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Week 1 Discussion
The
Changing Aspects of Healthcare
CO1 Apply
leadership concepts, skills, and decision making in the provision of
high-quality nursing care, healthcare team management, and the oversight and accountability
for care delivery in a variety of settings. (PO 2)
Healthcare
reform is a term that is ever present in our practice settings and will not
disappear any time soon.
Review the
article below and answer the following questions.
Buerhaus,
P. I., Skinner, L. E., Auerbach, D. I., & Staiger, D. O. (2017). Four
challenges facing the nursing workforce in the United States. Journal of
Nursing Regulation, 8(2), 40-46. .
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Select one
of the four challenges and expand on how your workforce has responded to the
change.
How have
these challenges affected the access to care for your patients?
What can
you do to decrease the effect on your patients? Provide a specific example.
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Week 2 Discussion
AACN
Essentials Self-Assessment and Patient-Centered Care
CO1 Apply
leadership concepts, skills, and decision making in the provision of
high-quality nursing care, healthcare team management, and the oversight and
accountability for care delivery in a variety of settings. (PO 2)
CO7 Apply
leadership concepts in the development and initiation of effective plans for
the microsystems and system-wide practice improvements that will improve the
quality of healthcare delivery. (POs 2 and 3)
Download
the Week 2 Self-Assessment of the AACN Essentials (Links to an external site.)Links to an
external site. Follow the directions on the form. Note your total score. Next,
review this article:
Kramer, M.,
Schmalenberg, C., Maguire, P., Brewer, B., Burke, R., Chmielewski, L., …
Meeks-Sjostrom, D. (2009). Walk the talk: Promoting control of nursing practice
and a patient-centered culture. Critical Care Nurse, 29(3), 77–93.
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external site.
After you
have completed your self-assessment, answer the following questions:
Describe
the relationship between the AACN Essentials and your new-found knowledge about
Patient Centered Care. Are there opportunities for you to improve?
Essential
VIII: Professionalism and Professional Values discusses professional standards
of moral, ethical, and legal conduct. Review the Professional Integrity
Module-Academics and Practice at the beginning of the course (the first
module). Then reflect on your own beliefs and values as they relate to
professional nursing practice.
Discuss
implications of professional nursing integrity and academic integrity.
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Week 3 Discussion
Conflict
and Collaboration
CO2
Implement patient safety and quality improvement initiatives within the context
of the interprofessional team through communication and relationship building.
(PO 3)
CO3
Participate in the development and implementation of imaginative and creative
strategies to enable systems to change. (PO 7)
Please
watch the video and listen to the dialogue before posting.
Nursing
Conflict
At times
the needs of our families conflict with our work responsibilities. Could this
possibly be the underlying issue here?
Explain the
conflict resolution skills displayed by the leader in the scenario. On a scale
of 1-10, how would you rate those of the leader.
How might
earlier collaboration have been beneficial? What other leadership skills should
be used?
Some
organizations utilize non Registered Nurses in the Case Manager role. What
additional skills, knowledge and attributes would the BSN-prepared Registered
Nurse bring to case management in this scenario?
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Week 4 Discussion
Transformational
Nursing Leaders
CO7 Apply
leadership concepts in the development and initiation of effective plans for
the microsystems and system-wide practice improvements that will improve the
quality of healthcare delivery. (POs 2 and 3)
Review
Appendix A, Sections I–V in Finkelman (2016).
Select one
of the sections and share how your chief nurse executive demonstrates expertise
in these competencies. Your comments
should be about the “highest nursing leader” in your organization. Typically
this is the leader who represents nurses and nursing to the governing board.
In your own
words, explain the differences between a transactional nursing leader and a
transformational nursing leader. What one is more like your Nurse Executive?
Describe
how the Nurse Executive “leads the charge” for transformational leadership in
an organization where you work or have done prelicensure clinical experiences.
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Week 5 Discussion
Patient
Outcomes
CO5 Apply
improvement methods, based on data from the outcomes of care processes, to
design and test changes to continuously improve the quality and safety of
healthcare. (PO 8)
Review the
story at the link below before posting to the discussion:
Rau, J.
