Homework: Care Setting Environmental Analysis
Write a 4 to 7 pages analysis of your care setting that supports development of a strategic plan and includes both the discovery and dream phases of an appreciative inquiry (AI) project and a strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis of the care setting.
Identifying analysis techniques for assessing competitive advantage is important for building health care strategy. Sustaining health care competitive advantage requires that leaders understand environmental demands to assist with minimizing weakness and threats from the external environment. This assessment provides you with an opportunity to examine your health care environment to determine whether what is being accomplished in your organization, department, team, community project, or other care setting is making a positive difference.
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:
1) Competency 1: Evaluate qualities and skills that promote effective leadership within health care organizations.
• Analyze the leadership characteristics and skills most desired in the person leading potential performance improvement projects, taking both an appreciative inquiry (AI) and a strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) approach.
2) Competency 2: Apply strategies to lead high-performing health care teams to meet organizational quality and safety goals.
• Synthesize stories and evidence about times when a care setting performed at its best with regard to quality and safety goals.
• Conduct a SWOT analysis of a care setting, with respect to quality and safety goals.
• Describe an area of concern identified in a SWOT analysis-relevant to a care setting's mission, vision, and values-that should be improved.
• Compare the AI and SWOT approaches to analysis with regard to data gathering and interactions with others.
3) Competency 3: Apply cultural, ethical, and regulatory considerations to leadership decision making.
• Propose positive, attainable quality and safety improvement goals for a care setting.
4) Competency 4: Communicate with stakeholders and constituencies to build collaborative partnerships and create inclusive work environments.
• Communicate analyses clearly and in a way that demonstrates professionalism and respect for stakeholders and colleagues.
• Integrate relevant and credible sources of evidence to support assertions, correctly formatting citations and references using APA style.
Instructions
Preparation
You have been asked to conduct an analysis of your care setting that will result in two potential pathways toward a strategic plan to improve health care quality and safety in your organization, department, team, community project, or other care setting. To accomplish this, you will take two approaches to the analysis:
• Complete the discovery and dream phases of an appreciative inquiry (AI) project.
• Conduct a strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) analysis.
To help ensure that your analysis is well-received, the requester has suggested that you:
1) Present your analysis results in four parts:
• Part I: Appreciative Inquiry Discovery and Dream.
• Part II: SWOT Analysis.
• Part III: Comparison of Approaches.
• Part IV: Analysis of Relevant Leadership Characteristics and Skills.
2) Your analysis should be 4 to 7 pages in length.
Note: Remember, you can submit all, or a portion, of your draft plan to Smarthinking for feedback before you submit the final version for this assessment. However, be mindful of the turnaround time for receiving feedback, if you plan on using this free service.
Part I: Appreciative Inquiry Discovery and Dream
1) Synthesize stories and evidence about times when a care setting performed at its best with regard to quality and safety goals.
a. Collect stories from your care setting. You may collect stories through interviews or conversations with colleagues or provide your own.
b. Explain how your stories are related to quality and safety goals.
c. Describe the evidence you have that substantiates your stories.
d. Identify the positive themes reflected in your stories.
e. Describe other evidence (for example: data, awards, accreditations) that validates your care setting's positive core.
2) Propose positive, yet attainable, quality and safety improvement goals for your care setting.
a. Explain how accomplishing these goals will lead to ethical and culturally-sensitive improvements in quality and safety.
b. Explain how your proposed goals align with your care setting's mission, vision, and values.
Part II: SWOT Analysis
1) Conduct a SWOT analysis of your care setting, with respect to quality and safety goals.
a. Provide a narrative description of your analysis.
b. Identify the assessment tool you used as the basis of your analysis.
c. Describe your key findings and their relationships to quality and safety goals.
2) Describe one area of concern that you identified in your SWOT analysis-relevant to your care setting's mission, vision, and values-for which you would propose pursuing improvements.
a. Explain how this area of concern relates to your care setting's mission, vision, and values.
b. Explain why you believe it will be necessary and valuable to pursue improvements related to this area of concern.
Part III: Comparison of Approaches
Compare the AI and SWOT approaches to analysis and reflect on the results.
1) Describe your mindset when examining your care setting from an AI perspective and from a SWOT perspective.
2) Describe the types of data and evidence you searched for when taking an AI approach and a SWOT approach.
3) Describe the similarities and differences between the two approaches when communicating and interacting with colleagues.
Part IV: Analysis of Relevant Leadership Characteristics and Skills
Analyze the leadership characteristics and skills most desired in the person leading potential performance improvement projects, taking both an AI and SWOT approach.
1) Explain how these characteristics and skills would help a leader facilitate a successful AI-based project and a successful SWOT-based project.
2) Comment on any shared characteristics or skills you identified as helpful for both AI and SWOT approaches.
Format your homework according to the give formatting requirements:
a. The answer must be double spaced, typed, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
b. The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the homework, the course title, the student's name, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
c. Also include a reference page. The references and Citations should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.
Format your homework according to the following formatting requirements:
o The answer should be typed, using Times New Roman font (size 12), double spaced, with one-inch margins on all sides.
o The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the homework, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
o Also include a reference page. The Citations and references must follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.
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