HCS 451 Week 5 Learning Team Assignment

Select one organization type from the various organizations your Learning Team analyzed as part of your Week Four assignment. Build on your knowledge acquired from all previous assignments to complete the final Learning Team presentation.

Conduct research about decision-making processes in risk management and quality management in health care, including the following:

Common problems encountered by your chosen organization type

How to acquire relevant information required for decision making

Common tools used to enhance decision making

Challenges that may be encountered in making risk-management and quality-management decisions

Current and future trends in risk and quality management

What strategies should be adapted to improve ongoing performance

Outline your organization’s decision-making processes that will be used to address risk- and quality-management issues. A 1-page list of steps, a flow chart, or a decision tree format is suggested.

Create a presentation of your findings. Your presentation may be in one of the following formats:

A 15- to 20-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation, including detailed speaker notes

Support your presentation with a minimum of six sources, four from the University Library and two from either the course textbooks or this week’s Electronic Reserve Readings. Prepare a list of all resources used in your research.

Include the following in your presentation:

Decision-making process document

Summary of how the scenario might apply to your chosen organization

Information needed and the most appropriate tools for responding to the scenario

Why the process, information, and tools were chosen and how they should contribute to a response

The decision your team made regarding the scenario and how you reached your decision

How any changes resulting from your decisions could be disseminated and implemented in the organization

Challenges your team faced in this project

Reference list consistent with APA guidelines

Document active participation in the learning team project—1 point is possible. Submit this document separately in the team forum.