strategic plan to improve health care quality and safety
Order ID 53563633773 Type Essay Writer Level Masters Style APA Sources/References 4 Perfect Number of Pages to Order 5-10 Pages Description/Paper Instructions
Paper is 2-part.
Part 1 (4 pages)
You have been asked to conduct an analysis of your care setting that will result in two potential pathways toward a strategic plan to improve health care quality and safety in your organization, department, team, community project, or other care setting. To accomplish this, you will take two approaches to the analysis: Complete the discovery and dream phases of an appreciative inquiry (AI) project.
- Conduct a strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) analysis.
To help ensure that your analysis is well-received, the requester has suggested that you: Present your analysis results in four parts:
Part 1: Appreciative Inquiry Discovery and Dream.
Part 2: SWOT Analysis.
Part 3: Comparison of Approaches.
Part 4: Analysis of Relevant Leadership Characteristics and Skills.
The second part (5 pages min)
The feedback you received on your care setting environmental analysis has been positive. Consequently, You have been asked to select one of the potential improvement projects you noted in your analysis and create a full, 5–10-year strategic plan to achieve the desired quality and safety improvement outcomes. You will develop your strategic plan, using either an AI approach (addressing the design stage), or by building on your SWOT analysis and applying a strategic planning model of your choice.
How you structure your plan should be based on whether you are taking an appreciative inquiry approach or using a specific strategic planning model.
Part 1
Analysis Requirements
Note: The requirements outlined below correspond to the grading criteria in the scoring guide, so at a minimum, be sure to address each point. In addition, you are encouraged to review the performance level descriptions for each criterion to see how your work will be assessed.
Writing, Supporting Evidence, and APA Style
- Communicate professionally when conducting interviews and collecting data.
- Write clearly, with professionalism and respect for stakeholders and colleagues.
- Integrate relevant sources of evidence to support your assertions.
- Cite at least 3–5 sources of scholarly or professional evidence.
- Include relevant interview information.
- Format your document using APA style. Use the APA Style Paper Tutorial [DOCX]. Be sure to include:
- A title page and reference page. An abstract is not required.
- A running head on all pages.
- Appropriate section headings.
- Properly formatted citations and references.
- Proofread your writing to minimize errors that could distract readers and make it more difficult to focus on the substance of your analysis.
Part 1: Appreciative Inquiry Discovery and Dream
- Synthesize stories and evidence about times when a care setting performed at its best with regard to quality and safety goals.
- Collect stories from your care setting. You may collect stories through interviews or conversations with colleagues or provide your own.
- Explain how your stories are related to quality and safety goals.
- Describe the evidence you have that substantiates your stories.
- Identify the positive themes reflected in your stories.
- Describe other evidence (for example: data, awards, accreditations) that validates your care setting’s positive core.
- Propose positive, yet attainable, quality and safety improvement goals for your care setting.
- Explain how accomplishing these goals will lead to ethical and culturally-sensitive improvements in quality and safety.
- Explain how your proposed goals align with your care setting’s mission, vision, and values.
Part 2: SWOT Analysis
- Conduct a SWOT analysis of your care setting, with respect to quality and safety goals.
- Provide a narrative description of your analysis.
- Identify the assessment tool you used as the basis of your analysis.
- Describe your key findings and their relationships to quality and safety goals.
- Describe one area of concern that you identified in your SWOT analysis—relevant to your care setting’s mission, vision, and values—for which you would propose pursuing improvements.
- Explain how this area of concern relates to your care setting’s mission, vision, and values.
- Explain why you believe it will be necessary and valuable to pursue improvements related to this area of concern.
Part 3: Comparison of Approaches
Compare the AI and SWOT approaches to analysis and reflect on the results.
- Describe your mindset when examining your care setting from an AI perspective and from a SWOT perspective.
- Describe the types of data and evidence you searched for when taking an AI approach and a SWOT approach.
- Describe the similarities and differences between the two approaches when communicating and interacting with colleagues.
Part 4: Analysis of Relevant Leadership Characteristics and Skills
Analyze the leadership characteristics and skills most desired in the person leading potential performance improvement projects, taking both an AI and SWOT approach.
- Explain how these characteristics and skills would help a leader facilitate a successful AI-based project and a successful SWOT-based project.
- Comment on any shared characteristics or skills you identified as helpful for both AI and SWOT approaches.
Competencies Measured
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the course competencies through the following assessment scoring guide criteria:
- Competency 1: Evaluate qualities and skills that promote effective leadership within health care organizations.
- Analyze the leadership characteristics and skills most desired in the person leading potential performance improvement projects, taking both an appreciative inquiry (AI) and a strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) approach.
- Competency 2: Apply strategies to lead high-performing health care teams to meet organizational quality and safety goals.
- Synthesize stories and evidence about times when a care setting performed at its best with regard to quality and safety goals.
- Conduct a SWOT analysis of a care setting, with respect to quality and safety goals.
