NURS-4220K-3/ NURS-4221K-3 Leadership Competencies-Summer 2024 Week 3 Practice Experience – Project Groups APPLYING PROCESS IMPROVEMENT MODELS Choose a Quality Improvement Model from Chapter 5 in the Spath (2018) textbook and apply this model to your practice problem. Please do not choose Lean or Six Sigma as your quality model unless you have an expert in…

NURS-4220K-3/ NURS-4221K-3 Leadership Competencies-Summer 2024 Week 1 Practice Experience – Project Groups IDENTIFYING A PRACTICE PROBLEM IN NEED OF IMPROVEMENT In this week’s Discussion, you shared your experiences with health care practice problems as a consumer and/or as a practitioner. Now, consider your current practice setting and think about something specific and relevant to your…

NURS-4220K-3/ NURS-4221K-3 Leadership Competencies-Summer 2024 Week 1 Discussion DEFINING QUALITY As health care consumers, we all expect quality care and positive outcomes. It is important as professionals that we meet these demands of health care consumers. Consider the work of the major theorists you examined in this week’s Resources and think about how these theories…

NURS-4220K-3/ NURS-4221K-3 Leadership Competencies-Summer 2024 Week 2 Practice Experience – Project Groups APPLYING MEASUREMENT TOOLS TO A PRACTICE PROBLEM Conduct a collaboration interview with two or three key leaders in your practice setting to determine the measures for your practice problem and associated challenges impacting measurement for your practice problem (include confidentiality, anonymity, access issues,…

NURS-4220K-3/ NURS-4221K-3 Leadership Competencies-Summer 2024 Week 3 Discussion APPLYING PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT TOOLS Read the following scenario: Imagine that, for about a year, your nursing unit has been involved in an intensive campaign to improve patient satisfaction scores with pain management. You are getting good data from your patients, as the length of stay on this…

NURS-4220K-3/ NURS-4221K-3 Leadership Competencies-Summer 2024 Week 6 Discussion THE NURSE’S ROLE IN PROMOTING QUALITY HEALTH CARE As you have noted in this course and in your practice, nurses have an integral role in promoting a just culture focused on patient safety in their health care organizations. Determining resources to prevent error and improve patient safety…

NURS-4220K-3/ NURS-4221K-3 Leadership Competencies-Summer 2024 Week 5 Discussion LEADERSHIP STRATEGY As a nurse, you serve an important role in identifying strategies to effectively manage health care resources and in leading health care quality improvement. You must be able to decide what leadership style or strategy to apply in a given situation to achieve an effective…

NURS-4220K-3/ NURS-4221K-3 Leadership Competencies-Summer 2024 Week 2 Discussion APPLYING MEASUREMENT TOOLS One example of a measurement tool is the Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) comprehensive care measures. Review the components of HEDIS comprehensive diabetes care; then consider the following scenario. You are a staff nurse working in a private primary care practice. It…

NURS-4220K-3/ NURS-4221K-3 Leadership Competencies-Summer 2024 Week 4 Discussion ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS Review the case scenario included in this week’s media resources, and examine the process flow chart, cause/effect diagram, and Pareto chart related to the case scenario. In the scenario, the nurse manager and the director of pharmacy blame each other for the error. The…

Walden NURS4220/NURS4221 Week 1 Discussion Latest 2024 Week 1 Discussion DEFINING QUALITY As health care consumers, we all expect quality care and positive outcomes. It is important as professionals that we meet these demands of health care consumers. Consider the work of the major theorists you examined in this week’s Resources and think about how…