It is important for nurse leaders to engage with other nurse leaders to understand professional roles; a practice experience is assigned to achieve this end. It is expected that you will spend 8-10 hours with the nurse leader, shadowing them in their position, observing them go about their day, and interviewing them. The interview can take place before, during, or after the shadow period or can be on a different day. Qualities of a Nurse Leader Module 6: Assignment N496

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You will engage with and interview a nurse leader in person. You should begin thinking about this activity as soon as possible and identify how you will identify and gain access to the interview. You may include photos, graphs, or charts.

Choose a nurse leader who holds a leadership nursing position in their organization who have direct reports (they supervise other employees). Examples of this include Director of Nursing, Director, Unit Manager. *You may not be employed in the same facility as your interviewee or shadow during personal work hours* (If special accommodations need to be made, approval by your instructor is required first).  Qualities of a Nurse Leader Module 6: Assignment N496

Develop an interview guide before conducting the interview. Identify information that you want to know before the interview and plan clarifying questions. You must include at least one question about technology/informatics.

Conduct an interview regarding their professional role in the organization, and a current health care issue that is of interest to you (ethics, conflict management, budget, staffing, culture of safety, “just culture”, career advancement, quality improvement, etc.). Identify the name of the organization and use names of all involved (no anonymity).

Prepare a written report of the interview.

Sample questions below. Feel free to vary the content of the questions to fit your interview:

Please describe the nursing and inter-professional teams that operate in this facility/on this unit.

Can you provide an example of a nursing practice that has been changed in the last year based on current best evidence? Qualities of a Nurse Leader Module 6: Assignment N496

What do you consider your biggest challenge?

What do you love most about your job?

Why did you choose this job?

What other kinds of nursing/other job did you ever do?

How would you describe your company’s culture?

How would you describe your role in admission and staffing decisions?

What is your leadership style?  Qualities of a Nurse Leader Module 6: Assignment N496

* If you are employed in a large healthcare facility that has more than one location, you may interview the nurse leader in that organization with prior permission from your instructor. The purpose of this is to get you out of your organization and explore other nursing leadership roles than you might be familiar with.

Assignment Expectations:

Length: 1500 to 1750 words in length; Upload log Separately

Structure: Include a title page and reference page in APA format. These do not count towards the minimum word count for this assignment. Your essay must include an introduction and a conclusion.

References: Use appropriate APA style in-text citations and references for all resources utilized to answer the questions. Your essay should have at least two scholarly references in addition to the textbook. Please be sure to cite the interview in APA format. Qualities of a Nurse Leader Module 6: Assignment N496

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The Quadruple Aim provides broad categories of goals to pursue to maintain and improve healthcare. Within each goal are many issues that, if addressed successfully, may have a positive impact on outcomes. For example, healthcare leaders are being tasked to shift from an emphasis on disease management often provided in an acute care setting to health promotion and disease prevention delivered in primary care settings. Efforts in this area can have significant positive impacts by reducing the need for primary healthcare and by reducing the stress on the healthcare system.

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Changes in the industry only serve to stress what has always been true; namely, that the healthcare field has always faced significant challenges, and that goals to improve healthcare will always involve multiple stakeholders. Analysis of a Pertinent Healthcare Issue Assignment This should not seem surprising given the circumstances. Indeed, when a growing population needs care, there are factors involved such as the demands of providing that care and the rising costs associated with healthcare. Generally, it is not surprising that the field of healthcare is an industry facing multifaceted issues that evolve over time.

In this module’s Discussion, you reviewed some healthcare issues/stressors and selected one for further review. For this Assignment, you will consider in more detail the healthcare issue/stressor you selected. You will also review research that addresses the issue/stressor and write a white paper to your organization’s leadership that addresses the issue/stressor you selected.

