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N545 Healthcare Strategic Management and Planning

Module 1 Discussion

DQ1 How does the nurse executive at your current organization contribute in the development of the strategic plan? How does (s)he receive feedback from nursing stakeholders to determine if quality improvement measures meet the healthcare organization’s VMOSA (Vision, Mission, Objectives, Strategies, and Action Plans)?

DQ2 What environmental forces affect your organization’s efforts at strategic planning and management? Give an example of how your organization is dealing with these forces.

 

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N545 Healthcare Strategic Management and Planning

Module 2 Discussion

DQ1 Discuss how your healthcare organization’s strategic plan was developed based on the company’s mission, vision, and values and current trends.

DQ2 What is nursing leadership roles and responsibilities on the strategic planning and implementation process at your organization?

 

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N545 Healthcare Strategic Management and Planning

Module 3 Discussion

DQ1 Identify the “Customers” at your healthcare organization. Why is it important for organizations to know its customer? Give an example of how your organization can use its target customers in its strategic plan.

DQ2 The U.S. health care reimbursement system is transitioning from pay-for-volume to pay-for-value. What measures is your organization using to report its pay-for-value? Please give examples.

 

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N545 Healthcare Strategic Management and Planning

Module 4 Discussion

DQ1 Porter’s Model of the five fundamental forces that drive the level of profits in an industry are:

Competitive intensity

Threat of entry by competitors from outside the industry

Availability of equivalent, substitute products

Bargaining power of buyers and customers

Bargaining power of suppliers and employees

Identify a competitor for your health care organization. Choose at least two of the Five Forces and recommend strategies that your organization could use to respond to these forces.

DQ2 After completing the SWOT analysis of your chosen healthcare organization, identify what you believe the healthcare organization offers that could be considered a competitive advantage? If it doesn’t currently have a competitive advantage, what might you suggest to the organization to gain a competitive advantage?

 

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N545 Healthcare Strategic Management and Planning

Module 5 Discussion

DQ1 What is the mission statement at your organization? How is this mission statement used in the strategic planning process?

DQ2 What are the reasons that corporate executives believe that they must constantly grow their organizations? What tools can be used by your organization to carry out a growth strategy?

 

N545 Healthcare Strategic Management and Planning

Module 6 Discussion

DQ1 Which of the major types of growth strategies would be best to help your organization grow? Please give rationale.

DQ2 How can your organization maintain its “sustainable competitive advantage”? Please give examples of strategies that can be used.

 

N545 Healthcare Strategic Management and Planning

Module 7 Discussion

DQ1 Describe potential problems that can arise during strategy implementation of your chosen initiative.

DQ2 What metrics can be used to monitor a strategy’s implementation at your organization. Please give examples.

 

N545 Healthcare Strategic Management and Planning

Module 8 Discussion

Please submit a copy of your PowerPoint with speaker notes here, to be reviewed by TurnItIn. Please do this before uploading your PowerPoint to VoiceThread.

 

N545 Healthcare Strategic Management and Planning

Assignment 1

The purpose of the Organizational Strategies paper and concept map is to understand an organization’s mission, vision, values, and infrastructure and nursing leadership roles and responsibilities on the strategic planning and implementation process. Please use the grading rubric to create an outline of your assignment. Your assignment will be graded based on each element of the rubric. Compare each section of your paper with the rubric to ensure all elements are covered.  Then, include an introduction and conclusion to tie the paper together.  A minimum of 3 peer-reviewed references are required using APA format and include a reference page within the presentation.

Provide a description of the healthcare organization’s mission, vision, and current strategy.

Describe the organizational chart of the healthcare institution. Include the following:

Placement of the nurse executive within the organization.

Influence of the nurse executive based on this placement.

Complete a concept map describing nursing, economic, environmental, and healthcare trends affecting the healthcare organization.

Identify the healthcare organization as the basis of the concept map

Identify the key concepts

Connect the key concepts with linking words illustrating the connections between concepts

Integrate concepts

Summarize the key themes identified from the concept map.

