Considering the current pandemic (COVID-19) and the devastation it has caused to residents in long term care facilities, what changes do you think are necessary to how can nurses advocate to promote safety for residents and staff.
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Chapter 1: Compare how Louisa decided to become a nurse to your own decision to pursue nursing- (Short paragraph)
Chapter 3: Louisa-aka “Nurse Periwinkle”- describes her introduction to nursing a flood of incoming wounded and what the rhythm of the day was. Select a few (1-3) lines from this chapter that stood out to you. (Cut and paste them.)
Chapter 4a: Her nursing care of the “Duty Room”, “The Pleasure Room” and “The Pathetic Room” as night nurse was very vivid. The categories are not that different from today’s units in hospitals. What alternative names would you use for the 3 different categories to help you prioritize care?
Chapter 4b: The author’s story of John and the end of life care perfectly capture nursing at its best and demonstrates the privilege of nursing another individual at their most vulnerable. Write a short paragraph on how the professional relationship between nurse and patient can make a memorable impact on the nurse. (This could be a whole paper, but try to be concise.)
Chapter 5: The author answers readers questions and depicts Louisa. Were you surprised as she was by how cordially and professionally the nurses were treated by the doctors? (Y/N/maybe and 1 sentence explaining your answer.)
What line in this chapter made you realize that doctors (surgeons in this case) are people too? (Cut and paste one line here)
The healthcare industry is dynamic. Every patient is different. Every situation is different. A good healthcare leader must be able to address situations as they arise and make decisions accordingly. Consider the leadership styles that would be especially helpful in this scenario:
You recently accepted the nurse manager position of a busy emergency department (ED) in a new organization that had 100,000 ED visits last year. These visits represent a 10% increase over the previous year. To meet the needs for staffing required for this sudden growth, the prior nurse manager hired 10 new nursing graduates and 10 nurse travelers that arrived on the unit a few weeks before you came. The breakdown in level of tenure and experience in your staff is: 25% highly tenured in this ED and experienced in this specialty; 25% tenured within the organization and proficient in this specialty; and 30% less than 2 years in the ED/organization and competent in this specialty. The remaining 20% of your staff are the experienced ED nurse travelers and inexperienced new nurses, both groups that are new to the organization.
One of your first new responsibilities as the ED nurse manager is to provide unit-based leadership for the implementation of a new patient tracking system that offers more functionality than the previous tracking system used by this ED for the past 7 years. During the hiring process, you learned that the organization was going to implement this new patient tracking system, and you shared that you had experience in implementing the same system in your previous job.
Assignment (5 pages – not including title page and reference page):
Write a paper in which you demonstrate how you, as the leader in the case example provided, would address the following:
Explain how you would provide leadership for the implementation of the new system. Include a description of the leadership behaviors that would be most effective to position your staff for success based on their experience and needs.
Explain how this implementation plan relates to your Clifton Strengths Signature Theme Report, including how this leadership situation aligns with or differs from your leadership profile.
Explain your rationale for your choices and appropriately reference literature that supports your thinking.
Explain how being able to successfully implement situational leadership better positions you to advocate for social change within your new organization on behalf of the patient population served.
Assignment: The Nurse Leader as Knowledge Worker
The term “knowledge worker” was first coined by management consultant and author Peter Drucker in his book, The Landmarks of Tomorrow (1959). Drucker defined knowledge workers as high-level workers who apply theoretical and analytical knowledge, acquired through formal training, to develop products and services. Does this sound familiar?
Nurses are very much knowledge workers. What has changed since Drucker’s time are the ways that knowledge can be acquired. The volume of data that can now be generated and the tools used to access this data have evolved significantly in recent years and helped healthcare professionals (among many others) to assume the role of knowledge worker in new and powerful ways.
In this Assignment, you will consider the evolving role of the nurse leader and how this evolution has led nurse leaders to assume the role of knowledge worker. You will prepare a PowerPoint presentation with an infographic (graphic that visually represents information, data, or knowledge. Infographics are intended to present information quickly and clearly.) to educate others on the role of nurse as knowledge worker.
Reference: Drucker, P. (1959). The landmarks of tomorrow. New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers.
To Prepare:
The Assignment:
By Day 7 of Week 2
This assignment builds off of previous assignment “ Interdisciplinary Intervention” order number: 7531919 And “Interprofessional Collaboration Problem” , Order number: 7530493
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 called “Interdisciplinary Intervention” – order number: 7531919
Professional Context
This assessment will provide you with an opportunity to sharpen your ability to create a professional presentation to stakeholders. In this presentation, you will explain the Plan-Do-Study-Act cycle and how it can be used to introduce the plan (P), implement the plan (D), study the effectiveness of the plan (S), and act on what is learned (A) to drive continuous improvement. By using this cycle, the stakeholders will have a tool and a proposal to expand on these ideas to drive workplace change and create improved processes to solve an interprofessional collaboration problem.
