Yearly Archives: 2022

Healthcare systems must address both internal and external influencing factors to assure safe, high quality, cost-efficient care and improve patient outcomes.  Avoidable use and misuse of the Emergency Department are phenomena that directly impact organizational outcomes and efficiency.  The purpose of this assignment is to analyze the misuse of healthcare resources from a systems leadership […]

In today’s complex healthcare environment, system-wide processes are needed to assure person-centered care and to optimize the patient experience.  The purpose of this assignment is to examine organizational practices that are congruent with these standards.  Students will analyze one National Patient Safety Goal and determine how it supports patient-centered care and impacts the patient experience.  […]

The purpose of this assignment is to consider the value of highly reliable healthcare organizations, and cultural characteristics reflective of highly reliable organizations. Students will identify an existing organizational mission, vision, and values in order to appraise congruence with a culture of excellence. The extent to which the organizational mission, vision, and values reflect a […]

Reflect upon a change that you have experienced or observed regarding a complex healthcare system. For example, the change might have been initiated to address a need in the community, or it may have involved a policy, technology, standard operating procedure, regulatory or accreditation compliance.   Consider the change process as it occurred, and respond […]

Reflect upon your perception of nursing and your individual purpose in nursing. Consider areas and issues about which you are passionate, the professional expertise that you possess, and current and future positions in nursing where you will practice, and respond to the following:   In what ways can your individual areas of passion, expertise, and […]

Reflect upon the topic of emerging technology and innovation within healthcare delivery systems and respond to the following:   How do you envision technology impacting health-related outcomes and healthcare organizational outcomes in the future?   What are two priority competencies that will be needed for the MSN-prepared nurse with respect to future technology within healthcare […]

1.            The percentage of the FVC expired in one second is:   2.            The aging process causes what normal physiological changes in the heart?   3.            A 55yo Caucasian male follows up after referral to cardiologist. He thinks his med […]

1.                            More than half of all cardiac arrhythmias involve the atria.                                                    False           […]

The purpose of this assignment is to consider the value of highly reliable healthcare organizations, and cultural characteristics reflective of highly reliable organizations. Students will identify an existing organizational mission, vision, and values in order to appraise congruence with a culture of excellence. The extent to which the organizational mission, vision, and values reflect a […]