Applied Organizational and Leadership Concepts; Building Leadership Capacity
Applied Organizational and Leadership Concepts
Building Leadership Capacity
Reflect on your personal and professional experience using the lessons in Week 1, your NR703 Self-Reflection: Performance Behaviors of Transformational Leaders, and the Strengths-to-Strategy Plan results. Address the following:
Describe and give examples of your two strongest leadership competencies and two most significant leadership gaps, weakness, or developmental opportunities. (1 paragraph)
Describe and explain how your leadership strengths differ from management skills or behaviors. (1 paragraph)
Describe how you will integrate emotional intelligence into your leadership identity and how this may impact the characteristics of your followers. (1 paragraph)
Construct your responses using the CARE Plan method.
Please click on the following link to review the DNP Discussion Guidelines on the Student Resource Center program page:
Link (webpage): DNP Discussion Guidelines (Links to an external site.)
Course Outcomes
This discussion enables the student to meet the following course outcomes:
Compare and contrast theories of organizational behavior and leadership. (PO 6)
Differentiate attributes of effective leaders and followers in influencing healthcare. (PO 6)
Formulate selected strategies for leadership and influence across healthcare systems. (PO 8)
NR703 Applied Organizational and Leadership Concepts
Week 2 Discussion
Transformative Leader Presence
Instructions
Understanding that the leadership characteristics you discovered in Week 1 are different competencies than management skills, describe how you might accomplish the following:
Engage the project team through leadership competencies.
Use mindfulness as a component of emotional intelligence to lead the project team.
Influence an environment that will sustain the practice change.
Construct your responses using the CARE Plan method.
Please click on the following link to review the DNP Discussion Guidelines on the Student Resource Center program page:
Link (webpage): DNP Discussion Guidelines (Links to an external site.)
Course Outcomes
This discussion enables the student to meet the following course outcomes:
Compare and contrast theories of organizational behavior and leadership. (PO6)
Investigate the role of advanced nursing practice in innovation and transformation to propose solutions impacting healthcare systems. (PO 6)
Differentiate attributes of effective leaders and followers in influencing healthcare. (PO 6)
Formulate selected strategies for leadership and influence across healthcare systems. (PO8)
NR703 Applied Organizational and Leadership Concepts
Week 3 Discussion
Leading Interprofessional Teams
Instructions
DNP-prepared nurses typically lead and manage interprofessional teams, departments, divisions, and healthcare organizations. Refer to the interactive exercise from this week’s lesson and respond to the following:
Determine what strategy you can envision using as a DNP-prepared nurse to sustain project improvements through intra- and interprofessional collaboration.
Using the Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode model, describe your typical reactionary style of conflict management and what you need to develop to deal with conflict in a collaborating mode, as guided by one of the interprofessional collaboration models.
Propose how a professional practice model might overcome barriers to leading a practice change project in an interprofessional environment.
Construct your responses using the CARE Plan method.
Please click on the following link to review the DNP Discussion Guidelines on the Student Resource Center program page:
Link (webpage): DNP Discussion Guidelines (Links to an external site.)
Course Outcomes
This discussion enables the student to meet the following course outcomes:
Compare and contrast theories of organizational behavior and leadership. (PO6)
Investigate the role of advanced nursing practice in innovation and transformation to propose solutions impacting healthcare systems. (PO 6)
Differentiate attributes of effective leaders and followers in influencing healthcare. (PO 6)
Assimilate attributes for interprofessional collaboration across healthcare settings. (PO 8)
NR703 Applied Organizational and Leadership Concepts
Week 4 Discussion
Leading Through Ethical Relationships
Instructions
For this discussion, address the following:
Identify a health inequity in your healthcare setting, community, or population.
Propose how you could address this identified healthcare inequity describing attributes of an effective leader guiding a healthcare team.
Construct your responses using the CARE Plan method.
Please click on the following link to review the DNP Discussion Guidelines on the Student Resource Center program page:
Link (webpage): DNP Discussion Guidelines (Links to an external site.)
