Proposing Alternative Solutions to Community-Based Problems – Mental Health Challenges in NYC, What Can We Do

October 2, 2024October 2, 2024 Discipline: Healthcare

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Please first complete the attached Learning contract with information regarding the Topic

Two Managerial Abilites to Develop are Systems Thinking & Planning (See attachment)

Self – Directed Managerial Applications Component

Self – Directed Managerial Applications Component (SMAC):    

Respecting the value of linking knowledge with experience to
enhance learning, students pursuing a Graduate Management Studies degree or
certificate will complete a project in each course, which applies and develops
the functional area of management represented by the course to an appropriate
issue/problem/task within an actual organizational environment.

The SMAC for this course is expected to average 10 – 15
pages in length[1] and must include a “Reference Page”
section with appropriate citations throughout the paper. 
Citing only internet addresses is incomplete. Students are required to use
the APA method only.  Learning contracts must be submitted
with the SMAC. 

Development of Managerial Abilities

According to the Graduate Student Handbook, as part of every
SMAC, students are required to evaluate how successful they were in developing
the targeted abilities relative to that course.  Therefore, Managerial
Abilities must be included when submitting your final SMAC.
Students must include how they successfully developed a targeted ability in
his/her SMAC.

As you know the abilities fall within three categories: Goal
and Action Abilities; People Management Abilities; and Analytic Reasoning
Abilities.  Although students are not limited to the abilities listed
below and are not required to choose the abilities listed below, a review of
the material that will be covered during this course suggests that the
following abilities may be developed: Systems Thinking and/or Planning.

SMAC Topic Description :

The SMAC for this course is an analysis of a specific health
care problem and the role your healthcare facility plays in trying to address
the problem.  The problem may be facility wide, involve a specific
department of a facility, or involve the facility’s catchment area. The
analysis must be related to work experience and self-directed. 
Students must pick from one of the categories below to satisfy
the requirements above:

  1. Proposing
    Alternative Solutions to Community-Based Problems    . Students must
    discuss the challenges and opportunities for improving commu­nity health
    within their healthcare facility’s catchment area?  Students can
    discuss any one of the following categories: mental health, gun violence
    in the community, overuse of the emergency room, sexually transmitted
    diseases , etc.  Students must include what are the various roles
    that your healthcare facility could play.  You must include at least
    two possible projects that your healthcare organization could participate
    in.  You must evaluate the feasibility of these two projects. 
  • Examining
    New Policy Options That Improve Outcomes     . Students must
    examine the degree to which a policy option, to be implemented within your
    facility, requires new operational routines, involves new staffing,
    requires new ways of providing services.  Students must discuss any
    significant threats that would exist from such a change in policy among
    stakeholders.  A policy option may result from a change in regulation
    on a federal, state or local level.

Students must follow the outline
below.  Your SMAC will be graded based on how well you follow the outline
below. Students must specifically include all section headings.  Do
not include a table of contents.

Section
Headings

Points

SMAC
Summary:

•       
What SMAC category have you chosen?

•       
What is the problem to be addressed?

•       
What is the cause of the problem/intervention?

•       
Based upon the category chosen, what are your conclusion (this may involve
proposed or actual solutions to the problem)? 

•       
Based on a systems theory approach, applied to the healthcare industry, why
does the intervention/solution show a systematic approach?

20

Understanding
and Defining the Problem

•       
Quantify the problem: use specific data (facility based and/or
community-based) to show your understanding of the magnitude of the problem .

•       
What are the causes of the problem?  The discussion must include
possible historical, political, ethical and legal causes  of the
problem. 

•       
Does the problem have political, ethical or legal ramifications to the
healthcare facility, or the greater community?  Explain. You must
include national and/or local political and social issues as they relate to
the topic

•       
Are there any financial or economic considerations to addressing the problem
for the facility of the community?  Explain.

20

Options
for Addressing the Problem

Depending
upon the category, discuss options for addressing the problem.  (Note
any specific question that must be addressed by the description of the
category – see above)

20

Conclusion

A
discussion of your findings based on the information provided in the above
sections.

10

Ethical
Issues

What
ethical issues are raised by your analysis, i.e., equity, patient rights
(consent, capacity, disclosure), rationing care by limited services,
selection of patients of program services, use of limited resources, unequal
or preferred services or program, misleading or deceptive marketing
practices, fraud and abuse etc.

5

Quality
and Quantity of Research Sources

•     
You are required to demonstrate that you have conducted appropriate research
from scholarly resources.

•     
A minimum of six sources, (other than the textbook and
PowerPoints) must be cited. 

•     
Citing must be properly using the APA method. 

•     
You must cite throughout your SMAC.

You
must place your SMAC in Turnitin no later than 11:59PM on the date the SMAC
is due.

15

Writing
Proficiency

You
will be graded based on writing style, composition, organization, grammar,
sentence structure, ability to communicate your thoughts and ideas and
spelling. Students must use  APA method of citing only. If
you include tables or charts, you must make sure they are
properly cited and discussed in the text showing relevance.

10

 

 

 

Addressing
Managerial Abilities

According
to the Graduate Student Handbook, as part of every SMAC, students are
required to evaluate how successful they were in developing a targeted
ability relative to that course.  In this section students
are required to only state specifically how any ability targeted was
successfully developed within the SMAC.  This section should not
be used to define or explain, in general, the ability, i.e., relate the
ability in general to the health care industry or health care finance.
Students should discuss specifically tasks they accomplished to develop the
ability while producing the SMAC.

An Example of How to Approach the Development of a
SMAC Topic:

Let us assume you have picked the category, “Responding to a
Community Problem, and you chose to analyze the provision of health care
services within your catchment area. Because you have been interested in the
current opiate crisis in your surrounding community, you have decided to
analyze what your healthcare facility is doing to address this healthcare
problem.  Opioid overdoses and deaths in your community are occurring at
levels greater than the national average.  You might begin your analysis
by responding to the following questions:

 

  • What
    economic, political, and sociocultural factors influence opioid use
    nationally and within your community, particularly in your catchment area?
  • What
    are the drivers of opioid addiction in this community and in your
    catchment area? Are there any differences that must be addressed in any
    program designed by your healthcare?  Organization?
  • How
    widespread is the problem in the community and in your catchment area?
  • How is
    the epidemic affecting the way the hospital provides care to the community
    and in your catchment area?
  • How is
    the city currently responding to the opioid crisis and how is your
    catchment area affected by this?
  • How is
    the hospital currently responding to the opiate crisis?
  • What
    citywide and hospital policies are currently in place to guide the city’s
    response to opioid abuse and addiction?
  • What
    are the costs to the city of the opioid crisis?
  • What
    environmental factors contribute to opioid abuse and addiction?
  • What
    are the biggest barriers to prevention?
  • What
    specific programs does your healthcare facility currently operate?
  • All
    these programs effective?
  • How
    are you measuring effectiveness?
  • What
    might your healthcare facility do to improve its role in fighting this
    crisis?
  • Who
    else needs to be part of this conversation?

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