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Devry NR447 Entire
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DeVry
nr447 week 1 discussion latest
The Affordable Care
Act (graded)
Healthcare reform is a
term that is ever present in our practice settings and will not disappear any
time soon.
Share with the class
implementation of the Affordable Care Act in your organization. (If you are not
working as a nurse, think about what was happening when you were a prelicensure
student)
How did your fellow
healthcare workers react to implementation of the ACA?
How were citizens in your community impacted?
DeVry nr447 week 2
discussion
AACN Essentials Self-Assessment and
Patient-Centered Care (graded)
Locate and complete the Self-Assessment of the
AACN Essentials located in Doc Sharing (Week 2). Follow the directions on the
form. Note your total score. Next, review the article cited below:
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. Click to link.
Answer the following:
1.
If you are willing,
please share your total score on the AACN Essentials Self-Assessment
2.
Candidly identify and
share with your classmates areas where knowledge, skills or abilities (KSAs)
are lacking?
3.
Describe the
relationship between the Essentials and your new-found knowledge about Patient
Centered Care. Are there opportunities for your improvement?
DeVry nr447 week 3
discussion latest
Conflict and Collaboration (graded)
Please watch the video and listen to the
dialogue before posting. Second Life Video Transcript At times the needs of our
families conflict with our work responsibilities. Could this possibly be the
underlying issue here?
1.
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.
2.
How might earlier
collaboration have been beneficial?
3.
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?
DeVry nr447 week 4
discussion latest
Transformational Nursing Leaders (graded)
Review Appendix A, Sections I–V in Finkelman
(2012, pp. 510–515).
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.
DeVry nr447 week 5
discussion
Patient Outcomes (graded)
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 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.
1.
As a BSN prepared
nurse, you have been asked to serve as a consultant to suggest a new Quality
(Performance) Improvement process for ONEof the areas of deficiency. Write some
brief steps (suggestions) for improvement as you contemplate accepting the
consulting opportunity.
2. Share practice improvements utilized from
your own clinical nursing experiences that have led to enhanced patient
outcomes.
Devry nr447 week 6
discussion
Civility in the Workplace (graded)
Complete the Clark Workplace Civility Index
located in Doc Sharing.
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. Click HERE to link.
Next watch the video by clicking on the link
below.
Video Transcript 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 Share how you may improve
your score on the index based on what you have read.
DeVry nr447 week 7
discussion
Our Future Leaders (graded) 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.
Click HERE to link
DeVry nr447 week 8
discussion
Closing the Loop (graded)
Complete the Week 8 AACN Essentials
Self-Assessment located in Doc Sharing.
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.
Next, review the Course Outcomes as listed in
the Syllabus. Select one of the course outcomes and share with your classmates
how you feel you have achieved the outcome and how you will utilize the
essentials and course outcomes in your practice setting.
DeVry nr447 week 3
assignment
Conflict Resolution Paper:
Guidelines
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.
CO 1: 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)
CO3: Participate in the development and
implementation of imaginative and creative strategies to enablesystems to
change. (PO 7)
CO 6: Develop a personal awareness of complex
organizational systems, and integrate values and beliefs withorganizational
mission. (PO 7)
CO 7: 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)
Due Dates
This assignment is to be submitted to the
Dropboxby Sunday, 11:59 p.m. MT, end of Week 3.
Points
This assignment is worth 200 points.
Directions 1. Read Finkelman (2012), pp. 361–376. 2. Observe nurses in a care
delivery setting. Identify a recurring conflict with the potential to
negatively impact patient care.
Decide if delegation was an issue in the
conflict. This should be from your practice setting or prelicensure
experiences.
3.
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.
4.
Identify the type of
conflict. Explain your rationale for selecting this type.
5.
Outline the four
stages of conflict, as described in our text, and how they relate to your
example.
6.
Propose strategies to
resolve the conflict. Search scholarly sources in the library and the Internet
for evidence on what may be effective.
7.
Discuss if delegation
was an issue in the conflict. Be specific.
8.
Describe how you would
collaborate with a nurse leader to reach consensus on the best strategy to
employ to deal with the conflict.
9.
Describe the rationale
for selecting the best strategy.
10.
Provide a summary or
conclusion about this experience or assignment and how you may deal with
conflict more effectively in the future.
11.
Write a 5–7 page paper
(not including the title or References pages) using APA format that includes
the following.
1.
Describe an unresolved
(recurring) conflict that you experienced or observed. Identify the type of
conflict.
1.
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.
1.
Outline the four
stages of conflict, as described in Finkelman, and how the stages relate to
your example. Decide if delegation was an issue in the conflict. Be specific.
