Assignment: Nursing Mission or Philosophy
Assignment: Nursing Mission or Philosophy
Question Description
Overview
Discuss the mission, vision, values, and stated goals of the organization where you work using the information from your assigned readings and the self-paced tutorial. You can find the information on your hospital’s website, or you can discuss it with your organization’s administrative staff. If you are unemployed, you can obtain this information from a hospital’s website or by interviewing a nursing colleague to answer questions. 1-6. Describe your organization’s nursing mission or philosophy.
Describe your unit’s nursing mission or philosophy. Is the mission or philosophy in line with the larger organization’s? Compare and contrast the similarities and differences.
Describe your individual role in achieving the mission or goals of your unit or department.
Describe the nursing department’s structure. Is the model centralized or decentralized? Provide reasoning to back up your answer.
Mention at least two advantages and disadvantages of the organization’s nursing model.
Use your analysis to describe how nursing could strengthen its mission, vision, and organizational structure. At least two examples are required.
Objectives
Explain key organizational theories as social systems.
Determine how an organization’s mission, vision, and values provide strategic direction.
Investigate organizational structure and design in the workplace.
Discuss how your organization’s centralization and decentralization structures work.
Define shared governance, including the advantages and disadvantages for nursing.
References
A total of four (4) references are required: two (2) from required course materials and two (2) from peer-reviewed sources. All references must be less than five years old (unless making a specific point using a seminal piece of information)
Peer-reviewed references include references from professional data bases like PubMed or CINHAL that are relevant to the population and practice area, as well as evidence-based clinical practice guidelines. Wikipedia, UpToDate, Epocrates, Medscape, WebMD, hospital organizations, insurance recommendations, and secondary clinical databases are examples of unacceptable references.
Style
All written assignments, unless otherwise specified, must adhere to APA 6th edition formatting, citations, and references.
Download the Microsoft Word APA 6th edition template here. Before submitting the assignment, make sure to cross-reference the APA 6th edition book as well.
Page Count/Word Count
Unless otherwise specified, all papers should be at least 600 words long (about 2.5 pages), excluding the title and reference pages.
Textbooks:
Leadership and Nursing Care Management, 5th edition, Elsevier-Saunders, 2013.
Read Chapters 3,13,14,15, and 16.
You should proofread your paper. However, do not rely solely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part, and your grade will suffer as a result. Papers with a high number of misspelled words and grammatical errors will be penalized. Before submitting your paper, go over it in silence and then aloud, and make any necessary changes. It is often beneficial to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Uncorrected mistakes are preferable to handwritten corrections.
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The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced, and have a one-inch margin on all four sides of each page. When submitting hard copies, use white paper and print with dark ink. It will be difficult to follow your argument if it is difficult to read your essay.