up, review the study materials related to servant leadership. Using what you have learned about the tenets of servant leadership and traits and practices of successful leaders, create a 10-12 slide PowerPoint presentation with speaker notes. Add an additional slide for
references at the end of your presentation. Include the following in your presentation:
1 Each group member: Create a slide that summarizes your leadership style, traits, and practices.
2 Compare the personal leadership styles of your group members, including commonalities between group members’ strengths and weaknesses.
3 Explain why it is important for nursing professionals to be aware of their personal leadership style, traits, and practices.
4 Discuss what leadership traits and styles are necessary to be an effective communicator.
Explain the importance of leaders adapting communication approaches when working interprofessionally (across ancillary departments, vendors, community members).
5 Discuss how nursing professionals can benefit from integrating the tenets of servant leadership to empower and influence others as they lead.
6 Discuss how leaders who practice servant leadership and have a strong understanding of their personal leadership traits can successfully lead others and navigate the unique challenges that are part of nursing and health care. Provide two examples that illustrate your main ideas. You are required to cite to a minimum of three sources to complete this assignment. Sources
must be published within the last 5 years and appropriate for the assignment criteria and relevant to nursing practice.
Refer to the resource, “Creating Effective PowerPoint Presentations,” located in the Student
Success Center, for additional guidance on completing this assignment in the appropriate style.
While APA style is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and documentation of sources should be presented using APA formatting guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.
This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
RUBRIC:
Description:
Individual Group Slides. 4%
Slides summarizing leadership styles, traits, and practices of each group member are presented.
Comparison of Leadership Styles 4%
A concise and well-developed comparison of the personal leadership styles of group members is
presented. The commonalities and various strengths and weaknesses among the group
members are clear and insightful.
Importance of Awareness of Leadership Styles, Traits, and Practices for Nursing Professionals
8%
A well-supported explanation of why it is important for nursing professionals to be aware of their
personal leadership styles, traits, and practices is is presented. An understanding of the
importance of personal awareness in leadership professionals is evident.
Leadership Traits and Styles of Effective Communicators and Adapting Communication
Approaches When Working Interprofessionally 8%
A well-supported and thorough discussion on the leadership traits and styles of effective
communicators, and the importance of adapting communication approaches when working
interprofessionally, is presented.
Benefits of Integrating Tenets of Servant Leadership to Empower and Influence 8%
The benefits of integrating the tenets of servant leadership to empower and influence as nursing
leaders are thoroughly discussed. Strong support and rationale are provided.
The Understanding of Personal Leadership Traits and Servant Leadership in Leading and
Navigating Challenges in Nursing and Health Care. 8%
A well-supported discussion for how leaders who practice servant leadership and understand
personal leadership traits can lead and navigate challenges of nursing and health care is
presented.
Presentation of Content. 40%
The content is written clearly and concisely. Ideas universally progress and relate to each other.
The project includes motivating questions and advanced organizers. The project gives the
audience a clear sense of the main idea.
Layout. 5%
The layout is visually pleasing and contributes to the overall message with appropriate use of
headings, subheadings, and white space. Text is appropriate in length for the target audience
and to the point. The background and colors enhance the readability of the text.
Language Use and Audience Awareness (includes sentence construction, word choice, etc.) 5%
The writer uses a variety of sentence constructions, figures of speech, and word choice in
distinctive and creative ways that are appropriate to purpose, discipline, and scope.
Mechanics of Writing (includes spelling, punctuation, grammar, language use) 5%
Writer is clearly in control of standard, written academic English.
Documentation of Sources (citations, footnotes, references, bibliography, etc., as appropriate to
assignment and style) 5%
Sources are completely and correctly documented, as appropriate to assignment and style, and
format is free of error

Diagnosing Diseases and Prescribing Medications 
Directions
You are provided with symptoms of a certain disease, age of the person, and other details such as heart rate (HR), blood pressure(B/P) respiration (R), temperature (T), and so forth.
Requirements:
Using Evidence Based practice, answer the following questions thoroughly. Be sure to use APA formatting.

• What is the pertinent positive and negative findings in this patient assessment?
• Create a list of differentials with rationales for this patient?
• Discuss a medication regimen for this patient considering his financial status?
• What is the priority concern for this patient?
• How does this patient’s comorbid diagnosis impact his current symptoms?
• Discuss how the patient’s’ health beliefs, culture and behaviors impact the potential outcomes for the patient.

Diagnosing Diseases and Prescribing Medications 
Directions
You are provided with symptoms of a certain disease, age of the person, and other details such as heart rate (HR), blood pressure(B/P) respiration (R), temperature (T), and so forth.
Requirements:
Using Evidence Based practice, answer the following questions thoroughly. Be sure to use APA formatting.

• What is the pertinent positive and negative findings in this patient assessment?
• Create a list of differentials with rationales for this patient?
• Discuss a medication regimen for this patient considering his financial status?
• What is the priority concern for this patient?
• How does this patient’s comorbid diagnosis impact his current symptoms?
• Discuss how the patient’s’ health beliefs, culture and behaviors impact the potential outcomes for the patient.

Medication Errors Reduction. Reduction of Medication Errors 
This week, you will submit summaries of quantitative and qualitative studies. The purpose of this
assignment is to become familiar with published research, research designs, and methodologies.
For the assignment, you will select one quantitative research study and one qualitative study
related to the field of nursing and write a summary of each study. Each summary must be
accurate, succinct, and clear. These articles should be somewhat related to your PICOT
questions which is the following. please pick one but if it is too hard pick something close to
medication errors reduction
1) For nurse administering medication, (P) will implementing a “ Quiet zone” (I) as compared to
no intervention (C) reduce interruptions and distractions, decrease medication errors and
improve medication safety (O) during the 9am medication pass time (T)?.
2)For nurses who works in emergency department administering high-risk medications such as
insulin or heparin (P), will practicing double-checking (I) , as compared to giving those
medications without double-checking (C), reduced medication errors (O) while patients are in the
E.D (T)?”.
3)In patient over 65 years old (P), will practicing medication conciliation by asking the patient to
bring a bag of all their medication including herbal and over the counter drugs (I), as compared to
usual care by just asking questions ( C ) reduce medications errors (O) while patient are
hospitalized (T)?
Ensure the following questions are addressed in each summary:
1. What type of research is it (quantitative, qualitative, and design)?
2. What was the research question(s) or hypothesis?
3. What is the sample, the sample size, and sample attributes?
4. What was the setting of the study?
5. What were the researcher’s findings? (Identify one.)
You must submit the research study articles along with your summaries.
Each summary should be between 150–250 words.
Use current APA format to style your paper and to cite your sources.
For the Quantitative and Qualitative Abstract Assignment (due week 4) you should:
Select a topic in nursing or medicine
Select one original research article that is quantitative and one which is qualitative. NOTE: The
articles should not be a mixed-method, review article, a meta-analysis, a Meta-synthesis or a
systematic review.
Summarize the articles
Both abstracts should be combined into one single Word document.
For a manuscript to be considered an original research article, the following conditions need to
be met:
It should be written by the researchers who actually conducted the study.
It should include the hypothesis or research question, the purpose of the study, and the details of
the research methods.
The research findings should be reported.
These findings should be interpreted and possible implications discussed.
Your paper should include:
A title page
Body
Reference page listing your sources