Assignment task: Leadership Skills and Planning
According to the American Nurses Association, a nurse leader is "a nurse interested in excelling in a career path, a leader within a healthcare organization who represents the interests of the nursing profession, a seasoned nurse or healthcare administrator interested in refining skills to differentiate them from the competition or to advance to the next level of leadership."
Leadership can take many forms. Perhaps leadership takes the form of scheduling charge nurses for the month; perhaps leadership is providing guidelines for protocols at your organization, and perhaps leadership is simply determining the best approach to implement change.
For this Discussion, you will explore the connection between project management strategies and leadership styles. Reflect on the role of leadership in project planning and implementation and consider how your leadership style and skill will impact your plan.
Required Readings:
- Hickey, J. V., & Giardino, E. R. (Eds.). (2021). Evaluation of quality in health care for DNPs (3rd ed.). Springer Publishing.
o Chapter 8, "Planning a Program or Project Evaluation" (pp. 189-214)
o Chapter 13, "Evaluation of Populations and Population Health" (pp. 329-350)
- Sipes, C. (2024). Project management for the advanced practice nurse (3rd ed.). Springer Publishing Company.
o Chapter 3, "Design/Initiation: Project Management-Phase I" (pp. 55-84)
o Chapter 4, "Planning: Project Management-Phase 2" (pp. 85-130)
- White, K. M., Dudley-Brown, S., & Terhaar, M. F. (Eds.). (2021). Translation of evidence into nursing and healthcare (3rd ed.). Springer Publishing Company.
o Chapter 9, "Project Management for Translation" (pp. 199-228)
- Aycock, D. M., Clark, P. C., Thomas-Seaton, L., Lee, S.-Y., & Moloney, M. (2017). Simple tools to facilitate project management of a nursing research project. Western Journal of Nursing Research, 39(3), 430-443.
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2015). Develop SMART objectives-evaluate a CoP
To Prepare:
- Review the Learning Resources covering leadership skills and project planning.
- Explore project management techniques and strategies to be used for your problem.
- Consider the connection between project management strategies and leadership styles.
Post a description of your identified design approach for your practice problem. Identify the focus and setting of your problem, as well as the leadership styles most appropriate for the proposed practice change. Identify potential facilitators and barriers to making a proposed practice change. Be specific. How might your leadership style and skills match with the identified facilitators and barriers? Gather evidence to justify your selection and consider whether the approach addresses the practice gap. In your post, be sure to cite the specific evidence found.