Assignment: Nurse Leader as Knowledge Worker

As a nurse leader, you are responsible for ensuring that your team has the knowledge and skills to provide quality patient care. This includes staying up-to-date on the latest evidence-based care practices, using data to inform decision-making, and collaborating with other healthcare professionals to improve outcomes.

You must continually develop your skills and knowledge to be an effective knowledge worker. This means seeking new learning opportunities, staying current with the latest research, and sharing your expertise. It also requires creating and using systems that capture, store, and disseminate knowledge so that it can be used to improve patient care.

Nursing students complete assignments about effective knowledge workers to prepare them for professional duties. The assignment can cover various concepts and issues about a knowledge worker. We can help you with all aspects of your assignment, from research to writing and editing. Below is a sample question we have answered correctly. 

Assignment: Nurse Leader as Knowledge Worker

Question Description

Hi, so this assignment has to be based off of the discussion post scenario below:

The scenario of applying informatics within nursing relates to patient care management. The details of the scenario entail a visit to a healthcare facility by a patient seeking the services of cervical cancer screening. In the interaction between the patient and doctor, the latter conducting the cervical cancer diagnosis notices that the patient had previously undergone similar screening processes in a different facility. 

Considering the situation, the doctor must seek the patient’s records from the hospital where the diagnosis process was taken and thus guide the current process that the patient will undergo. The previously tested conditions of the patients could complicate the ongoing screening process if they do not take into account. Undertaking a cervical screening could lead to adverse effects if the history of the patient is not assessed clearly. Consequently, the doctor is bound to analyze the patient’s data retrieved from Electronic Health Records (EHR). The data comes along with screens results, clinical notes, and other relevant data associated with the patient.

Assignment: The Nurse Leader as Knowledge Worker

Peter Drucker, a management consultant and author, coined the term “knowledge worker” in his book The Landmarks of Tomorrow (1959). Drucker defined knowledge workers as high-level employees who use theoretical and analytical knowledge gained through formal education to develop products and services. Does this ring a bell?

Nurses are highly educated professionals. What has changed since Drucker’s time are the ways that knowledge can be acquired. The amount of data that can now be generated, as well as the tools used to access it, have evolved significantly in recent years, allowing healthcare professionals (among many others) to take on the role of knowledge worker in new and powerful ways.

In this Assignment, you will examine how the role of the nurse leader has evolved and how this evolution has led nurse leaders to assume the role of knowledge worker. You will create a PowerPoint presentation that includes an infographic (a visual representation of information, data, or knowledge). Infographics are designed to convey information quickly and clearly.) to educate others on the role of the nurse as a knowledge worker.

To Prepare:

Review the concepts of informatics as presented in the Resources.
Reflect on the role of a nurse leader as a knowledge worker.
Consider how knowledge may be informed by data that is collected/accessed.

The Assignment:

• Explain the concept of a knowledge worker.
• Define and explain nursing informatics and highlight the role of a nurse leader as a knowledge worker.
• Develop a simple infographic to help explain these concepts.
• NOTE: For guidance on infographics, including how to create one in PowerPoint, see “How to Make an Infographic in PowerPoint” presented in the Resources.

Your PowerPoint should Include the hypothetical scenario you originally shared in the Discussion Forum. Include your examination of the data that you could use, how the data might be accessed/collected, and what knowledge might be derived from that data. Be sure to incorporate feedback received from your colleagues’ response. 

ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE CLASS

Discussion Questions (DQ)

• Initial responses to the DQ should address all components of the questions asked, include a minimum of one scholarly source, and be at least 250 words.
• Successful responses are substantive (i.e., add something new to the discussion, engage others in the discussion, well-developed idea) and include at least one scholarly source.
• One or two sentence responses, simple statements of agreement or “good post,” and responses that are off-topic will not count as substantive. Substantive responses should be at least 150 words.
• I encourage you to incorporate the readings from the week (as applicable) into your responses.

Weekly Participation

• Your initial responses to the mandatory DQ do not count toward participation and are graded separately.
• In addition to the DQ responses, you must post at least one reply to peers (or me) on three separate days, for a total of three replies.
• Participation posts do not require a scholarly source/citation (unless you cite someone else’s work).
• Part of your weekly participation includes viewing the weekly announcement and attesting to watching it in the comments. These announcements are made to ensure you understand everything that is due during the week.

APA Format and Writing Quality

• Familiarize yourself with APA format and practice using it correctly. It is used for most writing assignments for your degree. Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in LoudCloud for APA paper templates, citation examples, tips, etc. Points will be deducted for poor use of APA format or absence of APA format (if required).
• Cite all sources of information! When in doubt, cite the source. Paraphrasing also requires a citation.
• I highly recommend using the APA Publication Manual, 6th edition.

Use of Direct Quotes

• I discourage overutilization of direct quotes in DQs and assignments at the Masters’ level and deduct points accordingly.
• As Masters’ level students, it is important that you be able to critically analyze and interpret information from journal articles and other resources. Simply restating someone else’s words does not demonstrate an understanding of the content or critical analysis of the content.
• It is best to paraphrase content and cite your source.

LopesWrite Policy

• For assignments that need to be submitted to LopesWrite, please be sure you have received your report and Similarity Index (SI) percentage BEFORE you do a “final submit” to me.
• Once you have received your report, please review it. This report will show you grammatical, punctuation, and spelling errors that can easily be fixed. Take the extra few minutes to review instead of getting counted off for these mistakes.
• Review your similarities. Did you forget to cite something? Did you not paraphrase well enough? Is your paper made up of someone else’s thoughts more than your own?
• Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in LoudCloud for tips on improving your paper and SI score.

Late Policy

• The university’s policy on late assignments is 10% penalty PER DAY LATE. This also applies to late DQ replies.
• Please communicate with me if you anticipate having to submit an assignment late. I am happy to be flexible, with advance notice. We may be able to work out an extension based on extenuating circumstances.
• If you do not communicate with me before submitting an assignment late, the GCU late policy will be in effect.
• I do not accept assignments that are two or more weeks late unless we have worked out an extension.
• As per policy, no assignments are accepted after the last day of class. Any assignment submitted after midnight on the last day of class will not be accepted for grading.

Communication

• Communication is so very important. There are multiple ways to communicate with me:
• Questions to Instructor Forum: This is a great place to ask course content or assignment questions. If you have a question, there is a good chance one of your peers does as well. This is a public forum for the class.
• Individual Forum: This is a private forum to ask me questions or send me messages. This will be checked at least once every 24 hours

Assignment: Nurse Leader as Knowledge Worker

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