NSG 513 ENTIRE COURSE

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NSG 513  ENTIRE COURSE(2018)
 

WEEK  1

 
NSG 513  Week 1 Individual Assignment Participation

 
Instructions:

Participate in class discussion.

1. Substantive responses must be at least 150 words in length. It is very

difficult to provide sufficient discussion and support for your views in

less than this length of a response. Direct quotations will not constitute

more than 10% of the total word count (no more than 15 directly quoted

words in a 150 word response, not counting the reference citation).

2. Substantive responses must include either a correctly formatted

reference to the literature or a specific example from your experience

that further clarifies the discussion. If you are referencing the text, a

specific page or page range must be included.

NSG 513  Week 1 Individual Assignment  Personal SWOT Analysis

Being an effective leader starts with self-awareness. Having a clear

perception of your personality, your strengths and weaknesses, your

beliefs, your emotions and motivations allows you to understand other

people and how they perceive you.

Develop a Personal SWOT Analysis to identify both your strengths and

weaknesses.

Write a 700-word personal development plan identifying actions you

can take to improve on the weaknesses you identified in your SWOT

analysis. Utilize your findings from the leadership styles discussion and

address the following in your development plan:

• What weaknesses were identified in your Personal SWOT Analysis

that you feel will hinder you as a leader?

• Which leadership theory aligns best to the results of your Personal

SWOT Analysis?

• Did your leadership style change from the one you identified in the

Leadership Styles discussion?

Format your assignment according to APA guidelines.

Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment.

NSG 513  Week 1 Individual Assignment   Motivational Leadership Theory

Instructions:

Effective leadership skills are a product of two things: One part is a

person's innate ability and the other part is learned skills through

experience and conscious development. This is achieved through

exploring areas of improvement that can make you a better leader. Now

that you identified your strengths and weaknesses in your Personal

SWOT Analysis, use that information to complete the following

assignment.

Identify the theories discussed in Ch. 5 of your textbook that can be

used to improve your areas of weakness as a leader.

Write a 525-word summary of the theories that you can use to improve

areas of weakness and provide rationale to justify use those theories.

Format your summary according to APA guidelines.

Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your summary.

SupportingMaterial:Leadership for Health Professionals, Ch. 5:

Leadership Competence I – Professional Competencies, and Personal

Skills and ResponsibilitiesMOTIVATIONAL THEORY RUBRIC

 WEEK 2

NSG 513 Week 2 Individual Assignment Participation

 
Instructions:

Participate in class discussion.

1. Substantive responses must be at least 150 words in length. It is very

difficult to provide sufficient discussion and support for your views in

less than this length of a response. Direct quotations will not constitute

more than 10% of the total word count (no more than 15 directly quoted

words in a 150 word response, not counting the reference citation).

2. Substantive responses must include either a correctly formatted

reference to the literature or a specific example from your experience

that further clarifies the discussion. If you are referencing the text, a

specific page or page range must be included.

NSG 513 Week 2 Individual Assignment Leadership Competencies

 
Instructions:

Write a 525-word paper addressing the following questions on

leadership competencies. Justify your answers with appropriate

rationale.

• What leadership competencies are important to the health care

industry?

• Identify a leadership theory that addresses these competencies?
• Is there one leadership theory that is more effective in health care

than all of the others? Or is there more than one that is a good fit for

health care?

• Which competencies differentiate leaders from managers?
• Referring back to your SWOT analysis, which competencies do you

currently meet and which competencies do you need to build on?

• After assessing the competencies of both a manager and a leader,

which of the two (leader or manager) are your strengths more aligned

to? Has the culture of your organization had any influence on this? If so,

provide details explaining how.

Format your paper according to APA guidelines.

Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your paper.

Supporting Material:Leader Competencies Rubric

NSG 513 Week 2 Individual Assignment  Leadership Development Plan

Instructions:

The purpose of a leadership development plan is for leaders to develop

competencies that can bridge levels and functionalities in the

organization. This allows leaders to promote team engagement, and

provide purpose and direction for achieving their goals. Leadership

development programs are essential to managing a team when it

comes to planning and making the right decisions regarding

functionality across the organization. By developing a plan, leaders are

able to determine the skills of each staff member. As a result,

leadership can utilize the skills of the staff strategically when putting the

plan into action.

Develop a SWOT analysis on your organization. If you currently do not

work for a health care organization, use a health care facility where you

previously were employed.

Identify an area of weakness on which you will focus your Leadership

Development Plan.

Create a 525-word Leadership Development Plan addressing the

questions below.

• What are the organization's perceived weaknesses?
• How can you use the strengths identified in your Personal SWOT

Analysis to help the organization improve their weaknesses?

• Which competencies (managerial and leadership) do you possess

and could use to address the issue?

