What are your grounds for concluding this? Summarize what these scorecard indicators say about this organization in comparison with its peer organizations (e.g., the Custom Compare Group).

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  • Based on this scorecard, which areas of the organization seem to be doing well, and which ones are most in need of improvement? What are your grounds for concluding this? Summarize what these scorecard indicators say about this organization in comparison with its peer organizations (e.g., the Custom Compare Group).
  • Consider the selection of metrics for this scorecard. Do you think this scorecard will provide managers and administrators with a balanced view of the organization’s performance? Explain why or why not. Suggest adding and/or deleting any metrics and provide a rationale for doing so.
  • Review the scenario and consider these details in connection with the scorecard data. Propose a significant, yet plausible strategic goal for this organization. Then identify 2–3 metrics the organization should focus on to help them meet this goal. Are these metrics in the scorecard already? If so, which ones are they? If not, which metrics would you add to the scorecard to help leadership monitor this strategic goal?

How do culture and climate differ? Why is it important for you, as a master’s-prepared nurse leader, to be cognizant of these matters?

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Organizational Foundations

As you strive to grow in your leadership skills and abilities, you will find that the context in which you work influences your motivation and areas of focus. In a similar vein, your commitment to developing professionally can contribute toward organizational effectiveness.

To that end, it is critical to recognize the importance of organizational culture and climate. In particular, through this week’s Learning Resources, you may consider several questions: How do an organization’s mission, vision, and values relate to its culture? What is the difference between culture and climate? Moreover, how are culture and climate manifested within the organization?

For this Discussion, you explore the culture and climate of your current organization or one with which you are familiar. You also consider decisions and day-to-day practices and the way they relate to the organization’s mission, vision, and values.

To prepare:

  • Review the information related to planning and decision making in health care organizations presented in the textbook, Leadership Roles and Management Functions in Nursing: Theory and Application. Consider how planning and decision making relate to an organization’s mission, vision, and values, as well as its culture and its climate.
  • Familiarize yourself with the mission, vision, and values of your organization or one with which you are familiar. Consider how the statements and actions of leaders and others within the organization support or demonstrate the organizational mission, vision, and values. In addition, note any apparent discrepancies between word and deed. Think about how this translates into expectations for direct service providers. Note any data or artifacts that seem to indicate whether behaviors within the organization are congruent with its mission, vision, and values.
  • Begin to examine and reflect on the culture and climate of the organization. How do culture and climate differ?
  • Why is it important for you, as a master’s-prepared nurse leader, to be cognizant of these matters?

Post  (1) a description of your selected organization’s mission, vision, and values. (2) Describe relevant data, or artifacts, words, and actions of leaders and others in the organization that support, or perhaps appear to contradict the organization’s mission, vision, and values statement. (3) In addition, discuss the organization’s culture and its climate, differentiating between the two. (4) Explain why examining these matters is significant to your role as a nurse leader

Consider a recent clinical experience in which you were providing care for a patient.

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In your practice as a nurse, you may use procedures and methods that did not necessarily originate in evidence, but instead were derived from informal and unwritten conventions, traditions, and observations. While these techniques may have merit, practices are constantly being updated and contradicted by information from scholarly research studies and professional guidelines. This new information serves as “evidence” for revising practices to improve outcomes across health care.

 

Based on this evidence, you can formulate a question. In this Discussion, you consider the use of evidence-based practice in your own organization and formulate a question that you will need to answer for your portfolio project. This is called a PICOT question. You will also investigate strategies for overcoming barriers to implementing evidence-based practice (EBP).

 

To prepare:

 

  • Consider a recent clinical experience in which you were providing care for a patient.
  • Determine the extent to which the care that you provided was based on evidence and research findings or supported only by your organization’s standard procedures. How do you know if the tasks were based on research?
  • What questions have you thought about in a particular area of care such as a  procedure or policy?
  • Review Chapter 2, pages 36—39 on “Asking Well worded Clinical Questions” in Polit & Beck and consult the resource from the Walden Student Center for Success: Clinical Question Anatomy & examples of PICOT questions (found in this week’s Learning Resources). Formulate your background questions and PICOT question.
  • Reflect on the barriers that might inhibit the implementation of evidence-based practice in your clinical environment.
  • Review the article “Adopting Evidence-Based Practice in Clinical Decision Making” in this week’s Learning Resources. Select one of the barriers described that is evident in your organization and formulate a plan for overcoming this barrier.

