ASSIGNMENT
Knowledge of real-world societal inequities effecting patient care in healthcare organizations is essential in your tool kit for graduation.
First, review the Public Broadcast Service (PBS) healthcare disparity summary, “Frontline: The Healthcare Divide Preview,” at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBtX4ZH9av4 Then, watch the full PBS documentary, “The Healthcare Divide,” at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVvEkeH4O8o
The full video identifies three types of hospitals: Safety Net, For Profit, and Non-Profit. Discuss the following:
What are safety net hospitals?
Choose a main statement based on metacognition.
From the perspective of Comprehensive Health Planning, use Chapters 5, 6, 7, and 8 from the textbook to discuss your main statement.
Provide three peer-reviewed references and the textbook to support your rationale.
Interactive participation in class for DQ3, and respond with two students. Use research from peer-reviewed journal articles in strategic health planning to analyze the research.
Also, use critical thinking skills, support your ideas, stimulate thoughts, utilize metacognition, and provide opposing viewpoints based on healthcare evidence.
Discussion Question 1:
Hospital Compare
Discussion Question 2
Department of Nursing and Allied Health, Norfolk State University
HSM 451-90: Comprehensive Health Planning
