BSN4017 All Discussions and Assignments – 2017 March

DISCUSSIONS

BSN 4017 Unit 1 Discussion 1

Structure and Culture of Groups and Teams

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Describe a team in which you are or have been involved. The team should be a workplace team in which nurses are members. What made this team successful? What hurdles did the team overcome to complete its tasks?

In your discussion, consider the following:

• Why did this team form? What was its purpose?
• How did nursing interact with team members from other disciplines, if any were on the team? Consider the attributes listed in the Miers and Pollard article.
• What type of leadership was in place?
• How did the team make decisions?
• How did the team members collaborate with each other? Give an example.
• What are some examples of how the team built on each other’s strengths?
• How did it feel to be a part of this team?

Write a succinct initial post of at least 150 words. Demonstrate clarity of thought and precision in writing. Support your discussion with at least two references other than the required readings.

Response Guidelines

Read the initial posts of all your peers and respond to at least two by providing comments and questions that encourage critical thinking and insight.

 

BSN 4017 Unit 2 Discussion 1

Team Norms

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Levi (2017) described the four main functions of group norms (p. 53):

• Express central values to support team identity building.
• Coordinate team activities.
• Define appropriate team behavior.
• Create a unique group identity.

Consider a team in which you have been a member.

• Describe the goals of the group and summarize the norms that defined the group.
• Identify group norms that supported effective group function and group norms that may have stifled creative expression or created unnecessary conformity.

Write a succinct initial post of at least 150 words. Demonstrate clarity of thought and precision in writing. Support your discussion with at least one scholarly reference about the impact of group norms on team functioning. The reference should be in addition to your required readings.

Response Guidelines

Read the initial posts of all your peers and respond to at least two, providing comments and questions that encourage critical thinking and insight.

Reference

Levi, D. (2017). Group dynamics for teams (5th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

 

BSN 4017 Unit 3 Discussion 1 & 2

 

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Riverbend City Debrief

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Before you respond to this discussion, make sure you have completed the Riverbend City mission for this unit. See the Studies section of the unit to access the mission.

After you have completed the Riverbend City mission, discuss the following:

• Which nurses are having the most difficulty integrating into the team? What evidence do you have?
• What communication strategies is the charge nurse using to build the team?
• What is an effective way to support behavior change (in a problem team member)?

Write a succinct initial post of at least 300 words. Demonstrate clarity of thought and precision in writing. Support your discussion with at least one reference other than the required readings.

Response Guidelines

Read the initial posts of all your peers and respond to at least two, providing comments and questions that encourage critical thinking and insight.

 

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Riverbend City Debrief

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Before you respond to this discussion, make sure you have completed the Riverbend City mission for this unit. See the Studies section of the unit to access the mission.

After you have completed the Riverbend City mission, discuss the following:

• Which nurses are having the most difficulty integrating into the team? What evidence do you have?
• What communication strategies is the charge nurse using to build the team?
• What is an effective way to support behavior change (in a problem team member)?

Write a succinct initial post of at least 300 words. Demonstrate clarity of thought and precision in writing. Support your discussion with at least one reference other than the required readings.

Response Guidelines

Read the initial posts of all your peers and respond to at least two, providing comments and questions that encourage critical thinking and insight.

 

BSN 4017 Unit 4 Discussion 1

Promoting Effective Communication Within Collaborative Groups

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Propp et al. (2010) identified two critical processes in nurse–team communications, which may enhance patient outcomes. In one process, promoting team synergy, the authors identified nine practices.

Think of a time when you were involved in building team synergy. Consider the following in your discussion:

• What was happening at the time?
• Which of the nine practices did you exhibit?
• Were there other things you did to support teamwork?
• How did you know your efforts were successful?
• Would you have done anything differently, looking back?
• What are the benefits of a team working together?
• When (if ever) is conflict within a team productive?
• What factors can contribute to role confusion and conflict among health care professionals?

Write a succinct initial post of at least 150 words. Demonstrate clarity of thought and precision in writing. Support your discussion with at least two references other than the required readings.

Response Guidelines

Read the posts of your peers and respond to at least two, providing comments and questions that encourage critical thinking and insight.

References

Propp, K. M., Apker, J., Zabava Ford, W. S., Wallace, N., Serbenski, M., & Hofmeister, N. (2010). Meeting the complex needs of the health care team: Identification of nurse–team communication practices perceived to enhance patient outcomes. Qualitative Health Research, 20(1), 15–28.

