After completing this course you’ll be able to:
1. | Discuss the implications of change in the health care delivery system on nurse leadership. |
2. | Describe key modern leadership theories. |
3. | Compare and contrast leaders and managers. |
4. | Discuss the importance of nurse leadership and its relationship to modern leadership theories. |
5. | Explain the role of the clinical nurse as a leader and why it is important. |
6. | Discuss critical nursing issues related to reengineering, redesigning, re-regulating, rightsizing, and restructuring. |
7. | Discuss why the concept of change is important in the health care environment and to nursing leadership and management. |
8. | Discuss external trends and factors that impact nursing practice and health care organizations. |
9. | Define two key change theories. |
10. | Describe eight key steps in the change process. |
11. | Discuss resistance to change and how it can be handled. |
12. | Identify strategies to improve responses to change. |
13. | Apply the decision-making process. |
14. | Describe the keys to successful planning. |
15. | Distinguish between strategic and project planning. |
16. | Describe key aspects related to collaboration. |
17. | Identify barriers to achieving effective collaboration. |
18. | Discuss the skills that are needed to improve collaboration. |
19. | Discuss the impact collaboration has on nursing staff and interdisciplinary interactions. |
20. | Describe key aspects related to coordination. |
21. | Identify barriers to achieving effective coordination. |
22. | Discuss the skills that are needed to improve coordination. |
23. | Discuss the impact coordination has on nursing staff and interdisciplinary interactions. |
24. | Describe key aspects related to conflict. |
25. | Identify methods to prevent conflict. |
26. | Discuss how individuals respond to conflict. |
27. | Discuss the skills that are needed to respond to conflict. |
28. | Explain conflict management and strategies that might be used. |
29. | Discuss the impact conflict has on nursing staff and interdisciplinary interactions. |
30. | Describe the critical elements of communication. |
31. | Distinguish between the four lines of communication. |
32. | Describe the communication process. |
33. | Identify several examples for each of the communication component systems. |
34. | Describe what might be included in an assessment of a work group’s communication. |
35. | Identify three barriers to communication and how to resolve them. |
36. | Describe four communication methods, including the most effective use of the method. |
37. | Identify two strategies for resolving communication problems. |
38. | Assess your own communication style. |
39. | Describe the key organizational theories. |
40. | Distinguish between structure and process. |
41. | Identify the key differences between for-profit and not-for-profit health care organizations. |
42. | Identify the key health care providers and their services. |
43. | Explain the purpose of nursing care models. |
44. | Compare and contrast the different nursing care models discussed in this chapter. |
45. | Describe the key advantages of shared governance for nursing staff. |
46. | Describe what would be included in an organization analysis. |
47. | Describe the development of U.S. hospitals and the role they play in the health care delivery system. |
48. | Identify the key methods for classifying hospitals. |
49. | Define the key departments found in most hospitals. |
50. | Discuss the use of committees by describing the work done by a policy and procedure committee as an example of committees. |
51. | Describe major changes that are occurring in hospitals and their impact on nursing. |
52. | Describe the Magnet Recognition Program, its history, its process, and the impact it has had on nursing. |
53. | Discuss why each of the forces of magnetism would be important to new graduates as well as to any nurse considering a job change. |
54. | Discuss the importance of teams in the health care delivery system. |
55. | Describe the different types of teams. |
56. | Describe team leader characteristics and how these relate to the team leader’s tasks and responsibilities. |
57. | Explain the important considerations related to team building. |
58. | Compare and contrast a nursing team and an interdisciplinary team. |
59. | Identify the stages of team development. |
60. | Explain motivation and its relationship to teamwork. |
61. | Identify three strategies that might be used to improve motivation. |
62. | Define delegation. |
63. | Discuss the benefits of using delegation. |
64. | Identify key legal issues related to delegation. |
65. | Compare and contrast responsibility, authority, and accountability as they apply to delegation. |
66. | Apply the delegation process in clinical situations when unlicensed assistive personnel are used. |
67. | Discuss how to monitor and improve delegation. |
68. | Define clinical pathway. |
69. | Identify the purpose of clinical pathways. |
70. | Describe the pathway development process. |
71. | Identify liability and ethical issues related to the use of clinical pathways. |
72. | Illustrate how clinical pathways might be implemented in a clinical setting, and both the positive and negative consequences. |
73. | Explain why variance analysis is an important component of clinical pathways. |
74. | Discuss the importance of practice guidelines. |
75. | Compare and contrast the use of practice guidelines and disease management in managed care. |
