Sample Essay Questions

This assignment will help you understand your personality type. Through this assignment, you will analyze how your specific personality type can enhance or hinder effective leadership in the health care environment.   Using the South University Online Library or the Internet, research about personality types.   Note: You can use the following link to access […]

Using the South University Online Library or the Internet, research about power sources for a nurse leader. Based on your understanding, answer the following questions: In your opinion, what are the three most important power sources for a nurse leader? Why? How are they best used in a leadership role? Describe. What sources of power […]

2-6 page paper; excluding any title page, references, and appendices on: Analyze patterns of social behavior illustrated during a face-to-face interaction in a healthcare situation to develop a trusting leadership relationship. Description: Discuss how social behaviors displayed during face to face interactions affect the practice of your medical occupational specialty on a daily basis. Your […]

Conduct a literature search to locate at least one article that addresses the role of the nurse practitioner in improving patient safety and quality of care delivered. Once you have done this, prepare a posting in which you: Describe the role of the NP in promoting quality and safety in the U.S. health care system. […]

Read the case study titled “GE Healthcare (A): Innovating for Emerging Markets” located in the Xan Edu case pack (Link Below) Write a three to four (3-4) page paper in which you: Determine two (2) emerging trends in the external environment that prompted General Electric (GE) Healthcare to develop a new strategy for the production […]

There are many articles and books written about the differences between managers and leaders. Leaders are visionary, influential in positive ways, value their teams, support their growth, and empower their staff. Leaders who are positive in their actions coach, delegate, and share recognition. Read the following scenarios and answer the questions given in each scenario. […]

Evidence-based medicine is defined as “the systematic application of the best available evidence to the evaluation of options and decisions in clinical practice, management, and policy-making” (Sultz & Young, 2011, p. 380). Evidence is the key to accountability, so if evidence for certain practices have been repeatedly demonstrated in literature to improve the health status […]

The past decade has seen an enormous surge in social marketing to convey various messages. Social marketing has also been established as an essential health communications tool to promote health initiatives. Social marketing should not be the only tool to communicate information to the general public, but to complement the existing practices in place. In […]

The development of health policies relies on evidence-based research to support a new policy or policy revision. There are many foundations and federal agencies that partner with community members, academia, or scientists to conduct a research project that will produce credible findings leading to short-term change or long-term progress. In Week 1, you analyzed the […]

Training under an individual physician remained the most common method of physician education when the first medical school was established in 1756 (Sultz & Young, 2011). Physicians in training were granted a certificate on completion of their apprenticeship. Medical education has changed substantially since that time and now there are over 815,000 licensed physicians in […]