Quality Improvements Initiatives | Newly Graduated Nurse

Running head: QUALITY IMPROVEMENT INITIATIVES
QUALITY IMPROVEMENT INITIATIVES
Name of the student:
Name of the university:
Author note:

QUALITY IMPROVEMENT INITIATIVES
1
Introduction:
The purpose of the essay is to provide critical analysis of the challenges experienced by newly
graduate nurse while leading a team for quality improvement in the clinical setting. In the
clinical setting, social media brings a new dimension to the health care services for the patients,
health care providers and support network. As discussed by Tuckett and Turner (2016), social
media is an effective tool that provides an opportunity to a health care professional to share
information, promote healthy behaviours and to engage with the public along with interact with
patients. However, while social media provided an increased opportunity to the health
professionals for connecting with the patients, inappropriate use of social media can result in
breaching the confidentiality of the patients and breaching professional boundaries (Rolls et al.,
2016). The case scenario involves leading a small team to implement a quality improvement
activity associated with “small team to implement a simple quality improvement activity” as a
new graduate registered nurse. This essay aims to illustrate the importance of the document in
patient safety. The essay will cover the role of newly graduate nurse leading team to work on the
project. This essay will incorporate challenges associated with the leading team and challenges
as a newly graduate nurse. Lastly this essay will provide strategies to mitigating the issues
associated with leading team.
Discussion:
The document “Social media: How to meet your obligations under the National Law”
Provide registered health professionals to understand as well as meet their obligations while
using social media. Partridge et al. (2016), suggested that inappropriate use of social media
resulted in a range of ethical issues and harms to the patients and professionally such as

QUALITY IMPROVEMENT INITIATIVES
2
breaching of confidentiality, defamation of the employers and violation of the professional
boundaries. The breaching confidentiality due to use to inappropriate use of social media may
lead to the cybercrimes such as cyberbully, psychological distress and social exclusion. In this
context, this documentation is effective in providing registered nurse with a guide of using social
media without violating confidentiality, autonomy and provide the right information in a timely
manner. The guidance suggested that a registered nurse can meet obligations as a professional
while using social media by complying with the obligations as defined in code of conduct,
confidentiality and privacy obligations, communicating professionally with patients, employees
and co-workers, not representing misleading claims and maintaining professional boundaries
( Nursingmidwiferyboard.gov.au, 2019). Therefore, by using this document as guidance newly
graduate registered nurses can share information with the employers, public and co-workers and
reduce distress according to NMBA standard 3 (maintains the capability of practice)
( Nursingmidwiferyboard.gov.au, 2019).
Spooner, Chaboyer and Aitken (2018), suggested that leading a team is challenging job
as proper guidance to the team member can facilitate the achievement of desired goal.
Therefore, leading a team also include designing as well as implementing a timeline the team
will use to reach the goal and ensuring that each member contributes equally to reach the goals.
Taking a deep insight into the case scenario, the role of newly graduate is to lead a small team
to newly graduate nurse I to design an infrastructure within the practice that will be followed by
team members to reach the goal of a quality improvement initiative and ensure there should be
no conflict between team members regarding the quality management. (Hewitt, Priddis &
Dahlen, 2019). Moreover, the role of newly graduate nurse is to assess the skills and knowledge