Memorandum

Guidelines for Individual Assignment: Memorandum Regarding ACHE Policy

Implementation

Near the end of the term, as noted on Canvas and in the Course Schedule, each student shall

submit a final one-page project paper. The project paper consists of a memorandum selecting and

applying an ACHE policy to a workplace scenario.

a) Submission/Proof of Submission to FIU Writing Center Required. Each student

shall submit their proposed assignment submission, either in person or online, to FIU

Writing Center for their input. Failure to do so will result in a loss of 10% of the score

for the assignment (which amounts to a 1.1 point deduction). Proof of submission must

accompany the assignment submission.

It is recommended that students find out the amount of time, generally, the FIU writing

center will need to review the assignment. Thereafter, each student should schedule an

appointment, accordingly, to have their assignment reviewed by the center’s staff.

Students should provide the writing center with a copy of these assignment guidelines,

the proposed narrative submission and advise the writing center of the assignment due

date.

Information on submitting the required verification: If visiting the writing center in

person, students should have their assignment stamped by the writing center staff, then

scan and submit as an attachment, along with the final draft, in the designated

assignment page or discussion board. Students also have the option of meeting with a

tutor from the writing center virtually by scheduling an appointment

(https://writingcenter.fiu.edu/resources/online-tutoring/) online. In the event that a

student opts for a virtual meeting, it is imperative that he/she obtains written

confirmation of the review which the student will then need to scan and submit along

with the assignment. For additional information on obtaining the required verification

from the writing center, please email the department at [email protected].

b) Each student is responsible for selecting and applying a current ACHE ethical policy statement to a workplace scenario.

c) Preferably, the workplace scenario should be from the student’s current employer. However, if this is not available the student may use a current newsworthy scenario.

d) Each student shall be acting as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the healthcare facility. As such, the CEO shall inform staff of the implementation of the new ACHE

Policy.

e) The narrative in the memorandum shall substantively include, cite and reference at least two “external authoritative sources” as defined below.

f) “External Authoritative Sources” for purposes of this course shall mean: books, peer reviewed journal articles, education and government sites as well as non-partisan

national or international organizations (such as WHO, UNICEF, UNAIDS etc)

provided, the foregoing source/material selected has in text citations and references

to support statements made therein. Newspapers including the Wall Street Journal,

blogs regardless of source, editorial, panel discussions and dot com sites are not

considered authoritative for this course.

g) Each student shall submit/post a maximum one-page memorandum. References and charts/tables if used do not count toward the one-page maximum.

h) Please keep in mind a source is required in every sentence where a number appears as well as all sentences defining terms! Additionally, each issue, question, paragraph is

required to contain at least one external authoritative source to support the statements

and conclusions made therein.

i) Data and Sources. All data (facts and figures/statistics) shall be referenced appropriately. References and in text citations shall be in APA Style format. No cutting

and pasting of text from any source is allowed. That constitutes plagiarism. For those

students that need help with proper APA in text citation and references, please see the

following link: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/. Additional APA Style links and

documents will be posted on the Class online site. Also, see www.refworks.com – this

source is available free to FIU students and will assist you in formatting references

properly in APA and other formats. An additional source

http://bruteforcestudyguide.com/essaywriting/apastyle.html

Grading Rubric:

10 – Excellent 9 – Good 8 – Fair 7 - Poor

The student has properly

selected and applied a

current ACHE ethical

policy statement to a

workplace scenario

10 - Excellent 9 – Good 8- Fair 7- Poor

The content is written in

the students’ own words,

with the exception of

limited quotes, which are

properly cited and

referenced.

The Majority of the

content is written within

the students’ own

words. All quotes are

properly cited.

Some of the content is

written in the students’

own words. All quotes

are properly cited.

Very little of the content

is written in the students’

own words. Some quotes

are cited.

10 - Excellent 9- Good 8- Fair 7- Poor

The report precisely

follows proper

APA format for citations

and references.

The report follows the

proper APA format,

with very minimum

errors in citations and

references.

The report partially

follows the

APA format.

Very few citations and

references follow the

proper APA format.

Posting and sharing completed work on third party websites:

As a student at Florida International University Health Services Administration (HSA) program,

you work hard to accomplish your educational goal/degree. Therefore, it is critical that you protect

the integrity of your work. The HSA department strongly discourages the posting and sharing of

your work including but not limited to, assignments, discussions, papers, quizzes and test answers.

This includes indirectly sharing your work by posting it to a third party website, learning platform

database such as Course Hero, StudyMode, or any other external database outside of the

blackboard course. If you share your original work to any of these third party sites it is an automatic

disqualification from any publication opportunities to medical or educational journals. The HSA

department prohibits use of material from any of the forgoing sites in student submissions. Turnitin

will identify such use as plagiarism and will result in a zero grade.