The Organization from a Nursing Perspective

Question Description
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.The Organization from a Nursing Perspective
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.The Organization from a Nursing Perspective

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.

Context
Organizational Structure, Systems Theory, and Leadership
Embedded within the AONE (2015) competencies for nursing leaders are various components of systems thinking and systems leadership. Nursing leaders need to perform a historical review of organizational theories because it helps them understand the effect of structures and theories that are relevant to health care organizational systems. This understanding leads to knowledge on how these systems affect the role and scope of nursing practice.

Effective CommunicationSystems theory came into use within the business sector following a publication on the subject by Peter Senge. As time progressed, health care leaders adapted principles from systems theory and applied them to health care organizations and systems. Systems theory maintains that the parts of the whole affect each other in many ways, with interactions so complex that any event or action may have multiple consequences across the entire whole (Senge, 1990).

Communication is a key competency for nurse executives. It may involve verbal, nonverbal, written, electronic, and other communication modalities. Communication among members of teams, between departments and service lines, within large networks, with strategic business partners, and with patients, families, or support persons requires awareness of various facets of effective communication.

References
AONE. (2015). Nurse executive competencies. Retrieved from http://www.aone.org/resources/leadership%20tools/n…

Senge, P. M. (1990). The fifth discipline: The art and practice of the learning organization. New York, NY: Currency Doubleday.

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

Each organization has a unique structure that impacts the behavior of the organization. In health care organizations, this impact is on the ability of the organization to deliver quality patient care. Nursing is an essential component of any health care organization, and nursing leaders must understand the role of nursing and nursing leadership within the total organization. Understanding basic organizational structure, mission, vision, philosophy, and values will better prepare nurse leaders to improve quality and patient outcomes.

Impact Report to Senior Leadership Scoring Guide
CRITERIA NON-PERFORMANCE BASIC PROFICIENT DISTINGUISHED
Identify a nursing challenge and its impact from a nursing perspective.
Does not identify a nursing challenge and its impact from a nursing perspective. Discusses general challenges in nursing, but does not identify a specific challenge or explain it from a nursing perspective. Identifies a nursing challenge and its impact from a nursing perspective. Identifies a nursing challenge and its impact from a nursing perspective, and addresses the impact on the organization, staff, and patients.
Explain how the nursing challenge creates a gap or conflict between the organization’s statements and practice.
Does not explain how the identified nursing challenge creates a gap or conflict between the organization’s statements and practice. Discusses the organization’s philosophy and mission, but does not explain the disconnect between the ideal and the reality of practice. Explains how the identified nursing challenge creates a gap or conflict between the organization’s statements and practice. Explains how the identified nursing challenge creates a gap or conflict between the organization’s statements and practice, and refers to systems theory to explain factors that contribute to the problem.
Identify organizational factors that impact the situation using a SWOT analysis.
Does not identify organizational factors that impact the situation using a SWOT analysis. Identifies organizational factors that impact the situation, but does not use a SWOT analysis. Identifies organizational factors that impact the situation using a SWOT analysis. Identifies organizational factors that impact the situation using a SWOT analysis, and identifies opportunities for improvements.
Identify key leadership skills, knowledge, or abilities required for the position.
Does not identify key leadership skills, knowledge, or abilities required for the position. Lists key leadership skills but does not address the knowledge or abilities required for the position. Identifies key leadership skills, knowledge, or abilities required for the position. Identifies key leadership skills, knowledge, or abilities required for the position, and discusses how organizational power dynamics may be affected.
Assess how the new nurse leader position will have power and influence and impact patient outcomes.
Does not assess how the new nurse leader position will have power and influence. Assesses how the new nurse leader position will affect patient outcomes, but does not discuss the effect on the organization. Assesses how the new nurse leader position will have power and influence. Assesses how the new nurse leader position will have power and influence and impact patient outcomes, and explains how it will impact the organization’s power structure and dynamics.
Write content clearly and logically, with correct use of grammar, punctuation, and mechanics.
Does not write content clearly and logically, and there are errors in grammar, punctuation, and mechanics. Writes with errors in clarity, logic, grammar, punctuation, or mechanics. Writes content clearly and logically, with correct use of grammar, punctuation, and mechanics. Writes clearly and logically, with correct use spelling, grammar, punctuation, and mechanics, and uses relevant evidence to support a central idea.
Correctly format citations and references using current APA style.
Does not correctly format citations and references using current APA style. Uses current APA to format citations and references but with numerous errors. Correctly formats citations and references using current APA style with a few errors. Correctly formats citations and references with no errors.

