclusion.

☐ Paragraph development: Each paragraph has an introductory statement, two or three sentences as the body of the paragraph, and a transition sentence to facilitate the flow of information. The sections of the main body are organized to reflect the main points of the author. APA format is applied correctly. There are no errors.

☐ All sources are cited. APA style and format are correctly applied and are free from error.

☐ Sources are completely and correctly documented on a References page, as appropriate to assignment and APA style, and format is free of error.

Scholarly Resources: Scholarly resources are written with a focus on a specific subject discipline and usually written by an expert in the same subject field. Scholarly resources are written for an academic audience.

Examples of Scholarly Resources include: Academic journals, books written by experts in a field, and formally published encyclopedias and dictionaries.

Peer-Reviewed Journals: Peer-reviewed journals are evaluated prior to publication by experts in the journal’s subject discipline. This process ensures that the articles published within the journal are academically rigorous and meet the required expectations of an article in that subject discipline.

Empirical Journal Article: This type of scholarly resource is a subset of scholarly articles that reports the original finding of an observational or experimental research study. Common aspects found within an empirical article include: literature review, methodology, results, and discussion.

Adapted from “Evaluating Resources: Defining Scholarly Resources,” located in Research Guides in the GCU Library.

☐ The writer is clearly in command of standard, written, academic English. Utilize writing resources such as Grammarly, LopesWrite report, and ThinkingStorm to check your writing.

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