MPH508 Leadership and Administration in Public Health Systems
Module 1 Discussion
You will participate in one discussion this week. There are two different topics presented below, in bolded text. Please choose one of these topics for your discussion this week, address the bullet items under the topic name.
Approach to Leadership
Given a position as a new leader of a public health organization, prepare a brief summary of your approach to the leadership of the organization.
Comparison of Leadership Theories
Analyze the difference between two of the leadership theories discussed in the Module 1 lesson.
MPH508 Leadership and Administration in Public Health Systems
Module 2 Discussion
You will participate in one discussion this week. There are two different topics presented below, in bolded text. Please choose one of these topics for your discussion this week, address the bullet items under the topic name.
Systems Level Leadership
At what systems level are you most comfortable in pursuing a leadership position (e.g., micro, meso, or macro)? Explain.
Six Values of Quality in Leadership
Of the six values of quality in leadership, which quality resonates most with your leadership style? Why?
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Module 3 Discussion
Leadership Application
You will participate in one discussion this week focused on application of principles of leadership, governance and management.
Leadership Application
Using the case study entitled “Code Red: A Public Health Approach to School Gun Violence” in your Rowitz textbook (pg. 600). Imagine that you have been hired as a Prevention Specialist to address school gun violence in your local area. What strategies and principles of leadership would you apply to address the scenario in this case study? Please include specific examples of how you would create a vision, foster collaboration, empower stakeholders, and guide decision-making on this initiative.
MPH508 Leadership and Administration in Public Health Systems
Module 4 Discussion
You will participate in one discussion this week. There are two different topics presented below, in bolded text. Please choose one of these topics for your discussion this week, address the bullet items under the topic name.
Effective Leadership Communication
What are some of the unique challenges associated with effectively communicating as a public health leader in a group setting?
Building a Collaborative Team
Describe a time when you had a good team experience and when you had a bad team experience.
What factors contributed to each experience?
Did the team achieve the desired outcome? Why or why not?
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Module 5 Discussion
You will participate in one discussion this week. There are two different topics presented below, in bolded text. Please choose one of these topics for your discussion this week, address the bullet items under the topic name.
Change Management Theories
Why is having a strong understanding in change management theories a critical factor in implementing change initiatives? Please elaborate in your answer.
Lewin's and Kotter's Change Management Theories
Using Lewin's or Kotter's change theory, design a schematic diagram outlining the steps of a change effort that you feel is necessary in your current practice setting.
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Module 6 Discussion
Negotiating and Mediation using Conflict Management Styles
Working with people such as is described in this week’s module on human resources requires application of negotiation and mediation skills. For this discussion, consider a selected organizational or community challenge such as implementation of a COVID-19 response within your organization or community.
Using the five styles of conflict management, describe how your negotiation and mediation approaches might differ.
Exprts on conflict management have defined early approaches to conflict resolution as incorporating five styles (Kraybill, 2005), from which various conflict resolution models have since been derived.
collaborating
competing
avoiding
accommodating
compromising
Please use this resource in formulating your responses to this week's discussion and select from among those five styles described therein.
Kraybill, R. (2005). Understanding five conflict styles. Meisha Rouser Leadership & Professional Development. https://meisharouser.com/resolving-conflict-understanding-five-conflict-styles/
Please follow the Discussion Guidelines found in the course Syllabus.
MPH508 Leadership and Administration in Public Health Systems
Module 7 Discussion
You will participate in one discussion this week. There are two different topics presented below, in bolded text. Please choose one of these topics for your discussion this week, address the bullet items under the topic name.
Public Health Business Plans
Of the seven steps of the business plan, which step(s) will be most vital for the public health leader to address? Please elaborate in your response.
Break Even Analysis
Work through the problem below, then answer the following questions.
How many patients would the clinic have to provide services for to break even and at what point would this occur?
Break Even Analysis Problem
A new teenage pregnancy clinic will have a fixed cost of $300,000—start-up costs, hiring advanced practice nurses and employees, salaries, purchase of equipment, and other miscellaneous items.
Also, the teenage pregnancy clinic has variable costs of $200 per patient visit—medical equipment, educational materials, and other miscellaneous items.
There will be three levels of patient treatment:
Simple = initial assessment and four prenatal visits
Moderate = continuous treatment and monthly visits
Complex = high-risk treatment
Each patient will be charged the following per visit, based on the following categories:
Simple 15% = $400
Moderate 60% = $1,000
Complex 25% = $2,000
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Module 8 Discussion
Professional Coalitions and Organizations
Discuss the importance of professional organizations as they relate to the public good and well-being.
MPH508 Leadership and Administration in Public Health Systems
Module 3 Assignment
Personal Leadership Paper
Purpose
The purpose of this assignment is to provide the student an opportunity to assess one’s personal strengths-based leadership from a systems perspective and develop a public health leader résumé and personal vision statement.
