NR703 2021 November Week 5 Assignment Latest

NR703 Applied Organizational and Leadership Concepts

Week 5 Assignment

Leading Practice Change Projects

Purpose

The purpose of this assignment is to create a leadership approach to address the practice gap identified in the Week 2 assignment. The approach focuses on three specific DNP-prepared nurse leadership skills:

Interprofessional collaboration

Communication

Leadership ethics

This assignment will allow for the assimilation of professional leadership competencies in project management as a DNP-prepared nurse. Assignment content supports professional formation, communication, and dissemination skills relevant to the DNP-prepared nurse.

Please note that this is the second part of a 3-part assignment submitted in Weeks 2, 5, and 7. You will receive feedback from your course faculty on the Week 2 and Week 5 assignments, which you should use to prepare the Week 7 assignment.

Instructions

Include the following in your paper:

Introduction

Introduce the paper’s topic and establish its importance.

Present a clear purpose statement.

Provide the reader with a brief organizing statement of what will be discussed in the paper.

Interprofessional Collaboration in Leading Project Teams: Create your approach to implementing the practice change project with an interprofessional team, including a description of how you will manage the following challenges:

Creating a climate of mutual respect and shared values

Facilitating team roles and flexibility to perform effectively

Communication Comportment in Project Management: Create a guideline for your professional communication to serve you in the practice change project and future roles. Include the following considerations:

Verbal and non-verbal communication competencies at a doctoral level

Communicating leadership comportment

Creating alignment of verbal and nonverbal messages

Written professional communication

Writing with leadership tone and style

Using standard English

Creating summary and synthesis in writing

Leadership Ethics: Discuss how you will create a consistent image of ethical comportment, including the consideration of the following:

Balance an Ethic of Justice with an Ethic of Care in your leadership style.

Create a conflict resolution approach for the project team management of issues such as disagreements or bullying.

Lead social justice change within the project environment (i.e., countering structural inequities, addressing implicit and explicit bias, combating social injustices, and applying cultural humility).

Conclusion

Recap the paper’s purpose statement and organizing criteria.

Draw major conclusions from the body of your paper.

Summarize the importance of effective communication competencies for the DNP-prepared nurse.

References (minimum of 2 scholarly, peer-reviewed sources)

Create the reference page.

Ensure each reference has a matching citation.

Support your discussion by using evidence from at least two (2) scholarly peer-reviewed journal article sources (preferably research or systematic reviews) that are retrieved from the Chamberlain library databases. Do not use the internet, textbooks, government sources, or organizational websites for the two sources in this assignment. However, you may use other gray materials for additional sources if you need them. Hint: Search other than nursing journals for sources of evidence.

Review the rubric for the grading criteria.

APA Guidelines

Use the current Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA Manual) and the Chamberlain Guidelines for Writing a Professional Paper (located in the APA Basics section of the Writing Center) to complete this assignment. Follow these guidelines when completing each component. Contact your course faculty if you have questions.

Use the APA Paper Template (located in the Writing Center) to format this assignment.

Turn on Grammarly to check the correctness of the grammar and punctuation as you write. (Note: if you have not already done so, please download the free version at Grammarly.com before construction of the assignment.)

Create a title for your project and construct a title page using the APA paper template (Example: Preventing Early Sepsis in Critical Care Patients) based on your identified practice problem.

Use the following prescribed Level 1 headings for this paper:

Interprofessional Collaboration in Leading Project Teams

Communicating Comportment in Project Management

Leadership Ethics

Conclusion

Writing Requirements (APA format)

Length: 3-4 pages (not including title page, references page, or attachments)

1-inch margins

Double-spaced pages

12-point Times New Roman or 11-point Arial font

Headings & subheadings

In-text citations

Title page

Reference page

Standard English usage and mechanics

Course Outcomes

This assignment enables the student to meet the following course outcomes:

Compare and contrast theories of organizational behavior and leadership. (PO 6)

Investigate the role of advanced nursing practice in innovation and transformation to propose solutions impacting healthcare systems. (PO 6)

Differentiate attributes of effective leaders and followers in influencing healthcare. (PO 6)

Assimilate attributes for interprofessional collaboration across healthcare settings. (PO 8)

Formulate selected strategies for leadership and influence across healthcare systems. (PO 8)