Explain how the element had a world-changing impact within your organization, on clients, or on healthcare practices.
Explain how the element had a world-changing impact within your organization, on clients, or on healthcare practices.
Throughout the NUR-495 course, you actively engaged in strategically planning for and managing a planned change project within the scope of your current professional role. For this field-based project, you identified a specific problem or need to serve as the foundation for a faculty-guided capstone experience. Project-related experiences were integrated throughout the course, involving application and management of the strategic planning process.
Throughout the capstone project, similarities between the nursing and strategic planning processes have emerged; with both methods you identify a problem and develop an action plan to facilitate achievement of a specific outcome. In addition to defining the problem, constructing a plan for intervention, and evaluating the outcomes of the capstone project, you also examined multiple, complex factors impacting the strategic planning process. Finally, during Workshop Seven, you developed a presentation to distill and formally communicate key aspects of your capstone project.
This week, you will share your project presentation with classmates, and discuss your experiences with the planned change process. Throughout the discussion, you will consider how these capstone projects demonstrate world-changing efforts to improve healthcare.
Upon successful completion of the course material, you will be able to:
Synthesize a succinct synopsis of the capstone project to accompany your visual presentation.
Discern the world-changing impact of the capstone projects presented.
Identify leadership approaches to facilitate future planned change efforts.
Resources
File: Understanding the Christian Worldview.docx
Media: Leadership and Power
Media: Leadership and Management Theories
Background Information
In the previous workshops, each facet of the planned change process has been unpacked, examined, and critically applied to your capstone project. As a nurse leader, whether serving at the bedside or in administration, education, or another context, distilling key concepts and communicating them in a succinct and clear manner is an essential skill. Toward that end, in Workshop Seven you integrated all elements of the capstone project as you synthesized a visual presentation to communicate the capstone work.
During this final workshop of the baccalaureate curriculum, you will share your capstone presentation with the class. As you wrap up this final chapter in your baccalaureate education and move forward to your next professional journey, you can feel confident that the knowledge, skills, and insights garnered through this work will provide a firm foundation for future endeavors.
Onsite Students:
Before class, complete steps 1 and 2 in the instructions below.
Come to class prepared to discuss the items in 4 to 9.
Instructions
Review the rubric to make sure you understand the criteria for earning your grade.
Download and read the document titled Understanding the Christian Worldview.docx written by IWU Online Chaplain, Bob Burchell.
Optional: View the following interactive presentations that cover a number of topics on leadership:
Leadership and Power
Leadership and Management Theories
Navigate to the threaded discussion and respond to the following:
Post a copy of your capstone project presentation.
Provide a succinct, synopsis of your capstone project problem purpose, outcome statement, and progress completed to date.
Identify one specific element of your planned change project that altered the “business as usual” approach in a radical and positive manner.
Explain how the element had a world-changing impact within your organization, on clients, or on healthcare practices.
Reflect on the planned change process that you led over the past several weeks.
What aspects did you find most rewarding?
Which aspects of the process were most challenging?
What lessons did you learn that would prompt to you to approach something differently?
Explain your responses, and share your overall impression of the capstone experience.
Looking ahead, identify a need for change that you would like to address. Based on your capstone experience, describe two approaches to facilitate leadership of future change initiatives.
As you respond to peers, discuss the world-changing elements of their capstone project work that are evident from your perspective.
Your initial response is due by the end of the fourth day of the workshop.
Read and respond to at least two of your classmates’ postings by the end of the workshop. You are encouraged to respond to follow-up instructor questions directed to you.
Your responses to classmates should also:
Be well developed by providing clear answers with evidence of critical thinking.
Your observations should add greater depth to the discussion by introducing new ideas.
Provide clarification to classmates’ questions and provide insight into the discussion.
Be posted on two different dates during the workshop.
