Overview

Prepare a PowerPoint presentation of 8–10 slides that explains why an understanding of complimentary alternative medicine (CAM) and spirituality is important for members of health care teams; examines the ethical, legal, and financial principles related to CAM and spirituality; and describes how these forms of health care can impact plans of action.

Note: The assessments in this course build upon each other, so you are strongly encouraged to complete them in sequence.

As a leader in the field of nursing, it is important for you to identify areas within your organization that may need to improve cultural competence, and to develop educational materials to assist in doing so.

By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:

· Competency 2: Develop evidence-based health promotion and disease prevention initiatives for diverse and vulnerable populations. 

. Identify topics for an organizational education plan on CAM and spirituality.

. Explain the importance of health care professionals developing an understanding of CAM, traditional medicine, holistic health, and spirituality.

· Competency 3: Apply basic epidemiological concepts, data analysis methods, tools, and databases to determine the effectiveness of health promotion and disease prevention initiatives for diverse and vulnerable populations. 

. Provide a list of resources to include in an organizational education plan on CAM and spirituality.

· Competency 4: Examine the ethical, legal, and economic factors related to health disparities in diverse and vulnerable populations. 

. Examine ethical, legal, and economic principles related to CAM, traditional medicine, holistic health, and spirituality.

· Competency 5: Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations for members of the health care professions. 

. Write content clearly and logically, with correct use of grammar, punctuation, APA formatting, and mechanics.

Assessment Instructions

Preparation

Your organization has seen an increase in the number of individuals using complimentary alternative medicine (CAM), traditional medicine, holistic health, and spirituality. In addition to your work on the interdisciplinary team, you have been asked by your organization to prepare and deliver an educational session on CAM, traditional medicine, holistic health, and spirituality that can be used by all health care teams. How will you complete this task?

You should focus on these concepts as they pertain to your population (from the Windshield Survey assessment), but also in a broader sense. Use the Capella library and the Internet to look for recent research articles or information on these topics to use as supporting resources in your assessment.

Requirements

For this assessment, prepare a PowerPoint presentation in which you:

· Identify the topics you will cover in your educational plan.

· Provide a list of resources your audience can use to further their understanding of complimentary alternative medicine (CAM).

· Explain why it is important for nurses and members of other health care teams to develop an understanding of CAM, traditional medicine, holistic health, and spirituality.

· Examine any ethical, legal, and economic principles related to CAM, traditional medicine, holistic health, and spirituality.

· Describe how these forms of health care can affect a plan of action for individuals and populations.

Your presentation should include a slide with the title of your educational session, a slide with the topics that will be covered (your agenda), and a reference slide at the end. Use the notes section of each slide to provide additional information on each topic, along with supporting references. References and in-text citations must adhere to APA guidelines.

Additional Requirements

· Include a title slide and reference slide. The completed assessment should be 8–10 slides in length, not including the title slide and reference slide.

· Reference at least three current scholarly or professional resources.

· Use current APA format for references.

· Be creative!

NURS 6053 WK 7 DISCUSSION

Think of a particular day you spent working in a health care environment, and consider three or four distinct points in time. For each point of time, consider the following: With whom did you interact? Which forms of communication did you use? What issues were communicated about—did they seem to be light-hearted or sensitive? Straightforward or complicated? How would you describe the pace of the interactions and your work?

As you consider these questions, it becomes clear that communication can be quite complex, with many layers of meaning that shape the experience for everyone involved. How could this awareness help you to understand instances of ineffective communication when they arise?

To prepare:

· Review the information in Chapter 19 of the course text, as well as the assigned articles.

· Reflect on an incident involving ineffective communication within your organization or another health care setting. Consider this incident through the lens of the communication process outlined in Figure 19.1 of the course text (p. 439).

· What barriers contributed to this incident? What other challenges may have influenced this situation?

· Using the information presented in the other Learning Resources, consider what could have been done to prevent or address the ineffective communication. Why do you think the use of these strategies would have resulted in better outcome(s)?

On the Discussion Board, post 1 page on  a summary of an incident involving ineffective communication. Describe communication barriers and other challenges that contributed to the incident. Propose one or more strategies that could have been employed to promote a better outcome. Be sure to refer to elements of the communication process.

References

· Marquis, B. L., & Huston, C. J. (2015). Leadership roles and management functions in nursing: Theory and application (8th ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins.

· Review Chapter 19, “Organizational, Interpersonal, and Group Communication

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Gifu, D., Dima, I. C., & Teodorescu, M. (2014). New communication approaches vs. traditional communication. International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences, (20), 46-55.  Retrieved from Walden Library Databases.

Johansson, C., Miller, V. D., Hamrin, S. (2014) Conceptualizing communicative leadership: A framework for analyzing and developing leaders’ communication competence, Corporate Communications: An International Journal, 19 (2), 147 – 165.  Retrieved from Walden Library Databases

Manojlovich, M., Harrod, M., Holtz, B., Hofer, T., Kuhn, L., & Krein, S. L. (2015). The Use of Multiple Qualitative Methods to Characterize Communication Events Between Physicians and Nurses. Health communication, 30(1), 61-69.  Retrieved from Walden Library Databases

Week 6: Developing a Strategic Plan to Create Change

Strategic planning implies rethinking priority tasks with available resources to achieve a new business result.

