Click here to access and take the Emotional Intelligence (EI) Assessment. Summarize your results. Explain what you can do to adjust your EI results to assist with improving your leadership skills. Support your response with references.   Discussion Prompt 2   In this week’s episode of Saving Sara, you saw that getting a job promotion […]

Ellen opened up to Sara about her harassment experiences with Dr. Tkachyck. As you read this week, an adaptive leader utilizes four key components (emotional intelligence, organizational justice, character, and development) to mobilize coworkers to develop a solution. Analyze both scenarios—when Sara filed a report and when she didn’t. Explain what Sara did well as […]

Sara is overwhelmed and struggling with her confidence as a leader. Based on your readings about the servant leadership approach, discuss the ripple effect that both examples shown could have on her team. Describe what that might look like. What characteristics and behaviors of a servant leader is Sara showing?

Think about Paula’s character as a whole thus far. She definitely displays characteristics of the “out group” as described in the leader-member exchange (LMX) chapter in your text. Give some examples of why you think this is. How can Sara encourage Paula to display “in-group” characteristics? Throughout this episode, how does Sara display transformational leadership […]

Complete the diagnostic exercise above. After you have viewed each person, select one of the individuals, and based on his or her health assessment, develop a health plan to help them prevent the disease and improve their quality of life. Your plan should include health care recommendations, educational materials, support systems for making lifestyle changes, […]

ESRD (end-stage renal disease) is the last stop in pathology for the kidney, and it is not a place we want a patient to be. However, there are many ways to intervene before a patient gets to this stage. Please visit the National Kidney Foundation website (www.kidney.org) and pick one best practice you can share […]

In this week’s material on lung function, two diseases tend to emerge as clinically important: COPD and lung cancer. Please go onto the CDC website (www.CDC.gov) to look up facts and figures on one of these two diseases. What is its burden on society? How can you, working on the front lines of disease management, […]

How does an understanding of the mechanisms of the heart help you in treatment of your patient regardless of the illness? How does basic cardiac monitoring factor into caring for your patient? How do you care for patients with dysrhythmia? Share some of your best practices.   Discussion Prompt #2   Review the following case […]

EO is an 8-year-old girl with a history of asthma and allergy to bee stings. She has been brought to the clinic complaining of a throat infection. Her health care provider prescribes a course of penicillin to manage her current infection and cautions her parents to watch her closely for a reaction.   What type […]

TL is a 62-year-old male who was in a car wreck and who has been hospitalized for compartment syndrome from a left leg crush injury. He has areas of necrosis (tissue ischemia) seen along his calf. Tissue necrosis is areas of dead cells. It is imperative that the necrosis does not increase.   1. Discuss […]