...Principles of Health Care Administration Earl Greenia August 18, 2014 “Texas Health Harris Methodist–Cleburne, located in Cleburne, Texas has 137 acute care beds and over 80 physicians on its medical staff. It is part of Texas Health Resources, a large, nonprofit health care delivery system in north Texas that oversees 14 hospitals (Lashbrook, A. 2009).” In this paper I will summaries the systems approach of Texas Health Harris Methodist–Cleburne with a very brief over-view of the organizational theories, analyze how Texas Health Harris Methodist-Cleburne is a learning organization, explain the organizational structure displayed in this case study, describe the leaders involved in this case study, and discussing the role of the leaders in this case study. Organizational Theories The organizational theory described in this article treats organizational as a commitment to implementing an organizational change providing recommended treatment related to surgical care. This way of thinking about organizational is best suited for examining the performance improvement department and data management department that provide support for quality improvement activities at the hospital level (Lashbrook, A. 2009). Texas Health Resources makes three contributions to organizational theory. First, the article begins by talking about the improvement measure of success depends on the all-or-nothing approach. That Texas Health is not accepting failure when it comes to improving the quality...
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...State of Texas v. Hopwood HRM552 Stephanie Romagnoli State of Texas v. Hopwood The paper summarizes the case of Hopwood v. State of Texas and the court’s ruling. It covers the meaning for the organization in the case study and businesses in general, and the legal precedence the ruling sets for most businesses. It also outlines the role the federal enforcement agency plays in ensuring the organization's compliance with regulation standards. Case summary The Hopwood case, named for lead plaintiff Cheryl Hopwood, involved four White students who sued the law school after being denied admission to of the University of Texas at Austin. They successfully argued that the law school discriminated against them by admitting less qualified African American and Mexican American applicants for admission through use of a quota system, therefore violating the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which requires equal protection under the law (Andrews & Martin, 1998). The University initiated this affirmative action program in response to a history of discrimination against African Americans and Mexican Americans in the state of Texas (Byars, and Rue, 2008). The court’s ruling Affirmative action is a government policy that seeks to remedy old discrimination directed at particular groups, including women, racial and ethnic minorities. The primary purpose of these policies and programs is to increase access to opportunities for higher education, employment, government...
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...Issues in Multicultural Education Effective instructors must understand the issues that impact multicultural education in the United States. The significance of providing an eminence instruction in an unbiased approach to all of their students is essential. The tide of demographic changes in the United States has affected most classrooms in our schools. As a result, some classroom teachers realize they must quickly acquire a comprehensive understanding of ethnic, cultural, and social-class diversity present in today’s schools. Otherwise, these teachers will face difficulty in classrooms comprised of fifty-one percent minority students. (Texas Education Agency, 1993) Nonetheless, traditional teachers with no experience in multicultural education training is a significant issue in Texas. Dayton Independent School District’s mission statement states, The mission of Dayton Independent School District is to educate all students to the maximum extent of their abilities and to challenge them to excel in a changing world. The fundamental purpose of Dayton Independent School District is to develop in all students the essential academic skills and knowledge of which to build lifetime learning. All students are taught a core curriculum of English Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, Fine Arts, Health, Physical Education and Technological Literacy. All students will be expected to acquire a knowledge of citizenship and economic responsibilities and an appreciation of...
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...yearly. States are diligently working to identify methods to help offenders successfully reintegrate into society. Some initiatives available in Harris County, TX include prison education programs, life and job skills training and counseling services. This paper focuses on the educational opportunities available for offenders in Harris County, TX. The education opportunities are structured to assist offenders with incarceration related factors and attempts to help offenders with successful reintegration with family, the community and society as a whole. I will discuss several educational initiatives available to offenders and how these initiatives correlate to our text. Harris County, TX . On March 12, 2004 the CEA unanimously voted to grant accreditation to Harris County Sheriff’s Office Inmate Education Program. The Harris County Sheriff’s Office became the first county jail in the U.S. to receive the Correctional Education Association (CEA) accreditation for its Inmate Education Program (Albers, 2006:15). This recognition sets Harris County Sheriff’s Office to a high standard to be compared with. The educational facility is located on Crites Street in Harris County which opened in 2003. The Inmate Education Program began in 1973 as a way to offer qualified offenders an opportunity to obtain an education to prepare for life after prison or jail. Since its inception, the program created by the partnership between the Harris County Sheriff’s Office and Houston Community College...