Course Outcomes
This discussion enables the student to meet the following course outcomes:
Investigate the role of advanced nursing practice in innovation and transformation to propose solutions impacting healthcare systems. (PO 6)
Differentiate attributes of effective leaders and followers in influencing healthcare. (PO 6)
Formulate selected strategies for leadership and influence across healthcare systems. (PO 8)
NR703 Applied Organizational and Leadership Concepts
Week 5 Discussion
Leading Through Innovation
Instructions
For this discussion, review the Week 5 lesson and construct and explain a strategy for one (1) of the following:
Create an environment that fosters innovation and creativity.
Propose how the use of adaptive leadership will affect your leadership identity.
Identify how you could improve your leadership communication across interprofessional teams.
Construct your responses using the CARE Plan method.
Please click on the following link to review the DNP Discussion Guidelines on the Student Resource Center program page:
Link (webpage): DNP Discussion Guidelines (Links to an external site.)
Course Outcomes
This discussion enables the student to meet the following course outcomes:
Differentiate attributes of effective leaders and followers in influencing healthcare. (PO 6)
Formulate selected strategies for leadership and influence across healthcare systems. (PO 8)
NR703 Applied Organizational and Leadership Concepts
Week 6 Discussion
Effective Leadership Styles
Instructions
For this discussion, think of a problem you have seen in your current or previous place of employment and address the following:
Provide examples of how you as a transformational leader within an interprofessional team would address the practice problem.
Provide examples of how you as a transactional leader within an interprofessional team would address the practice problem.
Which leadership style do you think would be most effective in addressing this problem? Explain why.
Construct your responses using the CARE Plan method.
Please click on the following link to review the DNP Discussion Guidelines on the Student Resource Center program page:
Link (webpage): DNP Discussion Guidelines (Links to an external site.)
Course Outcomes
This discussion enables the student to meet the following course outcomes:
Compare and contrast theories of organizational behavior and leadership. (PO 6)
Investigate the role of advanced nursing practice in innovation and transformation to propose solutions impacting healthcare systems. (PO 6)
Assimilate attributes for interprofessional collaboration across healthcare settings. (PO 8)
Formulate selected strategies for leadership and influence across healthcare systems. (PO 8)
NR703 Applied Organizational and Leadership Concepts
Week 7 Discussion
Leading & Managing High-Value Healthcare
Instructions
For this discussion, review the lesson for this week and identify a practice problem. Using the practice problem, address the following:
Investigate the material and human resources needed to support a fiscally responsible practice change solution to address the practice problem.
Analyze the role of the advanced practice nurse in addressing the solution.
Propose strategies for project leadership.
Construct your responses using the CARE Plan method.
Please click on the following link to review the DNP Discussion Guidelines on the Student Resource Center program page:
Link (webpage): DNP Discussion Guidelines (Links to an external site.)
Course Outcomes
This discussion enables the student to meet the following course outcomes:
Investigate the role of advanced nursing practice in innovation and transformation to propose solutions impacting healthcare systems. (PO 6)
Differentiate attributes of effective leaders and followers in influencing healthcare. (PO 6)
Assimilate attributes for interprofessional collaboration across healthcare settings. (PO 8)
Formulate selected strategies for leadership and influence across healthcare systems. (PO 8)
NR703 Applied Organizational and Leadership Concepts
Week 8 Discussion
Reflection on Learning and Practice Readiness
Instructions
Each week, you have been reminded that reflective inquiry allows for expansion of self-awareness, identification of knowledge gaps, and assessment of learning goals. As you reflect on your own readiness to practice as a DNP-prepared nurse, it is important to consider what you learned in this course.
As you review the course outcomes and your experience in this course, address the following:
Analyze and evaluate how your thinking was challenged in this course related to transformational leadership to influence contemporary organizations
Considering this new knowledge, examine how this learning prepares you to practice collaboratively as an innovative DNP-prepared nurse.
Please click on the following link to review the DNP Discussion Guidelines on the Student Resource Center program page:
Link (webpage): DNP Discussion Guidelines (Links to an external site.)
