- Develop a 5-10 year strategic plan for achieving specific health care quality and safety improvements, based on the analysis you completed in Assessment 1. Use either an AI approach or your SWOT analysis and a chosen strategic planning model.
- Introduction
Evaluation of strategic choices is important. The methods for selecting strategic alternatives help leaders organize significant issues to support decision making. However, it is important that the techniques do not make the decision. Rather, leaders should use the techniques to reveal the inherent situation and to organize their thought processes. This assessment provides you with an opportunity to evaluate and apply some of the techniques for successful strategy development and implementation.
Note: You will use your care setting environmental analysis as the basis for developing your strategic plan in this assessment.
Preparation
The feedback you received on your care setting environmental analysis has been positive. Consequently, you have been asked to select one of the potential improvement projects you noted in your analysis and create a full, 5–10-year strategic plan to achieve the desired quality and safety improvement outcomes. You will develop your strategic plan, using either an AI approach (addressing the design stage), or by building on your SWOT analysis and applying a strategic planning model of your choice.
How you structure your plan should be based on whether you are taking an appreciative inquiry approach or using a specific strategic planning model. Regardless of the approach you choose, the requester of the plan has asked that you address the key points outlined below in the strategic plan requirements. In addition, your plan should be 5–8 pages in length. -
As you prepare to complete this assessment, you may want to think about other related issues to deepen your understanding or broaden your viewpoint. You are encouraged to consider the questions below and discuss them with a fellow learner, a work associate, an interested friend, or a member of your professional community. Note that these questions are for your own development and exploration and do not need to be completed or submitted as part of your assessment.
Strategic planning models aid in setting goals, establishing time frames, and forging a path toward achieving those goals. Consider the strategic planning models you are familiar with:- Which model would you choose to create goals and outcomes that could address the area of concern you identified in your Assessment 1 SWOT analysis?
- Why is this model the best choice among alternatives?
- How does goal setting through appreciative inquiry provocative propositions differ from goal setting in the strategic planning model you selected?
- Additional Requirements
Note: The requirements outlined below correspond to the grading criteria in the scoring guide, so at a minimum, be sure to address each point. In addition, you are encouraged to review the performance level descriptions for each criterion to see how your work will be assessed.
Writing, Supporting Evidence, and APA Style
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- Strategic Plan
- Develop strategic goal statements and outcomes that reflect specific quality and safety improvements for your care setting. You should have at least one short-term goal (just-in-time to one year) and one long-term goal (five years or longer).
- Determine realistic timelines for achieving your goals.
- Explain how your short-term goals support your long-term goals.
- Note: For plans based on an AI approach, the goal statements and outcomes are provocative propositions that may be refinements of the positive, yet attainable, goals that you proposed during the dream phase of your inquiry. For plans based on a SWOT analysis, the goal statements and outcomes are specific, measurable, and applicable to the area of concern in your analysis for which you proposed pursuing improvements.
- Justify the relevance of your proposed strategic goals and outcomes in relation to the mission, vision, and values of your care setting.
- Analyze the extent to which your strategic goals and outcomes, and your approach to achieving them, address:
- The ethical environment.
- The cultural environment.
- The use of technology.
- Applicable health care policies, laws, and regulations.
- Explain, in general, how you will use relevant leadership and health care theories to help achieve your proposed strategic goals and outcomes.
- Consider whether different theories are more applicable to the short-term or long-term goals of your strategic plan.
- Evaluate the leadership qualities and skills that are most important to successfully implementing your proposed plan and sustaining strategic direction.
- Identify those leadership qualities and skills that are essential to achieving your goals and outcomes and sustaining strategic direction.
- Identify those leadership qualities and skills that will have the greatest effect on the success of your plan.
- Competencies Measured
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the course competencies through the following assessment scoring guide criteria: - Competency 1: Evaluate qualities and skills that promote effective leadership within health care organizations.
- Evaluate the leadership qualities and skills that will be most important to successfully implementing a strategic plan and sustaining strategic direction.
- Competency 2: Apply strategies to lead high-performing health care teams to meet organizational quality and safety goals.
- Develop strategic goal statements and outcomes that support the achievement of specific quality and safety improvements for a care setting.
- Justify the relevance of proposed strategic goals and outcomes in relation to the mission, vision, and values of a care setting.
- Competency 3: Apply cultural, ethical, and regulatory considerations to leadership decision making.
- Analyze the extent to which strategic goals and outcomes address the use of technology and the ethical, cultural, and regulatory environments.
- Competency 4: Integrate leadership and health care theories into the role of the nurse leader.
- Explain how relevant leadership and health care theories will be used to help achieve proposed strategic goals and objectives.
- Competency 5: Communicate with stakeholders and constituencies to build collaborative partnerships and create inclusive work environments.
- Communicate analyses clearly and in a way that demonstrates professionalism and respect for stakeholders and colleagues.