To Prepare:

• Review the national healthcare issues/stressors presented in the Resources and reflect on the national healthcare issue/stressor you selected for study.
• Reflect on the feedback you received from your colleagues on your Discussion post for the national healthcare issue/stressor you selected.
• Identify and review two additional scholarly resources (not included in the Resources for this module) that focus on change strategies implemented by healthcare organizations to address your selected national healthcare issue/stressor. Analysis of a Pertinent Healthcare Issue Assignment

The Assignment (3-4 Pages):

Analysis of a Pertinent Healthcare Issue

Develop a 3- to 4-page paper, written to your organization’s leadership team, addressing your selected national healthcare issue/stressor and how it is impacting your work setting. Be sure to address the following:

• Describe the national healthcare issue/stressor you selected and its impact on your organization. Use organizational data to quantify the impact (if necessary, seek assistance from leadership or appropriate stakeholders in your organization).
• Provide a brief summary of the two articles you reviewed from outside resources on the national healthcare issue/stressor. Explain how the healthcare issue/stressor is being addressed in other organizations.
• Summarize the strategies used to address the organizational impact of national healthcare issues/stressors presented in the scholarly resources you selected. Explain how they may impact your organization both positively and negatively. Be specific and provide examples. Analysis of a Pertinent Healthcare Issue Assignment

Write a 4-7 page analysis of your care setting that supports development of a strategic plan and includes both the discovery and dream phases of an appreciative inquiry (AI) project and a strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis of the care setting.

Introduction

Identifying analysis techniques for assessing competitive advantage is important for building health care strategy. Sustaining health care competitive advantage requires that leaders understand environmental demands to assist with minimizing weakness and threats from the external environment. Assessment 1 Instructions: Care Setting Environmental Analysis Nursing Assignment. This assessment provides you with an opportunity to examine your health care environment to determine whether what is being accomplished in your organization, department, team, community project, or other care setting is making a positive difference.

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Note: You will use the results of this analysis to develop a strategic plan in Assessment 2.

Preparation

You have been asked to conduct an analysis of your care setting that will result in two potential pathways toward a strategic plan to improve health care quality and safety in your organization, department, team, community project, or other care setting. To accomplish this, you will take two approaches to the analysis:

1. Complete the discovery and dream phases of an appreciative inquiry (AI) project.
2. Conduct a strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) analysis. Assessment 1 Instructions: Care Setting Environmental Analysis Nursing Assignment

To help ensure that your analysis is well-received, the requester has suggested that you:

• Present your analysis results in four parts:
  • Part 1: Appreciative Inquiry Discovery and Dream.
  • Part 2: SWOT Analysis.
  • Part 3: Comparison of Approaches.
  • Part 4: Analysis of Relevant Leadership Characteristics and Skills.
• Your analysis should be 4–7 pages in length.

Note: Remember, you can submit all, or a portion, of your draft plan to Smarthinking for feedback before you submit the final version for this assessment. However, be mindful of the turnaround time for receiving feedback, if you plan on using this free service. Assessment 1 Instructions: Care Setting Environmental Analysis Nursing Assignment

As you prepare to complete this assessment, you may want to think about other related issues to deepen your understanding or broaden your viewpoint. You are encouraged to consider the questions below and discuss them with a fellow learner, a work associate, an interested friend, or a member of your professional community. Note that these questions are for your own development and exploration and do not need to be completed or submitted as part of your assessment.

One key aspect to being an effective leader, manager, or administrator is an awareness of your leadership strengths, weaknesses, and style.

• How would you assess your general leadership, communication, and relationship-building skills? Assessment 1 Instructions: Care Setting Environmental Analysis Nursing Assignment
• How would describe your leadership style?

Imagine the future for a care setting that is your place of practice or one in which you would like to work.

• What aspirational goals can you envision that would lead to improvements in health care quality and safety?
• How well do these goals align with the mission, vision, and values of your care setting? Assessment 1 Instructions: Care Setting Environmental Analysis Nursing Assignment

Details:

This is a Collaborative Learning Community assignment.

The instructor will assign you to a CLC group.

The RN to BSN program at Grand Canyon University meets the requirements for clinical competencies as defined by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) and the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN), using nontraditional experiences for practicing nurses. These experiences come in the form of direct and indirect care experiences in which licensed nursing students engage in learning within the context of their hospital organization, specific care discipline, and local communities. Collaborative Learning Community assignment

This assignment consists of both an interview and a PowerPoint (PPT) presentation.

Assessment/Interview

Select a community of interest. It is important that the community selected be one in which a CLC group member currently resides. Students residing in the chosen community should be assigned to perform the physical assessment of the community.

1. Perform a direct assessment of a community of interest using the “Functional Health Patterns Community Assessment Guide.”
2. Interview a community health and public health provider regarding that person’s role and experiences within the community.

Interview Guidelines

Interviews can take place in-person, by phone, or by Skype. Complete the “Provider Interview Acknowledgement Form” and submit with the group presentation.

