Assignment task: Really stuck on what types of topics would be considered "systems thinking" in the healthcare setting, could you provide me with some examples?
Listed below is the assignment prompt:
Healthcare decisions may often require MSN nurse professionals to go beyond clinical outcomes and look at the bigger picture. You will need to ensure that the clinical decisions taken by you, or your team, can be executed efficiently not only by the nursing team but also by the other teams involved. Systems thinking need you to consider interdisciplinary factors and use collaborative thinking.
For this activity, reflect on a situation at your workplace where a clinical decision followed the systems thinking approach or did not follow this approach and evaluate how this affected the outcome.
Prompt:
Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:
1. Summary of the Situation: Summarize a situation and clinical decision at your current or past workplace without using personally identifiable information and explain whether you think systems thinking was considered in this situation.
2. Impact of the Decision: Describe the impact the decision had on the process and outcome in the situation. Include the following details in your response:
- Identify the impact of the decision on the process and outcome.
- List the interdisciplinary teams that were affected by the decision.
- Explain how each team was affected by the decision.
3. Use of Systems Thinking: Explain the role of systems thinking in the decision making and its observed or potential impact on the process and outcome. Consider the following details in your response:
a. If systems thinking was used to make the decision, explain how it helped improve the process or outcome. How did this benefit the clients or your nursing team?
b. If systems thinking was not used to make the decision, explain how it impacted the process or outcome.
- Explain how using systems thinking when making the decision could have led to better outcomes for the clients and your nursing team.
- Describe if any changes related to the decision were made later to improve the situation.