 

BSN 4017 Unit 5 Discussion 1

Building and Sustaining Virtual Groups or Teams

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For this discussion, consider how to build and sustain virtual groups or teams.

• What online nursing forums do you currently use, and how do you use them?
• What are the benefits and limitations of using an online nursing forum?
• How does your current organization use its own Web site, Facebook page, YouTube page, or other social media?
• What legal or ethical concerns could result from the use of social media?
• What does your Board of Nursing say about the use of social media for registered nurses?

Write a succinct initial post of at least 150 words. Demonstrate clarity of thought and precision in writing. Support your discussion with at least one reference other than the required readings.

Response Guidelines

Read the initial posts of all your peers and respond to at least two, providing comments and questions that encourage critical thinking and insight.

 

BSN 4017 Unit 6 Discussion 1 & 2

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Cohesion, Inclusion, and Identity

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Diversity may be exhibited in many forms: ethnic, cultural, style of learning, or methods of organizing. In your course text, Levi addresses the role of individualism and collectivism. Complete the survey on pages 298–300 of the text.

In your discussion:

• Address where you fall on the continuum of individualism and collectivism. Why is this an important concept in terms of teamwork?
• Describe your experience working with an individual (or team) in which the person’s preference would fall on the opposite end of the continuum from you. For example, you might be more inclined toward individualism, and the other person might more inclined toward collectivism. How did you work effectively with this person? If you did not, what were the challenges?

Write a succinct initial post of at least 150 words. Demonstrate clarity of thought and precision in writing. Support your discussion with at least two references other than the required readings.

Response Guidelines

Read the initial posts of all your peers and respond to at least two, providing comments and questions that encourage critical thinking and insight.

 

 

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Interprofessional Teams: Ethics and the Law

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After reading the Robichaux article found in this unit’s first study, answer the following while considering an experience you have had (or might come across) when working with an interprofessional team:

• Identify your experience and discuss a real or potential ethical and legal aspect of the case which involved working collaboratively with health care professionals who were not nurses.
• Provide strategies that might have changed the outcome. Use Rest’s Four Component Model.
• Identify legal aspects that should have been considered in this situation.

BSN 4017 Unit 7 Discussion 1

When Professional Cultures Clash

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Professional cultures have been identified as potential barriers to effective collaboration. Levi discussed the role of power in conflict development and management.

Consider a time when you or a colleague experienced a clash of cultures with a professional from another health care discipline. Consider “culture” in its broadest definition, to include age, gender, ethnicity, generation, values, and so forth. In your post:

• Describe the situation in which conflict occurred.
• Reflect on the professional preparation of the two individuals. What aspects of their professional roles contributed to the conflict?
• Discuss how power played a role in the conflict.
• Identify if bullying (also known as incivility or horizontal violence) was involved.
• Describe how the opposition turned into collaboration.

Write a succinct initial post of at least 150 words. Demonstrate clarity of thought and precision in writing. Support your discussion with at least one reference other than the required readings.

Response Guidelines

Read the initial posts of all your peers and respond to at least two, providing comments and questions that encourage critical thinking and insight.

Reference

Levi, D. (2017). Group dynamics for teams (5th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

 

BSN 4017 Unit 8 Discussion 1 & 2

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Cross Checking as an Element of Team Process

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For this discussion, refer to the “Silence Kills” and “Healthy Work Environment Assessment” resources linked in this unit. Thinking about your role as a leader or future leader in health care and considering your personal experiences with a supervisor or manager, consider the following:

• What issues or shortcuts are the most difficult to address with a colleague?
• What are some professional ways to communicate difficult topics such as tardiness, medication errors, or incivility?
• What makes people defensive about feedback?
• What steps would you take to improve communication with somebody you supervise to reduce challenges and defensiveness?

Write a succinct initial post of at least 150 words. Demonstrate clarity of thought and precision in writing. Support your discussion with at least two references other than the required reading.

Response Guidelines

Read the initial posts of all your peers and respond to at least two, providing comments and questions that encourage critical thinking and insight.

 

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Membership on Teams

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In health care, we are often responsible for a unit or department. Leadership in these areas typically requires us to work in teams. For this discussion, consider how others have led teams you were a member of and how decisions and actions ultimately impacted patient safety.

• What leadership skills are most important for leading successful teams?
• What kind of team leader are you?
• How do leaders in your own organization build and maintain trust?

