02 Feb Strategic Planning

Unit 6 Assignment 1

Strategic Planning Report

Professional Context

As a Master’s-level nurse leader, it is imperative for the viability of your care setting that you think in terms that are broad and look into the future. When developing provocative propositions of what your care setting could be and proposing goals that will help your setting improve, it is necessary to not just look to the immediate future, but also the future five or even ten years ahead. Those who depend on the care that your setting offers need to be helped right now, but they will also need to be helped next week, and years from now. By thoughtfully designing a strategic direction for a care setting, a nurse leader can ensure that people continue to receive the health care they need in a quality and safe way throughout their lives.

Scenario

The feedback that you received on your Care Setting Analysis has been positive. You have been asked to select one of the potential improvement projects that you noted in your analysis and create a full strategic plan that lays out a 5–10 year plan to achieve the quality and safety improvements for which you will design outcomes. This means you will build your Strategic Planning Report using either an appreciative inquiry approach (and addressing the design stage) or by building on your SWOT analysis and applying one of the strategic planning models that you have studied.

Instructions

The requester of the strategic plan has stated that you should be sure to address the following in your report. Note: The bullet points below correspond to grading criteria in the rubric. Be sure your work is, at minimum, addressing each of the bullets. You may want to read the Strategic Planning Report Scoring Guide to better understand how each grading criterion will be assessed. Additionally, the Guiding Questions: Strategic Planning Report document may be helpful in providing additional clarification about things to consider when creating your assignment. Both documents are linked in the Resources. The way you structure your plan and report should be based on whether you are approaching it from an appreciative inquiry viewpoint or using a specific strategic planning model. No matter which approach you choose, you will be able to address all of the criteria in your report.

Develop strategic goal statements and outcomes that support the achievement of specific quality and safety improvements for the organization, department, or community program for which you are planning.

Justify the relevance of your proposed strategic goals and outcomes in relation to the mission, values, and vision of your organization, department, or community program.

Propose how, in general, you will use relevant leadership and health care theories to help achieve the strategic goals and objectives you developed.

Analyze the degree to which your strategic goals and outcomes, and your approach to achieving them, address the use of technology and the ethical, cultural, and regulatory environments.

Evaluate the leadership qualities and skills that will be most important to successfully implementing and sustaining your strategic plan.

Communicate analyses clearly and in a way that demonstrates professionalism and respect for stakeholders and colleagues.

Integrate relevant sources to support assertions, correctly formatting citations and references using APA style.

Submission Requirements

Length of submission: 5–8 double-spaced, typed pages. Your report should be succinct yet substantive.

Number of references: Cite a minimum of 3–5 sources of scholarly or professional evidence to support your analysis.

APA formatting: Resources and citations are formatted according to current APA style.

Resources

Strategic Planning Report Scoring Guide.

Guiding Questions: Strategic Planning Report [DOC].

Appreciative Inquiry.

Generic Processes of Appreciative Inquiry.

Appreciative Inquiry: Core Concepts | Transcript.

APA Paper Template.

APA Paper Tutorial.