Professional Nursing Leadership Perspectives

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Leadership Change Project

Leaders seek out change opportunities regularly. Innovation, critical thinking, and decision-making are key to making an impact on an organization through change management. This assessment is designed to help you look at aspects of your own clinical practice and become a change agent in your organization. Use your current or past experience to identify a change project to implement.

Step 1: Select a topic for a change project

• Review the following resources for a potential change topic or process ideas:

Review the following resources for ideas for a potential change topic or process:

Institute for Healthcare Improvement: Transforming Care at the Bedside

Strengthening the IHI Waste Identification Tool with Lean Waste

For process change resources: TeamSTEPPS® Pocket Guide.

The more specific the change, the better for the assignment. For example instead of Medication waste, specify Heparin medicine waste.

Step 2: Identify the context for your change

• Describe the setting where the change will take place (e.g., clinical, insurance, home health, or public and community).

• Explain who is affected (e.g., patients, nurses, leadership, and other stakeholders in the organization).

Step 3: Review the literature to find possible solutions and evidence to address your topic.

• Research sources that guide evidence-based practice to improve outcomes related to your selected topic.

• Find a minimum of 3 peer-reviewed articles directly related to addressing your change topic.

Step 4: Create a draft implementation plan.

• Summarize each article to explain how the evidence you gathered will help address your change topic. Write a summary that is more than 1–2 sentences.

• Additional outside sources can also be utilized, such as your organizations website. All material must be cited, and sources must be placed on the reference page.

• Explain how you could use the information in the research to carry out the change in your identified setting.

Step 5: Identify 10 ways to include leadership in your daily activities.

• How will you show leadership every day?

• This can include things like model behavior or incorporating transformational or emotional intelligence theories into your skill set.

Cite a minimum of 3 sources according to APA guidelines.