• How would you design your leadership development plan? Consider

combining several theories and models for developing your plan.

Format your paper according to APA guidelines.

Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment.

NSG 513 Week 2 Lerning Team Assignment   Patient Satisfaction Learning Team Project Summary: Problem Identification

Instructions:

Patient Satisfaction Learning Team Project Summary: Problem

Identification

Week 2

As a team, identify a quality measure that is common for nurses to face,

but don't have control over. For example, you are a bedside nurse

working in a hospital; one of your patients is expecting to be released

that day. The patient's doctor visits him every day before noon to check

his status. The previous day, he had asked the doctor if he would be

allowed to go home the next day, to which his doctor responded that he

might be able to but it would depend on his progress. The following day,

the patient believed he was going be released by noon, since the doctor

always made his rounds before then. Unfortunately the doctor had an

emergency and wasn't able to check on the patient until later that

evening. Because of the doctor's absence, the patient's perception of

the quality of care he was receiving was distorted by this happening

and reacted by taking his frustration out on the nurse.

• · Describe a situation problem or issue that needs a solution.
• · Identify what the characteristics are that make the problem

leadership focused instead of management focused

Write a 350-word summary.

Format your summary consistent with APA guidelines.

Note. Points are awarded based on the quality of the content submitted

and the degree to which assignment expectations are met.

SupportingMaterial:TEAM ASSIGNMENT WK2. PROBLEM

IDENTIFICATION RUBRIC

WEEK 3

 
NSG 513 Week 3 Individual Assignment  Participation

 
Instructions:

Participate in class discussion.

1. Substantive responses must be at least 150 words in length. It is very

difficult to provide sufficient discussion and support for your views in

less than this length of a response. Direct quotations will not constitute

more than 10% of the total word count (no more than 15 directly quoted

words in a 150 word response, not counting the reference citation).

2. Substantive responses must include either a correctly formatted

reference to the literature or a specific example from your experience

that further clarifies the discussion. If you are referencing the text, a

specific page or page range must be included. 

NSG 513 Week 3 Individual Assignment Organizational Culture

 
Instructions:

Leaders have several strategies that they can use to create a culture of

change in an organization. Leaders can utilize the mechanisms

identified by Schein to educate current and prospective staff on the

organization's culture and how to maintain that awareness.

Review "Understanding cultural and linguistic barriers to health literacy"

from this week's Electronic Reserve Readings.

Evaluate the primary embedding mechanisms and the secondary

articulation and reinforcement mechanisms discussed in Ch. 9,

Challenges of Change on p. 229 of your textbook.

Write a 700-word paper in which you will address the following:

• Which of the five primary mechanisms can be used within your

organization to refine, maintain, or change the organizations culture?

• Which of the five secondary mechanisms can be used to reinforce

the primary embedding mechanisms?

• What impact does an organization's culture have on the ability of a

leader to drive change?

Provide in-text citations and references for all sources cited; format

according to APA guidelines.

Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment.

NSG 513 Week 3  Learning Team Assignment  Patient Satisfaction Learning Team Project: Decision Making Models

Instructions:

Patient Satisfaction Learning Team Project Summary: Decision Making

Models

Week 3

Keeping the issue identified in Week 2 in mind, research decisionmaking

models used in healthcare.

Describe a minimum of two decision-making models to address the

quality measure, using the issue you identified to illustrate the model.

Include discussion of why the model would be useful in this situation.

Write a 350-word summary.

Format your summary consistent with APA guidelines.

Note. Points are awarded based on the quality of the content submitted

and the degree to which assignment expectations are met.

SupportingMaterial:TEAM ASSIGNMENT WK 3. Decision Making

Models rubric 

WEEK 4

 
NSG 513 Week 4 Individual Assignment Participation

 
Instructions:

Participate in class discussion.

1. Substantive responses must be at least 150 words in length. It is very

difficult to provide sufficient discussion and support for your views in

less than this length of a response. Direct quotations will not constitute

more than 10% of the total word count (no more than 15 directly quoted

words in a 150 word response, not counting the reference citation).

2. Substantive responses must include either a correctly formatted

reference to the literature or a specific example from your experience

that further clarifies the discussion. If you are referencing the text, a

specific page or page range must be included. 

NSG 513 Week 4 Individual Assignment Empowerment Model
 
 
Instructions:

Review French and Raven's Power Taxonomy and Kelman's Power

and Influence Outcomes on Table 13-3 located on page 331 of your

textbook.

Develop an Empowerment Model for your organization. Write a 700-

word summary of your model that includes the following:

• Briefly summarize your findings on how nurses are empowered

through the Magnet Recognition Program.

• As a nurse leader, what could you do to help your organization to

achieve Magnet designation?

