Nurses as Change Agents in the CommunityAs in all assignments, cite your sources in your work and provide references for the citations in APA format..In the chapter, “How Community-Based Organizatio

Nurses as Change Agents in the Community

As in all assignments, cite your sources in your work and provide references for the citations in APA format.

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In the chapter, “How Community-Based Organizations Are Addressing Nursing’s Role in Transforming Health Care,”(SEE ATTACHED DOCUMENT HAVE THE CHAPTER TO READ))))) the authors describe the community as the focus of advocacy action for change. They list a series of questions that help community teams develop organizing principles to guide their interventions, and the aim is to attack social determinants of health to make community change.

Suppose a community team identifies lack of access to exercise modalities as a public health issue. If the team were to determine that pedestrian walkways need to be constructed, discuss at least two factors that would facilitate the development of the walkways and two that would hinder the development. For the hindrances, discuss ways that the team might work to overcome those hindrances.

Continue to read daily from one of the policy briefs that are included in your weekly readings list. POLITICO Pulse is a daily briefing from POLITICO, and the Kaiser Health News Morning Briefing is a daily briefing from the Kaiser Family Foundation. Both focus on health care. Either one will keep you abreast of what is happening in health care policies and politics.

In addition, subscribe to the “HealthCetera” podcast and listen to the podcast weekly. This is a production of WBAI, free speech radio of Pacifica Foundation Radio in New York City. Diana Mason and Barbara Glickstein are founders and codirectors of the Center for Health Media Policy (CHMP). Both are recognized as experts in media, nursing, health, and health policy. They have a longstanding relationship as producers and moderators of HealthCetera, a live, award-winning radio program on public radio and iTunes. They are bloggers for Disruptive Women in Health Care and for the American Journal of Nursing (AJN). The CHMP is an interdisciplinary initiative for advancing the health of the public and healthy public policies through media, research, education, and public forums. Listen to the podcast throughout the course and think on the topics that are discussed, especially as they relate to how we advocate for issues of importance in this contemporary political environment.

ASSIGNMENT DETAILS/ GRADING CRITERIA: 1. Evidenced-based Leadership Change project: Instructions for Leadership Change Paper: Observe your environment in the health care facility where you have clinic

ASSIGNMENT DETAILS/ GRADING CRITERIA: 1. Evidenced-based Leadership Change project: Instructions for Leadership Change Paper: Observe your environment in the health care facility where you have clinical and monitor the site for signs and symptoms of the need for change. Look at the nursing processes in place: do they work efficiently, are infection control practices being done routinely. Anything can be a catalyst for change as long as it adds something positive to the establishment. Then, diagnose the problem that indicates a need for change:1.Pick a change theory. Lewin’s change theory is used widely in nursing. Despite this fact, there are many other change theories you can use like Spradley’s theory of change, Lippitts change theory or Roger’s theory of change. Pick the ones that best suit the change you are trying to bring about. 2.  Put a plan together. Using your selected change theory, develop a plan based on each step of the theory you have chosen. Your plan should address what you will do to solve the problem you have diagnosed. It should include activities that will combat the problem and bring about change, a method to measure the success of the plan such as a quiz and a way to make the change permanent. Be sure to include a timeline or timetable for your change project. It needs to have a beginning and an end. 3.Type a 4-5 page double-spaced, APA formatted professional paper that describes your project and submit to your instructor at the end of the semester. The paper has to include:   An introduction: Brief description of the issue & Purpose of the paper  Assessment of the environment which needs to be changed: Current practice, organizational structure, deriving and restraining forces, advantages of change, cost and resources for implementing the change. Planning: Goals of change, phases of change, timeline, how you will mobilize the driving forces and minimize the restraining forces and plan of evaluation Implementation: Needed training and education and methods Evaluation. Conclusion 4. Discuss the change theory you applied to the problem you diagnosed and all the activities you planned for bringing about change. 

Organizational Structures and Leadership

Organizational Structures and Leadership

In most health care settings, it is unlikely that you would hear the terms “ad hoc” or “matrix” as you walk down the hallway. Although it is helpful for any organization to delineate pathways of responsibility and authority in an organizational chart, the lived experience of these structures is most apparent through the inquiries and behaviors people share everyday.

In your own workplace, you may find yourself wondering, who should I turn to when I have a practice dilemma? or Where can I go to learn more about this issue? These questions speak to the intricacies of formal and informal organizational structure and leadership.

To prepare:

• Review the information presented in Chapter 12 of the course text. Focus on the information about formal versus informal structure as well as the types of organizational structures.
• Consider the overall structure or hierarchy of your organization or one with which you are familiar. Which organizational structure best describes your organization—line (or bureaucratic), ad hoc, matrix, service line, or flat? Note: It is possible to have a combination of structures in one organization. Is decision making centralized or decentralized in this organization?
• What is the role of committees, task forces, and councils in the organization, and who is invited to join? Consider how this relates to formal and informal leadership.
• Reflect on how decisions are made within a specific department or unit. Which stakeholders provide input or influence the decision-making process? Assess this in terms of formal and informal leadership.
• To support your analysis, consider your own experiences and investigate these matters by speaking with others at the organization and reviewing available documents. Be sure to consider how the concepts of formal and informal structure and leadership relate to one another and are demonstrated in the organization and in the particular department or unit.

