Case study : You are assigned to create a strategic plan that facilitates change to improve outcomes in your organization.

Assignment: Healthcare Succession Planning

Question Description
Scenario
You are assigned to create a strategic plan that facilitates change to improve outcomes in your organization. Knowing that change is based on data, relative position within the dynamics of an organization, and a theoretical foundation, you agree to complete a SWOT analysis supported by a change theory.

Instructions
Generate a SWOT analysis that reflects an understanding of a problem within the context of the organization’s needs and potential for change. As a nurse leader or manager, develop your analysis based on a change theory to improve outcomes by addressing one of the following processes:

Healing spaces
Retention of new nurses
Increase number of BSN RNs
Nurse leader succession planning
Clinical ladder
This SWOT analysis will include a description of the strengths of the proposed change, weaknesses within the context of the organization, opportunities for improving outcomes if the proposed change is implemented, and threats to the success of this proposal. A thorough analysis must include the following:

Identify and integrate a change theory as the foundation of your SWOT analysis justifying the selection of the theory used.
Description of the problem to be analyzed to promote a change and improve an outcome.
SWOT analysis to include the following elements:
Strengths of the proposal for change
Weakness of the proposal within the context of the organization
Opportunities for improved outcomes if the proposed change is implemented
Threats to this proposal, both internal and external to the organization.
Provides stated ideas with professional language and attribution for credible sources with correct APA citation, spelling, and grammar.
Resources
What is a SWOT 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.