Nurs 4220 discussions - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

NURS 4220 (Leadership Competencies In Nursing and Healthcare) Week 1 Discussion: Defining Quality Post your definition of quality, and apply it to the work of one major quality theorist (e.g., Donabedian, Juran, Deming, Triple Aim (IHI) – Berwick). Identify a practice problem that you have had some experience with as a customer or as a practitioner and explain how eliminating wasteful practices could have improved the experience. Include how your definition of quality applies to that experi...

NURS 4220 (Leadership Competencies In Nursing and Healthcare) Week 5 Discussion: Leadership Strategy Select one of the scenarios, and post the following: Describe the most appropriate leadership style and/or strategy to apply in the scenario you chose in order to implement the recommendations successfully. Justify your selection. Support your response with references from the professional nursing literature. Your posts need to be written at the capstone level (see checklist)

NURS 4220 (Leadership Competencies In Nursing and Healthcare) Week 4 Discussion: Root Cause Analysis Post each of the following: Analyze the composition of the RCA team. Explain what knowledge they can contribute to the RCA. Describe the collaboration in the case study that led to effective problem-solving. Identify the evidence you observe in the scenario that demonstrates effective collaboration and the avoidance of blaming. Explain the team’s process in testing for and eliminating r...

NURS 4220 (Leadership Competencies In Nursing and Healthcare) Week 3 Discussion: Applying Performance Improvement Tools Based on the scenario, explain what was done successfully and where improvement was needed in the quality improvement process. Identify the performance improvement tools, and explain how they contributed to the outcome. Support your response with references from the learning resources and professional nursing literature. Your posts need to be written at the capstone level (s...

NURS 4220 (Leadership Competencies In Nursing and Health Care) Week 2 Discussion: Applying Measurement Tools Take on the role of the staff nurse in the scenario, and post an explanation of how you would go about finding out how many diabetics are in your practice, and how many meet all 8 components of HEDIS comprehensive diabetes care. Support your response with references from the professional nursing literature. Your posts need to be written at the capstone level (see checklist). Notes f...