Primary Task Response: Using the budget information from Unit 1 and the financial plan and operational budget from the Unit 4 Intellipath Assignment, discuss the need for the following:
Increase in revenue reimbursement through inpatient length of stay and outpatient vendor relationships
Allocation for the proposed improvements and required partnerships
Partnering with local skilled nursing facilities and home health organizations
Increase in salaries
Be sure to discuss the following areas:
Funding sources
Your methodology in revenue forecasting
How the new services will impact revenue?
Fixed and variable costs
Project inpatient and outpatient visits based on current trends
PICOT Question: Will hourly rounding by nursing staff decrease falls on inpatient medical surgical units as compared to inpatient medical surgical units that do not utilize hourly rounding.
Week 6 attached
This discussion relates to the qualitative research study you proposed in Module 6.
Briefly describe the purpose of your study and study design. Describe the analytical methods and processes you would use, including methods to describe the participants. Provide rationale for each method.
Qualitative Research Design for the Study of Impact of Hourly Rounding by Nursing Staff on Patient Falls
Name of Student
University Affiliation
The Study Purpose
The purpose of the study is to determine whether use hourly rounding among the nursing staff in the inpatient medical surgical units can lead to reduction in patient falls. The study will employ a retrospective qualitative study design, where existing patient medical records will be examined to determine how hourly rounds influences the patient falls. In doing so, the study will provide research findings and draw conclusions on how hourly rounds influences patients falls and determine whether its use is associated with the reduction in inpatient falls in surgical units.
The Analytical Methods and Processes
The study will use the hospital available medical data that involved patients who experienced falls and those who did not fall during their hospital stay. The data will be drawn from a 2-year period involving participants aged 18 years or older. In order to ensure the study achieves external and internal validity, a systematic random sampling technique will be used and the number of participants (n) that will be used in the study will also be determined. Since the study will involve the patients who experienced falls and non-fallers, the study will employ the statistical data analysis methods. One of the methods that will be used for analysis is the independent sample t-tests. According to (Main & Ogaz, 2016) t-tests statistical analysis is employed in determining whether there is significant difference in mean of two groups. The method will be appropriate since study will evaluate the mean number of falls and compare them with the mean of the non-fallers to determine whether there is a significant difference. The other data analysis method that will be used is the variance. The rationale for using the va………………………inpatient medical surgical units……………………………………………………………………………