(2015). Half of nation’s hospitals fail again to escape Medicare’s readmission
penalties. Kaiser Health News. Retrieved from
http://khn.org/news/half-of-nations-hospitals-fail-again-to-escape-medicares-readmission-penalties/
(Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
After you
have finished, consider how you would respond to the following situation:
Your local
hospital has received notice from CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid) regarding
their readmission rates.
As a BSN
prepared nurse, you have been asked to serve as a consultant to suggest a new
Quality (Performance) Improvement process for ONE of the areas of deficiency.
Write some brief steps (suggestions) for improvement as you contemplate
accepting the consulting opportunity.
Share
practice improvements utilized from your own clinical nursing experiences that
have led to enhanced patient outcomes.
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Week 6 Discussion
Civility in
the Workplace
CO6 Develop
a personal awareness of complex organizational systems, and integrate values
and beliefs with organizational mission. (PO 7)
Complete
the Clark Workplace Civility Index Assessment (Links to an external site.)Links
to an external site..
After you
are finished, read the assigned article:
Lachman, V.
D. (2015). Ethical issues in the disruptive behaviors of incivility, bullying,
and horizontal/lateral violence. Urologic Nursing, 35(1), 39-42. Retrieved from
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Next watch
the video by clicking on the link below.
Civility in
the Workplace
Transcript
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Reflect on
what you observed in the video as you answer the following:
Based on
what you observed, what leadership skills should you, as Masaya’s preceptor,
model for your fellow coworkers to promote his acceptance into the work-group
or team.
Does
incivility seem to be an issue in the scenario?
Describe
any common themes you discovered among the article, the video and the Civility
Index
Do you
think delegation played a part in this issue.
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Week 7 Discussion
Our Future
Leaders
CO5 Apply
improvement methods, based on data from the outcomes of care processes, to
design and test changes to continuously improve the quality and safety of
healthcare. (PO 8)
In Huston’s
(2010) brief, but impressive article (required reading this week), the author
outlines several leadership competencies that EVERY nurse leader will need for
2020. That year is not too far in the future, is it?
Select one
of the eight leadership competencies Huston described and relate it to your own
leadership of nurses and nursing. This should promote a robust discussion as we
come from different clinical and nonclinical perspectives.
Discuss how
the BSN-prepared nurse can assist a nurse leader in the budgeting process by
contributing data readily available to the staff nurse.
Huston, C.
(2010). What skills will the nurse leaders of 2020 need? (2010). Kai Tiaki
Nursing New Zealand, 16(6), 14–15. Retrieved from
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Week 8 Discussion
Closing the
Loop
CO6 Develop
a personal awareness of complex organizational systems, and integrate values
and beliefs with organizational mission. (PO 7)
Complete
the Week 8 AACN Essentials Self-Assessment (Links to an external site.)Links to
an external site..
Compare
your scores from Week 2 to Week 8.
Describe
how far have you come and how much further do you wish to go in improving your
competencies during the next two years of practice.
Review the
article, "Nursing Leadership and the Future of Nursing" at Nursing
Leadership article (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
What will
you do differently in your future nursing career?
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Week 3 Conflict Resolution Paper
Purpose
The purpose
of this assignment is to learn how to identify and effectively manage conflicts
that arise in care delivery settings resulting in better management of patient
care, including appropriate delegation. You will gain insight into conflict
management strategies and develop a plan to collaborate with a potential nurse
leader about the conflict and its impact in a practice setting.
Course
Outcomes
Completion
of this assignment enables the student to meet the following course outcomes.
CO1: Apply
leadership concepts, skills, and decision making in the provision of
high-quality nursing care, healthcare team management, and the oversight and
accountability for care delivery in a variety of settings. (PO2)
CO3:
Participate in the development and implementation of imaginative and creative
strategies to enable systems to change. (PO7)
CO6:
Develop a personal awareness of complex organizational systems, and integrate
values and beliefs with organizational mission. (PO7)
CO7: Apply
leadership concepts in the development and initiation of effective plans for
the microsystems and system-wide practice improvements that will improve the
quality of healthcare delivery. (PO2 and PO3)
Due Dates
Submit your
paper by Sunday, 11:59 p.m. MT, end of Week 3.