Discuss how the healthcare organization’s strategic plan was developed based on the company’s mission, vision, and values and current trends.

Discuss nursing leadership roles and responsibilities on the strategic planning and implementation process.

Submission Parameters

Present your analysis in a scholarly, 3-4 page APA formatted paper with the following elements:

Title Page.

Citations throughout.

Introduction – Catch the reader’s attention with interesting facts and supporting sources.

Body of analysis.

Concept map with explanation.

Conclusion and Recommendation - Summarize the analysis.

Reference Page.

 

 

N545 Healthcare Strategic Management and Planning

Assignment 2

Overview

The purpose of this Prezi presentation is to analyze the SWOT analysis related to a national and/or local community healthcare organization from a health care management perspective. Please use the grading rubric to create an outline of your assignment. Your assignment will be graded based on each element of the rubric. Compare each section of your presentation with the rubric to ensure all elements are covered.  Then, include an introduction and conclusion to tie the presentation together. Submit a link to the presentation.  A minimum of 3 references are required using APA format and include a reference page within the presentation.

Provide a description of the healthcare organization’s mission, vision, and current strategy.

Brief description of economic, environmental, healthcare trends affecting the healthcare organization.

Identify a clinical practice guideline implemented within the organization and link to a strategic plan objective.

Complete a detailed SWOT analysis of the healthcare organization (on the effectiveness of the clinical practice guideline).

Strengths of the clinical practice guideline.

Weaknesses of the clinical practice guideline.

Opportunities for the clinical practice guideline.

Threats for the clinical practice guideline.

Summarize the weaknesses identified and potential changes that might be introduced to the organization.

Prezi access instructions:

Go to https://prezi.com/signup/public/.

Create a free account (under Basic).

Click New Prezi at the top.

Follow the instruction prompts.

Add your content.

Basic skills and concepts of Prezi:

Prezi Canvas: all the white space on the screen.

Prezi Bubble menu: in the upper left corner of the screen.

Path Sidebar: we will look at this more at the end when we are covering paths.

Navigation: click in the white space and drag to move your canvas around – your canvas is larger than just the portion you are looking at on your screen.

Zooming: use the scroll wheel on your mouse to see more or less of your canvas and interact with larger or smaller images.

 Submit as a Prezi presentation with citations in APA format and a slide with a list of references.

 

N545 Healthcare Strategic Management and Planning

Final Project

Overview

To achieve a successful project experience and outcome, you are expected to develop a paper encompassing the strategic management and planning concepts studied in this course. Please use the grading rubric to create an outline of your assignment. Each section of the rubric should be a section of your final paper and could become the headings. Your assignment will be graded based on each element of the rubric. Compare each section of your paper with the rubric to ensure all elements are covered.  Then, include an introduction and conclusion to tie the paper together. Submit your paper with Title Page in APA format.  A minimum of 3 references are required using APA format and include a reference page.

The introduction should briefly describe the purpose for this paper. Provide a concise description of the healthcare organization’s mission, vision, and current strategy. The introduction should establish a professional tone for the paper.

Summarize the weaknesses identified and potential changes that might be introduced to the organization.

Formulate an initiative/action plan designed to address one of the organization’s gap in healthcare service or process.

Describe initiative.

Briefly explain significance of initiative to healthcare organization.

List two short-term goals in the action plan and discuss the steps needed to achieve each goal.

List two long-term goals in the action plan and discuss the steps needed to achieve each goal.

Identify the QSEN strategies addressed with the proposed initiative/action plan.

Identify the financial feasibility of the proposed initiative/action plan.

Identify a potential performance dashboard that could be used to measure the effectiveness of the proposed initiative/action plan. Include a timeline for implementation.

Summarize the analysis and discuss implications of action plan implementation.

Conclusion and Recommendation - Summarize the analysis and offer a recommendation.

 Paper should be 3-4 pages, not including the title and reference pages.