 

Post on or before Day 3:

 

  • (1)  an evaluation of the use, or lack thereof, of EBP in a recent clinical experience.
  • (2) Identify which aspects of the care delivered, if any, were based on evidence and provide your rationale.
  • (3) List your background questions and PICOT question about this nursing topic.
  • (4) Critique how the policies, procedures, and culture in your organization may hinder or support the adoption of evidence-based practices.
  • (5) Identify the barrier you selected from the article and explain how this barrier could be overcome within your organization

 

REQUIRED RESOURCES

 

 

2.Describe how the technologies work to provide patients and providers with data necessary for health care decision making.

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AMP-450V Module 5 Connected Health and the Digital Age of Medicine

Leadership and Vocation – Data-Driven Decision Making: Incorporating the Evidence

Grand Canyon University

 

 

Explore the technology systems offered by Nanthealth, a provider of “telehealth” and health management services via the following link:

http://nanthealth.com/

Prepare a brief (8-10 slides) PowerPoint presentation in which you do the following:

1.Identify at least two technology innovations to connect patients, providers, and insurers across the care continuum.
2.Describe how the technologies work to provide patients and providers with data necessary for health care decision making.
3.Discuss how the real-time data encourages outcome-focused planning.
4.Predict what impact the technology will have on future health care delivery. Provide rationale and examples.

Presentations must include speakers’ notes on each slide, as well as references for the presentation. A minimum of three academic references from credible sources are required for this assignment. The slide count (8-10 slides) does not include the introduction and References slide(s).

 

Prepare this assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

Explain how supportive and defensive climates can improve relations in the workplace.

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Assignment 1:  Write a 700- to 1,050 word essay in which you do the following:

  • Explain the importance of active listening in the workplace.
  • Explain how supportive and defensive climates can improve relations in the workplace.
  • Provide examples of the above.

Format your essay consistent with APA guidelines.

 

Assignment 2:  Imagine you are a supervisor in a health care office and you want to address this topic with your employees.

 

Write a 350- to 700-word memo to your employees in which you do the following:

  • Describe the principles of verbal and nonverbal communication.
  • Provide examples of how verbal and nonverbal communication can improve relationships in the workplace.

·       Identify at least one nurses preparation programme (at a senior institution) you are considering pursuing and why you have chosen this particular programme and institution.

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Instructions:

Submit a paper no longer than two pages in length that address the following points:

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·       Beginning with your next semester, describe how you will prepare to become a nurse

·       Identify at least one nurses preparation programme (at a senior institution) you are considering pursuing and why you have chosen this particular programme and institution.

·       What challenges, academic and personal, do you believe you will face as you prepare to become a nurse?

·       Map a plan for your financial future. How will you pay for the costs that you will incur? Will you pursue scholarships, grants, or student loans? Be sure to include the cost of living expenses (rent, food, gas, etc.). Refer to Chapter 11 in your text.

·       Identify two or three strategies/tools you will use for managing your time.  What is your preferred method?

*To gain a general overview of what is required to become a nurse in Virginia, please visit the Virginia Department of nurse’s website – “The Most Frequently Asked Questions About Nurse Education and Licensure in Virginia” at  http://www.don.virginia.gov/ 

*NVCC offers Associate Degrees that can help you prepare to become a nurse

 What are the main arguments? What is the point of this article or chapter? What topics are covered? If someone asked what this source is about, what would you say?

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APA format- if you’re able to write this paper well, and get me an A grade, I will use you for all future papers…and trust me, there will be a lot. price is negotiable.

 

For this week’s assignment, you will prepare an annotated bibliography on a topic related to health care that is currently impacted by a policy change or potential policy change. The policy that is or will impact change should be related to the health care system or nursing specifically. Look for information that shows that the policy, in your opinion, improved or did not improve the health care system or nursing practice.

Choose a Policy Issue

Review the Unit 3 study activities to read a list of potential policy issues that will give you a foundation to help you determine which policy change you are interested in. Choose one issue to focus on. The area that you choose to focus on could include particular interests that would lead you to explore articles that look at legal, ethical, and regulatory process in health care or nursing practice.

What Is an Annotated Bibliography?

