Eastern Florida NUR4827 All Weeks Discussions Latest 2019 January

16 Jun Eastern Florida NUR4827 All Weeks Discussions Latest 2019 January

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NUR4827 Leadership and management in Healthcare

Week 1 Discussion

List four words that come to mind when you think of a leader. List four words that come to mind when you think of a follower. Analyze the difference between the two lists. Do you think of leaders in different ways than you think of followers? Discuss what is different and why?

NUR 4827 Leadership and management in Healthcare

Week 2 Discussion

DQ1 Are leaders born or made? If you think they are born, can anything be done to help someone who wants to lead but was not born a leader? If you think they are made, how are they made? What strategies can you use to improve your leadership skills?

DQ2 Nurses manage day to day challenges at the workplace. Consider the following scenario about violence in the workplace:

A young, husky male is brought to the Emergency Department because of his escalating angry behavior. As he is being interviewed, a 6-inch knife is found in his possession. When he is asked to surrender the knife, he refuses and becomes quite agitated. How can this situation best be handled? Provide a rationale for your selected strategies.

Call the code-green team for a show of force.

Push the panic button to summon the security guards.

Try to talk the patient into giving up the weapon.

Other responses

NUR 4827 Leadership and management in Healthcare

Week 3 Discussion

What can happen when the employer is held liable based solely on the actions of the staff member’s negligence and the employer pays monetary damages because of the employee’s negligent actions? Does the institution have the right to counter-sue the nurse for damages paid to an injured patient?

NUR 4827 Leadership and management in Healthcare

Week 6 Discussion

DQ1 Team building

Working in a team is an important strategy for accomplishing work. Understanding what is required of a strong teammate becomes clear as you are assigned team projects.

For this discussion question, Identify the 17 characteristics that make a good team. Select four of those characteristics and discuss why each of these is important.

DQ2 Managing Quality and Risk

How does the Magnet Recognition Program® relate to quality management?

NUR 4827 Leadership and management in Healthcare

Week 7 Discussion

DQ1 Managing Personal/Personnel Problems

Take a few moments to recall the past 2 to 3 weeks in the clinical setting or work location. How many times were they praised for a job well done? Was the praise or reward warranted? What are their strengths and weaknesses in praising others?

DQ2 Workplace Incivility

How can incivility impact patient care? Discuss how communication problems are at the heart of nearly 70% of events impacting patient care (TJC, 2008).

NUR 4827 Leadership and management in Healthcare

Week 9 Discussion

DQ1 This discussion can be found in your book, chapter 7 called Exercise 7-1.

Using the local phone directory, determine the types and numbers of primary care, secondary care, and tertiary care services available in our community. Table 7-2 provides an example of a format for collecting the data.

Review the list of your classmates, is there anything you can add to their list? Do you think this information is useful and why?

DQ2 A nurse on a medical/surgical unit has made the same medication error 2 days in a row. As the nursing manager, describe how you would decide whether this is a systems problem or a problem related to the individual nurse. In either case, explain how you (the manager) should correct the problem?

NUR 4827 Leadership and management in Healthcare

Week 10 Discussion

DQ1 Many nursing experts believe that evaluation is the most crucial part of employee development. Debate the pros and cons of this statement, and decide whether the statement is true. If it is not true, then what constitutes the most important part of employee development?

DQ2 Differentiate failure mode effects analysis (FMEA) from root cause analysis (RCA)?

NUR4827 Leadership and management in Healthcare

Week 12 Discussion

This question refers to Chapter 14 Exercise 14-3. It pertains to your place of work so it only needs the reference of the book and/or any other source you utilize. If you would like to provide an example, please ensure that all names have been removed for privacy.

Questions to determine the potential employer’s scheduling practices might include the following. Relate these questions to your place of business.

How many hours are included in each shift? Is there any flexibility in this?

Have minimum and maximum numbers of days been determined that an individual should work before he takes a day off?

What input does staff have in determining schedule practices?

What is the process for requesting specific time off?

What other questions might you ask about scheduling?

NUR4827 Leadership and management in Healthcare

Week 14 Discussion

DQ1 Bachelors prepared nurses are leaders in their fields. Making the transition and transformation into a management role is worth the effort.

Leading lives of integrity and commitment, nurse managers set examples, bringing out the best in direct care nurses and thereby multiplying their influence on quality patient care.

How can you set yourself up for success when transitioning between roles? or enhance your role as leader?

DQ2 Job stress can be defined as the physical and emotional responses that arise when the job requirements do not match the abilities, resources or needs of the worker.

External sources of stress include work-related stressors, and may be related to change, social pressures, position (role stress), and gender roles.

Internal sources of stress include personal triggers, unrealistic self-beliefs, and lifestyle choices. An individual’s ability to deal with stress may be moderated by psychological hardiness.

Initially, increased stress produces increased performance. However, when stress continues to increase or remains intense, performance decreases.

What is General Adaptation Syndrome? What are the stages of stress response in this theory?