Assignment: Structures in Nursing Analysis

Assignment: Structures in Nursing Analysis
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Assignment: Structures in Nursing Analysis

Question Description
Due: Sunday night at 11:59pm Mountain Time

In this writing assignment, you will complete a paper addressing an issue from the perspective of the nurse manager on a unit.

Step 1 Review your unit’s and/or facility’s organizational chart.
You have been promoted to nurse manager of your unit. You realize that to function effectively, you must have a better understanding of your organization’s structure and, specifically, the chain of command.

Find and analyze the organizational chart of the healthcare organization you are currently working for or for one that you have encountered in your nursing experience.

Step 2 In a two-page (500-word) paper, address the following points:

Give a brief description of the organization of the healthcare structure used in your facility.
Describe the chain of command used in your organization and identify the people you report to and those who report to you.
Consider the following and discuss how the chain of command is used to implement change.
Based on the organization chart, what leadership structure is used in the organization—hierarchical or flat? How does this affect implementing change?
Does this organization use a shared governance model for nursing?
When nurses have an idea for changing a process and they make a decision as a group, where do they go with their suggestions? (the director? the unit manager?)
Explain why understanding this information is important to your success.
Write your paper using APA format.

Step 3 Save and submit your assignment.

When you have completed your assignment, save a copy for yourself in an easily accessible place and submit a copy to your instructor.

Cite all sources in APA format.

See the rubric

for the grading details.

Assignment: Structures in Nursing Analysis

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.