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Week 3 Strategic Planning Assignment

Purpose

The purposes of this assignment are to: (a) identify and articulate key concepts of your strategic plan in a clear, succinct, and scholarly manner and (b) provide empirical, scholarly evidence to support your proposed plan.

Outcomes

CO 1: Evaluate and develop organizational strategic plans (SP) in relation to patient safety, economic and quality outcomes of healthcare organizations and systems. (PO 1)

CO 5: Synthesize and communicate research finding to promote quality improvement and safety in healthcare. (PO 1, 4)

Due Date:Sunday 11:59 p.m. MT at the end of Week 3

Total Points Possible: 200

Requirements:

1. This paper will be graded on quality of information, use of citations, use of Standard English grammar, sentence structure, and organization based on the required components.

2. Create this assignment using Microsoft (MS) Word, which is the required format for all Chamberlain documents. You can tell that the document is saved as a MS Word document because it will end in “.docx.”

3. Submit by 11:59 p.m. MT on Sunday of the week due. Any questions about this paper may be discussed in the weekly Q & A Discussion topic.

4. The length of the paper is to be no greater than three pages, excluding title page and reference page. Extra pages WILL NOT be read by the instructor and WILL NOT count toward your grade.

5. APA format (6th edition) is required in this assignment, including a title page and reference page. Use APA level 1 headings for the organizational structure of this assignment. Remember that the introduction does not carry a heading that labels it as a level heading in APA format. The first part of your paper is assumed to be the introduction. See APA manual for details. See Course Resources for: “Guidelines for Writing Professional Papers.” Use the suggested format and headings to organize your assignment.

1. Include introduction (do not label as a heading in APA format)

2. Key concepts of strategic plan

3. Recommendations

4. Supporting evidence

5. Conclusion

Preparing the paper

You are the nurse executive of a healthcare organization. To ensure the organization’s success, you must develop a strategic plan scenario to address the nursing shortage in an area of your choice. Please ensure no identifying names are used in your scenario.

1. Clear introduction of your strategic plan in the introduction paragraph; including a sentence that states the purpose of your paper.

2. Clearly articulate key concepts of your strategic plan, which include

o stating whom will be involved in the strategic-planning process and your rationale(s) for including each role; and

o using a SWOT analysis approach, discuss strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats you must consider internal and external to the organization. A table is acceptable if you prefer to use this format for your SWOT analysis information.

1. State your top two priorities, based on your SWOT analysis, to address the nursing shortage for your organization from your strategic plan.

2. Include of a minimum of three sources of scholarly, empirical evidence that support your strategic plan.

3. Provide concluding statements for your overall assignment content.

4. The paper will be three pages maximum, excluding title and reference page(s).

Week 5 Legal/Regulatory Issue Assignment

Purpose

The purposes of this assignment are to: (a) identify and articulate key concepts of your legal/regulatory issue in a clear, succinct, and scholarly manner, (b) discuss strategies to reduce costs and improve quality of health related to your issue, and (c) provide empirical, scholarly evidence to support your proposed plan.

Outcomes

CO 3: Appraise the effects of strategies to reduce costs and improve the quality and safety of healthcare. (PO 1, 4)

CO 4: Organize legal and regulatory components of healthcare strategies to promote safety and quality care. (PO 1, 4)

CO 5: Synthesize and communicate research finding to promote quality improvement and safety in healthcare. (PO 1, 4)

Due Date:Sunday 11:59 p.m. MT at the end of Week 5

(Note: This assignment will be submitted to Turnitin (TII) through the Chamberlain Dropbox.)

Total Points Possible: 200

Requirements:

1. This paper will be graded on quality of information, use of citations, use of Standard English grammar, sentence structure, and organization based on the required components.

2. Create this assignment using Microsoft (MS) Word, which is the required format for all Chamberlain documents. You can tell that the document is saved as a MS Word document because it will end in “.docx.”

3. Submit by 11:59 p.m. MT on Sunday of the week due. Any questions about this paper may be discussed in the weekly Q & A Discussion topic.

4. The length of the paper is to be no greater than three pages, excluding title page and reference page. Extra pages WILL NOT be read by the instructor and WILL NOT count toward your grade.

5. APA format (6th edition) is required in this assignment, including a title page and reference page. Use APA level 1 headings for the organizational structure of this assignment. Remember that the introduction does not carry a heading that labels it as a level heading in APA format. The first part of your paper is assumed to be the introduction. See APA manual for details. See Course Resources for: “Guidelines for Writing Professional Papers.” Use the suggested format and headings to organize your assignment.

