NR 531 Week 3 Assignment Shared Governance Journey Paper
NR 531 Week 3 Assignment Shared Governance Journey Paper
Purpose
The purposes of this assignment are to: (a) identify and articulate key concepts of one of the following: either your future pathway to excellence or your shared-governance model you wish to initiate at one of the three areas: 1. Saint Louis Medical Center (SLMC)/community or critical access hospital, 2. Home health/community transition, or 3. Long term care/skilled nursing facility (SNF) or memory care (CO 5), (b) provide empirical, scholarly evidence to support your proposed project (CO 4), and (c) communicate your information in a clear, succinct, and scholarly manner (CO 5).
The differences according to Lucia (2018) between a good manager and a good leader stands at the intersection of skills, strategic thinking and ethical integrity specific to the manager and the emotional intelligence, power of persuasion, empathy, passion and open communication specific to the leader. Advanced practice nurse’s (APRN) can be placed into director positions at different levels within an organization. Within the managed care population, APRN’s have served as director of sector. For example, this may be in population health with the director having oversight of a large area either at a state, regional or corporate level. What I have seen personally is APRN’s set the tone for organizational business goal, provide details to that goal, statistics and then continue to push for that goal throughout upcoming months most often done in team huddles providing updates. In the past I led a team of 13 case managers. The entire department (statewide) was tasked to increase care plan production and meet metrics. The initial step was done as a company meeting. I followed up with a team meeting breaking down what each step meant and how I would be working with each of them at a team level and individually. This was a huge push on our stakeholders end to provide robust and lengthy care plans and it involved utilizing our systems in a way the team wasn’t accustomed to. I took time to listen to my teams’ concerns, set up training sessions, meet individually with each case manager and spend additional time with anyone who requested it. In many ways I like to take servant leadership and utilize this as my format as Neville, et al. (2021) states it is to help first then lead by example. This was true in my role as time to time I had to take on a case and took the time to incorporate what I taught and use mine and other case managers work as examples. Other tools servant leaders utilize is listening, empathy and persuasion. In persuasion it is a matter of providing the education and support rather than using your power of position (Neville, et al. 2021) to meet the organizational goals.
Note: You are completing this assignment as if you are the nurse executive. You are to decide whether you wish to focus on implementing your pathway to excellence or a shared governance model. You will choose one of the areas to implement either your pathway to excellence or your shared governance model. What elements would like to adopt and implement for your organization?
Course Outcomes
Through this assignment, the student will demonstrate the ability to:
(CO4) Apply the use of research in the evaluation of healthcare outcomes, utilizing critical thinking skills, and interprofessional research strategies. (PO4)
(CO5) Examine effective verbal and written communication; utilizing communication skills of the professional role to promote and improve quality and safety in healthcare. (PO1, 2, 5)
Requirements:
This paper will be graded on quality of paper information, use of citations, use of standard grammar, sentence structure, and organization based on the required components.
Create this assignment using Microsoft (MS) Word, which is the required format for all Chamberlain documents. You can tell that the document is saved as a MS Word document because it will end in .docx.
Submit to the appropriate assignment area by 11:59 p.m. MT on Sunday of the week due. Any questions about this paper may be discussed in the weekly Q & A discussion topic.
The length of the paper is to be no greater than three pages, excluding title page and reference page.
APA format using the sixth edition manual is required in this assignment, including a title page and reference page. Use APA level 1 headings for the organizational structure of this assignment. Remember that the introduction does not carry a heading that labels it as a level heading in APA format. The first part of your paper is assumed to be the introduction. See the APA manual sixth edition for details. Use the suggested format and headings to organize your assignment.
Include introduction; include your which of the three areas of focus you have chosen (do not label as a heading in APA format)
Key components of pathway to excellence or shared-governance model
Supporting evidence
Importance to nursing examples
Conclusion
Preparing the paper
Note: Use the documents related to SLMC to assist in the completion of this assignment, as needed.
Include a clear introduction of your focus area (choose one of the three above) in the introduction paragraph, including a sentence that states the purpose of your paper.
Clearly articulate key components (at least two) of either your pathway to excellence or your shared-governance model project to be implemented.
Include a minimum of three sources of scholarly, empirical evidence that supports your area of focus. See resources related to SLMC if you need to review the information for that area.
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Provide specific examples (at least two) of the impact and importance of either your pathway to excellence or shared-governance model project related to nursing. Consider how you will engage your staff and leadership team in this project.
Provide concluding statements that should summarize your overall assignment content.
The paper will be three pages maximum, excluding title and reference pages.
