Why is it important for you, as a master’s-prepared nurse leader, to be cognizant of these matters?
Organizational Foundations
As you strive to grow in your leadership skills and abilities, you will find that the context in which you work influences your motivation and areas of focus. In a similar vein, your commitment to developing professionally can contribute toward organizational effectiveness.
To that end, it is critical to recognize the importance of organizational culture and climate. In particular, through this week’s Learning Resources, you may consider several questions: How do an organization’s mission, vision, and values relate to its culture? What is the difference between culture and climate? Moreover, how are culture and climate manifested within the organization?
For this Discussion, you explore the culture and climate of your current organization or one with which you are familiar. You also consider decisions and day-to-day practices and the way they relate to the organization’s mission, vision, and values.
To prepare:
Review the information related to planning and decision making in health care organizations presented in the textbook, Leadership Roles and Management Functions in Nursing: Theory and Application. Consider how planning and decision making relate to an organization’s mission, vision, and values, as well as its culture and its climate.
Familiarize yourself with the mission, vision, and values of your organization or one with which you are familiar. Consider how the statements and actions of leaders and others within the organization support or demonstrate the organizational mission, vision, and values. In addition, note any apparent discrepancies between word and deed. Think about how this translates into expectations for direct service providers. Note any data or artifacts that seem to indicate whether behaviors within the organization are congruent with its mission, vision, and values.
Begin to examine and reflect on the culture and climate of the organization. How do culture and climate differ?
Why is it important for you, as a master’s-prepared nurse leader, to be cognizant of these matters?
Post a description of your selected organization’s mission, vision, and values. APA formatt. Describe relevant data, or artifacts, words, and actions of leaders and others in the organization that support, or perhaps appear to contradict the organization’s mission, vision, and values statement. In addition, discuss the organization’s culture and its climate, differentiating between the two. Explain why examining these matters is significant to your role as a nurse leader.
Required Readings
Marquis, B. L., & Huston, C. J. (2015). Leadership roles and management functions in nursing: Theory and application (8th ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins.
Chapter 1, “Decision Making, Problem Solving, Critical Thinking: Requisites for Successful Leadership and Management, and Clinical Reasoning” Chapter 1 provides information relevant to this week’s Discussion and serves as a foundation for topics explored in future weeks of the course. The authors note that decision making, problem solving, critical thinking, and critical reasoning are integral to both leadership and management and beneficial as one examines leadership and management issues. As you read this chapter, focus primarily on the “Decision Making in Organizations” section.
Chapter 7, “Strategic and Operational Planning” This chapter introduces planning and highlights some of the trends that are likely to impact health care organizations now and in the future. It also addresses vision and mission statements, which are essential for guiding planning and decision making in health care settings.
Chapter 12, “Organizational Structure”
“Organizational Culture” (pp. 260–286)This section of the chapter addresses organizational culture.
Based on Kathy’s cumulative earnings through December 31, how much overtime pay did she earn this year?
Kathy Burnett works for Triumph Industries. Her pay rate is $13.44 per hour and she receives overtime pay at one and one-half times her regular hourly rate for any hours worked beyond 40 in a week. During the pay period that ended December 31, 2019, Kathy worked 42 hours. Kathy is married and claims three withholding allowances on her W-4 form. Kathy’s cumulative earnings prior to this pay period total $29,000. Kathy’s wages are subject to the following deductions: 1. Social Security tax at 6.2 percent 2. Medicare tax at 1.45 percent 3. Federal income tax (use the withholding table shown in Figure 10.2B) 4. Health and disability insurance premiums, $161 5. Charitable contribution, $18 6. U.S. Savings Bond, $100 INSTRUCTIONS 1. Compute Kathy’s regular, overtime, gross, and net pay. 2. Assuming the weekly payroll has been recorded, journalize the payment of her wages for the week ended December 31, 2019. Use 54 as the page number for the general journal. Analyze: Based on Kathy’s cumulative earnings through December 31, how much overtime pay did she earn this year?
Discuss what according to you constitutes a competent supervisor.
Discuss what according to you constitutes a competent supervisor.As discussed in this module, the purpose of clinical supervision is to ensure the welfare of the client, help the supervisee grow professionally, and provide remediation services if necessary.
