DNP805 2021 April Assignments Latest (Full)

DNP805

Module 1 Assignment

Project: (This is an individual, not a group or team assignment)

Some of the guidelines for working on these skills within your paper include the following:

•             Describe the healthcare system, including the history and development. Include the number and types of people who work in this system, for example the number of employees and the number of patients served.

•             What are the mission, vision, and values of your system? How are these things demonstrated to your clients and the community?

•             What smaller systems are within your system? Is your system part of a larger system? Describe the interrelationships of your system with other smaller or larger systems. Describe these points of interaction.

•             Describe the culture in your system. What are the shared beliefs and values of those who work in your system? How is conflict handled? How likely is it that your system will take risks? Describe the power structure within your system. Include anything else that you think describes your culture.

•             Provide an analysis of a Health System Issue

•             Apply Kotter's 8 Stage Model to the issues and focus of your project  (see below)

•             What financial costs will be incurred because of your change?

•             Conclusion

Kotter’s 8-stage model is a useful, comprehensive, step-by-step approach for making change. It applies systemic thinking to any change project.

Stage 1:  Establishing a Sense of Urgency

Stage 2:  Creating the Guiding Coalition

Stage 3:  Developing A Vision and Strategy

Stage 4:  Communicating the Change Vision 

Stage 5:  Empowering Employees for Broad Based Action

Stage 6:  Generating Short-term Wins

Stage 7: Consolidating Gains and Producing More Change

Stage 8:  Anchoring New Approaches in the Culture

Please review the following:

http://www.kotterinternational.com/the-8-step-process-for-leading-change/

Objective:

•             Analyze the context in which your scholarly project will take place.

o             Assess the organization.

o             Identify system issues and facilitate organization-wide changes in practice delivery.

Table of Analysis of Health System Issue Project Due Dates

Week    Due

Week One          Choose a Topic

Week Two          Intro of your system analysis & how stage 1 and 2 of Kotter’s change model apply to your topic.

Week Three       Continue and Submit Literature Search

Week Five           Submit First Draft of Paper

Week Six             Review and Edit First Draft

Week Seven      Submit Final Paper

Write and Post an Executive Summary

Week Eight         Signature Assignment Title: Organizational Systems and Leadership

Assignment for week 1: Prepare an essay of 500–700 words describing the health system that you have selected. Make certain to use APA format, including an introduction and conclusion in your essay. Describe the health system, the history, and developmental phases of the organization. Include the number and types of people who work in this system, for example, the number of employees and the number of patients served. What are the mission, vision, and values of your system? How are these things demonstrated to their clients and the community?" How is the health system evaluated, and what standards are they measured against?

 

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Module 2 Assignment

•             Assignment – Final Project Introduction, Stage 1 and 2 of Kotter’s Change model.

Directions: Synthesize the introduction of the project with a systems analysis of a large healthcare institution applying Stage 1 and 2 of Kotter’s change model to your topic. 

Stage 1: Establishing a Sense of Urgency

Stage 2: Creating the Guiding Coalition

Submit your draft for instructor feedback by day 7. It should be approximately 1,000 words in length.

 

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Module 3 Assignment

Assignment

For this assignment, (using the steps in the Kotter change model) you will answer and discuss the following: 

1.    The steps for implementing the system issue you have selected.

2.    How to apply them to the large health institution used in Week 2 in performing a systems analysis.

3.    How you would expect the Mission, Vision, Values, and Goals to be successfully communicated to the organization?

4.    What happens if the workers do not understand or accept them?

5.    How should the leaders deal with this implementation problem?

This assignment should be a minimum of 1,000 words and is due by Day 7, Week 3.

 

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Module 4 Assignment

Assignment:

Using Kotter’s tables comparing the 20th and 21st century organizations and his tables on lifelong learning, in Leading Change, write a 6-8 page paper discussing the following.

•             To what extent has your practice setting in your workplace moved into the 21st century model? Give specific examples.

•             Briefly describe yourself in terms of the characteristics of lifelong learning depicted in the table and analyze your competitive capacity.

