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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.

 

BSN415 Nursing Management Strategies

Module 2 Assignment  

After completing the Resolving Conflict course, reflect on what you learned by creating a VoiceThread or a written essay.  Discuss how your new knowledge and/or skills can be applied to your practice. Your reflection should incorporate the five following concepts:

Preserve relationships

Recognize and manage the sources of conflict

Recognize and respond to conflicts

Resolve conflicts with difficult people

Develop communication skills to resolve conflicts

References are not required for this reflection. APA format is required for page set up for essay or PowerPoint.

If you choose to submit a VoiceThread, start in PowerPoint, use key bullet points without paragraphs, and include voice narration of slides (see the VoiceThread links in this Module). Be sure to share the VoiceThread with this course.

If you choose to write an essay for this assignment, submit it below.

 

BSN415 Nursing Management Strategies

Module 4 Assignment  

Please use the grading rubric to create an outline of your assignment. Each section of the rubric should be a section of your final paper and could become the headings. Your assignment will be graded based on each element of the rubric. Compare each section of your paper with the rubric to ensure all elements are covered. Then, include an introduction and conclusion to tie the paper together. If you have any questions regarding the assignment please contact your instructor using the Course Help forum.

Interview two persons in a nursing leadership/management role, such as a Charge Nurse/Team Leader, Head Nurse/Manager, Director of Nursing, or Chief Nursing Officer.  Select one leader that has been in the role less than two years and the other that has at least two years of leadership or management experience. Compare and contrast the findings from the two interviews with the best practices identified in the literature. Then reflect on your own perceptions of the roles.   For example, would you see either as a career goal for yourself?  Why or why not?

In your interviews, ask each person the following questions:

What are the qualifications for your management position?

What type of training did you receive for this position?

Describe a challenge you have had related to decision making, staffing, conflict or discrimination.  How did you overcome it?

Describe specific methods you utilize to build an effective health care team.

What skills are there to master to support your performance in your role?

 

BSN415 Nursing Management Strategies

Module 6 Assignment  

Please use the grading rubric to create an outline of your assignment. Each section of the rubric should be a section of your final paper and could become the headings. Your assignment will be graded based on each element of the rubric. Compare each section of your paper with the rubric to ensure all elements are covered. Then, include an introduction and conclusion to tie the paper together. If you have any questions regarding the assignment please contact your instructor using the Course Help forum.

Complete the Patient Management and Delegation virtual simulation activity which can be found by clicking Enter Virtual Simulation. Then debrief on the experience by creating a VoiceThread, video or a written essay.

Once you enter Sentinel Hospital

Click BEGIN

You’ll enter the lobby and be led to the hospital map

Clicking SKIP will take you directly to map

Select Location: Medical/Surgical Or BSN Essential: •• II. Basic Organizational and Systems Leadership for Quality Care and Patient Safety Or VI. Interprofessional Communication and Collaboration for Improving Patient Health Outcomes 

Reflect on your feelings while fulling the role of the charge nurse in the simulated activities on delegation and caseload management.  Consider how you utilized the experience and efficiency information provided.

Summarize the responsibilities, including planning, coordinating and evaluation of nursing resources, managed by the charge nurse in the simulated activity.

Reflect on any correct and incorrect decisions and responses that you would change if you were to repeat this activity.

Describe what you learned in this experience that will be incorporated into your clinical practice.

References are not required for this reflection. APA format is required for page set up for essay or PowerPoint.

If you choose to submit a VoiceThread, start in PowerPoint, use key bullet points without paragraphs, and include voice narration of slides (see the VoiceThread links in this Module). Be sure to share the VoiceThread with this course.  You may also create a video and share the file or accessible link in the submission folder.

If you choose to write an essay for this assignment, submit it below.

 

 

 

 

BSN415 Nursing Management Strategies

Module 7 Final Project  

Management Orientation Program Proposal

For this final project, you have the opportunity to create a proposal to present to the leadership team for the orientation of new nurse managers. This project will include the creation of an orientation plan in a PowerPoint presentation.  Leadership and management topics will be selected to support the nurse manager as he or she transitions into the new role.  Look back at our coursework and readings from the last 7 weeks to compile specific topics to support a new nurse manager as they get acclimated to the organization or unit. APA citations expected.  Follow PowerPoint format guidelines for layout and bulleted key points.

Your proposal should include:

Introductory and concluding remarks

Slides that identify 8 specific topics to support the new nurse manager

Learning objectives for the lesson(s)

Speaker notes that include:

the rationale for including each topic with a synthesis of professional literature

recommendation of internal and or external materials for each topic

recommendation of a facilitator for each topic

a rationale listing why the materials and facilitator(s) are the most appropriate choice for that topic

Two or more scholarly resources to support the rationales

You may use this outline template to help organize your resources. You should use this PowerPoint template to build your presentation.

Final Project Rubric