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: You will use your care setting SOAR analysis as the basis for developing your strategic plan in this assessment.
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.
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 510 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.
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: 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.
- Length: 57 double-spaced, typed pages, not including title page or references. Your report should be succinct yet substantive.
- References: Cite a minimum of 5 sources of scholarly or professional evidence to support your analysis.
- APA formatting: Resources and citations are formatted according to current APA style.
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.
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