II. Organizational and Systems Leadership (AACN, 2011)
In essential two, I examined the essential skills to leadership including communication, collaboration, negotiation, delegation, and coordination. Essential two made me look at my own cultural competence, health promotion, care coordination, and collaboration with members of the multidisciplinary care team. This essential made me analyze ethical and critical decision making into each patient's plan of care. With the constant changes in healthcare, the APRN must adapt to more cost-effective strategies to provide better quality care (AACN, 2011, p.11).
First, I met essential two by looking into the promotion of prevention of SIDS related deaths. Due to my background in neonatal nursing, I have cared for several infants that have succumbed to SIDS. This project allowed me to assess the parent's knowledge regarding SIDS and implement a plan to provide discharge readiness on topics such as the Back to Sleep campaign. By assuming a leadership role in educating parents, I was able to effectively implement patient safety and quality improvement initiatives through effective teaching strategies such as educational videos and a two-day seminar taught by trained staff. Through prevention strategies, the rate of SIDS related deaths will remain on the decline.
Issues Assignment
Essential two made me consider economic, legal, and political factors that influence healthcare decisions. In this Teds Talk assignment, I was introduced to an inspiring ophthalmologist that challenged me to think outside the box to find new cost-efficient ideas in the treatment of cataracts in poverty-stricken nations. The APRN must always stride to find new innovative methods to reduce costs without cutting corners.
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In my last semester of my MSN program, I designed an infographic to form an ethical framework to promote culturally
responsive, quality patient care in the poverty-stricken nation of Haiti. The infographic displayed illustrations on basic hand hygiene and communications written in both Haitian and French languages. The provider should always remain culturally competent when providing healthcare. I hope to continue this practice in my own career by always offering interpreters and translation services to my patients.
Health Infographic
During the last two years, our healthcare industry has faced ever growing challenges and struggles due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Despite the struggles, nursing leadership emerged and changed the face of healthcare. The pandemic introduced strict healthcare coordination, task delegation and increased levels of conflict resolution. Essential two was met by demonstrating the health implications of a similar pandemic that swept the globe in the film Contagion.
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My strengths in essential two include assuming a leadership role in effectively implementing patient safety and quality
improvement initiatives through educating parents on Back to Sleep to prevent the rate of SIDS related deaths in infants. I was able to identify the economic, legal, and political factors that influence health care through doing a health infographic to provide culturally competent care. I was to relate my own personal experiences through the pandemic to the film Contagion. Due to the pandemic, I feel stronger in my leadership capabilities as a future APRN. I feel like the healthcare community can gain from working as a team to overcome hurdles attributed due to the pandemic.
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My weaknesses include being able to think about cost effective strategies. Being fortunate to work in a country such as the United States, I don't value the significance of basic human needs such as water. By doing the infographic for the people of Haiti and with the ophthalmologist speaker in the Teds Talk, I was able to challenge my thought process on cost effective strategies. Working as a neonatal nurse, it can be easy to just grab what I need of the Omnicell without thinking twice about how much that item costs. For individuals in poverty-stricken nations the value of a dollar goes a long way and providers need to be considerate to constantly try to reach out to provide support and new innovative ideas to members in government to try to aid with global funding.