BSN 4008 Assessment 1 Impact Report to Senior Leadership
BSN 4008 Assessment 1 Impact Report to Senior Leadership
Assessment 1

Assessment Instructions

Preparation

Use the Suggested Resources for this assessment to study
systems theory, SWOT analysis, and shared governance teams, as background for
an Impact Report to Senior Leadership. The report includes a SWOT analysis. The
SWOT Analysis Template is linked in Required Resources.

Study a facility in your area and examine its Web site and
any available public documents to aid you in completing this assessment. You
may wish to examine an organization where you work, where you have worked in
the past, or where you did your clinical work.

Do not name the organization in your report; instead,
identify the type of facility and location. Example: A rehabilitation center in
a midsize Midwestern city.

Use the following scenario as the basis for your report:

Scenario

The unit-based Shared Governance Council of the organization
where you work has identified a major nursing-related challenge (patient/staff
safety, confidentiality, management/staff conflict, poor patient satisfaction
survey scores, or nursing staff shortages) within your health care
organization.

In an unusual move, your system administrator is considering
creating a new nurse leadership position that would have the responsibility and
authority to address this specific issue. As a member of the shared governance
council’s subcommittee, you have been asked to write the committee’s final
report.

Deliverable: Impact Report to Senior Leadership

Write a 4–6 page impact report to senior leadership that
identifies the challenge, analyzes how it affects the organization from a
nursing perspective, and details the new position.

Use systems thinking and leadership theory as tools to
approach this problem.

Construct the report with the following headings:

The Nursing Challenge:

Identify the nursing challenge and its impact from a nursing
perspective. Choose from:

Patient/staff safety, confidentiality, management/staff
conflict, poor patient-satisfaction survey scores, or nursing staff shortages.

The System/Organization:

Explain how the nursing challenge creates a gap or conflict
between the organization’s statements and practice.

Identify the organization type—that is, specialty hospital,
teaching hospital, major health care system, et cetera, and summarize the
organizational structure, its mission, vision, and philosophy statements.

Use systems theory and systems thinking to explain the gap
or conflict.

SWOT Analysis:

Use the SWOT Analysis Template linked in Required Resources
and include the SWOT analysis table in your paper.

Identify organizational factors that impact the situation
using a SWOT analysis.

For example, a budget cut may cause short staffing, which
relates directly to the problem.

What factors within the system may facilitate a solution for
this problem?

The Position:

Assess how the new nurse leader position will have power and
influence and impact patient outcomes.

How will this position affect change within the
organization?

Identify key leadership skills, knowledge, or abilities
required for the position.

Additional Requirements

Written communication: Written communication should be free
of errors that detract from the overall message.

APA formatting: Resources and in-text citations should be
formatted according to current APA style and formatting.

Length: The report should be 4–6 pages in content length.
Include a separate title page and a separate reference page.

Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point,
double-spaced.

Number of resources: Use a minimum of three peer-reviewed
resources.