1. Homework Assignment
    COMMUNICATIONS

    DUE DATE: 2/2/05
    ASSIGNMENT:
    1) Select a group to observe for 15 minutes. Groups must consist of a minimum of four members.
    Examples of groups you can observe:
     Staff at a staff meeting.
     Family/friends at the dinner table.
     Group study session.
     Scene from a television show.
     Others? Just ask us….
    2) Complete one Patterns of Communication Chart every five minutes. Write a description of your observations (not more than one typed page). Be sure to include the following topics discussed at the retreat and completed copies of your patterns of communication charts.
     One-way
     Two-way
     Verbal
     Non-verbal
     Patterns of communication
     Barriers to communication
     Cultural and stylist differences

    Communications’ team contact: Kathleen Monahan
    kmonahan@notes.cc.sunysb.edu



    HEALTH ECONOMICS

    DUE DATE: 2/9/05
    ASSIGNMENT:

    This assignment should be no more than one page, typed single space.

    1) How will the competitive marketplace for health care services impact you?
    2) Explain how these changes could actually improve the quality of health care services.
    alan.leiken@stonybrook.edu

    SCOPE OF PRACTICE

    DUE DATE: 2/16/05

    ASSIGNMENT:

    This assignment should be no more than one page, typed single space.

    1) After attending the lecture on scope of practice, your dean has asked you to provide some thoughts and/or recommendations on these issues as they relate to your discipline. What are some key issues related to scope of practice in your field? What are the challenges to scope of practice within your discipline?

    2) Recognizing the changing skill-mix occurring in health care settings, what recommendations would you make for changing the curriculum within your school to address these issues? Be sure to give the rationale or justification for your recommendations.

    cberger@notes.cc.sunysb.edu


    MEDICAL INFORMATICS/TELEHEALTH

    DUE DATE: 2/23/05

    ASSIGNMENT

    1. Access the WEB and identify at least three sites that offer information and/or management of a health related geriatric issue.

    2. Discuss what sites and information are valid, appropriate and useful for the patient/client.

    3. Specify the sites that are not and why. Be specific.

    clehmann@notes.cc.sunysb.edu
    Candace.Golightly@stonybrook.edu
    444-3247





    ETHICS

    DUE DATE: 3/2/05
    ASSIGNMENT:

    As discussed in class, good professional practice is guided by adherence to a set of ethical principles. Some have said that the changes in today’s health care delivery system have made it increasingly difficult to practice in an ethical fashion. Others of course reject this position.

    Get a copy of your profession’s Code of Ethics. Select a section of the Code that you believe will be difficult to adhere to in today’s health care delivery system.

    Explain why you believe there will be a problem and then what you as an individual professional could do to eliminate the conflict.
    A copy of the Code of Ethics must be attached to this assignment.
    crobbins@notes.cc.sunysb.edu


    POLICY


    DUE DATE: 3/9/05

    ASSIGNMENT:

    This assignment should be no more than one page, typed single space.
     

    Readings:  Familiarize yourselves with the following

     

    1)  www.health.gov/healthypeople/document/tableofcontents.htm

    2)  www.ahrq.gov/consumer/20tips.htm

    3)  http://aspe.hhs.gov/admnsimp/final/pvcguide1.htm

    4)  www.health.gov/healthypeople/LHI/1hiwha.htm

     


    Using the “leading health indicators” (found at the 4th reading site given)
    discuss how your discipline can make a difference in improving public health. In particular, if you see a weakness (in the manner your discipline impacts or addresses these indicators) please describe how you would change policy to correct the deficiency.

    Hector.Sepulveda@stonybrook.edu
    444-3244






    LEGAL ISSUES

    DUE DATE: 3/16/05

    ASSIGNMENT:

    TO BE DETERMINED



    PUBLIC HEALTH

    DUE DATE: 3/30/05

    ASSIGNMENT: