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NSG498 Senior Leadership Practicum

Week 1 Discussion

Ethical, Legal, and Regulatory Considerations

Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words and a reference:

What ethical, legal, and regulatory considerations do you face or expect to face in practice? Be sure not to post any identifying information when discussing patient-related scenarios.

 

NSG498 Senior Leadership Practicum

Week 2 Discussion

Data Sources

Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:

 What do you think the biggest source of data will be for your project?

How will you analyze the data?

 

NSG498 Senior Leadership Practicum

Week 3 Discussion

Using Data

"Things get done only if the data we gather can inform and inspire those in a position to make difference” (Schmoker, 1996, p3).

Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:

How will you or do you use data to make a difference in your organization?

 

NSG498 Senior Leadership Practicum

Week 4 Discussion

Planning Challenges

Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:

Of the resources you are considering for your project plan, what is the biggest challenge you foresee? Why?

 

 

NSG498 Senior Leadership Practicum

Week 5 Discussion

Planning for Change

Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:

How did planning this change project and completing the nursing program change your career or the outlook on your career?

 

NSG498 Senior Leadership Practicum

Week 1 Assignment  

Define the Problem

Assignment Content

This week you will identify the focus of your project and anticipate the ethical, legal, and regulatory concerns that may arise.

For this assignment, you will:

Define the problem.

Identify the problem to be addressed and the setting in which it occurs.

Outline your proposal to address the problem.

Identify and discuss ethical, legal, and regulatory concerns relating to the problem.

Explain why you chose the problem.

Format your assignment as one of the following:

7- to 10-slide presentation

875-word paper

 

NSG498 Senior Leadership Practicum

Week 2 Assignment  

Information Management: Defining the Scope

Assignment Content

Gather as much information about your selected problem as possible. Consider both qualitative and quantitative data. For example:

Leader and peer interviews

Patient/customer surveys

Quality improvement (QI) reports from the facility

Benchmarking studies/baseline data. If baseline data is available:

What are the goals?

Are current practices meeting the organizational goals?

Are the prescribed practices followed?

Apply any relevant key quality improvement tools to your problem.

Review and aggregate the information you collected on the selected problem.

Determine the level of risk and frequency of the problem. This will provide you with the scope and significance of the problem.

Format your assignment as one of the following:

7- to 10-slide presentation

875-word paper

 

NSG498 Senior Leadership Practicum

Week 3 Assignment  

Research and Evidence: Support the Need for a Change

Assignment Content

In this assignment, you will research best practices to identify an effective intervention for your selected problem. Your goal is to gather evidence form scholarly literature to support the most effective intervention strategy.

The performance appraisal tools in this week’s learning activities will help you determine appropriate scholarly sources of evidence to cite this week.

Locate at least 3 original research articles that provide evidence for your proposed solution to your selected problem.

The articles must be peer reviewed, published within the past 5 years, and statistically significant.

Write a 350-word summary of each article in which you:

Identify current guidelines or best practices relating to your proposed solution, or if there are protocols, the current standard of care.

Define your proposed intervention(s) to address the problem.

Explain how the intervention will result in a solution to the problem.

Include PDFs of the articles as well as a reference pages with an APA-formatted citation for each article.

 

NSG498 Senior Leadership Practicum

Week 4 Assignment  

Project Translation and Planning

Assignment Content

In this week’s assignment, you will work through the planning and implementation stages of the project. This will require you to determine goals, resources needed, and to select an evidence-based practice (EBP) model.

Start with the solution that you determined would be most effective in resolving the stated problem and define the intended outcomes of implementing the change (i.e., what is your improvement goal?). In order for quality to improve, a change must occur. That change must be quantifiable, in other words, it must be measurable.

Create an implementation plan in which you:

Explain how you will measure the change and how you will know when you have reached your improvement goal.

Create a list of outcomes required to reach your outcomes goal. This will allow you to determine the actions needed and the priority of tasks that will result in the desired outcome.

Determine who will be responsible for each outcome (typically each is assigned to a team member who is motivated in seeing the successful implementation of the plan).

Determine the actions needed to take place for each outcome to occur. Questions to consider when determining what action needs to take place:

Who do we need to talk to?

Departments

Stakeholders

What needs to be decided?

What resources are needed?

Budget

Personnel

Supplies and equipment

What milestones need to be set to know we’re on track?

When do we need to check on the progress of those milestones?

Overall timeframe for the project

What potential setbacks do we need to plan for?

Risk management plan

Do any tasks need to be done before taking this action?

Establish budget, roles, and responsibilities (who will be responsible for what).

Determine how you will monitor progress, which provides you the means of tracking actions as they are completed and will make you aware of actions that are late or off track.

Select an EBP model to guide the implementation of the plan.

Remember that without a measure, progress becomes a matter of opinion and opinions can easily change over the course of an implementation timeline.

Create an evaluation plan. Your evaluation plan will define the standard of measurement for progress and will include:

Measurable outcomes (both short-term and long-term – formative assessments and summative assessments)

Data to be collected and how and when it is to be collected

Established evaluation points where data can be evaluated and adjustments made to the implementation plan as a result.

 Format your assignment as one of the following:

12- to 15-slide presentation

1,050-word paper

 

NSG498 Senior Leadership Practicum

Week 5 Assignment  

The Role of the Nurse Leader

Assignment Content

This week’s focus is on the nurse leader’s role in this and in similar projects.

Consider the nurse leader’s role at each stage of your project.

Identify the actions that a nurse leader would take with regards to the following:

Communication with stakeholders

Training

Budget

Change management

Include a specific change management theory that is appropriate to this project.

Authority

Format your assignment as one of the following:

7- to 10-slide presentation

875-word paper

Submit your assignment in APA format.