Course Outcomes
This discussion enables the student to meet the following course outcomes:
Compare and contrast theories of organizational behavior and leadership. (PO6)
Investigate the role of advanced nursing practice in innovation and transformation to propose solutions impacting healthcare systems. (PO 6)
Differentiate attributes of effective leaders and followers in influencing healthcare. (PO 6)
Assimilate attributes for interprofessional collaboration across healthcare settings. (PO 8)
Formulate selected strategies for leadership and influence across healthcare systems. (PO 8)
NR703 Applied Organizational and Leadership Concepts
Week 2 Assignment
Organizational Needs Assessment
Purpose
The purpose of this assignment is to identify a practice problem based on an organizational needs assessment, including the identification of the practice gap and formulation of the practice question. This assignment will allow for the assimilation of professional leadership competencies in project management as a DNP-prepared nurse. Assignment content supports professional formation, communication, and dissemination skills relevant to the DNP-prepared nurse.
Please note that this is the first part of a 3-part assignment submitted in Weeks 2, 5, and 7. You will receive feedback from your course faculty on the Week 2 and Week 5 assignments, which you will use to prepare the Week 7 assignment.
Instructions
Complete the Organizational Needs Assessment: Practice Gap Identification on a healthcare organization of your choice. This will be summitted as Table 1.
Link (Word doc): Organizational Needs Assessment: Practice Gap Identification Template (Links to an external site.)
Include the following in your paper:
Introduction
Introduce the topic and establish the importance of an organizational needs assessment.
Present a clear purpose statement.
Create an organizing statement for the paper that matches the Level 1 headings (except for listing the conclusion).
Problem: Using the information that you gathered on the Organizational Needs Assessment: Practice Gap Identification (Table 1), describe the practice problem by explaining these elements:
Describe a specific location (hospital unit, community health clinic, surgical suite, primary care practice).
Identify the key stakeholders (decision-makers).
Relate the practice problem identified by the stakeholders.
Practice Gap
In 1-2 organized paragraphs, summarize the Organizational Needs Assessment: Practice Gap Identification (Table 1).
Practice Question: Define and briefly explain the project’s intended population, evidence-based intervention, and measurable outcomes (PICOT):
Population: Describe the specific characteristics of the population.
Intervention: Based on the evidence in the Johns Hopkins Individual Evidence Summary Tool (Table 2) gathered in previous courses, describe evidence for an evidence-based intervention. Add one research study or systematic review to support your intervention.
Comparison: State as “compared to current practice” for the purposes of this assignment.
Outcome. Create and explain specific outcome measurements based on the current evidence you have collected in the Johns Hopkins Individual Evidence Summary Tool (attach as Table 2). Add one research study or systematic review that supports your proposed outcome measurements.
Time: Time frame for the project implementation.
State the Practice Question. Example: (P) For critical care patients in X hospital’s ICU, (I) does the implementation of the medical sepsis protocol (C) compared to the current practice (O) reduce the incidence of medical sepsis diagnoses as measured before and after the intervention (T) over a 10-week period?
Conclusion
Recap the paper’s purpose statement and organizing statement criteria.
Draw major conclusions from the body of your paper.
Summarize the importance of effective communication competencies for the DNP-prepared nurse.
References
Create the reference page.
Ensure each reference has a matching citation.
Tables
Add the completed Table 1 & Table 2 after the reference list. For directions on how to copy a table in Word go to the following link:
Link (webpage): Move or Copy a Table
NR703 Applied Organizational and Leadership Concepts
Week 5 Assignment
Leading Practice Change Projects
Purpose
The purpose of this assignment is to create a leadership approach to address the practice gap identified in the Week 2 assignment. The approach focuses on three specific DNP-prepared nurse leadership skills:
Interprofessional collaboration
Communication
Leadership ethics
This assignment will allow for the assimilation of professional leadership competencies in project management as a DNP-prepared nurse. Assignment content supports professional formation, communication, and dissemination skills relevant to the DNP-prepared nurse.
