Choose one of these three large healthcare organizations, and describe it:

System-wide Practice Initiative

Please note that each Assignment should inform the next in this course, culminating in the Organizational Analysis. These assignments should also relate to your DNP project when possible, and it is appropriate to use sections of assignments as text in your DNP Project Paper.

1. Choose one of these three large healthcare organizations, and describe it:

Veterans Administration Healthcare http://www.va.gov/health/

Kaiser Permanente (health systems) https://share.kaiserpermanente.org/article/fast-facts-about-kaiser-permanente/

Mayo Clinic Health Systems http://www.mayoclinic.org/about-mayo-clinic/facts-statistics/mayo-clinic-health-system

2. Describe a fairly recent system-wide practice initiative that has been carried out by your chosen organization. Try to find one that relates to your DNP Project. This will require research on your part, and the sources utilized should be journal articles. Example: the VA health system implemented medication bar coding to prevent errors in 1995, and has evaluated and updated their system over time with numerous system-wide initiatives (you can’t use this one).

Discuss an area of the practice change initiative that did not proceed as planned, or an issue that evolved during implementation

Describe the company’s efforts to work around that issue

Discuss one alternative strategy that the organization might have used (but didn’t) to prevent the issue and improve the implementation process

3. Use the APA Paper Template 

4. This is a 3 page paper; it should not be longer than 3.33 pages or shorter than 2.66 pages

5. Make sure you address every item in the rubric under “Completeness” – use each item as a subheading.

6. Pay close attention to this statement in Scholarly Writing & APA Style Requirements: “Use the 3rd person instead of the 1st or 2nd person”.