Discussion Post I: Leadership
You have just come from your 6-month performance evaluation as a new charge nurse. While your supervisor stated that he was very pleased in general with how you are performing in this new role, one area that he suggested you work on was to learn to be calmer in hectic clinical situations. He suggested that your anxiety could be transmitted to coworkers and subordinates who look to you to be their role model. He feels that you are especially anxious when staffing is short and that at times you vent your frustrations to your staff, which only adds to the general anxiety level on the unit.
Create a specific plan of 10 things you can do to bolster your emotional intelligence in terms of self-regulation during stressful times. Explain them.
Discussion Post II: Leadership
You are the night shift charge nurse on a busy surgical unit in a large, urban teaching hospital. Surgeries occur around the clock, and frequently, noise levels are higher than desired because of the significant number of nurses, physicians, residents, interns, and other health-care workers who gather at the nurses station or in the halls outside of patient rooms. Today, the unit manager has come to you because the hospital's score on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (hCahPS) survey for the category Always Quiet at Night falls far below the desired benchmark. She has asked you to devise a plan to address this quality of care issue. The management goal in this situation is to achieve an HCAHPS score on Always Quiet at Night that meets the accepted best practices benchmark, thus assuring that patients get the rest they need to promote their recovery. The leadership goal is to foster a shared commitment among all health-care professionals working on the unit to achieve the Always Quiet at Night goal.
Homework:
i. Identify five management strategies you might use to address the problem of excessive noise on the unit at night.
ii. For example, your list might include structural environmental changes or work redesign.
iii. Identify five leadership strategies you might use to promote buy-in of the Quiet at Night initiative by all health-care professionals on the unit.
iv. How will you inspire these health-care professionals to work with you in achieving this critically important goal?
o What incentives might you use to reward behavior conducive to meeting this goal? Why these incentives?
v. Discuss whether you feel this goal could be achieved by employing only the management strategies you identified. Why?
vi. Could it be goal achieved only with the implementation of leadership strategies for team building? Why?
Format your homework according to the following formatting requirements:
i) The answer should be typed, using Times New Roman font (size 12), double spaced, with one-inch margins on all sides.
ii) The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the homework, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
iii) Also include a reference page. The Citations and references must follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.