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Assessment 2 Instructions: Strategic Planning
Develop a 5-10 year strategic plan for achieving specific health care quality and safety improvements, based on theanalysis you completed in Assessment 1. Use either an AI approach or your SWOT analysis and a chosen strategicplanning model.
Introduction
Evaluation of strategic choices is important. The methods for selecting strategic alternatives help leaders organizesignificant issues to support decision making. However, it is important that the techniques do not make the decision.Rather, leaders should use the techniques to reveal the inherent situation and to organize their thought processes.This assessment provides you with an opportunity to evaluate and apply some of the techniques for successfulstrategy development and implementation.
Note: You will use your care setting environmental analysis as the basis for developing your strategic plan in thisassessment.
Preparation
The feedback you received on your care setting environmental analysis has been positive. Consequently, you havebeen asked to select one of the potential improvement projects you noted in your analysis and create a full, 5–10-year strategic plan to achieve the desired quality and safety improvement outcomes. You will develop your strategicplan, using either an AI approach (addressing the design stage), or by building on your SWOT analysis and applyinga strategic planning model of your choice.
How you structure your plan should be based on whether you are taking an appreciative inquiry approach or using aspecific strategic planning model. Regardless of the approach you choose, the requester of the plan has asked thatyou address the key points outlined below in the strategic plan requirements. In addition, your plan should be 5–8pages in length.
Note: As you revise your writing, check out the resources listed on the Writing Center’s Writing Support page.
As you prepare to complete this assessment, you may want to think about other related issues to deepen yourunderstanding or broaden your viewpoint. You are encouraged to consider the questions below and discuss themwith a fellow learner, a work associate, an interested friend, or a member of your professional community. Note thatthese questions are for your own development and exploration and do not need to be completed or submitted aspart of your assessment.
Strategic planning models aid in setting goals, establishing time frames, and forging a path toward achieving thosegoals. Consider the strategic planning models you are familiar with:
Which model would you choose to create goals and outcomes that could address the area of concern youidentified in your Assessment 1 SWOT analysis?Why is this model the best choice among alternatives?
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How does goal setting through appreciative inquiry provocative propositions differ from goal setting in thestrategic planning model you selected?
Additional Requirements
Note: The requirements outlined below correspond to the grading criteria in the scoring guide, so at a minimum, besure to address each point. In addition, you are encouraged to review the performance level descriptions for eachcriterion to see how your work will be assessed.
Writing, Supporting Evidence, and APA Style
Write clearly, with professionalism and respect for stakeholders and colleagues.Integrate relevant sources of evidence to support your assertions.
Cite at least 3–5 sources of scholarly or professional evidence.Format your document using APA style. Use the APA Style Paper Tutorial [DOCX]. Be sure to include:
A title page and reference page. An abstract is not required.A running head on all pages.Appropriate section headings.Properly formatted citations and references.
Proofread your writing to minimize errors that could distract readers and make it more difficult to focus on thesubstance of your analysis.
Strategic Plan
Develop strategic goal statements and outcomes that reflect specific quality and safety improvements foryour care setting. You should have at least one short-term goal (just-in-time to one year) and one long-termgoal (five years or longer).
Determine realistic timelines for achieving your goals.Explain how your short-term goals support your long-term goals.
Note: For plans based on an AI approach, the goal statements and outcomes are provocative propositions that maybe refinements of the positive, yet attainable, goals that you proposed during the dream phase of your inquiry. Forplans based on a SWOT analysis, the goal statements and outcomes are specific, measurable, and applicable to thearea of concern in your analysis for which you proposed pursuing improvements.
Justify the relevance of your proposed strategic goals and outcomes in relation to the mission, vision, andvalues of your care setting.Analyze the extent to which your strategic goals and outcomes, and your approach to achieving them,address:
The ethical environment.The cultural environment.The use of technology.Applicable health care policies, laws, and regulations.
Explain, in general, how you will use relevant leadership and health care theories to help achieve yourproposed strategic goals and outcomes.
Consider whether different theories are more applicable to the short-term or long-term goals of yourstrategic plan.
Evaluate the leadership qualities and skills that are most important to successfully implementing yourproposed plan and sustaining strategic direction.
Identify those leadership qualities and skills that are essential to achieving your goals and outcomesand sustaining strategic direction.Identify those leadership qualities and skills that will have the greatest effect on the success of yourplan.
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Competencies Measured
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the course competenciesthrough the following assessment scoring guide criteria:
Competency 1: Evaluate qualities and skills that promote effective leadership within health care organizations.Evaluate the leadership qualities and skills that will be most important to successfully implementing astrategic plan and sustaining strategic direction.
Competency 2: Apply strategies to lead high-performing health care teams to meet organizational quality andsafety goals.
Develop strategic goal statements and outcomes that support the achievement of specific quality andsafety improvements for a care setting.Justify the relevance of proposed strategic goals and outcomes in relation to the mission, vision, andvalues of a care setting.
Competency 3: Apply cultural, ethical, and regulatory considerations to leadership decision making.Analyze the extent to which strategic goals and outcomes address the use of technology and theethical, cultural, and regulatory environments.
Competency 4: Integrate leadership and health care theories into the role of the nurse leader.Explain how relevant leadership and health care theories will be used to help achieve proposedstrategic goals and objectives.
Competency 5: Communicate with stakeholders and constituencies to build collaborative partnerships andcreate inclusive work environments.
Communicate analyses clearly and in a way that demonstrates professionalism and respect forstakeholders and colleagues.Integrate relevant and credible sources of evidence to support assertions, correctly formatting citationsand references using APA style.
SCORING GUIDE
Use the scoring guide to understand how your assessment will be evaluated.
VIEW SCORING GUIDE