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DNP8010 Management in Advanced Contemporary Nursing

Unit 4 Assignment  

Balanced Scorecard and Strategic Plan

For this assignment, you will write a paper in which you present a balanced scorecard and strategic plan for the health care organization for which you have been developing a presentation. See the second Study in Unit 3 where you began work on your presentation for more information about balanced scorecards.

Your balanced scorecard should include priorities for each of the four categories or domains and should include key performance indicators (KPI’s). You will recall that the four categories or domains are:

Financial performance measures.

Internal business processes.

Learning and growth.

Customer satisfaction.

In your paper:

Briefly describe the organization you selected.

Discuss the findings of the balanced scorecard and provide an analysis of the organization based on the scorecard findings, and include how vision and strategy connect to the four balanced scorecard categories or domains.

Select one area for improvement based on your findings and analysis of the organization.

Briefly outline a strategic plan to address the identified need for improvement. In your plan include the following components:

Goal or goals – limit goals to no more than two.

Strategies to reach the goals that address key issues identified.

Appropriateness of strategy.

Feasibility of strategy.

Cost-benefit analysis.

Timing.

 

DNP8010 Management in Advanced Contemporary Nursing

Unit 7 Assignment  

Needs Assessment and Quality Improvement Plan

For this assignment, for the organization you have selected for your assignments, you will describe a problem or area for improvement, conduct a needs assessment, and select a quality improvement model for developing a quality improvement plan.

The needs assessment is the first step in the planning process for a quality improvement process. Although you may know what problem you want to address in your project, you must objectively evaluate the need or gap in practice with a needs assessment. A needs assessment is the process for addressing the gaps in current practices from the desired states of practice. When deficiency in practice is identified, it has to be measured.

Determining the quality improvement model to address your question or problem will also facilitate the choice of tools to use. It is best to select a Quality Improvement (QI) methodology or change theory or framework that best fits the organizational culture to meet the goals of the proposed QI Plan.

Once you select the tool that you will apply to your question, follow the prescribed steps to use it and discuss the process and results in your paper.

Assignment Instructions

Description of Problem

Describe the problem or area for improvement you identified. In your description, include:

Organizational, population, fiscal, and political contexts.

Current systems: informal and formal power structures.

Stakeholders and accountability.

Needs Assessment

After you have selected your methodology or framework, select tools associated with your chosen model to:

Identify the objectives and scope of your needs assessment and quality improvement plan.

Describe and analyze the strengths and weaknesses of the current practice.

Discuss the gaps and need for change.

Discuss the potential issues, premises, and constraints related to the project.

The ARHQ Assessing Pressure Ulcer Policies provides an example of a needs assessment for preventing pressure ulcers in hospitals. On the same webpage, the left side navigation bar lists several additional examples. Some of these examples illustrate the concepts of this course and can be used to model your own projects.

Quality Improvement Plan

Identify the quality improvement model you have selected based on your needs assessment.

Use tools associated with your chosen model to:

Select a QI methodology and change theory or framework that best fits the organizational culture to meet the goals of the proposed QI plan.

Discuss how the organizational culture will help or challenge the QI improvement project including informal and formal power structures and how leadership can affect this.

Create a quality improvement plan to address the problem or gap identified by the needs assessment.

Seek and incorporate feedback from the key stakeholders regarding the results of the needs assessment and recommended next steps in your quality improvement plan.

Sections of Your Paper

Your paper must include all of the following sections:

Title page

In the body, include the following sections:

Introduction.

Description of the problem.

Needs assessment.

Quality Improvement Plan using the framework you have chosen.

Concluding Summary: Summarize and synthesize the needs assessment, feedback from stakeholders, and proposed QI plan into a concluding summary. Clearly incorporate the evidence to support the proposed change and the proposed quality improvement plan.

References page: Make sure references and citations are formatted according to current APA style and formatting guidelines.

Note: This paper builds on but does not repeat the balanced scorecard or strategic plan.

 

DNP8010 Management in Advanced Contemporary Nursing

Unit 9 Assignment  

Final Presentation With Budget

Overview

For this assignment, you will create a final draft of the presentation you have been working on throughout this course.

To complete your presentation, prepare a budget for your project. The ability to compile a clear and concise budget to support your project is an important step toward having your project funded. The budget needs to include the costs of any related items that will be needed for the project. The important question to ask in the budgeting phase is, “What will be needed in relation to capital to accomplish the goals and objectives of the project?” It is important to take into account the cost of staffing, the cost of products, publications, and equipment.

Budget Considerations

As you begin preparing a budget, in your Management and Leadership for Nurse Administrators textbook, review Chapter 8, “Procuring and Sustaining Resources,” pages 167–203. Explore the multiple tables that structure budget development.

In the budget that you prepare for your presentation:

Identify the costs associated with the proposed project. Include direct, indirect, fixed, and variable costs.

Justify the costs.

Identify the size of grant or budget allocation needed to develop and implement the program.

Identify a potential funding source within the organization or an external funding source.

Include your project budget in spreadsheet format in your presentation.

Putting It All Together

The presentation is to be your executive summary for your quality improvement project and should provide a high-level overview of the project you have developed throughout the course with a macro to micro lens.

In your presentation, synthesize the following elements:

Balanced scorecard.

Strategic plan.

Needs assessment.

Feedback from stakeholders.

Proposed QI plan.

Budget.

Your presentation should be designed to be presented to the executive leadership of the organization. Use PowerPoint or similar presentation software.