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AMP 450V Topic 1 Discussion Question 1
Explore the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator information located in chapter four of the textbook. Using the “Reflection: 16 MBTI Types at a Glance,” determine your personality and preferred behavioral leadership style. Present your discoveries and explain how your identified leadership style allows you to be a steward at the team level, and how it ensures individuals within the organization interact well with each other.
AMP 450V Topic 1 Discussion Question 2
One model of leadership being adopted by many organizations, disciplines, and vocations is servant leadership. Describe this model and discuss two reasons why these groups are adopting this model.
AMP 450V Topic 2 Discussion Question 1
Within interprofessional healthcare 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?
AMP 450V Topic 2 Discussion Question 2
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
AMP 450V Topic 3 Discussion Question 1
As a healthcare 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 healthcare 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?
AMP 450V Topic 3 Discussion Question 2
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.
AMP_450V Topic 4 Discussion Question 1
Technology plays an important role in health care. Informatics and telemedicine are just two ways that technology is changing the healthcare delivery system. Healthcare has made incredible progress toward creating and expanding the use of informatics. What is the role of the healthcare leader in implementing and integrating informatics into the organizational culture?
AMP_450V Topic 4 Discussion Question 2
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?
AMP450V Topic 5 Discussion Question 1
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 healthcare leader in promoting safe, effective evidence-based patient care.
AMP450V Topic 5 Discussion Question 2
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?
