Assignment: Nursing Homes Conditions
Assignment: Nursing Homes Conditions
You are a new data analyst at Liberty Hospital. The HIM Director has asked you to put together a quick report for her to use in an upcoming meeting. The report will focus on the conditions of nursing homes in your area (city/state).
Often times in healthcare you may be asked to perform tasks with little or no direction. For this assignment, you will need to use your critical thinking skills to determine which information will be helpful to the HIM director.
In order to develop this report, perform an Internet search for Medicare.gov’s Nursing Home Compare website. In a 1-2 page report, written in APA format complete the following:
Perform a quality analysis on three (3) nursing homes in your community. Note any information that would be helpful to the HIM Director.
Rank the nursing homes from highest to lowest based on their quality ratings.
Be sure your report is free of spelling and grammar errors.
You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.
Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.
Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.
The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.