Points
This assignment
is worth 200 points.
Directions
Read
Finkelman (2016), Chapter 13: Improving Teamwork: Collaboration, Coordination,
and Conflict Resolution, section on Negotiation and Conflict Resolution, pp.
324-333.
Write a 5-7
page paper (not including the title or References pages). Follow APA format.
Consult your APA manual, and consider using the APA resources provided by
Chamberlain. Cite the course textbook and two scholarly sources. You are
required to complete this assignment using the productivity tools required by
Chamberlain University, which is Microsoft Office Word 2013 (or later version),
or Windows and Office 2011 (or later version) for MAC. You must save the file
in the ".docx" format. Do NOT save as Word Pad. A later version of
the productivity tool includes Office 365, which is available to Chamberlain
students for FREE by downloading from the student portal at
http://my.chamberlain.edu (Links to an
external site.)Links to an external site.
Click on the envelope at the top of the page.
Observe
nurses in a care delivery setting. Identify a recurring conflict with the
potential to negatively impact patient care. This should be from your practice
setting or prelicensure experiences.
Provide
details of what happened, including who was involved, what was said, where it
occurred, and what was the outcome that led you to decide the conflict was
unresolved.
REVIEW AND
DISCUSS the four stages of conflict as found in Finkelman. IDENTIFY AND EXPLAIN
how the stages of conflict relate to the example in your workplace.Do not use
direct quotes.
Describe
how you would collaborate with a nurse leader to reach consensus on the best
strategy to deal with the conflict. Besides the textbook, the paper needs to
summarize conflict resolutions from two scholarly articles.
Describe
the rationale for selecting the best strategy.
Provide a
summary or conclusion about this experience or assignment and how you may deal
with conflict more effectively in the future.
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Week 5 Nursing Care Models Worksheet
Purpose
The purpose
of this assignment is to identify nursing care models utilized in today's
various health care settings and enhance your knowledge of how models impact
the management of care and may influence delegation. You will assess the
effectiveness of models and determine how you would collaborate with a nurse
leader to identify opportunities for improvement to ensure quality, safety and
staff satisfaction.
Course
Outcomes
Completion
of this assignment enables the student to meet the following course outcomes.
CO1: Apply
leadership concepts, skills, and decision making in the provision of high
quality nursing care, healthcare team management, and the oversight and
accountability for care delivery in a variety of settings. (PO2)
CO2:
Implement patient safety and quality improvement initiatives within the context
of the interprofessional team through communication and relationship building.
(PO3)
CO3:
Participate in the development and implementation of imaginative and creative
strategies to enable systems to change. (PO7)
CO4: Apply
concepts of leadership and team coordination to promote the achievement of safe
and quality outcomes of care for diverse populations. (PO4)
CO6:
Develop a personal awareness of complex organizational systems and integrate
values and beliefs with organizational mission. (PO7)
CO7: Apply
leadership concepts in the development and initiation of effective plans for
the microsystems and/or system-wide practice improvements that will improve the
quality of healthcare delivery. (PO2, and 3)
CO8: Apply
concepts of quality and safety using structure, process, and outcome measures
to identify clinical questions as the beginning process of changing current
practice. (PO8)
Due Dates
Submit by
Sunday, 11:59 p.m. MT, end of Week 5.
Points
This assignment
is worth 200 points.
Directions
: Use this form to complete the Week 5 Nursing Care Models Assignment: Nursing
Care Models Worksheet (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
Read your
text, Finkelman (2016), pp- 111-116.
You are
required to complete the assignment using the template.
Observe
staff in delivery of nursing care provided. Practice settings may vary
depending on availability.
Identify
the model of nursing care that you observed. Be specific about what you
observed, who was doing what, when, how and what led you to identify the
particular model
Review and
summarize one scholarly resource (not your textbook) related to the nursing
care model you observed in the practice setting.