Scenario
In addition to summarizing the key points of Assessments 2 and 3, “ Interdisciplinary Intervention” order number: 7531919 And “Interprofessional Collaboration Problem” , Order number: 7530493
you will provide stakeholders and/or leadership with an overview of project specifics as well as how success would be evaluated—you will essentially be presenting a discussion of the Plan, Do, and Study parts of the PDSA cycle. Again, you will not be expected to execute the project, so you will not have any results to study. However, by carefully examining the ways in which your plan could be carried out and evaluated, you will get some of the experience of the thinking required for PDSA.
When creating your PowerPoint for this assessment, it is important to keep in mind the target audience: your interviewee’s organizational leadership. The overall goal of this assessment is to create a presentation that your interviewee could potentially give in his or her organization.
Instructions.
Be sure that your plan addresses the following, which corresponds to the grading criteria in the scoring guide. Please study the scoring guide carefully so you understand what is needed for a distinguished score.
There are various ways to structure your presentation; following is one example:
Again, keep in mind that your audience for this presentation is a specific group (or groups) at your interviewee’s organization and tailor your language and messaging accordingly. Remember, also, that another person will ultimately be giving the presentation.
!!!! Include thorough speaker’s notes that flesh out the bullet points on each slide. !!!!
Additional Requirements
Demonstration of Proficiency
Find and read a nursing scholarly article that relates to your clinical practice and is found in a peer-reviewed journal. Follow the instructions for the format in course textbook and write a 1-page summary. Use a qualitative research on Table 1-1, and Focus on Home Care Service as clinical practice
Submission Instructions:
• Must be a research article.
Important : Write the Title and Authors of the Article Selected. The article have been published between 5 years, 2015-2020)
• Write a 1-page summary using an outline of the steps of the research process, discuss the study type, purpose, and research question(s).
• You will use either Table 1-1 or Table 1-2 depending on whether you are using qualitative or quantitative research.
Use a Table 1-1 (see attachment file named ARTICLE SUMMARY.doc)
The summary should be formatted per current APA and 1 page in length, excluding the TITLE, ABSTRACT and REFERENCES PAGE.
Incorporate a minimum of 2 current (published within last 5 years, 2015-2020) scholarly journal articles or primary legal sources (statutes, court opinions) within your work.
Develop a strategic plan for a department or division within a health care organization, taking a balanced scorecard approach.
Nurse leaders will be increasingly called upon to collaborate in strategic planning as they partner in the redesign of health care in the United States (Institute of Medicine, 2011). To be an integral partner in health care redesign, nurse leaders must be able to leverage political power and data in strategic planning. Analytical tools, such as the balanced scorecard and SWOT analysis, are used to construct a solid, defensible strategic plan.
This assessment provides an opportunity for you to develop both the knowledge and skills required for strategic planning, using a balanced scorecard approach. With insight into the importance of an organization’s political landscape and a comprehensive understanding of the priorities of the organization you are studying, you are well-prepared to develop a strategic plan for a department or division within that organization.
Develop a strategic budget goal for each department in your organization (Rehab, Ambulatory Care, and Outpatient Surgery).
Justify each goal and explain its role in maintaining the department’s budget.
Identify the major components to be included on an income and expense budget for each department.
Discuss the impact of performance measures on budgeting.
Examine the role of policy, accountability, and monitoring in your budgeting process.
Explain how your organization will adapt to financial profits or losses due to:
The Affordable Care Act
Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS)
Managed Care Payers
Intent:
Medication errors can impact patient outcomes, therefore safe and appropriate
administration of medicines is an important part of patient safety. The intent of this
assessment is to prepare students for clinical practice by developing their understanding of
the types of medication errors and the reasons these occur, and to develop strategies for
students’ own clinical practice to prevent medication errors.
Task:
You are required to view one of the case study videos provided, then analyse and discuss
the factors within the video that lead to the medication error.
1. https://youtu.be/CspIrlJ2bd4
2. https://youtu.be/MGT8yoAIun4
Watch all of them and then choose only one (1) to analyse for your Medication Safety Case Analysis.
1. Discuss your understanding of James Reason’s Model of System Failure ‘Swiss Cheese
Model’ (2000) in relation to patient safety.
2. List all the factors in the video that lead to the medication error occurring.
3. Select and analyse three main factors that lead to the medication error occurring.
4. Discuss how the nurses’ involved could have prevented the medication error with
reference to the factors identified in point 3.
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