19 Apr Responsibility as a DNP Leader

How will your new role contribute to improving the healthcare system in terms of cost, quality, and access?

· How will your new role contribute to changing practice to the clinical realm through evidence-based practice?

· Identify and describe your ideal position and how you plan to meet the healthcare challenges, as well as transform practice (refer to two areas most relevant to you)

· How will your new role contribute to addressing policy changes that impact the clinical realm?

· How has the experience of collaborating with your DNP team (professor, mentors, Associate Dean) help you understand your future role as a DNP leader?

Section Two: Comparing the Role of DNP Leader with Other Leadership Roles

In your new role as a DNP-prepared nurse, describe what skills and knowledge will you bring forth in the healthcare setting?

· As a nurse leader, what new skills and knowledge will you bring forth compared to a nurse executive with his or her MSN or MBA?

· As a nurse working in academia, what new skills and knowledge will you bring forth compared to a tenured faculty member with their PhD?

· As a nurse leader educating staff to facilitate the implementation of a clinical practice change, what new skills and knowledge will you bring forth compared to a nurse educator with an MSN-Ed.?

· As a nurse involved with healthcare policy, what new skills and knowledge will you bring forth compared to a nurse leader with his or her MSN or MPH?

· As a quality improvement specialist, what new skills and knowledge will you bring forth compared to a nurse quality consultant with his or her MSN or MPH?

Section Three: Leadership Skills Needed and Resources Available to support you as a leader.

· Provide a description of five skills you believe are needed to be an effective leader.

· Provide a description of five evidence-based practice and leadership-related resource available to help support you as a leader.

Doctor of Nursing Practice Program

DNP 8000

Health System Development and Leadership Practice Immersion Experience

Understanding the Role of DNP Leader in Implementing a Practice Change

DNP 8000

Understanding the Role of DNP Leader

Health System Development and Leadership Practice Immersion Experience

Leaders become great, not because of their power, but because of their ability to empower others.

– John Maxwell

Purpose

The purpose of this assignment will be to gain an understanding of your new role as a DNP nurse leader and to address the scope of your new responsibilities including implementation of clinical practice change. You can draw from your interaction with leaders in the community via the immersion practice where you have been shadowing a clinical leader and from the collaboration with the DNP Practicum Project Thesis Proposal, your mentor, professor and your Associate Dean. Additionally, in the course of this assignment you will compare your DNP leadership role with other professional leadership roles. Lastly, you will consider the skills and leadership-oriented resources (such as your membership with the American Organization for Nursing Leadership) available to help support your role as a DNP nurse leader.

*This assignment aim to help DNP-students achieve role-specific competencies based from the Nurse Executive Competencies delineated by the American Organization for Nursing Leadership Organization including communication, knowledge, leadership. Professionalism, and business skills.

Course Level Student Learning Outcomes (CLSLO’s)
This assignment provides documentation of student ability to meet the following course outcomes.

· Integrate interprofessional collaboration and the DNP role in healthcare service, nursing scholarship, and advanced practice

· Utilize DNP leadership strategies for advancing healthcare policy in selected healthcare systems change.

· Compare and contrast driving and restraining forces that shape DNP leader response to advance quality and safety initiatives in healthcare using selected healthcare systems change.

· Construct practice initiatives that assist with the resolution of health care disparities according to effective health care management, economic, financing and ethics principles.

· Evaluate health care organizations and policy for the ability to address healthcare disparities

· Distinguish the DNP role in affecting healthcare practice and policy change.

Program Outcomes

· I-Integrate Scientific Underpinnings into Practice

· II-Develop Organizational and Systems Leadership for Quality Improvement and Systems Thinking

· III-Apply Clinical Scholarship and Analytical Methods for Evidence-Based Practice

· VI-Employ Interprofessional Collaboration for Improving Patient and Population Health Outcomes

· VIII-Demonstrate advanced levels of clinical judgment, systems thinking, and accountability in designing, delivering, and evaluating evidence-based care to improve patient outcome

Leadership Role-Specific Competencies

· Demonstrate effective communication and relationship building:

· Through the production of written materials

· Through collaborative relationships with DNP stakeholders

· Through engagement of stakeholders

· Demonstrate knowledge of the healthcare environment

· Demonstrating current knowledge of patient care delivery systems across the continuum

· Articulating the organization’s performance improvement program and goals

· Demonstrate Leadership Skills

· Demonstrating applied critical analysis to organizational issues after a review of the evidence

· Demonstrate Professionalism

· Seeking input and mentorship from other in career planning and development

· Develop business skills through financial management

· Create the operational objectives, goals and specific strategies required to achieve the strategic outcome

Due Date: Submit to the Moodle by Saturday of the end Week 6 at 11:59 p.m. ET.

Points: This assignment is worth a total of 100 points.

Requirements

· To complete this application, you will need to access to the Miami Regional University virtual library database. following databases: CINAHL Complete Database, MEDLINE Complete Database, LIRN, and so forth. Our Librarian is available to help on campus from Monday to Friday 7:30 am to 9:00 pm & Saturday 8:00 am to 3:00 pm. Furthermore, please read the proposed articles in the week #6 of Moodle. Feel free to use the APA template provided for this assignment in Moodle week #6. Should you have any questions, feel free to reach out to your professor, DNP mentor, or to post your question in the Q/A forum on Moodle. We are here to help.

· This assignment is worth 100 points and will be graded on the required components as summarized in the directions and grading criteria/rubric. This assignment will be graded on quality of information, use of citations, use of Standard English grammar, sentence structure, and overall organization based on the required components as summarized in the directions and grading criteria and rubric.

· APA format and effective writing is required for the paper. Use your APA manual to check and correct your formatting. Use Grammarly, Tutor.com available in Moodle, the grammar and spelling check on your Word Processor, and criteria for effective writing to assure that your paper well written.

· Create your manuscript using the version of Microsoft Word. You can tell that the document is saved as a MS Word document because it will end in “.docx”.

· Follow the directions and grading criteria closely. Any questions about this paper may be posted under the Q & A Forum.

· The length of the project report is to be no fewer than four page and no greater than six pages, excluding the title page and reference pages.

· This paper will be submitted through Turnitin, a Turnitin similarity score of 20% or less is expected.

· A minimum of 5 current scholarly references that are 5 years old or less.

· The textbook required for this course may be used as a reference for this assignment but does not count towards the required minimum number of scholarly references.