WGU DFA: Mind Map for Creating a Healthy, Joyful Workplace Reflection

WGU DFA: Mind Map for Creating a Healthy, Joyful Workplace Reflection

WGU DFA: Mind Map for Creating a Healthy, Joyful Workplace Reflection

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Module Overview 

Encouraging and providing a workplace that values respect and civility improves teamwork, joy, patient safety, and patient outcomes is a central component of the advanced professional nurse’s role. As an advanced professional nurse, you will work with others on your team to create such an environment. Creating a healthy and joyful work environment is both an individual and collective responsibility. As an advanced professional nurse, you must acknowledge the necessity and value of maintaining a healthy and joyful work environment. WGU DFA: Mind Map for Creating a Healthy, Joyful Workplace Reflection. To create this culture, you must embrace it, engage others in the journey, and authentically live it. The Joint Commission’s mandate to manage disruptive behavior necessitates organizations of the future take a strategic approach to creating and sustaining work environments that ensure patient safety, nurse recruitment and retention, and organizational financial viability—all of which are linked to a healthy and joyful work environment.

When reviewing the materials in this section, think innovatively about those topics and issues. Can you come up with creative and innovative activities, solutions, and strategies to address a unit need or issue that you have identified in your current or past workplace setting? Did anything in the readings strike you as a possible solution or strategy? Did you say, “That will never work, but if they did this… it would”? The solution to these issues and problems can be provided by all employees regardless of job title. Some of the most innovative ideas, solutions, and problem resolutions come from the bedside, as nurses are subject matter experts. How do you as a leader encourage teaming, shared governance, and innovation in your teams? How do you allow your team to develop the trust, psychological safety, and environment of innovation to thrive?

Facilitating teaming, mastering the art of courage, and becoming proactive and adaptive rather than reactive in the face of crises, problems, or trouble are true leadership skills. How will you support innovation? Will, you ever utter “That won’t work” or “We already tried that” as a leader? How do you handle it when your team says such things? Even the best workplaces and employees from time to time show a lack of empowerment, lack of ownership, compassion fatigue symptoms, incivility, and lack of respect for core values. Leaders at times struggle with the same issues.

In this module, you will analyze how hostility, bullying, burnout, and other behaviors of incivility impact the culture and climate in healthcare settings and negatively influence the health outcomes of individuals, populations, and systems. You will also reflect on your behaviors and assess how they may be contributing positively or negatively to the work environment.

Instructions:

Reflect on your ability to inspire and reinforce confidence in others. What inspirational characteristics do you embody and how do you plan to build upon your own sense of professionalism for improved empathic engagements?

Explore Your Understanding

Discuss the importance of being able to inspire and reinforce confidence in others as an advanced professional nurse. Integrate three techniques for inspiring and reinforcing confidence in others in your response. Use the evidence-based resources, included in the module resources, to support your answer.

Reflection on the Change Process

In this activity, you will apply the concepts and themes that are central to the process of change on an individual, department, or organizational level to reflect on a situation in which a positive response to change could have been encouraged by a more thorough assessment of the stage of change (individual), resistance to change (department or organizational), or collective response to change (systems). Think about an individual, departmental, or organizational change you have been involved in. For example, if you are reflecting on an individual planned change, what stage or stages of change were most applicable to your situation, and how might identifying this stage, or stages, have helped you to move through the change process in positive ways? If you are reflecting on a department or organizational change, what patterns of resistance to change were present in the personal and organizational environment, and how could these have been addressed to help move the team or organization toward the change more productively?

Assignment

Using the content from the learning resources in this module, describe how you might have conducted a more thorough assessment of the change process and the responses and resistance that occurred when you complete the Reflection on the Change Process reflection. Once you have described how a more thorough assessment could have been conducted, discuss how you might use the strategies identified in the module to support the individual or group in responding to the change in positive, productive ways. What strategy or strategies do you consider to be the most potentially helpful, and why? Support your answer with content from the learning resources in the module.

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