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Homework: Data Analysis and Evidence-Based Recommendations
Competencies Measured
By successfully completing this homework, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies:
I. Competency I: Execution: Translate strategy to develop and maintain optimal organizational performance in health care settings.
1. Describe data sets that will be analyzed.
2. Convey purpose, in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly writing standards.
II. Competency II: Transformation: Facilitate a change process that effectively involves patients, communities, and professionals in the improvement and delivery of health care and wellness.
1. List the factors that cause a specified problem and explain how the factors are measured.
2. Create a graphic structure in which to display each major factor that contributes to a selected problem.
3. Explain how graphics are relevant to understanding a problem, including any trends the graphics indicate.
III. Competency III: Team Development: Develop high-performing teams by inspiring individual excellence and leading talent development in healthcare organizations.
1. Provide evidence-based best practice recommendations for team implementation, cite the sources, and include a full reference list.
Introduction
For this homework you will present data, analyze the data, and propose recommendations to solve your selected problem.
Instructions
Use the Data Analysis and Evidence-Based Recommendations Template to complete this homework.
I. List the factors that cause the selected problem and identify how each factor is measured numerically within the literature (dollars, days, percentage, et cetera).
II. Locate and describe the data sets you intend to analyze.
1. Important: If you are using private organizational data, you must provide signed, written permission from someone at the organization permitting you to use the data in this course. Include the organization name, the individual's name, title, workplace address, email address, and contact phone number. Use the Learner and Employer Acknowledgement and Release Form [PDF] to obtain this signed permission.
III. Create a proposed graphic structure in which to display each major factor that contributes to your selected problem. Examples of graphics might include a bar graph, pie chart, et cetera.
1. See the resources in What You Need to Know for assistance in creating graphics.
IV. Under each graphic, provide a sentence or two about how this graphic is relevant to understanding the problem.
V. Finally, complete the section, "Evidence-Based Recommendations," by listing each evidence-based best practice recommendation for team implementation separately in one sentence, citing the source. Then you may add additional content to explain the recommendation.