The purpose of this assignment is to select a topic related to information systems in healthcare from the list provided, research and analyze the topic, and describe how you will apply your newfound knowledge to your nursing practice.

INSTRUSTIONS FOR THIS PAPER IS ATTACHED, PLEASE NO PLAGIARISM AS IT WILL BE GOING THROUGH TURNITIN. 

Topics

Select ONE of these topics for the focus of your paper:

• Standard terminologies (CO3, CO8)
• Decision-making support tools (CO4, CO8)
• Patient education technology (CO5, CO8)
• Data integrity, legal and ethical implications (CO7, CO8)
  

Individual Power Plan 

 What can you do to develop your individual power base? This week, you have heard and read about several types and sources of power. For this Assignment, consider your goals and how enhancing your own power may help you to achieve them.  

To Prepare •Reflect on your personal current sense of power within your organization and the profession; 

•Do a self–assessment of your leadership skills by doing the How Good are your Leadership Skills? assessment at http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newLDR_50.htm

How did you score? You do need not to reveal this in your paper, but hopefully it will guide you in how to apply the concepts to your own situation. 

•Reflect on your motivation for increasing your power within your organization and/or within the nursing profession.

 •Do a self–assessment of your leadership motivation by doing the assessment The Leadership Motivation Assessment found at http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newLDR_01.htm 

•Again, it is not necessary to post your score but hopefully it will guide you in how to discuss your motivation at this point in time. 

•Review the information on power in the Learning Resources and conduct additional research on your own to examine strategies that seem relevant and worthwhile for helping to enrich your power as a nurse leader. 

•Identify specific strategies you can use to develop and leverage sources and types of power to achieve desired outcomes.  

To Complete  Write a 2– to 3–page paper, not including the cover and Reference page, describing: 

•A self–assessment of your current sense of power within your organization and the profession; 

•A self–assessment of your motivation for increasing your power base;

 •Write a detailed plan for enhancing your power as a nurse and a leader–manager, including specific strategies for achieving that plan.  Be sure to include strategies for mobilizing the power of nursing for social change, empowering others, and building a personal power base.

Required Readings  

Marquis, B. L., & Huston, C. J. (2015). Leadership roles and management functions in nursing: Theory and application (8th ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins.  •Chapter 13, “Organizational, Political, and Personal Power”  Fry, B. (2013). 

Power up your leadership: Straight talk for nurse managers. Canadian Nurse, 109(5), 32–33.  Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.   

Mindtools (1996–2015). French and Raven’s Five Forms of Power. Understanding Where Power Comes From in the Workplace. Retrieved from http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newLDR_56.htm

1.  In your own words discuss and compare the development of health care in the Chinese and Guatemalan heritage.

2.  Describe if there is any similarity  between both culture regarding the health care beliefs.

As stated in the syllabus please present your assignment in an APA format word document attached under week 5 discussion questions in the discussion tab of the blackboard.  You must use the required Arial 12 font and a minimum of 2 evidence based references no older than 5 years.   sustained with the proper evidence based references no older than 5 years and a minimum of 500 words are required.  

1.  In your own words discuss and compare the development of health care in the Chinese and Guatemalan heritage.

2.  Describe if there is any similarity  between both culture regarding the health care beliefs.

As stated in the syllabus please present your assignment in an APA format word document attached under week 5 discussion questions in the discussion tab of the blackboard.  You must use the required Arial 12 font and a minimum of 2 evidence based references no older than 5 years.   sustained with the proper evidence based references no older than 5 years and a minimum of 500 words are required.  

Homework Case Study Questions-
HCA 346- Ambulatory Care

Deciding whether to centralize or decentralize

The new Graystone Memorial Clinic facility houses 50 specialists. The old clinic building was located in a gradually decaying portion of the city, and the group decided to build a new facility to allow for expansion of the staff and to better serve the population, which has shifted away from the original location.

During the course of planning for the project, a number of decisions regarding functions were made. One important decision was to centralize the nursing station on each floor, with approximately twelve physicians housed in each unit and 3-4 in each subspecialty section. This was done in order to increase efficiency. Although the physician’s offices and the exam rooms all had telephones, telephone calls to the floor were to be handled centrally within the nursing section. Other duties of the nursing and office staff were also to be shared. As a patient was brought back from the central reception area with the chart, the chart was to be placed in a pocket outside the patient’s exam-room door, and the flag indicator moved to alert the physician that this was his or her next patient. 

The move was completed over a weekend, and the doors of the new facility opened to patients for the first time on the following Monday. Within an hour, utter chaos reigned. The chief of medicine became so upset that he threatened to resign. The problem was that the physicians did not accept the centralization of the nursing staff because they felt they could not operate without having their own personal assistant.

Somehow the clinic floundered through the first week, with growing tension among employees, professional staff, and administrators. The following Monday, a special meeting of the partnership was called to consider the design problems of the new building.

1. Assume that you are the administrator of the Graystone Memorial Clinic. What went wrong, and how would you correct the problem?