Capella DNP8010 Full Course latest 2020 April

DNP8010 Management in Advanced Contemporary Nursing

Unit 1 Discussion

Born Leaders Versus Taught Leaders

In this unit’s studies, you watched a video about the qualities needed in future leaders and whether individuals could be taught to be leaders.

Respond to the following:

Do you believe that leaders can be taught? Support your answer with examples and evidence.

What management skills do you believe the DNP leader will need for the future?

How important is curiosity in leading and managing?

Your initial post should be succinct and demonstrate clarity of thought and precision in writing. Support your discussion with at least two references other than this unit’s required readings. Use appropriate and accurate APA formatting.

 

DNP8010 Management in Advanced Contemporary Nursing

Unit 2 Discussion

Management Theories

For your initial post to this discussion, select a management theory or model. Search the Internet or the Capella University Library for information that will lead to your understanding about the theory or model. Select a website or a peer-reviewed article and relate it to the clinical problem or question you have identified for your DNP project. Discuss how formal and informal power structures and hospital politics play a role.

Your initial post should be succinct and demonstrate clarity of thought and precision in writing. Support your discussion with at least two references other than the required readings. Use appropriate and accurate APA formatting.

 

DNP8010 Management in Advanced Contemporary Nursing

Unit 3 Discussion

Applying Tools for Strategic Planning

For your initial post to this discussion, please respond to both parts of the discussion listed below:

Part 1

Create a personal strategic plan for completing your degree and creating your future career.

State your personal mission and five-year objectives.

Provide a SWOT analysis for your personal strategic plan.

Explain how you can apply the principles in your mission and objectives to your DNP project.

Part 2

Review the strategic plan of your nursing department (or the department you work for).

Does the strategic plan align with the department’s mission? Provide evidence.

How could a balanced scorecard be included as a way to monitor progress in accomplishing the strategic plan?

Your initial post should be succinct and demonstrate clarity of thought and precision in writing. Support your discussion with at least two references other than the required readings. Use appropriate and accurate APA formatting.

 

DNP8010 Management in Advanced Contemporary Nursing

Unit 4 Discussion

Foundations of Strategic Planning

For your initial post to this discussion, locate a strategic plan on the Internet. The plan could be for a nursing program in a college, a nursing department in a hospital or health care agency, or a nursing organization. Do not choose a strategic plan that already has been selected by one of your peers in this class. For the plan you select:

Identify the key elements as described by McKay in his 2001 article, “Strategic Planning: A Ten-Step Guide”:

Vision.

Mission.

Situation analysis or environmental scan.

Strategic goals.

Priorities.

Which key result is addressed?

Why should nurse leaders engage in strategic planning? What are the benefits and to whom?

Initial Post Guidelines

Your initial post should be succinct and demonstrate clarity of thought and precision in writing. Support your discussion with at least two references other than the required readings. Use appropriate and accurate APA formatting.

 

DNP8010 Management in Advanced Contemporary Nursing

Unit 5 Discussion

Organizational Change

Scenario Selection

For this discussion, select one of the following scenarios:

Scenario A:

You are the DNP nurse in a regional, rural primary care health center. You are responsible for the clinical training of staff and the quality program in the center. You also provide direct care to patients 2–3 days a week. There has been a large influx of patients with chronic respiratory disorders from the local industrial plants. You want to propose a program to address this population’s needs.

Scenario B:

You, as a DNP nurse, are asked to lead a process improvement project in your organization. The project will address the poor patient satisfaction scores received over the past 8 months. You suspect that some of the root causes may include staff dissatisfaction and increased overtime hours.

Initial Post

After you select a scenario, in your initial post address the following:

Identify the scenario you selected.

What elements of change will need to be adequately addressed?

What aspects of complexity science or theories of complex adaptive systems are operating in this scenario?

Which change theory would you apply and why?

What must be considered when constructing a transition management plan (including accountability and ongoing support)?

How do these considerations of change relate to the AACN DNP Essentials of Doctoral Education for Advanced Nursing Practice and the AONE Nurse Executive Competencies?

Your initial post should demonstrate clarity of thought and precision in writing. Support your discussion with at least two references other than this unit’s required readings. Use appropriate and accurate APA formatting.

 

DNP8010 Management in Advanced Contemporary Nursing

Unit 6 Discussion

Quality Initiative Practices

Search for a report about a quality improvement project that a health care provider has undertaken. In your initial post to this discussion include the following:

A brief description of the quality improvement project.

