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MHA 505 Week 1 Assignment: Gaining Support Question 1 Are you currently employed? If so, are you employed in the healthcare industry? Your Answer I am currently employed in the health care industry with Dr. Arnold Ross. It is a private Podiatry clinic. I have been there for 19 years. I have been Office Manager for the past 5 years. Approaching Your Employer Our intention throughout the master’s program is to tie in the activities and assignments to your professional career to encourage you to build capital with your employer. Your master’s degree and the skills that you learn during it should support and strengthen your current and future positions in the health care industry. To do this effectively, you will need to work with your employer and communicate your ambition to apply your knowledge and skill sets to effect positive outcomes at the organization. Transcript and Other Video Resources Question 2
Assignment Instructions Write a 350- to 700-word letter addressed to your immediate supervisor(s) and provide them with relevant details about the MHA program, what you expect to gain from it, and how it will benefit the organization. Explain that you would like to apply the knowledge and skills learned in this MHA program at the organization toward effecting good outcomes. Cite 3 reputable references to support the contents of your letter (e.g., trade or industry publications, government or agency websites, scholarly works, or other sources of similar quality). Click the into the text field below to write your letter.
MHA 505 Week 2 Assignment: Systems Thinking Diagram Assignment Instructions Identify the structural, behavioral, and intersectional (relationship) attributes of your current or most recent employer’s organization. Create a detailed diagram that maps the stock, inflows, outflows, and feedback loops of the organization. Click the Add Content button below to insert your assignment. When you are ready to turn it in, click the Submit button. For additional help, check out the ULTRA: Access your assignments page.
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http://www.uopstudy.com/ MHA 505 Week 2 Team Assignment: Learning Team Charter Effective collaboration is one of the University's fundamental learning goals. Learning to work effectively in teams, both as a team member and leader, is a critical organizational competency that University of Phoenix works to develop across the curriculum in all academic programs. Every craftsman and artisan knows that to do a job right, you must choose the right tools. Successful professionals—managers, educators, counselors, and nurses—have had to learn and follow the same practice. We want you, our students, to have access to tools that will increase your success at developing effective skills in collaboration. This Learning Team
Toolkit is your gateway to materials that will help you achieve greater professional competence as a member and leader of work teams. Transcript and Other Video Resources Transcript and Other Video Resources Transcript and Other Video Resources Assignment Instructions Identify the members of your Learning Team and send a message to each introducing yourself and coordinate with each other to fill out the Learning Team Charter together. This means responses to questions should be a result of group discussion and consensus, not individual responses from each team member. Choose one member of your group to submit the completed charter using the link below. Click the Add Content button below to insert your assignment. When you are ready to turn it in, click the Submit button. For additional help, check out the ULTRA: Access your assignments page.
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In Week Two, you created a systems thinking diagram that mapped the stock, inflows, outflows, and feedback loops of an organization. As you become more familiar with your environment and the relationships and interactions between departments and people, you will begin to discover existing strengths and weaknesses. The analysis of the weaknesses and threats to a system is essential during the initial phase to make operational improvements, and it will reveal existing opportunities to plan and execute effective solutions. 2. Watch Analysis Phase of a Project for guidance on things to consider and what to do in the initial phase of a project. Transcript and Other Video Resources 3. For more information about conducting a SWOT Analysis, check out the following resources: Transcript and Other Video Resources SWOT Analysis: Discover New Opportunities, Manage and Eliminate Threats page on the MindTools website
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Assignment Instructions Complete a SWOT Analysis of your organization. Use the SWOT Analysis Worksheet and complete the following steps: Complete a preliminary walk around the organization to scan the environment for strengths, weaknesses, potential opportunities, and potential threats (e.g., workflows, products, personnel, processes). Follow up with additional research that may provide clarity on elements that you are hesitant or indecisive to list. Review your systems Thinking Diagram from Week Two and determine if there are any details you can add or adjustments you can make to enhance your understanding of the organizational system. Write an objective for your SWOT analysis. List the organization’s strengths, weaknesses, potential opportunities, and potential threats. Select the items that should be prioritized. Cite 3 reputable references to support your SWOT Analysis (e.g., trade or industry publications, government or agency websites, scholarly works, or other sources of similar quality). Format your assignment according to APA guidelines. Click the Add Content button below to insert your assignment. When you are ready to turn it in, click the Submit button. For additional help, check out the ULTRA: Access your assignments page.
