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Nurse Executive MSN

Extra Resources to Enhance your Courses

Items in this area are to provide you with extra practice resources. Most should just be explored. If there is an associated assignment you will be specifically instructed when to access it. 

Many are licensed and will require you to log in with your WIlmU credentials.

MSN 6612 - Class Resources

Articles on IDP

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Interprofessional Collaboration articles

Population Health

Websites and Apps-Resources for your toolbox

Items in this area are to provide you with extra practice resources. Most should just be explored. If there is an associated assignment you will be specifically instructed when to access it.

Throughout this course, you will be introduced to leading organizations in your profession. You should view these websites for membership information benefits and available resources. It is through professional involvement that you help shape the field for the discipline of the nurse executive.

Apps

App: AONE: Voice of Nursing Leadership - There is an app for both Voice (American Hospital Association (AHA) Magazine and Nurse Leader (Elsevier, Inc). Full access requires AONE membership. Nurse Leader, however, is accessible through the Wilmington Library/CINHAL database. 

 App: Are You Alright? - By searching nurse manager in the iPhone app store, you can locate this Hospital Time Management Game. There are in-app purchases you can make but the app is free. Triage the patients before they lose time. Search the Android app store for something similar. 

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

Key performance indicators are the measurement part of your balanced scorecard. They are effective because you can measure them at intervals and in the four areas instead of just the end-of-year fiscal accounting. This is an informative article about KPIs. Read before setting your measurements as they will affect your target dates as well. The terminology, unfortunately, is often used interchangeably for outcomes and benchmarks that KPIs represent. As a result, I have provided a glossary of terms in the event your outcomes or benchmarks are familiar to you under another name from nursing. If you do use one of these terms, other than outcomes or measurement to indicate progress, be sure to you are using the alternate term correctly. Otherwise, you can use outcome or benchmark for your measurement term. 

Websites and Apps

Items in this area are to provide you with extra practice resources. Most should just be explored. If there is an associated assignment you will be specifically instructed when to access it. 

ALSN is an international association dedicated to uniting academic and practice leaders to shape leadership science, education in nursing, and the practice of nursing leadership.

ALSN is a non-profit organization dedicated to collegial relationships and intellectual exchange among nurse educators, practice leaders, and nurse researchers whose focus is nursing administration and leadership. We believe these relationships expand the focus on leadership education and research that translates into excellence in the practice of nursing leadership. It used to be called CGEAN and was established in 1970 as the Council on Graduate Education for Administration in Nursing as a formal organization dedicated to collegial relationships and intellectual exchange among nurse educators whose focus was nursing administration at the graduate level.  

Apps

App: CertAlert + Medical License Manager - Designated areas for your specific discipline, this free app provides a place for recording keeping all your licenses, certifications, and continuing education.

App: Economics for Nurse Leaders Q & A Review - This free app promises to help you build your financial skills through quizzing.

Websites and Apps Week 3

Items in this area are to provide you with extra practice resources. Most should just be explored. If there is an associated assignment you will be specifically instructed when to access it. 

Did you know that in some states if you join your state nursing association you are also automatically a member of the ANA? For example, by joining the state nursing association in Delaware, Maryland, and New Jersey you get the full membership. However, in Pennsylvania, you can join the state nursing organization or the ANA or both (but it is separate fees for this). If you want to know how it works for your state, you can call 1-800-274-4262 and choose option 4. You can ask the person responding about membership for your state. As this information is subject to updates, you are safest to call to confirm membership entitlement for yourself. 


 

Apps

App: Skyscape Medical Library - This free app is a great resource for medical information at your fingertips. 

 App: iScrub - This free app is from the University of  Iowa. Allows you to record observations on hand-hygiene compliance for tracking outcomes.

Websites and Apps Week 4

Items in this area are to provide you with extra practice resources. Most should just be explored. If there is an associated assignment you will be specifically instructed when to access it. 

Apps

App: Touch Surgery Simulator - While as a nurse executive you won't be performing surgery, this free app allows you to practice surgery and increases your understanding of surgical procedures. 

App: Full Code Pro  - This free app from the American Heart Association provides a resource for recording the events of a code using your iPhone. 

Websites and Apps Week 5

Items in this area are to provide you with extra practice resources. Most should just be explored. If there is an associated assignment you will be specifically instructed when to access it.

Apps

App: Nurse Grid Calendar - This free app allows you to track your schedule, chat with colleagues about changing shifts, and sync with 3rd party calendars.

App: Nursing Dictionary - This free app allows you to search for medical and drug definitions. 

Websites and Apps Week 6

Items in this area are to provide you with extra practice resources. Most should just be explored. If there is an associated assignment you will be specifically instructed when to access it.

Apps

App: Lippincott Nursing Advisor - Choose individual user when you open this free app to explore diseases/conditions, signs and symptoms, diagnostic tests, and treatments.

App: Go To Meeting - This free app allows you to coordinate online meetings for conferencing with anyone  that downloads the app. Highly reliable. 

Websites and Apps Week 7

Items in this area are to provide you with extra practice resources. Most should just be explored. If there is an associated assignment you will be specifically instructed when to access it.

MSN 6613 - Class Resources

Week 1 - Websites and Resources

Nurse Fatigue

Acceptable and Unacceptable Interview Questions - Here are a couple of documents to assist you with the interview process as the interviewer.

New Hire Orientation: 

Week 2 - Websites and Resources

Week 3 - Websites and Resources

Impaired Nurse

Information to Assist You

These forms will help you think about the related expenses you may incur. Not all will apply and some items may not be included. Your event will be specific to your plan. 

Excel Help

Without question, knowing how to work in Excel spreadsheets is an essential skill for the nurse executive. Here are several documents to assist you to practice building a budget in Excel. These documents won't make you an expert but you owe it to yourself to practice using Excel if you don't already have this skill.

Article on Event Budget Planning

Week 4 - Websites and Resources

Labor Budget Guide for Projecting Budgetary Needs: 

Week 5 - Websites and Resources

View some of the Delaware Codes concerning employment below, or search for similar laws in your own state.

Week 7 - Websites and Resources

Week 7 - Nurses on Boards Coalition