Introduction

NURS FPX 5014 Assessment 4 Effective leadership and interprofessional collaboration are essential in solving complex healthcare problems. This evaluation examines how nurse leaders can apply ethical leadership and group collaboration to solve a clinical issue—here, excessive rates of medication errors in a hospital unit. The paper synthesizes leadership theories, conflict resolution models, and team-based strategies to facilitate change and enhance patient outcomes.

Clinical Problem: High Rate of Medication Errors

Medication errors pose an urgent problem in the healthcare environment, resulting in patient injury, increased hospital length of stay, and healthcare costs. The Institute of Medicine reports that medication errors result in more than 1.5 million injuries each year in the U.S.

Root Causes Identified:

  • Bad team communication
  • Disabled workflakes and distractions
  • Electronic Health Records (EHR) Lack of continuous training in systems
  • Bad team morale and resolution

Application of Leadership Theories

1. Transformational Leadership

Transformative managers inspire employees to encourage innovation, encourage innovation and create a security culture. In Practice:
  • Conduct team huddles to emphasize safety priorities
  • Identify and reward nurses who use proper medication administration procedures
  • Mentor new nurses on best practices

2. Servant Leadership

This model focuses on prioritizing the team and patient needs first in order to empower others and create trust. In Practice:
  • Listen actively to the concerns of the staff
  • Change based on frontline input
  • Support professional development opportunities

Strategies for Effective Collaboration

Interdisciplinary Team Formation

Create a Drug Safety Task Force:
  • RNs and LPNs
  • Pharmacists
  • IT and EHR specialists
  • Nurse educators
  • Clinical nurse leaders

Team Communication Tools

  • Use sbar (status, background, evaluation, recommendation) to increase clarity
  • Adopt daily security buttons
  • Use safe messages in EHR

Conflict Resolution Using the Thomas-Kilmann Model

Staff can be addressed by conflict (eg errors for errors):
  • Determination of favorite conflict styles (competition, adjustment, avoid, cooperation, compromise)
  • Encouraging a collaborative style for shared problem-solving
  • Host arbitration collections as required
? Read more about the SBAR Tool

Evidence-Based Practices to Reduce Medication Errors

  • Double-check high-risk medications
  • Adopt bar-code scanning systems
  • Enforce “no interruption” zones during med passes
  • Use medication reconciliation with each transition of care
Evidence: Research indicates that bar-code administration decreases medication error rates by as much as 41% (Poon et al., 2010).

How To: Implement a Collaborative Leadership Approach

  1. Analyze the problem using feedback from data and staff
  2. Install a multidisciplinary working group with well -defined purposes
  3. Educate employees in management, communication and tiring resolutions
  4. Track results such as error frequency and satisfaction for employees
  5. Improve strategies based on results and response

FAQs

❓ How to reduce transformative management drug errors? By motivating employees and promoting a safety culture, transformational leaders induce caution and best practice. ❓ What is the most effective way to resolve the conflict between a nurse? Employment shoe operations facilitate the model as Thomas-Kilman and restore the dynamics of the team. ❓ Why tie interdisciplinary teams? Separate lenses facilitate recognition of systemic problems instead of separate errors and increase the quality of care.

Conclusion

Collaboration and management to solve health problems such as drug errors are basic. By integrating transformative and service management with structured collaboration and evidence -based exercises, nursing managers can facilitate safety, teamwork and culture for continuous improvement.

References

  • American Nurses Association. (2015). Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice (3rd ed.). ANA.
  • Institute of Medicine. (2007). Preventing Medication Errors. National Academies Press.
  • Poon, E. G., et al. (2010). Effect of Bar-Code Technology on the Safety of Medication Administration. New England Journal of Medicine, 362(18), 1698–1707.
  • Thomas, K. W., & Kilmann, R. H. (1974). Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument. CPP, Inc.
  • Institute for Healthcare Improvement. (2024). SBAR Technique. https://www.ihi.org