Recommended Textbooks:
Useem, M. (1998). The leadership moment. Nine true stories of triumph and disaster and their lessons for us all. New York, NY: Three Rivers Press,
Useem, M. (2001). Leading up, how to lead your boss so you both win. New York, NY:
Three Rivers Press,
Cherry, B. & Jacob, S. (2010). Contemporary Nursing: Issues, Trends, & Management, 5th Edition. St Louis: Elsevier Mosby.
Committee on Quality of Health Care in America, Institute of Medicine. (2001). Crossing the
quality chasm: A new health system for the 21st Century, pp. 1-23. Washington: National Academy Press.
Rubric for Writing the Health Systems Issues and Management Paper (25 points)
Individual Assignment – Health Systems Issues and Management
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You have been hired as consultants to a manager in a health care organization. You will interview the CEO, CFO, CNO, FNP, Coordinator, Manager, Charge Nurse
or Director of Nursing of a health care organization. Discuss the current organizational structures, work processes and types of patients that shape the delivery of health care services and their leadership style. What Business card or email address and contact number must be submitted with paper.
In what ways is the leader accountable for achieving objectives? What information is used to measure performance improvement?
- To what extent is the organization designed effectively to achieve high performance on dimensions of clinical quality, value, patient experience and employee satisfaction? What role could the Nurse Practitioner play in caring for a patient in the healthcare system?
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b. Please identify strengths and weaknesses transparency and make recommendations to the manager to improve the organization on these dimensions. Include a discussion of constraints and opportunities for implementation.
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c. Identify and analyze an issue that is impacting the chosen healthcare system described by the healthcare leader:
- Healthcare policy on the issue. Must cite and discuss a minimal of two specific policies on the issue.
- Implications on future healthcare practice and policy on the issue using the chosen two policies.
Discuss the Change Process for Senior Management to make a change that would impact the issue. Select one of the following for the discussion: 1) To solve a problem 2) To improve efficiency 3) To reduce unnecessary workload
Incorporation of Quality and Safety Education in Nursing: QSEN and relate its principles to the change process selected for Senior Management.
Organization/Development
The paper’s introduction is clear, logical, and easy to follow headings
Student clearly incorporates their own thoughts with real life experience or work related experiences to include why the system was selected. Beyond reference citations.
The conclusion clearly present and is logical, flows from the body of the paper, and reviews the major points.
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The paper, including the title page, reference page (10 references within 5 past years) from 10 Peer Reviewed Journals, tables, and/or appendices, follows 6th edition APA guidelines for format. Paper is 7- 10 pages excluding title page and reference page. I stop reading at the 10th content page. Not past the year 2009.
Rules of grammar, usage, and punctuation are followed.
Spelling is correct.