1. Include introduction (do not label as a heading in APA format)

2. Steps related to legal/regulatory issue

3. State-board recovery program

4. Strategies

5. Supporting evidence

6. Conclusion

Preparing the paper

As the nurse executive of a healthcare organization, it was reported to you that one of your nurses may be chemically impaired and has allegedly been taking drugs from the unit. This nurse also had two recent medication errors in the past week. Discuss the steps you would take to validate this suspicion and how you would proceed after the allegation was confirmed to be true.

1. Clearly introduce your legal/regulatory issue in the introduction paragraph; including a sentence that states the purpose of your paper.

2. Clearly articulate the steps you would take as the nurse leader to investigate the allegation of your legal/regulatory issue as stated above and how to proceed when the allegation is confirmed.

3. Investigate and discuss if your state board of nursing offers some type of recovery program for chemically-impaired nurses (a strategy). If they do not, discuss a proposed recovery program you would like to have implemented for your state.

4. Clearly articulate your strategies to improve costs and improve quality of healthcare related to the legal/regulatory issue stated above.

5. Include of a minimum of three sources of scholarly, empirical evidence that supports your strategies to improve costs and quality of healthcare.

6. Provide concluding statements that should summarize your overall assignment content.

Week 7 Quality of Healthcare Assignment

Purpose

The purposes of this assignment are to: (a) identify and articulate a new nursing care delivery model to increase the economic and quality outcomes for your organization, (b) articulate how key concepts of the new nursing care delivery model will reduce costs and improve the quality of healthcare in the organization, and (c) provide empirical, scholarly evidence to support your ideas.

NOTE: You are to choose two patient safety goals to focus on for your organization. This will allow you, as the nurse executive, some flexibility in relating this deficiency to your new nursing care delivery model.

Outcomes

CO 1: Evaluate and develop organizational strategic plans (SP) in relation to patient safety, economic and quality outcomes of healthcare organizations and systems. (PO 1)

CO 3: Appraise the effects of strategies to reduce costs and improve the quality and safety of healthcare. (PO 1, 4)

CO 5: Synthesize and communicate research finding to promote quality improvement and safety in healthcare. (PO 1, 4)

Due Date:Sunday 11:59 p.m. MT at the end of Week 7

Total Points Possible: 225

Requirements:

1. This paper will be graded on quality of information, use of citations, use of Standard English grammar, sentence structure, and organization based on the required components.

2. Create this assignment using Microsoft (MS) Word, which is the required format for all Chamberlain documents. You can tell that the document is saved as a MS Word document because it will end in “.docx.”

3. Submit by 11:59 p.m. MT on Sunday of the week due. Any questions about this paper may be discussed in the weekly Q & A Discussion topic.

4. The length of the paper is to be no greater than three pages, excluding title page and reference page. Extra pages WILL NOT be read by the instructor and WILL NOT count toward your grade.

NOTE: You have the option of verbally presenting the content of your paper and uploading/sending the video to your instructor and posting it in the designated Week 8 threaded discussion.

1. APA format (6th edition) is required in this assignment, including a title page and reference page. Use APA level 1 headings for the organizational structure of this assignment. Remember that the introduction does not carry a heading that labels it as a level heading in APA format. The first part of your paper is assumed to be the introduction. See APA manual for details. See resource under Course Resources, “Guidelines for Writing Professional Papers.” Use the suggested format and headings to organize your assignment.

1. Include introduction (do not label as a heading in APA format)

2. New Nursing Care Delivery Model and Patient Safety Goals

3. Key Concepts

4. Supporting Evidence

5. Conclusion

Preparing the paper

As the nurse executive of your organization, you must reexamine your current nursing care delivery model (total-patient-care) and propose a new model to reduce costs and improve the quality of healthcare for the organization. Your staffing budget will remain fixed next year, and your recent visit by The Joint Commission revealed some patient safety goal challenges. You are considering switching from a total-patient-care delivery model to a new patient care delivery model.

1. Clearly introduce your quality of healthcare assignment in the introduction paragraph. Include a sentence that states the purpose of your assignment.

2. Clearly identify and articulate a new nursing care delivery model to increase the economic and quality outcomes for your organization. Discuss at least two patient safety goals to focus on for your organization.

3. Clearly articulate how the key concepts of the new nursing care delivery model may reduce costs and improve the quality of healthcare in the organization.

4. Include a minimum of three sources of scholarly, empirical evidence to support the nursing care delivery model to be communicated.

5. Provide concluding statements that should summarize your overall assignment content.

6. The paper will be three pages maximum, excluding title and reference page(s).

Note: If you go over the paper length, the information will not be graded by the instructor.

NOTE: You have the option of verbally presenting the content of your paper and uploading/sending the video to your instructor and posting it in the designated Week 8 threaded discussion. For the video option, you must still include a written introduction and conclusion, title page and reference list, per APA.