health care organizations,
Impact Report to Senior Leadership.
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.
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:
Competency 1: Identify nursing leadership priorities, using a systems perspective.
(IMPORTANT) -Identify a nursing challenge and its impact from a nursing perspective.
Competency 2: Apply systems theory and systems thinking to facilitate health care delivery and patient outcomes.
(IMPORTANT) -Explain how the nursing challenge creates a gap or conflict between the organization’s statements and practice.
(IMPORTANT) -Identify organizational factors that impact the situation using a SWOT analysis.
Competency 4: Evaluate how power relates to health care organizational structure, behavior, and leadership.
(IMPORTANT) -Assess how the new nurse leader position should apply leadership skills, knowledge, or abilities to exert power and influence and impact patient outcomes.
Competency 5: Communicate in a manner that is consistent with the expectations of a nursing professional.
(IMPORTANT) -Write content clearly and logically, with correct use of grammar, punctuation, mechanics, and current APA style.
This is basically the same but resumed:
Criterion Identify a nursing challenge and its impact from a nursing perspective.
Criterion Explain how the identified nursing challenge creates a gap or conflict between the organization’s statements and practice.
Criterion Identify organizational factors that impact the situation using a SWOT analysis.
Assess how the new nurse leader position should apply leadership skills, knowledge, or abilities to exert power and influence and impact patient outcomes.
Write content clearly and logically, with correct use of grammar, punctuation, mechanics, and current APA style.
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’
