Healing Hands Hospital Case Study Essay

Healing Hands Hospital is an acute care community hospital that serves a suburban community outside of a large city with two competing large academic medical centers. Both Healing Hands Hospital and the academic medical centers have a long history of service to the region, but their business and fundamental practices are different. 

Your manager, Ms. Woods, Healing Hands’ Chief Operating Officer (COO), is part of the task force working on the strategic plan for the hospital and needs to understand the fundamental practices of these academic medical centers.

You have been tasked with providing this information for Ms. Woods that discusses the similarities and differences between academic medical centers and acute care community hospitals. 

Explain the similarities and differences between the mission of an academic medical center versus the mission of an acute community hospital.  

Discuss the similarities and differences in the staffing and management structure of an academic medical center versus an acute community hospital.  Note: You will want to consider what type of staff an academic medical center would have that a community hospital may not have.

Explain the similarities and differences in the Reimbursement model(s) that are used in academic medical centers versus an acute community hospital.

In 250-500 words, consider that you learned from researching and discuss the following.

Explain why it is important for teachers to be able to identify developmental and individual differences and recognize some of the typical signs of various disabilities when interacting with students.

Describe what you can use to help you better articulate the challenges faced by students with disabilities to those who are non-disabled. Include discussion of what can be used to help you collaborate and seek best practices for working with students with a wide range of disabilities.

Discuss how having a basic understanding of the ways various disabilities affect learning and other areas of a student’s life can assist teachers in responding to the needs of individuals with disabilities.

Support the assignment with a minimum of three scholarly resources

What is Advanced Practice Nursing?

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Discussion Prompt

Using any resources that you can find, identify the difference between nursing practice and advanced practice nursing.  Support advanced practice nursing by identifying nursing theories that can be applied to advanced practice nursing.

Using the evidence, discuss the difference between RN practice and APRN practice.

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APA format with intext citations

Word count minimum of 250

References: at least 2 high-level scholarly references within the last 5 years in APA format.

Plagiarism free.

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Note: Attached are links, in case you need them if not is ok.

https://doi.org/10.1186/s12912-020-00504-z

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7709259