Health Administration Students Research Articles

The Perception of Using TED Talks in Enhancing College Students’ Listening Skill for The Fourth Semester of Health Administration Students at STIKes RS Husada Academic Year 2023 –2024

This article presents survey data from 21 students from Bachelor’s Degree of Health Administration about the perception of using TED talks. The objective of the study was to know the students’ perceptions of using TED Talks in improving listening skill for the fourth semester of Health Administration students at STIKes RS Husada Academic Year 2022 – 2023. In the perception of convenience, the mean scores for all statements ranged from 2.05 to 2.33, which suggests a positive perception of convenience. The standard deviations were relatively low, indicating a certain level of agreement among the students. In the perception of benefits, the mean scores for all statements ranged from 1.86 to 2.10, indicating positive perceptions of benefits. The standard deviations were relatively low, suggesting a certain level of agreement among the students. In the perception of interests, the mean scores for all statements were around 2.00, indicating positive perceptions of interests. The standard deviations were relatively low, suggesting a certain level of agreement among the students. In conclusion, the findings from the study indicate that the students have positive perceptions regarding the convenience, benefits, and interests associated with using TED Talks for learning and practicing listening skills.

Disaster preparedness: An interprofessional student incident command system simulation

Disasters are complex and require teams to navigate uncertain situations, communicate effectively across teams, craft unified messages, and address inputs from multiple stakeholders in real time. It is vital that students learn to work in interprofessional teams while they are in school so that when they become practicing professionals they have the teamwork and communication skills necessary to collaborate during a disaster. The aim of this interprofessional tabletop simulation was to engage first semester graduate health administration students and upper level undergraduate public health students in an incident command center response to an F5 tornado. Best practices in simulation design, including creating mutual objectives, promoting a safe learning environment, and utilizing a structured debriefing, were used to craft the incident command simulation. Evaluation of the simulation was conducted through direct observation, as well as surveys assessing knowledge gain and satisfaction. Evaluation of quantitative data indicated knowledge gain in incident command system sections and roles, job action sheets to perform necessary actions, and coordination of services to respond to a disaster. Students also reported high levels of satisfaction with the experience and improvements in teamwork and communication skills. Qualitative themes described characteristics of interprofessional education (role clarity, communication, collaboration, teamwork) and simulation (value of practice, complexity of response). Applying evidence-based practices to the design and implementation of this interprofessional simulation helped ensure students gained knowledge with incident command system structure and function and improved their ability to communicate.

Examination of Online Interprofessional Education to Develop Graduate Students’ Interprofessional Socialization and Collaborative Competencies

ABSTRACT Interprofessional education (IPE) is important to prepare graduate students for collaborative practice. This mixed methods study sought to evaluate a full-semester, asynchronous online IPE course for graduate students. Thirty-one graduate social work, nursing, public health, and health administration students participated. Interprofessional socialization and collaborative competencies were measured at three points in the semester. There were statistically significant improvements in self-reported socialization and competencies. Qualitative analysis revealed participants experienced new perspectives, developed appreciation of interprofessional collaboration, practiced communication and teamwork skills, and used course lessons in clinical practice. Study findings indicate that online IPE can help improve graduate students’ interprofessional socialization and collaborative competencies. Further, students indicated they applied course lessons to their school and work clinical practice sites.

The Attitudes About Law Number 4207 Among Health Administration Students

Aim: ‘National Tobacco Control Program’ had developed in Turkey by the Ministry of Health in 2009 with amendment of Law 4207 and all closed places became smoke-free. The National Media Campaign has been initiated with the “Smoke Free Air-Zone” slogan for raising public awareness. The aim of our study is to determine the smoking status and attitude of Health Management students about Law 4207 in a university in Turkey, four years after the application of Smoke Free Air-Zone. Methods: In this study we used a questionnaire with 33 questions, which was developed by researchers and Fagerstrom Nicotine Dependent Test to obtain the addiction level of the smokers. Results: Sixty-two percent of 244 students were female. 3.3% were ex-smokers and 10.7% were active smokers. 5.2% of females and 19.3% of males were smoking. 87.5% of smokers think smoking habbit is harmful. 41.4% of the students thought that Law 4207 was generally accepted by the society. Conclusion: Reducing the smoking prevalence and increasing the awareness about the Law 4207 among health administrators is very important for the imlementation of health policy. So our research has an importance to highlight this subject and increase the awareness of the campaign. Keywords: administrators, Law 4207, smoking cessation, tobacco use cessation

