Assignment Task: Professional Nursing Leadership Perspectives
Summative Assessment: Leadership Project
Assignment Content:
Change management is the key to ensuring that an organization remains adept in providing state-of-the-art health care. As the world changes and communities evolve, patient and personnel needs require fresh and effective ways to meet them. Operating as a reactionary wears heavily on organizations and leaders. Planning for innovation and its diffusion breathes new life into the world of care and work. Day-to-day operations can be a garden for growth when leadership is skilled at change management.
This Leadership Project assessment requires you to create a change project implementation plan designed to make an impact in your organization. You will create a Microsoft PowerPoint® presentation incorporating the details of your change project and daily leadership plan.
Create a 15- to 20-slide PowerPoint® presentation that includes the following:
Leadership Change Project:
Leaders seek out change opportunities regularly. Innovation, critical thinking, and decision-making are key to making an impact on an organization through change management. This assessment is designed to help you look at aspects of your own clinical practice and become a change agent in your organization. Use your current or past experience to identify a change project to implement.
Step 1: Select a topic for a change project.
o Review the following resources for a potential change topic or process ideas:
o Institute for Healthcare Improvement: Transforming Care at the Bedside
o Institute for Healthcare Improvement: Hospital Inpatient Waste Identification Tool
o For process change resources: TeamSTEPPS® Pocket Guide
Step 2: Identify the context for your change.
o Describe the setting where the change will take place (e.g., clinical, insurance, home health, or public and community).
o Explain who is affected (e.g., patients, nurses, leadership, and other stakeholders in the organization)
Step 3: Review the literature to find possible solutions and evidence to address your topic.
o Research sources that guide evidence-based practice to improve outcomes related to your selected topic.
o Find a minimum of 3 peer-reviewed articles directly related to addressing your change topic.
Step 4: Create a draft implementation plan.
o Summarize each article to explain how the evidence you gathered will help address your change topic.
o Explain how you could use the information in the research to carry out the change in your identified setting.
o Identify 10 ways to include leadership in your daily activities.
Include an APA-formatted reference page.
Cite a minimum of 3 APA formatted sources.
Format your PowerPoint® presentation to ensure the slides only contain essential information and as little text as possible. Do not design a slide made up of long bullet points.
Include detailed speaker notes for each slide of your presentation. Your speaker notes convey the details you would give if you were presenting.
Very Important Note - Read Below
You will be creating a change project- something you see in your practice that needs improved upon- for example hand off shift report. First you will describe where the change will take place (2 west- med surg floor). You will explain who is affected by this improvement (nurses, patients, STNA). The biggest part of the assignment is next. You will explain how to make the change (education- SBAR, role playing, implementation). You will summarize ( in 3-4 sentences in your speaker notes) 3 peer reviewed articles ( not academic or organizational web sites) that support your change theory ( professional journals contain many peer reviewed articles). You include a sentence or two ( in your speaker notes) how you can use the information in the articles in you change (SBAR- includes vital information so nothing is "forgotten" when giving report, uniform communication). The last part is basically a summary of what you have learned over the past 5 weeks (delegation- assigning tasks to LPN can be one of the ways to include leadership in your daily activities- being a baseball coach instilling teamwork and communication in the baseball team).
**Reference needs to be within 5 years (2020-2024)