The Course Project is a two-part series assignment, Part A was completed as the final assignment for NR712; and, Part B is to be completed in NR713.
Part A
Part A consisted of identify a quality improvement or evidence and knowledge based issue in an area of nursing practice (e.g., hospital, clinic, public health, non-governmental agency, global health, policy) relevant to your role as a DNP, and an area of interest for you (e.g., addressing hospital throughout issues as a nurse executive, changing the clinic staffing matrix of an interdisciplinary clinic, lean and six sigma improvement strategies, identifying areas of nursing program growth as an administrative dean of an online nursing program). Part A consisted of identifying the significance of the problem and addressing the issue with supporting evidence from current literature.
Part B- Review part A paper Attached and complete Part B (Writer 1019)
Part B, to be completed as the final assignment for NR713, will relate to addressing the problem area through the use of various strategies and techniques e.g., would the most optimal way to address the problem be through team collaboration, designing a business plan, addressing throughput issues, conducting a gap analysis, and/or utilizing financial techniques in addressing the needed change effort. Once the strategies are identified, the next step of this project will entail designing an implementation plan to address the problem area and the DNP leaders role in the change process. The final step of the project will be to identify three measurable outcomes to assess the success of the implementation plan.
COURSE OUTCOMES
Through this assignment, the student will demonstrate the ability to:
CO 1: Integrate interprofessional collaboration and the DNP indirect care role across diverse healthcare settings. (PO #4 and 8)
CO 2: Utilize DNP leadership strategies for advancing healthcare policy in selected healthcare systems change. (PO #2, 3, and 4)
CO 7: Compare and contrast driving and restraining forces that shape DNP leader response to advance quality and safety initiatives in healthcare using selected healthcare systems change. (PO #4 and 9)
POINTS
This assignment is worth a total of 275 points.
DUE DATE
Part B is to be submitted to the Dropbox by Sunday, end of Week 6, by 11:59 p.m. MT.
REQUIREMENTS
Part A of this assignment consisted of identifying a quality improvement or evidence and knowledge based issue in an area of nursing practice relevant to your role as a DNP-prepared nurse. You were to identify the significance of the problem and your role as a DNP in addressing the issue with supporting evidence from current literature.
The following objectives are to be addressed in Part B.
Use of the following subheadings to organize the content of the paper:
a. Problem Area of Impact
b. Strategies and Techniques
c. Implementation Plan
d. Your Role as a DNP-Prepared Leader
e. Measurable Outcomes
1. Describe how the problem area impacts the three system levels within the organizational structuremicrosystem, mesosystem, and macrosystem. (1 page)
a. At what system level will change be most required to address the problem areamicrosystem, mesosystem, or macrosystem level?
b. Will the problem be addressed by focusing on only one of the system levels?
c. Will all system levels be included when addressing the problem area?
2. Identify and describe the financial techniques or strategies that will be used to address the problem area. There is not correct answer, rather you are to use a systems thinking approach in order to address the problem area as thoroughly and efficiently as possible. (2 pages)
a. Identify the most optimal strategy in addressing the problem area such as conducting a throughput analysis and identifying the various bottlenecks within the system, SWOT analysis to discover the range of staffing matrices used by competing hospitals, using a strategic process and identifying key stakeholders when creating a new culture of safety.
b. Will other strategies need to be used to address the problem area or will one strategy suffice at this point in time?
c. Will strategies cross over all three system levels?
