NUR-514 Organizational Leadership And Informatics Papers

Course Description

This course examines the role of leadership, organizational science, policy, and informatics in supporting safe, high-quality, cost-effective patient care within interprofessional, dynamic health care environments. Learners explore various organizational relationships within health care systems and prepare to participate in the design of cost-effective, innovative models of care delivery and practice change proposals. 

Professional leadership theories and how they shape the nurse leader in such things as collaboration, conflict resolution, decision-making, and negotiation are introduced.

Learners discuss change management theories and evaluate the ethical, social, legal, economic, and political implications of practice change and health care informatics along with strategies for managing human, fiscal, and health care resources in a variety of organizational systems. Learners also examine the uses of patient-care, information systems, and communication technologies and discuss the design, implementation, and evaluation of electronic health record systems and clinical decision support systems.

Pre-Requisites

None

Co-Requisites

None

Course Materials

Advanced Practice Nursing: Essential Knowledge for the Profession Description:

  • DeNisco, S. M. (Ed.). (2021). Advanced practice nursing: Essential knowledge for the profession(4th ed.). Jones & Bartlett Learning. ISBN-13: 9781284176124

Leadership in Nursing Practice: Changing the Landscape of HealthCare

  • Weberg, D., Mangold, K., Porter-O’Grady, T., & Malloch, K. (2019). Leadership in nursing practice: Changing the landscape of healthcare (3rd ed.). Jones & Bartlett Learning. ISBN-13: 9781284146530

Nursing Informatics and the Foundation of Knowledge Description:

  • McGonigle, D., Mastrian, K. G. (Eds.). (2018). Nursing informatics and the foundation of knowledge(4th ed.). Jones & Bartlett Learning. ISBN-13: 9781284121247

This Text Will Be Used As A Resource Throughout Your Program. Download The Book In This Course So It Can Be Accessed As Needed In Subsequent Courses.

Course Objectives

Description:

In this course, the learner will:

  • Explore various health care systems and organizational relationships (e.g., stakeholders, economic, financial, political, ethical issues, organizational structure, and delivery of care, including mission/vision/philosophy and values).
  • Discuss professional leadership theories and how they shape the nurse leader in such things as collaboration, conflict resolution, decision making, and negotiation.
  • Discuss change management theories and strategies and the ethical, social, legal, economic, and political implications of practice change on nursing practice decisions.
  • Analyze the impact of health care policy on health care organizations and cost-effective quality care.
  • Evaluate strategies for managing human, fiscal, and health care resources in the design of cost-effective, innovative models of care delivery or practice change proposals.
  • Explore current and emerging patient care, information system, and communication technologies that can deliver and enhance safe, high quality, cost-effective patient care and health outcomes.
  • Examine the implications of healthcare informatics and the role of the advanced registered nursing specialties leader on performance measures and standards related to quality.
  • Discuss the design, implementation, and evaluation of electronic health record systems and clinical decision support systems.
  • Evaluate legal (HIPAA), ethical, reimbursement, emerging technologies, and interprofessional issues related to informatics and information systems.

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  • APA Style is required for all writing assignments in this course, where indicated. Please prepare these assignments according to the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.
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  • View “The Writing Process” media presentation for information on how to strengthen your writing for future assignments.

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GCU Library: General Research Guide Description:

  • Review the “General Research” guide, located on the GCU Library website.

GCU Library: Persistent Links Description:

  • Review “Persistent Links,” located on the GCU Library website, to learn how to locate persistent links for library articles, videos, etc.

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  • Manage your citations with the RefWorks tool, located on the GCU Library website.
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APA Writing Checklist Description:

  • Use the “APA Writing Checklist” to act as a checklist for each paper you will write throughout your GCU graduate program. Discussion Forum Guidelines and Example Description:

Review the “Discussion Forum Guidelines and Example” document for your weekly discussion forum participation.

Topic 1: Health Care Systems, Organizational Relationships, And Interprofessional Health Care Environments

Description Objectives:

  • Discuss the evolution of the S. health care system, its impact on nursing and the delivery of care.
  • Explain how interprofessional relationships increase collaboration and improve patient
  • Examine how leaders benefit from applying systems

Tasks Topic 1 DQ 1

Description:

Consider the evolution of the U.S. health care system. Discuss how the shift to value-based health care has impacted delivery of care and the role and responsibilities of the advanced registered nurse. Project what major evolving trends in the health care delivery system will affect nursing practice and how advanced registered nurses will influence the direction of healthcare.

Topic 2 Professional Leadership

Description Objectives:

  • Differentiate between leadership and
  • Analyze different leadership theories and
  •  Analyze characteristics of the professional nurse leader and nursing
  • Evaluate leadership and management strategies within health care
  • Discuss potential causes of conflict, principles of negotiation, and conflict resolution models and Study Materials Description:

Topic 3 Organizational Change Theories And Strategies

Description

Objectives:

  • Discuss the advanced registered nurse’s role as change agent within the interprofessional health care
  • Analyze factors driving organizational change within health care
  • Evaluate change theories and collaborative models for promoting
  • Evaluate the ethical, social, legal, economic, and political implications of practice

Topic 4: Nurse Leadership And Health Care Policy And Advocacy

Description

Objectives:

  • Propose strategies to support patient advocacy in health care policy making as an advanced practice
  • Analyze the impact health care policy on health care organizations and cost-effective quality

Topic 5: Cost-Effective, Innovative Models Of Care Delivery

Description

Objectives:

  • Define nursing informatics and how the specialty has
  • Analyze how nursing informatics affects nursing leadership, clinical practice, administration, education, and
  • Describe the role of the nurse in transforming health care data into knowledge that can improve patient
  • Explain how innovative models of care affect collaboration between advanced registered nurses and other stakeholders across the
  • Describe the role of the nurse leader in implementing innovative care

Topic 6: Improving Access And Quality Care Through Health Care Informatics And Health IT

Description Objectives:

  • Analyze the role of health information technology and informatics in improving access to care and promoting patient safety and
  • Analyze the critical role of health information and technology standards and interoperability in improving access to care and the exchange of health
  • Discuss best practice for implementing informatics technologies that impact advanced practice nursing and the delivery of care, including clinical provider order entry (CPOE) and clinical decision support systems (CDSS).
  • Evaluate the role of workflow analysis, human factors, and user-centered design concepts in developing health information

Topic 7: Informatics In Practice

Description

Objectives:

  • Analyze ethical, legal, and security measures related to EHRs and the protection of patient information.
  • Evaluate the role and components of the electronic health record (EHR) and its value in patient care.
  • Evaluate emerging consumer, mobile, and telehealth technologies that impact patient care and the storage of health

Topic 8: Interprofessionalism And Interrelationships In Informatics And Information Systems 

Description Objectives:

  • Analyze the role of the advanced registered nurse in promoting evidence-based practice and leading quality and performance improvement
  • Analyze quality standards and performance measures related to the use of informatics for continuous quality improvement in practice
  • Discuss project management strategies and methodologies for implementing health care informatics initiatives that improve quality within clinical