[Verified Answer]: This assignment utilizes all six Quality and…

This assignment utilizes all six Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) competencies, and roles of Delegation, and Self-Care. Competency Category(s): Evidence-Based Practice, Informatics, Patient-Centered Care, Quality Improvement, Safety, Teamwork and Collaboration As a new nurse, delegation and organization are challenges. This assignment will enable the student to act as a “charge nurse” for the day working under the direction of the Instructor. The “charge” student is to make sure the students are organized and prepared for the day and throughout the day. The “charge” student will, obtain report from the students and meet the student’s patients; make sure students are on task and stay organized; assist in care as needed; delegate and coordinate with students and ancillary staff to assist in team work and collaboration; and attend any leadership, case management and/ or discharge planning activities held on the unit (this is the student’s responsibility to find out). Learning Objectives: 1. Patient-Centered Care: Recognize the patient or designee as the source of control and full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for patient’s preferences, values, and needs. 2. Teamwork and Collaboration: Function effectively within nursing and inter-professional teams, fostering open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision-making to achieve quality patient care. 3. Evidence Based Practice: Integrate best current evidence with clinical expertise and patient/family preferences and values for delivery of optimal health care. Quality Improvement: Use data to monitor the outcomes of care processes and use improvement methods to design and test changes to continuously improve the quality and safety of health care systems. 4. Quality Improvement: Use data to monitor the outcomes of care processes and use improvement methods to design and test changes to continuously improve the quality and safety of health care systems. 5. Safety: Minimize risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and individual performance. 6. Informatics: Use information and technology (IT) to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision making. 7. Delegation: Actively learn and implement the role of the nurse leader and staff nurse. 8. Self-Care: Observe and understand how health maintenance concepts benefit nursing. To what extent do nursing staff of this unit support patient-centered care of individuals and families whose values differ than their own? Are there barriers supporting this fully? How can it be improved? 2. Describe the nursing and inter-professional teams that operate on this unit. 3. Provide an example of a nursing practice that has been changed in the last year(s) based on current best evidence. 4. Provide an example of how an unwanted variation that occurred within the last year(s) on the unit changed practice and improved patient outcomes. 5. How are national safety guidelines implemented on this unit? 6. Evaluate any issues (positive/ negative) with the Electronic Medical Records on this unit? 7. Do the staff interact and implement “self-care” activities on the unit or within the facility, and/ or community? 8. Explore if activities to promote teamwork and collaboration are implemented (staff events, facility events, Health Promotion/ Prevention events)? 9. How did you feel being in a leadership role? What were the challenges and benefits? 10. What suggestions could you make to enhance delegation strategies working as a new nurse?