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E-Portfolio Essential II: Information Management and Application of Patient Care Technology

Hai-Duong Nguyen

Frostburg State University

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The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) created the Essentials of

Baccalaureate Education for Professional Nursing Practice (2008), a document providing nine

Essentials, a curricular framework that outlines the expected outcomes of graduates of baccalaureate

nursing programs. (AACN, 2008, p. 3) The Essentials includes necessary requirements and

recommendations for the core knowledge required of all healthcare professionals (AACN, 2008, p.

3).This passage will focus on Essential II- Basic Organizational and Systems

Leadership for Quality Care and Patient Safety. This Essential focuses on the knowledge and skills in

leadership, quality improvement, and patient safety are necessary to provide high quality

health care. The essential further emphasizes leadership skills are needed to ensure ethical

and critical decision making, initiating and maintaining effective working relationships,

using mutually respectful communication and collaboration within interprofessional teams,

care coordination, delegation, and developing conflict resolution strategies. (AACN, 2008, p. 14) The

baccalaureate student will demonstrate mastery of this Essential when one is able to utilize their

leadership and communication skills to work productively within interprofessional teams in various

healthcare settings. For this paper, I will discuss how my Creative Implementation of Leadership

Project meets the Essential II - Basic Organizational and

Systems Leadership for Quality Care and Patient Safety.

I chose to present my Creative Implementation of Leadership Project because I felt that the

completion of my project highlighted the fundamental skills outlined in the Essential II. Within my

project, I identified and described my personality and leadership characteristics which are utilized in

my everyday position as a charge nurse in the ICU. Throughout my presentation, I discussed how I

utilized the transformational leadership style to guide management of staff members and to ensure our

practice is congruent to the hospital's mission. My presentation also discussed my responsibilities as a

leader and methods use to implement safety and quality initiatives. The Essentials stated that
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baccalaureate level nurses will employ principles of quality improvement, healthcare policy, and cost

effectiveness to assist in the development and initiation of effective plans for the microsystem and/or

systemwide practice improvements that will improve the quality of healthcare delivery. (AACN,

2008, p. 25) Within my presentation, I demonstrated mastery of this aspect by discussing the hospital's

utilization of quality improvement measures to guide practice and how the Joint Commission provides

standards that we adhere to. I also discussed my strategy as a leader on return of investment plan such

employee retention through promotion, higher pay, and recognition, budgeting strategies that increase

unit productivity and employee pay and satisfaction. My presentation also discussed my knowledge of

disaster preparedness-I described the hospital's utilization of the Hospital Incident Command System

and the expectation of ICU nurses and their roles and communication levels that must be acquired in

order to provide safe, quality patient care.

My completion of the Creative Implementation of Leadership project demonstrated I have met

the baccalaureate level requirements of the Essential II - Basic Organizational and

Systems Leadership for Quality Care and Patient Safety. My presentation has shared my ability to

utilize my leadership skills as a charge nurse to connect with staff members and communicate effective

within interprofessional teams to provide quality patient care and improve patient outcomes. My

leaderships skills as evident throughout the presentation focused on safety initiatives and performance

measures, and this is how I have mastered the Essential II.

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References

Essential IV Information Management and Application of Patient Care Technology. (2008). In The

Essentials of Baccalaureate Education for Professional Nursing Practice. Washington, D.C.:

American Association of Colleges of Nursing.