Assignment: Professional Nursing Issues

Assignment: Professional Nursing Issues Assignment: Professional Nursing Issues Concept: Leadership Complete assignment with 15 questions/tasks that are nursing/health care related. Assignment is not necessarily graded on accuracy of answers but information provided and completion. week_6_pre_class_as Note to Students: This week’s activities are a continuation of last week’s concept of leadership. Assignment: Professional Nursing Issues Task Differentiating Important from Unimportant Information Recent reports about the results of a national study in the U. S. indicated that the third most common cause of death in the United States are deaths caused by medical errors. Based on the readings in your textbook cite at least 3 reasons for these errors that are related to the leadership topics of the week: Communication and Teamwork. Then discuss how each can be addressed to contribute to a culture of safety in the healthcare environment. #1 ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ #2 ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ #3 ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ Task Predicting and managing potential complications Review the Rapid Response Team Protocol provided during Week 4 of Nursing 200. Review the algorithm for calling the Rapid Response Team. Look at each of the decision points. Identify at which points clear communication would be important. Explain. ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ Task Clustering related information Evaluating and correcting thinking Using Professional Guidelines Consider your own experiences in healthcare as a nurse – either an LPN or a student in this program. Reflect on your experience with communicating to another healthcare provider. From those experiences consider one that was not very effective. Using the information presented in this week’s readings, discuss how you would change your communication in that experience to one that would be effective. Original Experience ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ Change the Experience to Reflect Effective Communication ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ Task Predicting and managing potential complications Question: Consider working on a busy unit. Being organized and managing interruptions is a major issue on the unit. How can you deal with this situation and not make mistakes related to communicating with others? Discuss at least three ways you can prevent errors in communication. Include rationale from both chapters 11 and 12 in the textbook. #1 ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ #2 ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ #3 ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ Task Evaluating Data Relate what you have learned in this week’s lesson to improving patient outcomes. Relate what you include in your discussion to the legal and ethical aspects of required of an RN. ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ Task Clustering related information Comparing and contrasting In Nursing 205, week 2 you studied the NQF’s 34 Safe Practice. Included in these Safe Practices were practices about teamwork (#3) and communicating patient care information (#12). Read Pages 159 through 162 in the documented included in this week’s postings: NQF Safe Practices . Compare what you read in that document with the TEAMSTEPPS document from the website listed for with this week’s reading assignments. Demonstrate how they are related. Similarities Between NQF Safe Practices #3 and 12 and TeamSTEPPS Strategies NQF Safe Practices #3 and 12 and TeamSTEPPS Strategies Task Determining the importance of information Review the TeamSTEPPS strategies included in this week’s readings. Consider each one – which ones have you used and which ones have you NOT used. Pick at least three of these and discuss your view of each of the three strategy’s effectiveness in providing safe care. TeamSTEPPS Strategy Used Not Used Call Out Cross-Monitoring CUS Debrief Effective Communication Feedback Handoff Read Back Repeat Back Safety Huddle SBAR Time Out Two Challenge Rule I PASS the BATON #1 ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ #2 ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ #3 ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ Get a 10 % discount on an order above $ 100 Use the following coupon code : NURSING10