Site Visit Prep
What is succession planning?
Identifying critical positions in the organization and developing action plans for individuals to assume those roles in the future.
How does CDH support and promote your own wellness?
What is Transformational Leadership?
Transformational leaders stimulate and inspire followers to achieve extraordinary outcomes and develop their own leadership capacity. At CDH we consider all nurses, regardless of level, to be transformational leaders!
How do you participate in shared decision making?
The person will give an example of how they participate whether it be participating in SDM, supporting decisions made in SDM or supporting peers in SDM.
How would you define the Magnet Model component of New Knowledge, Innovations and Improvements.
The conscious integration of evidence-based practice and research into clinical and operational practices to generate new knowledge, enhance patient care and the nursing care environment.
Are precepting and mentoring the same thing?
Precepting IS NOT mentoring. Mentoring occurs after a nurse is precepted/completed orientation to a unit.
Name a way the organization has improved workplace safety for nurses?
Describe some ways methods Sue is visible and accessible to nurses throughout the organization
What is Structural Empowerment?
Structures and processes developed by influential leaders provide an innovative environment in which professional practice flourishes and an organization’s mission, vision, and values help achieve desired outcomes. At CDH structural empowerment takes on many different shapes including teams and committees, such as Shared Governance which allows for shared decision making. It may look like our seminar and education structure supporting our nurses in professional development. Or, it may look like our budget process allowing nursing leadership to advocate for resources to improve patient care delivery.
How can you access resources like research articles, journals, practice standards?
What are the 5 components of the Magnet Model?
Transformational Leadership (TL)
Structural Empowerment (SE)
Exemplary Professional Practice (EP)
New Knowledge, Innovations and Improvements (NK)
Empirical Outcomes (EO)
What is Exemplary Professional Practice (EP) ?
Exemplary professional practice is illustrated by our Interprofessional Relationship Based Care (IRBC) Professional Practice Model (PPM). Nurses partner with patients, families, and interprofessional colleagues to positively impact care delivery and outcomes.
Name some of CDH’s transformational leaders and what makes them transformational?
How do nurses have a voice in CDH SDM?
How are you involved in technology, workflow improvements, or space design?
Just to name a few:
-Piloting new equipment or technology
-Focus groups for new policies, procedures, workflows
-Conducting the research for school or through a LEAD project
Name some differences between a preceptor and a mentor.
Preceptor:
-Formal assignment
-Intentional pairing of preceptor with learner
-Set amount of time
-Usually focus is competency/skill based
-Clearly defined learning objectives
-Relationship typically ends with orientation
Mentor:
-Formal or informal
-Intentional of unintentional pairing of mentor and mentee
-Timeframe mutually determined between mentor and mentee
-Focus on personal and professional growth
-Mutally developed objectives and outcomes
-Long term relationship
How do you provide peer feedback for professional development and why is it important?
Feedback is important to the continued growth of our peers.
Describe a situation where you acted as a leader.
This answer will be individual based.
Name some ways the organization supports continuous professional development
What research has been put into practice? How do you take research and apply it to your nursing practice?
Participant will be able to give examples of research being put into practice at the System, hospital or unit level.
What is the Nursing Strategic Roadmap?
The Nursing Strategic Roadmap is a plan of activities and initiatives designed to achieve goals in key areas aligned with Northwestern Medicine’s (NM) overarching long-term strategic goal of:
Delivering exceptional care and experience
Enhancing people, culture, and resources
Advancing and extending medical science and knowledge
Discuss a multidisciplinary committee or work group you have participated in. What outcomes resulted from that committee?
This answer will be individual-specific.
How does your department support the goals set in the CDH Nursing Strategic Roadmap (Plan)?
Provide Nursing Strategic Roadmap to staff who may not be aware.
Give an example of a decision made by a unit shared governance committee. How are staff held accountable?
The person will give an example of how they participate whether it be participating in SDM, supporting decisions made in SDM or supporting peers in SDM.
Have there been any policy or protocol changes based on research or EBP?
Participant will explain a policy or protocol changes based on research or EBP they have participated in or ways they could be asked to participate in the future.
(All of our practices should be based on evidence unless research is being conducted to gain evidence)