•             Discuss the extent to which you have the mental habits that support lifelong learning as outlined in the Table on mental habits in lifelong learning. Give specific examples.

Continue working on Stages 5 and 6 of Kotter's Change Model and apply to your topic.

Stage 5:  Empowering Employees for Broad Based Action

Stage 6:  Generating Short-term Wins

Discuss how the system empowers employees for broad based actions of change as it applies to your system and how the system generate short term wins for achievements of strategic organizational goals. This assignment should be approximately 500-700 words in length. 

Please Note: The final submission of your project is due Week 7.

 

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Module 5 Assignment

•             Evaluate how your identified organization has utilized Kotter’s stage 7 and 8 of consolidating changes to produce more change and anchored the new approaches within the organization. This should be approximately 700-1000 words.

o             Stage 7:  Consolidating Gains and Producing More Change

o             Stage 8:  Anchoring New Approaches in the Culture

•             This is a continuation of the draft paper you have been working on for this course.  Submit your draft by Day 7 for instructor feedback.  The feedback you receive will be used to complete your final paper on these stages.

 

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Module 6 Assignment

Review the ten sources of organizational toxicity described in Peter-O’Grady and Malloch and describe the ways in which these can be handled by leaders to make the organization healthy. (This should be approximately 1,000 words)

 

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Module 7 Assignment

Directions:

•             Revise your final paper based on feedback from your drafts. Be sure to include all required information. Submit your final paper on this page by Day 7.

Criteria for final paper

Advanced practice nurses prepared at the doctoral level should be able to assess organizations, identify system issues, and facilitate organization-wide changes in practice delivery. Systems or systemic thinking is a critical part of these skills.

•             Use APA format.

•             Some of the guidelines for working on these skills within your paper include the following.

o             Describe the system, including its history and development. Include the number and types of people who work in this system, for example the number of employees and the number of patients served.

o             What are the mission, vision, and values of your system? How are these things demonstrated to your clients and the community?

o             What smaller systems are within your system? Is your system part of a larger system? Describe the interrelationships of your system with other smaller or larger systems. Describe these points of interaction.

o             Describe the culture in your system. What are the shared beliefs and values of those who work in your system? How is conflict handled? How likely is it that your system will take risks? Describe the power structure within your system. Include anything else that you think describes your culture.

o             Apply Kotter's 8 Stage Model to your project.

o             What financial costs will be incurred because of your change?

 

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Module 7 Assignment

Directions:

•             Write an executive summary.

•             This should be 1-2 pages in length. Please Note: Points will be deducted if you go beyond 2 pages in length.

•             Submit your executive Summary on this page by Day 7.

•             Purdue Online Writing Lab

During Week Eight, you will share and discuss your executive summary with your classmates through a discussion board.

 

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Module 8 Assignment

Signature Assignment:

Presentation:

The advance practice nurse is preparing to examine the role of leadership within a healthcare system. There is a need to demonstrate understanding of the organizational and system leadership from theory to practice. This presentation will examine organizational and systems leadership through the quality improvement (QI) process. 

Choose a QI measure for the focus of this presentation and answer the following questions:

What is the historical evolution of science and technology in the context of the impact on the practice of leadership in regard to quality improvement.

What are two ways that innovation is integrated into healthcare?

How does complexity impact the leadership role?

Apply principles of systems thinking to your selected QI measure.

How would you apply conflict management and conflict resolution principles using leadership practices for implementation of the QI measure?

What ways can you use complex communication processes in the healthcare industry to address this QI measure?

How can you use emotional competence for the individual and the health care team as it relates to the QI process?

How can the leader minimize toxicity in organizations especially when implementing a new QI measure?

Apply change management practices and principles to your chosen QI measure.

Analyze personal leadership styles through the lens of new learning and develop an ongoing plan for leadership development.

This PowerPoint® (Microsoft Office) or Impress® (Open Office) presentation should be a minimum of 20 slides, including a title and reference slide, with detailed speaker notes on content slides and recorded audio. Use at least four scholarly sources and make certain to review the module’s Signature Assignment Rubric before starting your presentation. This presentation is worth 400 points for a quality content and presentation.