Nurse,s Role and Management

post carries two assignments

Nurse Executive Role and Management-Activity Project

Part I
Begin your practicum course, reflect on your professional career and consider the reasons you are interested in the nurse executive role. What are the aspects of your professional career that have led you to the goal of becoming a nurse executive?
Part II
Please describe your selected management-activity project for this course. This project is a major component of the practicum experience. It should be an activity that will benefit the organization and contribute to your ability to achieve the course outcomes. Remember that your project needs to be selected in conjunction with input from your mentor.

Week 1: Introduction
Welcome to Week 1!
Welcome to Executive Practicum. In this course, you will start to apply the knowledge from all previous courses in the Chamberlain College of Nursing Master’s Program Executive Track. This course emphasizes the application of leadership and management theories and concepts in the implementation of the nurse- executive role. The focus will be on the application of information from prior courses in your practicum. We will focus on specific topics each week to assist you in the development of the nurse-leader role. This week, we will focus on how to write a portfolio. With the start of your practicum course, this is an excellent time to reflect upon your professional career and start to document your accomplishments in a professional portfolio. In the portfolio, you will record evidence of growth and achievement in your career. The portfolio is a record of your specific achievements over time. So, let’s get started on this interesting journey!
Course Outcomes
1
Synthesize knowledge from evidence-based literature as a foundation for the executive role. (PO 1, 9)
Weekly Objectives
• Demonstrate the role of a professional portfolio in presenting one’s professional accomplishments and credentials.
• Recognize components of a portfolio and how to develop each component.
5
Exemplify professional values and scholarship that support leadership and professional development. (PO 5, 10)
Weekly Objectives
• Demonstrate the role of professional portfolio in presenting one’s professional development and advanced scholarship.
• Identify components of the professional portfolio will exemplify one’s values and professional advancement.
Week 1: Lesson
Table of Contents
Writing a Portfolio
Role of the Professional Portfolio
Key Point
Documenting your professional skills and knowledge is a key to career growth.
A portfolio is a summary of a professional career. We are more familiar with portfolios in the arts. Artists have portfolios of their work. It is only in recent years that nurses and other healthcare executives have adopted this process of presenting professional accomplishments. The portfolio can be used during job interviews to highlight professional work, demonstrate proficiencies, and document competencies and scholarly work. It is an individual record of accomplishments over a career. The portfolio, a visual representation of accomplishments, helps to organize your career activities.
The portfolio is tailored to each individual based on multiple factors. These include past experiences; performance appraisal; community involvement; professional- organization experience; scholarly work, such as presentations and publications; and personal goals. For example, a nurse educator may include a sample lesson plan and a professional philosophy of education. The nurse executive’s portfolio may include hospital or multidisciplinary-committee involvement.
As each individual gains additional experiences, items should be added to the portfolio. Nurses with multiple years of experience and practice may wish to focus on the most recent activities; however, an archival portfolio should be maintained as a career-long record. Take some time to reflect on your nursing career. Think about key accomplishments during your career. How have you documented these accomplishments, and if so, where is the documentation stored for each of these accomplishments?
Components of a Professional Portfolio
Key Point
Portfolios can vary in form and content; however, all portfolios document key accomplishments in your career.
Portfolios can be in an electronic format or can be in a hard-copy notebook. In either case, the content of the portfolio is the key to documenting accomplishments successfully.
For this course you will be submitting your portfolio. Sections of the portfolio will be due throughout the course. See the weekly assignments for the portfolio component due that week.
A portfolio is divided into sections. The length of each section will depend on the individual’s accomplishments. The first part of the portfolio is the professional introduction. This section will introduce your career and identify professional goals. A key component of this section will be a current resume. The resume is a summary of your educational and professional experiences. The resume will include information about your education, professional experiences, awards, honors, publications, presentations, and memberships and offices in professional organizations. Also included in this section are professional credentials, such as your professional licenses and certifications.
During this practicum course, you are responsible for the development of a practicum portfolio (i.e., a portfolio of your practicum experience) that includes the following elements.
1. Resume
2. Completed learning agreement between student and mentor. The learning agreement contains student-identified practicum goals to meet the course outcomes, the plan to meet the student-identified practicum goals, and a narrative description of attainment of student-identified practicum goals.
3. Management Activity Project
o A management-activity project directs work conducted during the practicum experience. Required elements are a description of
? activity or project and the target audience;
? assessment of the issue or need for the management project;
? management strategies used in the development and implementation of the activity;
? materials developed for the management activity (i.e., staffing plan, budget, etc.); and
? evaluation of management activity.
4. Self-assessment of achievement of nurse-executive competencies (AONE)
5. Weekly Student Hourly Activity Log
o The completed student-activities log identifies how the required 100 hours were used, submitted in your portfolio under the Completed Weekly Student Activity Log (submitted weekly).
Information about each of the sections of the portfolio can be found in the Modules ? Introduction and Resources ? Course Resources section, along with the grading rubric for each section of the portfolio.

Management and Leadership in Nursing and Health Care : An Experiential Approach, 2nd Edition

2:Research Designs

Order Description

Quantitative Research Designs

develop a question and search for resources, and analyze the value of the resources that you identify. There are different ways to evaluate resources, such as using the hierarchy of evidence, which you explored in Week 4 of this course. Another way to evaluate resources is to consider the appropriateness of the research design. Understanding how research designs contribute to the quality of a study is essential for being able to analyze resources when conducting a literature review or locating evidence for practice.

consider the different research designs and evaluate how these designs have been used to research a specific topic. You also consider strategies for selecting an appropriate research design.

To prepare:

Review the information in the course texton quantitative research designs. Focus on the information in Box 9.1, “Guidelines for Critiquing Research Designs in Quantitative Studies” located on page 230 of the course text.
Select a topic from the list below and search the Walden Library to find two different quantitative research studies addressing that issue:
Caregiver stress
Anxiety in children
Sleep apnea
Depression in college freshmen
Rural health care issues
Post-traumatic stress syndrome
Traumatic brain injury in veterans
Health effects of environmental contaminants
Bipolar disorder
End-of-life ethical issues
Alternative medicine
For each of the sources that you select, identify the type of quantitative research design used, and evaluate whether it is the most appropriate approach to the research.
Consider the ramifications of choosing an inappropriate design for a research study.
By Day 3

Post the topic you selected, references for the two sources you identified, and the quantitative research design used in each. Critique the appropriateness of the design used and justify your comments with information from the Learning Resources. Discuss the ramifications of choosing an inappropriate design for a research study.

3:U.S. Supreme Court criminal case decision dealing with a Bill of Rights issue.

include the facts of the case (i.e., what happened), the holding of the court (i.e., what the court decided), and the reasoning for that decision. Additionally, explain how the constitutional right is practically applied to protect the individual and/or society as a whole. Provide your personal opinion on the relative strength and/or weakness of this constitutional issue moving forward in the 21st century. Select one of the following five options:

Gideon v. Wainwright (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
In re Gault (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
Mapp v. Ohio (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
Miranda v. Arizona (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
Terry v. Ohio (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
You may examine a different case, but you must obtain instructor approval by Day 3 (Thursday) of Week Two.

Executive Role and Management