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Develop an academic success and a professional development plan template. Identify and address two academic and two professional individuals to collaborate with to be successful academically and as a practitioner. Give reasons why you selected them and how they will support you academically and professionally.
Write an introduction in your own words.
Describe three ways you will invest in your future based on the principles of finance. Include “Principles of Finance ” terminology and use citations as necessary to support your explanation of the terminology.
Discuss one of the three ways you feel most confident as a way to invest in your future. Explain your level of confidence.
Of the three ways that you will invest in your future, discuss the one that you perceive might be the most challenging. Then, discuss how you might overcome some of those challenges.
Suppose you need $1 million to start your dream business. Describe two ways you would generate the funds needed to start such a business. Next, discuss any risks or benefits you should be aware of when gathering these funds. Provide examples to support your response. PART I: RECENT PERSONAL FAILURE THAT WAS A GIFT IN HINDSIGHT
An important part of Challenging the Process is to try new things, create new opportunities, experiment, and learn from mistakes. Things don’t always go as planned or as we hope, but there are great lessons we can learn from our failures.
Think about something that you failed at (didn’t get a job or promotion, failed relationship, didn’t achieve a personal goal, etc.) that turned out to be a blessing, a gift, or good thing in hindsight. It can be related to any part of your life – family, school, work, or community.
What was the failure?
Why did it turn out to be a good thing in hindsight?
What did you learn from the experience?
PART II: THE POWER OF QUESTIONS
Challenge the Process also focuses on seeking new and innovative ways to change, grow and improve. Successful leaders look for new ways all the time and challenge themselves to move beyond the status quo.
Leaders have to be good at listening and observing what is going on around them. Using questions is a great way to get the information you need to create, innovate, grow, and improve but leaders are often reluctant to use them. A leader often believes that as the person in charge, he or she is supposed to have all the answers and should not ask for the answers.
But questions have many benefits such as:
Questions solicit information without passing judgment.
Questions allow people to come up with their own ideas.
Questions provide an avenue for cooperation without creating entrenched positions.
Questions hold up a mirror allowing one to reflect on what the answer really means.
Questions allow one to test assumptions, especially when the wrong assumption might prove embarrassing.
Questions create a situation in which people can get to know one another and build trusting relationships.
Questions facilitate deeper understanding by digging beneath the surface.
Questions protect one who does not want to give away information.
Questions guide one’s thinking in order to sell an idea and get another’s buy-in before announcing a concrete decision.
Question provide answers when other people just don’t know.
Adapted from the Leadership Challenge Activities Book, Kouzes and Posner, 2010.
What is a leadership challenge that you have in your life – it can be work, a school project, or anything where you are experiencing difficulty with others and are trying to find a solution.
Watch Steve Aguirre’s TED Talk on “The Power of Questions” to help you with #3 and #4 below.
Next develop the following questions to help you do a better job LISTENING and OBSERVING about this issue. To whom will you ask the questions?
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Are there other questions you would like to ask? Remember use questions as a way to learn and to get buy in from others. Often questions work better than telling someone what to do.
How can your questions help you with your leadership challenge (from #1).
Overview
Think about when are you the most conscious in life – is it while you’re calm, angry, happy, or moved; while absorbed in a movie, video game, or athletic activity; while engaged in a spirited conversation, making decisions, meditating, reflecting, trying to solve a difficult problem, day dreaming, or feeling creative?
Instructions
Share your thoughts about when you are the most conscious, and how these considerations shed light on your understanding of what consciousness is. Be sure to use at least one resource in addition to the etext to help support your findings.
Respond to this discussion with feedback with two paragraphs, each paragraph is at least 5 sentences. Be detailed, use professional language and provide examples on how to improve time management for this person. Please make sure this is plagiarism free as it will go through Turn it in. (About me: I am a single mom as well and I work many hours as well.)
Discussion:
Time management is a term I have become very familiar with in my life as a healthcare worker as well as mom two. I like to think that I am fairly well versed in staying organized and managing my time wisely, but as we all know, sometimes life does not cooperate with us and life can get hectic and chaotic.
I recently (unexpectedly) became a single mom, which of course has forced me to make some changes in my life. I have my children during the week, Monday through Thursday. They are with their dad Friday-Sunday so that I can work on the weekends. During the week when the kids are with me, I am in mom mode; cooking, cleaning, laundry, playing with them, taking them to the park, ect. I am lucky that I am able to work PRN, so I typically work Friday’s and Sunday’s, which leaves me with Saturdays to myself.
I can work on Saturday if I choose to, or I can use that day to do anything I was not able to do during the week. They way my life is arranged right now is not at all how I expected it to be. I was married for 6 years, so I always had help at home. Despite this adversity, I am managing life and making it work, and re-learning this new way of living and how to manage my time.
Finishing my BSN is important to me, so I am willing to do whatever I need to do to temporarily rearrange my life to make time for school. For example, although I have my kids during the week, they are still at ages where they take naps mid-day. Instead of using nap time to relax or get some chores done, I plan on dedicating that time to school. Also, my children go to bed somewhat early, usually by 7:30, which means I also have time in the evenings to get schoolwork done. As stated before, Saturday’s I typically don’t work, so if all else fails and I still have schoolwork to do, I have an entire day on Saturday that I am able to dedicate to school.
If there was anything I would change about my daily life in order to make more time for school, it would be prioritizing things better in order to ensure my work is done on time. Kind of like the Time Management Jar in this weeks lesson. My children and my job would be the largest rocks. School would be the smaller rocks. Housework and chores would be the small pebbles. And hanging out with friends/socialization would be the sand.
There is many times when my kids go for naps, or I have free time at night and I try to get all the housework done, or sometimes I will just sit on my phone and scroll through social media. The Tie Management Jar teaches us that we must learn to put the smallest things last or there will be no time left for the bigger items. Sometimes I get a little OCD with my house; I always feel like I have to get all the house work done in one day or I get anxious. When in reality, the dishes and laundry will still be there tomorrow if it doesn’t get done today. All of the small things in life can wait, because getting my schoolwork done is more important.
Assignment: Evidence-Based Practice and the Quadruple Aim
Healthcare organizations continually seek to optimize healthcare performance. For years, this approach was a three-pronged one known as the Triple Aim, with efforts focused on improved population health, enhanced patient experience, and lower healthcare costs.
More recently, this approach has evolved to a Quadruple Aim by including a focus on improving the work life of healthcare providers. Each of these measures are impacted by decisions made at the organizational level, and organizations have increasingly turned to EBP to inform and justify these decisions.
To Prepare:
Read the articles by Sikka, Morath, & Leape (2015); Crabtree, Brennan, Davis, & Coyle (2016); and Kim et al. (2016) provided in the Resources.
Reflect on how EBP might impact (or not impact) the Quadruple Aim in healthcare.
Consider the impact that EBP may have on factors impacting these quadruple aim elements, such as preventable medical errors or healthcare delivery.
To Complete:
Your analysis should address how EBP might (or might not) help reach the Quadruple Aim, including each of the four measures of:
Patient experience
Population health
Costs
Work life of healthcare providers
******* I attach a template of how the instructor would like the assignment to be elaborated *****
Melnyk, B. M., & Fineout-Overholt, E. (2018). Evidence-based practice in nursing & healthcare: A guide to best practice (4th ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Wolters Kluwer.
Chapter 1, “Making the Case for Evidence-Based Practice and Cultivating a Spirit of Inquiry” (pp. 7–32)