Assignment 2: Complementary Partners Imagine you are working with a partner to plan and host a workshop on leadership. There will be 100 people attending. Within this assignment you will be creating a document that discusses the main components of leadership and corporate culture. Write a three to five (3-5) page paper in which you: 1. Address a key leadership trait that can assist in managing conflict. 2. Discuss a tool or strategy a leader can adopt for improving communication within the organization. 3. Describe some methods for motivating employees and improving behaviors within the workplace. 4. Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements: a. This course requires use of APA format. The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are: · Describe the primary functions of management (planning, organizing, leading, controlling) and the associated skills, tools, and theoretical approaches that can be used to accomplish these functions. · Explain the principal theories of leadership and motivation, and describe the fundamental considerations in managing and motivating individual and group behavior. · Describe actions to improve communications, manage conflict, develop strong organizational culture, and improve the ethical behavior in organizations. · Use technology and information resources to research issues in management concepts. · Write clearly and concisely about management concepts using proper writing mechanics. Introduction to Information Technology—Role in Nursing and Healthcare In this module, we begin with an introduction to information technology and the management of information. The readings in this module identify the many areas in healthcare in which information technology is used. The fundamental of healthcare delivery is an important start to our course. Information technology is used in such healthcare facilities as ambulatory care, acute care, and subacute care. The different methods and means each healthcare facility uses and manages information technology is outlined in our readings. Healthcare providers such as direct care providers, clinical allied professionals, and other organizations (i.e., American Medical Association, American Nurses Association) all use technology to guide delivery of care, information, and manage these deliveries for various reasons (McGonigle & Mastrian, 2015). Introduction As an information-intensive profession, nursing continues to use information technology in healthcare. Nurses use information in applying knowledge to problems, and acting with wisdom forming the basis of the professional of nursing. The availability of this information in caring for patients continues to grow for nurses and allows for increased accessibility, accuracy, and timeliness in caring for patients. The information age is here for nursing and the U.S. healthcare system (McGonigle & Mastrian, 2015). In this module, an introduction to information technology (IT), .

1. Assignment 2: Complementary Partners
Imagine you are working with a partner to plan and host a
workshop on leadership. There will be 100 people attending.
Within this assignment you will be creating a document that
discusses the main components of leadership and corporate
culture.
Write a three to five (3-5) page paper in which you:
1. Address a key leadership trait that can assist in managing
conflict.
2. Discuss a tool or strategy a leader can adopt for improving
communication within the organization.
3. Describe some methods for motivating employees and
improving behaviors within the workplace.
4. Format your assignment according to the following
formatting requirements:
a. This course requires use of APA format.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this
assignment are:
· Describe the primary functions of management (planning,
organizing, leading, controlling) and the associated skills, tools,
and theoretical approaches that can be used to accomplish these
functions.
· Explain the principal theories of leadership and motivation,
and describe the fundamental considerations in managing and
motivating individual and group behavior.
· Describe actions to improve communications, manage conflict,
develop strong organizational culture, and improve the ethical
behavior in organizations.
· Use technology and information resources to research issues in
management concepts.
· Write clearly and concisely about management concepts using
proper writing mechanics.

2. Introduction to Information Technology—Role in Nursing and
Healthcare
In this module, we begin with an introduction to information
technology and the management of information. The readings in
this module identify the many areas in healthcare in which
information technology is used. The fundamental of healthcare
delivery is an important start to our course. Information
technology is used in such healthcare facilities as ambulatory
care, acute care, and subacute care. The different methods and
means each healthcare facility uses and manages information
technology is outlined in our readings. Healthcare providers
such as direct care providers, clinical allied professionals, and
other organizations (i.e., American Medical Association,
American Nurses Association) all use technology to guide
delivery of care, information, and manage these deliveries for
various reasons (McGonigle & Mastrian, 2015).
Introduction
As an information-intensive profession, nursing continues to
use information technology in healthcare. Nurses use
information in applying knowledge to problems, and acting with
wisdom forming the basis of the professional of nursing. The
availability of this information in caring for patients continues
to grow for nurses and allows for increased accessibility,
accuracy, and timeliness in caring for patients. The information
age is here for nursing and the U.S. healthcare system
(McGonigle & Mastrian, 2015). In this module, an introduction
to information technology (IT), its role in the professional of
nursing, the QSEN Institute and its role in patient safety and
quality, and the driving forces leading to its IT advancements in
healthcare will be discussed.
Quality and Safety Education for Nurses
What is “QSEN?” QSEN stands for Quality and Safety
Education for Nurses. According to McGonigle and Mastrian
(2015), as nursing science continues to advance there is a
concern that patient safety will be ignored or not improved.
Therefore, the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN)

