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NHS8040 21st-Century Health Care Leadership

Unit 3 Assignment

Interview and Leadership Analysis

Overview

While it is still early in your doctoral education process, it is important to start thinking about where you might complete your doctoral capstone project and who could be your preceptor. This assignment provides an opportunity for you to evaluate a potential leader to serve as preceptor at your proposed capstone site. Your interviewee should be in a health care leadership position with a graduate degree in a health care-related field. Ideally he or she should have a doctorate, but a master’s degree is acceptable.

This assignment has two parts:

Interview a health care leader who could serve as your preceptor for your capstone.

Summarize the interview in a 3–5 page paper.

With guidance from the health care leader you interview, determine a gap, need, or opportunity that will serve as the basis for the remaining assignments in this course. It should align with a strategic priority of the organization or health care system.

Keep in mind this could also serve as a capstone topic. Explore the feasibility and fidelity of this with the leader, including alignment with the capstone process and timeline.

Instructions

The following corresponds to the grading criteria in the scoring guide, so be sure to address each listed point. Consider reviewing the performance-level descriptions for each criterion to see how your work will be assessed.

Evaluate the primary leadership style of a chosen leader in a health care management position.

What are the leader’s credentials and what is his or her formal position in the organization?

What role does the leader play in the organization, system, or public health arena?

Is he or she a mentor to others?

How visible is the leader outside the organization?

How would you characterize his or her leadership style?

What is his or her role in communication?

Is he or she viewed as a change agent?

Assess a leader’s organizational role as it relates to quality, safety, and evidence-based standards.

How is the leader’s role interdisciplinary?

What is one example of how this leader facilitates, participates, or fosters interprofessional or interdisciplinary collaboration?

What is an example of how this leader champions quality and safety in the organization or public health system?

Explain the rationale behind the selection of a leader to serve as a preceptor.

Describe why this leader is qualified to be a doctoral preceptor.

Is this person trusted and respected in the organization and community?

Identify the connections he or she has to formal and informal power and how might these be leveraged to assist you in a quality improvement project or evidence-based practice change.

For example, could you get help with navigating policy, recruiting team members, enlisting buy-in?

Identify a gap, problem, or opportunity for a capstone project.

Can this be connected to an organizational, systemic, or public health strategic priority?

What are the implications for patient outcomes and safety?

In the context of the health care system identified, how will you include the voice of the patient?

Summarize a leader’s ability to provide ethical stewardship and oversight when accessing sensitive organizational information.

What is within the leader’s capacity to protect?

What challenges has the leader encountered with regard to the ethical use of the organization’s private data?

How does a leader provide oversight with communications related to organizational information?

Write coherently to support a central idea, using correct grammar, mechanics, and APA formatting.

NHS8040 21st-Century Health Care Leadership

Unit 5 Assignment

Project Charter Part 1

Overview

The project charter provides an overview of the proposed project and is a working plan for how it will be executed. It contains key information including the who, what, when, and where of the project and how it will be conducted. For this assignment, you will use information from the interview you conducted and the template linked in Resources to develop the first part of the project charter for your project.

Instructions

Drawing from the gap, need, or opportunity for improvement identified in the leadership interview, begin to develop a project charter for the topic. Although this project should address a relevant gap, data or contextual evidence may not be available. In that case, you may use fictitious information for this assignment or obtain data from the general literature (make sure to cite the source).

Using the Project Charter Template provided, complete Part 1 for this assignment. Write in the narrative where indicated. Be succinct but be sure to include all required information. Use citations as needed and include the reference list on the last page.

The following instructions correspond to the criteria in the assignment scoring guide, so be sure to address each point:

Create an acronym to identify the project name.

Get creative! A good acronym is memorable and distinct.

Justify the selection of departmental and executive sponsors.

Describe briefly why you chose these sponsors (fiscal, political, other support?).

Describe the overarching aim of the project, including the impact on a process or systems change.

Include a specific goal you hope to achieve by the end of the project.

Summarize the specific project strategy or intervention that will be used to accomplish the goal or aim.

Identify and provide a brief description of project team members and reasons for your choices.

Describe the impact the project will have on stakeholders, including patient safety and quality.

Be sure to note how you will include the voice of the patient or consumer.

Write coherently to support a central idea, using correct grammar, mechanics, and APA formatting.

Example assignment: You may use the assignment example, linked in the Resources, to give you an idea of what a Proficient or higher rating on the scoring guide would look like.

NHS8040 21st-Century Health Care Leadership

Unit 7 Assignment

Project Charter Part 2

Overview

Continuing to draw from the gap, need, or opportunity for improvement identified in the leadership interview, complete Part 2 of the Project Charter Template begun in Unit 5.

Instructions

The following instructions correspond to the assignment scoring guide criteria. Part 2 of the project charter should:

Summarize the proposed project.

Describe who, what, when, and where in a concise manner.

Include the estimated project duration and budget if applicable.

Align the project purpose with at least one strategic priority identified in the leadership interview, including rationale for change.

Justify the business case for the project.

Speculate as to the impact on people, processes, or systems.

Explain the objective evidence to support the need for the proposed project.

Provide contextual information identified during the leadership interview.

Include available local, regional, and national data as empirical evidence of the need for change and cite sources appropriately in APA format.

Justify choice of three SMART objectives related to the proposed project.

Summarize what the project will and will not address (project scope).

Summarize the project deliverables, including milestones.

Identify the high-level "products" to be created, such as an improved process, employee manual, or formal policy.

Include a timetable with daily, weekly, and monthly milestones.

Write coherently to support a central idea, using correct grammar, mechanics, and APA formatting.

Example assignment: You may use the assignment example, linked in the Resources, to give you an idea of what a Proficient or higher rating on the scoring guide would look like.

NHS8040 21st-Century Health Care Leadership

Unit 9 Assignment

Final Project Charter

Continue to draw from the gap, need, or opportunity for improvement identified in the leadership interview to complete Part 3 of the Project Charter Template.

In addition to completing Part 3, remember to revise Parts 1 and 2 based on instructor feedback from the previous assignments. You are also required to create and submit a data collection tool in Excel and submit as an appendix to your project charter. Refer to the helpful links in Resources as you complete your assignment.

The following requirements correspond to the criteria in the assignment scoring guide, so be sure to address each point:

Analyze organizational or system strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) in relation to the selected project aim.

Support the SWOT analysis with contextual information specific to the organization or health care system.

Identify and rate major known risks (low, medium, high risk) that could be barriers to the project.

Explain major assumptions for the project, including a description of logistical constraints that may affect the fidelity of the project.

Summarize pertinent ethical considerations that may be encountered during the project.

Address protected health information, HIPAA, human subject considerations, equitable care, and appropriate use of data.

Describe the communication strategies that will be used during the project.

Specify how the project manager will communicate to the executive sponsor, project team members, and stakeholders, including frequency of status updates, project team meetings, and so on.

Include descriptions of any visual tools or processes that will be used in communication such as Gemba walks, Gantt charts, dashboards, or safety cross.

List proposed outcomes and corresponding metrics to measure the outcomes.

Operationally define outcome measures.

Operationally define process measures.

Describe the purpose and use of the data collection plan.      

Include a description of primary or secondary data, source, data integrity, and data security plan.

Attach a data collection tool in Excel appropriate for the data source and time frame for the project; include this as an appendix.

Write coherently to support a central idea, using correct grammar, mechanics, and APA formatting.

Example assignment: You may use the assignment example, linked in the Resources, to give you an idea of what a Proficient or higher rating on the scoring guide would look like.