Several Questions About Nursing Leadership

Human Resources Week 6 Live Chat An example of a change in demographics is when the demographic mix in society changes. This is an ongoing process, occurring daily. New census figures show the totals over a specific period, but somebody working in health care will be able to notice a demographic shift as it occurs. I have no idea what is meant by changes in disease.

Changes in societal norms and values could reflect a society that is less religious, is more tolerant, or that has different values with respect to things like elder care, or how to treat the dying. Health care technology has been changing since the Industrial Revolution, and the pace of change has become more rapid. New advances occur frequently, and will be introduced to medical practice regularly. Robot-assisted surgery is an example of a new technological advancement in health care.

An example of a financial pressure in health care is the need to recoup payment for medical costs, especially in an environment when the costs are uncertain, as is the patient's ability to pay. 5. Cultural awareness is becoming more prevalent in health care, where practitioners need to understand some of the differences between cultures and what implications those differences might have for health care practitioners.

This is true when working in a diverse work environment as well, the need to be aware of and sensitive to the culturally-ingrained needs of others. Week 2, Live Chat 2 There are many reasons why an employee might join a union. First, they usually have to. If their place of employment is a union shop, there is seldom much of a choice about it. Second, unions provide employees with the ability to engage in collective bargaining, which in theory should get the worker a better contract.

The third reason is that the union can usually offer support in the event of a workplace dispute between the worker and management. Having that support is often beneficial to workers. Statistics LC 1. A p-value evaluates the strength of the evidence in the data (Rumsey, 2016). The p value is one of the outputs when a statistical package is run on Excel, or on a stats-specific application like SPSS. The data is entered into the program and then the analysis is run to derive the p value.

The critical region can be set up by drawing a curve and shading the region that you would want to be the rejection region. LC2. The confidence interval is the lower and upper estimate for the mean. You determine the confidence interval by first determining the confidence limit. This is usually 5%, but can be any number. Once the confidence limit is chosen, the confidence interval would be the mean plus or minus the confidence interval. Anything outside of that is outside of the confidence interval.

If you have a mean of 10, and a confidence limit of 1, then the confidence interval is between 9 and 11. Leadership Week 6, Live Chat 1 A non-performing employee is one not performing to expectations. The company sets the expectations, both in the job description and in the instructions and targets that are provided to the employee. A non-performing employee is either inefficient, incompetent, or lazy. Each of these can be addressed with interventions. An incompetent employee can receive more or better training, to improve skills.

Mentoring can also help with employees who want to do well, but maybe do not know how. For an employee who can do well, but is not, there may be an issue of motivation. Carrot and stick motivators can be used, depending on what is thought to be more effective -- an employee may be lazy for lack of challenge and thus be motivated by new tasks; or an employee could be lazy for lack of desire to do the job, in which case punishment might work better.

Live Chat 2 A mentoring program needs three things -- it needs mentors, it needs people to mentor and it needs a mission or sense of purpose, so that the mentors understand what the objective of the program is. The program therefore needs some sort of coordination to ensure that the mentors are aligned with the right mentees and that they understand the skills and knowledge that they are supposed to impart. Thus, the first step is to.