Select a core measure and investigate your organization’s compliance rate with the measure.  

INSTRUCTIONS

For this assessment, write an executive summary analyzing the financial and regulatory impact of organizational compliance with a specific core measure of your choice.  The summary must include recommendations for improving performance on the measure.

You must be able to explain the financial implications associated with the measure, as well as its importance in terms of policy, regulation, and finance.  This is another good opportunity to consult with a key stakeholder within the organization.  Talking to someone who works closely with the organization’s finances can help you develop a deeper understanding of the financial aspects of compliance.  You also need to suggest ways your organization can improve compliance and how you would implement changes and overcome obstacles.

This may seem like an enormous undertaking, but you should approach it as if you were to present this information to your supervisor or manager.  Keeping in mind that people in these positions do not have time to read a 10–12-page report, you would typically give them only an executive summary of your analyses and recommendations.  That means that you will need to be very clear and very concise with the information you choose to include in the executive summary. Say as much as possible with as few words as possible.

Directions

Select a core measure and investigate your organization’s compliance rate with the measure.  In your executive summary, address the following:

1. Compare the compliance rates of your organization with those of other organizations.

2. Explain why the measure is important in terms of policy, regulation, and finance.

3. Describe changes that could be made that would improve compliance with the measure.

4. Identify the stakeholders who would be affected by the changes.

5. Identify obstacles you would expect to encounter and explain strategies to overcome these obstacles.

Additional Requirements

Format: Include a title page and references page.  As this is an executive summary, do not use APA style and formatting.  To determine the appropriate format, it may be helpful for you to review the documents used in your organization.  How do they look?  What kind of language is used in memos?  These can help guide your development of this executive summary.  Certainly, feel free to use bullet points as appropriate.

Length: Write a 2 page (maximum) summary of your information, not including the title page and references page.

References: You must still reference scholarly resources to support your work.  Use at least three current scholarly or professional resources.

Font: Use 12-point, Times New Roman font.

SCORING GUIDE (WHAT THE PROFESSOR IS LOOKING FOR WHEN GRADING)

1.  Compares and contrasts the compliance rates of a specific measure for different organizations.

2.  Explains the importance of compliance in terms of policy, regulation, and finance, including the consequences of ignoring compliance.

3.  Describes changes that would improve compliance of a specific measure and explains how the changes would impact stakeholders and contribute to overall quality improvement.

4.  Analyzes strategies to overcome described organizational barriers to change to determine which strategies will be most effective for a specific organization.

5.  Writing is coherent, using evidence to support a central idea with correct grammar, usage, and mechanics as expected of a nursing professional.

DEFINITION

Executive Summary tells the reader what is in the paper.  The executive summary provides brief descriptions of the position statement, topic, or hypothesis; supporting evidence; results; and conclusion. 

The executive summary must be very concise and yet provide a coherent and accurate description of the contents of the paper. Note in the “revised” abstract below that a topic sentence is placed at the beginning and a logical flow of ideas is presented.

MODEL ANSWER

An executive summary is a short view of a lengthy report, which helps a reader to understand a large body of information without having to read the whole story. The field of healthcare is divided into different sectors with each having its own rules and regulations that govern their performances. Some departments like the end of life care unit and acute care section are very sensitive which demand for experience and timely delivery of services. There are measures which are universally applied in specific departments which makes them core and essential. Every pharmaceutical firm employs the practices in care delivery processes in particular departments.  For instance, measures at the end of the life care department are divided into legal and ethical standards. Ethical rules include patient-centered treatment services, proper communication among patients and medical practitioners, provide timely information to the family members about the progress of the patient and the demands (Katz & Johnson, 2016). One of the legal core measures that regulate the functioning of the end of life care department is the patient-centered decision making. Therefore, the primary aim of the paper is to discuss the financial and regulatory benefits of abiding by the measure of patient-focused decision making at the end of life care departments.

Patient-Centered End of Life Decision Making

It prohibits a medical practitioner or another individual to administer medication to end another individual’s life directly. Before a medical practitioner prescribes the drug to the end of life care patient, he must first assess the patient mental and physical condition to be sure the individual is making sound mind decisions.  The decision of the patient plays the leading role in the action that will be taken by the medical practitioner (Wachterman et al., 2016). The compliance rate of my organization to the measure is high when compared to other pharmaceutical firms in the geographical area.