Please note that this is the second part of a 3-part assignment submitted in Weeks 2, 5, and 7. You will receive feedback from your course faculty on the Week 2 and Week 5 assignments, which you should use to prepare the Week 7 assignment.
Instructions
Include the following in your paper:
Introduction
Introduce the paper’s topic and establish its importance.
Present a clear purpose statement.
Provide the reader with a brief organizing statement of what will be discussed in the paper.
Interprofessional Collaboration in Leading Project Teams: Create your approach to implementing the practice change project with an interprofessional team, including a description of how you will manage the following challenges:
Creating a climate of mutual respect and shared values
Facilitating team roles and flexibility to perform effectively
Communication Comportment in Project Management: Create a guideline for your professional communication to serve you in the practice change project and future roles. Include the following considerations:
Verbal and non-verbal communication competencies at a doctoral level
Communicating leadership comportment
Creating alignment of verbal and nonverbal messages
Written professional communication
Writing with leadership tone and style
Using standard English
Creating summary and synthesis in writing
Leadership Ethics: Discuss how you will create a consistent image of ethical comportment, including the consideration of the following:
Balance an Ethic of Justice with an Ethic of Care in your leadership style.
Create a conflict resolution approach for the project team management of issues such as disagreements or bullying.
Lead social justice change within the project environment (i.e., countering structural inequities, addressing implicit and explicit bias, combating social injustices, and applying cultural humility).
Conclusion
Recap the paper’s purpose statement and organizing criteria.
Draw major conclusions from the body of your paper.
Summarize the importance of effective communication competencies for the DNP-prepared nurse.
References (minimum of 2 scholarly, peer-reviewed sources)
Create the reference page.
Ensure each reference has a matching citation.
Support your discussion by using evidence from at least two (2) scholarly peer-reviewed journal article sources (preferably research or systematic reviews) that are retrieved from the Chamberlain library databases. Do not use the internet, textbooks, government sources, or organizational websites for the two sources in this assignment. However, you may use other gray materials for additional sources if you need them. Hint: Search other than nursing journals for sources of evidence.
Review the rubric for the grading criteria.
APA Guidelines
Use the current Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA Manual) and the Chamberlain Guidelines for Writing a Professional Paper (located in the APA Basics section of the Writing Center) to complete this assignment. Follow these guidelines when completing each component. Contact your course faculty if you have questions.
Use the APA Paper Template (located in the Writing Center) to format this assignment.
Turn on Grammarly to check the correctness of the grammar and punctuation as you write. (Note: if you have not already done so, please download the free version at Grammarly.com before construction of the assignment.)
Create a title for your project and construct a title page using the APA paper template (Example: Preventing Early Sepsis in Critical Care Patients) based on your identified practice problem.
Use the following prescribed Level 1 headings for this paper:
Interprofessional Collaboration in Leading Project Teams
Communicating Comportment in Project Management
Leadership Ethics
Conclusion
Writing Requirements (APA format)
Length: 3-4 pages (not including title page, references page, or attachments)
1-inch margins
Double-spaced pages
12-point Times New Roman or 11-point Arial font
Headings & subheadings
In-text citations
Title page
Reference page
Standard English usage and mechanics
Course Outcomes
This assignment enables the student to meet the following course outcomes:
Compare and contrast theories of organizational behavior and leadership. (PO 6)
Investigate the role of advanced nursing practice in innovation and transformation to propose solutions impacting healthcare systems. (PO 6)
Differentiate attributes of effective leaders and followers in influencing healthcare. (PO 6)
Assimilate attributes for interprofessional collaboration across healthcare settings. (PO 8)
Formulate selected strategies for leadership and influence across healthcare systems. (PO 8)
NR703 Applied Organizational and Leadership Concepts
Week 7 Assignment
Professional DNP Leadership Capacity
Assignment
Purpose
The purpose of this assignment is to demonstrate your leadership capacity to manage a practice change project. You will create a collective manuscript that incorporates the revised Week 2 and Week 5 assignments with an additional section that you will create this week.
