In this assignment you will continue to develop the organizational assessment that is a major part of your individual final assignment, the Performance Improvement Plan Paper. It will be helpful for you to review the complete final paper assignment in Module 7 and the related rubric before you complete this assignment.
For this assignment you will continue to use the healthcare organization you selected in the first assignment. As the new nurse executive of a healthcare organization, you are planning to propose your first major performance improvement initiative. In order to do this, you decide to perform an organizational assessment to better understand the physical setting and technology used by the organization in the delivery of care and to meet the health care needs of the community.
To complete the assignment, follow the instructions below. Use the M4A2:Organizational Assessment: Physical Setting and Technology Paper Rubric [PDF file size 410 KB] as a guide for writing your paper. This assignment should be no longer than 4 pages (excluding title page and reference list). The paper should include at least 5 references*, including at least one non-nursing reference, and address all of the following criteria.
Note: *Scholarly literature (including scholarly articles, white papers, and scholarly websites) integrated within the Masters Competencies paper should come from the most current nursing or related literature (published no more than 5 years ago); however, older works may be included if it is a seminal source or where there is a gap in the literature.
Title Page (Graded through organization, writing style, grammar, usage, mechanics, and formatting)
Abstract (Graded through organization, writing style, grammar, usage, mechanics, and formatting)
Introduction (not labeled as such in APA format; graded through organization, writing style, grammar, usage, mechanics, and formatting)
Introduce topic of the paper.
Include a thesis statement that describes the purpose of the paper.
1. Physical Setting (40%)
Evaluate how the physical setting impacts patient care including any challenges it may present such as:
General communication venues
Clinical documentation
Clinical care monitoring
Aging facility
Physical comfort of the facility
Any other elements of the physical setting specific to your chosen health care organization
2. Technology (40%)
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