BSN 4017 Unit 9 Discussion 1

Authentic Leaders and Effective Teams

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In your discussion, address the following:

• Which leadership qualities do you feel are most important and why?
• Share an example from your experience with an effective or inspiring leader.
• Share an example of an ineffective leader.
• What blend of leading and following make for the most effective team?
• Which leadership skills do you have?
• Which leadership skills do you want to develop more fully?

Write a succinct initial post of at least 150 words. Demonstrate clarity of thought and precision in writing. Support your discussion with at least two references other than the required readings.

Response Guidelines

Read the initial posts of all your peers and respond to at least two, providing comments and questions that encourage critical thinking and insight.

 

BSN 4017 Unit 10 Discussion 1 & 2

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Evaluating and Celebrating Teamwork

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As you reflect on your work in this course, answer the following:

• After reading the articles from this week’s selection, what would you say are the most critical issues nurses in your organization are facing when it comes to group dynamics and teamwork?
• Based on your answer above, how can you be a force for change?

Response Guidelines

Review your classmates’ postings and respond to at least two fellow learners, using one of the following approaches:

• Identify knowledge gaps or unknowns that were not considered in your classmate’s posting.
• Identify an assumption on which the posting seems to be based, and pose a useful alternative or contrasting approach, based on a different assumption.
• Ask a probing question.
• Elaborate on a particular point.

Your response posts should be at least 150 words. If you are responding with a personal perspective or an example from your workplace experience, you are not required to cite a source. However, if you offer an alternative viewpoint or refer to the ideas or work of others in your response to your classmate, your response must be supported with an outside source which you must cite using APA style.

 

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Review and Reflect

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A final step in each part of your BSN program is an evaluation of each course, a reflection on what you have learned, and consideration for how you can apply this new knowledge and these new skills to your professional practice.

For this discussion, write a brief evaluation of what you have learned in this course and how you will apply your new knowledge and skills to your professional career and development as a BSN–prepared nurse professional.

• Identify at least two areas where you have acquired new knowledge.
• Discuss how and where you might apply the new knowledge to your current (or future) nursing practice.
• What have you learned about your own strengths and weaknesses in clinical judgment and systems thinking as a result of this course?
• What knowledge gaps still exist related to the content in this course? How will you fill those gaps?

Write a succinct initial post of at least 300 words. Demonstrate clarity of thought and precision in writing. No references are required in this discussion.

Response Guidelines

Read the initial posts of all your peers and respond to at least two, providing comments, encouragement, and celebration for completing the coiurse

 

 

 

 

BSN 4017 Unit 2 Assignment 1

Interprofessional Team Collaboration

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Assignment Context

By successfully completing this assignment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assignment criteria:

• Competency 1: Explain strategies for effective interprofessional teamwork and collaboration in health care delivery.
  • Identify challenges of working in interprofessional teams.
  • Describe strategies to help people work effectively together.
• Competency 2: Analyze the implications of working with interprofessional teams in multifaceted health care settings.
  • Explain the meaning of the term “interprofessional collaboration” from a nursing perspective.
  • Explain how interprofessional teams define success.
  • Describe the characteristics and qualities of effective interprofessional teams in terms of patient safety.
  • Describe the benefits and limitations of interprofessional teams for health care organizations, interprofessional team members, and patients.
• Competency 4: Communicate in a manner that is consistent with the expectations for a nursing professional.
  • Write content clearly and logically, with correct use of grammar, punctuation, and mechanics.
  • Correctly format paper, citations, and references using APA style.

Assignment Instructions

Overview

The majority of health care leaders today state that interprofessional collaboration is essential for effective and efficient health care delivery. But this type of collaboration rarely occurs (Bankston & Glazer, 2013). What does it take to develop interprofessional collaborative teams? You will explore this question in this assignment.

Preparation

Search the library and Internet to locate scholarly and professional journal articles on the elements of an effective interprofessional health care team to use as support in this assignment.

Requirements

For this assignment, complete the following:

• Explain from a nursing perspective what is meant by the term interprofessional collaboration. (Do not simply copy a definition from a dictionary or other resource!)
• Describe the characteristics and qualities of effective interprofessional teams in terms of patient care and safety.
• Describe the benefits and limitations of interprofessional teams for health care organizations, members of a team, and patients.
• Identify the challenges of working in an interprofessional team.
• Describe strategies to help people come together to function effectively as a collaborative team.
• Explain how interprofessional teams define success. Consider how the definition might change based on the types of situations the team was formed to handle.