76. | Explain the difference between disease management and demand management. |
77. | Explain why standards of care, utilization review, benchmarking, and evidence-based practice are considered tools to increase collaborative care. |
78. | Discuss the reasons for including health promotion and disease and illness prevention in this context. |
79. | Explain why nurses should be involved in health care policy. |
80. | Identify the difference between private and public policy. |
81. | Describe the policy-making process. |
82. | Discuss how nurses can be involved in the policy-making process. |
83. | Identify how federal and state laws can affect health care. |
84. | Discuss malpractice and how it relates to nursing practice. |
85. | Describe ethical decision making. |
86. | Discuss the impact of health care fraud on the health care system. |
87. | Identify how nurses can become involved in reducing health care fraud and cope with ethical dilemmas presented by fraud. |
88. | Define consumer. |
89. | Describe the history of health care consumerism. |
90. | Explain the relationship between public policy and the health care consumer. |
91. | Compare and contrast the consumer implications of The Pew Report and Healthy People 2010. |
92. | Discuss how health care information is available to the health care consumer. |
93. | Discuss the relationship between patient education and health care consumerism. |
94. | Describe how consumers are involved in evaluating the quality of care. |
95. | Discuss the nurse’s role as patient advocate in the health care environment. |
96. | Describe how the human resources department assists the health care organization and employees. |
97. | Describe staff recruitment. |
98. | Explain how a position description is developed. |
99. | Describe the employment process. |
100. | Identify critical guidelines that a nurse should consider when applying for a position. |
101. | Explain why it is important for nursing staff to be involved in recruitment and how they might do this. |
102. | Discuss the importance of retention. |
103. | Discuss the purpose of performance appraisal. |
104. | Describe the performance appraisal process. |
105. | Identify strategies that can be used to prevent or decrease stress and passive-aggressive behavior in the work setting. |
106. | Discuss reasons for the nursing shortage. |
107. | Describe the critical elements of a career plan. |
108. | Develop a resume. |
109. | Discuss how networking, coaching, and mentoring might be beneficial to a new nurse. |
110. | Discuss the implications of lifelong learning. |
111. | Collect time data and analyze how time is used. |
112. | Identify time management improvement strategies. |
113. | Distinguish between the macrolevel and microlevel view of health care financial issues. |
114. | Discuss critical issues related to national health care expenditures. |
115. | Describe the role of the third-party payer. |
116. | Explain how health care insurance is paid for and by whom. |
117. | Identify the importance of the diagnosis-related groups. |
118. | Discuss the importance of the various government benefit programs. |
119. | Define two examples of managed care models. |
120. | Discuss how managed care has changed since it began. |
121. | Define the service strategies used by managed care to control costs and quality. |
122. | Define the reimbursement strategies used by managed care to control costs and quality. |
123. | Discuss the impact of reimbursement on health care delivery. |
124. | Define key financial management terms. |
125. | Describe the budgetary process and its importance to nursing. |
126. | Define productivity. |
127. | Identify strategies that nurses can use to participate in cost containment in their practice. |
128. | Discuss the importance of information and clinical technology to nursing. |
129. | Describe the critical issues related to privacy and confidentiality. |
130. | Define telehealth. |
131. | Identify the implications of telehealth to nursing practice, education, administration, and research. |
132. | Describe how telehealth can be used for patient education. |
133. | Critique critical issues related to defining quality. |
134. | Define structure, process, and outcomes as they relate to quality. |
135. | Identify two factors that support an increased interest in quality care. |
136. | Summarize the recent activity of the Institute of Medicine and its importance to health care. |
137. | Describe the accreditation offered by the Joint Commission Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. |
138. | Describe two methods used to measure and ensure quality, safe care. |
139. | Describe a quality report card and its relevance. |
140. | Discuss nurse and physician reaction to the quality of managed care organizations and their effect on health care. |
141. | Define organizational culture. |
142. | Describe how a dissonance culture can affect an organization and patient care. |
143. | Discuss the importance of culture to the organization. |
144. | Compare and contrast staff culture and patient culture. |
145. | Identify the advantages to having a multicultural staff. |
146. | Discuss the implication of a multicultural patient population for the staff and organization. |
147. | Describe a healing organization. |
148. | Explain why safety is an important aspect of organizational culture. |
149. | Identify two strategies that may be used to improve an organization’s culture. |