- Integrate relevant and credible sources of evidence to support assertions, correctly formatting citations and references using APA style.
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Strategic Planning: Nurse Retention
Alexandra Sanders
Capella University
NURS-FPX6210 Leadership and Management for Nurse Executives
Dr. Mary Ellen Cockerham
October 16, 2021
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Strategic Planning: Nurse Retention
Introduction
Strategic planning in healthcare consists of short-term and long-term goals. The goals of
an organization are set according to economic trends, government policies, and technological
advancements. Planning is essential for a health care organization to succeed (Strata, 2018).
Strategic planning allows for several entities to occur, including but not limited to increased
employee motivation and engagement, developing and sharing a vision with staff, and increased
collaboration and cooperation from staff ( Strata, 2018). Strategic planning is a systematic and
orderly process that healthcare organizations use to develop external opportunities to capture
internal goals to achieve the organization’s mission and purpose while enhancing values for
involved stakeholders (Rodríguez Perera & Peiró, 2012). There are five reasons healthcare
organizations should employ strategic planning: 1) increasingly informed, educated healthcare
consumers; 2) increasingly skilled competing healthcare providers are available; 3) limited
resources available; 4)focus is shifted from healthcare provided to the satisfaction of the
consumer for financial reimbursement; 5) increase in size, needs, and complexity of the
healthcare consumers (Rodríguez Perera & Peiró, 2012). The need for nurses and retention will
continue to grow over the next five to ten years. Stakeholder needs and consumer needs will
drive the necessity of skilled nurses who are familiar with the facility. No matter what a facility
employs strategically, stakes are high in the healthcare industry—achieving goals can be the
difference between life and death (Jackson, 2020).
Strategic Plan
A pledge not to harm is sworn in health care, so it is essential not to use a strategy with
uncertainty, miscommunication, and an unstructured vision (Fobare, 2019). The Regional
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Medical Center (RMC) is a small, rural hospital having issues with nurse retention. Due to high
nurse-to-patient ratios and non-competitive salaries and benefits, many nurses have left RMC to
work at other facilities. The Wound Center (WC), a department with the RMC system, has 100%
nurse retention. RMC is hoping to use the WC as a model to obtain improved nurse retention
numbers. The WC was open in 1998 and has had the original nurses and added more since its
inception. The nurses who have added to th
Strategic Planning Scoring Guide
CRITERIA NON-
PERFORMANCE BASIC PROFICIENT DISTINGUISHED
Develop strategic
goal statements and
outcomes that
support the
achievement of
specific quality and
safety improvements
for a care setting.
Does not develop
goal statements
and outcomes.
Develops goal statements
and outcomes, but they are
not strategic, are not
realistic, or they do not
support the achievement of
specific quality and safety
improvements for a care
setting.
Develops
strategic goal
statements and
outcomes that
support the
achievement of
specific quality
and safety
improvements for
a care setting.
Develops strategic goal
statements and outcomes
that support the
achievement of specific
quality and safety
improvements for a care
setting, and impartially
considers potential
barriers.
Justify the relevance
of proposed
strategic goals and
outcomes in relation
to the mission,
vision, and values of
a care setting.
Does not justify
proposed strategic
goals and
outcomes in
relation to the
mission, vision,
and values of a
care setting.
Attempted justification of the
proposed strategic goals
and outcomes lacks
relevance to the mission,
vision, or values of a care
setting.
Justifies the
relevance of
proposed
strategic goals
and outcomes in
relation to the
mission, vision,
and values of a
care setting.
Justifies the relevance of
proposed strategic goals
and outcomes in relation
to the mission, vision, and
values of a care setting,
and identifies areas of
uncertainty or knowledge
gaps.
Analyze the extent to
which strategic goals
and outcomes
address the use of
technology and the
ethical, cultural, and
regulatory
environments.
Does not analyze
the extent to which
strategic goals and
outcomes address
the use of
technology and the
ethical, cultural,
and regulatory
environments.
Attempts to analyze the
extent to which strategic
goals and outcomes
address the use of
technology and the ethical,
cultural, and regulatory
environments, but misses
one or more of the aspects
listed.
Analyzes the
extent to which
strategic goals
and outcomes
address the use
of technology and
the ethical,
cultural, and
regulatory
environments.
Analyzes the extent to
which strategic goals and
outcomes address the
use of technology and the
ethical, cultural, and
regulatory environments.
Impartially considers the
limitations of the goals
and outcomes.
Explain how relevant
leadership and
health care theories
will be used to help
achieve proposed
strategic goals and
objectives.
Does not explain
how relevant
leadership and
health care
theories will be
used to help
achieve proposed
strategic goals and
objectives.
Explains how leadership
and health care theories will
be used to help achieve
proposed strategic goals
and objectives, but the cited
theories do not appear to be
relevant or are not clearly
conn
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