Your completed assignment should be 3–4 pages in length, not including title page and reference page. Support your statements with references to and citations for at least 3 scholarly and professional journals. Be sure to follow APA guidelines for style and format. In addition:

• Include a title page and reference page.
• Use Times New Roman font, 12 point.
• Double–space your paper.

Refer to the Interprofessional Team Collaboration Scoring Guide to ensure that you meet the grading criteria for this assignment.

Note:Your instructor may also use the APA Writing Feedback Rubric to provide additional feedback on your academic writing. The writing feedback rubric does not affect your assignment grade, but its feedback may factor into the grading criteria, if professional communication and writing is a course competency. Evaluate your own work using this rubric. Refer to the Learner Guide for instructions on viewing instructor feedback.

 

BSN 4017 Unit 4 Assignment 1

Communication and Conflict Resolution

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Assignment Context

By successfully completing this assignment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assignment criteria:

• Competency 1: Explain strategies for effective interprofessional teamwork and collaboration in health care delivery.
  • Explain methods to establish ground rules and set expectations for interprofessional team collaboration.
  • Describe best practices for interprofessional team collaboration.
  • Explain the benefits and limitations of different forms of communication for an interprofessional team.
• Competency 3: Develop evidence–based nursing interventions to address specific problems and enable systemic change.
  • Describe conflict resolution strategies for interprofessional teams.
  • Identify ways to address issues of leadership in an interprofessional team.
• Competency 4: Communicate in a manner that is consistent with the expectations for a nursing professional.
  • Write coherently to support a central idea in appropriate APA format with correct grammar, usage, and mechanics as expected of a nursing professional.

Assignment Instructions

For this assignment, use the following case study:

You have been charged with facilitating the launch of an interprofessional team that will work together on a number of challenging cases. The team members will come from several different areas within the organization. The team is expected to have its orientation meeting in two weeks and then work together collaboratively for the next 6 months.

Preparation

Use the library and the Internet to research examples of interprofessional team charters, communication strategies and conflict resolution strategies for teams, and methods and technologies used in team communication.

Directions

Your submitted assignment should contain two distinct sections: Team Charter Recommendations and Communication and Collaboration Strategies. Offer thorough and detailed recommendations and support each of your recommendations using examples, references, and citations from your research.

1. Team Charter Recommendations:
   • Explain methods to establish ground rules and set expectations. How might differences in personality, expectations, and experience affect team efficiency?
   • Describe conflict resolution strategies for interprofessional teams.
   • Identify effective ways to address issues of team leadership. How will the team decide who will lead them? What happens if the team leader is ineffective?
2. Communication and Collaboration Strategies:
   • Describe best practices for effective interprofessional collaboration. What types of technology can be used to support collaboration?
   • Explain the benefits and limitations of different communication strategies such as e–mail, text, voice mail, and face–to–face. When is it appropriate to use each type of communication?

This assignment should be 3–5 pages in length, not including the title page and reference page. Be sure to include an introduction that gives an overview of the case study and a conclusion that summarizes your recommendations. Use at least 3 resources to support your recommendations and follow APA guidelines for style and format. In addition:

• Include a title page and reference page.
• Use Times New Roman font, 12 point.
• Double–space.

Refer to the Communication and Conflict Resolution Scoring Guide to ensure that you meet the grading criteria for this assignment.

Note: Your instructor may also use the APA Writing Feedback Rubric to provide additional feedback on your academic writing. The writing feedback rubric does not affect your assignment grade, but its feedback may factor into the grading criteria, if professional communication and writing is a course competency. Evaluate your own work using this rubric. Refer to the Learner Guide for instructions on viewing instructor feedback.

 

BSN 4017 Unit 5 Assignment 1

Trust in Team Collaboration

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Assignment Context

By successfully completing this assignment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assignment criteria:

• Competency 1: Explain strategies for effective interprofessional teamwork and collaboration in health care delivery.
  • Identify leadership behaviors that build trust within teams.
  • Identify leadership behaviors that undermine trust within teams.
  • Describe strategies team members can use to build trust among one another.
• Competency 2: Analyze the implications of working with interprofessional teams in multi–faceted healthcare settings.
  • Explain the consequences of a team that does not trust its leader in terms of patient safety.
• Competency 4: Communicate in a manner that is consistent with the expectations for a nursing professional.
  • Write coherently to support a central idea in appropriate APA format with correct grammar, usage, and mechanics as expected of a nursing professional.