— Michele V. Sare and LeAnn Ogilvie, Strategic Planning for Nurses: Change Management in Health Care

As a nurse leader-manager, you can dynamically impact health care through your involvement in strategic planning. Being able to identify an unmet need is a critical aspect of strategic planning; however, the real value of this process lies in moving a group, unit, or organization through the analysis and actions required to effectively address the unmet need.

This week, you consider how the foundational topics introduced in the first several weeks of this course relate to the creation of a strategic plan. As you move forward, you will be guided through the strategic planning process to develop your Course Project: Developing a Strategic Plan.

Learning Objectives

Students will:

· Analyze historical data and forecasting pertaining to an unmet need in health care or nursing

· Analyze potential stakeholders for a strategic planning effort

· Formulate a vision for addressing an unmet health care-related need at the organizational or systems level

· Evaluate research evidence for addressing an unmet need in health care or nursing* *This Learning Objective assigned this week will be assessed in Week 7

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Learning Resources

Note:  To access this week’s required library resources, please click on the link to the Course Readings List, found in the Course Materials section of your Syllabus.

Required Readings

Balicer, R. D., Shadmi, E., Lieberman, N., Greenberg-Dotan, S., Goldfracht, M., Jana, L., . . . Jacobson, O. (2011). Reducing health disparities: Strategy planning and implementation in Israel’s largest health care organization. Health Services Research, 46(4), 1281–1299.

Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.

The authors examine the planning, implementation, and evaluation of an organization-wide strategy to address the need to reduce health care inequalities and improve quality in Israel.

Schaffner, J. (2009). Roadmap for success: The 10-step nursing strategic plan. Journal of Nursing Administration, 39(4), 152–155.

Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.

The author outlines a 10-step strategic planning process for nursing.

Strubhar, A. J. (2011). The application of an environmental scanning and strategic planning framework in an academic department of physical therapy. Journal of Physical Therapy Education, 25(3), 53–59.

Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.

The author examines strategic planning, including environmental scanning, within a physical therapy department in an academic institution.

Authenticity Consulting. (n.d.b). Basic description of strategic planning. Retrieved March 13, 2013, from http://managementhelp.org/strategicplanning/basics.htm

This online article provides an overview of the strategic planning.

Authenticity Consulting. (n.d.c). Basic overview of various strategic planning models. Retrieved March 13, 2013, from http://managementhelp.org/strategicplanning/models.htm

This online article describes different models of strategic planning, including issues-based planning.

PlanWare. (n.d.). Business planning papers: Developing a strategic plan. Retrieved March 13, 2013, from http://www.planware.org/strategicplan.htm

View the strategic planning information on this website.

Required Media

Laureate Education (Producer). (2013d). Elements of a strategic plan model [Video file]. Retrieved from https://class.waldenu.edu

Note: The approximate length of this media piece is 6 minutes.

Dr. Carol Huston describes elements common to strategic planning models and discusses ways to approach the development of a strategic plan.

Accessible player 

Optional Resources

Authenticity Consulting. (n.d.a). All about strategic planning. Retrieved March 13, 2013, fromhttp://managementhelp.org/strategicplanning/index.htm

Discussion: Addressing an Unmet Need Through Strategic Planning

Challenges can seem ever present in the health care field. Problems related to the quality of patient care, financial matters, technology, and interdisciplinary collaboration, for example, are often evident in organizations and professional groups.

In your role as a nurse leader-manager, it is important to consider challenges and how these translate into unmet needs. You can then create valuable change by addressing these unmet needs through strategic planning.

Through this Discussion, you may distinguish the focus for your Course Project. Your instructor and colleagues will provide feedback to help you refine your idea as you move forward.

To prepare:

· Consider the information presented by Dr. Carol Huston in this week’s media program. Think about the process of moving from the identification of an unmet need through the development, implementation, and evaluation of a strategic plan.

· Reflect on the initial thinking about trends and unmet needs in nursing and health care that you addressed in Week 5.

· Consider how the information in this week’s Learning Resources deepens and expands your understanding of these trends and unmet needs in relation to the strategic planning process.

· Proceed with planning for your Course Project as follows:

· Select an unmet need that affects a specific group, unit, or organization. 

· Deepen your understanding of this group, unit, or organization by examining the stated mission, vision, and values, if possible.

· Analyze historical data related to the unmet need, and review the evidence in the literature. Use this information to engage in forecasting.

· Consider which stakeholders should be included in the strategic planning process.

· Begin to formulate a vision for addressing this need at the organizational or systems level. (Note: Although not required for this Discussion, you will need to develop a strategic goal for your Course Project.)

 IT IS IMPORTANT TO COVER THE COMPETENCIES !!!

Write a 3–5 page executive summary that examines an organization’s diversity policies and practices.

