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NU 605 Week 2 Discussion 1: The Influence of Leadership Styles on Leadership Practice

Initial Post

Complete the assigned readings and the “Leadership Styles Questionnaire” (Northouse Chapter 4).

In three well developed paragraphs (450–500 words total), address the following prompts:

  • What do your responses to the questionnaire reveal about your leadership style?
  • How will this style influence your intended professional role (upon graduation from your program of study)?

Replies

Reply to at least two of your classmates. In your reply posts, in a well-developed paragraph (300–350 words to each peer), provide referenced support to help your peer understand their dominant leadership style.

Please refer to the Grading Rubric for details on how this activity will be graded. The described expectations meet the passing level of 80%. Students are directed to review the Discussion Grading Rubric for criteria which exceed expectations.

NU 605 Week 1 Assignment 1: Leadership Analysis

Instructions

Complete the assigned readings and the “Conceptualizing Leadership Questionnaire” in Northouse, Chapter 1.

The Leadership Analysis Paper should be approximately 3–4 pages long, not counting the cover page or references list.

Include the following:

  • Comprehension: Share the findings of the questionnaire.
  • Application: Of the six dimensions in the questionnaire (trait, ability, skill, behavior, relationship, and process), which one is the most similar to your own perspective? Which one is least like your own perspective?
  • Analysis/Synthesis: What do the scores you received on the questionnaire suggest about your perspective on leadership?
  • Evaluation: What do your scores imply about your view of nurses as leaders versus managers? How are the results of this questionnaire beneficial to you as a leader?

Please refer to the Grading Rubric for details on how this activity will be graded.

Quiz on ESA Chapters 2-15

One important consideration often overlooked by event organizers is the increased strain their event will place on public service agencies such as emergency management, law enforcement, fire and rescue, public works/utilities, public health, and medical facilities.

The key elements of successful health and safety management include:

A. Creating a health and safety policy

B. Developing an event-specific health and safety plan to ensure the policy is put into practice

C. Organizing an effective management structure and distribution of the policy to include the responsible person for monitoring health and safety implementation

D. Analyzing and reviewing performance

E. All the above

Effective planning is concerned with hazard identification and the mitigation or elimination of those hazards to reduce or eliminate risks.  Financial considerations are a priority when considering the development of a plan to mitigate or eliminate those hazards and or reduce risks.

Planning for the show requires preparing strategies for crowd management, transportation management, fire, first aid, major incident, contingency planning and more.

If an event needs to be cancelled after the audience has arrived, or a performance has begun, stopped and not re-started, the will be a wide range of issues to be managed.  Refunding patron’s tickets should be the primary concern of the promoter.

The proper design and construction of an adequate means of egress usually falls under the authority of the local law enforcement authority having jurisdiction.

Ramps installed for wheelchair users must conform to local building and/or fire codes and possibly the American with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990.  Ramps must have landings at least as wide as the ramp and at least ____ ______ ____  located at the bottom and top of each ramp, points of turning, entrance, exists, and at doors.

A. 60 inches long

B. 45 inches long

C. As long as the ramp

D. wide enough for a wheelchair

The typical steps for operating a portable fire extinguisher (described by the acronym “PASS”) are as follows:

P-Pull the safety pin

A-Aim the nozzle at the base of the fire, from a safe distance (about 6 feet away)

S-Squeeze the handle

S-Sweep the extinguisher from side to side while aiming at the base of the fire

At large events, there may be a need for a separate medical radio channel connecting the ambulance service with ambulance workers, key medical workers, mobile response teams, and key first-aiders.  A protocol for the use of radio equipment, including consistent call signs, must be managed by the local law enforcement authority.

Severe weather can strike any geographical location at any time.  Severe weather threats can take many forms, except:

A. tornadoes

B. hurricanes

C. lightning

D. active shooter

E. high winds

NU 601 Week 7 Blog Post 1: Personal Takeaway

Instructions

For this blog entry, provide one personal take-away from the course. For example, has the course impacted your views of nursing theory? Have you applied something you learned in your nursing practice? Has a topic from the course influenced you personally? Write a blog post of between three to five sentences long.