Assignment Instructions

For this assignment, write 3–4 pages in which you examine factors that build team success.

Overview

Perhaps, the best predictor of team success is its clarity of purpose and the team’s commitment to achieving it. To support that purpose, a team needs a process that moves smoothly from vision and mission to goals and tasks in order to achieve the desired outcomes. The foundation of both purpose and process is leadership.

Any form of collaboration is an inherently human process. The culture of an organization can dramatically affect team efficacy and performance. The glue that holds teams together is trust. Three factors can help build trust in collaborative environments: performance and competence, integrity, and concern for the well–being of others.

Preparation

Search the library for scholarly articles on leadership styles and qualities of effective team leaders. These articles may or may not also discuss the importance of trust within collaborative teams.

Requirements

Examine two critical components for interprofessional team success: leadership and trust. Address the following:

• Identify at least three leadership behaviors that build trust within a team.
• Identify at least three leadership behaviors that undermine trust within a team.
• Explain the consequences of a team that does not trust its leader in terms of patient safety.
• Describe strategies team members can use to build trust among one another in terms of skill, knowledge, and responsibility.
• Describe principles of effective interprofessional team leadership. In other words, what skills and qualities should a good team leader possess? Is there a difference between being a good leader and being an effective leader?

Your completed assignment should be 3–4 pages in length, not including the title page and reference page. Support your statements and opinions with references to and citations from at least 3 scholarly or professional resources. Be sure to follow APA guidelines for format and style. In addition:

• Include a title page and reference page.
• Use Times New Roman font, 12 point.
• Double–space.

Refer to the Trust in Team Collaboration Scoring Guide to ensure that you meet the grading criteria for this assignment.

Note:Your instructor may also use the APA Writing Feedback Rubric to provide additional feedback on your academic writing. The writing feedback rubric does not affect your assignment grade, but its feedback may factor into the grading criteria. Refer to the Learner Guide for instructions on viewing instructor feedback.

 

 

BSN 4017 Unit 7 Assignment 1

 

Generational Diversity

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Assignment Context

By successfully completing this assignment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assignment criteria:

• Competency 2: Analyze the implications of working with interprofessional teams in multifaceted health care settings.
  • Identify specific skills that members of each generational group bring to nursing teams.
  • Describe strategies for building cohesiveness within multigenerational nursing teams.
• Competency 3: Develop evidence–based nursing interventions to address specific problems and enable systemic change.
  • Describe the characteristics of the generational groups working in nursing.
  • Explain types and causes of conflicts that are likely to occur between multigenerational members of nursing teams.
  • Explain the benefits of a multigenerational nursing team for the organization, the team members, and patients.
• Competency 4: Communicate in a manner that is consistent with the expectations for a nursing professional.
  • Write coherently to support a central idea in appropriate APA format with correct grammar, usage, and mechanics as expected of a nursing professional.

Assignment Instructions

For this assignment, write 4–5 pages in which you examine the interplay of the three generations working in nursing today.

Overview

Today’s nursing workforce is made up of women and men from a wide variety of cultures, races, religions, and sexual orientations. In addition, nurses and nursing leaders come from three different generations with different attitudes, beliefs, work habits, and experiences. You may find yourself working with team members from the baby boom generation, Generation X, and the millennial generation. Team leaders need to understand, value, and support the skills, knowledge, and characteristics of each generation in order to build a cohesive, high–performing team. The leadership strategies that have worked in the past may not be as effective in the health care environment of today.

Preparation

Research the characteristics of the three generations in the nursing workforce today: The baby boomers (born 1946–1964), the Gen Xers (born 1963–1980), and the millennials (born 1980–2000). Consider how nursing leaders can use this information to build a work environment that supports all generations.

Requirements

Complete the following:

• Describe briefly the main characteristics of each of the three generations working in nursing today (baby boomers, Gen Xers, and millennials). Focus primarily on attitudes towards work and family, communication styles, and comfort with technology.
• Identify at least one specific skill that each generation brings to a team.
• Explain the types and causes of conflict that are likely to occur within a multigenerational team.
• Describe strategies a team leader can use to help build cohesiveness within multigenerational nursing teams. Be sure you include strategies for communication, setting and managing expectations, motivation, and mutual respect.
• Explain the benefits of a multigenerational nursing team for the organization, the team members, and patients.

