Based on your reading in chapter 60, why do you think the issues presented in this chapter persist in today’s workforce culture?

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Issues in Today’s Workforce Culture

Based on your reading in chapter 60, why do you think the issues presented in this chapter persist in today’s workforce culture?

The Issues Presented in the chapter are:

  • The shortage of working nurses
  • Understaffing leading to burnout, decreased patient safety, and medical errors
  • Increasing diversity in nursing workforce

Submission Instructions:

Your post should be at least 500 words, formatted and cited in current APA style with support from at least 2 references from academic journals no older than five years. Your initial post is worth 8 points.

 

 

Create an 8-12 slide PowerPoint presentation for one or more stakeholder or leadership groups to generate interest and buy-in for the plan proposal you developed for the third assessment.

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Stakeholder presentation

For this assessment you will create an 8-12 slide PowerPoint presentation for one or more stakeholder or leadership groups to generate interest and buy-in for the plan proposal you developed for the third assessment.

As a current or future nurse leader, you may be called upon to present to stakeholders and leadership about projects that you have been involved in or wish to implement. The ability to communicate a plan—and potential implications of not pursuing such a plan—to stakeholders effectively can be critically important in creating awareness and buy-in, as well as building your personal and professional brand in your organization. It is equally important that you know how to create compelling presentations for others’ delivery and ensure that they convey the same content you would deliver if you were the presenter.

You are encouraged to complete the Evidence-Based Practice: Basics and Guidelines activity before you develop the presentation. This activity consists of six questions that will create the opportunity to check your understanding of the fundamentals of evidence-based practice as well as ways to identify EBP in practice.

 

Create a 2-4 page report on an interview you have conducted with a health care professional. Identify an issue from the interview that could be improved with an interdisciplinary approach, and review best practices and evidence to address the issue.

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Collaboration Ans Leadership Reflection Video

Assessment 2: Interview and Interdisciplinary Issue Identification

For this assessment, you will create a 2-4 page report on an interview you have conducted with a health care professional.

You will identify an issue from the interview that could be improved with an interdisciplinary approach, and review best practices and evidence to address the issue.

As a baccalaureate-prepared nurse, your participation and leadership in interdisciplinary teams will be vital to the health outcomes for your patients and organization. One way to approach designing an improvement project is to use the Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycle.

The Institute for Healthcare Improvement describes it thus:

The Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycle is shorthand for testing a change in the real work setting—by planning it, trying it, observing the results, and acting on what is learned.

This is the scientific method adapted for action-oriented learning…Essentially, the PDSA cycle helps you test out change ideas on a smaller scale before evaluating the results and making adjustments before potentially launching into a somewhat larger scale project (n.d.).

You might also recognize that the PDSA cycle resembles the nursing process. The benefit of gaining experience with this model of project design is that it provides nurses with an opportunity to ideate and lead improvements.

For this assessment, you will not be implementing all of the PDSA cycle.

Instead, you are being asked to interview a health care professional of your choice to determine what kind of interdisciplinary problem he or she is experiencing or has experienced in the workplace.

This interview, in Assessment 2, will inform the research that you will conduct to propose a plan for interdisciplinary collaboration in Assessment 3.

It would be an excellent choice to complete the PDSA Cycle activity prior to developing the report. The activity consists of four questions that create the opportunity to check your understanding of best practices related to each stage of the PDSA cycle.

The information gained from completing this formative will promote your success with the Interview and Interdisciplinary Issue Identification report. This will take just a few minutes of your time and is not graded.

Reference

Institute for Healthcare Improvement. (n.d.). How to improve. http://www.ihi.org/resources/Pages/Howtolmprove/default.aspx

 

Discuss how your values, beliefs, culture and self-concept affect the nurse practitioner/client relationships. Identify strategies in epidemiology that offer or demonstrate culturally sensitive care.

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Strategies in epidemiology

Discuss how your values, beliefs, culture and self-concept affect the nurse practitioner/client relationships. Identify strategies in epidemiology that offer or demonstrate culturally sensitive care. Include in your discussion your personal cultural heritage and its impact in your life. (Support your answer with 3 references not including your textbook).

 

 

Describe your role as a baccalaureate-prepared nurse supervising clinical staff nurses with regard to communication and collaboration in locating evidence for application to a nursing practice scenario.

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Supervising clinical staff nurses

Scenario

You are supervising three nurses working on the medical-surgical floor of a local teaching hospital. This hospital is nationally recognized as a leader in education and has a computer lab with an online library where staff has access to medical research databases (that is, CINAHL, PubMed, Medline, and Cochrane library) and online sources of all hospital policies, procedures, and guidelines, and computers at nurse workstations that also have access to these resources. (For this scenario, use the Capella University Library to simulate the hospital’s online library.) You have given the nurses their patient assignments and you have all participated in shift report. A new nurse who just completed orientation and training a week ago approaches you and tells you that one of the assigned patients has a diagnosis he or she is very unfamiliar with. Knowing that patient-centered care based on best practices is imperative to positive patient outcomes, you want to assist this nurse to find research that can be utilized to provide the best care for this patient. Describe how you would communicate with this nurse to encourage him or her to research the diagnosis. Assume you will assist in the quest to locate evidence, then describe where you would go within the facility and what resources you would look for. These resources may include websites, journals, facility policies or guidelines, or any other sources of online information.

You may choose the diagnosis for the patient in this scenario or health care issue/diagnosis of your choice. Or you may choose something you would find interesting to research or that applies to a clinical problem/diagnosis you would be interested in addressing. Create a list of at least five sources that could be used to find evidence, with the best source listed first, and explain why the sources you chose are best to find evidence for the diagnosis you chose and the clinical scenario. You are only evaluating the sources of evidence (database, website, policy database or website, journal article, et cetera). You are not actually completing a search and selecting evidence. Consider the following examples: a nursing journal in CINAHL may not be the best source of evidence for information on how to administer medications through a central-venous catheter, whereas a hospital policy database found on a website may not be the best source of information on caring for a patient with a rare chromosomal abnormality.

