HCS/325: Health Care Management

Wk 4 Discussion: Administrative Processes and Health Care Management [due Thurs]Wk 4 Discussion: Administrative Processes and Health Care Management [due Thurs]

Discussion Topic

As a practice manager, you will use planning and organizing skills daily to ensure quality of care.

Respond to the following:

As a health care manager, how could you use the skills of planning and organizing to continually improve quality?
How could you improve these skills to be a more effective manager?
What is an example of planning or organizing that a health care manager does regularly to improve the quality of care? (E.g., Forecasting staffing to appropriately staff the clinic so that the day runs smoothly and efficiently for all patients and medical staff.)

Response Requirements

By Thursday, respond to the prompt above in a minimum of 175 words.
By Monday, post a total of 3 substantive responses over 2 separate days for full participation. This includes your initial post and 2 replies to classmates or your faculty member.
To receive full marks towards the participation requirement, each of your responses to your peers should be at least 100 words while your initial posting should be between 175 and 300 words. All your responses must be substantive and should be posted by the specified days (i.e. Thursdays for initial posts and Mondays for responses). To generate active discussion in class, you may post before the specified days during the week under discussion.
You are encouraged to post during the specified week so that your posting will count towards your participation for that week.