Your completed assignment should be 4–5 pages in length, not including the title page and reference page. Support your statements and opinions with references and citations from at least 3 scholarly or professional resources, and follow APA guidelines for style and format. In addition:

• Include a title page and reference page.
• Use Times New Roman font, 12 point.
• Double–space.

Refer to the Generational Diversity Scoring Guide to ensure that you meet the grading criteria for this assignment.

Note:Your instructor may also use the APA Writing Feedback Rubric to provide additional feedback on your academic writing. The writing feedback rubric does not affect your assignment grade, but its feedback may factor into the grading criteria, if professional communication and writing is a course competency. Evaluate your own work using this rubric. Refer to the Learner Guide for instructions on viewing instructor feedback.-

 

 

 

BSN 4017 Unit 9 Assignment 1

 

Driving Change

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Assignment Context

By successfully completing this assignment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assignment criteria:

• Competency 1: Explain strategies for effective interprofessional teamwork and collaboration in health care delivery.
  • Identify other health care professionals to enlist as members of an interprofessional team to drive change in an organization.
• Competency 2: Analyze the implications of working with interprofessional teams in multi–faceted healthcare settings.
  • Describe a problem and how it impacts an organization, patients, or the nursing profession.
  • Analyze barriers and resistance to change from an organization, patients, or colleagues.
• Competency 3: Develop evidence–based nursing interventions to address specific problems and enable systemic change.
  • Describe evidence–based solutions to a problem.
  • Describe strategies to overcome barriers and resistance to change.
  • Develop a plan to implement evidence–based solutions to a problem.
• Competency 4: Communicate in a manner that is consistent with the expectations for a nursing professional.
  • Write coherently to support a central idea in appropriate APA format with correct grammar, usage, and mechanics as expected of a nursing professional.

Assignment Instructions

Nursing is in the midst of many changes. How can you be a driving force to bring about needed change within the field of nursing?

For this assignment, write 4–6 pages addressing an issue within the nursing field or your own organization.

Preparation

Select a problem to address either within nursing as a professional field or within the organization where you work. Narrow down your options by considering which change would best be undertaken by an interprofessional team.

Some examples within the nursing discipline include:

• Using mobile and portable technology to support patients.
• Using evidence–based practice (EBP) to improve patient care.
• Increasing patient safety and quality of care. The use of medical technology such as genes and stem cells, or robots in the OR.
• Addressing the nursing shortage now and into the future.
• Improving the work environment (providing calm, supportive spaces for nurses; improved dialogue between health care professionals).
• Improving safety for nurses at work (violence, spreading diseases, or physical injury).
• Dealing with abuse by health care professionals.

Alternatively, you can narrow the scope to an issue within your own organization:

• Developing a mobility program for an inpatient unit.
• Implementing “smart” technology to assist in patient monitoring.
• Creating a mentoring program to attract and retain nurses.
• Implementing protocols for infection control or treatment of an epidemic (or both).
• Developing a plan to eliminate physical violence and verbal abuse in the workplace.
• Other issue.

Once you have selected an issue to address, look for scholarly and professional articles that focus on the problem, the needed change, and how interprofessional teams can work together to drive change.

Requirements

Complete the following:

• Describe the problem briefly, along with how it impacts the organization, patients, or the nursing profession (or all of these).
• Describe possible evidence–based interventions for the problem.
• Analyze potential barriers and resistance to change that might come from the organization, patients, or colleagues (or all of these).
• Describe strategies to overcome barriers and resistance to change.
• Develop a plan to implement evidence–based interventions. What steps would you take? What resources might you need?
• Identify other health care professionals to enlist as team members to help drive change in the organization.

Your completed assignment should be 4–6 pages in length, not including the title page and reference page. Support your statements and intervention plan with references to and citations for at least 4 scholarly or professional resources. Be sure to follow APA guidelines for style and format. In addition:

• Include a title page and reference page.
• Use Times New Roman font, 12 point.
• Double–space.

Refer to the Driving Change Scoring Guide to ensure that you meet the grading criteria for this assignment.

Note:Your instructor may also use the APA Writing Feedback Rubric to provide additional feedback on your academic writing. The writing feedback rubric does not affect your assignment grade, but its feedback may factor into the grading criteria, if professional communication and writing is a course competency. Evaluate your own work using this rubric. Refer to the Learner Guide for instructions on viewing instructor feedback.