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Describe how you are impacted by the Accountable Care Organizations as a healthcare provider. How does this affect the patient?

Assignment Description: This assignment will be at least 1000 words or more

This week you will reflect upon accountability in healthcare to answer the following questions:

• How can you play your part in accountability?  
• Briefly define the Accountability Care Organization
• What challenges do we face?
• How do you see the role of the healthcare worker changing as a result of these challenges?

Assignment Expectations: How will students be successful?

• Length:
  • 1000-1250 words (4-5  pages); answers must thoroughly address the questions in a clear, concise manner
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  • Include a title page and reference page in APA style
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  • Two scholarly references are required; you should include the appropriate APA style in-text citations and references for all resources utilized to answer the questions
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 Re: Topic 3 DQ 2

Alligood (2017) argues that the main difference between nursing model and nursing theory is that while nursing conceptual model offers guidance to researcher, nursing theory tries to explain about nursing phenomenon process based on research study. Nursing process mainly guides the nurse during the process of patient assessment. The theory of nursing process offers vital support in managing patient care because it considers patient preference. Furthermore, the process increases treatment efficiency because it allows nurses to fully satisfy the needs of their patients, diagnosis and assessment. It states that the main role of nurses is to help patients meet their need.

This is to say that in the case a patient need an immediate medical attention, it is the work of nurses to identify the need and try to meet the need. Nursing process serves a purpose of helping nurses to approach patient care in the most scientific, holistic and creative way (Mousavinasab, Kalhori, Sanaee, Rakhshan & Saeedi, 2020). Thereby describing a personalized holistic approach that involves a patient as a whole. There are different types of nursing invention including safety and physiological intervention. Several physiological nursing intervention strategies are connected to an individual physical health. For instance, administration of IV fluids to a dehydrated individual. Moreover, actions that are aimed at ensuring patients safety as well as preventing injuries all fall under safety nursing interventions.

Reference

Alligood, M. R. (2017). Nursing theorists and their work-e-book. Elsevier Health Sciences.

Mousavinasab, E., Kalhori, S. R. N., Sanaee, N. Z., Rakhshan, M., & Saeedi, M. G. (2020). Nursing process education: A review of methods and characteristics. Nurse Education in Practice, 102886.

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How healthy is your workplace?

You may think your current organization operates seamlessly, or you may feel it has many issues. You may experience or even observe things that give you pause. Yet, much as you wouldn’t try to determine the health of a patient through mere observation, you should not attempt to gauge the health of your work environment based on observation and opinion. Often, there are issues you perceive as problems that others do not; similarly, issues may run much deeper than leadership recognizes.

There are many factors and measures that may impact organizational health. Among these is civility. While an organization can institute policies designed to promote such things as civility, how can it be sure these are managed effectively? In this Discussion, you will examine the use of tools in measuring workplace civility.

To Prepare:

• Review the Resources and examine the Clark Healthy Workplace Inventory, found on page 20 of Clark (2015).
• Review and complete the Work Environment Assessment Template in the Resources.

By Day 3 of Week 7

Post a brief description of the results of your Work Environment Assessment. Based on the results, how civil is your workplace? Explain why your workplace is or is not civil. Then, describe a situation where you have experienced incivility in the workplace. How was this addressed? Be specific and provide examples.

By Day 6 of Week 7

Respond to at least two of your colleagues on two different days by sharing ideas for how shortcomings discovered in their evaluations and/or their examples of incivility could have been managed more effectively.

 
1 postsRe: Topic 1 DQ 2

This paper compares and contrasts two leadership theories: transformational and authentic leadership. In addition to this, the paper takes a look at the strengths and weaknesses of each of these two theories in relation to the nursing profession. To begin with, Sfantou et al. (2017) note in their article that the leadership style that is pursued by the leader is highly important, since it determines the nature of the relationship between an individual who is at the top of the organization (or heads the team) and his/her subordinates/followers. When it comes to transformational leaders, they are able to create strong relationships among team members, as well as motivation in the team (in general). Also, transformational leaders are known for improving worker commitment to goal attainment, as well as boosting overall performance on the institutional level (Asif et al., 2019).

What about authentic leaders? They align values with actions and are known for building transparent relationships with their followers (Carvalho et al., 2016). Also, authentic leaders create an environment where everybody feels respected and appreciated for his/her contribution, no matter how small or big (Nelson et al., 2014). If the two leadership styles were compared and the “best” one was chosen for addressing nursing issues, I would point to authentic leadership. Establishing trustful relationships is one of the pillars of a well-functioning nursing team. An authentic leader knows how to do this. Transformational leaders, on the other hand, are really result-oriented. However, in a nursing environment this can actually hinder the working process. For nurses, it is important to be transparent, trustful of their leader, and empathic. In my opinion, authentic leaders help to foster these qualities in their followers to a great extent. While both leadership styles are worthy of consideration, authentic leadership is the “better” version of the two.

References

Sfantou, D., et al. (2017). Importance of leadership style towards quality of care measures in healthcare settings. Retrieved from Healthcare, 5(4).

Asif, M., et al. (2019). Linking transformational leadership with nurse-assessed adverse patient outcomes and the quality of care. Retrieved from International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 16(13).