• What is the meaning of transformational leadership and why is this

form of leadership appropriate for the field of health care?

• What is relationship between transformational leadership and an

empowered workplace?

• Identify strategies used by Magnet hospitals that promote the

interrelationship between leadership, excellence, and professional

integrity.

Create a 4- to 6-slide presentation designed to persuade the CEO and

the board members of your organization that obtaining Magnet

recognition will empower nurses.

Provide in-text citations and references for all sources cited in your

paper and presentation, and format according to APA guidelines.

Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your slide presentation and

Empowerment Model.

NSG 513 Week 4 Learning Team  Assignment  Patient Satisfaction Learning Team Project Summary: Strategies
 

Instructions:

Patient Satisfaction Learning Team Project Summary: Strategies

Week 4

Discuss strategies that leaders can be used to address the patient

satisfaction issue identified which will also promote interrelationship of

leadership, excellence, and professional integrity.

Write a 350-word summary.

Format your summary consistent with APA guidelines.

Note. Points are awarded based on the quality of the content submitted

and the degree to which assignment expectations are met.

SupportingMaterial:TEAM ASSIGNMENT WK 4. STRATEGIES

WEEK 5

NSG 513 Week 5 Individual Assignment  Participation 

Instructions:

Participate in class discussion.

1. Substantive responses must be at least 150 words in length. It is very

difficult to provide sufficient discussion and support for your views in

less than this length of a response. Direct quotations will not constitute

more than 10% of the total word count (no more than 15 directly quoted

words in a 150 word response, not counting the reference citation).

2. Substantive responses must include either a correctly formatted

reference to the literature or a specific example from your experience

that further clarifies the discussion. If you are referencing the text, a

specific page or page range must be included.

NSG 513 Week 5 Individual Assignment Wire Diagram

 
Instructions:

Advancements in technology have made it possible to incorporate

systems within the functions of health care to improve efficiency across

the organization. Integration of functions can be incorporated in the way

inventory is kept, supplies are ordered, how patients are billed, and in

many other areas. Innovation is key because it drives productivity,

reduces mistakes, and increases profitability.

Determine an area within your organization where there is a need for

systems integration -- systems integration that will improve quality care

and outcomes in the organization. Utilize your research from the

Systems Research assignment on integrating processes within an

organization.

Create a Wire Diagram of the area needing systems integration.

Illustrate how the processes and functions within the chosen area are

connected and how they can be integrated. You can use any software

program of your choosing to create this diagram.

Note: Refer to Figure 14-4 Wire diagram of health care supply chain

information systems on p. 359 of your textbook.

Write a 525-word summary of your Wire Diagram addressing the

following:

• Provide a brief description of the system you selected.
• Explain why the integration is needed and how the system will be

used to improve the organization's processes and quality?

• Identify the stakeholders that will be effected by the new integration.
• Determine how to best communicate the integration of the new

product and which empowerment strategies you will use to help staff

buy into the change.

• Compare and contrast the different roles that leaders and managers

will play in the integration of the new systems.

Provide in-text citations and references for all sources cited; format

according to APA guidelines.

Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your Wire Diagram and

summary.

NSG 513 Week 5 Individual Assignment Leader Development Plan

Instructions:

Now that you reviewed the various competencies required of a

manager and of a leader, you should be able to identify which

proficiencies will be needed for future nurse leaders entering the field.

Create an improved Leader Development Plan that will include the

skillsets and characteristics that a leader in today's health care field

needs to succeed. Consider the competencies discussed in the

textbook that are essential for future nurse leaders.

Write a 525-word summary of the Leader Development Plan

incorporating the following:

• Looking back at your Personal SWOT Analysis from Week 1, which

competencies would you consider to be skills that should be included in

the development plan?

• The greater the depth of diversity in your organization will benefit the

organization proportionately. Consider the cultural diversity of those

entering the field now, how will you attract these candidates to your

organization? Remember that what appeal to someone of one culture

may not have any drawing power to someone from another culture.

• What changes in nursing can broaden the appeal of new nurses

entering the field? Consider differences in generations, culture, and

skills.

• Are there policies or regulations that keep people from even

considering a career in nursing. For example, in today's society it is

common and increasingly acceptable for people to have tattoos, but

there are regulations that bar a bedside nurse from having visible

tattoos. How can these types of policies and regulations be addressed

to come to a compromise?

Provide in-text citations and references for all sources cited; format

according to APA guidelines.

Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment.

NSG 513 Week 5 Learning Team Assignment  Patient Satisfaction Learning Team Project Summary: Leadership

Instructions:

Patient Satisfaction Learning Team Project Summary: Leadership

Competencies

Week 5

Keeping the issue identified in Week 2 in mind, discuss current and

future competencies of a successful leader would need to address the

issue. Integrate the concepts of theories, styles, and approaches into

the discussion.

