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Week 5Leading Practice Change Projects
Assignment
Purpose
The purpose of this assignment is to create a leadership approach to address the practice gap identified in the Week 2 assignment. The approach focuses on three specific DNP-prepared nurse leadership skills:
· Interprofessional collaboration
· Communication
· Leadership ethics
This assignment will allow for the assimilation of professional leadership competencies in project management as a DNP-prepared nurse. Assignment content supports professional formation, communication, and dissemination skills relevant to the DNP-prepared nurse.
Please note that this is the second part of a 3-part assignment submitted in Weeks 2, 5, and 7. You will receive feedback from your course faculty on the Week 2 and Week 5 assignments, which you should use to prepare the Week 7 assignment.
Instructions
Include the following in your paper:
1. Introduction
a. Introduce the paper’s topic and establish its importance.
b. Present a clear purpose statement.
c. Provide the reader with a brief organizing statement of what will be discussed in the paper.
2. Interprofessional Collaboration in Leading Project Teams: Create your approach to implementing the practice change project with an interprofessional team, including a description of how you will manage the following challenges:
a. Creating a climate of mutual respect and shared values
b. Facilitating team roles and flexibility to perform effectively
3. Communication Comportment in Project Management: Create a guideline for your professional communication to serve you in the practice change project and future roles. Include the following considerations:
a. Verbal and non-verbal communication competencies at a doctoral level
i.Communicating leadership comportment
ii.Creating alignment of verbal and nonverbal messages
b. Written professional communication
i.Writing with leadership tone and style
ii.Using standard English
iii.Creating summary and synthesis in writing
4. Leadership Ethics: Discuss how you will create a consistent image of ethical comportment, including the consideration of the following:
a. Balance an Ethic of Justice with an Ethic of Care in your leadership style.
b. Create a conflict resolution approach for the project team management of issues such as disagreements or bullying.
c. Lead social justice change within the project environment (i.e., countering structural inequities, addressing implicit and explicit bias, combating social injustices, and applying cultural humility).
5. Conclusion
a. Recap the paper’s purpose statement and organizing criteria.
b. Draw major conclusions from the body of your paper.
c. Summarize the importance of effective communication competencies for the DNP-prepared nurse.
6. References (minimum of 2 scholarly, peer-reviewed sources)
a. Create the reference page.
b. Ensure each reference has a matching citation.
c. Support your discussion by using evidence from at least two (2) scholarly peer-reviewed journal article sources (preferably research or systematic reviews) that are retrieved from the Chamberlain library databases. Do not use the internet, textbooks, government sources, or organizational websites for the two sources in this assignment. However, you may use other gray materials for additional sources if you need them. Hint: Search other than nursing journals for sources of evidence.
Review the rubric for the grading criteria.
APA Guidelines
Use the current Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA Manual) and the Chamberlain Guidelines for Writing a Professional Paper (located in the APA Basics section of the Writing Center) to complete this assignment. Follow these guidelines when completing each component. Contact your course faculty if you have questions.
1. Use the APA Paper Template (located in the Writing Center) to format this assignment.
2. Turn on Grammarly to check the correctness of the grammar and punctuation as you write. (Note: if you have not already done so, please download the free version at Grammarly.com before construction of the assignment.)
3. Create a title for your project and construct a title page using the APA paper template (Example: Preventing Early Sepsis in Critical Care Patients) based on your identified practice problem.
4. Use the following prescribed Level 1 headings for this paper:
a. Interprofessional Collaboration in Leading Project Teams
b. Communicating Comportment in Project Management
c. Leadership Ethics
d. Conclusion
Writing Requirements (APA format)
· Length: 3-4 pages (not including title page, references page, or attachments)
· 1-inch margins
· Double-spaced pages
· 12-point Times New Roman or 11-point Arial font
· Headings & subheadings
· In-text citations
· Title page
· Reference page
· Standard English usage and mechanics
Course Outcomes
This assignment enables the student to meet the following course outcomes:
1. Compare and contrast theories of organizational behavior and leadership. (PO 6)
2. Investigate the role of advanced nursing practice in innovation and transformation to propose solutions impacting healthcare systems. (PO 6)
3. Differentiate attributes of effective leaders and followers in influencing healthcare. (PO 6)
4. Assimilate attributes for interprofessional collaboration across healthcare settings. (PO 8)
5. Formulate selected strategies for leadership and influence across healthcare systems. (PO 8)
Due Date
· By 11:59 p.m. MT on Sunday
· Late Assignment Policy applies
Rubric
W5 Assignment Grading Rubric
W5 Assignment Grading Rubric
Criteria
Ratings
Pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeIntroduction
Requirements: 1. Introduce the paper’s topic and establish its importance. 2. Present a clear purpose statement. 3. Provide the reader with an brief organizing statement of what will be discussed in the paper.
10 pts
Includes all requirements and provides an excellent introduction.
9 pts
Includes all requirements with a very good introduction.
8 pts
Includes all requirements with a basic introduction.
0 pts
Includes 1 or fewer requirements and/or a poor introduction.
10 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeInterprofessional Collaboration in Leading Project Teams
Requirements: Create an approach to implementing the practice change project with an interprofessional team, including a description of how you will manage the following challenges: 1. Creating a climate of mutual respect and shared values. 2. Facilitating team roles and flexibility to perform effectively.
50 pts
Includes all requirements and an provides an excellent analysis of the practice problem and prevalence.
45 pts
Includes all requirements and a very good analysis of the practice problem and prevalence.
40 pts
Includes all requirements with a basic analysis of the practice problem and prevalence.
0 pts
Includes 1 or fewer requirements and/or with a poor analysis of the practice problem or prevalence.
50 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeCommunication Comportment in Project Management
Requirements: Create a guideline for your professional communication to serve you in the practice change project and future roles. Include the following: 1. Verbal and non-verbal communication competencies at a doctoral level. i) Communicating leadership comportment ii) Creating alignment of verbal and nonverbal messages 2. Written professional communication i) Writing with leadership tone and style ii) Using standard English iii) Creating summary and synthesis in writing
50 pts
Includes all requirements and provides an excellent communication comportment in project management.
45 pts
Includes all requirements and provides a very good communication comportment in project management.
40 pts
Includes no fewer than 4 requirements with a basic communication comportment in project management.
0 pts
Includes 3 or fewer requirements and/or provides a poor communication comportment in project management.
50 pts
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