Assignment: The Impact of Intrinsic Motivation
Reflect for a moment on your nursing career. About what are you most passionate? When do you feel you are at your best? What brings you the greatest satisfaction in your work? Positive feelings in the workplace are usually fueled by intrinsic motivators: healthy relationships, meaningful purpose, competence, choice, and progress. As a nurse manager, it is helpful to recognize what motivates you to perform well in your own job. You should also take time to understand the motivations of employees. By speaking to staff about their interests and professional goals, nurse managers can build relationships and thus provide appropriate motivators.
For this Assignment, you examine your personal work experiences to determine which of the five intrinsic motivators are more influential in shaping your positive feelings about the workplace.
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Assignment: Application: Adoption of New Technology Systems
As a nurse, you can have a great impact on the success or failure of the adoption of EHRs. It is important for nurses to understand their role as change agents and the ways they can influence others when addressing the challenges of changing to a drastically different way of doing things.
Everett Rogers, a pioneer in the field of the diffusion of innovations, identified five qualities that determine individual attitudes towards adopting new technology (2003). He theorized that individuals are concerned with:
- Relative advantage: The individual adopting the new innovation must see how it will be an improvement over the old way of doing things.
- Compatibility with existing values and practices: The adopter must understand how the new innovation aligns with current practices.
- Simplicity: The adopter must believe he or she can easily master the new technology; the more difficul
Describe your personal career goals upon completion of the MSN Family Nurse Practitioner degree. Include (1) where you plan to practice, (2) the variety of services you wish to provide, and (3) the type of clients you hope to serve. Additionally, please describe how the program will assist you in achieving your career goals and explain how your professional goals will align with the outcomes of the FNP program.
Below are my responses to the above essay questions
(1) - I plan to practice in rural North Carolina
(2) - All family practice services, all procedures allowed in the FNP scope
(3) - Medically underserved, underinsured and non-insured patients
Child abuse and maltreatment is not limited to a particular age and can occur in the infant, toddler, preschool, and school-age years. Choose one of the four age groups (infant, toddler, preschool, or school age) and discuss the types of abuse that are most often seen in this age. Discuss warning signs and physical and emotional assessment findings the nurse may see that could indicate child abuse. Discuss cultural variations of health practices that can be misidentified as child abuse. Describe the reporting mechanism in your state and nurse responsibilities related to the reporting of suspected child abuse.
Describe the elements of a successful implementation plan. Discuss how you would insure these elements were communicated to the key stakeholder for the implementation plan.
What tensions do you think you might experience arising from the differing worldviews of administrators, health care providers, and patients? Base your response from the GCU introduction and the textbooks. Cite references from your reading to support your answer.