sorry i don’t really understand the “tags” bar… three references are needed, and can be used from from the example assignment.

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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.The Organization from a Nursing Perspective

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.

ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE CLASS

Discussion Questions (DQ)

Initial responses to the DQ should address all components of the questions asked, include a minimum of one scholarly source, and be at least 250 words.
Successful responses are substantive (i.e., add something new to the discussion, engage others in the discussion, well-developed idea) and include at least one scholarly source.
One or two sentence responses, simple statements of agreement or “good post,” and responses that are off-topic will not count as substantive. Substantive responses should be at least 150 words.
I encourage you to incorporate the readings from the week (as applicable) into your responses.
Weekly Participation

Your initial responses to the mandatory DQ do not count toward participation and are graded separately.
In addition to the DQ responses, you must post at least one reply to peers (or me) on three separate days, for a total of three replies.
Participation posts do not require a scholarly source/citation (unless you cite someone else’s work).
Part of your weekly participation includes viewing the weekly announcement and attesting to watching it in the comments. These announcements are made to ensure you understand everything that is due during the week.
APA Format and Writing Quality

Familiarize yourself with APA format and practice using it correctly. It is used for most writing assignments for your degree. Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in LoudCloud for APA paper templates, citation examples, tips, etc. Points will be deducted for poor use of APA format or absence of APA format (if required).
Cite all sources of information! When in doubt, cite the source. Paraphrasing also requires a citation.
I highly recommend using the APA Publication Manual, 6th edition.
Use of Direct Quotes

I discourage overutilization of direct quotes in DQs and assignments at the Masters’ level and deduct points accordingly.
As Masters’ level students, it is important that you be able to critically analyze and interpret information from journal articles and other resources. Simply restating someone else’s words does not demonstrate an understanding of the content or critical analysis of the content.
It is best to paraphrase content and cite your source.
LopesWrite Policy

For assignments that need to be submitted to LopesWrite, please be sure you have received your report and Similarity Index (SI) percentage BEFORE you do a “final submit” to me.
Once you have received your report, please review it. This report will show you grammatical, punctuation, and spelling errors that can easily be fixed. Take the extra few minutes to review instead of getting counted off for these mistakes.
Review your similarities. Did you forget to cite something? Did you not paraphrase well enough? Is your paper made up of someone else’s thoughts more than your own?
Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in LoudCloud for tips on improving your paper and SI score.
Late Policy

The university’s policy on late assignments is 10% penalty PER DAY LATE. This also applies to late DQ replies.
Please communicate with me if you anticipate having to submit an assignment late. I am happy to be flexible, with advance notice. We may be able to work out an extension based on extenuating circumstances.
If you do not communicate with me before submitting an assignment late, the GCU late policy will be in effect.
I do not accept assignments that are two or more weeks late unless we have worked out an extension.
As per policy, no assignments are accepted after the last day of class. Any assignment submitted after midnight on the last day of class will not be accepted for grading.
Communication

Communication is so very important. There are multiple ways to communicate with me:
Questions to Instructor Forum: This is a great place to ask course content or assignment questions. If you have a question, there is a good chance one of your peers does as well. This is a public forum for the class.
Individual Forum: This is a private forum to ask me questions or send me messages. This will be checked at least once every 24 hours.