Strategic Plan for Improving Patient Safety Through Professional Nurse Certification

Outline for Strategic Plan for Change Paper
Write a structured outline of your paper including the references
you plan for each section.
1. Introduction and Statement of the Problem
1.1. What is the problem?
1.2. Why is it important enough to warrant a change?
1.2.1. Scholarly Reference #1
*References in this section support the importance (2-3 is
adequate to establish that the problem is significant). These may
be peer reviewed journal articles and may or may not, be
original research.
2. Review of Literature
2.1. Research Reference #1
The review of literature section requires at least five current
scholarly peer reviewed articles. Research articles are required
for this section! Include a short synopsis of the studies, the
population studied, and indicate if the research is Qualitative or
Quantitative. The purpose of a literature review is to identify
strategies for change to address the problem. This is not a place

for articles establishing the problem (that is in the
introduction/background). Example of Research Reference:
MacKusick, C. I., & Minick, P. (2010). Why are nurses leaving?
Findings from an initial qualitative study on nursing attrition.
Medsurg Nursing, 19(6), 335-340.
Mackusick and Minick (2010) conducted an interpretive,
qualitative study to identify reasons influencing the decisions of
RNs to leave clinical practice.
3. Synthesis of the Evidence
3.1. Provide a clear, concise, summary of potential actions
derived from your evidence review.
3.2. Compare and contrast recommendations to improve on the
problem.
3.3. Determine the best action for your organization and make a
succinct statement of your recommended plan.
4. Suggested Courses of Action
4.1. Restate the action you want to occur
4.2. Outline how you will implement the change
4.3. Use and identify a Change theory or Leadership strategy to
guide the change process.
4.4. Who, what, when, and where?
5. Summary or Conclusion
5.1. Summarize the main ideas and arguments, pulling
everything together to help clarify the thesis of the paper.
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Application 10

In order to successfully change the organization, we need to
identify the key stakeholders and change agents. We have
determined that Jane Ricter and Bob Cuellar are the major
stakeholders that we need to be concerned with. The manager
of the Engineering and R&D department and the actual
engineers are the change agents we need to influence most. We
must be effective in change management activities such as
motivating change, creating a vision, developing political
support, managing transition, and sustaining momentum. We
need to focus on creating readiness for change by sensitizing
the organization, identifying gaps between actual and desired
states, and portray credible positive expectations. One of the
most important components we must focus on is creating a
vision. By creating a vision, we ensure that management and
employees have a common goal to work towards.
Possible Vision:
We plan to allow and encourage innovation by having the most
well-trained, talented, and rewarded employees in the industry.
We want to ensure that we consistently introduce new
technologies in order to be the leader of the industry.
Once we have identified the vision, we must identify the target
of change. We have determined that the tape storage product is
in the declining stage of the product life cycle. Our goal is to
get as much revenue for as long as possible from tape storage.
In order to do this, we need to find a way to slow down the
decline of tape storage. The easiest way to do this, would be to
increase sales. As tape storage declines we need to encourage
faster growth of attached storage, so that it can take the place of
tape storage. We suggest that Keller gradually decrease the
amount of resources allotted to tape storage. Currently, there
are 20 engineers working on tape storage; we need to gradually
decrease the number of engineers from tape storage and redirect
them to work on attached storage or on creating a new product.
Our goal is to have a continuous cycle of one product growing

as the other declines. In order to successfully change the
organization, we must implement a strategic intervention,
human resources intervention, and technostructural intervention.
Human resources intervention- this intervention focuses on
developing, integrating, and supporting people in the
organization. It includes career planning, rewards systems, goal
setting, and performance appraisals.
· Goal setting involves setting clear and challenging goals to
improve organization effectiveness. Managers and other
employees meet to plan work, review accomplishments, and
solve problems.
· Performance appraisals are a systematic process of reviewing
achievements, strengths, and weaknesses. It provides
performance feedback to individuals and groups. It allows
employees to see if they are achieving goals.
· Reward systems involve rewarding employees to improve
satisfaction and performance. Rewards can include pay,
promotions, and other benefits.
By implementing a human resource intervention, we can create
a system that sets goals, evaluates performance, and then
rewards employees when goals are met. Our objective will be
to set clear and challenging goals to increase sales in San Jose.
We will use performance appraisals to assess the number of
sales being made. Performance appraisals would allow us to see
if goals are being reached. We will implement a rewards system
to improve job satisfaction and job performance. Employees
will have more incentives to reach goals and sale more of the
product. By allowing employees the opportunity to receive
rewards, we will also increase job satisfaction, which in turn
could lower the intent to turnover.
Strategic Intervention-
Technostructural intervention-