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Get together with your Learning Team on a conference call (e.g., phone, FaceTime, Skype) and review the Systems Thinking Diagram assignment that you each completed in Week Two. Discuss systems thinking and any insight or challenges you have experienced tackling the concept. Look ahead to the Learning Team assignments over the next few weeks and review the instructions together. This assignment is similar to the Week Two Systems Thinking Diagram assignment you completed last week. For the Week Six assignment, you will work together to identify an issue in health
care that affects the industry at a national level and then create a systems thinking diagram of that issue along with a 1- to 2-page paper. 2. Assignment Instructions To begin, discuss the various national health care issues currently affecting the industry and select one that you want to focus on for the remaining three Learning Team assignments in this course. Use systems thinking and begin to draft a diagram that maps the complexities of the health care issue and the many variables that influence it. Click the Add Content button below to insert your assignment. When you are ready to turn it in, click the Submit button. For additional help, check out the ULTRA: Access your assignments page.
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http://www.uopstudy.com/ MHA 505 Week 4 Assignment: Gemba Walk Assignment Instructions Complete a Gemba Walk in your place of employment and document your observations. Refer to the SWOT analysis you conducted in Week Three to select the areas in need of improvement and narrow the list of places to conduct your Gemba Walk. While completing your walk, look for ways to eliminate inefficiencies, reduce waste, improve a product, or streamline a process. Revised Approach: Given our current situation in the U.S. where many communities are under mandatory stay-at-home orders, the Gemba Walk assignment in week 4 must be revised. If necessary, please conduct your Gemba Walk in a virtual manner. It might be impossible for you to actually observe work activity, however, if you could interview some of your work colleagues by email or phone about potential improvement opportunities, that could be a substitute for actual observation. If contact by phone or email of your colleagues at your organization is not possible, feel free to write up a Gemba Walk plan which could be executed at a later date.
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Write a 2- to 3-page report on your observations of your actual or virtual Gemba. As alalternate, write a proposed plan for a Gemba that can be conducted in the future. Include the following in your report: Include a summary of the organization (e.g., products or services, mission and vision) Provide context (where did you/would you focus your Gemba on and why?)
Gemba observations or plan: What was/would be the goal of your Gemba? Where did/would you go? What did you/do you expect to observe? Who did you/would you plan to observe? Give a preliminary analysis of your observations (for an actual or virtual Gemba
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List key takeaways (for an actual or virtual Gemba only) List two short-term opportunities and one long-term opportunity to eliminate inefficiencies, reduce waste, improve a product, or streamline a process. Cite any references that support your Gemba (e.g., trade or industry publications, government or agency websites, scholarly works, or other sources of similar quality). Format your assignment according to APA guidelines. Click the Add Content button below to insert your assignment. When you are ready to turn it in, click the Submit button. For additional help, check out the ULTRA: Access your assignments page.
MHA 505 Week 5 Assignment: Root Cause Analysis 1.
Root Cause Analysis Now that you have completed a Gemba Walk and have gathered information about the organization and identified opportunities to eliminate inefficiencies, reduce waste, improve a product, or streamline a process, it is time to take a closer look at these problems and get to the root cause of why they are happening. Additional Resources
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For more information about how to use 5 Whys or a Fishbone diagram to conduct a root cause analysis, check out the following links: 5 Whys: Getting to the Root of a Problem Quickly Cause and Effect Analysis: Identifying the Likely Causes of Problems Assignment Instructions Create either a 5 Whys or a Fishbone diagram for each of the two short-term opportunities and the one long-term opportunity you identified during your Gemba Walk. Work through each step of the 5 Whys or Fishbone processes to find the root cause(s) of each problem.
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http://www.uopstudy.com/ MHA 505 Week 5 Team Assignment: Systems Thinking on a National Level, Part 2 Get together with your Learning Team and review the feedback from your instructor about the Week Three Systems Thinking on a National Level, Part 1 assignment. Discuss what changes or additions need to be made to the systems thinking diagram to better define and develop the components and relationships of the health care issue you selected.
Assignment Instructions Create a second draft of your systems thinking diagram that provides more details regarding the stock, inflows, outflows, and feedback loops and other system components you have read about in the textbook. Click the Add Content button below to insert your assignment. When you are ready to turn it in, click the Submit button. For additional help, check out the ULTRA: Access your assignments page.
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Assignment Instructions Write a 1- to 2-page paper that explains what issue you selected as a team, and what key elements of the diagram you discovered are pivotal toward affecting a productive solution. Include this paper with your diagram.
Cite 3 reputable references to support your diagram and paper (e.g., trade or industry publications, government or agency websites, scholarly works, or other sources of similar quality). Format your paper according to APA guidelines. Click the Add Content button below to insert your assignment. When you are ready to turn it in, click the Submit button. For additional help, check out the ULTRA: Access your assignments page.