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Week 5 Discussion – Patient Outcomes Patient outcomes are a result of an action or actions. As a nurse, we are to educate and guide our patients to favorable outcomes. I have chosen the area of total knee replacement as I have been through this twice in the past 6 months with my mother-in-love (MIL). It is imperative as a professional nurse that we provide education of the procedure and what to expect prior to their hospital admission. Having a pre-operative education department is one ...

Week 4: Transformational Nursing Leaders This week's graded discussion topic relates to the following Course Outcome (CO). • CO7 Apply leadership concepts in the development and initiation of effective plans for the microsystems and system-wide practice improvements that will improve the quality of healthcare delivery. (POs 2 and 3) Review Appendix A, Sections I–V in Finkelman (2016). 1. Select one of the sections and share how your chief nurse executive demonstrates expertise in the...

NR 447 Week 2 Discussion Question, AACN Essentials Self-Assessment and Patient-Centered Care After you have completed your self-assessment, answer the following questions: 1. If you are willing, please share your total score on the AACN Essentials Self-Assessment. If you do not wish to share your score, give a general description of your current KSA levels. 2. Candidly identify and share with your classmates areas where knowledge, skills or abilities (KSAs) are lacking? 3. Describe the rel...

Week 8: Closing the Loop This week's graded discussion topic relates to the following Course Outcome (CO). • CO6 Develop a personal awareness of complex organizational systems, and integrate values and beliefs with organizational mission. (PO 7) Complete the Week 8 AACN Essentials Self-Assessment (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.. 1. Compare your scores from Week 2 to Week 8. 2. Describe how far have you come and how much further do you wish to go in improving yo...

NR 447 Week 1 Discussion Question, The Affordable Care Act Healthcare reform is a term that is ever present in our practice settings and will not disappear any time soon. Following the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), we treat every patient with the goal of fixing or managing their problem and teach methods to continue their care outside the facility. We have initiated checklists for chronic diagnoses such as MI, Stroke, CHF etc. where we initiate these treatments in out facili...

NR447 Week 3: Conflict and Collaboration At times the needs of our families conflict with our work responsibilities. Could this possibly be the underlying issue here? 1. Explain the conflict resolution skills displayed by the leader in the scenario. On a scale of 1-10, how would you rate those of the leader. 2. How might earlier collaboration have been beneficial? 3. Some organizations utilize non Registered Nurses in the Case Manager role. What additional skills, knowledge and attributes ...

Week 7: Our Future Leaders 1 1 unread reply. 22 22 replies. In Huston’s (2010) brief, but impressive article (required reading this week), the author outlines several leadership competencies that EVERY nurse leader will need for 2020. That year is not too far in the future, is it? 1. Select one of the eight leadership competencies Huston described and relate it to your own leadership of nurses and nursing. This should promote a robust discussion as we come from different clinical and noncl...

NR_447 Week 6 Discussion Question, Civility in the Workplace Reflect on what you observed in the video as you answer the following: 1. Based on what you observed, what leadership skills should you, as Masaya’s preceptor, model for your fellow coworkers to promote his acceptance into the work-group or team. 2. Does incivility seem to be an issue in the scenario? 3. Describe any common themes you discovered among the article, the video and the Civility Index 4. Share how you may improve you...

NR_447 Week 5 Discussion Question, Patient Outcomes (Two Responses) Patient outcomes are a result of an action or actions. As a nurse, we are to educate and guide our patients to favorable outcomes. I have chosen the area of total knee replacement as I have been through this twice in the past 6 months with my mother-in-love (MIL). It is imperative as a professional nurse that we provide education of the procedure and what to expect prior to their hospital admission. Having a pre-operative e...

Week 4: Transformational Nursing Leaders This week's graded discussion topic relates to the following Course Outcome (CO). • CO7 Apply leadership concepts in the development and initiation of effective plans for the microsystems and system-wide practice improvements that will improve the quality of healthcare delivery. (POs 2 and 3) Review Appendix A, Sections I–V in Finkelman (2016). 1. Select one of the sections and share how your chief nurse executive demonstrates expertise in the...