Strategic Planning in Healthcare Organizations Differentiating Strategic, Operational, and Tactical Planning Photo Credit: Getty Images/Science Photo Library RF Continuous planning is an important activity for any organization that aims to evolve to stay current in its industry and serve its intended purpose. There are several types of planning...
Strategic Planning in Healthcare Organizations Sharing Your Strategic Plan, Reflection, and Wrap-Up Photo Credit: Getty Images Strategic planning skills will be important to your career as a nurse executive and will also support you when you develop your Capstone project in order to complete your program. Capstone projects...
Strategic Planning in Healthcare Organizations Balanced Scorecard How does an organization gauge whether strategic changes are creating sound business results? To create a balanced scorecard, a nurse executive will identify performance metrics and an evaluation plan in four major, interrelated areas: finances, customer/stakeholder satisfaction, internal business practices, and...
Strategic Planning in Healthcare Organizations Leveraging Resources and Overcoming Barriers All change involves a negotiation of resources and plans for overcoming potential barriers to that change. Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Think of a significant change you have made in your personal or professional life, such as your decision to...
Strategic Planning in Healthcare Organizations Budgeting and Timeline Tools As you have been examining this week, budgeting and timeline tools are vital for determining necessary resources and planning for a proposed change. For your Strategic Plan, you use these types of tools to assess resources that may...
Strategic Planning in Healthcare Organizations Mission and Vision Statements You will now review the mission and vision statements for the organization relevant to your Strategic Plan or, if those statements do not already exist, draft new ones. As you prepare to review or draft your mission and...
Strategic Planning in Healthcare Organizations The Influence of Mission and Vision on Planning As you read the following mission statements, think about what you might deduce about each organization: “To transform the nation’s health through the power of pursing” (American Nurses Association) “The American Red Cross prevents and alleviates...
Strategic Planning in Healthcare Organizations Strategic Planning Issues Photo Credit: [Dr. Heinz Linke]/[E+]/Getty Images Identifying a strategic plan issue is an important first step in creating a strategic plan, but if there isn’t already a clear issue to be addressed, how can you determine what may make a...
Conduct a candid self-assessment of your health care leadership competencies and construct an 8-12-page comprehensive individual leadership development plan that can help you take your organization into the future. Note: You are strongly encouraged to complete the assessments in this course in the order in which...
The reflection assignment is based on the weekly materials provided in the Units readings, power points, chapter outlines etc. You will select an event, person, or timeline in any chapter within the unit chapters and write a college level MLA essay on that particular topic....