Title and reference pages must be in APA format following the sixth edition manual.
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Use 12 point, Times New Roman font and one-inch margins on all sides of the paper.
Late Assignment Policy
Students are expected to submit assignments by the time they are due. Assignments submitted after the due date and time will receive a deduction of 10% of the total points possible for that assignment for each day the assignment is late. Assignments will be accepted, with penalty as described, up to a maximum of three days late, after which point a zero will be recorded for the assignment.
In the event of an emergency that prevents timely submission of an assignment, students may petition their instructor for a waiver of the late submission grade reduction. The instructor will review the student’s rationale for the request and make a determination based on the merits of the student’s appeal. Consideration of the student’s total course performance to date will be a contributing factor in the determination. Students should continue to attend class, actively participate, and complete other assignments while the appeal is pending.
This Policy applies to assignments that contribute to the numerical calculation of the course letter grade.
Evaluation Methods
The maximum score in this class is 1,000 points. The categories, which contribute to your final grade, are weighted as follows.
Graded Item | Points | Weighting |
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Discussion (50 points, Weeks 1–7; 25 points, Week 8) | 375 | 37.5% |
Shared Governance Model Paper (Week 3) | 200 | 20% |
Management of Power Paper (Week 5) | 200 | 20% |
Executive Summary (Week 7) | 225 | 22.5% |
Total | 1,000 | 100% |
No extra credit assignments are permitted for any reason.
All of your course requirements are graded using points. At the end of the course, the points are converted to a letter grade using the scale in the table below. Percentages of 0.5% or higher are not raised to the next whole number. A final grade of 76% (letter grade C) is required to pass the course.
Letter Grade | Points | Percentage |
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A | 940–1,000 | 94% to 100% |
A- | 920–939 | 92% to 93% |
B+ | 890–919 | 89% to 91% |
B | 860–889 | 86% to 88% |
B- | 840–859 | 84% to 85% |
C+ | 810–839 | 81% to 83% |
C | 760–809 | 76% to 80% |
F | 759 and below | 75% and below |
NOTE:To receive credit for a week’s discussion, students may begin posting no earlier than the Sunday immediately before each week opens. Unless otherwise specified, access to most weeks begins on Sunday at 12:01 a.m. MT, and that week’s assignments are due by the next Sunday by 11:59 p.m. MT. Week 8 opens at 12:01 a.m. MT Sunday and closes at 11:59 p.m. MT Wednesday. Any assignments and all discussion requirements must be completed by 11:59 p.m. MT Wednesday of the eighth week.
Students agree that, by taking this course, all required papers may be subject to submission for textual similarity review to Turnitin.com for the detection of plagiarism. All submitted papers will be included as source documents in the Turnitin.com reference database solely for the purpose of detecting plagiarism of such papers. Use of the Turnitin.com service is subject to the Terms and Conditions of Use posted on the Turnitin.com site.
Participation for MSN
Threaded Discussion Guiding Principles
The ideas and beliefs underpinning the threaded discussions (TDs) guide students through engaging dialogues as they achieve the desired learning outcomes/competencies associated with their course in a manner that empowers them to organize, integrate, apply and critically appraise their knowledge to their selected field of practice. The use of TDs provides students with opportunities to contribute level-appropriate knowledge and experience to the topic in a safe, caring, and fluid environment that models professional and social interaction. The TD’s ebb and flow is based upon the composition of student and faculty interaction in the quest for relevant scholarship. Participation in the TDs generates opportunities for students to actively engage in the written ideas of others by carefully reading, researching, reflecting, and responding to the contributions of their peers and course faculty. TDs foster the development of members into a community of learners as they share ideas and inquiries, consider perspectives that may be different from their own, and integrate knowledge from other disciplines.
Participation Guidelines
Each weekly threaded discussion is worth up to 25 points. Students must post a minimum of two times in each graded thread. The two posts in each individual thread must be on separate days. The student must provide an answer to each graded thread topic posted by the course instructor, by Wednesday, 11:59 p.m. MT, of each week. If the student does not provide an answer to each graded thread topic (not a response to a student peer) before the Wednesday deadline, 5 points are deducted for each discussion thread in which late entry occurs (up to a 10-point deduction for that week). Subsequent posts, including essential responses to peers, must occur by the Sunday deadline, 11:59 p.m. MT of each week.
Direct Quotes
Good writing calls for the limited use of direct quotes. Direct quotes in Threaded Discussions are to be limited to one short quotation (not to exceed 15 words). The quote must add substantively to the discussion. Points will be deducted under the Grammar, Syntax, APA category.