1.
Describe the
strategies for conflict resolution and how you would collaborate with a nurse
leader to resolve the conflict. Cites resources.
1.
Provide a conclusion
or summary about this experience and how you may deal with conflict more
effectively in the future.
3.
Submit to the Dropbox
by the end of Week 3.
Devry nr447 week 4
assignment
Nursing Care Models Paper:
Guidelines 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. CO#1: 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)
CO#2: Implement patient safety and quality
improvement initiatives within the context of the interprofessional team
through communication and relationship building. (PO #3)
CO#3: Participate in the development and
implementation of imaginative and creative strategies to enablesystems to
change. (PO #7)
CO#6: Develop a personal awareness of complex
organizational systems and integrate values and beliefs withorganizational
mission. (PO #7)
CO#7: 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. (PO #2, and #3)
CO#8: Apply concepts of quality and safety
using structure, process, and outcome measures to identify clinical questions
as the beginning process of changing current practice. (PO#8) Due Dates This
assignmentis to be submitted to the Dropbox by Sunday, 11:59 p.m. MT, end of
Week 4. Points This assignment is worth 200 points. Directions
1.
Read your text,
Finkelman (2012), pp- 118- 127.
2.
Observe staff in
delivery of nursing care provided. Practice settings may vary depending on
availability.
3.
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.
4.
Write a 5-7 page paper
that includes the following:
5.
Review and summarize
two scholarly resources (not including your text) related tothe nursing care
modelyou observed in the practice setting.
6.
Review and summarize
two scholarly resources (not including your text) related to a nursing care
model that is different from the one you observed in the practice setting.
7.
Discuss your
observations about how the current nursing care model is being implemented. Be
specific.
8.
Recommend a
differentnursing care model that could be implemented to improve quality of
nursing care, safety and staff satisfaction. Be specific.
9.
Provide a
summary/conclusion about this experience/assignment and what you learned about
nursing care models.
10.
Write your paper using
APA format. Submit to the Dropbox.
DeVry nr447 week 6
assignment
Performance Measurement PowerPoint Slideshow:
Guidelines Purpose
The purpose of this assignment is to locate
and compare performance measurement data on common health conditions for the
hospitals in your area. You will investigate the Centers for Medicare and
Medicaid Services websites and locate hospital compare data for hospitals
within a 50 mile radius of the community where you are working or had your
prelicensure clinical experiences. You will prepare a PowerPoint presentation
and share the results of your findings. Opportunities for improving performance
measurement indicators will be shared.
Course Outcomes
Completion of this assignment enables the
student to meet the following course outcomes.
CO 1: 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)
CO 2: Implement patient safety and quality
improvement initiatives within the context of the interprofessional team
through communication and relationship building. (PO 3)
CO 3: Participate in the development and
implementation of imaginative and creative strategies to enable systems to
change. (PO 7)
CO 7: 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)
CO 8: Apply concepts of quality and safety
using structure, process and outcome measures to identify clinical questions as
the beginning process of changing current practice.
(PO 8) Due Dates This assignmentis to be
submitted to the Dropboxby Sunday, 11:59 p.m. MT, end of Week 6. Points This
assignment is worth 200 points.
Directions
1.
Review information
found on the following website related to hospital compare Read the information
carefully and then locate the following website. Search for hospitals within a
50 mile radius of the community where you are working or had your prelicensure
clinical experiences. Type in your zip code. Select your hospital andtwo
others. Select hospitals/facilities and choose compare. If you live in a remote
area and there are no hospitals listed within a 50 mile radius, select a zip
code for a family member or a close friend who does not live near you. The idea
is to review comparative data.
2.
Click on the following
topics to learn more. a. Survey of patient’s experiences b. Timely and
effective care (focus your search on two of the conditions that apply to
services provided at the hospitals) c. Readmissions, complications, and deaths
3.
Carefully read the
information provided.
4.
Develop a PowerPoint
slideshow consisting of 8–10 slides. Include the following, keeping in mind
what all this data means.
1.
Title slide with information
pertinent to the course.
1.
List reasons to
recommend hospital care to consumers (patients).
1.
List reasons to
recommend hospital compare to staff who may seek employment.
1.
Summarize patient
experiences data for each hospital.
1.
Summarize timely and
effective care data for two conditions.
1.
Summarize data for
readmissions or complications and deaths.
1.
List recommendations
for improving data for one selected facility.
1.
Summarize what you
learned from this experience. Develop PowerPoint slides to include criteria
listed above. For those not familiar with the development of a PowerPoint
slideshow, the following link may be helpful.
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