Nursing Leadership

Consider experienced nurses you know or imagine the qualities required of nurses to be efficient at accomplishing their daily work. How do these nurses plan and organize their daily assignments? How do the more experienced nurses interact with other members of the health care team? Identify and list several management skills that help nurses accomplish their work more efficiently.

Communication Styles

Discuss different communication styles. Include examples of situations that call for different communication styles?

Select an individual that you believe exhibits authentic leadership and provide specific examples. Describe the role of authentic leadership in creating trust and followership in this example, including how it can improve organizations. Additionally, consider the four characteristics of conscious capitalism and indicate how each of these can be applied in the example you have provided. PLEASE INCLUDE IN-TEXT CITATION AND REFERENCE

I will attach all links and articles for this week

In the media introduction to this module, it was suggested that you as a nurse have an important role in the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC). With a focus on patient care and outcomes, nurses may not always see themselves as contributors to the development of new systems. However, as you may have observed in your own experience, exclusion of nurse contributions when implementing systems can have dire consequences.

In this Discussion, you will consider the role you might play in systems development and the ramifications of not being an active participant in systems development.

To Prepare: Things to consider

Review the steps of the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) as presented in the Resources. 

Reflect on your own healthcare organization and consider any steps your healthcare organization goes through when purchasing and implementing a new health information technology system.

Consider what a nurse might contribute to decisions made at each stage of the SDLC when planning for new health information technology.

By Day 3 of Week 9

THE ASSIGNMENT:

300-350 WORD -APA FORMAT-In text citation-Reference last 5 years, peer reviewed

*Post a description of what you believe to be the consequences of a healthcare organization not involving nurses in each stage of the SDLC when purchasing and implementing a new health information technology system. 

*Provide specific examples of potential issues at each stage of the SDLC and explain how the inclusion of nurses may help address these issues. 

*Then, explain whether you had any input in the selection and planning of new health information technology systems in your nursing practice or healthcare organization and explain potential impacts of being included or not in the decision-making -process. 

*Be specific and provide examples

1)After you read the module information regarding new technologies, answer the following questions: What are the issues surrounding selection and implementation of new types of technology? Focus on public demand, physician reaction, and issues of cost, among other concerns.

2)Discuss your thoughts and ideas about the newer trend of pharmaceutical and medical supply companies marketing directly to the consumer (e.g., ads about new medications, billboards for new hip and knee implants, etc.). What do you see as the pros and cons?

Use any of these as references  

answer thes dqs in 250 words including intext cite and apa references

https://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/ta/index.html

“Barriers to Electronic Health Record Adoption: A Systematic Literature Review,” by Kruse, Kristof, Jones, Mitchell, and Martinez, from Journal of Medical Systems (2016).

“Too Much or Too Little? How Much Control Should Patients Have over EHR Data?,” by Bhuyan, Bailey-DeLeeuw, Wyant, and Chang, from Journal of Medical Systems (2016).

“Use of Electronic Health Record Data for Quality Reporting,” by Abernethy, Gippetti, Parulkar, and Revol, from Journal of Oncology Practice (2017)

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Public health nursing involves working with communities and populations as equal partners, and focusing on primary prevention and health promotion (Kulbok, Thatcher, Park, Meszaros, 2012). There are many types of public health nurses in the area I live in including home health nurses, health department nurses, free clinic nurses, and home hospice nurses. Community based nursing involves collaboration and partnerships with communities and populations to address health and social conditions and problems.  The nurse I interviewed for this discussion, Jennifer, is a registered nurse who takes home call for Community Hospice, a locally owned hospice service in the Vidalia area.  I have dealt with this facility on a personal and professional level and there is no greater community centered facility in our area more so than Community Hospice.

Q: What are your job responsibilities?

A: As an on-call nurse, my main job is new patient intakes after business hours.  This includes going into the homes of patients who are admitted under hospice care.  During these intake assessments it is my job to record and take vital signs, educate families and patients on the disease, prognosis, treatments, and hospice care, and to ensure that families and patients understand and agree with the plan of care.  On routine visits it is my responsibility to again assess patients, record vital signs, as well as monitor any changes from previous visits and report changes to our providers on staff.

Q: Does a correlation exist between your job description and your practice?

A: Although she has a very clear job description laid out for her, she explains that her duties go far beyond the typical hands on patient care the typical nurse sees in the office or hospital setting.  She explains hospice is a special kind of job where you not only care for the patient but patient’s families as well.  She explains sometimes the care for the patient includes caring for them family and helping them cope with the prognosis of death.

Q: Are you involved in policy formulation that affects client services?

A: Jennifer describes her work environment and boss as exceptional.  All staff are seen as equals and their opinions valued to the fullest.  Each day they have a meeting where all staff who reports to the Hospice House that day go through reports as well as ideas to make their jobs successful.  She states having supportive staff members makes it easy to help policy implementation and change.

Q: Do you belong to a professional organization related to your current job position?

A: Currently Jennifer explains she is not involved in an organization related to hospice care. However there is an organization that several of her fellow employees are members of which is the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). This organization’s mission is the largest nonprofit membership organization representing hospice and palliative care programs and professionals in the United States. The organization is committed to improving end-of-life care and expanding access to hospice care with the goal of profoundly enhancing quality of life for people dying in America and their loved ones (NHPCO 2018). This organization helps support and update hospice based nurses on any advances in their area of nursing as well as provide support.