The leader of a local health care organization, Cindy Janowski, has noticed leading organizations successfully implement Quality Improvement plans. Cindy wants to ensure her organization keeps current with those organizations’ quality standards. She has hired you to research the industry’s quality standards and to learn how to improve quality in her organization. 

Cindy sent you an e-mail, which states:

Good Morning,

Per our earlier conversation, I just want to make sure that we are on the right track, and that I am understanding everything. I have put together a list of additional information needed. If you can provide details for me that would really help me out:

• Analyze the purpose of quality management in the health care industry.
• Identify how various health care stakeholders define quality.
• Identify roles in health care related to Quality Improvement.
• Explain what areas must be monitored for quality.
• Explain what accrediting and regulatory organizations are involved in Quality Improvement and their roles.
• Explain external resources and organizations that provide Quality Improvement information.

Thanks for your help with all of this!

Cindy 

Write a 700- to 1,050-word response to Cindy. 

The following part is mainly about course related material.

Professor post as a lecture note.

In the last 19th Century, when China was its Qing dynasty – the last dynasty of China before it transformed into a modern nation-state – the idea of “Yellow Peril” became hegemonic globally. During this time, the Western imperial powers and the Empire of Japan wanted to make China a colony. The discourse of Yellow Peril justified this colonial desire perfectly. From the Orient in the Far East that kept luring the Western conquerors and travelers to go on their quests to the wick Yellow Peril, China’s image in the imperialists’ eyes transfigured from being civilized and cultured to being stagnant in progress. Chinese were seen as child-like, mad, monkey-like lesser men. They were understood as superstitious and having no knowledge about modern science. They are also portrayed as ontologically submissive and obedient, who need the Chinese Emperor’s guidance. (Then why not following the guidance of the Western imperial powers, the authorities of “the world”?) With the global migration of the indentured laborer as new legal slavery after the abolition of African slavery, which is also called the coolie migration, Chinese were described as cheap, dirty parasites contaminating the modern societies. “Yellow Peril” is without a doubt a term of racialization and dehumanization.

Along with the territorial occupation and economic control, coloniality is necessarily carried out with the colonization of the mind that makes the colonized believe that they are really less human, less civilized, less evolved, less modernized, with the standards of “human”, “civilization”, “evolution”, “modern” all limitedly and overrepresentedly defined. Similar to the mimicry experience of Fanon and Cassius, Chinese took on the path of building modern Chinese citizens who are also qualified as modern global citizens. In order to join the global society, modern Chinese citizens also needed a modern state of China as their national representative.

This path of modernization caused Chinese a very serious trauma. With the arrival of the Cold War, China split into two: Nationalist China on Taiwan, which is known as the Republic of China, and Communist China on the mainland, which is known as People’s Republic of China, the “official” China in today’s global society. These two China held on two different trajectories of modernization. While the Republic of China was in complicity with the imperial United States in importing the capitalist system, which became one of US military bases, Communist China was in complicit with the Soviet Russian in the name of seeking the solidarity of global working-class revolutionaries and the Third-World newly-independent decolonized states. The competition of two Chinas has been erasing the voices and lives of difference. Both sides accused those people who do not modernize “in the correct way.” While capitalist China murdered many people who were labeled as communists, the communist China “corrected”, “re-educated”, and imprisoned many people who were bourgeois class or elites.

The traumatic experiences of modernization have been haunting Chinese in the mainland and overseas. It is very often to see this trauma being represented, whether implicitly or explicitly, in Chinese literature and films. For The Three-Body Problem, a science fiction published very recently, the trauma of modernization has not yet left. This trauma that accompanied China’s modern history leads to a series of reflections in The Three-Body Problem: What does it mean to be human? As Chinese have been resisting the power of the overrepresented Man, they did many things that are definitely no less cruel than the overrepresented Man. In this sense, are they still qualified to be human? Does it mean that human beings are universally bad? If human beings are universally vicious and selfish, can they still save themselves, or should they be saved by an apocalyptic, dystopian destroyer external to the human society? What kind of human beings should be saved, while others are destroyed? What about the plants, animals, and other non-human things? How would they survive? …… While the questions like these can be raised for much more, what we are sure for now is that The Three-Body Problem is written from the perspective of a colonized/racialized/dehumanized subject who wants to become human. Thus, when these questions are raised, the terms such as “human race”, “nature”, and “science” are always already automatically in quotation marks. “Science fiction” as a literary genre is so as well with the ironic fact that The Three-Body Problem is a story told by the yellow peril that does not have the human ability to handle science.

It is a good moment for us to rethink the linear thinking of the time that I mentioned in one of the lectures before. I will deepen the explanation of this thinking with history I briefly told above. The linear thinking of time is a fictional colonial construction that justifies modernity and coloniality in the name of scientific, biological truth.

