NR531 Nursing Leadership in Healthcare Organizations Week 4,5,6,7 and 8 Discussions
NR531 Nursing Leadership in Healthcare Organizations
Week 4 Discussion
Vision and the Organizational Structure
As the nurse executive, discuss your vision that you would like to implement for the organizational structure at SLMC. Share your rationale. How would you incorporate aspects of the person-centred nursing framework into your vision? Using motivational theory, discuss your strategies, as the nurse executive, for creating a motivating climate and atmosphere that supports a more positive work environment.
NR531 Nursing Leadership in Healthcare Organizations
Week 5 Discussion
Management of Influence, Power, Conflict, and Decision Making
As the nurse executive at SLMC, you are trying to increase communication and empower decision making among your team members. In the past, it has been difficult for some of the various shift workers to attend scheduled, mandatory meetings that involve Magnet™ designation preparation. Share your specific strategies (examples) for enhancing communication and empowering all members of your team.
NR531 Nursing Leadership in Healthcare Organizations
Week 6 Discussion
Communication
As the nurse administrator for SLMC, you must communicate to your team the disappointing news that your organization is discontinuing tuition reimbursement benefits. Discuss how you will communicate this message to your direct reports and to the rest of the organization. Be specific and state your rationale for your communication plan.
NR531 Nursing Leadership in Healthcare Organizations
Week 7 Discussion
Quality Management and Control
SLMC has a continuous commitment to delivering the highest quality care by addressing crucial issues, such as patient safety, technology, and expanding services to meet community needs. As the nurse administrator, you determine an audit of elderly patient readmissions would be helpful data to be gathered. Discuss some of the specific information you would include on this tool and how specifically you would proceed with this project and your rationale for including them in the tool. Whom would collect the data?
After reading about Deming’s 14 Total Quality Management principles, state one management principle you would apply to assist in delivering the highest quality care?
NR531 Nursing Leadership in Healthcare Organizations
Week 8 Discussion
Reflection
What specific knowledge of the healthcare environment and leadership skills that you gained through this experience will be most important as you take on your future nurse-executive role? Describe a concrete way in which you anticipate using these skills and knowledge.
How will you use the concepts in this course to identify, guide and evaluate your final MSN practicum project?
Please review the American Nursing Credentialing Center (ANCC) nurse executive competencies (refer to the Week 1 lesson) and the American Nurses Association (ANA) Nursing Administration Standards of Professional Performance (refer to the Week 7 required reading: Marquis, B.L. & Huston, C.J. (2017). Leadership roles and management functions in nursing: Theory and application (9th ed.). Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins). Share how these will influence you as a nurse leader.