For this assessment:

Describe your role as a baccalaureate-prepared nurse supervising clinical staff nurses with regard to communication and collaboration in locating evidence for application to a nursing practice scenario.

Compile a list of five online databases or other online sources (that is, websites, journals, facility policies or guidelines, et cetera) that can be used to research evidence to apply to this scenario or clinical practice issue/diagnosis and describe to which of these you would direct a nurse colleague to search for evidence.

Describe where you might go in the work place to complete this research and how you would access the desired, relevant research within research databases or other online sources.

Be sure to address the following in this assessment, which correspond to the grading criteria in the scoring guide. Please study the scoring guide carefully so that you will know what is needed for a distinguished score.

Describe communication strategies to encourage nurses to research the diagnosis/practice issue, as well as strategies to collaborate with the nurses to access resources.

Describe the best places to complete research and what types of resources you would want to access to find pertinent information for the diagnosis/health care issue within the context of a specific health care setting.

Identify five sources of online information (medical journal databases, websites, hospital policy databases, et cetera) that could be used to locate evidence for a clinical diagnosis/practice issue.

Explain why the sources of online information selected should provide the best evidence for the chosen diagnosis/health care issue.

Communicate using writing that is clear, logical, and professional with correct grammar and spelling using current APA style.

 

Compare and contrast qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-design research characteristics. Identify a problem in your place of work or at a clinical site What type of research listed above would you conduct to address this problem?

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Assignment: Types of Research

Objectives

Identify qualitative and quantitative research processes

Deliverables

Write a 2-3 page (not including the title and reference pages)
APA formatted paper with an introduction and conclusion.
APA headings for each section of the paper
At least (2) research sources, including 1 source from a periodical database that are most relevant, accurate, recent (less than 5 years old), and reliable.

Step 1: Research

Find qualitative, quantitative, and mixed (both quantitative and qualitative) research sources.

Step 2: Consider

Compare and contrast qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-design research characteristics.
Identify a problem in your place of work or at a clinical site
What type of research listed above would you conduct to address this problem?
Why or why not?

Step 3: Write

Write a paper that addresses the questions above.

Develop skills of investigating an issue, analyzing who and what might potentially influence a policy goal, and exploring strategies. Select a health topic/issue of interest and write a policy analysis paper.

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Health Policy Analysis for Mental Illness and Firearms

In this assignment, you will develop skills of investigating an issue, analyzing who and what might potentially influence a policy goal, and exploring strategies.

You are to select a health topic/issue of interest and write a policy analysis paper. An important component of this assignment is to identify not only policy strategies, but the appropriate policy maker who has the authority to make the recommended policy changes.

Your text provides chapters on a variety of topics, or you may choose another issue that you are interested in at the state or national level.

Required Reading (annotated)

  1. Mason, D.J., Gardner, D.B., Outlaw, F.H. & O’Grady, E.T. (2021). Policy & politics in nursing and health care. (8th Ed.). St. Louis: Elsevier. This text has many chapters that you may find useful as you complete the assignments for this module. Only the foundation for the module assignments are listed here as “required”. Read Chapters 1, 6-10.

 

Describe the role of the professional nurse. What does the role include? What challenges have been identified for students making the role transition to professional nursing?

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Role Transition Paper

Discussion of theory related to role transitions.

Describe the role of the professional nurse.

Differentiate the role from your current role (Medical Assistant).

What does the role include? What challenges have been identified for students making the role transition to professional nursing?

What evidence-based strategies can be used to ease role transition and deal with role stress in making the transition to the professional nursing role?

Describe what evidence-based strategies you will use to assist you with your role transition to professional nurse.

 

Read the policy powerpoint, include the materials in the power point in your comment paper and get a better understating of the assignment and incorporate how health care polices in US are shaped, who and what and how it is shaped and who effected if the Above topic given is passed into policy to general US population.

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Interpreting Health Care Policy

This is one of assignments of nursing class ( Interpreting Health Care Policy ).

Read and write a well documented comment on the “Nondiscrimination in Health Programs and Activities given”. Read the policy powerpoint, include the materials in the power point in your comment paper and get a better understating of the assignment and incorporate how health care polices in US are shaped, who and what and how it is shaped and who effected if the Above topic given is passed into policy to general US population. Write how the topic given effects in good or bad way and who it effects. Be concise. Include proper reasoning for each of your point with APA format.

Describe the differences between a board of nursing and a professional nurse association. Describe the board for your specific region/area. Who is on the board? How does one become a member of the board?

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Regulation for Nursing Practice Staff Development Meeting

Assume that you are leading a staff development meeting on regulation for nursing practice at your healthcare organization or agency.
Review the NCSBN and ANA websites to prepare for your presentation.
The Assignment: (8- to 9-slide PowerPoint presentation)

Develop a 8- to 9-slide PowerPoint Presentation that addresses the following:

Describe the differences between a board of nursing and a professional nurse association.
Describe the board for your specific region/area.
Who is on the board?
How does one become a member of the board?
Describe at least one state regulation related to general nurse scope of practice.
How does this regulation influence the nurse’s role?
How does this regulation influence delivery, cost, and access to healthcare?
If a patient is from another culture, how would this regulation impact the nurse’s care/education?
Describe at least one state regulation related to Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRNs).
How does this regulation influence the nurse’s role?
How does this regulation influence delivery, cost, and access to healthcare?
Has there been any change to the regulation within the past 5 years? Explain.

Include Speaker Notes on Each Slide (except on the title page and reference page)