My Leadership SMART Goal:
Purpose
The purpose of this assignment is to develop a SMART-formatted goal related to your professional leadership applicable to your current practice setting or future leadership aspirations. This goal is about YOUR leadership development, not those of the organization or the department where you work. Many organizations have developed the SMART-goal framework as they strive for performance improvement. Your goal may tie to one of the departmental or organizational SMART goals but the components of the goal are about YOUR leadership development The Institute of Medicine's quality initiative has identified five core healthcare profession competencies that serve as a framework for identification of YOUR leadership SMART goal.
Course Outcomes
Completion of this assignment enables the student to meet the following course outcomes.
CO 1: Apply leadership concepts, skills, and decision making in the provision of high quality nursing care, healthcare team management, and the oversight and accountability for care delivery in a variety of settings.
CO 2: Apply concepts of leadership and team coordination to promote the achievement of safe and quality outcomes of care for diverse populations.
CO 3: Apply improvement methods, based on data from the outcomes of care processes, to design and test changes to continuously improve the quality and safety of healthcare.
CO 4: Apply concepts of quality and safety using structure, process, and outcome measures to identify clinical questions as the beginning process of changing current practice.
Directions
• Review the Institute of Medicine's (IOM) core healthcare competencies. Select ONE of these competencies that you will work on for developing a Leadership SMART Goal. The five core competencies are listed below.
• Managing Patient-Centered Care;
• Working in interdisciplinary and/or interprofessional teams;
• Employing evidence-based practice;
• Applying quality improvement techniques; and
• Utilizing informatics.
• Create ONE leadership goal that is in the SMART goal format. You practiced this in the Week 3 Discussion, and received valuable feedback from your instructor and peers. Please refer to this as you work on the assignment.