Develop one set of interview questions to gather information about the role of the provider in the community and the health issues faced by the chosen community. Collaborative Learning Community assignment

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Compile key findings from the interview, including the interview questions used, and submit with the group presentation.

PowerPoint Presentation

Within your group, create a PowerPoint presentation of 15-20 slides (slide count does not include title and reference slide) describing the chosen community interest.

Include the following in your presentation:

1. Description of community and community boundaries: the people and the geographic, geopolitical, financial, educational level, ethnic, and phenomenological features of the community as well as types of social interactions, common goals and interests, barriers, and challenges, including any identified social determinates of health.
2. Summary of community assessment: (a) funding sources and (b) partnerships.
3. Summary of interview with community health/public health provider.
4. Identification of an issue that is lacking or an opportunity for health promotion. The issue identified can be used for the Community Teaching Plan: Community Teaching Work Plan Proposal assignment.
5. A conclusion summarizing your key findings and a discussion of your impressions of the general health of the community. Collaborative Learning Community assignment

In addition to submitting this assignment in the LoudCloud dropbox, email a copy of your submission to RNBSNclientcare@gcu.edu.

While APA style is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and documentation of sources should be presented using APA formatting guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

You are not required to submit this assignment to Turnitin.

When submitting this assignment, include the interview questions, the interview findings, completed “Provider Interview Acknowledgement Form,” and the community assessment PPT presentation. Collaborative Learning Community assignment

Nursing is one of the largest professions globally, and as such, nurses have the potential to influence policy and politics on a global scale. When nurses influence the politics that improve and change healthcare delivery, they ultimately advocate for their patients(Oestberg, 2013). Many opportunities currently exist for RN’s and APRNs to actively engage in the policy review. Nurses have two different options through professional nursing associations or by way of policy committees through their employers. Student response 1

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The first opportunity mentioned is by way of joining and becoming involved in professional organizations such as the American Nurse Association (ANA), American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP), or American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN). These organizations can all be utilized by nurses to review policies. Professional associations safeguard any implemented procedure and are practical and favor nurses(ANA, n.d.). Additionally, RN’s and APRN’s must have access to up-to-date resources to remain aware of what is happenings in healthcare policies, including within their states(Laureate Education, 2018).

Secondly, RN’s and APRNs can actively participate in policy reviews with employers’ policy committees. Nurses can get involved in the unit council meeting

and engage in the introduction of new policies. Through this process, RN’s and APRNs can enhance the opportunities in the influencing of a policy review

by ensuring the policy promoted are effective in their workplace(Oestberg, 2013).

There are many challenges that RN’s and APRNs can encounter while participating in policy reviews in the workplace. One challenge is keeping RN’ and

APRNs are up to date on the policy changes and the trending policies pending implementation. One way to overcome this challenge is to be sure that staff

remains educated on differences and involve staff in what is working well or not so well with the new changes.  Student response 1.Another challenge RN’s and APRNs may face is working with individuals and lawmakers who are from different backgrounds and differ in opinions. They may be less receptive to ideas generated by nurses simply because of nurses’ views of patients and the healthcare system as a whole(Oestberg, 2013). One way to overcome this challenge is to learn how to speak in the lawmaker’s language and gather support from the public and your local representatives. Student response 1

There are many strategies to communicate better when advocating policy reviews. One way to

Advocate for communicating the existence of opportunity is through training and good leadership. With adequate training through exemplary leadership, nurses can better understand their roles and work environment. They care to implement new policies effectively to enhance the well-being of their patients. Social media is another strategy to advocate the existence of opportunities. Through social media avenues such as Twitter and Facebook, nurses can bring public awareness. Nurses can utilize these network groups to spotlight issues that are not being heard but need change. Student response 1

References

ANA. (n.d.). Practice and policy | american nurses association (ana). https://www.nursingworld.org/practice-policy/

Laureate Education. (2018). Program Policy and Evaluation [Video]. Baltimore, MD. https://class.content.laureate.net/c586db28e42b6ef832514de1d3fc37d7.html

Milstead, J. A., & Short, N. M. (2019). Health policy and politics: A nurse’s guide (6th ed.). Jones & Bartlett Learning.

Oestberg, F. (2013). Getting involved in policy and politics. Nursing Critical Care, 8(3), 48. https://doi.org/10.1097/01.ccn.0000429392.92546.6f. Student response 1