Review and
summarize one scholarly resource (not including your text) related to a nursing
care model that is different from the one you observed in the practice setting.
Discuss a
different nursing care model from step #3, and how it could be implemented to
improve quality of nursing care, safety and staff satisfaction. Be specific.
Summarize
this experience/assignment and what you learned about the two nursing care
models.
Submit your
completed worksheet no later than 11:59 p.m. MT on Sunday by the end of Week 5.
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Week 6 Leadership Action Plan PowerPoint Slide Show
Leadership
Action Plan
PowerPoint
Slideshow Guidelines
Updated
3/2019
Purpose
The purpose
of this PowerPoint presentation is to present the best plan of action, as a
leader, assigned to make a change to a problem or issue in your place of work.
If you are not presently working, use information from your prelicensure
experience or previous healthcare experience. You will be using the Joint
Commission National Patient Safety Goals to align with the problem or issue
that you see in your workplace or most recent place of employment. You will
prepare a PowerPoint presentation and share how you will meet one of the goals
in your place of work that will solve the problem or issue you have selected.
Course
Outcomes
Completion
of this assignment enables the student to meet the following course outcomes.
CO1: Apply
leadership concepts, skills, and decision making in the provision of
high-quality nursing care, healthcare team management, and the oversight and
accountability for care delivery in a variety of settings. (PO2)
CO2:
Implement patient safety and quality improvement initiatives within the context
of the interprofessional team through communication and relationship building.
(PO3)
CO3:
Participate in the development and implementation of imaginative and creative
strategies to enable systems to change. (PO7)
CO7: Apply
leadership concepts in the development and initiation of effective plans for
the microsystems and system-wide practice improvements that will improve the
quality of healthcare delivery. (POs 2 and 3)
CO8: Apply
concepts of quality and safety using structure, process and outcome measures to
identify clinical questions as the beginning process of changing current
practice. (PO8)
Due Dates
This
assignment is to be submitted by Sunday, 11:59 p.m. MT, end of Week 6.
Points
This assignment
is worth 200 points.
Directions
1. Develop
a PowerPoint slideshow consisting of 8-15 slides. Include the following. Title
slide, written speaker notes, and Reference slide. Do not use Voice Over
recordings. All information needs to be written in slides and notes.
2. You are
required to complete the assignment using the productivity tools required by
Chamberlain University, which is Microsoft Office Word 2013 (or later version),
or Windows and Office 2011 (or later version) for MAC. You must save the file
in the ".pptx" format. A later version of the productivity tool
includes Office 365, which is available to Chamberlain students for FREE by
downloading from the student portal at http://my.chamberlain.edu (Links to an
external site.)Links to an external site.. Click on the envelope at the top of
the page.
3. As the
leader, you have identified a problem or issue related to one of the National
Patient Safety Goals 2018 created by the Joint Commission that will lead to
quality improvement. You will find the National Patient Safety Goals using this
link: NPSG (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
4. Assess
the problem or issue. State the problem/issue and identify three rationales
(reasons) that the problem exists.
5.
Determine the people who are involved in the issue and explain three reasons as
to how their role will contribute to the problem or issue solution.
6. Identify
three solutions and discuss the purpose, cost and desired outcome.
7. Pick one
solution to share with the director and discuss why this solution was chosen
over the others.
8. Make an
action plan to share the solution with the director or staff.
9.
Summarize issue, plan and desired outcome and purpose for quality improvement
on slide.
10.
Summarize your learning and value of doing the assignment.
11. Include
written speaker notes for all slides except title slide and reference slide.
12. Submit
your PowerPoint slideshow by 11:59 p.m. MT, Sunday, end of Week 6.
Best
Practices in Preparing PowerPoint Presentations
The
following are best practices in preparing this presentation.
Be
creative.
Incorporate
graphics, clip art, or photographs to increase interest.
Make easy
to read with short bullet points and large font.
Review
directions thoroughly.
Proofread
prior to final submission.
Spell check
for spelling and grammar errors prior to final submission.
Abide by
the Chamberlain academic integrity policy.
