Archive for January, 2019

Interprofessional Relationships

 From your experience, 1. how can developing strong interprofessional relationships increase collaboration and benefit patient outcomes or organizational initiatives into today’s dynamic health care environment?  2.What are some ways you can form an interprofessional team and collaborate with other advanced registered nurse roles in support of organizational initiatives or improved patient outcomes? Make sure to incorporate the Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC) competencies in your response. 250 words not including tile and reference page.

 

Deliverable: Develop a Professional Development Needs Assessment.

Deliverable: Develop a Professional Development Needs Assessment.

 

Scenario:

 

You have been promoted to Nurse Manager. As you transition into your new role, Human Resources (HR) requires you to participate in a leadership and management training workshop. The first day of the workshop involves a self-assessment of your leadership and communication style and an examination of key characteristics of an effective nursing leader, culminating in an assessment of your professional development needs. HR requires you to submit a Professional Development Needs Assessment so future training sessions are designed to meet those self-identified needs.

 

Use the following subheadings to organize your Professional Development Needs Assessment:

 

Leader and Manager: Differentiate between leadership and management.

What job tasks require a manager?

 

What situations require a leader?

 

Key Concepts: Explain key nursing leadership, management, and communication concepts that facilitate collaboration and support interprofessional teams.

 

Explain how key nursing leadership, management, and communication concepts facilitate collaboration with interprofessional teams.

 

Leadership Self-Assessment: Describe your personal leadership and communication style.

Explain the strengths of your style that make an effective leader.

 

Skill Development: Identify skills or areas for future professional development.

What training do you need to be a successful leader in your new position?

Community Health.

What is the difference between a group “at risk” for poor health and a group considered a “vulnerable” population? Provide an example of an “at risk” or “vulnerable population” group in the United States and one in another country (or immigrants within the United States).

    1. Explain why members of these groups cannot advocate for themselves or why advocating for these groups would be beneficial.

 

  1. What would you advocate for?
  2. Identify ethical issues that need to be addressed when working with these individuals
  3. Provide information about the selected “at risk” group. How many individuals fall into this group and what are some issues they face. 

Evaluation In Programs

Evaluation in Programs

 

 As a leader in the field, it is essential to learn from the successes and challenges that others have encountered. Particularly with the design and evaluation of programs, many expensive and difficult lessons have already been discovered through previous endeavors.

For this Discussion, you review the literature and analyze a program’s evaluation plan. As you do this, consider what can be surmised from this example and the others shared by your colleagues to guide the development of your program’s evaluation plan.

Cross Cultural Business Management

Explain, in your own words, the differences between monochronic and polychronic time systems. Use some examples to illustrate these differences and the role time plays in intercultural communication. Finally, share one specific story on where you were personally confronted with different perceptions of time in either your personal or professional life. 

Identity And Diversity Essay

Identity And Diversity Essay

500 word minimum

Cross Cultural Business Management

 Explain, in your own words, the differences between monochronic and polychronic time systems. Use some examples to illustrate these differences and the role time plays in intercultural communication. Finally, share one specific story on where you were personally confronted with different perceptions of time in either your personal or professional life. 

 

Problem Solving Approach

Discuss one (1) project where you used a problem-solving approach to address what turned out to be common-cause variation, or where you used a process improvement approach to deal with a special cause.

 

Business Management

Which of the  following is the first step in formulating a career strategy?

(a)Development of    strategic career alternatives(b)Analysis of    personal strengths and weaknesses(c)Consistency    testing and strategic choices(d)Implementation of    the career plan(e)Monitoring    progress.

 

82.Forces/traits  within the manager that determine effective leadership behavior include  his/her

I.     Values.

II.     Confidence in subordinates.

III.    Hunger for power.

IV.   Aggressiveness.

 

(a)Both (I) and (II)    above(b)Both (I) and (IV)    above(c)Both (III) and    (IV) above(d)(I), (II) and    (IV) above(e)All (I), (II),    (III) and (IV) above.

 

83.Which of the  following is an on-the-job training technique?

(a)Organizational    socialization (b)Creation of    “assistant-to” positions (c)Performance appraisal     (d)Job enlargement(e)Job analysis.

 

84.According to  Maslow, a person who is looking for affection, belongingness, acceptance, and  friendship is at which need level?

(a)Physiological(b)Safety(c)Social(d)Esteem(e)Self-actualization.

 

85.Creativity is an  important factor in managing people. Which of the following is not true with  regard to the creativity process?

(a)Creativity is the    ability to develop new ideas(b)The creativity    process starts with unconscious scanning(c)Intuition    connects the unconscious with the conscious(d)Insight leads to    intuition(e)Insight is tested    against organizational reality.

 

86.Which of the  following is not one of the leadership styles suggested by path-goal theory?

(a)Instrumental leadership(b)Benevolent-authoritative    leadership(c)Supportive    leadership(d)Participative    leadership(e)Achievement-oriented    leadership.

 

87.Which of the  following is not an effective listening technique?

(a)Avoiding    premature evaluation(b)Avoiding eye    contact(c)Exhibiting    affirmative nods and appropriate facial gestures(d)Finding an area    of interest in what the other person is saying(e)Judging the    content of the message, but not the weakness of the speaker.

 

88.According  to “Expectancy Theory”, the probability of an individual acting in a  particular way depends on 

I.     The personality of the individual and the likelihood that it  will change.

II.     The company and its potential to move in the right direction.

III.    The situation. 

IV.   The strength of that individual’s belief that the act will have  a particular outcome and on whether the individual values that outcome.

Benefits Of Business Analytics

Business analytics can provide a significant benefit to organizations. If organization staffs use business analytics and analyze data correctly, they will be able to make informed decisions that will benefit the organization in many ways. They could use it to make decisions to address not only short-term company goals but also long-term strategic planning.

 

 Access this site (https://www.brandwatch.com/blog/amazing-social-media-statistics-and-facts/) and choose two companies for analysis. Using the internet, select at least two trade sources about these two companies to analyze statistics with performance.

 

Respond to the following questions:

 

> Compare and contrast the two companies in terms of analytics to understand their positions in the industry.

 

> Provide your rationale as to whether or not the use of data analytics would help each of the companies accomplish its goals.

 

> Describe the challenges the companies’ staffs may have faced by using business analytics.

 

Make assumptions based on company histories where required. Utilized at least 2 trade sources in support of your assertions

 

Make sure you write in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrate ethical scholarship in appropriate and accurate representation and attribution of sources; display accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.

 

Write a 3-4 page paper in Word Format. Apply APA standards to citation of sources.