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Week 1 discussion

Discuss your chosen area of practice and how your choice of precepted sites and your preceptor will help prepare you to assume this role on graduation from South University.

Week 2 discussion

How can you use data for decision making and change processes to promote and improve patient quality and safety outcomes?

Describe why nurse leaders must identify supporters and opponents of any change process.

Discuss challenges the transformational nurse leader faces with any kind of planned change.

Identify two strategies by which the nurse leader successfully monitors structure, processes, and outcomes of the planned change.

Describe the role of the nurse leader in damage control when things in the planned change process do not go according to plan.

Describe a change in your healthcare organization that occurred within the past six months. What was the nursing leadership’s role in this change and would you consider the nurse leader’s actions effective during the change process? Provide reasons for your answer.

As a nurse leader, describe two specific strategies you would use to make certain that staff and healthcare providers have adequate resources to support change in a healthcare system that has finite human and financial resources.

Week 3 discussion

Describe what you perceive to be a major challenge for nurses who have not been exposed to or worked with evidence-based research.

Analyze evidence-based research related to nurse staffing patterns. For example, does having more staff always mean safer or more effective care? Give reasons for your answer.

From healthcare administrators’ perspective, evidence-based practice takes time and resources. They may not be willing to support nurses working on evidence-based research since this does not involve direct patient care. Describe at least two strategies you would use to be certain you engage administrators and obtain their support for this important work.

Week 4 discussion

As a nursing administrator, how will you prevent horizontal and vertical violence in nursing and healthcare?

Identify two strategies you would use as a nurse administrator to create a zero tolerance for horizontal or vertical violence.

Analyze what you believe are two reasons nurses do not report horizontal or vertical violence in healthcare organizations.

Determine what you believe are two linkages between horizontal or vertical violence and impacts on quality of care and patient safety.

Week 5 discussion

Explain at least three evidence-based strategies for integrating research into nursing leadership.

Compare and contrast how research influences patient care and quality outcomes versus practicing from tradition.

Analyze what you envision as the nurse administrator’s role in shaping evidence-based practice and nursing r