Use the four articles that you chose, keeping the following information in mind:

  • A bibliography is a list of sources (books, journals, Web sites, periodicals, et cetera) one has used for researching a topic. A bibliography usually just includes the bibliographic information (that is, the author, title, publisher, et cetera).
  • An annotation is a summary or evaluation.
  • Therefore, an annotated bibliography includes a summary or evaluation of each of the sources in the bibliography. For this assignment, you are expected to include both a summary and an evaluation.
  • Your annotations should address the following three areas for EACH of the four articles you select:
    1. Summarize: What are the main arguments? What is the point of this article or chapter? What topics are covered? If someone asked what this source is about, what would you say?
    2. Evaluate: Is it a useful source? How does it compare with other sources in your bibliography? Is the information reliable? Is this source biased or objective? What is the goal of this source? (Or the goal of the writer?)
    3. Reflect: How does the source assist or fit into your practice? Was this source helpful to you? How might this source help you shape an argument (in favor of or against) the topic presented? Has the source changed how you think about this topic?

Assignment Grading

Be sure to consult the scoring guide for this assignment to see how your work will be graded. Notice that you will be expected to apply APA writing style to write clearly and logically, with correct use of grammar, punctuation, and mechanics. You may wish to consult Chapter 3 and Chapter 4 in the APA manual and the information listed in this unit’s Writing Resources study.

Review your annotated bibliography and make sure it is complete, using the checklist below.

Components of the annotated bibliography:
  • Begins with a title page that includes your name.
  • Lists citation information for the articles or chapters, formatted in APA style.
  • Each citation is followed by an annotation, approximately one page in length.
  • The bibliography comprises a variety of credible perspectives.
  • The final page consists of a reference list that includes all of your APA-formatted citations, in alphabetical order.
  • The assignment is 6-8 pages long, including the title page and references.
Each annotation should contain some or most of the following:
  • Provides the reader with more information about the content of the sources.
  • Consists of a paragraph that is both descriptive and evaluative (about 150 words).
  • Offers both a description and a critical assessment of the articles or chapters being annotated.
  • Gives the reader a sense of the quality of the source.
  • Gives a sense of the argumentative position of the author relative to others in the field.
  • Informs the reader of the relevance, accuracy, and quality of the sources cited.
  • Concisely exposes the author’s point of view and the clarity of the work.
  • Evaluates the appropriateness of expression, and authority.
  • Summarizes the central theme and scope of the article or chapter.
  • Evaluates the authority or background of the author.
  • Comments on the intended audience.
  • Compares or contrasts this work with another you have cited.
  • Explains how this work illuminates your bibliography topic.

If you would like to practice formatting APA citations before you submit this first assignment, click on the links, in Resources, to access interactive media that will help you practice.

How will what you learned impact how you approach your nursing responsibilities?

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The Nurse’s Role in Supporting the Organization’s Strategic Agenda

As hospitals seek to reduce the incidence of Never Events and improve the overall quality of health care provided, it is apparent that ultimate success will require the effort of the entire medical staff. Consider the nurse’s role in supporting the organization’s strategic agenda as it relates to improving clinical outcomes.

For this application you are asked to interview a quality manager in an acute care or long-term care agency of your choice. Your goal is to determine the manager’s view regarding the impact of the direct care nurse’s role in clinical outcomes for the organization. How does this influence the ability of the organization to achieve its strategic agenda? Before you attend the interview, create a list of relevant questions that will help you better understand the effect a nurse can have on the successful treatment of the patient.

Write a 3-page paper discussing what you learned from this interview. How will what you learned impact how you approach your nursing responsibilities?

3.Describe how improved communication, collaboration, and teamwork can improve conditions in your department.

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AMP-450V Module 2 Developing a Shared Vision

Leadership and Vocation – Communication, Collaboration and Developing a Shared Vision

Grand Canyon University

 

Choose two issues or challenges that the leaders of today’s health care organizations face. Select from among the following topics:

1.Staff Shortage (Physicians, Nurses, Allied Health Providers, Ancillary Services)

2.Reorganization in Response to Merger or Consolidation of Services

3.Layoffs as a Result of Declining Revenues

4.Influx of Registry, Part-Time, and Temporary Contract Staff

5.Poor Performance Outcomes Leading to a Reduction in Medicare Reimbursement Dollars

6.Poor Job Satisfaction Rates Resulting in Turnover

You are the manager of an ancillary service department at a large, 500+ bed hospital. Develop a proposal (750-1,200 words) that is directed toward your staff, in which you address the following:

1.Inform the staff of the two issues (from the topics provided) your organization is facing.

2.Describe the impact of these issues on your department.

3.Describe how improved communication, collaboration, and teamwork can improve conditions in your department.

4.Identify at least two examples from the required or recommended readings of techniques found to foster inclusion and improve communication and collaboration.

5.A minimum of three academic references from credible sources are required for this assignment.

Prepare this assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.