- Describe an area of concern identified in a SWOT analysis—relevant to a care setting’s mission, vision, and values—that should be improved.
- Compare the AI and SWOT approaches to analysis with regard to data gathering and interactions with others.
- Competency 3: Apply cultural, ethical, and regulatory considerations to leadership decision making.
- Propose positive, attainable quality and safety improvement goals for a care setting.
- Competency 5: Communicate with stakeholders and constituencies to build collaborative partnerships and create inclusive work environments.
- Communicate analyses clearly and in a way that demonstrates professionalism and respect for stakeholders and colleagues.
- Integrate relevant and credible sources of evidence to support assertions, correctly formatting citations and references using APA style.
Part 2
As you prepare to complete this assessment, you may want to think about other related issues to deepen your understanding or broaden your viewpoint. You are encouraged to consider the questions below and discuss them with a fellow learner, a work associate, an interested friend, or a member of your professional community. Note that these questions are for your own development and exploration and do not need to be completed or submitted as part of your assessment.
Strategic planning models aid in setting goals, establishing time frames, and forging a path toward achieving those goals. Consider the strategic planning models you are familiar with:
- Which model would you choose to create goals and outcomes that could address the area of concern you identified in your Assessment 1 SWOT analysis?
- Why is this model the best choice among alternatives?
- How does goal setting through appreciative inquiry provocative propositions differ from goal setting in the strategic planning model you selected?
Additional Requirements
Note: The requirements outlined below correspond to the grading criteria in the scoring guide, so at a minimum, be sure to address each point. In addition, you are encouraged to review the performance level descriptions for each criterion to see how your work will be assessed.
Writing, Supporting Evidence, and APA Style
- Write clearly, with professionalism and respect for stakeholders and colleagues.
- Integrate relevant sources of evidence to support your assertions.
- Cite at least 3–5 sources of scholarly or professional evidence.
- Format your document using APA style. Use the APA Style Paper Tutorial [DOCX]. Be sure to include:
- A title page and reference page. An abstract is not required.
- A running head on all pages.
- Appropriate section headings.
- Properly formatted citations and references.
- Proofread your writing to minimize errors that could distract readers and make it more difficult to focus on the substance of your analysis.
Strategic Plan
- Develop strategic goal statements and outcomes that reflect specific quality and safety improvements for your care setting. You should have at least one short-term goal (just-in-time to one year) and one long-term goal (five years or longer).
- Determine realistic timelines for achieving your goals.
- Explain how your short-term goals support your long-term goals.
Note: For plans based on an AI approach, the goal statements and outcomes are provocative propositions that may be refinements of the positive, yet attainable, goals that you proposed during the dream phase of your inquiry. For plans based on a SWOT analysis, the goal statements and outcomes are specific, measurable, and applicable to the area of concern in your analysis for which you proposed pursuing improvements.
- Justify the relevance of your proposed strategic goals and outcomes in relation to the mission, vision, and values of your care setting.
- Analyze the extent to which your strategic goals and outcomes, and your approach to achieving them, address:
- The ethical environment.
- The cultural environment.
- The use of technology.
- Applicable health care policies, laws, and regulations.
- Explain, in general, how you will use relevant leadership and health care theories to help achieve your proposed strategic goals and outcomes.
- Consider whether different theories are more applicable to the short-term or long-term goals of your strategic plan.
- Evaluate the leadership qualities and skills that are most important to successfully implementing your proposed plan and sustaining strategic direction.
- Identify those leadership qualities and skills that are essential to achieving your goals and outcomes and sustaining strategic direction.
- Identify those leadership qualities and skills that will have the greatest effect on the success of your plan.
Competencies Measured
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the course competencies through the following assessment scoring guide criteria:
- Competency 1: Evaluate qualities and skills that promote effective leadership within health care organizations.
- Evaluate the leadership qualities and skills that will be most important to successfully implementing a strategic plan and sustaining strategic direction.
- Competency 2: Apply strategies to lead high-performing health care teams to meet organizational quality and safety goals.
- Develop strategic goal statements and outcomes that support the achievement of specific quality and safety improvements for a care setting.
- Justify the relevance of proposed strategic goals and outcomes in relation to the mission, vision, and values of a care setting.
- Competency 3: Apply cultural, ethical, and regulatory considerations to leadership decision making.
- Analyze the extent to which strategic goals and outcomes address the use of technology and the ethical, cultural, and regulatory environments.
- Competency 4: Integrate leadership and health care theories into the role of the nurse leader.
- Explain how relevant leadership and health care theories will be used to help achieve proposed strategic goals and objectives.
- Competency 5: Communicate with stakeholders and constituencies to build collaborative partnerships and create inclusive work environments.
- Communicate analyses clearly and in a way that demonstrates professionalism and respect for stakeholders and colleagues.
- Integrate relevant and credible sources of evidence to support assertions, correctly formatting citations and references using APA style.
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