MINIMUM 150 WORD AND 2 CITATION EACH DQ
DQ2A
Within interprofessional health care teams, unconscious bias can exist in varying degrees. According to your textbook, what strategies can you put into place to identify cultural diversity and to create interprofessional team norms?
DQ2B
Compare the following three leadership styles. Select the one that best fits your personality and professional style. Offer an example of how this leadership style will help you to be a successful leader in health care.
Authoritarian Leader * Democratic Leader * Laissez-Faire Leader
DQ3A
As a health care leader, you may find yourself at times in conflict with your colleagues, as well as all levels of interprofessional teams. According to the textbook, it is essential for health care leaders to be proactive and communicate expectations clearly. What can you put into place proactively to diminish conflict and increase communication? How does this help the interprofessional team focus on providing excellent performance?
DQ3B
Describe one strategy that you as a leader in health care can use to increase the likelihood of clear and complete organizational communication. How will you use this strategy to be effective? Provide an example of how you can incorporate this strategy.
DQ4A
Technology plays an important role in health care. Informatics and telemedicine are just two ways that technology is changing the health care delivery system. Health care has made incredible progress towards creating and expanding the use of informatics. What is the role of the health care leader in implementing and integrating informatics into the organizational culture?
DQ4B
Refer to Chapter 9 of the textbook and identify one potential problem in health care. Use the five-stage model for approaching problem solving by Wheatley. What is the aspect of this situation that you think is most important? What new learning did you experience? Which things get in the way of solutions? How will we work together?
DQ5A
The Agency for Health Care Research and Quality (AHRQ) supports research that improves the quality of health care and performance improvement. Select and describe one of the data sources available from AHRQ. Include in your discussion the role of the health care leader in promoting safe, effective evidence-based patient care.
DQ5B
In your readings this week, focus on the discussion of leadership in health care as a relational act that really is acting on our own sense of identity, self-esteem, and abilities. Considering these characteristics of yourself, how can you as a leader use these traits to improve and engage in communications within your interprofessional teams?