Becoming a nursing leader requires a good deal of thought, consideration, and evaluation of the qualities you believe are essential for a nurse to effectively lead in the delivery of health care.

By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:

· Competency 2: Apply systems theory and systems thinking to facilitate health care delivery and patient outcomes. 

(IMPORTANT) –Analyze the impact of a diverse nursing workforce on patient outcomes.

· Competency 3: Analyze the role of multiculturalism and diversity in organizational and systems structure and leadership. 

(IMPORTANT)-Analyze how a health care organization integrates diversity and multiculturalism into its practices.

(IMPORTANT)-Analyze current recruitment and retention policies to identify gaps between best practices and current policies.

· Competency 4: Evaluate how power relates to health care organizational structure, behavior, and leadership. 

(IMPORTANT) -Recommend evidence-based changes to the organizational structure and systems leadership that empower a diverse workforce.

· Competency 5: Communicate in a manner that is consistent with the expectations of a nursing professional. 

(IMPORTANT) -Write content clearly and logically, with correct use of grammar, punctuation, mechanics, and current APA style.

Assessment Instructions 

Preparation

To prepare for this assessment, use the Capella library and the Internet to study the impact of health system’s power structure on nursing, leadership, diversity related to empowerment in nursing and patient outcomes, and recruitment of a diverse workforce. You may also wish to look for examples of an executive summary on the Internet.

· Identify a type of health care facility and examine the Web site and available public information to review the organization of the nursing department, nursing recruitment, and any information about the diversity of the system’s workforce and leadership. 

o You may use the health care setting in which you currently work or have worked in the past.

o Describe the type of organization and region. Example: a major Midwestern teaching hospital or a rehabilitation hospital on the East Coast. 

o Do not report the name of the facility.

Deliverable: Executive Summary of Organizational Diversity

Read the following scenario:

Scenario:

The city in which you work has undergone a significant population shift within the last 10 years, due to increased employment, education opportunities, and an influx of immigrants and refugees. To put the population shift in perspective, the local school district enrollment report states that nearly 100 languages are spoken in the schools, up from 32 languages in the last census. Senior leadership has asked you to examine all types of multiculturalism and diversity within your health care organization.

To do this, you will need to use a systems perspective to examine the relationship between a diverse workforce and patient outcomes; identify gaps between best practices and the organization’s diversity policies, and make a recommendation for organizational change.

In the executive summary:

· Analyze the impact of a diverse workforce on patient outcomes. 

o In what ways or situations might multiculturalism and diversity impact health care delivery or patient outcomes?

o How is diversity defined in the organization?

· Analyze how the health care system integrates diversity and multiculturalism into its practices. 

o Is the makeup of the organization’s leadership representative of the patient and employee populations? Is this important? What would you change?

o Explain how multiculturalism and diversity can impact health care delivery or patient outcomes.

· Analyze current recruitment and retention policies to identify gaps between best practices and current policies.

· Assess the level of integration and importance of multiculturalism and diversity in a health care organization. 

o Are all types of diversity recognized and included?

o Provide support for your position by including 2 or 3 examples of the integration of multiculturalism and diversity into the organization.

· Recommend evidence-based changes to the organizational structure and systems leadership that empower a diverse workforce. 

o What changes would you champion as a health care leader to make the system more responsive to patients and the organization’s workforce?

Make your document easy to scan for readers by:

· Using subheadings to organize content.

· Using bullet points and phrases for main points, in addition to short, succinct paragraphs.

· Including a visual, such as a graph, table, or chart.

Additional Requirements

· Written communication: Written communication should be free of errors that distract from the overall message.

· APA formatting: Resources and in-text citations should be formatted according to current APA style and formatting.

· Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point, double-spaced.

· Length: Summary report should be 3–5 pages.

· Number of resources: Use a minimum of three peer-reviewed resources.

Patient has to be less than 18 years old

In addition to Journal Entries, SOAP Note submissions are a way to reflect on your Practicum experiences and connect these experiences to your classroom experience. SOAP Notes, such as the ones required in this course, are often used in clinical settings to document patient care. Please refer to this week’s Learning Resources for guidance on writing SOAP Notes.

Select a patient who you examined during the last 3 weeks. With this patient in mind, address the following in a SOAP Note:

• Subjective: What details did the patient or parent provide regarding the personal and medical history? Include any discrepancies between the details provided by the child and details provided by the parent, as well as possible reasons for these discrepancies.
• Objective: What observations did you make during the physical assessment? Include pertinent positive and negative physical exam findings. Describe whether the patient presented with any growth and development or psychosocial issues.
• Assessment: What were your differential diagnoses? Provide a minimum of three possible diagnoses. List them from highest priority to lowest priority. What was your primary diagnosis and why?
• Plan: What was your plan for diagnostics and primary diagnosis? What was your plan for treatment and management? Include pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic treatments, alternative therapies, and follow-up parameters, as well as a rationale for this treatment and management plan.
• Reflection notes: What was your “aha” moment? What would you do differently in a similar patient evaluation?