Prepare an 8-10 minute audio training tutorial (video is optional) for new nurses on the importance of nursing-sensitive quality indicators.PreparationThis assessment requires you to prepare an 8–10 minute audio training tutorial (with optional video) for new nurses on the importance of nursing-sensitive quality indicators. To successfully prepare for your assessment, you will need to complete the following preparatory activities:Select a single nursing-sensitive quality indicator that you see as important to a selected type of health care system. Choose from the following list:Staffing measures.Nursing hours per patient day.RN education/certification.Skill mix.Nurse turnover.Nursing care hours in emergency departments, perioperative units, and perinatal units.Skill mix in emergency departments, perioperative units, and perinatal units.Quality measures.Patient falls.Patient falls with injury.Pressure ulcer prevalence.Health care-associated infections.Catheter-associated urinary tract infection.Central line catheter associated blood stream infection.Ventilator-associated pneumonia.Ventilator- associated events.Psychiatric physical/sexual assault rate.Restraint prevalence.Pediatric peripheral intravenous infiltration rate.Pediatric pain assessment, intervention, reassessment (air) cycle.Falls in ambulatory settings.Pressure ulcer incidence rates from electronic health records.Hospital readmission rates.RN satisfaction survey options.Job satisfaction scales.Job satisfaction scales – short form.Practice environment scale.Conduct independent research on the most current information about the selected nursing-sensitive quality indicator.Interview a professional colleague or contact who is familiar with quality monitoring and how technology can help to collect and report quality indicator data. You do not need to submit the transcript of your conversation, but do integrate what you learned from the interview into the audio tutorial. Consider these questions for your interview:What is your experience with collecting data and entering it into a database?What challenges have you experienced?How does your organization share with the nursing staff and other members of the health care system the quality improvement monitoring results?What role do bedside nurses and other frontline staff have in entering the data? For example, do staff members enter the information into an electronic medical record for extraction? Or do they enter it into another system? How effective is this process?Watch the Informatics and Nursing-Sensitive Quality Indicators Video Exemplar.InstructionsFor this assessment, imagine you are a member of a Quality Improvement Council at any type of health care system, whether acute, ambulatory, home health, managed care, et cetera. Your Council has identified that newly hired nurses would benefit from comprehensive training on the importance of nursing-sensitive quality indicators. The Council would like the training to address how this information is collected and disseminated across the organization. It would also like the training to describe the role nurses have in accurate reporting and high-quality results.The Council indicates a recording is preferable to a written fact sheet due to the popularity of audio blogs. In this way, new hires can listen to the tutorial on their own time using their phone or other device.As a result of this need, you offer to create an audio tutorial orienting new hires to these topics. You know that you will need a script to guide your audio recording. You also plan to incorporate into your script the insights you learned from conducting an interview with an authority on quality monitoring and the use of technology to collect and report quality indicator data.You determine that you will cover the following topics in your audio tutorial script:Introduction: Nursing-Sensitive Quality IndicatorWhat is the National Database of Nursing-Sensitive Quality Indicators?What are nursing-sensitive quality indicators?Which particular quality indicator did you select to address in your tutorial?Why is this quality indicator important to monitor?Be sure to address the impact of this indicator on the quality of care and patient safety.Why do new nurses need to be familiar with this particular quality indicator when providing patient care?

The final project for this course is the creation of a white paper.Much of what happens in healthcare is about understanding the expectations of the many departments and personnel within the organization. Reimbursement drives the financial operations of healthcare organizations; each department affects the reimbursement process regarding timelines and the amount of money put into and taken out of the system. However, if departments do not follow the guidelines put into place or do not capture the necessary information, it can be detrimental to the reimbursement system.An important role for patient financial services (PFS) personnel is to monitor the reimbursement process, analyze the reimbursement process, and suggest changes to help maximize the reimbursement. One way to make this process more efficient is by ensuring that the various departments and personnel are exposed to the necessary knowledge.For your final project, you will assume the role of a supervisor within a PFS department and develop a white paper in which the necessary healthcare reimbursement knowledge is outlined.The project is divided into two milestones, which will be submitted at various points throughout the course to scaffold learning and ensure quality final submissions. These milestones will be submitted in Modules Three and Five.In this assignment, you will demonstrate your mastery of the following course outcomes:HCM-345-01: Analyze the impacts of various healthcare departments and their interrelationships on the revenue cycleHCM-345-02: Compare third-party payer policies through analysis of reimbursement guidelines for achieving timely and maximum reimbursementsHCM-345-03: Analyze organizational strategies for negotiating healthcare contracts with managed care organizationsHCM-345-04: Critique legal and ethical standards and policies in healthcare coding and billing for ensuring compliance with rules and regulationsHCM-345-05: Evaluate the use of reimbursement data for its purpose in case and utilization management and healthcare quality improvement as wellas its impact on pay for performance incentivesPromptYou are now a supervisor within the patient financial services (PFS) department of a healthcare system. It has been assigned to you to write a white paper to educate other department managers about reimbursement. This includes how each specific department impacts reimbursement for services, which in turn impacts the healthcare organization as a whole. The healthcare system may include hospitals, clinics, long-term care facilities, and more. For now, your boss has asked you to develop a draft of this paper for the hospital personnel only; in the future, there may be the potential to expand this for