Course Outcomes
This assignment provides documentation of student ability to meet the following course outcomes:
CO1: Explain the various aspects of individual and group organizational behavior including micro and macro perspectives (POs 7 and 8).
CO4: Apply leadership and behavioral theory through research and collaborative projects in healthcare and public healthcare settings (POs 1 and 8).
CO7: Apply systems thinking principles for resolving organizational problems (POs 7 and 8).
Due Date
Submit your completed application by Sunday, 11:59 p.m. MT of Week 3 as directed.
Requirements
In order to prepare your personal leadership paper, you will need to complete your StrengthsFinder self-assessment available through your required textbook:
Rath. T. & Conchie, B. (2013). Strengths based leadership: Great leaders, teams, and why people follow. New York, NY: Gallup, Inc.
The Personal Leadership Paper is worth 250 points and will be graded on quality of information, use of citations, use of Standard English grammar, sentence structure, and overall organization based on the required components as summarized in the directions and grading criteria/rubric.
Create your manuscript using Microsoft Word, which is the required format for all Chamberlain College of Health Professions documents.
Follow the directions and grading criteria closely. Any questions about this paper may be posted under the Q&A Forum.
The length of the paper is to be no less than 3 and no greater than 5 pages, excluding title page and reference pages (the one-page résumé should be attached as an appendix to your paper).
APA format is required with both a title page and reference page. Use the required components of the review as Level 1 headings (upper and lower case, centered, boldface):
Note: Introduction – Write an introduction to your paper, but do not use “Introduction” as a heading in accordance with the rules put forth in the Publication manual of the American Psychological Association.
Description of strengths-based leadership findings
Assessment of strengths-based leadership findings from a systems perspective
Prepared one-page public health leader résumé (attach as an appendix to your personal leadership paper)
Creating a personal vision statement, apply principles of leadership, governance, and management by addressing how you might best: (a) empower others, (b) foster collaboration, and (c) guide decision-making as a public health leader.
Conclusion
Preparing Your Paper
The following are best practices for preparing this paper:
When introducing the personal leadership paper, be sure to identify the source and background of the StengthsFinder self-assessment and its relationship to the purpose of the paper.
When describing the strengths-based leadership findings, be sure to identify appropriate background information (who, what, where, when, and why) as applies to your personal findings.
When assessing the strengths-based leadership findings, be sure to fully address identified findings from a systems perspective (micro, meso, macro) with examples to support assertions.
When reflecting on the application of the strengths-based leadership findings, be sure to include the one-page public health leader résumé in your appendix, and creating a personal vision statement, apply principles of leadership, governance, and management by addressing how you might best: (a) empower others, (b) foster collaboration, and (c) guide decision-making as a public health leader.
MPH508 Leadership and Administration in Public Health Systems
Module 5 Assignment
Change Management Paper
Purpose
The purpose of this assignment is to provide the student an opportunity to demonstrate the application of change management strategies to achieve health equity at micro, meso, and macro levels using application of a systems thinking tool.
Course Outcomes
This assignment provides documentation of student ability to meet the following course outcomes:
CO 1: Explain the various aspects of individual and group organizational behavior, including micro and macro perspectives (POs 7 and 8).
CO 2: Explain leaderships' critical role in managing and motivating individuals within the work environment (PO 8).
CO 3: Analyze the social and cultural organization dynamics from a leadership perspective (POs 1, 5, and 8).
CO 4: Apply leadership and behavioral theory through research and collaborative projects in healthcare and public health settings (POs 1 and 8).
CO 5: Identify effective management of interpersonal and intrapersonal issues in general and in public healthcare settings (POs 7, 8, and 9).
CO 7: Apply systems thinking principles for resolving organizational problems (POs 7 and 8).
Due Date
Submit your completed application by Sunday, 11:59 p.m. MT of Week 5 as directed.
Requirements
In order to prepare your change management paper, you will need to familiarize yourself with systems thinking tools such as are described in your required textbook (Rowitz, 2014). The following resources will also help:
The Systems Thinker - Palette of Systems Thinking Tools websiteLinks to an external site.
Peters, D. H. (2014). The application of systems thinking in health: Why use systems thinking? Health Research Policy and Systems, 12, 51. https://doi.org/10.1186/1478-4505-12-51Links to an external site.
The Change Management Paper is worth 250 points and will be graded on quality of information, use of citations, use of Standard English grammar, sentence structure, and overall organization based on the required components as summarized in the directions and grading criteria/rubric.
Create your manuscript using Microsoft Word, which is the required format for all Chamberlain College of Health Professions documents.
Follow the directions and grading criteria closely. Any questions about this paper may be posted under the Q&A Forum.