Opinions of Health Administration Students about Current Medical Law Applications

Opinions of Health Administration Students about Current Medical Law Applications

Online Simulation of a Root Cause Analysis for Graduate Health Administration Students

Despite increasing online learning popularity, this environment poses special challenges. Online teaching/learning lacks opportunities to teach interpersonal skills necessary for “real life” careers in healthcare administration. Connected synchronously, 14 graduate students including four registered nurses, all provided a role within the simulated root cause analysis team, were able to analyze a sentinel event followed by a debriefing that utilized the PEARLS methods and a submitted reflective assignment. These students expressed much satisfaction with this exercise, finding new insight and experience in this meaningful learning exercise.

The Relationships between Achievement goal Orientation, Academic Stress, Major Satisfaction, and Academic Achievement among Health Administration Students

본 연구는 학습자의 특성을 전공 영역 안에서 면밀히 살펴봄으로써 그들의 학습효과를 높이기 위한 교육적 함의를 찾고자 한다. 이에 보건행정 전공 학생들의 대표적인 정의적 특성이 학업성취도에 어떤 영향을 미치는지 실증적으로 분석하였다. 연구를 위해 광주, 전남의 4년제 대학 보건행정전공 대학생을 대상으로 조사를 실시하였다. 연구대상에게 성취목표지향성, 학업스트레스, 학과만족도, 학업성취도를 측정하였고 목표지향성을 중심으로 변인 간 차이검증 및 관계여부를 확인하였다. 그 결과 수행접근은 학업스트레스에 숙달접근은 전공만족도 중 ‘일반만족’에 유의미한 차이를 보였다. 성취목표지향성이 보건행정전공 대학생들의 학업스트레스, 전공만족도, 학업성취도 각각에 미치는 영향을 확인해 볼 결과 수행회피는 학업스트레스에, 숙달접근과 수행접근은 전공만족도에, 숙달접근은 학업성취도에 11%, 24%, 9%의 영향력을 가지고 있었다. 이에 본 연구에서는 보건행정전공 학생들의 목표유형을 확인할 수 있었고, 그들의 긍정적 학습과정 및 결과를 기대하기 위해서는 수행목표보다 숙달목표를 설정할 수 있는 환경조성이 필요함을 논의하였다.

Public health as a catalyst for interprofessional education on a health sciences campus.

Although interprofessional education (IPE) has existed in various formats for several decades, the need for IPE recently has taken on renewed interest and momentum. Public health has a critical role to play in furthering IPE, yet schools of public health are often underrepresented in IPE initiatives. The University of Iowa College of Public Health is serving as a catalyst for IPE activities on our health sciences campus, which includes colleges of dentistry, medicine, nursing, pharmacy, and public health. IPE-related activities have included campus visit by IPE leaders, administration of the Survey of Critical Elements for Implementing IPE, administration of the Interprofessional Learning Opportunities Inventory survey, the development of a comprehensive strategic plan, and the pilot of an IPE course for all first-year prelicensure students and Master of Health Administration students. Although more work is needed to more fully integrate IPE into the curriculum, success to date of the University of Iowa IPE initiative demonstrates that public health can play a critical role as a convener and catalyst for IPE curricular innovations on a health sciences campus.