other facilities.1In order to complete the white paper, you will need to choose a hospital. You can choose one that you are familiar with or create an imaginary one. Hospitals vary in size, location, and focus. Becker’s Hospital Review has an excellent list of things to know about the hospital industry. Once you have determined the hospital, you will need to think about the way a patient visit works at the hospital you chose so you can review the processes and departments involved. There are several ways to accomplish this. Choose one of the following:If you have been a patient in a hospital or if you know someone who has, you can use that experience as the basis for your responses.Conduct research through articles or get information from professional organizations. Below is an example of how to begin framing your analysis.A patient comes in through the emergency department. In this case, the patient would be triaged and seen in the emergency department. Think about what happens in an emergency area. The patient could be asked to change into a hospital gown (think about the costs of the gown and other supplies provided). If the patient is displaying signs of vomiting, plastic bags will be provided and possibly antinausea medication. Lab work and possibly x-rays would be done. The patient could be sent to surgery, sent home, or admitted as an inpatient. If he or she is admitted as an inpatient, meals will be provided and more tests will be ordered by the physician—again, more costs and charges for the patient bill. Throughout the course, you will be gathering additional information through your readings and supplemental materials to help you write your white paper.When drafting this white paper, bear in mind that portions of your audience may have no healthcare reimbursement experience, while others may have been given only a brief overview of reimbursement. The goal of this guide is to provide your readers with a thorough understanding of the importance of their departments and thus their impact on reimbursement. Be respectful of individual positions and give equal consideration to patient care and the business aspects of healthcare. Consider written communication skills, visual aids, and the feasibility to translate this written guide into verbal training.Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:I.II.Reimbursement and the Revenue CycleDescribe what reimbursement means to a healthcare organization. What would happen if services were provided to patients but no payments werereceived for these services?Illustrate the flow of the patient through the cycle from the initial point of contact through the care and ending at the point where thepayment is collected. Also identify the departments in order of importance to the revenue cycle.Departmental Impact on ReimbursementDescribe the impact of the departments in a healthcare organization that utilize reimbursement data. What type of audit would be necessary todetermine whether the reimbursement impact is reached fully by these departments? How could the impact of these departments on pay-for-performance incentives be measured?Assess the activities within each department at this healthcare organization for how they may impact reimbursement. What specific data would youreview in the reimbursement area to know whether changes were necessary?Identify the responsible department for ensuring compliance with billing and coding policies. How does this affect the department’s impact onreimbursement in a healthcare organization?2III. Billing and ReimbursementAnalyze the collection of data by patient access personnel and its importance to the billing and collection process. Be sure to address theimportance of exceptional customer service.Analyze how third-party policies would be used when developing billing guidelines for patient financial services (PFS) personnel andadministration when determining the payer mix for maximum reimbursement.Organize the key areas of review in order of importance for timeliness and maximization of reimbursement from third-party payers. Explain yourrationale on the order.Describe a way to structure your follow-up staff in terms of effectiveness. How can you ensure that this structure will be effective?Develop a plan for periodic review of procedures to ensure compliance. Include explicit steps for this plan and the feasibility of enacting this planwithin this organization.IV. Marketing and ReimbursementAnalyze the strategies used to negotiate new managed care contracts. Support your analysis with research.Communicate the important role that each individual within this healthcare organization plays with regard to managed care contracts. Be sure toinclude the different individuals within the healthcare organization.Explain how new managed care contracts impact reimbursement for the healthcare organization. Support your explanation with concreteevidence or research.Discuss the resources needed to ensure billing and coding compliance with regulations and ethical standards. What would happen if theseresources were not obtained? Describe the consequences of noncompliance with regulations and ethical standards.MilestonesIn Module Three, you will submit a draft of Sections I and II of the final project (Reimbursement and the Revenue Cycle, and Departmental Impact onMilestone One: Draft of Reimbursement and the Revenue Cycle Reimbursement). This milestone will be graded with the Milestone One Rubric.Milestone Two: Draft of Billing, Marketing, and ReimbursementIn Module Five, you will submit a draft of Sections III and IV of the final project (Billing and Reimbursement, and Marketing and Reimbursement). This milestone will be graded with the Milestone Two Rubric.Final Project Submission: White PaperIn Module Seven, you will submit your entire white paper. It should be a complete, polished artifact containing all of the critical elements of the final product. It should reflect the incorporation of feedback gained throughout the course. This submission will be graded using the Final Project Rubric. 3 MilestoneOne TwoDeliverableDraft of Reimbursement and the Revenue CycleDraft of Billing, Marketing, and ReimbursementFinal Project Submission: White PaperDeliverables Module DueThree Five SevenGradingGraded separately; Milestone One Rubric Graded separately; Milestone Two Rubric Graded separately; Final Project Rubric Final Project RubricGuidelines for Submission: This white paper should include a table of contents and sections that can be easily separated for each department area. It should be a minimum of eight pages (in addition to the title page and references). The document should use 12-point Times New Roman font, double spacing, and one- inch margins. Citations should be formatted according to APA style.https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/lists/8-7-14...ReferencesACT, A. C., & Representatives, U. H. O. (2010). Compilation of Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Chung, C. Y., Alson, M. 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