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AACN Essential II and Creative Implementation

Frostburg State University

Tiebe Michael Green

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AACN Essential II and Creative Implementation of Leadership

According to Essential II: Basic Organizational and Systems Leadership for Quality Care

and Patient Safety Knowledge and skills in leadership, quality improvement, and patient safety

are necessary to provide high quality health care for the community. Providing a safer health care

means making the patient feel safe by receiving fully informed knowledgeable care. The health

care system can continue to grow to be able to provide care by highly skilled knowledgeable

professional leaders. One of the toughest skills in the leadership role is being a resource person

for almost everything. As a professional leader nurse one has to know that knowledge is power

and guidance for others. Patient safety knowledge is obtained when the patient is the center of

the care and all the clinicians work around the patient needs by keeping in mind the patients

safety as the number one priority to improve quality of their care. In order to continue to provide

care for the patients the leadership has to make sure that the system is operating in a safe manner

via quality improvement processes. Quality improvement is one of the most important aspects of

health care next patients therefore as a leader one has to be knowledgeable enough to provide

support, facilitate communication and increase patient outcome(Sullivan,2012).

As discussed in the creative implementation of leadership project the importance of

patient safety is supported by quality improvement. Quality improvement is the refinery of

systems. Each encounter with a patient has to be evaluated in order to meet guidelines and

criteria for different reasons from state to national level. Nurses are featured and acknowledged,

by the institute of Medicine (IOM), as the leaders and agents who will transform the health care

system ((Sullivan,2012). The IOM is one of the agencies that provide recommendations for the

health care system by providing guidance and being resource as essential II speaks in order to
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provide quality patient care it is important to have skilled knowledgeable leaders which can

increase patients satisfaction. As a leader one not only have to be knowledgeable but also have

to hold the skills that are required to lead a team. First as covered in the leadership project,

creative implementation the leader has to identify their own personal limits. By knowing their

own personal limits leaders would know when a situation arises and when to contact the next

person for assistance of any kind. Initially identifying the personality styles of a leader would

allow the leader to identify his/ her own weakness as well (Sullivan,2012). Being transparent as

a leader is very important as a lot of people depend on your words of promise. As a leader

knowing personal weaknesses and strengths will allow better communication and better

interaction with the team. Knowledgeable leaders know their characteristics which can be

influenced by who is within the surrounding. In the Leadership project personal characteristics

were noted as personal characteristics of a leader can impact how the team will present each day.

Planning is one of the roles for the leader to keep in mind as the patient census is rising.

The creative implementation of leadership project relates to Essential II AACN as both

discuss the leadership role as knowledgeable of personal leadership styles and personal

leadership characteristics. The AACN Essential II covers the basic organizational and systems

leadership for Quality Care and Patient Safety Knowledge and skills in leadership, and the

creative implementation also covered the quality improvement plan for an organization. Creative

implementation of leadership skills and achieve best work environment. When discussing

leadership ethical issues, legal considerations must be addressed in order for a leader to identify

and work through conflicting situation by staying professional and keeping patient safety

primary concern (Sullivan,2012). As the essential II and the creative implementation project both

describe the basic organizational and systems leadership focus should be quality care and patient
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safety. Both discuss the importance of knowledge and skills in leadership. The importance of

quality improvement has been portrayed in Essential II as it was described to impact the whole

health care. Process mapping and data collection are part of the organizations quality

improvement roles that a leadership team evaluates to make sure that there are minimal penalties.

As a leader identifying issues that have occurred will help the system to improve and move

towards affordable quality care in order to produce high quality patient care with effective team

members in order to achieve the best clinical outcomes (Sullivan,2012).

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Reference:

Sullivan, E.J. (2012). Effective leadership and management in nursing (8th ed.). Upper Saddle

River, NJ: Pearson.

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