As discussed in this module, the purpose of clinical supervision is to ensure the welfare of the client, help the supervisee grow professionally, and provide remediation services if necessary. Supervision is a distinct professional activity aimed at helping the supervisee enhance his or her level of professional competence and is used both pre- and post-licensure. Your discussion in this module has two parts related to the issues of supervision and competence. In the first part, you will identify what characteristics make a competent supervisor and how you can identify these characteristics in real life. In the second part, you will discuss regulatory bodies and their roles in protecting clients and the public from unethical behavior on the part of counseling professionals. The purpose of this assignment is for you to understand not only resources, which are available to you (i.e., clinical supervision), but also regulatory agencies, which protect the public from harm by professionals.
Tasks:
In a minimum of 300 words, respond to the following (Note: Please include both parts of this assignment as one post):
Part 1: In your training, you will work with a clinical supervisor for practicum and internship experiences:
Discuss what according to you constitutes a competent supervisor.Discuss how a supervisor’s competence can best be assessed or determined.Part 2: Take the perspective of a licensed or credentialed professional counselor (whose financial livelihood depends upon being perceived as a competent and well-prepared professional):
How should regulatory agencies (for the sake of this discussion, this includes “gatekeeping” bodies such as counselor training programs, licensure boards, credentialing bodies, and professional membership associations) best carry out the responsibility to work in the best interest of counselors while simultaneously trying to protect clients and the public from unethical behavior by counselors? For example, the inherent conflict of a professional association (i.e., ACA) trying to provide resources and professional advocacy for counselors while also being responsible for the ethical adjudication of code violations. Your answer should relate to gatekeeping, remediation, and requirements for getting and maintaining licensure.
Summarize a health care facility project, and describe which finance options are most feasible for the project.
Write a 200- to 300 word response to the following: When financing a major health care facility project, what finance options are available? Summarize a health care facility project, and describe which finance options are most feasible for the project.
Write/Create a 2-3 page double-spaced paper that addresses these items fully, completely and thoughtfully.
Write/Create a 2-3 page double-spaced paper that addresses these items fully, completely and thoughtfully writing in paragraph style as in you will end up with 5 paragraphs!;
List: Racism, Sexism, Classism, Language, Abelism, Geographical, Ageism
What do you believe are the most pressing urban challenges and possible policy solutions for the modern city?
We’ve learned from the readings that creating and implementing policy to address challenges in an urban environment is far from simple. What do you believe are the most pressing urban challenges and possible policy solutions for the modern city? Defend your answer with evidence and examples from the Module readings and film.
What are the most important tenets of self reliance, according to Ralph Waldo Emerson in his 1841 essay Self-Reliance?
What are the most important tenets of self reliance, according to Ralph Waldo Emerson in his 1841 essay Self-Reliance? be specific and use quotes from his writing to build 3 body paragraphs and make your case. include introduction and conclusion paragraphs.
Identify the most significant ideas introduced by Marx and Engel in their Communist Manifesto and explain them in your own words.
Identify the most significant ideas introduced by Marx and Engel in their Communist Manifesto and explain them in your own words.
Homework should be 1-2 double-spaced pages long.
Homework must be attached as a separate document. Do not copy and paste your work into the typed submission; section
Each homework is worth 1 point.
Any plagiarism, even partial, will result in failure.
Do you think a new gold standard could be successful today?
The financial booms and busts over recent years have caused some people to call for a return to the gold standard. They point out that the gold standard reduced exchange-rate risk, imposed strict monetary policies on nations, and helped correct national trade imbalances.
a) Do you think a new gold standard could be successful today?
b) Do you think a global version of the European monetary system would work today?
Please explain your answers to both questions in a post of 200250 words
Do you think it is better for a company, from a business ethics standpoing, to address multiple methods of engaging in corporate responsibility, or focus on just one thing?
Many corporations are seeking to regain the trust of shareholders through a demonstrated commitment to corporate responsibility. According to Stephen Hahn-Griffiths, chief reputation officer of the Reputation Institute, “It’s not necessarily that companies have done anything dramatically different, but they’re doing a better job of providing reasons to believe that they have good intentions,” he said. “Companies have chosen to pick one thing that matters, rather than trying to address all things, and that has caused an increase in corporate responsibility scores.”
The Forbes article explains that “In today’s world, corporate responsibility is as essential to business success as financial performance, and organizations that have adopted a more thoughtful approach to corporate responsibility have undoubtedly positioned themselves to win hearts and minds in the court of public opinion.” “That is the strategic opportunity for any given business today,” Hahn-Griffiths says. “Explain to the world what you’re doing to have a positive impact on society in a way that’s unique to your organization—that can make a big difference.”
Incorporating what you learned in this Unit, do you think it is better for a company, from a business ethics standpoing, to address multiple methods of engaging in corporate responsibility, or focus on just one thing?