Board #257 - Program Innovation Who Do You Call When Things Get Complicated? Simulations for Health Administration, Medicine and Nursing Students (Submission #8949)

Objectives Hospital administrators are individuals that provide oversight and leadership within healthcare organizations. In the current and future healthcare environment, it is increasingly important for hospital administrators to understand the roles of all disciplines and to understand how to effectively communicate with key stakeholders. To be successful, hospital administrators must work collaboratively with physician leaders, clinical and non-clinical professional staff, and external constituents, such as Board members. The goal of this case was to expose Masters’ of Science in Health Administration students to clinical scenarios they will potentially face in the future. By using simulated cases, the goal is for students to have the opportunity to interact with members of the healthcare team including physicians, nurses, respiratory therapists, patients and families. The MSHA students were integrated into an existing interprofessional student curriculum which included nursing, medical and respiratory therapy students. Description This study took place in the Pediatric Simulation Center located at Children’s of Alabama and the Simulation Center located at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital, both of which are located in Birmingham, Alabama. There were three simulated cases used that included exposure to the following situations: 1) A DNR/DNI patient whose family member insisted on intubation against the patient’s wishes after the patient became unconscious; 2) A pediatric patient, whose parent was a Jehovah’s witness, that desperately needed blood after experiencing inflected head trauma; and 3) A medical error involving a patient who was given 100 units of insulin instead of 10 units. Data were collected using program evaluations completed immediately at the conclusion of each simulation experience by the participating health administration students. Evaluations were collected from a total of 18 health administration students. Each evaluation contained statements about the simulation experience with the options of agree, neutral, or disagree. Participants were also asked to describe what they believed was most beneficial about the experience and what they feel could be improved. Conclusion All of the participants felt that their simulation experience was a valuable learning experience and the majority of participants felt that the experience will improve their care of patients in the future. Many of the students commented that these cases also helped them realize how important it is to have interdisciplinary communication and collaboration. Simulations were the most valuable to MSHA students when there were defined questions relating to legal issues because these cases had higher engagement of administrators. When asked about improvements, the recurring themes included clarification of the role of the administrator in the case, as well as having an actual administrator in the debriefing session following each simulation who could provide clearer answers as to proper ways to deal with each situation. Seventeen of the 18 students agreed that they would recommend this case series to others and several commented that having more than one opportunity to participate in simulations would be beneficial. Reference l. Cooper JB, Singer SJ, Hayes J, Sales M, Vogt JW, Raemer D, Meyer GS. Design and evaluation of simulation scenarios for a program introducing patient safety, teamwork, safety leadership, and simulation to healthcare leaders and managers. Simul Healthc 2011 Aug;6(4):231-8. Disclosures None

A comparison of the validity of two instruments assessing health professional student perceptions of interprofessional education and practice

Health professional education programs increasingly incorporate interprofessional education (IPE) activities into curricula in response to evolving health policy and accreditation requirements in an effort to highlight the benefits of, and prepare students for, interprofessional collaborative practice (IPCP). As such, there is a need for statistically valid instruments designed to assess baseline student perceptions regarding IPE and IPCP. Using confirmatory factor analysis, this study compared the reliability and construct validity of a revised 21-item Attitudes Toward Health Care Teams (ATHCT-R) instrument and a 10-item Student Perceptions of Interprofessional Clinical Education-Revised (SPICE-R) instrument. The instruments were concurrently administered online and completed by a total of 221 first year nursing, optometry, pharmacy, physical therapy, and health administration students. In this study, the SPICE-R exhibited better performance in terms of goodness of fit, construct validity, and reliability compared with the ATHCT-R. The SPICE-R instrument demonstrates promise as a parsimonious, valid, and reliable tool for measuring health professional students’ perceptions of IPE and IPCP.

