Department Of Veterans Affairs : Overcoming Barriers

What are your thoughts regarding your ability to work with Veterans dealing with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Substance Use Disorders (SUDS), and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)?

You have noticed that your organization’s current operations strategy is not supporting the challenges that the organization is presently facing. In order to maintain a competitive edge, you must address these challenges with your Chief Executive Officer immediately.

It’s possible to distinguish higher levels of employment among female veterans than female non-veterans. In fact, the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs (2016) reports that around 34.2% of women

United States Military personnel that have sacrificed so much for their country have been discarded by the very people that they swore an oath to protect. While there are advocates for our service members, their voice as well of the voice of the men and women in uniform have fallen on deaf ears. There have been attempts to address some of the issues within the Department of Veterans Affairs but they have fallen short of fixing the systemic problems that are covered up on a daily basis. It has been three years since the latest VA scandals were brought into the light by sympathetic whistleblowers and there are still reports of corruption in the highest ranks of the VA and veterans continue to be denied quality health care that they have

Table of Contents Veterans Administration (VA) Background 2 Veterans Administration Problems 3 High Level Solution 4 Benefits of Solving the Problem 5 Business Process Changes 6 Technology practices used to Augment the Solution 7 Conclusions and Overall Recommendations 8 Summary of Project 9 References 10   The Veterans Administration (VA) is U.S Government Cabinet position set up to serve those who have borne this country battles. Below I have listed their Mission Statement and Core Values. Mission Statement: To fulfill President Lincoln's promise “To care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan” by serving and honoring the men and women who are America’s Veterans. Core Values: VA’s five core values underscore the obligations inherent in VA’s mission: Integrity, Commitment, Advocacy, Respect, and

A problem that I see in my clinical area at the Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) is appropriate direct care staffing on the inpatient psychiatric unit. The current staffing model being used by the VA is staffing methodology. The Staffing methodology model was created to account for acuity of patients, their illnesses, and the task that are required to be performed by nurses (U.S. Government Accountability Office, 2008). Staffing methodology has created an environment where there are either an abundance of staff which is resulting in wasting resources or too little staff which is creating risks for safety and poor patient outcomes. Current available staffing model have been created in mind for caring for medically ill patients (American Psychiatric

Information technology industry is developing very fast today. Being self-accelerated, information Technology develops ever more rapidly than the millions of users require. Moreover, the technology is important not only for general users but also for business operations. That is because it provides both tangible and intangible benefits that help to increase profit and ensure the effectiveness of customer service. These factors basically make information technology organizations extremely profitable. However, the financial success of any organization including information technology organizations depends not only on demand for the services but also on a number of other factors. One of these factors is federal law. Federal laws aim at

The Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) provides a variety of benefits and services to Veterans and their families. Over the years, VBA has been transforming into a more people-centric, results oriented, and performance based organization in an effort to ensure the fulfillment of President Lincoln's promise and accomplishing the organization's mission, "To care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan" by serving and honoring the men and women who are America's Veterans. To fulfill VBA's mission, it is imperative that we attract, retain, and serve VA employees—the vitally important people who support our nation’s Veterans and their families.

The highest position in the Department of Veteran Affairs is the Secretary of Veteran Affairs. The President appoints the position with the advice and consent of the Senate. His responsibility is to oversee all benefits programs for Veterans and family members.

One goal of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is to improve operations and deliver seamless and integrated support (U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, 2014). According to the VA Strategic Plan for 2014-2020, one objective that supports this goal is to make the VA a place that great employees want to work. To make the VA a place where great employees want to work, the organization must be able to hire and recruit the best employees in order to change the culture. One way to better recruit the best employees is to decrease the lengthy hiring process currently in practice at the VA. Recruiting the best employees in term of fit and skill is vital to the Acute Psychiatry department, as well as other specialty areas, because the turnover

• Conducts interviews and explains veterans benefit programs and state, federal and local benefit programs and entitlement criteria to active service members, veteran, their dependents, or survivors. Assist active service members, veteran and beneficiaries with their applications for Compensation and Pension Disability claim. Advise other VA elements and organizations on changes to VA benefit programs and entitlement criteria.

In the book titled “Gung Ho!” written by Ken Blanchard and Sheldon Bowles (1998), a unique management tool was introduced which is the footprint of a successful “Gung Ho” organization. My ultimate vision is to see my organization fully embrace the qualities of a Gung Ho! organization. As we continue to adopt new innovative ideas and technologies, we must also ensure that we have the right management and operational systems in place to achieve full Gung Ho! potential. The path in the right direction would be to create an environment whereby industry best practices, employee accountability, improved work processes, visible and distributed leadership, a clear vision, key priorities, and a well-defined strategic plan is in place. Similar

Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) is a U.S. federal law for Information Security, enacted in December 2002, with the intent to protect government information against any natural or man-made threats. It is also referred to as Title III of the E-Government Act. This law would want each and every federal agency to document, develop and implement an agency-wide program to provide Information Security for the Information Systems that support the operations and assets of the agency. This act requires chief Information officers and the head of each agency to conduct annual reviews of Information security programs and submit the results to OMB. The purpose of conducting reviews

Organizations are constantly changing over time to keep up with internal and external environmental demands. When organizations are in the process of changing, an organizational redesign is in the works. The purpose of this assignment is to discuss redesign challenges that Community Health Center of Central Wyoming (CHCCW) faces during its redesign phase of organizational change.

In today's public sector environment virtually all federal, state and local government use computers. Computerization has streamlined repetitive processes, promoting a more cost effective and efficient use of information technology. " Studies suggest that managers look to information technology to streamline work processes, enable easier access and retrieval of information, provide better products and services, save money by avoiding workforce expansion, speed up transactions and provide better data security."[iii]