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Healthcare decisions often require MSN nurse professionals to go beyond clinical outcomes and look at the bigger picture. You will need to ensure that the clinical decisions you or your team make can be executed efficientlyby the nursing team and the other teams involved. Systems thinking needs you to consider interdisciplinary factors and use collaborative thinking.

For your initial discussion post, examine a situation at your workplace where systems thinking was implemented effectively. Identify how that benefited the clients and your nursing team. You may also choose a situation where a clinical decision was made without effectively implementing systems thinking, thereby affecting the corresponding process or outcome. Analyze how the decision affected your team and others outside the team. Provide specific evidence from at least one scholarly source to support your claims. Address the following prompts in your initial post:

• Summarize a situation and clinical decision at your workplace now or in the past without using personally identifiable information. Explain whether you think systems thinking was or was not considered in this situation.
• Describe the impact the decision had on the process and outcome of the situation. In your response, include the following details:
  • Identify the impact of the decision on the process and outcome.
  • List the interdisciplinary teams that were affected by the decision.
  • Explain how each team was affected by the decision.
• Explain the role of systems thinking in making the decision and its observed or potential impact on the process and outcome. In your response, consider the following details:
  • If systems thinking was used to make the decision, explain how it helped improve the process or outcome. How did this benefit the clients or your nursing team? Were the teams asked to provide feedback after the decision?
  • If systems thinking was not used to make the decision, explain how it impacted the process or outcome.
    1. Explain how using systems thinking when making the decision could have led to better outcomes for the clients and your nursing team.
    2. Describe if any changes related to the decision were made later to improve the situation.

In your response to peers, address the following items:

• Do you agree with your peers evaluation of the impact of the decision on the process or outcome? Was their assessment of the use of systems thinking in alignment with the presented scenario?
• What suggestions do you have for a follow-up assessment of the process or evaluation of the outcomes? Support your answer with a source and properly cite and reference the source.

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