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Competencies Measured
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:
· Competency 1: Analyze the effects of financial and economic factors (such as cost-benefit, supply and demand, return on investment, and risks) in a health care system on patient care, services offered, and organizational structures and operation.
· Summarize the problem and the potential impact the health care economic issue has on you, your colleagues, your organization, and the community at large.
· Competency 2: Develop ethical and culturally equitable solutions to economic problems within a health care organization in an effort to improve the quality of care and services offered.
· Explain how your proposed solution is culturally sensitive, ethical, and equitable within the context of the community and health care setting it will be implemented.
· Competency 4: Develop ethical and culturally equitable economic strategies to address dynamic environmental forces and ensure the future security of an organization’s resources and its ability to provide quality care.
· Explain the feasibility and cost-benefit considerations of your health care economic issue, as well as three ways to mitigate risks to the financial security of your organization or health care setting.
· Describe the changes or solution that you propose be implemented in order to address the economic issue.
· Competency 5: Produce clear, coherent, and professional written work, in accordance with Capella writing standards.
· Convey purpose, in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly communication standards.
Scoring Guide
Use the scoring guide to understand how your assessment will be evaluated.
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Criterion 1
Summarize the problem and the potential impact the health care economic issue has on you, your colleagues, your organization, and the community at large.
Distinguished
Summarizes the problem and the potential impact the health care economic issue has on you, your colleagues, your organization, and the community at large. Tone of summary is engaging and persuasive and provides the audience with a reason to keep listening.
Proficient
Summarizes the problem and the potential impact the health care economic issue has on you, your colleagues, your organization, and the community at large.
Basic
Provides an unclear or incomplete summary of the problem and the potential impact the health care economic issue has on you, your colleagues, your organization, and the community at large.
Non Performance
Does not provide any kind of summary of the problem and the potential impact the health care economic issue has on you, your colleagues, your organization, and the community at large.
Criterion 2
Explain the feasibility and cost-benefit considerations of your health care economic issue, as well as three ways to mitigate risks to the financial security of your organization or health care setting.
Distinguished
Explains the feasibility and cost-benefit considerations of your health care economic issue, as well as three ways to mitigate risks to the financial security of your organization or health care setting. Provides specific data and numbers to support the cost-benefit assertions.
Proficient
Explains the feasibility and cost-benefit considerations of your health care economic issue, as well as three ways to mitigate risks to the financial security of your organization or health care setting.
Basic
Describe the feasibility of the health care economic issue in general terms, but does not provide a full explanation or sufficient cost-benefit details. Likewise, the ways to mitigate risk are overly general and not specific to the issue or health care organization.
Non Performance
Does not describe the feasibility of the health care economic issue in general terms.
Criterion 3
Describe the changes or solution that you propose be implemented in order to address the economic issue.
Distinguished
Describes the changes or solution that you propose be implemented in order to address the economic issue. Notes the potential benefits to your organization, colleagues, or the community at large.
Proficient
Describes the changes or solution that you propose be implemented in order to address the economic issue.
Basic
Identifies a solution, but its relevance or alignment to the economic issue is unclear.
Non Performance
Does not identify a solution.
Criterion 4
Explain how your proposed solution is culturally sensitive, ethical, and equitable within the context of the community and health care setting it will be implemented.
Distinguished
Explains how your proposed solution is culturally sensitive, ethical, and equitable within the context of the community and health care setting it will be implemented. Notes specifically how the proposed solution ensures that that both access and cost are equitable across all groups in the community.
Proficient
Explains how your proposed solution is culturally sensitive, ethical, and equitable within the context of the community and health care setting it will be implemented.
Basic
Provides a partial explanation, but does not address each of how the proposed solution is culturally sensitive, ethical, and equitable within the context of the community and health care setting it will be implemented.
Non Performance
Does not explain how your proposed solution is culturally sensitive, ethical, and equitable within the context of the community and health care setting it will be implemented.
Criterion 5
Convey purpose, in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly communication standards.
Distinguished
Conveys clear purpose, in a tone and style well-suited to the intended audience. Supports assertions, arguments, and conclusions with relevant, credible, and convincing evidence. Exhibits strict and nearly flawless adherence to organizational, professional, and scholarly communication standards, including APA style and formatting.
Proficient
Conveys purpose, in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly communication standards. Attempts to apply APA style and formatting.
Basic
Conveys purpose, in an appropriate tone or style. Clear, effective communication is inhibited by insufficient supporting evidence or minimal adherence to applicable communication standards.
Non Performance
Does not convey purpose, in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly communication standards.
