St. Jude's Hospital Capstone Project-Research Paper

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Capstone Project

The purpose of the Capstone Project is for you to show your understanding of the course materials and your ability to communicate at the college level. For your capstone project, you will be performing research on a real-life healthcare organization. Drawing upon your learning in previous courses, you will be asked to analyze various facets and provide a detailed picture of the organization.

As you compile the information, consider what value each process adds to the company and how quality improvements might improve outcomes.

Compose your report using Standard American English as described in the APA guidelines available at Kaplan University Writing Center. You need to follow formal APA formatting for the project to include title page and reference page. Make sure you cite your reference in the text and on the reference page using proper APA format.

You will find a Project Rubric used to grade the project in the syllabus. There are five sections to the project.

Section Due Date Point Description Grading Criteria

Section 1 Unit 2: 50 Proposal and introduction Content, composition, and use of English
Section 2 Unit 5: 100 Description of organization Content, composition, and use of English
Section 3 Unit 7: 100 Financial and marketing Content, composition, and use of English
Section 4 Unit 8: 100 Economic and Outside influence Content, composition, and use of English
Section 5 Unit 9: 150 Conclusion and Combination of all section in a concise readable format APA format, content, flow use of English, inclusions of suggestions made by instructor, and communication style and readability.
Total 500 Points

Your Instructor will make suggestions for improvement and provide follow-up needed for sections 1 thru 4. It is your responsibility to incorporate instructor feedback into the final presentation in order to achieve full credit. Grades for the project will be available in the Gradebook by EOD on Sunday following the close of the unit. All times are in Eastern Standard Time.

THE FACILITY CHOSEN FOR THIS PROJECT IS ST. JUDES HOSPITAL

HERE IS A BREAK DOWN OF WHAT IS EXPECTED PER SECTION::

Instructions:

1.Select a hospital to explore from the list of Hospitals for Capstone project (Doc Sharing) and have it approved by the instructor. (ST JUDES HOSPITAL)
2.Go to the selected hospitals web site (www.stjude.org/) and research the information needed. These will include the Mission Statement, Strategic Plan, and Annual Report. Demographics will be in the Home Page, Locations, etc. Other valuable information is to be found in Community Outreach areas, Certification and Accreditations, and Corporate Compliance areas. You should use outside materials (news articles, videos, etc) to supplement information from the hospital web site.
3.Your work must include the following: Section 1 Proposal and introduction of project
•Select hospital from the list
•Write introduction
•State selected organization
•Rationale behind the selection of the organization
•Set the scene and tone of the paper

Section 2 Analysis of the organization
•Describe the organization’s:
•Facility physical settings •Patient or client base
•Level of clinical activity
•Organization structure
•Describe the mission, vision, and goals of the organization and how the organization supports these items.
•Report the consumer and patient rights the organization follows.
•Human resource and employee issues
•Community and Global impact
•Prepare a SWOT analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats) of the external and internal forces faced by this organization. This will have information added throughout the project

Section 3 Financial management, quality and marketing aspects of the organization
•Financial
•Analysis of the service reimbursement for the organization (State, Federal, Insurance and Private Pay)
•Methods of funding
•Research issues
•Quality and Ethics
•Accreditation
•Awards
•Regulation
•Ethical issues regarding who receives care at the organization
•Marketing
•Strategies
•Branding
•Community and employee involvement

Section 4 Impact of economic and outside influences to the organization
•National and world economy impact
•Explanation of the sustainability of this organizational care model
•Healthcare reform
•Regulations

Section 5 Conclusion for your paper and combine all the sections into a project paper
•Recap the info regarding organization
•Glimpse into the future for the organization based on your learning
•Combine all parts into a APA formatted product
4.Requirements
a.You will need to cite minimum of twelve references in the complete report. There should be 3 to 4 references per section.
b.Prepare this project according to APA guidelines.
c.Each section should be 1200 – 1600 words in length. ( This is because each section I am suppose to be submitting to my professor so she can give me feedback as to what to eliminate and what to keep)
The final report should be 3,500 – 5,000 words in length.( this is what matters- right now I’m two sections behind. Unit 2; SEction 1 andUnit 5;section 2)

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