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...Education Changing with Immigration Rachel Villarreal Vasquez PPA 604 Urban Planning/Redevelopment Professor; Lum July 12, 2014 Education Changing with Immigration Controversy about changes in our education has surrounded the United States for a number of years. But immigration has changed the way we teach our children in the United States today, in the past, currently and trending we are beginning to cater to our environment. The education in the United States is no longer the leading one in the World. The United States was known for producing the most educated college students placing them in the highest ranked jobs. Yet, personally immigration did affect the way that education was presented to me, my family and my community. A perspective personal journey of the education lived by an American born child to an immigrant Mexican Mother and an Indian Father whose own foundation is built on education which can and will empower millions of children. Free access to education had always been the key to the success of educating men, women and children. Yet, I can still remember the personal experience that left its long lasting effects, as it has for many others equally. The changes that happen from generation to generation as education changed due to the immigration of people into the United States. As presented in the following article, “At the dawn of the twenty-first century, immigrants were coming to the United States in near record numbers, reminiscent of the great...
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...Experiences- A Study in West Texas, Gill and Jones explored the phenomena of leadership in higher education from the perspectives of women who hold leadership positions at community colleges in west Texas. Traditionally, higher education has been a male-dominated field which made it difficult for women to attain administrative positions. However, in today’s community colleges, women hold 50% of the leadership positions at community colleges in the United States, which shows the openness of community colleges to accept women in leadership positions. Additionally, the number of administrators projected to retire from community colleges in the near future illustrates that opportunities...
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...assisting them in their recovery. This is the reason it is often said that physicians cure, and nurses care. There are three educational pathways one may follow to become a registered nurse. The first is a three-year diploma program; another is an associate degree, most often offered by a community college; the last is a four-year baccalaureate degree offered at four-year colleges and universities. All these nursing programs directly relate to the educational preparation of the nurses; however the BSN education includes additional coursework in nursing and a broader range of studies in other disciplines. Differences in competencies ADN program is designed to provide the skills and knowledge to become a compliant generalist nurse. In most cases, it is a 20 months program aimed to provide a reasonably good training for the licensure examination (NCLEX-RN) and then an immediate, decent staff position in hospitals and inpatient healthcare. The associate-degree nursing education produces more registered nurses for our communities in a shorter time period; however this should not be the primary focus, nor should...
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...1. Who is the author? What are his/her credentials? • The author of Brown, Not White is Dr. Guadalupe San Miguel, Jr. He was born in Corpus Christi and is residing in Houston, Texas. His credentials are as follows: In 1973, he received his Bachelor of Arts in History and Sociology at Columbia University in New York. After three years, he continued his studies at Stanford University in California, and earned his master’s degree in American History with Specialization in Chicano history in 1976. Moreover, after two years Dr. San Miguel Jr. acquired his doctorate in Social Sciences in Education at Stanford University in 1978. Currently, he is a professor of History at the University of Houston. Through the years, he specializes Mexican-American...
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...Maggie Rivas Rodriguez. Texas Mexican Americans and Postwar Civil Rights. University of Texas Press, 2015. The purpose of this book is to shed light on important advancements in post-war Mexican American civil rights efforts, specifically in Texas. Rodriguez highlights 3 milestones, two take place at the local level in West Texas and the third examines the creation of a national civil rights organization catering to the legal needs of the underrepresented Mexican American population of the United States. In highlighting these events, Rodriguez is aiming to educate not a specific racial or socioeconomic group, but rather to a general audience as well as to those who may already be educated in Chicano civil rights endeavors. Rodriguez succeeds in doing so in the easy to read and straight forward language of the book. It very much gives the feel of having a conversation with an elder of the community, in that it quotes many people directly and recollects certain pieces of the story from the protagonists themselves in present day. The interview transcriptions are left in Spanish as to “preserve and convey the flavor of the interview…”. The book focuses on three case studies and breaks them into two parts, Part 1: Claiming Rights on a Local Level and Part 2: Claiming Rights on a National Level. In the first chapter the reader learns of the efforts taken by Mexican American parents of Alpine, TX to integrate their children’s schools, and go as far as the capitol to do so. The...
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...accountants work for individual clients and businesses to provide professional accounting services such as auditing financial statements and resolving tax issues. Accountants can provide advice on business matters such as the advantages of healthcare plans and compensation packages for employees. Public accountants in Texas must qualify for certification by meeting education and experience requirements and must pass the Texas Uniform CPA Exam. Therefore, the following paragraphs are discussion about the requirements sit for the Texas Uniform CPA Exam, the requirements to become a CPA in Texas, the topics the Texas Uniform CPA Exam covers, the testing windows for the Texas Uniform CPA Exam, and any other courses and issues that candidates have. To become a CPA in Texas, a candidate must be of good, moral character. In addition, a candidate must take and pass the Texas Uniform CPA Exam. Moreover, there are requirements to sit for the Texas Uniform CPA Exam. First, a candidate must hold a baccalaureate or higher degree from a board-recognized United States college or university, or an equivalent degree as determined by board rule from an institution of higher education in another country. For satisfying this requirement, a student must complete150 semester hours or quarter-hour equivalents of college credit.30 out of the 150 semester hours or quarter-hour equivalents described must be upper-level accounting courses from a board-recognized college or university, of which 15 semester...
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...may need to be "on call" in case of an emergency. This career involves a variety of working environments, ranging from physician offices to sports fields. To work as an athletic trainer, it is required to be certified by the National Athletic Trainers Association after graduating college with a bachelor's degree in kinesiology or another area of study involving physical education....
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...BECOMING A TEXAS CPA TABLE OF CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ………………………………………………………………......i INTRODUCTION ……………………………………………………………………….…...1 BECOMING A TEXAS CPA ………………………………………………………………..1 TEXAS UNIFORM CPA EXAM ………….…………………………………………….…..1 Requirements and Application to Sit ...……………….………………….……….…..1 Topics and Structure …………………………….……………………………………3 Rules, Testing Windows, and Sites ………….……………………………………….4 CPA EXAM PREPARATION ………………….……………………………………………4 ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS …………….……………………………………………5 CONCLUSION ………………………………………………………………………………5 APPENDIX A ...………………………………………………………………………….…..6 BIBLIOGRAPHY ......………………………………………………………………………..7 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This report provides the requirements and steps to become a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) in Texas. In addition, it addresses the requirements to apply for and sit for the Texas Uniform CPA Exam, which details the topics covered and the structure of the exam. The report presents the rules, sites, and testing windows under which the exam can be taken. It also discusses the resources available in preparation for the exam. Finally, it includes the additional requirements to become a Texas CPA once a candidate passes the exam. The Texas State Boards of Accountancy determines the laws and rules for becoming a CPA in the state of Texas. The candidates who meet specific eligibility requirements will be issued certificates to practice public accountancy within the state. These requirements...
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...Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México University of California Institute for Mexico and the United States Review: The Third Generation: Reflections on Recent Chicano Historiography Author(s): David G. Gutiérrez Source: Mexican Studies / Estudios Mexicanos, Vol. 5, No. 2 (Summer, 1989), pp. 281-296 Published by: University of California Press on behalf of the University of California Institute for Mexico and the United States and the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1052091 . Accessed: 01/05/2011 16:00 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp. JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use provides, in part, that unless you have obtained prior permission, you may not download an entire issue of a journal or multiple copies of articles, and you may use content in the JSTOR archive only for your personal, non-commercial use. Please contact the publisher regarding any further use of this work. Publisher contact information may be obtained at . http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublisher?publisherCode=ucal. . Each copy of any part of a JSTOR transmission must contain the same copyright notice that appears on the screen or printed page of such transmission. JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive....
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...Case Study Analysis The complex and dynamic realm of health care has generated a need to focus on cultural change to improve health care quality. To overcome a decade of difficulties and implement a program for improving their quality, the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth (UNTHSC) began a journey to change the culture of their organization. Using the change model the new president initiated measures to revise the quality improvement program and strategies for meeting regulatory and accreditation standards. Many barriers interfered with the process but actions were executed to overcome these obstacles (Ransom, Joshi, Nash, & Ransom, 2008). This paper will describe the cultural change journey of UNTHSC through unfreezing their old culture and laying the foundation for a new culture of quality. Measures to Monitor and Revise Quality Program Implementation The measures used to monitor and revise quality program implementation foster changing the organizational structure of an institution. The UNTHSC at Forth Worth decided to institute cultural changes as a form of monitoring and influencing the change process. The initial element of the measurement process incorporated administrative, academic, clinical practice, research application, financial elements, and community goals. A baseline measure was associated with current levels of operations. The management team was held accountable in regard to focusing on four areas of measurement...
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...Theories, and Conceptual Model NRS-430V 3 May 2015 Introduction Nursing education has been at the center of debate for many years. Differences between Associate degree nurses and Baccalaureate degree nurses are at the center of the educational debate. While studies have shown that an increase in Baccalaureate educated nurses decreases patient deaths, rates of readmission, and improves overall patient outcomes, many nurses still opt for the Associates degree path first. This paper will examine the differences between nurses prepared at the Associate degree level vs. nurses prepared at the Baccalaureate degree level. Associate Degree Nurse The Associate degree nurse (ADN) is a nurse who has gone to school for two years. Many types of schools offer these programs, including community colleges and trade schools. After completion of the program, graduates are prepared to take the National Council Licensure Examination or NCLEX which if passed, allows the student to practice as a Registered Nurse. These programs increase the amount of nurses coming into the field of nursing. Many nurses chose this route due to being able to graduate in less time and incur less costs to receive their education. In 1958 Dr. Mildred Montag, a leader in nursing education sought to reduce the shortage of nurses by creating a two year program at the community college level. By moving nursing education out of the hospital and into the community college, it allowed applicants who...
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