We learned effective communication is essential in overcoming conflict, embracing our similarities and differences, and streamlining our work. On the basis of your learning, review the scenario given below and develop the ways to address any misunderstandings based on ineffective communication.

You have been invited to be in charge of developing a team-building activity to improve collaboration, morale, and increased communication for your team members. Your department is closing for the day so you all can spend about four hours together in a team environment. The staff members will be placed into groups of three to run a maze, and the winning team will receive an extra four hours paid time off (PTO) time to use for a half vacation day. All members are excited about getting extra time off and, even though they have not participated in a maze-running event, they are happy to be out of the office. After the race is over, the group will be treated for lunch at a very nice restaurant. Review the following details of team members:

• Rosamma and Mary are the two administrative staff members who do not get along. Rosamma keeps to herself, is quiet, wears traditional long dresses and cooks ethnic foods for lunch every day. Mary is outspoken, loud, hurries through assignments, and seems to be on her cell phone often talking about her personal life to friends. Mary is twenty and Rosamma is forty-six.
• Cindy, thirty-five, and Lolita, forty, are the part-time staff members. They often bring their problems to work and are stressed due to the economy. They interact at work with the full time staff, but the full time staff think they complain too much and “what for, they only work part-time.”
• Chip is a twenty-three-year-old maintenance worker who has two children and works a part-time job at night in addition to his full-time role. He is tired as he has been continuously working for many days.
• Samir is fifty-five and works full-time, and cannot wait until he retires.
• Sarah is the fifty-two-year-old negative department manager who complains about everyone else. However, she is a strong informal leader and has influence over the group.
• Jerry is twenty-four and in graduate school. In fact, he is the president of his class and majors in business. He will likely leave in about one year when he graduates. He has a positive attitude and is currently a bit demotivated because no one likes to work together and there seems to be no direction at this point. He has made fun of Sarah just because she makes negative comments to him.
• You are the manager (use your current age) and you are just promoted into this position as the leader of the group.

Your presentation should consist of 12–15 professional color Microsoft PowerPoint slides (not including the title and reference slide) along with detailed speaker notes to include examples to support each slide.

You need to divide the teams into three groups. Remember this is a team-building activity.

• Can you put Rosamma and Mary together on a team when they clearly have communication issues and Mary feels Rosamma is “slow and too quiet . . . besides, she prays all the time.” Should the two younger males in the department be put on the same team or divided up to run with the women, even though they make comments about how old Sarah is and how she wears old-fashioned clothes? Give reasons.
• How will you make the determination which members to put together?
• Should members, who have a negative attitude, be placed with team members who are excited about this event? Why or why not?
• How influential can an informal leader be among the team members? Can an informal leader carry more power than the formal manager?
• What barriers to effective teamwork can you anticipate and how will it be addressed?
• What specific traits will make this team-building activity a success?
• How can effective leaders demonstrate care and value the workgroup to improve collaboration, motivation, and low turnover in the workplace?
• How do you think results can improve when effective communication is practiced in the healthcare field with peers, colleagues, and leadership teams?

Support your responses with examples.

Cite any sources in APA format.

Submission Details

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Leadership in Program Planning

As a nurse who is involved as a leader, you may be in a position to develop and implement wellness and prevention programs, disease management programs, or quality management programs. Such program development can enable the nurse leader to foster a proactive approach that involves the patient in the management of her individual health care needs. By utilizing a self-health-care approach, the goal is for the patient to have a better understanding of matters relating to his health, to maintain a more active lifestyle, and to have mental well-being.

Your assignment this week is to demonstrate your leadership ability by planning one of the following programs, to be implemented in either your workplace or somewhere within your community:

• Prevention program.
• Disease management program.
• Quality management program.

Write up your chosen program idea in a formal APA paper with a title page (see page 23 in your APA Manual) and references (no abstract required). The paper should include:

1. Introduction of program idea.
2. Narrative description: The narrative provides the overall description for each of the major components of your chosen program idea.
3. Statement of problem or needs and resources assessment: This should represent a brief synopsis of the key findings identified for why you want to implement this program (this must be supported with a minimum of two references). Define the priority target populations or community sectors (for example, high school students, college students, alcohol outlets, neighborhood zone, nursing or medical staff, certain patient demographic, et cetera).
4. Planning process and identification of priorities: This section should include the overall planning process of how you would put the program together. What are current nursing evidence-based practices and research components that would support your program idea? (You should have a minimum of three.)
5. Project management and collaboration: Describe the overall collaboration, organization, and management structure that would be needed to implement your program idea.
6. Strategies and tools to manage information: Identify strategies to use information management tools to monitor the outcomes of your suggested program.
7. Conclusion of your program idea.

• I work in Labor and Delivery, so I need it to be focused on a prevention program, Disease management program. Or Quality management program.

Describe a nursing-practice situation in the operating room in which you experienced the transformations of Data to Information to Knowledge to Wisdom (DIKW).

Resource: Undergraduate APA Sample Paper from the Center for Writing Excellence

There are several factors that can influence the access to and usage of health care.

Write a 350- to 700-word paper discussing the factors and their effect on health care usage.

Address the following in your paper:

• Identify one or two health factors that influence the usage of health care.
• Explain the impact the factor or factors have on health care access.
• Explain how a lack of or delayed access to health care has an impact on an individual’s health status.

Cite at least one peer-reviewed or scholarly reference and your textbook to support your information. For additional information on how to properly cite your sources, check out the Reference and Citation Generator resource in the Center for Writing Excellence.

Format your paper according to APA guidelines. Your paper must include an introduction, conclusion, and a reference page.

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