The length of the paper is to be no less than 5 and no greater than 7 pages, excluding title page and reference pages.
APA format is required with both a title page and reference page. Use the required components of the review as Level 1 headings (upper and lower case, centered, boldface):
Note: Introduction – Write an introduction to your paper, but do not use “Introduction” as a heading in accordance with the rules put forth in the Publication manual of the American Psychological Association.
Introduction to the purpose of the change management paper
Description of the means by which structural bias, social inequities and racism undermine health and create challenges to achieve health equity at micro (population/community), meso (public health/organizational), and macro (regulatory/societal) system levels
Description of selected change management theory
Presentation of the structure, process (function), and expected outcomes of selected change strategies to achieve health equity at the described micro, meso, and macro levels using a systems thinking tool of your choosing to address each system level. You will create the visual representation using an appropriate systems thinking tool introduced in the David Peters (2014) article (e.g. casual loop, stock and flow diagram, process map, etc.).
Reflection and discussion of change management evaluation and sustainability
Conclusion
Preparing Your Paper
The following are best practices for preparing this paper:
When introducing the change management paper, be sure to identify the purpose of the paper and the need to consider potential benefits of change management to address threats to health equity in public health.
When describing the means by which structural bias, social inequities and racism undermine health and create challenges to achieve health equity at micro (population/community), meso (public health/organizational), and macro (regulatory/societal) levels, be sure to identify appropriate background information (who, what, where, when, and why) as applies to each threat to health equity.
When describing the selected change management theory, be sure to properly cite the author and source of the theory as well as your rationale for the selected theoretical approach and each step of the selected theoretical model.
4. When presenting the structure, process (function), and expected outcomes of selected change strategies to achieve health equity from a systems perspective (micro, meso, macro), be sure to include a systems thinking tool of your choosing to address each system level.
When reflecting on the selected change management recommendations, be certain to address relevant elements of evaluation and sustainability.
MPH508 Leadership and Administration in Public Health Systems
Module 7 Assignment
Public Health Business Plan
Purpose
The purpose of this assignment is to provide the student an opportunity to demonstrate the use of budgetary and resource management skills to build a business acumen for public health practice.
Course Outcomes
This assignment provides documentation of student ability to meet the following course outcome:
CO 3: Analyze the social and cultural organization dynamics from a leadership perspective (POs 1, 5, and 8).
CO 6: Apply quality and performance improvement concepts to address organizational performance issues (POs 2 and 3).
CO 8: Demonstrate leadership skills for building collaborative partnerships (POs 7, 8, and 9).
Due Date
Submit your completed application by Sunday, 11:59 p.m. MT of Week 7 as directed.
Requirements
In order to prepare your public health business plan, you will need to complete assigned readings through your required textbook:
Orton, S. N., Menkens, A. J., & Santos, P. (2011). Public health business planning: A practical guide. Jones & Bartlett Learning.
The Public Health Business Plan is worth 260 points and will be graded on quality of information, use of citations, use of Standard English grammar, sentence structure, and overall organization based on the required components as summarized in the directions and grading criteria/rubric.
Create your manuscript using Microsoft Word, which is the required format for all Chamberlain College of Health Professions documents.
Follow the directions and grading criteria closely. Any questions about this paper may be posted under the Q & A Forum.
The length of the paper is to be no less than 7 and no greater than 10 pages, excluding title page and reference pages.
APA format is required with both a title page and reference page. Use the required components of the review as Level 1 headings (upper and lower case, centered, boldface):
Note: Introduction – Write an introduction to your paper, but do not use “Introduction” as a heading in accordance with the rules put forth in the Publication manual of the American Psychological Association.
Introduction to the purpose of the public health business plan to demonstrate the use of budgetary and resource management skills to build a business acumen for public health practice
Description of the proposed public health business from a social marketing and target analysis perspective including identified partnerships and potential collaboration points
Presentation of proposed operations management including implementation plan and timeline
Presentation of proposed budgetary and resource management plans including proposed fiscal, human, and information resources
Discussion of public health business planned evaluation, quality improvement, and sustainability
Conclusion
Preparing Your Paper
The following are best practices for preparing this paper:
When introducing the public health business plan, be sure to identify the purpose of the plan in demonstrating the use of budgetary and resource management skills to build a business acumen for public health practice.
When describing the proposed public health business, be certain to address social marketing and target analysis aspects of the proposal as well as identified partnerships and potential collaboration points.
When presenting proposed operations for the public health business plan, be certain to include a three-year operations timetable (may use GANTT or PERT chart).
When presenting proposed financials for the public health business plan, be certain to include a three-year budget that includes consideration of fiscal, human, and information resources.
When discussing the public health business plans for evaluation, quality improvement (QI), and sustainability, be certain to address potential exit strategy.
