NURS 6241 week 11 discussion: Sharing Your Strategic Plan, Reflection, and Wrap-Up Strategic planning skills will be important to your career as a nurse executive and will also support you when you develop your Capstone project in order to complete your program. Capstone projects are designed to be an authentic learning opportunity that allows you…

NURS 6241-week 8 discussion: Balanced Scorecard How does an organization gauge whether strategic changes are creating sound business results? To create a balanced scorecard, a nurse executive will identify performance metrics and an evaluation plan in four major, interrelated areas: finances, customer/stakeholder satisfaction, internal business practices, and plans for future learning and growth. The effective…

NURS 6241 week 6 discussion: Budgeting and Timeline Tools As you have been examining this week, budgeting and timeline tools are vital for determining necessary resources and planning for a proposed change. For your Strategic Plan, you use these types of tools to assess resources that may be required for the successful implementation of your…

NURS 6241 week 7 discussion: Leveraging Resources and Overcoming Barriers All change involves a negotiation of resources and plans for overcoming potential barriers to that change. Think of a significant change you have made in your personal or professional life, such as your decision to enroll in this graduate program. Did you consider what resources…

NURS 6241 Week4 DQ1: Mission and Vision Statements You will now review the mission and vision statements for the organization relevant to your Strategic Plan or, if those statements do not already exist, draft new ones. As you prepare to review or draft your mission and vision statements, consider how they will guide the project…

NURS 6241 Week 3 discussion: The Influence of Mission and Vision on Planning As you read the following mission statements, think about what you might deduce about each organization: “To transform the nation’s health through the power of pursing” (American Nurses Association) “The American Red Cross prevents and alleviates human suffering in the face of…

NURS 6241 Week 2 discussion: Strategic Planning Issues Identifying a strategic plan issue is an important first step in creating a strategic plan, but if there isn’t already a clear issue to be addressed, how can you determine what may make a meaningful impact on a community or organization? The answer is to consider the…

NURS 6241 Week 1 Discussion Differentiating Strategic, Operational, and Tactical Planning Continuous planning is an important activity for any organization that aims to evolve to stay current in its industry and serve its intended purpose. There are several types of planning used by nurse executives: strategic planning, operational planning, and tactical planning. Each type of…

Week 9: Evaluating Outcomes Section 5: Evaluation Plan   To prepare:    Review the information on evaluation, including data representation and quality monitoring, presented in the Learning Resources.    Review your work on the Course Project thus far, particularly Sections 3 and 4.    Think about how your quality improvement initiative could…

NURS 6231 Week 10: Interdisciplinary Collaboration Section 6: Quality Improvement Plan   In this section of the Course Project, you synthesize your analysis and recommendations into an action plan for implementing the quality improvement initiative. To prepare:    Begin to develop a plan for implementing your quality improvement initiative, including the redesigned process that…