Professional mentorship has been identified as an important component of professional engagement, professional growth, and advancement. Consider your own professional journey. Has a mentor shaped your professional advancement? Share a mentor experience from your personal or professional life. What benefits did the experience offer you? How might you mentor other providers seeking to advance in your discipline? Solution : My nursing education journey has not been easy, but through persevera...

Find an organization related to your health care discipline and identify the mission and vision statement. Based on your experiences as a member of the health care team, explain how the values of the organization are or are not reflected in these statements. Solution: The organization related to my health care discipline is Susan G Komen. The organizational mission is “to save lives through ensuring satisfaction of their community’s needs, empowering others, providing quality care and inve...

Choose two issues or challenges that the leaders of today's health care organizations face. Select from among the following topics: Staff Shortage (Physicians, Nurses, Allied Health Providers, Ancillary Services) Reorganization in Response to Merger or Consolidation of Services Layoffs as a Result of Declining Revenues Influx of Registry, Part-Time, and Temporary Contract Staff Poor Performance Outcomes Leading to a Reduction in Medicare Reimbursement Dollars Poor Job Satisfa...

Consider your current work environment and your role as a member of the health care team. What can you do to encourage collaboration and demonstrate stewardship? Solution: In this era of technology advancements, team collaboration has become the most effective approach to problem resolution. However, creating and sustaining team collaboration can be highly challenging and thus the team needs to have effective strategies for collaboration enhancement. Being the nurses’ team leader in my cur...

In the assigned article, "Core Principles & Values of Effective Team-Based Health Care"(https://www.nationalahec.org/pdfs/VSRT-Team-Based-Care-Principles-Values.pdf )  the authors state that "the incorporation of multiple perspectives in health care offers the benefit of diverse knowledge and experience; however, in practice, shared responsibility without high-quality teamwork can be fraught with peril." Describe the perils that the authors say lead to uncoordinated care and unnecessary was...

Interview a person in a formal position of leadership within your organization (e.g., a supervisor, a manager, a director). Begin your interview with the following questions: What is your role as a health care team member? How do you define professionalism and how does professional responsibility influence your work? Do you consider yourself a steward of health care? Why or Why not? Is it important to you that leaders exercise professional advocacy and authenticity as well as power...

Interview a fellow peer in your class who works in a different health discipline than you. Begin your interview with the following questions: What is your role as a health care team member? How do you define professionalism and how does professional responsibility influence your work? Do you consider leaders in your organization stewards of health care? Why or Why not? Is it important to you that leaders exercise professional advocacy and authenticity as well as power and influence...

Social workers often have commitments to specific policies, laws, or funding of programs that are vital to the population they serve or an issue that they strongly support. Such commitments often lead social workers to become involved in political issues and the campaigns of specific candidates. Being a social worker, such campaign experiences, the outcomes of your efforts, and how effective you felt you were may affect your view of the political process and the likelihood of becoming involved i...

According to the NASW Code of Ethics section 6.04 (NASW, 2008), social workers are ethically bound to work for policies that support the healthy development of individuals, guarantee equal access to services, and promote social and economic justice. For this Discussion, review this week’s resources, including Working with Survivors of Sexual Abuse and Trauma: The Case of Rita and “The Johnson Family”. Consider what change you might make to the policies that affect the client in the case you c...

In social work, advocacy is very important to promote social change. Letters are often used as an effective tool to bring attention to social justice issues. This assignment requires you to choose a social justice issue that is important to you, gather current research and data on the subject matter, and write a one page professional and formal letter to your elected local, state, or national representative responsible for your social justice matter you have identified. Choose a social welfar...