By Day 3

Post a depiction of your organization’s formal structure, indicating whether it is best described as line, ad hoc, matrix, service line, flat, or a combination. Describe how decisions are made within the organization and within one department or unit in particular, noting relevant attributes of centralized/decentralized decision making. Explain the influence of formal and informal leadership on decision making within this department or unit.

Read a selection of your colleagues’ responses.

By Day 6

Respond to at least two of your colleagues on two different days using one or more of the following approaches:

• Ask a probing question, substantiated with additional background information, evidence, or research.
• Share an insight from having read your colleagues’ postings, synthesizing the information to provide new perspectives.
• Validate an idea with your own experience and additional research.
• Make a suggestion based on additional evidence drawn from readings or after synthesizing multiple postings.

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 2, “Classical Views of Leadership and Management”The information introduced through this chapter relates to this week’s Discussion, and will also be referred to in future weeks of the course.

• Chapter 3, “Twenty-First Century Thinking About Leadership and Management”This chapter examines new thinking about leadership and management and how this may influence the future of nursing.
• Review Chapter 12, “Organizational Structure”

Allmark, P., Baxter, S., Goyder, E., Guillaume, L. & Crofton-Martin, G. (2013), Assessing the health benefits of advice services: Using research evidence and logic model methods to explore complex pathways. Health & Social Care in the Community, 21, 59–68. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2524.2012.01087.x

This manuscript examines causal pathways between the provision of advice services and improvements in health. It may also be useful to commissioners and practitioners in making decisions regarding development and commissioning of advice services.

Downey, M., Parslow, S., & Smart, M. (2011). The hidden treasure in nursing leadership: Informal leaders. Journal of Nursing Management, 19(4), 517–521.

Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.

Informal leaders can have a strong impact in the workplace. This article explores the value informal leaders can provide.

3 pages paper in APA format

Hi, I need 3 pages APA format paper. The topic is: Osteoporosis in older adult Vs young adult

Write a 3-page paper on how the disease process is different in the older adult population as compared to younger adults. The paper should discuss differences in signs and symptoms, assessment, interventions, and potential outcomes (ie. the nursing process). Also include a brief discussion on appropriate older assessment tools that are available. The ConsultGeriRN.org website has a complete listing of such assessments. Attach a copy of the tool(s) discussed.

Please be concise and accurate, 100% should be your own words. My teacher catches any copy and paste  and gives 0 point incase of plagiarism. We should submit this assignment through safe assign that check for any matches, i want you to check the website my professor provided for appropirate assessment you mentioned in paper and i need a copy of that page to submit to my teacher. Also i need good resourses for writing this 3 pages paper.

Writing should be concise and clear, using proper APA format and appropriate references to support your discussion.  Please before agree to do this homework, read all instructions i provided.  Thank you

Hi, I need 3 pages APA format paper. The topic is: Osteoporosis in older adult Vs young adult

Write a 3-page paper on how the disease process is different in the older adult population as compared to younger adults. The paper should discuss differences in signs and symptoms, assessment, interventions, and potential outcomes (ie. the nursing process). Also include a brief discussion on appropriate older assessment tools that are available. The ConsultGeriRN.org website has a complete listing of such assessments. Attach a copy of the tool(s) discussed.

Please be concise and accurate, 100% should be your own words. My teacher catches any copy and paste  and gives 0 point incase of plagiarism. We should submit this assignment through safe assign that check for any matches, i want you to check the website my professor provided for appropirate assessment you mentioned in paper and i need a copy of that page to submit to my teacher. Also i need good resourses for writing this 3 pages paper.

Writing should be concise and clear, using proper APA format and appropriate references to support your discussion.  Please before agree to do this homework, read all instructions i provided.  Thank you

Discussion QuestionThere are many factors that affect chronic illness—chronic pain, stigma, social isolation, altered mobility, or fatigue. Utilizing your learning from your readings and the South U

Discussion Question

There are many factors that affect chronic illness—chronic pain, stigma, social isolation, altered mobility, or fatigue. Utilizing your learning from your readings and the South University Online Library resources, respond to one the following questions:

• Based on the research, which of these factors have the greatest impact on a patient? Why? Contrast at least two ways the factors would affect a twelve-year-old with the way they would affect a seventy-five-year-old.
• Consider the twelve-year-old and the seventy-five-year-old have a chronic illness. How does the chronically ill patient’s illness trajectory influence the plan of care?
• Review Healthypeople.gov website. Discuss how you feel these goals will impact the health of the nation. Briefly discuss how you could incorporate these goals/objectives into your day-to-day nursing practice.

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