Write a 350-word summary.

Format your summary consistent with APA guidelines.

Note. Points are awarded based on the quality of the content submitted

and the degree to which assignment expectations are met.

SupportingMaterial:TEAM ASSIGNMENT WK. COMPETENCIES.

RUBRIC

WEEK 6

NSG 513 Week 6 Individual Assignment  Participation 

Instructions:

Participate in class discussion.

1. Substantive responses must be at least 150 words in length. It is very

difficult to provide sufficient discussion and support for your views in

less than this length of a response. Direct quotations will not constitute

more than 10% of the total word count (no more than 15 directly quoted

words in a 150 word response, not counting the reference citation).

2. Substantive responses must include either a correctly formatted

reference to the literature or a specific example from your experience

that further clarifies the discussion. If you are referencing the text, a

specific page or page range must be included.

NSG 513 Week 6 learning Team Assignment   Patient Satisfaction

Instructions:

Because nurses interact with patients more than any other medical

personnel, they play a key role in determining a patient's level of

satisfaction. In most cases, nurses have no control over the internal and

external factors that are the cause of a patient's discontent, nurses are

usually the recipients of the feedback and are expected to make

improvements. In this assignment, your team is to research and assess

the metrics for quality improvement in patient satisfaction.

As a team, identify a quality measure that is common for nurses to face,

but don't have control over. For example, you are a bedside nurse

working in a hospital; one of your patients is expecting to be released

that day. The patient's doctor visits him every day before noon to check

his status. The previous day, he had asked the doctor if he would be

allowed to go home the next day, to which his doctor responded that he

might be able to but it would depend on his progress. The following day,

the patient believed he was going be released by noon, since the doctor

always made his rounds before then. Unfortunately the doctor had an

emergency and wasn't able to check on the patient until later that

evening. Because of the doctor's absence, the patient's perception of

the quality of care he was receiving was distorted by this happening

and reacted by taking his frustration out on the nurse.

Discuss with your team how you would handle the issue that you have

selected. Use the questions below to drive discussion:

• In what ways would the issue your team identified have a negative

impact on patient satisfaction?

• Apply two different decision-making models to address the quality

measure to improve patient satisfaction.

• Which leadership and managerial competencies will promote quality

improvement and organizational outcomes?

• Identify the strategies that will promote interrelationship between

leadership, excellence, and professional integrity?

• Which leadership theories, styles, and approaches would a nurse

leader need to employ to be successful in the current health care field

and in the future?

As a team, create 6- to 8-slide presentation using Microsoft®

PowerPoint® or a presentation tool of your choice. Include the following

in your presentation:

• Illustrate how the quality measure your team selected could

undermine a patient's perception of the quality of care they are

receiving.

• Explain your team's strategy to defuse the situation or to keep it from

escalating.

• Integrate the conclusions your team came to while discussing the

questions above.

Provide in-text citations and references, on a separate slide, for all

sources cited; format according to APA guidelines.

Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your team's assignment.

SupportingMaterial:TEAM ASSIGNMENT FINAL. PATIENT

SATISFACTION. RUBRIC

NSG 513 Week 6 Individual Assignment   Succession Planning

As in any industry, any time a senior employee in a leadership position

retires, resigns, or leaves the organization for any other reason, the

consequences could be severe In health care, a senior leader has

spent years fulfilling the duties of the position, and during that time have

acquired an extensive knowledge on the area they oversee and the

goal of the organization. If that person leaves the organization abruptly

the position must be backfilled by someone who will have to learn the

ins and outs of the position over time, resulting in anything but a

seamless transition in leadership. The purpose of a succession plan is

to create appropriate training for employees that will prepare them to

step into these positions and perform the leadership responsibilities

with minimal disruption to the organization. This will ensure stability and

efficiency during times of stress.

Consider the following scenario: You have been promoted to a new

position and will be relocating. Your last responsibility in your current

position is to train your replacement.

Develop a Succession Plan for the employee who will replace you.

Consider using your current job as the basis for this assignment or any

job that you can discuss competently and with detail.

Analyze primary functions of the role (the job description).

Consider the following questions as you are developing your plan:

• What is the organization's purpose and vision for this position?
• What are the key gaps, or areas of improvement, in the position?
• Are there any specific skills that are required for this position?
• Does the position have responsibilities that can only be

accomplished by someone possessing a specific set of skills?

• Are there strengths identified in your SWOT analysis that can be

used to prepare the new employee?

• How will you implement your plan?
• Which mentoring strategies will you use in your Succession Plan to

inspire your replacement to promote the organization's mission and

vision?

Write a 700-word summary of your Succession Plan and address the

questions above in your summary.

Provide in-text citations and references for all sources cited; format

according to APA guidelines.