Develop a 5-10 year strategic plan for achieving specific healthcare quality and safety improvements, based on the analysis you completed in Assessment 2. Use either an AI approach or your SOAR analysis and
Develop a 5-10 year strategic plan for achieving specific healthcare quality and safety improvements, based on the analysis you completed in Assessment 2. Use either an AI approach or your SOAR analysis and a chosen strategic planning model.
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Introduction
Evaluation of strategic choices is important. The methods for selecting strategic alternatives help leaders organize significant issues to support decision making. However, it is important that the techniques do not make the decision. Rather, leaders should use the techniques to reveal the inherent situation and to organize their thought processes. This assessment provides you with an opportunity to evaluate and apply some of the techniques for successful strategy development and implementation.
Note:Â You will use your care setting SOAR analysis as the basis for developing your strategic plan in this assessment.
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 look to not just 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 healthcare they need in a quality and safe way throughout their lives.
Scenario
The feedback that you received on your Care Setting SOAR 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 SOAR 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 bulleted list in your report.
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.
Note:Â 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 rubric to better understand how each grading criterion will be assessed.
- Develop strategic goal statements and outcomes that support the achievement of specific quality and safety improvements for the organizational structure, 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 theories to help achieve the strategic goals, objectives, and integrated quality outcomes measures you developed.
- Analyze the degree to which your strategic goals and outcomes, and your approach to achieving them, addresses the use of 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 clearly and effectively with stakeholders and colleagues, incorporating supporting evidence using APA style citations and references, and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly communication standards.
Submission Requirements
- Length: 5–7 double-spaced, typed pages, not including title page or references. Your report should be succinct yet substantive.
- References:Â Cite a minimum of 5 sources of scholarly or professional evidence to support your analysis.
- APA formatting:Â Resources and citations are formatted according to current APA style.
Competencies Measured
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and rubric criteria:
- Competency 1: Evaluate qualities and skills that promote effective leadership within healthcare organizations.
- Evaluate the leadership qualities and skills that will be most important to successfully implementing and sustaining a strategic plan.
- Competency 2: Integrate evidence based strategies to lead high performing healthcare 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 the organizational structure, department, or community program for which you are planning.
- Competency 3: Apply cultural, ethical, and regulatory considerations to leadership decision making.
- Analyze the degree to which your strategic goals and outcomes, and your approach to achieving them, address the use of ethical, cultural, and regulatory environments.
- Competency 4: Integrate leadership and healthcare theories into the role of the nurse leader.
- Propose how, in general, you will use relevant leadership theories to help achieve the strategic goals, objectives, and integrated quality outcomes measures you developed.
- Competency 5: Communicate with stakeholders and constituencies to build collaborative partnerships and create inclusive work environments.
- Justify the relevance of proposed strategic goals and outcomes in relation to the mission, values, and vision of your organization, department, or community program.
- Competency 6: Communicate effectively with diverse audiences, in an appropriate form and style, consistent with applicable organizational, professional, and scholarly standards.
- Communicate clearly and effectively with stakeholders and colleagues, incorporating supporting evidence using APA style citations and references, and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly communication standards.
Scoring Guide
Use the scoring guide to understand how your assessment will be evaluated.
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Criterion 1
Develop strategic goal statements and outcomes that support the achievement of specific quality and safety improvements for the organizational structure, department, or community program for which you are planning.
Distinguished
Develops strategic goal statements and outcomes that support the achievement of specific quality and safety improvements for the organizational structure, department, or community program for which you are planning; impartially considers potential barriers.
Proficient
Develops strategic goal statements and outcomes that support the achievement of specific quality and safety improvements for the organizational structure, department, or community program for which you are planning.
Basic
Develops goal statements and outcomes, but they are not strategic, not realistic, or they do not support the achievement of specific quality and safety improvements for the organizational structure, department, or community program for which you are planning.
Non Performance
Does not develop goal statements or outcomes.
Criterion 2
Justify the relevance of proposed strategic goals and outcomes in relation to the mission, values, and vision of your organization, department, or community program.
Distinguished
Justifies the relevance of proposed strategic goals and outcomes in relation to the mission, values, and vision of your organization, department, or community program; identifies areas of uncertainty or knowledge gaps.
Proficient
Justifies the relevance of proposed strategic goals and outcomes in relation to the mission, values, and vision of your organization, department, or community program.
Basic
Attempted justification of the proposed strategic goals and outcomes; lacks relevance to the mission, values, or vision of your organization, department, or community program.
Non Performance
Does not justify the proposed strategic goals and outcomes in relation to the mission, values, and vision of your organization, department, or community program.
Criterion 3
Propose how, in general, you will use relevant leadership theories to help achieve the strategic goals, objectives, and integrated quality outcomes measures you developed.
Distinguished
Proposes ways in which relevant leadership theories will be used to help achieve the strategic goals and objectives; identifies gaps, limitations, or mismatches in theories.
Proficient
Propose how, in general, you will use relevant leadership theories to help achieve the strategic goals, objectives, and integrated quality outcomes measures you developed.
Basic
Attempts to propose ways to use theories, but the cited theories do not appear to be relevant or are not clearly connected to the strategic goals and objectives.
Non Performance
Does not propose ways in which leadership and healthcare theories will be used to help achieve the strategic goals and objectives.
Criterion 4
Analyze the degree to which your strategic goals and outcomes, and your approach to achieving them, address the use of ethical, cultural, and regulatory environments.
Distinguished
Analyzes the degree to which strategic goals and outcomes address the use of technology and the ethical, cultural, and regulatory environments; impartially considers the limitations of the goals and outcomes.
Proficient
Analyzes the degree to which your strategic goals and outcomes, and your approach to achieving them, addresses the use of ethical, cultural, and regulatory environments.
Basic
Attempts to analyze the degree to which strategic goals and outcomes address the use of technology and the ethical, cultural, and regulatory environments, but misses one or more of the aspects listed.
Non Performance
Does not analyze the degree to which strategic goals and outcomes address the use of technology and the ethical, cultural, and regulatory environments.
Criterion 5
Evaluate the leadership qualities and skills that will be most important to successfully implementing and sustaining a strategic plan.
Distinguished
Evaluates the leadership qualities and skills that will be most important to successfully implementing and sustaining a strategic plan; identifies assumptions underlying the evaluation.
Proficient
Evaluates the leadership qualities and skills that will be most important to successfully implementing and sustaining a strategic plan.
Basic
Attempts to evaluate the leadership qualities and skills that will be most important to successfully implementing and sustaining a strategic plan, but the proposed qualities or skills are not clearly related to specific aspects of the plan.
Non Performance
Does not evaluate the leadership qualities and skills that will be most important to successfully implementing and sustaining a strategic plan.
Criterion 6
Communicate clearly and effectively with stakeholders and colleagues, incorporating supporting evidence using APA style citations and references, and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly communication standards.
Distinguished
Communicates clearly and effectively with stakeholders and colleagues. Supports assertions, arguments, and conclusions with relevant, credible, and convincing evidence. Exhibits strict and nearly flawless adherence to organizational, professional, and scholarly communication standards, including APA style and formatting.
Proficient
Communicates clearly and effectively with stakeholders and colleagues, incorporating supporting evidence using APA style citations and references, and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly communication standards.
Basic
Clear, effective communication is inhibited by insufficient supporting evidence, inconsistent APA style citations and references, and minimal adherence to applicable communication standards.
Non Performance
Does not communicate clearly and effectively with stakeholders and colleagues, incorporating supporting evidence using APA style citations and references, and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly communication standards.