Nurse Leadership and Management

Nurse Leadership and Management: Leadership and Management in Healthcare

Instructions:-

Personal Class Design Project – Part 1

Complete this assignment according to the following:

  1. Design a class that you would like to teach someday. The class must be at least 4 hours in length and must be multiple sessions. It can be four sessions of 1 hour each, or two sessions of 2 hours each, depending on your topic and target audience.
  2. Begin by describing the institution that is sponsoring the class (e.g., academic, hospital, or community agency). Include the philosophy of the sponsoring organization and how that will affect the course you are developing.
  3. Explain how you determined a need for this class (needs assessment).
  4. Write a one-paragraph description of the class.
  5. Identify the target audience.
  6. Identify the learning resources you will use for the class (textbooks or other resources).
  7. Write the program outcomes for the course and the learner objectives for each class session. Indicate which domains of learning are represented by each learner objective.

It is intended that each student will develop a class that they can use in their selected area of education. You will complete this project in your next course, NUR-649E. APA format is required. This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric below prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion. You are required to submit this assignment to Turnitin.

Solution

Personal Class Design Project: Part 1

Nurse Leadership and Management: Leadership and Management in Healthcare

The nurse leadership and management class are composed of double 2-hour sessions that will be presented at the Grand Canyon University Lecture Hall 4. It will be facilitated by the Grand Canyon University (College of Nursing and Health Care Professionals) and the Association of periOperetive Registered Nurse(AORN)- Centre for Nursing Leadership Institute on April 4th, 2017. The AORN- Centre for Nursing Leadership is an organization that supports the need for a sustained professional development in managing the corporate side of the peri-operative services for Registered Nurses(AORN, 2017). The Grand Canyon University; School of Nursing is focused on delivering the best educational resources, guidance, and knowledge for student nurses across the world so that they can become competent nurses in future(Grand Canyon University, 2017).    

Needs Assessment

Within the frameworks of healthcare, RNs have the need to lead and manage their workplace to deliver quality care delivery which is cost-effective and creates a focality to ensuring better patient outcomes. As such, the graduate nurses need to comprehend, relate, discuss and analysis how leadership styles and theories are imperative in their day-to-day delivery of care. Furthermore, it is required of RNs to practice the full extent of their training and education as they partner with other healthcare professionals in redesigning medical/health care in the US.

According to Sherman and Pross (2010), budding future nursing leaders is perceived as a “long-term quest, ” and as such he articulates that a “healthy work environment” requires nurse leaders who support its importance, realistically animate it, and engross supplementary professionals in its achievement.  Additionally, Weng, Huang, Chen, and Chang (2015) suggests that leaders can create an effective organizational culture through an engagement with the staff in developing shared values in their work. As such, healthcare organizations that depict effective leadership skills within their systems relates to better service delivery than organizations that have erratic leadership styles(Weng et al., 2015). Furthermore, new organizations must realize the need to integrate leadership and management skills to create trust among patients and offer standardized care similar to other prominent healthcare institutions(Chappell & Richards, 2015).

Class Description

This class will translate and integrate leadership and management theories to healthcare management as well as depict how leadership and management skills can be applied in a health institution. The sessions will offer educational, experiential, discussion, analysis and interpretational learning opportunities for graduate nurses to acquire insight, skills, and knowledge into the application of leadership and management skills in patient care and healthcare organizational systems. At the end of the two sessions, graduate nurses will be able to understand the need for leadership and management skills in healthcare and be able to apply this knowledge to practice. Additionally, the sessions will aid graduate nurses to interpret the need to lead and work towards professionalism as they deliver healthcare services to the general populace.

The sessions will be presented by three prominent nurse leadership educators and speakers:  

  1. Cynthia Aaron- An adjunct professor at GCU and a member of the Sigma Theta International Honor Society of Nursing
  2.  Kathy C. Richards- A co-author of the journal article, New graduate nurses, new graduate nurse transition programs, and clinical leadership skill: a systematic review. She is a professor at the College of Health and Human Services at George Mason University. An affiliate member at AORN
  3. Kathy Dempsey- An Inspirational Speaker and previously an RN as well as an executive member of the Memorial Health Care System. Member of AORN

Audience

This class is intended for graduate nurses and perioperative registered nurses who are interested in managing or running a healthcare organization in future or are running the activities of a health institution. This opportunity is aimed at the practice of professionalism, being a leader and a manager as well as research on the need for nurse leadership in healthcare institutions. Additionally, this class will involve healthcare practitioners who focus on the quality healthcare as well as managing staff in healthcare.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this session, participants will have the capacity to:

  • Describe how leadership and management theories underpin the management of healthcare [cognitive learning]
  • Discuss, analyze and express the administrative competencies and principles for a nurse leader’s practice [cognitive and psychomotor learning]
  • Recount and Relate selective leadership and management theories to healthcare organizational outcomes
  • Evaluate and appreciate the role of nursing leadership in the management of a clinical discipline. (Cognitive and affective learning)  
  • Implement the leadership and management skills for personal growth. [Affective, cognitive, and psychomotor learning]

(Learning resource table below)

Resources

Session 1 Duration Facilitator Learning Resources
Introduction; Leadership Vs ManagementWhy and Who are Nurse LeadersDynamical differences between management and leadership in HealthcareLeadership Vs Headship   One hour Cynthia Aaron and Kathy Dempsey Use of Slides, Flowchart (top 50 hospital performance), leadership skill test, lecture group dialogue
Theories of Leadership and Management: Archetypes of leadership and management Transformational Leadership and its Competencies   One hour Kathy C. Richards and Cynthia Aaron Journal Articles reviews on Nurse Leadership, Books, Experiential exercises, group discussion, Assessment One
Session 2 Duration Facilitator Learning Resources
Strategic Leadership and Management in Healthcare Professionalism Ethical Issues in Nurse Leadership One-hour Cynthia Aaron Kathy Dempsey Kathy C. Richards Lecture slides, documentary videos, experiential exercises
Lateral Management and Leadership in Healthcare  Half an hour Kathy Dempsey Video, Lecture Notes, group discussions
Application of Leadership and Management Skills in healthcare and closing reflections on personal growth Half an hour Cynthia Aaron Kathy Dempsey Kathy C. Richards Group Interview;  Reliable Discourse/debate/ Final ceremonial

References

AORN. (2017). Center for Nursing Leadership – Association of periOperative Registered Nurses. Retrieved March 29, 2017, from https://www.aorn.org/center-for-nursing-leadership

Chappell, K. B., & Richards, K. C. (2015). New graduate nurses, new graduate nurse transition programs, and clinical leadership skill: A systematic review. Journal for Nurses in Professional Development, 31(3), 128–137. https://doi.org/10.1097/NND.0000000000000159

Grand Canyon University. (2017). College of Nursing and Health Care Professions | GCU. Retrieved March 29, 2017, from https://www.gcu.edu/college-of-nursing-and-health-care-professions.php

Sherman, R., & Pross, E. (2010). Growing future nurse leaders to build and sustain healthy work environments at the unit level. Online Journal of Issues in Nursing. https://doi.org/10.3912/OJIN.Vol15No01Man01

Weng, R. H., Huang, C. Y., Chen, L. M., & Chang, L. Y. (2015). Exploring the impact of transformational leadership on nurse innovation behaviour: A cross-sectional study. Journal of Nursing Management, 23(4), 427–439. https://doi.org/10.1111/jonm.12149