정보사회에서 보건행정 전공 대학생들의 개인정보보호에 대한 인지 분석

본 연구는 보건행정 전공 대학생들의 개인정보보호에 대한 인지 수준을 파악하여 개인정보보호에 대한 올바른 인지 및 실천이 이루어질 수 있는 방안 모색에 도움을 주고자 실시되었다. 조사방법은 보건행정 전공 대학생 687명을 대상으로 2012년 12월 3일부터 2013년 6월 21일까지 설문조사를 실시하였다. 연구결과, 개인정보보호법에 대한 인지는 17.2%로 낮은 수준을 나타냈다. 개인정보보호영역에 대한 인식도와 실천도는 개인정보보호법에 대한 인지가 있는 경우 모든 영역에서 유의하게 높은 수준으로 나타났으며, 인식도가 높을수록 실천도가 높게 나타나는 정의 상관관계로 나타났다. 개인인식정보 항목에 대한 인지율은 57.0%, 관리되어야 할 개인정보에 대한 인지율은 53.7%로 중간정도 수준으로 분석되었다. 따라서 보건행정 전공 대학생들에게 개인정보보호법에 대한 인지도를 높이기 위하여 개인정보보호법을 주지시킬 수 있는 교육 시간 및 교과목 편성을 통해 개인정보보호에 대한 올바른 인지 및 실천이 이루어지도록 하여야 할 것이다. The purpose of this study was to examine the recognition of health administration students on personal information protection in an effort to be of use for raising awareness of personal information protection in students and for having them practice it in the right way. The subjects in this study were 687 college students who majored in health administration. A survey was conducted from December 3, 2012, to June 21, 2013. As a result, it's found that just 17.2 percent were cognizant of the personal information protection act. As for recognition and practice of personal information protection domain, the students who were aware of the personal information protection act significantly excelled the others who weren't in every area of recognition and practice, and there was a positive correlation between the level of practice, as better recognition led to better practice. The awareness rate of information for a personal identification stood at 57.0 percent, and the awareness rate of personal information to be managed stood at 53.7 percent, which were both at an intermediate level. To raise awareness of the personal information protection act in health administration students, a course that can deal with this act should separately be offered so that they could have the right understanding of personal information protection and practice it properly.

Interdisciplinary Teamwork: Student Differences and Teaching Implications

Teamwork with individuals from multiple disciplines is recognized as a significant skill necessary for professional employment. While a variety of teaching methods for students in health care professions have been investigated and found to be generally effective in improving interdisciplinary team skills, one field - health administration - has not been included in these studies. The research presented here used two standardized instruments (with seven distinct subscales) to compare perceptions of health care administration students and clinical students regarding interdisciplinary teamwork. Three attitudes toward interdisciplinary health care teams were similar among all students - shared leadership, perceived need for cooperation, and understanding others’ values. Significant differences between administration and clinical students were found in four areas. Health administration students exhibited lower scores for: 1) believing in the value of teamwork, 2) recognizing teamwork efficiency, 3) believing their profession was perceived as competent by other health care professionals, and 4) recognizing their own lack of cooperation in teamwork. These findings reveal the diverse cultures among health care professionals and invite educators to consider the diversity of their students when implementing interdisciplinary team-teaching techniques and methods.

Uncovering Differences Among Health Professions Trainees Exposed to an Interprofessional Patient Safety Curriculum

In response to the Institute of Medicine challenge to improve patient safety and quality of care, an office directing patient safety/quality of care at an academic medical center and faculty from health professions schools collaborated on design, delivery, and evaluation of an interprofessional student curriculum on patient safety, quality, and teamwork. Annually for 6 years, second-year medical students, senior baccalaureate nursing students, second-year masters in health administration students, and junior baccalaureate respiratory therapy students participated. A pre-/postsurvey assessing students' attitudes about quality, safety, and teamwork was developed and modified to reflect course revisions. Survey items were grouped into 1 of the 6 subscales: human fallibility, disclosure, teamwork/communication, error reporting, systems of care, and curricular time spent with other professionals. At pretest, there were significant professional group differences in all the 6 subscales. At completion, differences in 4 subscales were resolved with the exception of human fallibility (P < .001) and curricular time spent together (P < .001). Interprofessional exercises within our curriculum mediated most differences among student groups. As more interprofessional curricular experiences are designed, examining baseline group differences is essential to optimize learning outcomes.

Health professions students as research partners in community oriented primary care.

