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Fundamentals of Nursing

Competency-Based Assessments

Fundamentals of NursingCompetency-Based Assessments

Competency-Based Assessments

1 .
You are working in a small community hospital emergency room outside of Chicago, Illinois. You have a patient come into the emergency room after a traumatic motor vehicle accident. The patient will clearly need multiple orthopedic surgeries for broken bones as well as burn care and perhaps plastic surgery. Conduct internet research and determine which of the following hospitals you would expect to send this patient to.
  • Thorek Memorial Hospital Andersonville
  • John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County
  • Kindred Hospital Chicago–North
  • Holy Cross Hospital
2 .
Conduct internet research and develop a brief 5- to 10-minute presentation about both the positive and negative aspects of one of the three types of federal hospital systems (VHA, IHS, or Defense Health Agency).
3 .
Explore the Healthy People 2030’s healthcare access and quality web page. Choose two Related Objectives to examine further. For your chosen objectives, answer the following questions:
  1. What is the objective?
  2. What is the current status? Is it improving? What is the percentage difference between baseline, most recent, and target?
  3. Why is this objective important for healthcare access?
4 .
Choose a healthcare facility in your region or a region you wish to work in. Look up the hospital’s website and explore their mission and vision statement. Supply the URL and hospital name, describe their mission and vision statement, and explain how you think you would feel about being part of that agency.
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