Please refer to this Grading Rubric for details on how this activity will be graded.

NU 601 Week 7 Discussion 2: Application of a Shared Theory or Model to Primary Care Advanced Practice Nursing

Note: In this type of discussion, you will not see the responses of your classmates until after you have posted your own response to the question below.

For this discussion, choose one of the four shared theories or models (Knowles Theory of Adult Learning, Prochaska and DiClemente’s Transtheoretical Model of Behavior Change, Bandura’s Social Learning Theory, or Maslow’s Human Motivation and Hierarchy of Basic Human Needs from Week 7: Learning Materials) as the focus of your initial post.

Initial Post

Please respond to the following prompt:

  • Applying your selected model to your primary care specialty, describe how you would use the model in intervening with a patient-care problem focusing on assessment, counseling, and teaching (for example: PNP: Adolescents with Type One diabetes; Women’s Health: Mothers with postpartum depression; Adult Geriatric NP: Older widower coping with their spouse’s death).

Your initial post should contain two to three paragraphs with three to four sentences per paragraph. The post should integrate a minimum of three readings and/or other evidence-based research articles no more than three years old and use APA formatting for citations and references.

Replies

Reply to at least two of your classmates. In your reply posts, apply your selected theory to the patient-care problem of two of your colleagues who chose a different theory or model using a minimum of two scholarly references formatted per APA style.

Please refer to the Grading Rubric for details on how this activity will be graded. The described expectations meet the passing level of 80%. Students are directed to review the Discussion Grading Rubric for criteria which exceed expectations.

NU 601 Week 7 Discussion 1: Application to Pragmatic Adequacy Assignment Reflections

Initial Post

Please respond to the following prompts:

  • Identify the article your group wrote their assignment about.
  • Which theory or model did your group choose and which Healthy People 2020 objective/topic did you connect it to as a group?
  • Provide a summary of your group’s work in five to seven sentences.
  • Then select a different Healthy People 2020 objective/topic and connect it to your group’s selected theory or model. Identify this objective topic and discuss how you would apply your chosen Healthy People 2020 objective/topic to the selected theory or model, focusing on the following two areas:
    • Outlining client outcomes
    • Designing nursing interventions

Ensure you utilize at least three scholarly sources in your initial post.

NU 601 Week 6 Group Discussion 1: Practice Theory Evaluation

Overview

For this discussion, you will be evaluating Willis, DeSanto-Madeya, & Fawcett (2015). Moving Beyond Dwelling in Suffering: A Situation-Specific Theory of men’s Healing from Childhood Maltreatment (PDF). Nursing Science Quarterly, 28(1), 57–63.

Initial Post

For your initial post, your group should collaborate to address the following:

Situation-Specific Theory Evaluation Criteria

  1. Complexity/Simplicity: Is the theory complex or simple? Explain.
  2. Clarity
    1. Is the theory understandable? Why or why not?
    2. How could this theory be made more understandable? Describe.
  3. Parsimony
    1. Is the theory concise or wordy?
    2. Provide examples.
  4. Socio-cultural Utility
    1. Does the theory attend to diversity?
    2. If so, how?
    3. If not, suggest one way it can be refined to address diversity using at least one reference to support your suggestion.
    4. Accuracy
      1. Is the theory relevant to nursing today?
      2. If yes, provide an example of its relevance.
      3. If not, please explain.

Your initial post should contain be a minimum of 500 words and a maximum of 750 words. The post should integrate a minimum of three readings and/or other evidence-based research articles no more than three years old and use APA formatting for citations and references.

Reply Posts

Your group will collaborate to compose replies to at least two other groups’ posts. Your replies should note whether your group agrees with the other groups’ evaluations, with a rationale for that position. Utilize at least two scholarly references to substantiate your claims/position. Choose one student from your group to post the two replies. All students in a group will be awarded the same number of points. Ensure that you use a minimum of two scholarly sources in APA style in your replies.

Please refer to the Grading Rubric for details on how this activity will be graded. The described expectations meet the passing level of 80%. Students are directed to review the Discussion Grading Rubric for criteria which exceed expectations.