DNP835 Full Course Latest 2018 October

DNP835 Strategic Leadership and Business Management

Module 1 Assignment

Historical Healthcare Challenges - Write a 2000-2500 word essay addressing each of the following points/questions. Support your ideas with at least three (3) scholarly citations in your essay. Use strict APA guidelines to format the paper. The cover page and reference page do not count towards the minimum word amount and an abstract and table of contents are not necessary and if included are not part of the overall word count.

Healthcare challenges have changed dramatically in the last ten years. Provide a discussion of how healthcare delivery has changed. Include the role of nursing leadership in the changes. Include a discussion on the likely role of nursing leadership in future challenges.

DNP835 Strategic Leadership and Business Management

Module 2 Assignment

Value-based Healthcare Delivery - Develop a 15 slide PowerPoint presentation. Be thorough and include rational and references for your recommendations.

Imagine you have been asked to present your recommendation on implementing value-based healthcare delivery with a focus on the role of nursing in the development of the delivery model. You will develop the project as if to present the PowerPoint to the healthcare systems board of directors. Be sure to include specific roles and how the changes will improve healthcare delivery and financial management.

DNP835 Strategic Leadership and Business Management

Module 3 Assignment

Cultural Driven Healthcare Delivery - Write a 2000-2500 word essay addressing each of the following points/questions. Support your ideas with at least three (3) scholarly citations in your essay. Use strict APA guidelines to format the paper. The cover page and reference page do not count towards the minimum word amount and an abstract and table of contents are not necessary and if included are not part of the overall word count.

Describe five cultures that are currently influencing healthcare and effecting delivery decisions. Discuss each culture in detail and describe potential challenges to healthcare delivery. Include a discussion of how you would address nursing staff ensuring that these cultures were handled with respect and appropriate care delivery behavior.

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Module 4 Assignment

Readiness in Transforming Healthcare - Write a 2000-2500 word essay addressing each of the following points/questions. Support your ideas with at least three (3) scholarly citations in your essay. Use strict APA guidelines to format the paper. The cover page and reference page do not count towards the minimum word amount and an abstract and table of contents are not necessary and if included are not part of the overall word count.

Describe a recent change you experienced in your professional practice. Describe in detail three things that were successful and three things that were not successful. Include a discussion of why the successes worked and what could have been done to make the less successful actions effective.

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Module 5 Assignment

Implementing Change - Your interview should be 2000-2500 words and should include at least three (3) citations. Clearly mark each heading to identify the interviews and summaries. Follow the guidelines for APA writing style. Be sure to use APA guidelines for referencing in an interview.

Interview a Nursing Leader. Develop questions about the practice change process and how practice change was used to influence patient outcomes. Discuss how the outcome was chosen and what goals were intended by the practice change process. Include how success or failure was achieved and what metrics were developed or used to determine the outcome of the practice change. Include a discussion of the practice change process, what the Nursing Leader's expectations were and if these expectations were met. Describe anything the Nursing Leader would have liked to done differently in implementing the change.

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Module 6 Assignment

Assessing the Mission/Vision Statement - Develop a 15 slide PowerPoint presentation. Be thorough and include rational and references for your recommendations.

As a nursing leader you have been ask to assess the mission/vision statement of an organization. Choose a Mission/Vision statement and in a 15 slide PowerPoint presentation identify components of the chosen Mission/Vision statement that clearly drive patient care and identify components that are cloudy or ambiguous. Provide alternate statements that clarify the Mission/Vision statement for quality healthcare delivery and ensure the Mission/Vision statement is disambiguous.

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Module 7 Assignment

Reflecting on Personal Professional Behaviors - Write a 3000-3500 word essay addressing each of the following points/questions. Support your ideas with at least three (3) scholarly citations in your essay. Use strict APA guidelines to format the paper. The cover page and reference page do not count towards the minimum word amount and an abstract and table of contents are not necessary and if included are not part of the overall word count.

This is a reflective professional assignment. Choose five positive characteristics and five characteristics that need improvement in your professional behaviors and practice. Use nursing leadership theory, leadership theory, and change theory discuss how these characteristics developed, how you intend to maximize the positive and what you will do with those needing improvement. Include short and long term plans to re-assess these characteristics and the effectiveness of your use of them. Finally describe how this reflective assignment would assist with assessing behaviors in your colleagues.

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Module 8 Assignment

Change and Growth - Write a 2000-2500 word essay addressing each of the following points/questions. Support your ideas with at least three (3) scholarly citations in your essay. Use strict APA guidelines to format the paper. The cover page and reference page do not count towards the minimum word amount and an abstract and table of contents are not necessary and if included are not part of the overall word count.

Using concepts and ideas that you have learned in this course describe how you will approach future change. Discuss growth you perceive has happened in your professional practice. Describe any differences in how you will approach change in future. Finally describe how you intend to measure future success in change for both yourself and others.

DNP835 Strategic Leadership and Business Management

Module 8 Assignment

Reflection Artifact

Please consider how you have developed the knowledge, skills, and attitudes that enable your achievement of the Course Goals listed in the syllabus. Then write a reflection of minimum of 1000 words describing how this course has helped you achieve these goals. Finally, chose one assignment that you feel represents your best learning (artifact) in the course. Take a few minutes to revise it, according to comments from your professor. Combine these into one document.

Finally, submit the assignment into the drop-box and save a copy of it in a folder on your personal computer.

DNP835 Strategic Leadership and Business Management

Module 1 Discussion

DQ1

After reading the learning materials for this module develop three challenges to healthcare and provide a short discussion of possible nursing leadership interventions.

DQ2

Discuss how the nursing leadership role is instrumental in providing effective healthcare delivery.

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Module 2 Discussion

DQ1 Discuss value-based healthcare delivery. Include the role of nursing in this delivery paradigm.

DQ2 Discuss how nursing leadership influences value-based healthcare delivery in systems management.

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Module 3 Discussion

DQ1 Identify a changing cultural dynamic in your community. Include discussion on how this dynamic is influencing the way healthcare is and will be delivered.

DQ2 As a nursing leader you are ask to identify the cultural challenges that will be facing your staff in the next five years. Discuss how you would recognize these needs and what tools you will use to develop a response to the challenges.

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Module 4 Discussion

DQ1 Discuss transformational leadership as relates to the role of a nursing manager.

DQ2 After reading the article found at http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/771912, discuss three behavioral changes you will adopt as a nursing leader.

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Module 5 Discussion

DQ1 Discuss a recent unsuccessful change in healthcare that you have experienced. Discuss how you would improve the outcome.

DQ2 Discuss how you would use value-based healthcare delivery to influence a change behavior on a nursing unit.

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Module 6 Discussion

DQ1 Discuss how you would use value-based healthcare delivery to influence a change behavior on a nursing unit.

DQ2 Discuss why many mission/vision statements do not drive healthcare decisions and why.

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Module 7 Discussion

DQ1 Identify a mentor that guided you through a key process of adopting professional practice behaviors. Discuss how the mentor assisted you with the process.

DQ2 Describe three methods you will use to recognize and share quality professional behaviors.

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Module 8 Discussion

DQ1 Discuss the how participating in change helps a nursing leader grow and mature in their professional practice.

DQ2 Describe how successful nursing leaders guide professional practice for those around them using this example: an employee has resigned and the resignation letter is angry and includes many negative comments about the organization. How would you respond to the employee?