Socio-Political Drivers in Influencing Positive Healthcare Outcomes

You must use the rubric to direct the creation of your submission because it provides detailed criteria that will be used to evaluate your work. Each requirement below may be evaluated by more than one rubric aspect.
A. Discuss how to positively affect the health and behavioral health outcomes of the community described in the scenario by applying two sociopolitical drivers at each of the following levels:
• micro
• mezzo
• macro
B. Discuss how to develop strategic partnerships between the organization (i.e., the hospital) and the community in the scenario by doing the following:
1. Identify two new and innovative community relationships, one with a strategic partner and one with an organizational stakeholder, that could benefit the organization and community from the scenario.
a. Describe how the relationships identified in part B1 can be applied to the scenario to advance the needs of the organization and community.
2. Describe one policy and one procedure that could be implemented within the context of the scenario to advance the goals of the organization.
3. Describe how the expressed dynamics of diversity in the identified community population from the scenario could be harnessed to positively affect health and behavioral health outcomes for this population.
C. Discuss the application of an interprofessional team to the scenario by doing the following:
1. Describe three distinct strategies: one to develop a culturally diverse interprofessional team, one to manage a culturally diverse interprofessional team, and one to foster the collaboration of a culturally diverse interprofessional team.
2. Describe two professional development strategies that could be applied to benefit interprofessional team collaboration when engaging in group work to assist the community identified in the scenario.
3. Apply critical thinking and strategic decision-making to determine two solutions to the problem presented in the scenario.
4. Describe one verbal and one nonverbal communication strategy or technique that could be used within the scenario to address barriers to healthcare access for the identified community.
D. Discuss the application of performance development strategies to the scenario by doing the following:
1. Describe two strategies to increase the organization’s employee engagement around the community problem described in the scenario.
2. Describe two organizational structures that could be put in place to encourage professional development opportunities for the organization’s staff that would systemically support the needs of the community identified in the scenario.
3. Identify three dynamics of professional behavior and etiquette in relation to the scenario and modeled within each of the following contexts:
• one personal context
• one organizational context
• one industry context
a. Describe how the identified dynamics from part D3 could be applied to the scenario to improve outcomes for the inter-professional team and community population.
4. Identify three personal values and perspectives you would hold as an HSC professional to support the inter-professional team, organization, and community identified in the scenario.
a. Describe how the personal values and perspectives from part D4 could be applied to engage yourself as a leader within the healthcare field.
b. Describe how the personal values and perspectives from part D4 could be applied to engage community partners in the context of the scenario.
E. Acknowledge sources, using APA-formatted in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.
F. Demonstrate professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission.