SMSU Department Of Nursing

NURS 440

Module 2 Guide

Leadership in Organizations

Description of Module: This module will build on the knowledge gained in Module 1, gaining further knowledge about leadership in organizations.

Module Objectives:

1. Analyze common situational leadership styles

2. Compare the differences between leadership and management

3. Examine communication styles impactful in team environments

4. Dissect how current and future paradigm shifts in health care may affect the leadership skills needed by nurses in the 21st century

Resources provided for module:

Readings:

Bourgault, A. M., & Goforth, C. (2021). Embrace teamwork to create and maintain a

positive workplace culture.
Critical Care Nurse,
41(3), 8–10.

Cox, S., & Cohen, S. (2015). Essential skills for nurse managers. HCPro, a division of

BLR.

Read Introduction and Chapters 2 & 11

Elwell, S. & Elikofer, A. (2015). Defining leadership in a changing time.
Journal of

Trauma Nursing, 22(6), 312-314. doi:10.1097/JTN.0000000000000165 (available

in Module 2)

Hubbard, H. & Chicca, J. (2022). Navigating authority gradients.
American Nurse.

Krive, J. (2013). Building effective workforce management practices through shared governance and technology systems integration. 
Nursing Economic$, 
31(5), 231–249.

Smith-Papa (2015).
Effective nurse leadership: Transforming long-term care. HCPro, a

division of BLR.

Read Chapters 10 & 11

Van Ess, C. H., & Cukr, P. L. (2000). Communication styles that promote perceptions

of collaboration, quality, and nurse satisfaction.
Journal of Nursing Care Quality,
14(2), 63–74.

Weber, E., Ward, J., & Walsh, T. (2015). Nurse leader competencies: A toolkit for

success.
Nurse Management, 46 (12). 47-50.
doi:10.1097/01.NUMA.0000473505.23431.85 (available in Module 2)

Video:

Walt Disney—Tranformational Leadership  

Optional Video:

Transformational Nursing Leadership

Additional Resources:

American Psychological Association (2020).
Publication manual of the American

Psychological Association (7th ed.).

Orientation to Discussions Video and Outline (found in NURS 440 Module 2)

Navigate Brightspace Learning Environment – Engage in Discussions Video:

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Turnitin Orientation Video and Outline

YouTube – Understanding Turnitin’s Report

Assignments:
This is the second module in NURS 440. The assignment due dates are found in the NURS 440 calendar.

Module 2 – assignments:

1)
Utilize Readings/Resources provided above

2)
Discussion 1 (30 points)

View
Orientation to
Discussions Video provided in Module 2 Content area. This video will be very helpful in guiding the student through the following assignment, and all of their future discussion assignments.

View Navigate Brightspace Learning Environment – Engage in Discussions Video –

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This tutorial shows how to navigate the Discussions tool in NURS 440.

View Turnitin Orientation Video by Laurie Jo and Outline. This video will be helpful in guiding the student to use the Turnitin tool for this assignment, and future NURS 440 assignments. Turnitin is a tool to help prevent plagiarism in your writing projects. When you submit your writing assignment into Turnitin, you will be provided with feedback from Turnitin to help guide you with plagiarism prevention, and correctly citing references in your papers. This is tremendously helpful!

View the YouTube – Understanding Turnitin’s Report. This video will provide guidance in the use of Turnitin data.

Discussion: Prepare a response to
one of the topics listed below in a word document.

Place this word document (initial posting only) into the NURS 440 Discussion 1 Assignment Dropbox for Initial Posting found in Module 2 and utilize the Turn-it- in data that will be made available to you to prevent plagiarism. You may make changes to your initial posting in order to prevent plagiarism and resubmit it within this assignment dropbox as many times as you’d like. Please know that you are required to place the initial posting in the NURS 440 Discussion 1 Assignment Dropbox for Initial Posting noted above prior to placing it in the Discussion 1 area. You will receive 1 point for placing the item in the Discussion 1 Assignment Dropbox.

Once the Turn-it-in data has been reviewed and changes have been made to prevent plagiarism, please post the initial posting discussion response in the NURS 440 Discussion 1 area in Module 2. Be sure to follow the discussion rubric guidelines found at the bottom of this module guide.

Please note the due dates for postings on the NURS 440 calendar. It is important to know that as the faculty member, I am sensitive to our student’s busy schedules with family, work, and school. There are due dates for postings, created to allow productive discussions between students in this course. If students ever feel that meeting a due date creates a significant challenge for them, please let the faculty member know and we will discuss an alternative plan. If students do not contact the faculty member ahead of the due date to arrange alternative plans, the grading criteria for late submissions will be followed.

After the student completes their initial posting, and has responded to at least two other students, the student will self-grade their discussion using the NURS 440 Discussion 1 Self-Grading quiz, located within NURS 440 Module 2 content area. The student’s self-grade will be reviewed by the course instructor for accuracy, and adjusted as needed.

You may choose to respond to
one of the topic assignments below:

Topics 1 Assignment:

Address the following points in your initial posting. 

1) Again, introduce yourself to others in the course and label your discussion as Topic 1. Share any leadership and management experience you have. Share how you feel leadership and management are different.

2) Reflect upon and describe your leadership style. Share your critiques of the strengths and areas for improvement in your leadership style.

3) Share how you feel the future healthcare arena will affect the leadership skills needed by the nursing profession.

4) Describe a communication style that diminishes the risk associated with authority gradients among team members.

Topics 2 Assignment:

Address the following points in your initial posting. 

1) Again, introduce yourself to others in the course and label your discussion as Topic 2. Share any leadership and management experience you have. Share how you feel leadership and management are different.

2) Reflect on, and share, your strengths and areas for improvement when functioning as a team member. Share your feelings of the value of functioning as a team member.

3) If you created a plan for self-development as a team member, what would it look like?

4) Describe your strengths and areas you would like to improve related to your own Emotional Intelligence.

Discussion Evaluation Rubric

Please note: Discussions are not collaborative team assignments. Discussions are to be completed individually by each student.

Initial assigned discussion posts are due by 11:59 PM on Thursday of the assignment week and a response to at least two other people is due by 11:59 PM on the following Sunday. Any discussion posts after the 11:59 PM deadline on Sunday will be given zero credit. It is expected that students
actively participate in the discussion forums. Each student is expected to contribute one initial discussion posting for each assigned discussion question, read all student’s initial discussion posts, and contribute participation discussion responses to at least two other student’s posts. Please note that when there are two discussion topics, at least one of your replies must be to the topic you did not address in your original post.

Students self-grade their initial posts each week by the following Thursday at 11:59 pm using the assigned Discussion Self-Grading tool in the NURS 440 course.

The faculty member will review the self-grades for accuracy and reserves the right to adjust any grades.

Read the entire rubric below – this will guide your discussion grade.

30 points
are possible for each discussion and will be assigned as follows:

Rating Points

Mechanics of Posting

6

Complete sentences, well organized, grammatically correct and free of spelling errors (have used spell check to help ensure this)

4

Complete sentences, well organized, but some (2 or less per paragraph) grammar and/or spelling errors

2

Complete sentences, comprehensible, organization could be improved to present a more coherent argument or statement, has three or more grammar and/or spelling errors per paragraph

0

Poor sentence structure inadequate organization, several grammar and/or spelling errors; run-on sentences.

Initial discussion posting not completed by the Sunday night due date

Rating Points

Participation in Discussion

6

Makes postings on at least two different days (Thursday initial post due by 11:59PM, response to two peer postings are due by Sunday at 11:59PM). Responds to at least 2 peers’ postings.

4

Late first post and/or posts everything 1 day only. Responds to at least 2 peers’ postings

2

Responds to only 1 peer’s posting

0

Does not reply to or provides minimal comments and information to other participants.

Initial discussion posting and/or replies to peers not completed by the Sunday night due date

Rating Points

Content of Initial Posting

6

Initial posting thoroughly addresses all parts of the discussion, is clearly and concisely stated, and demonstrates that the content was appropriately reviewed, understood, and synthesized.
At least two references are presented for student’s initial posting.

Posting includes a question related to the topic to stimulate further discussion. Posts by 11:59PM Thursday.

4

Initial posting addresses most, but not all, of the discussion. Comments are reasonably organized and demonstrate adequate familiarity and analysis of the content and posts by 11:59PM Thursday

2

Initial posting shows limited knowledge and evaluation of the topic or limited to information that could be derived from prior posts
and/or late initial post

0

Message was unrelated to discussion

Initial discussion posting not completed by the Sunday night due date

Rating Points

Critical Thinking Evidenced by Replies to Peer’s Postings

6

In replies to peer’s postings, offered a critical analysis of an existing posted idea or introduced a different interpretation to an existing idea. Critical analysis must be substantial, including support by a valid resource/reference, and may include a story about a related experience, a probing question, or point(s).  Analysis must include citations and references from the resource/reference utilized. When there are two topics for a discussion assignment, at least one of your peer replies must be to the question you did not address in your initial post.  

4

Agreed or disagreed with existing discussion and provided limited justification/explanation

2

Agreed or disagreed with existing discussion but provided no justification/explanation or support.  Responds to two peers who responded to the same topic as your initial post.  

0

Provided no evidence of agreement or disagreement with existing discussion

Initial discussion posting and/or replies to peers not completed by the Sunday night due date

Rating Points

APA Format

6

Provides evidence-based, scholarly resources to support one’s position on the posed topic or idea; References for initial posting are correctly & accurately presented in APA format — uses in-text referencing within the posting

4

Provides evidence-based, scholarly resources, but uses incorrect APA Format for in-text referencing

2

Provides evidence-based, scholarly references and incorrect APA Format OR provides non-scholarly references with correct APA Format in-text

0

Provides no scholarly reference to support position/ideas in postings/discussion AND/OR uses no APA

format

Initial discussion posting not completed by the Sunday night due date

Rubric authored by Laura M. Schwarz, adapted by Nancyruth Leibold, further adapted by Laurie Johansen/Nancyruth Leibold, and again further adapted by Laurie Johansen

Checklist: A checklist has been created for you own personal use in each module in NURS 440. If you choose to use the checklist tool, it may provide you with a system to double check if you have everything done for each module.