<p>Federal healthcare reform has been a major driver for the widespread shift towards high-quality, value-based care at healthcare organizations in the United States. With increased emphasis on quality and value in healthcare, process and performance improvement have been identified and capitalized upon as methods by which to achieve higher quality clinical outcomes, increase patient safety and satisfaction and improve care coordination. For past several decades, lean management and related doctrines and principles have been widely adopted among healthcare organizations in the United States for process and performance improvement purposes. This business plan proposes a lean management consulting firm for healthcare organizations of all sizes and delivery models in the Greater Los Angeles area with a mission to deliver state-of-the-art lean education and training to management and staff of all backgrounds and roles. The aim of the proposed firm is to train, develop and empower its clients to ensure continuous quality improvement and eventually become one of the biggest lean consulting players in the market. </p>

<p> Mint Green is a limited liability company who provides preventative health care services to the Greater Long Beach area. Mint Green is entering the Weight Loss Services Industry which is experiencing rapid growth due to the enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Mint Green has the opportunity to reach approximately 65% of firms who offer health benefits to their employees. Mint Green&rsquo;s Healthy Eating and Lifestyle Plan (HELP) is the core instruction to the weight loss programs. Mint Green has four types of weight loss programs; each developed to satisfy a wide array of budgets. Mint Green is projected to yield a profitable margin.</p>

<p> The purpose of this qualitative multiple case study was to explore women&rsquo;s perceptions of provider influence in shaping their beliefs about protection against sexually transmitted diseases during provider-patient consultations. Women indicate they prefer to discuss sexual health issues with providers, yet research was not available to fully understand provider influence on women&rsquo;s beliefs regarding sexually transmitted diseases. Telephone interviews were conducted with a purposive sample of 12 adult women in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Data collected from these interviews and analyzed for emerging themes using NVivo 10 software revealed how women perceived providers&rsquo; discussions and the dissemination of STD related information. Findings also revealed how women believed healthcare providers might present sexual health information to motivate changes in risky sexual behaviors. The three major themes emerging from the analyses of the data collected were providers did not initiate discussions about preventing STDs, no information was received about preventing STDs during consultations, and visuals could motivate changes in risky sexual behaviors. Recommendations based on the study&rsquo;s findings involved identifying opportunities to leverage staff members in healthcare providers&rsquo; settings, illuminate cues to action, develop STD awareness programs specifically for women, and to conduct future research.</p>

Thesis (M.S. in human nutrition)--Washington State University, December 2009. / Title from PDF title page (viewed on Feb. 11, 2010). "Program in Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism." Includes bibliographical references.

<p> Aging Well Day Care Center is a start-up company designed to offer an affordable alternative care for seniors living alone. The services offered will be equally beneficial for families caring for their aging parents. Recent legislation has emphasized the importance of developing daycare centers to handle the rapidly growing population of elder Americans that relies upon the federal insurance programs to help manage their long-lasting medical conditions which can be treated but not cured. The objective of this business plan is to illustrate the need for adult day care services within this region and that adequate resource are available to build and maintain a financially solvent organization.</p>

The lecturer practitioner role in nursing is widely seen as offering hope for the future of nurse education, by overcoming the 'theory-practice gap', and establishing and maintaining effective links at many different levels between education and practice. It is clear, however, that there are a number of issues of concern about the role. These can be summarised as: lack of role clarity about overcoming the theory-practice gap; varying conceptions of the role and unclear job descriptions; and role conflicts and overload, from the conflicting demands of service and education settings Despite current political support for strengthening the links between higher education institutions and practice settings, a new governmental emphasis on the support of students in practice, and a growing in-depth evaluative literature about the role, there is no research examining its systematic development, or measuring and addressing aspects of lecturer practitioners' occupational stress and burnout. Initial project planning work found that lecturer practitioners perceived themselves as 'adding value' to education provision, with personal and professional gains for postholders. However, their key concerns were: absence of role clarity; absence of effective joint review/appraisal;a bsenceo f formal support In, order to develop and address aspects of lecturer practitioners' work roles and their employment position, this action research project was established. Using a spiral methodological framework, and a multi-methods approach to data collection to triangulate the findings, new knowledge about lecturer practitioner roles was uncovered, and employment practices were developed as a result. The project established three new mechanisms, and these outcomes can be summarised as: joint appraisal policies and materials; orientation/induction policies and materials; group support network. In addition, previously validated measures of occupational stress and burnout were used to meas. ure those conceptsi n this group of lecturer practitioners, and the impact of the project. They were found to be generally no more stressed or burnt out than comparable workers, and the project was unable to demonstrate statistically significant differences in beforeand after-scores. Synthesis of quantitative and qualitative findings indicates that these LPs were 'thriving rather than just surviving'.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1975. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 193-210).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 413-437). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin, School of Nursing. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 2004. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (p. 413-437).