Assignment 1
Chapter 9 Case Study
CASE STUDY: After researching the case, please submit a Word document explaining your answers in no less than 100 words.
Ms. Johnson, age 57, was referred to the gastroenterologist for chronic digestive problems. For at least a year, she said, her stomach ached after eating a small meal. It seemed like the dull pain she experienced, and the sensation of fullness, had increased recently. Ms. Johnson also felt abdominal cramping, and sometimes nausea, at times other than after eating.
After taking a complete history and performing a physical examination, the gastroenterologist ordered several tests. Her conclusion was that Ms. Johnson had chronic gastritis caused by an infection with the bacterium Helicobacter pylori.
QUESTIONS
1. What tests might the gastroenterologist have ordered, in order to help in her diagnosis?
2. How common is a bacterial cause of chronic gastritis?
3. Are other conditions sometimes the cause of chronic gastritis?
Assignment 2
Chapter 10 Case Study
CASE STUDY: After researching the case, please submit a Word document explaining your answers in no less than 100 words.
In high school, Jake had been a tall and well-coordinated student who was sought after by his school’s sports teams. He’d played on both the football and basketball teams. In his second year of college now, Jake came to the Student Clinic because of a sprained wrist. This gave the nurse an opportunity to do a complete history.
In the course of the history, Jake mentioned that he felt clumsy compared to his high-school-athlete self. He was a large and slender young man, six feet four inches tall. He said probably his awkwardness was because he did not take any time for sports now, or even for physical activity beyond walking across campus, because college demanded so much study time and he also had a part-time job.
Jake said he had not been especially tall in grade school. His growth spurt came in junior high. At one point, Jake scratched his head thoughtfully and said, “But you know, I think I’ve grown a lot since high school. And I’m still growing.” The nurse was about to say that people often do, when he began to suspect that Jake’s size might be due to an endocrine condition.
QUESTIONS
1. What condition might Jake have?
A. Gigantism
B. Acromegaly
C. Hypopituitarism
D. Cushing’s syndrome
2. How would the diagnosis be confirmed?
Assignment 3
Health Care Management questions
Use your text to answer the following questions. If you use outside resource, make sure to provide a citation.
1. Contrast strategic and administrative actions within human resource management.
2. For each human resources scenario described in the introduction to the chapter, identify the steps you would take to address the specific human resources issue being faced. From your perspective, which is the most challenging issue, and why?
3. Two key domains of human resources management are workforce planning/ recruitment and employee retention. Describe several human resource functions that fall under each and describe their importance to human resources management.
4. Identify and describe one environmental forces that affect human resource functions in health services organizations.
5. Contrast “employee assistance programs” and ” employee suggestion programs.”
6. Why do HSOs offer incentive compensation programs? How do these programs differ from base compensation programs?
7. Describe the importance of employee relations and engagement efforts by HSOs, and give an example of these activities.
8. Research a law that affects human resources. Use this DQ to educate your classmates on what you found and how it affects HR and employees.
