Leadership

1. You will write an annotated bibliography for one research article related to your topic of interest. The annotated bibliographic entry for the article should be two to three paragraphs, for a total of no more than two pages in length.
2. The article you select must be at a graduate level. All must come from academic/professional-level referenced journals. You cannot use articles from introductory nursing journals (such as RN, AJN).
3. The OWL Purdue Online Writing Lab has a good guide to writing annotated bibliographies; you are encouraged to follow the format outlined on this site specifically relating to summarization, assessment, and reflection. 

 

Order is a continuation of the past order

Leadership paper topic  on Quality Improvement

including:

    Purpose statement/research question

    Significance of the  problem

    Identify and define the leadership topic being addressed in your paper

     Relate the issue to at least one of the leadership topics (Quality Improvement)

Create a 15 slide PowerPoint® presentation which includes the following:

 

Leaders seek out change opportunities regularly. Innovation, critical thinking, and decision-making are key to making an impact on an organization. This assessment is designed to help you look at aspects of your own clinical practice and become a change agent in your organization. Use your current or past experience to identify a change project to implement. 

 

Step 1: Select a topic for a change project. 

• Review the following resources for a potential change topic or process ideas:
• Institute for Health Care Improvement: Transforming Care at the Bedside
• Institute for Health Care Improvement: Hospital Inpatient Waste Identification Tool
• For process change resources: TeamSTEPPS® Pocket Guide

 

Step 2: Identify the context for your change. 

• Describe the setting where the change will take place (e.g., clinical, insurance, home health, or public and community).
• Explain who is affected (e.g., patients, nurses, leadership, and other stakeholders in the organization)

 

Step 3: Review the literature to find possible solutions and evidence to address your topic. 

• Research sources that guide evidence-based practice to improve outcomes related to your selected topic.
• Find a minimum of three peer-reviewed articles directly related to addressing your change topic.

 

Step 4: Create a draft implementation plan. 

• Summarize each article to explain how the evidence you gathered will help address your change topic.
• Explain how you could use the information in the research to carry out the change in your identified setting.

 

Continue to Part 2: Daily Leadership.

Nurses must strive to be leaders every day. Support your recommended Change Project Implementation Plan by addressing the following: 

Develop 10 ways to include leadership in your daily activities. 

Cite at least three peer-reviewed sources published within the last 5 years that support your positions. 

 

Format  your PowerPoint® presentation to ensure the slides only contain essential information and as little text as possible. Do not design a slide made up of long bullet points. Your speaker notes convey the details you would give if you were presenting.

Think about the clinical environment where you work or one in which you previously worked. 

Identify opportunities for waste reduction. Consider the following: 

• Setting: administrative, operational, clinical
• Efficiency
• Value to patient
• Value to quality and safety in nursing practice

Suggest process changes to improve the situation as if you are communicating to frontline staff and nurse leaders explaining your findings.

 

Continue to Part 2: Managing Quality and Risk.

In this part of the presentation, consider how managing quality often means addressing small issues to prevent them from escalating into ethical, legal, or fiscal risks for the organization. Keep in mind, you are adding to your presentation with the goal of showing your chief nursing officer how you plan to address the topic you select from the list below.

Select one of the following topics:   

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• Managing conflict
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Develop a plan to carry out your selected topic as a nurse leader on your floor. Consider: 

• Available resources: time, budget, space, industry collateral, personnel
• Employee engagement
• Change management principles
• Team dynamics
• Communication strategies

 

Continue to Format.  Create a 14-to 20-slide PowerPoint® presentation which includes the following:

Format your PowerPoint® presentation to ensure the slides only contain essential information and as little text as possible. Do not design a slide made up of long bullet points. Your speaker notes convey the details you would give if you were presenting.

 

Reflection

Quality, Change, and Self-Assessment 

This reflection is comprised of 2 sections, collectively totaling a minimum of 500 words. 

 

Complete your reflection by responding to all prompts. 

 

1) Quality and Change in Health Care

Change in health care is often related to quality. There are three organizations that are the major driving forces of the current emphasis on quality. 

 

Explore each of the organizations listed below. 

• Health and Medicine Division of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
• Agency for Health Care Research and Quality
• National Quality Forum

 

Reflect upon the focus, mission, vision, and values for each and the impact each organization has on your nursing practice. 

 

2) Handling Conflict: Self-Assessment

Workplace conflict is unavoidable. Although it tends to have a negative connotation, it can be a positive catalyst for change. Conflict can and should be effectively managed by everyone at every level of the organization. 

 

This self-assessment is designed to make you more aware of how you could and do handle conflict at work. 

 

Complete the Conflict Self-Assessment from Box 23-2 in Chapter 23 of Leading and Managing in Nursing.

 

Read the information from Boxes 23-3, 23-4, 23-5, 23-6, 23-7, and 23-8 to see some of the appropriate uses for each approach. As you read, think about times when you have applied each approach effectively or ineffectively.

 

Use the totals from your self-assessment to stimulate your thinking about how you do and could handle conflict at work.

• Does your pattern of frequency tend to be consistent, or inconsistent, with the types of conflicts you face? That is, does your way of dealing with conflict tend to match the situations in which that approach is most useful? Why or why not?

 

Note: Three  references, format your in-text citations and references as per APA guidelines. Use the APA Style Guide, 7th Edition.

 

Submit your reflection.

 

Reflection

This reflection is meant to help you close the gap between what you know and what you need to know in preparation for the competency assessment. 

 

Reflect on the following in a minimum of 500 words.

 

Health Care: Right or Privilege?

Read Seven Factors Driving Up Your Health Care Costs on the Kaiser Health News site to learn about some of the contributing factors in increasing health care costs.

 

Thoughtfully consider the following:

• In the current U.S. health care system, is health care a right or a privilege?
• How do you think social determinants of health and health disparities impact the U.S. health care system?
• As you explore the Kaiser website and review the visuals, think about your practice area. How are the seven key drivers are impacting your practice setting?

 

Note: Three  references, format your in-text citations and references as per APA guidelines. Use the APA Style Guide, 7th Edition.

 

Submit your reflection. 

 

As you learned in NSGCB/416: Theoretical Development and Conceptual Frameworks, theory-guided practice improves patient outcomes because of purposeful systematic application. As you grow in the nurse leader role, you will see that the same holds true for theory -guided leadership. This assessment is designed to link leadership theory to practice and connect your past and current experience to help you grow as a leader.

 

 Complete the Leadership Theories in Practice worksheet. 

 

Review the leadership theories on pages 9-11 and Gardner’s Tasks of Leading/Managing on pages 14-15 in Leading and Managing in Nursing. 

 

Complete the table. 

 

Summarize the main points of the theory in your own words in the Summary Definition column. 

 

Provide an example where you witnessed the theory in practice or suggest a situation where it could be applicable in the Practice Example column. Do not restate the Application to Practice column in the textbook; provide a unique example or suggest a possible scenario. 

 

Correlate at least one of Gardner’s task to the theory and practice example in the last column. 

 

Use at least five in-text citations in the table to support your summaries, practice examples, or application of Gardner’s Tasks. In the References section below the table, create an APA-formatted list to cite each resource.

 

 Include a reference list and format it per APA guidelines.