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Strategic Plan for Change Recommendations
Leadership in nursing
Write a 5-6 page paper that includes the following sections.
Guidelines are provided for
how long sections should be---they are only guidelines; please
do not fret over length of
sections. Examples provided in Italics do not mean that you
must state it exactly the
way I suggest. I simply hope to provide you an example.
Statement of the Problem- this it is actually your first paragraph
and the title of the
paper is used ---remember it is not bolded and title case used.
Improving Patient Safety: The Effect of Professional Nurse
Certification
This section should be ½ page long. Introduce your problem.
As an example
problem, you determine that not enough staff nurses at your
organization have
professional certification. In the introduction paragraph, you
will state the background of

your problem and explain why it is important. In other words,
for this problem you would
need to explain why nurses should have professional
certification. You may also
describe why it is important to the organization. Perhaps the
research shows that
nurses who have professional certification have better patient
outcomes. In addition,
perhaps it is important to achieve magnet status. This section
should include some
references that support the problem as being important. These
references do not count
as your minimum number for your literature review (see review
of literature section
below). Patient safety is a high priority for healthcare.
Research has shown that
organizations with higher numbers of nurses with professional
certification have
increased patient safety indicators (citation here). You would
expand here which your
assertions that it is an important problem. End your paragraph
with a thesis or purpose
statement. The purpose of this paper is to examine the problem
of an insufficient

number of nurses who hold professional certification within the
ABC organization and to
plan a recommendation for change to address the problem.
Review of Literature
In the actual literature review section, I want to see some
scholarly support on
how other organizations successfully addressed the problem. My
caveat is that we
always start with a problem and go to the literature for evidence
on the best way to
solve the problem. Many students begin with what they think
will be the solution.
Although, when you read in the literature about your problem,
you may find evidence
that supports what you think needs to be done, do not as soon
the answer before you
complete your literature review. Remember in a literature
review you are simply
reporting the evidence you find (think of it as it is just the
facts). Some articles many in

support a different tactic than the one you want to recommend.
It is good to weigh the
evidence both for and against any intervention. The review of
literature section requires
at least five current scholarly peer reviewed articles. Reports of
research are a stronger
base for your argument than an opinion article. If you find
research studies that
determines what works to overcome your stated problem--- that
is the best type
reference to use in this section. I suggest that this section is 2-3
pages in length.
Synthesis of the Evidence
In this section, you will assimilate and synthesize the findings
from your literature
review. You should not introduce additional references in this
section. You are taking
all that you have read and putting into your own words, giving
credit to the authors for
their ideas, the recommendations. Opposing opinions are a
good choice. It
demonstrates you considered several possibilities. This section
should be a clear,

concise, summary of what you learned in your evidence review
and a succinct
statement of your plan. Based upon the literature review and
synthesis of evidence, I
recommend that the organization offer financial reimbursement
for nurses obtaining or
maintaining their professional certifications. This section
should be approximately ½
page.
Suggested Courses of Action
In this section, you will use the leadership skills we learn this
term to plan a
change based on EBP. Strategic planning, using tools such as
SWOT, Balanced
Scorecard, or Six Sigma will help you determine a clear plan of
action. You will consider
change theories and leadership skills to define how you would
recommend
implementing this change in your organization. Apply the
theory you choose, do not just
name a theory, or describe it in global terms—tell me how you
will apply it had the page

to page student. This should be detailed and specific to your
unique situation.
Consider your organizational mission and vision statements and
be sure to align your
recommendation for change to them. Consider barriers to
change and plan for them. If
your recommendation creates a financial burden, include an
argument for funding this
suggestion. This section should be 1 to 2 pages long.
Summary or Conclusion (1/2 page)
A conclusion provides closure for the reader while reminding
the reader of the
contents and importance of the paper. It accomplishes this by
stepping back from the
specifics in order to view the bigger picture of the document. In
other words, it is
reminding the reader of the main argument. For most course
papers, it is usually one
simple, succinct paragraph that restates the main ideas and
arguments, pulling

everything together to help clarify the thesis of the paper. A
conclusion does not
introduce new ideas and rarely needs any references; instead, it
should clarify the
intent and importance of the paper. It can also suggest possible
future research on the
topic.
An Easy Checklist for Writing a Conclusion
1. Is the thesis of the paper accurately restated here (but not
repeated verbatim)?
It is important to remind the reader of the thesis of the paper so
he is reminded of
the argument and solutions you proposed.
2. Are the main points of the paper addressed and pulled
together?
Think of the main points as puzzle pieces, and the conclusion is
where they all fit
together to create a bigger picture. The reader should walk away
with the bigger picture
in mind.
3. Do you remind the reader of the importance of the topic?
Make sure that the paper places its findings in the context of
real social change.

4. Is there a sense of closure?

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