NR504: Week 5 Leading a Culture of Excellence
NR504: Week 5 Leading a Culture of ExcellenceNR504: Week 5 Leading a Culture of
ExcellenceThe goal of this assignment is to think about the importance of a culture of
excellence and leadership strategies that a culture of excellence within the student’s
chosen MSN track. Students will identify organizational characteristics that promote an
excellence culture. Furthermore, students will identify an existing organizational mission,
vision, and values and create an original concept map to depict the elements’
interrelationships. The extent to which the organizational mission, vision, and values reflect
an excellence culture will be scrutinized. Leadership strategies that promote an excellence
culture and the Chamberlain Care Model® will be implemented.NR504: Week 5 Leading a
Culture of Excellence Paper Guidelines and Rubric (Links to an external site.)Links to an
external site.This assignment will be submitted in two parts:ORDER NOW FOR
CUSTOMIZED, PLAGIARISM-FREE PAPERSPart I: Concept Map. This portion of the
assignment will be submitted below.Part II: Submission of the written paper. This portion of
the assignment will be submitted on the next page.You will receive one grade for Part I and
Part II.Course OutcomesThrough this assignment, the student will address the following
Course Outcomes:CO 1: Discern leadership approaches that facilitate achievement of health
outcomes through interprofessional collaborative practice within micro-, meso-, and macro-
level systems.CO 2: Appraise the role of the MSN-prepared nurse to lead safe, efficient,
ethical, high-quality, person-centered healthcare across complex systems.CO 3: Integrate
communication modalities that convey cultural humility, value the diverse nature of
individuals, and cultivate healthful work environments.RequirementCriteria for
ContentPart I : Concept MapIdentify the mission, vision, and values of a selected
organization.Create a concept map that portrays the relationships among the organizational
mission, vision, and core values, depicting how they do or do not a culture of excellence.
The concept map must be your own, original work. NR504: Week 5 Leading a Culture of
ExcellencePreparing the AssignmentCriteria for Format and Special Instructions1. Abide by
the Chamberlain College of Nursing Academic Integrity Policy.2. Part I: Create and submit a
concept map as a pdf or Word document.a. Concept map may be neatly drawn by hand or
created using software.b. Concept map must be clear and legible.c. Concept map must be the
student’s original work.Part II: Written Paper1. In a three- to four- page paper, address the
elements below. Use a minimum of four peer-reviewed scholarly sources, current within 5
years, to your work. See the rubric for specific, required content criteria within each
section of the paper.a. Provide an introduction to the paper.b. Discuss the characteristics of

a culture of excellence.c. Present the mission, vision, and values of a selected organization,
and explain the interrelationships between each element in the concept map. Describe how
the mission, vision, and values do or do not a culture of excellence.d. Discuss application of
three specific leadership strategies that promote a culture of excellence, and how they the
Chamberlain Care Model®.e. Provide a conclusion to the paper.Preparing the
AssignmentCriteria for Format and Special Instructions1. Abide by the Chamberlain College
of Nursing Academic Integrity Policy.2. Part II: Using Microsoft Word 2013, create the
written paper for this assignment. Include a title page with your name, date, and course
information, as well as a reference page.a. The paper (excluding title and reference pages)
should be three to four pages in length.b. A minimum of four peer-reviewed scholarly
sources, current within 5 years, are required.c. Sources older than 5 years may not be used
without the permission of the class professor.d. Only one short quote (15 words or less)
may be used within the body of your writing.e. Title page, running head, pagination,
subheadings, body of paper, citation of sources, and reference page must follow APA
guidelines as found in the 6th edition of the manual.f. Rules of grammar, spelling, word
usage, punctuation, and sentence and paragraph structure are followed and consistent with
formal, scholarly writing as noted in the APA Manual (6th edition).g. First person may only
be used in the self-reflection portion of the assignment (see Conclusion section for
criteria).Video from professorBefore we begin, I would like to encourage you to locate your
week five assignment guidelines and rubric. It will be helpful to have that document
available as we continue with the assignment overview. [BLANK_AUDIO] The capacity of the
nurse to influence others and shape working relationships has been a clear idea of emphasis
throughout our class readings.From influencing one’s self, to facilitating collaborative
practice with others, the MSN prepared nurse leader is equipped to cultivate a culture of
excellence within the healthcare environment by fostering quality, safety, cultural humility,
meaningful engagement, and a healthful work atmosphere. The purpose of this assignment
is to consider the value of a culture of excellence, as well as the leadership strategies
necessary to facilitate a culture of excellence within the work setting specific to the selected
MSN track.Through this assignment, you will identify characteristics and practices which a
culture of excellence within an organization. In addition, you will identify organizational
mission, vision and values, and create an original concept map which portrays the
interrelationships between each element. Also portrayed within the concept map will be the
extent to which the mission, vision and values reflect a culture of excellence. NR504: Week 5
Leading a Culture of ExcellenceFinally, through this assignment, you will explore leadership
strategies which promote a culture of excellence and the Chamberlain Care model in the
selected MSN role. [BLANK_AUDIO] As we begin our assignment overview, let’s look at a
couple of fast facts regarding the Week Five assignments. The Leading a Culture of
Excellence assignment includes two parts.Part I will include a concept map which is the
student’s own original work. And Part II will include a scholarly written paper. The concept
map may be hand drawn and scanned as a PDF document. Or you may create a concept map
using tools in the Word format. The concept map must illustrate the interrelationships
between mission, vision, and values of an existing organization or your choosing.You will
want the concept map to portray how the organization’s mission, vision, and values do or do

