Six Program Learning Outcome (PLO) Essays (for ALL students, regardless of which

Six Program Learning Outcome (PLO) Essays (for ALL students, regardless of which option you selected for your Capstone)
PLO Essays
By the time a student completes the MS-HCA program, each of the six PLOs should have been achieved. By the end of the program, the successful student should be able to demonstrate that s/he can:
Analyze and think critically about current and emerging issues in the health care system and the policy environment in which the system operates. (PLO 1)
Communicate effectively with internal and external organizational stakeholders, both in written and oral form. (PLO 2)
Form collaborative relationships and interact appropriately with diverse client groups, workplace supervisors and colleagues, and other organizational stakeholders. (PLO 3)
Create effective and creative approaches for fostering teamwork and encouraging others to align their priorities with organizational excellence. (PLO 4)
Align personal and organizational conduct with ethical, legal, and professional standards. (PLO 5)
Apply business principles to the health care environment, including financial management, human resource management, organizational dynamics and governance, strategic planning, information management, risk management, and quality improvement. (PLO 6)
The purpose of the PLO essays is for you to demonstrate the degree to which you have achieved the PLOs and to reflect on what you have learned in the program. There are six PLOs so there will be six individual PLO essays. Each PLO essay should be a minimum of 5 pages and a maximum of 7 pages, excluding the title page and reference page. Page numbers should be included at the bottom right-hand margin, and the title page should not be numbered. Do not include a running head.
Each of the six essays should be double-spaced; using the Arial 12-point font (or equivalent), with one-inch margins. APA-style formatting is only required for the in-text citations and the reference page. For help with the APA-style formatting, please see https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/.
Each paragraph should have a 5-space indentation. Do not quadruple space at the end of a paragraph. There should only be a double space between the end of a paragraph and the next paragraph. Page numbers should be included at the right-hand footer and page 1 starts at the beginning of the body of the essay. The title page and acknowledgements should not be numbered. Do not include a running head. Be sure that your paragraphs are set to 0-point spacing.
All of the PLO essays should be written in first-voice, meaning that you should use “I” statements. Since you are describing what happened in the past, you should use the active past tense. For example, this statement is written in first-voice and past tense: “While in the MS-HCA program, I learned about the primary requirements of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), including current and emerging implementation issues.”
Each of the 6 PLO essays should contain the following components:
Title Page: This should include your name, your Net ID, and the term in which you enrolled in HCA 693. Note: the term in which you enrolled should be in the title page, not the term in which you are submitting the essay. Your term of enrollment is Fall 21. The title page does not contribute to the required minimum pages.
Body: The body of each PLO essay should be a minimum of 5 pages and a maximum of 7 pages. In the body of each PLO essay, you should discuss the PLO-related skills and knowledge base that you developed in the program, as well as the coursework, assignments, program experiences, and readings that helped you to develop these skills and knowledge base. Roughly half of the essay should discuss the PLO-related skills and knowledge base that you developed in the program and the other half of the essay should focus on the coursework, assignments, program experiences, and readings that helped you to develop these skills and knowledge base. Please be sure to include in-text citations when referring to any textbooks, courses, or assignments
In the body of the PLO 1 essay, you should discuss what you have learned about current and emerging issues in the health care system and the policy environment in which the system operates, and how you acquired this knowledge through the program.
In the body of the PLO 2 essay, you should discuss what you have learned about communicating effectively with internal and external organizational stakeholders, both in written and oral form, and how you acquired this knowledge through the program.
In the body of the PLO 3 essay, you should discuss what you have learned about forming collaborative relationships and interacting appropriately with diverse client groups, workplace supervisors and colleagues, and other organizational stakeholders, and how you acquired this knowledge through the program.
In the body of the PLO 4 essay, you should discuss what you have learned about creating effective and creative approaches for fostering teamwork and encouraging others to align their priorities with organizational excellence, and how you acquired this knowledge through the program.
In the body of the PLO 5 essay, you should discuss what you have learned about aligning personal and organizational conduct with ethical, legal, and professional standards, and how you acquired this knowledge through the program.
In the body of the PLO 6 essay, you should discuss what you have learned about applying the seven business principles to the health care environment, and how you acquired this knowledge through the program.
Reference Page: This section requires in-text references and citations to document sources. This consists of a list of all the books, articles, manuals, internet sites etc. cited in the essay. For each PLO essay, there must be a minimum of 5 references. You must use APA-style formatting for the in-text citations and the reference page. Please see https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/ for help with the APA-style formatting. The reference page can be numbered, but it does not contribute to the required minimum of 5 pages for each essay.