Homework: Manage Quality & Identifying Waste
Managing risk and ensuring quality requires skillful resource management. Resource management enables a leader to operate from a position of ability and planning rather than managing reactions to crises. Resource management also lends itself to creative team building and the diffusion of change.
To prepare for your monthly meeting with your team, you have developed a presentation called Managing Quality and Risk. You would also like to use the time to address increasing stress and rush during transitions with patients and shifts. You have decided to create another section in the presentation called Identifying Waste.
For this homework, you will create a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation incorporating the details of both sections of the homework. Interpersonal communication skills are integral to presentation of organized ideas and change.
Create 14 to 20 slides PowerPoint presentation that includes the following:
Part I: Managing Quality and Risk
Consider how managing quality often means addressing small issues to prevent them from escalating into ethical, legal, or fiscal risks for the organization. Keep in mind, you are adding to your presentation with the goal of showing your chief nursing officer how you plan to address the topic you select from the list below.
Select one of the following topics:
1. Mitigating bullying and lateral violence
2. Managing conflict
3. Using power to influence elevations for value and safety
4. Valuing diversity
Part II: Identifying Waste and Resource Management
Think about the clinical environment where you work or one in which you previously worked.
Identify opportunities for waste reduction. Consider the following:
1. Setting: administrative, operational, clinical
2. Efficiency
3. Value to patient
4. Value to quality and safety in nursing practice
Develop a plan to carry out your suggestions as a nurse leader on your floor. Consider:
1. Available resources: time, budget, space, industry collateral, personnel
2. Employee engagement
3. Change management principles
4. Team dynamics
5. Communication strategies
Suggest process changes to improve the situation as if you are communicating to frontline staff and nurse leaders and explaining your findings.
Format your homework according to the give formatting requirements:
1. The answer must be double spaced, typed, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the homework, the course title, the student's name, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also include a reference page. The references and Citations should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.