Coursework Assignment

Coursework Assignment

Prompt 1 (Question 2)

The work of a healthcare provider is not just about providing quality care services in healthcare facilities. Sometimes it is essential to carry out some projects that can help solve some health-related problems affecting a specific group of people in the community. Conducting projects to help individuals change their bad behaviors plays a significant role in improving their health outcomes. In the future, I would like to work on a project that finds out some health risk behaviors among teenagers in the local high schools. This is because the cases of health risk behaviors such as drug abuse and unprotected sexual behaviors have increased in our societies (Johns et al., 2019). Therefore, I will be able to find out various determinants of their behaviors before addressing the issue.

For that project to be effective, I will be required to have some members who will help me to accomplish the project. Therefore, I will use social media platforms such as the WhatsApp group, where I will address the members about the steps that will be followed to accomplish the project. I will also introduce some rules that will guide those who will be leaving the group to maintain the confidentiality of our work. A project manager’s responsibility is to ensure the confidentiality of every piece of information collected (Ballesteros-Sánchez et al., 2019). Some of the principles that I will apply when forming the group are commitment and accountability. I will be committed to every activity and remain accountable for every issue that will arise during group formation.

Prompt 2 (Question 2)

Every successful organization has its own culture shared at all levels of management. It is important to understand an organization’s culture before attending an interview for some reasons (Mergel et al., 2019). Understanding an organizational culture helps a person understand what is required to be accomplished by top management. Second, understanding organizational culture helps a person reinforce the core values, resulting in recognition and reward. Lastly, understanding organizational culture helps individuals behave when working within the organization.

Understanding organizational culture will play a significant role in changing my approach to the interview. It is important for every person seeking a job to understand the organizational culture before attending an interview (Lubis & Hanum, 2020). First, learning the culture will help me understand if the organization fits me in terms of work environment, colleagues, and responsibilities. Every person enjoys working in a place they fit with other coworkers and are encouraged to be more productive. Second, understanding the culture will help me convey my capabilities to the management because I will know what they expect. 

Prompt 3

As a healthcare provider, it is important always to expect angry patients. In this case, there are three strategies that I can implement to handle the situation of a patient who refuses to surrender a knife. The first strategy is calling the code-green team for a show of force. A code-green team is an emergency response team whose primary role is to provide lifesaving services (Jeong & Lee, 2020). Therefore, they help in obtaining the knife from the patient. The second strategy will involve pushing the panic button to alert the security guards who will assist me in obtaining the knife from the patients. This is because the security guards are trained to solve such cases professionally without causing injuries. The last strategy will involve talking to the patient so that he can give up the knife. This is because some patients become angry when in a bad health condition, and it is the responsibility of a healthcare provider to show sympathy so that the patient can cool down (Wu, 2021).

References

Ballesteros-Sánchez, L., Ortiz-Marcos, I., & Rodríguez-Rivero, R. (2019). The impact of executive coaching on project managers’ personal competencies. Project Management Journal, 50(3), 306-321. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/8756972819832191

Jeong, S., & Lee, O. (2020). Correlations between emergency code awareness and disaster nursing competencies among clinical nurses: A cross‐sectional study. Journal of nursing management, 28(6), 1326-1334. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jonm.13086

Johns, M. M., Lowry, R., Andrzejewski, J., Barrios, L. C., Demissie, Z., McManus, T., & Underwood, J. M. (2019). Transgender identity and experiences of violence victimization, substance use, suicide risk, and sexual risk behaviors among high school students—19 states and large urban school districts, 2017. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 68(3), 67. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6348759/

Lubis, F. R., & Hanum, F. (2020, December). Organizational culture. In 2nd Yogyakarta international conference on educational management/administration and pedagogy (YICEMAP 2019). Atlantis Press (pp. 88-91). https://www.atlantis-press.com/article/125949878.pdf

Mergel, I., Edelmann, N., & Haug, N. (2019). Defining digital transformation: Results from expert interviews. Government information quarterly, 36(4), 101385. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0740624X18304131

Wu, Y. (2021). Empathy in nurse-patient interaction: a conversation analysis. BMC nursing, 20(1), 1-6. https://bmcnurs.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12912-021-00535-0