Find an article on transformational leadership and its use in nursing/health care. Briefly summarize the article and discuss how an individual in your practice setting uses this leadership style. Include a reference or link to the article that you have summarized. Post your original response by the end of Day 3. Then, by the end of Day 6, respond to at least two of your classmates’ posts.
Discussion 3.1: Situation and Change Agent
Describe a current situation in your practice in which change is occurring. Choose a change model. Discuss whether the change agent in your setting is using appropriate strategies to effect change. Discuss any resistance to the change that you see and what the change agent is doing (or can do) to decrease it. Post your original response by the end of Day 3. Then, by the end of Day 6, respond to at least two of your classmates’ posts.
Discussion 4.1: IOM and KSA
Discuss the IOM competencies of patient-centered care and quality improvement and their accompanying KSA. Discuss how you apply these competencies in your practice. Post your original response by the end of Day 3. Then, by the end of Day 6, respond to at least two of your classmates’ posts.
Discussion 5.2: Conflict Self-Assessment
Take the Conflict Self-Assessment (Links to an external site.). For each statement, record a score from 1 to 5 of you typically you act during a conflict. The statements correspond to the following conflict styles:
- Accommodating
- Avoiding
- Collaborating
- Competing
- Compromising
At the end, you will get a score on each of these styles. The style with the highest score is your preferred way of dealing with conflict, while your lowest score is the way that you least frequently deal with conflict.
In your initial discussion response, include answers to the following:
- Share your self-assessment results. Do you agree that the results reflect how you deal with conflict in your practice?
- For the conflict style in which you scored the highest, provide an example of how you have used this in your practice. To what extent was it effective or ineffective? What could have you done differently to make it even more effective?
- For the conflict style in which you scored the lowest, provide an example of how you have used this in your practice. To what extent was it effective or ineffective? What could have you done differently to make it even more effective?
Discussion 5.3: EBP, Culture of Safety, Informatics, Role of the Individual
Discuss how evidence-based practice is enacted in your practice setting, how a culture of safety is established, and explain the role of informatics in your practice. Discuss your own role in these three areas and the roles of your chief nurse executive, nurse manager, and other individuals who might be in charge of these areas. Post your original response by the end of Day 3. Then, by the end of Day 6, respond to at least two of your classmates’ posts.
Discussion 6.1: Difficult Situations
Before joining the discussion, complete the Conflict Resolution Scenario (Links to an external site.). Then, find and read an article regarding conflict management and resolution. Also read Put Conflict Resolution Skills to Work (Links to an external site.) by Stanley Wachs. In your initial post, apply the articles and principles of conflict management to the Conflict Resolution Scenario. Briefly describe the path you took and the outcome. Also address one of the following questions.
- Thinking about your own preferred conflict resolution style, what choices do you wish you had made? What choices would you make that were not provided? What do you think will be the ultimate outcome of this situation? How do the articles inform these choices?
- Have you had a similar experience at a new job? How did you handle it? How would you handle it given what you have recently learned about conflict resolution? How do the articles inform these choices?
- Based on who you are, do you have any cultural issues such as age, gender, or ethnicity that could affect how you would act in this setting? How do these cultural issues affect your conflict resolution style? Did you notice that the characters used titles only for the men (Dr. Gregory and Mr. Garcia) and first names only for the women (Chondra, Mary, Melissa)? How would you feel working in this workplace culture? How do the articles inform these choices?
Be sure to include the APA reference and link to your chosen article. Post your original response by the end of Day 3. Then, by the end of Day 6, respond to at least two of your classmates’ posts.
Discussion 7.1: Workplace Violence
Describe a situation in which you personally experienced workplace or lateral violence, or in which you witnessed someone else experiencing it. Describe strategies that were used or could have been used to effectively stop it. What were the eventual consequences of this interaction? What does the literature say about this topic? Post your original response by the end of Day 3. Then, by the end of Day 6, respond to at least two of your classmates’ posts.
