N4455 Nursing Leadership and Management WK 8

N4455 Nursing Leadership and Management WK 8

N4455 Nursing Leadership and Management WK 8

This course aims to help you utilize quality improvement processes and management tools to improve client care outcomes, partly by improving the nurse’s working environment as you make and implement good decisions. Now you will apply those processes and tools to yourself by creating a professional development plan.

You will begin by completing some management graphic organizers or tools. Then you will use these tools as the basis of your plan.

Objectives

· Explain how organizations function.

· Compare and contrast characteristics of leadership and management.

· Apply trends, issues, theories, and evidence as guidelines for management decisions.

· Evaluate effectiveness of communication patterns using specific management situations.

Submit this assignment on this template and submit as a word document.

Rubric

Use this rubric to guide your work on the Week 5 Professional Development Plan.

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Tasks Target Acceptable Unacceptable
Statement of Philosophy

(max 20 points)

(16-20 points)

Clear statement of philosophy of nursing

(7 points)

(9-15 points)

Statement of philosophy of nursing

(5 points)

(0-8 points)

One or more philosophy statements missing or poorly written

(0-5 points)

 

Clear statement of personal philosophy

(6 points)

Statement of personal philosophy

(5 points)

 
 

Both philosophies clearly reflected in values, vision, and personal interests (in first assessment tool)

(7 points)

Both philosophies somewhat reflected in values, vision, and personal interests (in first assessment tool)

(5 points)

Little or no evidence of connections between philosophies and assessment tools

(0-3 points)

Use of Assessment Tools to Formulate Goals

(max 20 points)

(14-20 points)

Detailed completion of Assessment Tools

(5 points)

(4-13 points)

Completion of Assessment Tools

(3-4 points)

(0-3 points)

Little or no completion of Assessment Tools

(0-2 points)

 

Clearly-articulated list of at least four prioritized goals based on assessments

(5 points)

List of at least four prioritized goals

(3 points)

 

List of at least two goals

(0-1 point)

 

All goals stated in measurable terms

(5 points)

Some goals stated in measureable terms

(3 points)

No goals stated in measurable terms

(0 points)

 

Dates identified for accomplishing each goal

(5 points)

Dates identified for accomplishing most goals

(3 points)

No dates identified

(0 points)

Specific Strategies

(max 20 points)

Identified specific strategies for accomplishing each goal

(16-20 points total)

Some strategies that are related to pursuance of goals

(11-15 points total)

Vague or no description of strategies

(0-10 points)

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.