EBP Assignment

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Specializes in Med-Surg/Ortho.

Hey everybody this is my first post. 

I need some assistance I have been racking my brain and I can't figure it out. I am working on my MSN degree in Management and Leadership. I am doing a paper about evidence-based practice on increasing the support floor nurses receive from team leaders and other members of management. Also about creating a positive work environment in order to prevent nurse burnout. 

I have to talk about 2 potential legal considerations. The first is about accountability for example if the team leader assists with your patient and something bad happens who is going to be accountable. I need a second legal consideration idea and I can't think of one. Please help! 

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Specializes in Infusion Nursing, Home Health Infusion.

Are  these two different issues you are going to address or are you going to integrate them in some fashion? It's critical to the success of your paper to narrow down the topic as this is too broad.Can you please state the assignment details so we can help.

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Specializes in Outpatient Cardiology, CVRU, Intermediate.

"...accountability for example if the team leader assists with your patient and something bad happens who is going to be accountable."

Does this mean that the team leader passes medications on your patient and administers a medication that should have been clarified? (They didn't receive full report on the patient and have the whole picture like you did?)

Regarding preventing nurse burnout; staffing is a HUGE contributor to nurse burnout. Higher ratios/higher acuities + less than appropriate number of staff (based on the unit staffing grid) = very high rates of burnout and dissatisfaction.

I'm not sure what exactly you are looking for, like the question/premise is too broad, if that makes sense? Does the assignment narrow anything down to more specific? I'm interested in hearing more about this!

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Specializes in orthopedic/trauma, Informatics, diabetes.

I am not sure how it works where you are. At my place of work, there are different classifications of work. If someone is clocked in as indirect time, they are not supposed to be doing patient care. 

We also have what's called "just culture" where no one person is responsible for an event, unless is it truly malicious. If you have 2 RNs working together, it isn't one person's "fault" if something goes south. 

Where I am, everyone in leadership/management that has anything to do on the floor is an RN. We all work under our own license. Can you give an example where there might be a legal consequence that you are thinking of?

For example, there was a discussion posted somewhere here about a new policy at their work where 2 people were needed to insert a Foley. If the pt ends up with a UTI, whose "fault" would it be? No one's. 

I would think there would be more legal considerations for NOT having leadership help. 

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Specializes in Med-Surg/Ortho.

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Here is a picture of the assignment. My topic proposal is increasing the amount of leadership support available and utilizing different leadership styles in order to create a positive work environment and elude nurse burnout. The theories I am using are Hersey and Blanchard's Situational Leadership Theory and the Path-Goal Theory of Leadership. 

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