Determine your leadership style using the following link to the Blake and Mouton Managerial Grid: Leadership Self-Assessment QuestionnaireLinks to an external site.. Compare your style to one of the following leadership approaches: mindful leadership, compassionate leadership, and appreciative leadership. Discuss the similarities and differences and address the following: Share how your leadership style conforms to the characteristics of a transformational, transactional, or full-range l...

Post a response to each of the following: Explain the agonist-to-antagonist spectrum of action of psychopharmacologic agents, including how partial and inverse agonist functionality may impact the efficacy of psychopharmacologic treatments. Compare and contrast the actions of g couple proteins and ion gated channels. Explain how the role of epigenetics may contribute to pharmacologic action. Explain how this information may impact the way you prescribe medications to patients. Incl...

You have just attended a quarterly meeting of the healthcare system’s strategic planning team. Due to a downturn in financial standing, cutbacks are being made to the professional development budget. Within the next quarter, the organization will phase out tuition reimbursement benefits. As a chief nursing officer, you will need to convey this message to the nursing services department. How do you prepare yourself for delivering this message? What will you include in your message? Wha...

Case Scenario As the chief quality and safety officer, you have been leading the initiative for the healthcare system to obtain MagnetT status from the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC). The facility applied, was visited, and has received the report. The report identifies a deficiency (or deficiencies) in one of the Five Magnet Model* components. A solution must be implemented that shows improvement in the area within the next six months, at which time another visit will be scheduled....

Zanderville Healthcare Systems, a regional acute care facility in the foothills of the Appalachians, is committed to delivering quality healthcare to its local and neighboring communities. The population it serves is diverse by gender and ethnicity. The primary payer for healthcare services is CMS. Over the past six months, the acute care facility has experienced a 25 % increase in readmissions from this payer group within the first 30 days of discharge. The economic impact on the health system ...

This week’s collaboration focuses on two power concepts, personal power base and empowerment, and how they are related. Regardless of the type of formal power a nurse may have, whether a novice or expert in the role of leader, each must develop a personal power base. Part of becoming a transformative leader is learning to empower others which is related to having a personal power base. What is a personal power base, and what is (or has been) your plan for building one? Have you had any e...

Preparing the Assignment Case Scenario Holyfield Healthcare Systems and Jonesville Regional Hospital, each with different organizational structures, are merging. The senior leadership, of which you are a part, must decide on the overarching organizational structure that will be used for the newly formed healthcare system. This will impact the distribution of power, which includes lines of authority, chain of command, and how operations will be carried out. Before the new structure can be ado...

Nurse leaders, whether at the unit or organizational level, play a pivotal role within any given organizational structure in creating a healthy, motivating work environment. These environments are ones that encourage workers to perform their best and continue to develop professionally. The underlying belief about motivation is that the behaviors and actions of individuals are driven by internal and external factors. They possess these in varying degrees and are not the same for everyone. Motivat...

An important element of the delivery of nursing care is the professional practice model (PPM)within which it is framed. These models define the structures and processes within which care is given. It can delineate the degree of autonomy within which nurses can practice that leads to a higher quality of care. While these frameworks are informed by nursing, organizations must support implementing these models. Regardless of the type of facility, the nursing practice should be framed within a sp...

Case Scenario Westbrook is a medium-sized metropolitan area that provides healthcare services to a broad demographic ranging from infants to geriatrics. Existing healthcare delivery systems include a robust acute care regional hospital, community home health/transition agencies, and long-term/skilled nursing facilities. These facilities are maintaining quality patient outcomes at their benchmarks. However, over the past five years, there has been a downward trend in patient and employee satis...