Leadership Development SMART Goal Setting Kellie Szachury RN Chamberlain College of Nursing NR 447 Instructor Lawson Abstract Moving forward in healthcare today takes initiative. Having guidelines that allow people to possess leadership skills is imperative to focus and provide optimal care to patients. SMART goal model is just one way to develop and implement further changes for healthcare. With the use of goals and giving employees the KSA (Knowledge, Skills and Attributes) to allow for better patient outcomes and decreasing the cost of care provided is imperative for the success of institutions in the future. One of the five core healthcare competencies outlined by Institute of Medicine (IOM) is utilizing informatics, which will be further discussed in relation to the input of expansion of EHRs (electronic health records) in the procedural areas of the Cleveland Clinic.
The intent of EBP is to improve the quality of the care that is delivered to the client. This increased knowledge, whether it is correct or incorrect, is a motivating factor for nursing professionals to have current and correct information available when working with clients in making healthcare decisions. Healthcare professionals, especially nurses, are the touch point of health care and are the key to cost effective quality care. To ensure that decisions are based on sound information nurses must utilize EBR. As technology and research in health care expands, EBP is becoming essential in delivering high quality patient care.
The author of this paper, an emergency department nurse, will compare and contrast how she would expect nursing leaders and management to approach these issues in her department. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) defined quality improvement (QI) as a “systematic and continuous action that lead to measurable improvement in health care services and the health status of targeted patient groups” (HRSA, 2011). An important role for senior leaders of a management team implementing a new quality improvement program is to create energy, positivity, and consistency with their team to ensure follow through with intended goals throughout their department or facility. Patient satisfaction scores offer insight into a department’s quality of care that is given to their patients. A management team utilizes both positive and negative comments given by their patients.
Vision for the future of nursing NUR 391 August1st, 2011 Dr. Wanda Dooley Vision for the future of nursing Introduction: This Power Point Presentation will show how evidence-based practice will influence trends in healthcare and the future of nursing. There will also be information describing how the application of nursing theory will continue to influence professional nursing practice, as well as the nurse’s current role is in research, and how new roles and opportunities will benefit nursing and healthcare in general. Trends: How evidence-based practice will influence trends in healthcare and the future of nursing. According to Fawcett and Garity (2009) “Evidence for nursing practice comes from research and other sources. Evidence-based practice requires an understanding of how research findings and other evidence inform and guide practice,” (p. 3) that is seen in professional nursing and patient care.
DUE programs play a important role in helping managed health care systems to understand, interpret, review and improve the pattern of prescribing, administration and usage of medications. Employers and health plans find DUE programs effective since the outcomes are used to foster more effective use of scarce health care resources. Pharmacists play a important role in this process because of their skill in the area of drug therapy management. DUE affords the managed care pharmacist the chance to identify trends in prescribing within community of patients whether by pathological-state such as those with asthma, diabetes or high blood pressure, or by medication-specific criteria. Pharmacists can then, in association with prescribers and other members of the health care team, start the action to improve medication therapy for patients.
Current barriers that exist in the healthcare delivery model will be discussed, as it can interfere with strategies that are suggested to improve patient outcomes with an effective interdisciplinary framework. Keywords: Teamwork, Collaboration, Interdisciplinary, Patient-Centered Care, Patient Outcomes Teamwork and Collaboration: Its Effects on Quality Patient Outcomes in Healthcare Effective communication is a fundamental role in teamwork, influencing positive results when many are involved in problem solving. When an individual has health related problems, trust
The chosen principles are: Understanding your patients Motivations, Listening to your patient, and Empowering your patient. Finally, this essay will highlight and discuss the contribution of Motivational Interviewing to nursing practice. ‘Health Promotion is the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health. To reach a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, an individual or group must be able to identify and to realise aspirations, to satisfy needs and to change or cope with the environment’ (http://www.who.int/healthpromotion/Milestones_Health_Promotion_05022010, 2009). Health Promotion works through several actions involving setting priorities, making decisions, planning strategies and enforcing them to achieve better health.
Health care communication is essential in coordinating activities within the health care team to manage the care of each individual patient. This paper will discuss the importance of health care communication, in relation to theories and concepts in communication and the relevancy of effective personal health care communication between health care professionals and patients. “Communication is a two- way process where meaning is stimulated in the mind of others using verbal and nonverbal messages.” (Grover, 2005). Participating in giving and receiving of information that produces a mutual understanding is essential to effective communication. Health care communication is any communication between health care professionals that deals with the assessment, delivery, or evaluation of health care using interpersonal communication, small group communication, or mass communication (Northouse & Northouse, 1998).
This can be accomplished through continuous monitoring, evaluation of any activities that need improvement. For example some hospital have QI teams made up of nurses, physicians and other healthcare workers. These teams’ helps in ensuring QI are done in an efficient manner. According to (L.Long, 2003) “Influencing nurses to accept and implement best practice and continuous quality improvement into everyday nursing activities and to change practice is a significant challenge for any nursing service.” I believe including nursing in quality improvement teams can help influence them into participating more in quality management. Usually quality improvements are viewed by staff as another workload added onto an already busy workload.
This essay will explore aspects that foster clinical judgement and the provision of care. The relationship between evidence-based practice and clinical effectiveness will be discussed, along with how clinical governance can influence the quality of healthcare for patients. Finally this essay will consider the contribution of reflection to nursing practice, including a personal reflection using the Gibbs cycle. Evidence-based practice has been described as a systematic process for 'finding, appraising and using research findings as the basis for clinical decisions' (Long and Harrison, 1996 cited in McSherry et al, 2002, p7). It occurs when decisions about the care of a patient are made with respect to all the information available (Chambers and Boath, 2001).