Answer the following Topic Questions thouroughly in the form of an APA paper and site a source for each topic.
Topic 1: Share your sources of motivation
Nursing is a challenging and demanding job and it is a manager?s responsibility to help keep the employee motivated. Based on your readings this week, answer the following discussion question:
How are you motivated for your nursing position? Include intrinsic
and extrinsic factors and Maslow’s Hierarchy.
Topic 2: Managing difficult employee situations
Nursing managers are often confronted with dealing with problem employees. To be an effective manager, it is important to apply consistent, structured disciplinary action in all situations.
Describe a problem employee in your workplace. Describe what actions you would take as the nurse manager. Be sure to include any legal considerations you must consider.
Topic 3: Measuring performance improvement
Select a quality improvement initiative that you have observed or have been involved with in a health care setting. What was the measure used to demonstrate improvement? How was it measured? Was the initiative successful? Why or why not?
Topic 4: Implementing safety standards
In a 2001 report, ?Crossing the Quality Chasm? the Institute of Medicine [IOM] highlighted the quality issues confronting the healthcare industry. As a result, regulatory bodies, such as CMS and the Joint Commission have released stricter standards for patient care, highlighting issues such as fall risk, wounds, polypharmacy and hospital-acquired infections.
Explore the National Safety Goals at the Joint Commission on Accreditation of HealthcareOrganizations. Use the standards for either Hospital or Home Care and describe how you could address/implement one of the above mentioned issues in that setting.
Topic 5: Communicating with your staff ? Holiday scenario
As a nurse manager, you wish to change the way staff on your floor sign up for holiday time off. How would you communicate this to staff? Why did you select this method?
Topic 6: HIPAA
All healthcare providers are required by federal law to protect a patient?s privacy. Healthcare workers must ensure that any communication about a patient remains confidential. Based on your readings and videos in your web resources, consider the following scenario:
A hospital staff nurse called in sick on Monday for Monday and Tuesday. Hospital policy was that nurses were not supposed to call in sick more than one day in advance. The nurse?s phone call indicated she was seen in the hospital?s own emergency room for her present illness. The nurse?s unit supervisor got the nurse?s chart from the E.R. and checked to see if the physician had excused her from work both Monday and Tuesday as she claimed. Then the supervisor called human resources to discuss what to do about an unexcused absence from work.
Discuss whether any HIPAA violations have occurred and whether disciplinary action should be conducted on anyone in this scenario. Discuss any HIPAA violations you have seen in your workplace and what actions occurred.
Topic 7: The nurse leader?s role in financial considerations
What involvement should a nurse leader have in financial decision making within a healthcare setting? What skills are needed to make financial decisions?
Topic 8: The nurse leader?s role in cost reduction
Identify steps that a nurse manager can take to reduce the cost of care within their unit or setting. Identify steps that can be taken to bring in more revenue. Should non nurses make these decisions? Why or why not? Should nurse managers be held accountable for budgets when they are not involved in the budget process? Why or why not?
