Discussion Question 1: Shared Governance Structure and the CNO
NSG 6620 Week 3 Assignment 1 Discussion
Discussion Question 1: Shared Governance Structure and the CNO
Shared Governance Structure and the CNO – During the 1980s, nursing and healthcare were suffering from challenges of an acute nursing shortage, rampant nurse turnover, and issues with nurse retention.In the mid-1980s, shared governance was instituted to incentivize and empower nurses.Shared governance is an innovative organizational model promoting staff control and autonomy over nursing practice in areas that were previously controlled by managers.Shared Governance Structure and the CNO
The concept of shared governance may be a challenge to understand because it is not uniformly applied or operationalized and because of the great diversity in shared governance models.Nurses working in organizations with shared governance models are more empowered and have higher levels of satisfaction in their roles.
Using the readings for the week, the South University Online Library, and the Internet, respond to the following:
Compare the roles of the CNO and nursing directors or managers in a shared governance structure.
What steps can the CNO take to enable smooth operations in such a structure?
Identify two challenges CNOs face when working with a shared governance structure.
Compare and contrast a model of shared governance with an authoritarian or autocratic CNO.
Examine the role of the CNO in working to set parameters for nurses in a shared governance structure.
Comment on the postings of at least two peers.
Shared Governance Structure and the CNO Evaluation Criteria:
Compared the roles of the CNO and nursing directors or managers in a shared governance structure.
Listed steps the CNO can take to enable smooth operations in such a structure.
Identified two challenges CNOs face when working with a shared governance structure.
Compared and contrasted a model of shared governance with an authoritarian or autocratic CNO.
Examined the role of the CNO in working to set parameters for nurses in a shared governance structure.
Justified your answers with appropriate research and reasoning.
Commented on the postings of at least two peers.
Shared Governance Structure and the CNO
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NSG 6620 Week 3 Discussion 2
Discussion Question 2: Staff Concerns and the CNO
Often, gossip mills and rumors tend to circulate very quickly throughout healthcare organizations even though everything is supposed to be confidential.Good and bad news travel quickly; one of the greatest challenges the CNO or vice president for patient care services (VPPCS) faces is to control and share information with the staff members so that they receive the same message in the same way at the same time.
Using the readings for the week, the South University Online Library, and the Internet, respond to the following:
What role does the CNO or VPPCS play in addressing the concerns of the entire staff in nursing town-hall meetings? Why is this role important?
Provide an example of a need for the CNO or VPPCS to schedule an entire staff town-hall meeting.
How can the CNO or VPPCS minimize gossip and information via the “grapevine” before an entire staff town-hall meeting?
How would you craft an agenda and circulate it for a town-hall meeting?
How can the CNO or VPPCS integrate the use of electronic and social media into addressing staff concerns in twenty-first-century healthcare organizations?
Comment on the postings of at least two peers.
Evaluation Criteria:
Described the role of the CNO or VPPCS in addressing the concerns of the entire staff in nursing town-hall meetings, and explained the importance of this role.
Provided an example of a need for the CNO or VPPCS to schedule an entire staff town-hall meeting.
Suggested ways in which the CNO or VPPCS can minimize gossip and information via the “grapevine” before an entire staff town-hall meeting.
Explained how you would craft an agenda and circulate it for a town-hall meeting.
Recommended ways in which the CNO or VPCSS can integrate the use of electronic and social media into addressing staff concerns in twenty-first-century healthcare organizations.
Justified your answers with appropriate research and reasoning.
Commented on the postings of at least two peers.
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NSG 6620 Week 3 Assignment 2: SWOT Analysis Draft
The CNO constantly needs to evaluate and assess various components of the healthcare organization’s structure, process, and outcomes as they relate to organizational effectiveness in meeting the mission and vision statement.It is relevant to have a method for rapid evaluation and assessment of these components because often, the CNO does not have much time in which to conduct these activities.One method that allows CNOs to effectively and efficiently evaluate and assess healthcare organizations and pinpoint issues is the SWOT analysis.SWOT stands for strengths, weaknesses, outcomes, and threats.The SWOT analysis is easy to administer in order to evaluate the following:
Strengths that are positive and internal
Weaknesses that are negative and internal
Opportunities that are positive and external
Threats that are negative and external
Upon completion of the SWOT analysis, the CNO can set major goals to be achieved and get the organization back on track by linking the SWOT analysis findings to strategic planning.
This week, you will begin preparing a SWOT analysis of a nursing department or unit.The purpose of this assignment is to assess your progress on the final SWOT analysis due in Week 5.This assignment provides you the opportunity to self-assess and determine any issues or challenges that need to be resolved prior to completing and submitting the final assignment.
Week 3 Tasks
Begin this assignment by having a discussion with your practicum preceptor.Discuss and agree upon a nurse leadership issue or topic on which you will base your SWOT analysis.
Then, write a 1–2-page SWOT analysis of the nursing department or unit in which you work or have worked in the past.
Cover the following:
Explain why you selected the leadership issue or topic.
Identify the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of your nursing department or unit based on this issue.
Your final SWOT analysis will be presented in a SWOT matrix.This week, you will begin filling this matrix.Click here to download the SWOT analysis matrix template you can use for this assignment.
Prepare a brief note on the implications of this analysis for your nursing department or unit and the selected issue.
Use APA style and formatting for your assignment.Make sure to include separate title and reference pages in your assignment.
Submit your paper in a Microsoft Word document to the W3: Assignment 2 Dropbox by Tuesday, September 19, 2017.Name your document SU_NSG6620_W3_A2_LastName_FirstInitial.doc.