Premodern —————-> Modern —————-> Post-modern/Globalization —————-> Future/Post-human

(animal, Black as the missing link) —> (the overrepresented Men) ——> (the overrepresented Man+ the mimicking man) —————> (alien, machine, cyborg, AI)

With the linear thinking of the time, human beings were evaluated on the same scale. The human subjects are only different in the sense of time that only allows evolution and degeneration. The difference between worldviews and relationalities are invisiblized. The linear thinking of time leads to the logic of development and dependency. During the Cold-War, the world was categorized into the First, Second, and Third world. (And a new term, the Fourth world, came into form in last two decades to denote the global indigeneity.) After the end of the Cold-War, the world was re-categorized into Global North and Global South. Some thinkers categorize the world into the cores and peripheries. All these categorizations are aware of the problem of the linear thinking of time but cannot successfully undo it. The developmentalist vision rejects the co-existence and co-evalness of difference, even though it sometimes decorate itself with the depoliticized multiculturalism and cultural diversity. The only logic is to catch up in the sense of time. You are either more modernized and therefore more human or backward and less human. We can see that The Three-Body Problem cannot easily get away with the developmentalist thought because of the traumas of revolutions. How do we complicate our reading of this novel with a critical yet coalitional and sympathetic vision?

Respond to the following 2 post 100 words each with one reference

#1

The Florida Senate. (2018, July 1). Retrieved from https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/21.

#2

The Florida House and Senate passed the HB 23 Telehealth bill providing standards of practice under which all telehealth providers must operate. Under the bill’s definition, a telehealth provider is any individual providing healthcare that uses telecommunication technology, to provide healthcare to individuals in the state of Florida. Such services include assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and monitoring of patients in need of care (The Florida Senate, n.d).

Patients today face many challenges including lack of primary and specialty practitioners as well as the geographic distance between health care facilities. Rural communities struggle to maintain access to medical services. In the absence of healthcare practitioners, telehealth technology is improving access to care for those needing evaluation. In today’s economy telehealth technology is reducing the cost and providing more efficient access to services to patients, while providing high-quality care. Telehealth is a cutting-edge model of utilizing information and communication technologies to enable the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of those that seek care (Dinesen et.al., 2016).

An important part of health informatics is telehealth or telemedicine. Informatics is where health care and information technology meet. It is this merging of medical information and technology that has changed the way health care is delivered to patients. The goal of informatics and telemedicine is not only to improve patient care but to enhance the delivery of care throughout all medical care systems (Snyder et.al., 2011). Professional nursing organizations have welcomed this new era of technology. The number of nurses and nurse practitioners working has increased over the years and there is a need for them to initiate the use of telehealth services to ensure patients obtain the care they seek (Fathi, Modin & Scott, 2017). One talking point is whether virtual interaction will hinder the growth of telehealth in the future. I think that with the growing popularity of telehealth this may resolve itself.

Reference

Dinesen, B., Nonnecke, B., Lindeman, D., Toft, E., Kidholm, K., Jethwani, K., … Nesbitt, T. (2016). Personalized Telehealth in the Future: A Global Research Agenda. Journal of medical Internet research, 18(3), e53. doi:10.2196/jmir.5257

Fathi, J.T., Modin, H.E., Scott, J.D. (2017) Nurses Advancing Telehealth Services in the Era of Healthcare Reform. OJIN: The Online Journal of Issues in Nursing Vol. 22, No. 2, Manuscript 2.

Snyder, C. F., Wu, A. W., Miller, R. S., Jensen, R. E., Bantug, E. T., & Wolff, A. C. (2011). The role of informatics in promoting patient-centered care. Cancer journal (Sudbury, Mass.), 17(4), 211–218. doi:10.1097/PPO.0b013e318225ff89

The Florida Senate. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/00023.

A local company sells many varieties of shoes. For one particular line, the company buys the shoes for $15.00 and sells them for $30.00. The cost of placing an order for the shoes is $50.00, and it takes a week before the shoes arrive. Annual demand for the shoes is approximately normally distributed with a mean of 5,200 pairs and a standard deviation of 520 pairs. The cost for holding shoes in inventory is $.12 per dollar value per year. If shoes are out of stock, the goodwill cost is estimated to be $5.00 per pair, and the sale is lost. Find the optimal ordering policy for the shoe company.

Provide a reflection of at least 500 words (or 2 pages double spaced) of

how the knowledge, skills, or theories of this course have been

applied, or could be applied, in a practical manner to your current work

environment. If you are not currently working, share times when you

have or could observe these theories and knowledge could be applied to

an employment opportunity in your field of study.

Requirements:

Provide a 500 word (or 2 pages double spaced) minimum reflection.

Use of proper APA formatting and citations. If supporting evidence from outside resources is used those must be properly cited.

Share a personal connection that identifies specific knowledge and theories from this course.

Demonstrate

a connection to your current work environment. If you are not employed,

demonstrate a connection to your desired work environment.

You

should NOT, provide an overview of the assignments assigned in the

course. The assignment asks that you reflect how the knowledge and

skills obtained through meeting course objectives were applied or could

be applied in the workplace.