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BSN415 Nursing Management Strategies

Module 1 Discussion

DQ1 Compare and contrast leader roles and management functions.  Apply one specific leadership style that a nurse can use to manage a workplace initiative that reflects a current healthcare priority.   

Support your discussion and opinions with facts, relevant examples from personal nursing practice, and at least two citations from the reading or peer-reviewed professional nursing literature. 

DQ2 Discuss the components leaders and managers use when making effective decisions.  Identify two methods or models that leaders and managers can use to improve the quality of decision making. 

Support your discussion and opinions with facts, relevant examples from personal nursing practice, and at least two citations from the reading or peer-reviewed professional nursing literature. 

 

BSN415 Nursing Management Strategies

Module 2 Discussion

Explain the organizational structure of your healthcare organization to your peers/colleagues. Does one of the common management theories support this structure? If yes, which theory?  Where is the formal leadership?  Where is the informal leadership?  Describe how this structure impacts the process of change (positively or negatively). 

Support your discussion and opinions with facts, relevant examples from personal nursing practice, and at least two citations from the reading or peer-reviewed professional nursing literature.

 

BSN415 Nursing Management Strategies

Module 3 Discussion

DQ1 Describe how your organization encourages input at all levels for the decision making process. Identify at least two best practices from the literature that could benefit your organization.

Support your discussion and opinions with facts, relevant examples from personal nursing practice, and at least two citations from the reading or peer-reviewed professional nursing literature.

See the Nursing Syllabus Standards & Policies Document for Discussion Participation Guidelines & Grading Criteria.

DQ2 Describe a situation when you served as an advocate for your patient, subordinate, workplace or profession.   What was the role of the nurse manager?  Describe how your facility’s ethics committee or other health care team members collaborated to address the conflict.

Support your discussion and opinions with facts, relevant examples from personal nursing practice, and at least two citations from the reading or peer-reviewed professional nursing literature.

 

 

BSN415 Nursing Management Strategies

Module 4 Discussion

Describe an example when a leader or manager managed a challenge related to decision making, staffing, conflict or discrimination. Describe the factors that contributed to a positive or negative outcome.

Support your discussion and opinions with facts, relevant examples from personal nursing practice, and at least two citations from the reading or peer-reviewed professional nursing literature.

 

BSN415 Nursing Management Strategies

Module 5 Discussion

Please post a comment and state which topic you plan to discuss as soon as possible this week. Review the forum posts prior to selecting your topic so each topic is covered. If all of the topics have been selected upon review, then you may select the topic of your choice.

How do these concepts/ processes influence the standards in your organization, including staffing, decision making or workplace issues, both positively and negatively?

Affordable Care Act

Agency for Healthcare, Quality and Research

Benchmarking Tools and Organizations

Certification for Nursing

Electronic Health Care Record

Electronic prescribing / Telehealth

Institute for Healthcare, Quality Improvement

Lean Project Management

Outcomes Management

Patient Care Pathways

Population Health Management

Practice Guidelines

Quality Management

Risk Management

Sentinel Event Management

Standards of Nursing Practice

Standards of Patient Care

Structure Standards

TJC Accreditation

Utilization Management

Value based care

Support your discussion and opinions with facts, relevant examples from personal nursing practice, and at least two citations from the reading or peer-reviewed professional nursing literature.

 

BSN415 Nursing Management Strategies

Module 6 Discussion

Evaluate the organizational climate and motivation of a unit where you currently or previously worked.  What are the top two actions found in the literature that leaders could employ to improve the management of workplace issues (motivation, conflict, scheduling or discrimination)? 

Support your discussion and opinions with facts, relevant examples from personal nursing practice, and at least two citations from the reading or peer-reviewed professional nursing literature.

 

BSN415 Nursing Management Strategies

Module 7 Discussion

Provide a brief summary of the delegation guidelines in your state. Describe at least three strategies nurse managers can use to reduce legal risks and overcome the barriers to delegation to strengthen the efficiency of the health care team.

Support your discussion and opinions with facts, relevant examples from personal nursing practice, and at least two citations from the reading or peer-reviewed professional nursing literature.

 

BSN415 Nursing Management Strategies

Module 8 Discussion

Discuss the strategies an organization can use to empower leaders and manager and guide him/her to be a transformational leader. Based on your research, courses discussions, experiences, what do you believe the most important leadership characteristic(s) might be?

Support your discussion and opinions with facts, relevant examples from personal nursing practice, and at least two citations from the reading or peer-reviewed professional nursing literature.