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Courseillant 4 postsRe: Topic 4 DQ 2

Organizational culture is viewed as a collective structure which is controlled by universal ideas, traditions, values and theories. Notably, these ideals and beliefs are generally shared by the individuals in the organization; it is important to note that, sharing of the values and beliefs in an organization such as healthcare organizations impact the conducts of the nurses based on their jobs, actions and dressing codes. I believe that, organizational culture for example teamwork, constancy, hostility, emphasis on workers, results and innovation can create affirmative effect over the company, however, it can as well create more burden to the nurses who work in the healthcare sector. For example, I believe that, barriers like conflicts between the nurses, dejected workers, lack of communication as well as lack of trust among nurses can make nursing leaders become helpless and ineffective. This indeed becomes daunting for the nursing leaders and it can eventually promote a negative effect on the healthcare setting including patients.
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An organizational culture, as defined by Nightingale in her article, are “ideas, customs, behaviors, mission, beliefs, etc. that define the environment of an organization.” (Nightingale, 2018). We like to believe that these concepts are all positive but there are things within an organization’s culture that do make nurses and other staff powerless. Some barriers that would have a negative effect would be shortages of resources and supplies, not enough staff to support the patient census, bullying in the work place, and lack of available time to meet with administration to propose new ideas. Unfortunately, barriers can cause struggles between nurses and nursing leaders. A good nurse leader will rise above the barriers and continue with a good attitude while promoting the employer to the rest of the nurses and staff to ensure a calm throughout the nursing departments.

Reference

Nightingale, A., (2018). Nursing Standard. Developing the Organisational culture in a healthcare setting. Retrieved from: https://search-proquest-com.lopes.idm.oclc.org/docview/1992715222?accountid=7374

 

Nurses are resources and educators to local legislators. Since it is a citizen led legislature, representatives can be pizza shop owners, lawyers, tech professionals or of any trade/profession and may know nothing about nursing. It is imperative that nurses have the ability and confidence to discuss and educate these representatives on the work of nurses and issues of importance to nursing and the public.

Therefore, speaking with local representatives requires some background knowledge. The ANA and your state’s professional nursing association such as the Florida Nurses Association, has many resources for the nurse when it comes to legislative advocacy. Having the support and knowledge of these issues is crucial.

Please review the educational resources located under the Week 8 Content Area to assist and guide you for this discussion. Then, complete and submit the following:

1. Choose a health or nursing related issue or area of concern in your community or state. This could include health concerns, environmental issues, nursing issues, or legislation of importance to nurses and the public.

2. Research the issue or bill and create an “elevator speech” or “pitch” of the issue (how it relates to the nursing profession, patient outcomes, and your support or nursing’s support for, or against, the issue.  Your “pitch” should be long enough to get your point across and include statements of evidence (about one minutes in length).

3. Find your local representatives and identify the committees they serve on, especially committees that are about healthcare and health policy.

In your discussion question response, present the issue and associated legislation (if applicable), the population affected, and possible strategies where nurses can have the greatest impact. Include your elevator speech and the local representative(s) you would present your elevator speech to. Better yet, video your speech right in this discussion! Don’t forget to reference any sources of your research. You will still need a scholarly nursing journal article per the discussion rubric.

So your post should look like this (Example)

Professor and Class:

The issue I chose to address is … ([present the issue and associated legislation (if applicable), the population affected, and possible strategies where nurses can have the greatest impact. This is where your text and journal article will be included].

My elevator speech:

Dear Congressman Smith,

I am writing to you today about Senate Bill ….. {make sure you present the bill or issue and make it clear what you want them to do like support a bill or vote no or provide more funding for the issue].

 

Here are some resources to get you started:

-American Nurses Association (ANA) Policy and Advocacy. Here you can find state legislative issues the ANA is promoting across the country.

http://www.nursingworld.org/MainMenuCategories/Policy-Advocacy

-American Nurses Association RNAction.org Here you can see all the current issues and action center information

-Florida Nurses Association-Advocacy https://www.floridanurse.org/page/Advocacy

write about two careers in health care i.e., Respiratory therapy, nursing, ultrasound, radiology, cardiac sonography, physical therapy, hospital information management, hospital administration, etc.)

• Please consider the support and history of the professional organizations you studied. Then describe what you believe to be the most important contribution of professional organizations such as these to you, a future professional in the field. Three to four paragraphs, please. Double spaced, no more than a 12 font, using logical, complete sentence structure, etc.
•   You should include an introductory paragraph; a paragraph stating what you believe is the most important contribution, with four or five supporting sentences, and a paragraph of summary/conclusion, minimum. One page maximum, please.
•   Include a works cited page of the sources you used for this paper. MLA format, please.
•   Include a cover sheet with name, date and course number/section

Term Paper

Topic: Evidence Based Practices to Guide Clinical Practices

·       Explain the interrelationship between the theory, research, and EBP.

·       Identify and discuss the research questions, sampling and sampling size, research designs, hypothesis, data collection methods, and research findings from each study.

·       Identify the goals, health outcomes, and implementation strategies in the healthcare setting (EBP) based on the articles.

·       Discuss the credibility of the sources and the research/researchers findings.

·       Minimum 5/maximum 7 page paper (the body of the paper), without the references, in APA format.

 

·       Minimum of 1 reference per page of the body of the paper (the course textbook must be one of the references), articles must be peer reviewed and must have been published within last 3-5 years.

NOTE:Please do no copy and paste this is going to be using turniting.

Use APA style

Topic:  

Benefits of legalizing marihuana in the US

1. Based on the information collected in the Research Method, formulate the Results section of your selected topic. Do not forget that your Results section needs to provide a visual (table, graphic, figure, etc.) and a narrative paragraph that helps your reader understand the information presented in the visual. Please do not interpret the results!

2. Post your Results.

Attached is the research method I wrote and also the class notes for the results. 

 

Research method:

Benefits of legalizing marihuana in the US

 For this study, a meta-analysis method was used to synthesize different results found among several studies. The researcher accessed the virtual library through the MRU home page. Then, the researcher accessed the EBSCOhost databases. Once there, the researcher selected both MEDLINE Complete and CINAHL Complete. An advanced search was performed, for which the following keywords were entered in the Boolean search: “Benefits”, “in the united states”, and “legalizing Marijuana.” The search was limited to references providing full text, peer reviewed, and abstract available. A limitation was set for research published within the last five years, from 2016 to 2021. Additionally, researcher consulted only articles published in English. The search provided access to a total of 185 articles, of which only five (5) studies were selected based on their relevance with the topic; the other 180 were discarded.