The model for quality management that was employed.

The steps the organization took in achieving improvement.

A description of how you would justify the use of continuous quality improvement as a basis for implementing change in your health care system, if you were the CEO or CNO of the organization.

Your initial post should be succinct and demonstrate clarity of thought and precision in writing. Support your discussion with at least two references other than the required readings. Use appropriate and accurate APA formatting.

 

DNP8010 Management in Advanced Contemporary Nursing

Unit 7 Discussion

Six Sigma and FMEA Improve Health Care

Prepare for this discussion by reviewing the Blouin article linked in the Resources. Then, in your initial post, complete the following:

Share your experience with a quality improvement project.

Describe the program and its goals and outcomes.

Explain the role of nursing leadership in the project. If nursing leadership was not involved, speculate why it was not involved and how it should be involved.

Explain how the outcomes were measured.

Initial Post Guidelines

Your initial post should be succinct and demonstrate clarity of thought and precision in writing. Support your discussion with at least two references other than the required readings. Use appropriate and accurate APA formatting.

 

DNP8010 Management in Advanced Contemporary Nursing

Unit 8 Discussion

Errors and Root Causes

For this discussion, choose one of the following options:

Option A

After viewing Dr. Lucian Leape’s video, Why Do Errors Happen? How Can We Prevent Them?, in your initial post, discuss the following questions (adapted from the IHI’s group discussion questions) in relation to a personal professional experience:

What are the main obstacles preventing health care agencies and professionals from learning from one another’s mistakes?

How would you classify the barriers? Are they cultural, territorial, legal, technological, political, or financial?

How would a nursing leader design an ideal system to keep identical, fatal errors from happening in different places?

How should errors and their solutions be shared across organizations?

Option B

In 2010, the Joint Commission reported that the top four root causes for reported sentinel events were lapses in communication, leadership, assessment, and human factors. In your initial post, describe a high-risk situation in which at least one of these four elements would be considered a root cause. For your initial post to this discussion, complete the following:

Describe what happened.

Explain why it happened.

Describe the proximate factors. (The article “Framework for Conducting a Root Cause Analysis and Action Plan” from the Joint Commission will help. You do not need to complete the framework, but you may find it useful in discussing the problem.)

Discuss the risk-reduction strategies that were used or that would have been effective.

Initial Post Guidelines

Your initial post should be succinct and demonstrate clarity of thought and precision in writing. Support your discussion with at least two references other than the required readings. Use appropriate and accurate APA formatting.

 

DNP8010 Management in Advanced Contemporary Nursing

Unit 9 Discussion

Preparing a Budget Proposal

For your initial post, discuss the integration of business management, budgeting, and nursing leadership. Do the concepts reviewed in this unit tie in with the DNP Essentials of Doctoral Education for Advanced Nursing Practice and the AONE Nurse Executive Competencies? Why or why not? How do these concepts fit in with your current workplace? What is the implication for your proposed project and your role as a DNP?

Initial Post Guidelines

Your initial post should be succinct and demonstrate clarity of thought and precision in writing. Support your discussion with at least two references other than the required readings. Use appropriate and accurate APA formatting.

 

DNP8010 Management in Advanced Contemporary Nursing

Unit 10 Discussion

DQ1 Competencies for Nurse Leaders

Using the Vestal article, “Managing Your Talent Forward,” consider the following points for this discussion:

How are you developing your DNP leadership skills in your DNP project?

How do you envision that your leadership skills will transform organizations and systems?

What does it mean to you to manage your talent forward?

Your initial post should be succinct and demonstrate clarity of thought and precision in writing. Support your discussion with at least two references other than the required readings. Use appropriate and accurate APA formatting.

DQ2 Course Closure and Reflection

A final step in each part of your DNP program is an evaluation of each course, reflection on what you have learned, and consideration for how you can apply this new knowledge and skills to your professional practice.

For your initial post to this discussion, write a brief evaluation of what you have learned in this course and how you will apply your new knowledge and skills to your professional career and development as a DNP-prepared nurse professional.

Identify at least two areas of new knowledge that you have acquired.

Discuss how and where you might apply the new knowledge to your current (or future) nursing practice.

Discuss what you have learned as a result of this course about your own strengths and weaknesses in nursing management.

Discuss the knowledge gaps that still exist related to the content in this course. How will you fill those gaps?

Your initial post should be succinct and demonstrate clarity of thought and precision in writing. Use examples to support your reflection. Evidence-based references are not required for this discussion.

 

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.