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proposal_rough_draft.docxWriting the Rough Draft
As you begin to move beyond your initial outline and summary, your next step will be drafting. Drafting is a very important step in the writing process, but by no means should it be considered the final stage. In it you should focus on putting as much on paper as you can including your thesis (thought it may eventually change), your supporting evidence, and analysis of the evidence. It is less important to worry about having all the correct words and punctuation as it is to work hard to express as much as you can about the topic.
If it helps, think back to when you drafted your problem statement. How has your work up to this point worked toward solving the issue you have identified? What have you unearthed as you have dug into your topic?
Addressing similar questions to those from the earlier assignment in your introduction may help you find direction in your draft:
· What is the problem?
· When does the problem occur?
· Who and/or what does it affect?
· What are the potential solutions for the problem?
· How can you present the solution(s) in a fair way to your audience, respecting their perspective(s)?
NEED TO USE THE HEADINGS FOR THE SECTIONS- PURPOSE, PROBLEM, SOLUTION, AND CONCLUSION
Your rough draft will consist of the bulk of your proposal's content, and should include your proposal broken into four sections:
· Purpose: Indicate the purpose and scope of your problem - tell us what you will be solving and why you believe it is an important issue.
· Problem: Share what the actual problem is and any history that you have regarding it or additional problems that will branch from this initial problem.
· Solution: Provide what your solution(s) to the problems are, and outline the steps that you think are needed to get to the solution.
· Conclusion: Wrap it all up and provide a conclusion to the reader. Be sure to engage your reader by applying effective organization, appropriate tone, and clear usage.
THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION IS TO BE INCLUDED IN THE ASSIGNMENT
Executive Summary
It is important for all health care professionals to ensure that due care is provides to them. This requires all qualified medical doctors give patients the time for diagnosis and subsequent treatment. In many health care centers, doctors may be overwhelmed leading to cases where their assistants have to step in and take over their role. In the process, this may compromise the quality of care accorded to the patients and may have significant ramifications legally and otherwise. There are, however, certain measures that can be taken to deal with this problem. One such measure rests on restructuring the system in a manner which the PA’s see them first and do the initial assessment, and then one of the doctors do the final assessment. This might mean cutting down the number of patients seen per day so that the PA’s and Doctors can better focus on taking good care of the ones they do see. This proposal will examine who this system will be implemented in a selected health care center highlighting the benefits that accrue from it.
Annotated Bibliography
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According to the authors, in any given institution, especially a hospital, human life and needs should be respected. The same goes for funds and drugs whose sole intended purpose is attending to healthcare needs. The U.S. is best placed if all healthcare operations are centralized; this is inclusive of funding and directives. Hospital must be accountable for any dime they spent. This will ensure coordination and every local hospital management run the health care institutions as they please. This does not augur well to the American people because lack of accountability will most definitely compromise the quality of public health services.
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Technology is also very pertinent when it comes to marketing through advertising. Many health organizations understand that by using the internet they can reach many clients. Even though they do not use their medical records because a lot of misconceptions might occur, they provide immense information through emails, and web marketing. However, keen legal and ethical considerations are taken very seriously. This article examines strategies which these institutions can attract new customers, preserve the loyalty of the old patients and reduce unnecessary costs.
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This research investigates the effect of process management on clinical and experiential quality. Clinical quality measures hospitals' performance on patient safety, i.e., adherence to standards, whereas experiential quality relates to patient centeredness, i.e., responsiveness to the needs and preferences of the patient. Hospitals need to place emphasis on process management is associated with an increase in clinical quality but a decrease in experiential quality.
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This article examines the importance of practitioners to stay safe from legal pitfalls by ensuring the basic structure of the law is adhered to. With vast information on the introduction of law in the health care department, a health practitioner and the service receiver are able to recognize situations which could be risky and find amicable solutions. If the individual understands legal ramifications of the health care system in the United States, one is able to avoid legal problems and if need arises, the individual will understand when an attorney is needed or when to contact the risk management officer. For any practitioner to be termed as a professional, the individual needs to understand all the ethical considerations of a firm. As mentioned before, these are changing times and ethical errors are prone to occur. The practitioner needs to understand basic principles like confidentiality, patient autonomy, and justice while in practice
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This book examines the different aspects of healthcare that needs to be looked into. The authors provide a step by step approach of the different ways in which hospitals should ensure proper care is given to patients. This captures aspects of employment medical cover that the employee and the employee both contribute to. It is the obligation of the employer to ensure that the employee contributes to the medical cover. It is also important that health care centers ensure hospital leadership, namely, patient-centered leadership, helps lessen the negative connotation between process management and experiential quality.- SEE BELOW
This last article should be especially helpful for your project. In your final project, you can refer to the method used in this article and transfer this to the specific business you are discussing.
Title: An analysis of the number of patients that can be attended to Family Healthcare Associates
Thesis: Until there is an expansion of the Family Healthcare Associates facility and an increase in the number of doctors and physician assistants, the number of residents attended to in one day should not be the current seventy five; it should be less.
1. Purpose
0. To determine the number of patients that can be effectively attended to in one day by a two-doctor facility (Michael Muscari and Anthony Flaim) and several Physician Assistants.
0. To redefine the protocol of the health center (Family Healthcare Associates) such that only a comprehensive diagnosis (collectively done by Muscari, Flaim and one PA in separate sittings) is deemed accurate.
0. To improve the rapport and health services offered by Family Healthcare Associates
1. Problems
1. The Physician’s Assistants at Family Healthcare Associates rush patients through, only seeing them for what is currently wrong.
1. The PAs do not look at patient histories; they never remember what medications they are currently taking.
1. The doctors do not see the patients at all, only the PA’s see the patients- which is not the way it is supposed to be done.
1. Solution.
1. To do a total overhaul of how the clinic is run
1. Cutting down the number of patients seen per day so that physician assistants and doctors can better focus on taking good care of the ones they do see as opposed to rushing through.
1. Conclusion
1. Whenever a patient visits the Family Healthcare Facility, they should be predisposed to a full medical history examination, a full diagnosis and be treated with a care that will ensure they leave the facility in the best health possible. SEE BELOW
NEED TO ADD a B POINT HERE SO THAT IT HAS TWO LIKE THE REST.
Problem Statement
The issue I am aiming to solve in my proposal is the amount of patients that are seen in a day at Family Healthcare Associates, Inc. It is owned by 2 doctors, Michael Muscari, and Anthony Flaim. The clinic sees upwards of 75 patients in a day from 8:30-5:00, all by Physician Assistants- which is not the way the clinic is supposed to be run. This poses a problem to each patient that goes there because they are not taking care of you the way a doctor should. They, the Physician’s Assistants, rush you through, only seeing you for what is currently wrong, never remember what medications you are currently taking, and don’t have the information in front of them, and you never see a an actual doctor, just the physician assistants.
My potential solution to these problems would be to do a total overhaul of how the clinic is run. I would cut down the number of patients seen per day so that the PA’s and Doctors can better focus on taking good care of the ones they do see. I would have the PA’s see them first and do the initial assessment, and then one of the doctors do the final assessment. I would have them get to know the patient, do full exams, and treat them as if they truly care about making sure this patient is in the best health possible.
