Similarities and differences in hospital care from the different time periods
As a health care administrator, you will often do research on a topic to provide background information for decision making, committee work, or creating policies. It is often best practice to use a comparison table to lay out and visualize your research notations. For this week’s assignment you will complete a comparison table on hospital care across three time periods and analyze the similarities and differences of the different topics for each of the time periods in the table. You will summarize key findings for the topics and draw appropriate conclusions in a 2–3-page paper, with your comparative table in the appendix.
Scenario
Imagine you are a patient with a serious illness in a hospital in the 1800s, in the 1960s, and today. Think about the room configurations, the skills of the nurses and other staff, the level and type of care, and how you would pay for the care, both now and in the previous centuries.
Instructions
Using the Comparative Analysis Template [DOCX] Download Comparative Analysis Template [DOCX], write a 2–3 page paper about the similarities and differences in hospital care from the different time periods (1800s, 1960s, and today), as well as the conclusions you drew from your analysis. In addition, complete the Comparative Analysis Table: Hospital Care Evolution in the appendix of the assignment div.
Complete the following:
1. Use your textbook and at least two other resources included in What You Need to Know for this week or resources you find on your own to research how the hospital industry has evolved in terms of hospital environment, medical staff education, level of care in hospitals, and the payment systems. Use the History of Health Care ResearchLinks to an external site. tab in the Health Care Administration Undergraduate Library Research GuideLinks to an external site. to guide your research process.
o You will need to reference a total of three scholarly sources in your paper.
o Be sure to cite these references within the body of your paper correctly using APA style citations.
2. Complete the Comparative Analysis Table: Hospital Evolution, located in the appendix of the assignment div.
o Provide two descriptive changes for each time period under each of the headings.
o Add bullet points to each cell in the table to document the descriptive changes that you have found for each topic.
o Document the source where you found the information for each cell in the table, using APA citation style.
