Topic: Servant Leadership from a Christian Perspective: The Issue of Purpose

                                          Leadership Journal: Authority 

Details:

Journaling provides a valuable tool for recording, reflecting on, and reviewing your learning. This approach provides an opportunity for you to “connect the dots” and observe the relationships between and among activities, interactions, and outcomes.

Unlike a personal journal of thoughts and feelings, this Leadership Journal is a record of your activities, assessments, and learning related to this academic experience.

Journal entries should include a record of the number of hours spent with your nurse leader each week.

Write a journal entry of 1000-1,500 words on the subject of authority, including the following:

1. Provide observations and thoughts on the activities in Weeks 3-4.

2. Explain your place of influence in your professional life.

3. Describe any opportunities you have had to help people be successful.

4. Identify actions you have taken to serve people and your relationship to those individuals.

5. Reflect on at least two things you learned from the “Issue of Authority” video.

APA format is not required, but solid academic writing is expected.

CO1: Propose individualized comprehensive care by integrating theories and principles of nursing and related disciplines when planning comprehensive patient-centered care. (PO1)

CO2: Demonstrate leadership strategies that promote safety and improve quality in nursing practice and increase collaboration with other disciplines when planning patient-centered care within systems-based practice. (PO2)

Think of the best leader or manager you have ever known (or your ideal leader or manager) in nursing or another field. How did this person lead others? How did you feel working with this leader? What impact did this person’s leadership style have on your future leadership?

references: Chamberlain College of Nursing. (2018). NR351 Transitions in Professional Nursing: Week 6 lesson. Downers Grove, IL: Online Publication.

• Choose one skin condition graphic (identify by number in your Chief Complaint) to document your assignment in the SOAP (Subjective, Objective, Assessment, and Plan) note format rather than the traditional narrative style. Refer to Chapter 2 of the Sullivan text and the Comprehensive SOAP Template in this week’s Learning Resources for guidance. Remember that not all comprehensive SOAP data are included in every patient case.
• Use clinical terminologies to explain the physical characteristics featured in the graphic. Formulate a differential diagnosis of three to five possible conditions for the skin graphic that you chose. Determine which is most likely to be the correct diagnosis and explain your reasoning using at least three different references, one reference from current evidence-based literature from your search and two different references from this week’s Learning Resources.

You have two very ill patients this week, and each of them presents a very complicated case. First, you have a patient with an ongoing problem that has resisted diagnosis. He was enroute to an evaluation with a neurologist, but on the way to the hospital suddenly fell into a coma (a state of involuntary unconsciousness due to illness or injury) and had to be brought in to your medical facility by ambulance.

You will use at least 10 medical terms to describe this patient, and to refer to the original underlying problem the patient had in the first place. Use the nervous system medical word elements chart and the medical, surgical, and diagnostic terms chart on from your textbook to get you started on the medical terms you will need. You can include specific drugs used in neurological disease as you list at least 3 tests and procedures used. 

Your second patient this week is also quite ill and is presenting a number of problems. This patient is diabetic, and also has another Endocrine System disorder (of your choice). Consult the endocrine medical word elements chart as you develop medical terms—include at least 10 that would be appropriate in this case. You should consult  medical, surgical, and diagnostic procedures in your textbook as you select at least 3 tests and procedures for this patient. .

I need a positive argument  based in this discussion question. Respond to this argument in one or more of the following ways:

Ask a probing question, substantiated with additional background information, evidence or research.

Share an insight from having read your colleagues’ postings, synthesizing the information to provide new perspectives.

Offer and support an alternative perspective using readings from the classroom or from your own research in the Walden Library.

Validate an idea with your own experience and additional research.

Make a suggestion based on additional evidence drawn from readings or after synthesizing multiple postings.

Expand on your colleagues’ postings by providing additional insights or contrasting perspectives based on readings and evidence.

Use references 

Living in the United States is seen as a privilege.  There are multiple countries that do not have access to the majority of things that we do here in America.  However, the United States is one of the few countries that have not industrialized the health care system.  The proper role of the government should be to provide everyone with quality health care.  Health care is one of the things in America that should not be seen as a privilege.  It should be seen as a right.  The biggest issue that I see currently is the economic concerns within the the country.  There is a constant battle between each political party on the price tag of the health care system.  However, Bernie Sanders came up with an incredible plan to ensure that all Americans have health care.  Medicare for All would be the plan that could insure ever American within adequate health care.  There are millions of dollars spent each year on health care.  Twenty-nine million Americans do not have health insurance and millions more are under-insured and cannot afford the high co-payments and deductibles (2018).  The U.S. spends approximately three trillion dollars on health care each year.  By reforming the health care systems and ensuring that patients are actually getting high quality health care, Bernie’s plan has been estimated to save the county over six trillion dollars within the next decade (2018).   

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) was a critically important step towards the goal of universal health care.  With the ACA, more than seventeen million Americans have gained health insurance (2018).  Having better and more affordable access to health insurance could ultimately improve the overall health of Americans.  There are millions of people that do not have insurance that desperately need it in order to have a better quality of life.  By taking the economic burden off of the citizens, each individual could live healthier and happier lives.  By introducing Medicare for All, millions of people will no longer have to chose between health care and basic necessities like food, shelter, and services that have been out of reach (2018).   That peace of mind could do wonders for the economy and health status of citizens of America.  

Reference

Medicare for All.  (2018, July).  Medicare for All:  Leaving No One Behind.  Retrieved from https://berniesanders.com/issues/medicare-for-all/