3. Institute project was created to address these quality and safety
concerns and prepare future nurses with the knowledge, skills,
and attitudes (KSAs) needed to improve the quality and safety
of the healthcare systems. The goal of QSEN is to focus on
addressing gaps in nursing education to include informatics in
education that covers all the KSA levels and objectives are
outlined. Examples of these are described on pages 14 through
15 of our textbook (McGonigle & Mastrian, 2015).
Strategic Plan for Health Information Technology
The addition of information technology to the U.S. system has
taken strategic planning and involved several processes. These
processes include informing clinical practice with use of
electronic health records (EHR), interconnecting clinicians so
that they can exchange health information using advanced and
secure electronic communication, and personalizing care with
consumer-based health records and better information for
consumers (i.e., the patients). In addition, information
technology within the health care system has a goal of
improving public health through advanced biosurveillance
methods and streamlining the collection of data for quality
measurement and research (McGonigle & Mastrian, 2015).
Driving Forces
The driving forces leading the charge for information (IT) and
management in healthcare are at the national and state levels. In
addition, nursing is also influencing advancements in IT in
today’s healthcare. At the national level, some of the forces
include the creation of the President's Information Technology
Advisory Committee, or PITAC, groups to study standardizing
terminology, the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM’s) reports
emphasizing informatics as a core competency for all healthcare
professionals, and the TIGER Initiative. Additional driving
forces include patient safety. This is where QSEN falls into
play. Safety databases and barcoding for medical administration
are also initiatives. The costs: The Leapfrog Group is one group
that is trying to address cost within our healthcare system, and
examining the costs of healthcare for the U.S. healthcare

4. system.
State and local influences include legislation. Nursing forces
involve the National Center for Nursing Research program
goals, the National Informatics Agenda for Education and
Practice, the AACN’s list of core competencies, the American
Nurses Association, and the impending nursing shortage.
Finally, other influencing that are driving changes in healthcare
to advance IT include more of a focus on patient safety (i.e.,
safety databases, barcoding medication, QSEN), and cost
containment (i.e., the Leapfrog Group) (McGonigle & Mastrian,
2015).
Information Management Tool: Computers
A brief history of information technology and management
begins in the early 1950s and 1960s when computers were
introduced to manipulated numeric tasks for financial
information and transactions. During this time, a few computers
were introduced in patient care applications, but it was not until
the late 1960s that early healthcare information systems began.
These systems were the pioneers to the information systems we
have today. These include the following: problem-oriented
medical information systems (PROMIS), leading to the
problem- oriented medical record (POMR) and Health
Evaluation through Logical Processing (HELP) system. As
information technology and management progressed, the
process orientation was initially introduced, and then data
standards in terminology and protocols began to be added,
leading to the systems we have today (McGonigle & Mastrian,
2015).
Benefits of Information Technology to Healthcare in General
The benefits of information technology and management being
used in healthcare today is that previously buried data is now
usable, provides information about problems, and [has the]
ability to show patterns to a problem. There is proven
improvement to communication between interdisciplinary teams
in healthcare. The healthcare record of clients is easy stored and
quickly retrieved when needed. In addition, the added cost

5. savings and time related to recording of tasks performed is
demonstrated with use of information technology at the bedside
in healthcare (McGonigle & Mastrian, 2015).
As a profession of nursing, the increased use of information
technology and management has enhanced nursing practice,
encouraged nursing science development, improved
documentation of care and time spent with patients, and allowed
for the use of data for quality control and research that is
complete. The increased use of information technology by
nurses has led to the building of evidence-based knowledge for
the profession of nursing (McGonigle & Mastrian, 2015).
Standards
As information technology and management advances in our
healthcare system, the industry must set and define standards
for the exchange of this information. The information
exchanged is often valuable patient and medical data between
applications that communicate frequently with each other.
Therefore, standards assists to ensure data in one database can
be understood by another application or database. Vendors must
support and adhere to standards in order to facilitate what is
known as interoperability of diverse systems that are now seen
in today’s healthcare system (McGonigle & Mastrian, 2015).
Interoperability is the ability of two or more systems to pass
information and to use the exchanged information. There is
adherence to accepted interface and terminology standards.
Through the use of a third-party system (i.e., vendors) to
seamlessly integrate two systems, three types of interoperability
exist and are as follows:
· Technical: useful transmission and reception
· Semantic: automatic interpretation and action
without human intervention
· Process: workflow management (McGonigle &
Mastrian, 2015)
· Data Elements
· Databases or paper records should include standard data
elements to make it likely applications will have data similar to

6. other systems, improving interoperability and providing
common elements for system-wide reporting. A data set is a list
of data elements collected for a particular purpose. Examples
of this would be patient demographics, insurance information,
or an individual’s next of kin. A healthcare data set usually
represents the minimum list of data elements that must be
collected in order for the system to understand and process
information.
· Health Level Seven (HL7)
· Health Level Seven (HL7) is a nonprofit organization that first
developed and now maintains the leading messaging standard
used to exchange clinical and administrative data between
different healthcare computer systems (McGonigle & Mastrian,
2015). This is the most prominent interoperability standard used
in healthcare today. Facilities using various types of application
software from multiple vendors must use HL7 to maintain
interoperability between various applications. CCOW subset
helps maintain context while switching between applications
(McGonigle & Mastrian, 2015).
· References
· Institute of Medicine. (2003). Health professions education:
A bridge to quality. Washington, DC: National Academies
Press.
· McGonigle, D., & Mastrian, K. (2015). Nursing informatics
and the foundation of knowledge. (3rd ed.). Boston, MA: Jones
and Bartlett.
· The Networking and Information Technology Research and
Development (NITRD) Program 2012 Strategic Plan. (2012).
The Networking and Information Technology Research and
Development (NITRD) program. Retrieved from
https://www.nitrd.gov/Pubs/strategic_plans/2012_NITRD_Strate
gic_Plan.pdf