This paper describes the process of involving health professions students in research in rural primary care and how their research has contributed to the development and expansion of a rural community health center. Since 1978 over 400 students have completed rotations at the center, and more than 200 have been health profession students, including medical, nursing, physician assistant, pharmacy, and health administration students. A total of 96 research projects were completed. These projects lie in two main areas: medical services and community outreach. Those related to medical services include measures of access to care, quality of care audits, clinical guideline development, practice patterns, prevalence studies, and qualitative research. Projects focusing on community outreach include community surveys, screening follow-ups, program evaluation, and program development. Principles that guide the selection and conduct of research projects include: Projects should be directly related to important work of the practice and reflect an interest of the student; projects are structured to include some or all of the following: literature search, data analysis, a visual display of quantitative information (table or graph), and application of relevant statistical tools; the student has a project supervisor; the student is a participant rather than an independent investigator; and a research flow sheet is used to orient students and NRHA staff to the larger research effort. Students are expected to present results, conclusions and recommendations to an appropriate group. Student research has made a significant contribution to both practice activities and practice policies.

A method to elicit utilities for interpersonal comparisons.

This paper examines how values should be assigned to health states when policy decisions must be made about who should receive treatment. The paper demonstrates that, if priority were to be assigned to those people who would benefit most from treatment, standard health-state utilities might fail to identify resource allocations that would maximize total health-related well-being in society. A new measurement instrument is proposed that is based on the direct comparison of the well-being achieved by different people in various health states and thus captures such community priorities. A sample of 72 health administration students used the instrument to evaluate speech and mobility dysfunctions as they afflicted hypothetical people who differed by gender, family status, and occupational type. This preliminary analysis indicates that the instrument is feasible to use, and that the valuations of respondents did, for some health conditions, significantly depend on the type of person afflicted.

Increasing Public Awareness of Statistics as a Science and a Profession—Reinforcing the Message in Universities

A recurring theme throughout the history of is a perceived lack of an effective public presence. In the August 1981 Presidential Address to the American Statistical Association, for instance, Ralph Bradley (1982) questioned the identity of and centered his presentation on actions and activities that would enhance its future. This concern with the identity of has continued to surface with successive Presidential Addresses. More recently, Barbara Bailar (1988) focused her address on the among those involved in statistical practice and statistical research, and . . . interactions with the wider world outside of statistics (p. 1). Although may lack an effective public presence, it is also likely true that it is one of the most widely required background courses in a broad variety of university undergraduate and graduate programs. Minton (1983) may have been correct when he wrote many (college students) will have had a course in statistics, taken as an onerous requirement, as a minor part of a degree program in the Department of XYZ (p. 285), but onerous and minor notwithstanding, is a course they will have had. The objective of this article is to review the about these students are receiving from their required courses and how this message might be used to improve the public presence of statistics. Statisticians have a large target audience in their applied students that could be used very effectively to increase public awareness of as a science and profession. The argument to be pursued in this article is that, to date, the opportunities offered by this group have not been maximized. The example of being taught to health administration students will be used as the case study, with a focus on how these criteria for health administration graduate programs are implemented in accredited programs and the implications this has for the field of statistics.

Identifying talented health administration students: a look at academic criteria.

The objective of this study was to examine the relationships of undergraduate academic and admission test performance with graduate academic performance. Results could aid in selecting health service administration students in the future. The sample included 139 students (40 women and 99 men) entering seven health services administration programs during the fall of 1975 and graduating during the spring and summer of 1977. Participating programs were located in the Midwest, Northeast, South, and West Coast. Independent variables included undergraduate academic performance and admission test scores, while the dependent variable was graduate academic performance. Correlation analyses revealed that: (a) the verbal and quantitative subtest scores of the GRE were related to most aspects of graduate academic performance for men but only to selected aspects for women, (b) performance on the MAT was related to women's graduate academic performance in quantitative courses, and (c) men's and women's composite undergraduate grade point average was not related to composite graduate grade point average. These findings suggest that some of the standardized tests presently employed as admission screening devices should be used judiciously.

Physician participation in health administrator education.

A seminar in quality of care analysis was developed with three objectives in mind: (a) to familiarize health administration students with methods for measuring the quality of health care (b), to sensitize students to complexities of the medical care process, and (c) to provide a setting where students interact directly with physicians in dealing with a common problem. Students developed individual evaluation projects at participating institutions in cooperation with faculty of the program and staff at the institutions. Evaluation of the seminar in terms of state objectives was performed both quantitatively and qualitatively. Indications are that the course was well accepted by students and achieved its major goals.