This assignment will allow for the assimilation of professional leadership competencies in project management as a DNP-prepared nurse. Assignment content supports professional formation, communication, and dissemination skills relevant to the DNP-prepared nurse.
Please note that this is the third part of a 3-part assignment submitted in Weeks 2, 5, and 7. You have received feedback from your course faculty on the Week 2 and Week 5 assignments, which you should use to prepare the Week 7 assignment.
Instructions
Include the following in your paper:
Introduction: The organizing introduction is the first paragraph that does the following:
Introduce the paper’s topic and establishes its importance.
Present a clear purpose statement.
Create a brief overview for the combined paper using the three primary Level 1 headings.
Integrate the Week 2 corrected content under the first Level 1 heading, “Organizational Needs Assessment.”
Problem
Practice Gap
Practice Question
Integrate the Week 5 corrected assignment content under the second Level 1 heading, “Leading the Practice Change Project.
Interprofessional Collaboration in Leading Project Teams
Communicating Comportment in Project Management
Leadership Ethics
Create the content to place under the third Level 1 heading, “Leading Practice Change Teams with Innovation and Effective Management.”
Leading Through Innovation
Integrating Leadership and Management Models
Managing Materials and Human Resources
Conclusion
Recap the paper’s purpose statement and brief overview criteria (Level 1 headings).
Draw major conclusions from the body of your paper.
Summarize the paper’s relevance to the practice change project.
References (minimum of 4 scholarly, peer-reviewed sources)
Create a reference page.
Include the references from the first two papers that you have used in this paper.
Ensure each reference has a matching citation.
Support your paper by using evidence from at least four (4) scholarly peer-reviewed journal article sources (preferably research or systematic reviews) that are retrieved from the Chamberlain library databases. Do not use the internet, textbooks, government sources, or organizational websites for these four sources in this assignment. However, you may use other gray materials for additional sources if you need them.
Review the rubric for the grading criteria.
APA Guidelines
Use the current Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA Manual) and the Chamberlain Guidelines for Writing a Professional Paper (located in the APA Basics section of the Writing Center) to complete this assignment. Follow these guidelines when completing each component. Contact your course faculty if you have questions.
Use the NR703 Week 7 Assignment Template provided to format this assignment. Construct your title page by adding your name and the session month and year of the course where indicated. The title is already provided for you.
Link (Word doc): Week 7 Assignment Paper Template (Links to an external site.)
Turn on Grammarly to check the correctness of the grammar and punctuation as you write. (Note: if you have not already done so, please download the free version at Grammarly.com before construction of the assignment.)
Note: Because this assignment builds on the materials used in the Weeks 2 and 5 assignments as well as several discussions, similarities are expected; therefore, Turnitin will not be used in this cumulative assignment.
Use the following prescribed Level 1 and Level 2 headings, which are already provided in the template, for this paper:
Organizational Needs Assessment
Problem
Practice Gap
Practice Question
Leading the Practice Change Project
Interprofessional Collaboration in Leading Project Teams
Communicating Comportment in Project Management
Leadership Ethics
Leading Practice Change Teams with Innovation and Effective Management
Leading Through Innovation
Integrating Leadership and Management Models
Managing Materials and Human Resources
Conclusion
Writing Requirements (APA format)
Length: 8-11 pages for accumulated paper (not including title page, references page, or attachments)
1-inch margins
Double-spaced pages
12-point Times New Roman or 11-point Arial font
Headings & subheadings
In-text citations
Title page
Reference page
Standard English usage and mechanics
Revisions based on course faculty feedback from Week 2 and 5 Assignments
Course Outcomes
This assignment enables the student to meet the following course outcomes:
Compare and contrast theories of organizational behavior and leadership. (PO 6)
Investigate the role of advanced nursing practice in innovation and transformation to propose solutions impacting healthcare systems. (PO 6)
Differentiate attributes of effective leaders and followers in influencing healthcare. (PO 6)
Assimilate attributes for interprofessional collaboration across healthcare settings. (PO 8)
Formulate selected strategies for leadership and influence across healthcare systems. (PO 8)
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