02 Feb Briefly explain the areas

Unit 1 discussion

DQ1 Organizations and Opportunity

Organizations are full of complexity, diversity, and opportunity for appreciation and innovation. For this discussion, complete the following:

Evaluate how historical leadership theories have:

Influenced the nurse leader’s ability to wrestle with the complexity of organizations, teams, and other care settings.

Impacted the role of the nurse leader in the context of diversity.

Affected the potential of nurse leaders to be innovative.

Be sure to cite the leadership theories that you used to construct your response using APA style.

Response Guidelines

Review the responses of your peers and select one peer to whom you wish to respond. In your response address the following:

Comment on one specific aspect of their evaluation that you agreed with and explain why you agree.

Relate another leadership theory that would support your peer’s evaluation, or a story from your personal practice that illustrates an aspect of your peer’s evaluation playing out in the real world.

Resources

Discussion Participation Scoring Guide.

DQ2 Discovering Positive Stories: The First Stage of AI

The goal of the discovery phase in appreciative inquiry is to identify the best of what already exists in an organization or team, or around a specific topic. The main avenue for accomplishing this is looking for times when an individual, team, or organization really achieved success, had everyone working in sync with each other, or otherwise accomplished a nearly ideal outcome. Often in appreciative inquiry this is accomplished through sharing stories of the times of success.

For this discussion, complete the following:

Briefly describe your current place of practice, or a former place of practice in which you have experience.

Relate two stories that illustrate success in the place of practice you described. These stories can be from your own experience or colleagues at your place of practice. They should illustrate individual and team or organizational success. These stories should exemplify outcomes, teamwork, et cetera to which you would like the team or organization to aspire.

Briefly explain the areas of team or organizational quality and safety to which your stories are related.

Response Guidelines

Review the responses of your peers and select one peer to whom you wish to respond. In your response address the following:

Suggest one or more additional topics related to improving organizational quality or safety that your peer could investigate further, based on the stories they presented.

Relate a positive story from your own practice that could be relevant to your peer’s place of practice or the areas of quality and safety that they identified in their stories.

Resources

Discussion Participation Scoring Guide.