not reflect a culture of excellence. We will discuss the concept MAC requirement in further
detail, just a little bit later in our overview. In addition to the concept map, Part II of this
assignment is a three to four page scholarly written paper.To your writing, four current
peer reviewed scholarly sources are required.The assignment in total is worth 175 points,
which is 17.5% of the course grade.The assignment is due at 11:59 PM Mountain Time at
the end of week five. The week five assignment addresses three of our course outcomes for
Nursing 504, course learning outcome one, two, and three.Course learning outcome number
1, discern leadership approaches that facilitate achievement of health outcomes through
interprofessional collaborative practice within micro, meso, and macro-level systems.
Course outcome 2, appraise the role of the MSN-prepared nurse to lead safe, efficient,
ethical, high-quality, person-centered health care across complex systems. And course
outcome number 3, integrate communication modalities which convey cultural humility,
value the diverse nature of individuals, and cultivate healthful work
environments.Investigate the concept of a culture of excellence along with the
organizational characteristics and practices, and leadership strategies, which help to
facilitate and reflect a culture of excellence. You will need a minimum of four peer-reviewed
scholarly sources current within five years to your writing. Select an existing
organizational mission, vision, and values to portray within your concept map.You’ll create
an original concept map to demonstrate and portray how these elements do or do not a
culture of excellence. And finally, you will develop a three to four page paper to address the
content requirements noted in the rubric.You will submit two documents. Both Part I, the
concept map, and Part II, the written paper, for final evaluation.Let’s begin with Part I of the
assignment, the concept map. For full credit, you will create a concept map, which is your
own original work.The concept map will express organizational mission, vision and values.
To do this, you want to first identify an existing organization that is of interest to you.
Perhaps it is the current organization where you are employed Or perhaps it’s another
healthcare organization, where you may choose to seek employment after graduation as an
MSN-prepared nurse.Once you identify the organization, locate the mission, vision and
values of that organization. Create a unique original concept map which portrays the
organization’s mission, vision, and values, along with the interrelationships between those
three elements. You will also want the concept map to portray how the organizational
mission, vision, and values do or do not reflect a culture of excellence.Now, in order to
reflect this element in your concept map, you will want to integrate characteristics or
practices which are reflective of a culture of excellence. And portray the degree to which
they are reflected in the chosen organizational mission, vision, and values. It will be helpful
for you to read about a culture of excellence and identify organizational characteristics and
practices which a culture of excellence.This content is addressed in the week five lesson
and readings. Once you are familiar with those characteristics and practices, you will be
better able to create that element within your concept map, demonstrating how the
organizational mission, vision, and values do or do not reflect the elements of a culture of
excellence.How might you create an original concept map for this assignment? Well, there
are a couple of ways that you can do this. First, you can hand draw a concept map, scan that
drawing to create a PDF file, and then submit the concept map as a PDF file. If you prefer

and if you are familiar with software tools available, you can use software to create a
concept map, such as tools that are available within Microsoft Word.Once your concept map
is created, you would submit that electronic file. Please note, artistic talent is not being
graded in this assignment. Instead, fulfillment of the required assignment criteria will be
evaluated. The concept map must be your own original work. It must be created by you and
no one else.Now that we’ve discussed the concept map, let’s shift gears and begin to review
the content and format requirements for the written paper portion of the assignment. This
is Part II of the assignment. And again, remember to refer to the guideline and rubric for full
details. Let’s begin with the introduction section to your paper. NR504: Week 5 Leading a
Culture of ExcellenceWithin this section, be sure to include the importance of pursuing a
culture of excellence within the healthcare industry, and the role of mission, vision, and
value statements to guide organizational culture. You’ll be sure to identify the sections of
the paper, and remember to include from current, peer reviewed scholarly sources.