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Week 3

This week you will review in more detail strategic alternatives for problem solving. You will review Directional Strategies and alternative solutions. Directional strategies are used to accomplish goals and objectives while keeping in mind the overall financial and service components. Whether to increase profits, growth or maintain company balance directional strategies provide the plan to do so. Alternative solutions allow the company to look at a problem form many different perspectives. Choosing a solution will take into account the risks associated as well and the potential success of the strategy. Delineating the alternatives will provide information to determine if the strategy can be accomplished.

Your Learning Objectives for the Week:

Utilize the concepts of healthcare finance, economics, and information systems management and risk management in administrative decision-making.

Incorporate legal and ethical issues in healthcare in administrative decision-making.

Textbook:

itle: Strategic Management of Health Care Organizations

Author: Linda E. Swayne, Jack Duncan, Peter M. Ginter

Ed/Year: 8th Edition, 2018

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

The practice of cross training staff (learning another type of job) is an old and often successful practice at hospitals.

Using the South University Online Library or the Internet, research cross training techniques. Based on your research and training, respond to the following:

What steps would you take in deciding whether or not to cross train lab technicians as x-ray technicians?

What are the negative and positive financial considerations in making this decision?

What steps will you take to deal with a weekend staffing crisis whereby your small hospital has no x-ray technicians in-house, yet the demand for their services is very high including 30 percent of the need emanating from critical care units?

Make sure that you include an introduction and conclusion to your post.

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