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Discussion: Sharing Your Project Topic
Reflect upon your past experience and future goals as a health care leader. Then use a four-sentence format to describe your proposed project topic that aligns with your professional development goals. Remember that the goal is to explore a real-world, relevant health care issue by examining existing data. The final deliverable (due in Unit 9) should contain recommendations for organizational improvement from contemporary authoritative literature.
Provide a specific, descriptive, short title for your proposed data review project in the subject line of your post.
Provide a four-sentence topic description. Use the Proposed Project Topic Description Template linked in the Resources.
Complete the following four sentences to describe your proposed topic:
• I am examining [state problem] because [tell why it is a problem. What happens if the problem is not addressed? Compromised patient safety? Increase in costs? Legal consequences? Other?]
• I will examine [state the factors which directly relate to the problem] using [state precise units of measurement]. Example: I will examine variance in cost by dollars, length of stay in days, variance from baseline via percentage, et cetera.)
• This project will add value to [type of organization or name] by [how it aligns with an organizational need].
• This project aligns with my professional interests and career goals by [how it adds value or has relevance for you personally].
List six authoritative sources. Reflect upon your statement of the problem, and list six current, authoritative sources that are directly related to your problem. Note: Sources which are considered to be current have been published within the last three to five years. Authoritative sources are peer reviewed. Examples of authoritative sources may include government websites, industry accrediting bodies, peer reviewed scholarly articles, et cetera.
Before submitting your initial post, ensure it is free of grammatical errors or APA formatting mistakes.
Submit this post as early in the week as possible to give your colleagues a chance to provide feedback. You will have to use this feedback in the second discussion in this unit.
Response Guidelines
Reflect upon the post of one colleague, focusing upon the four-sentence description of the proposed project topic. You can comment on your colleague's work from an industry perspective. Make a reference, suggest a best practice or a model program, or provide an industry resource. You might as well simply state if the project is realistic and adds sufficient value to the organization.
If that person has already received a reply, select another post to comment on, to ensure that everyone receives feedback. Post your reply as soon as possible to give your colleague time to work on the second discussion in this unit.
Note: When replying to your colleague, please use the Unit 1 Discussion Post Reply Table linked in the Resources, when posting your reply. Change the subject line format to "Reply to [colleague's name]." Complete the table for your colleague's post, then copy and paste the table into the Message text box. Please do not attach a Word file.
Learning Components
This activity will help you achieve the following learning components:
• Establish personal health care leadership competency development goals.
• Determine the benefits of a data review project to an organization.
• Identify a current, relevant health care problem.
• Differentiate between a problem and a benefit statement.
• Identify relevant performance indicators and performance measurement units.