Identify a healthcare delivery situation within the nurse’s current practice setting that needs change and provide background information.
Students will develop a scholarly paper addressing a healthcare delivery situation that needs change within the practice setting and how the master’s prepared nurse can facilitate intraprofessional collaboration and communication during the change process as a change agent.Assignment Criteria:1. Identify a healthcare delivery situation within the nurse’s current practice setting that needs change and provide background information.2. Select and discuss a leadership theory and/or change model that the master’s prepared nurse can apply to the health care delivery situation.3. Develop a proposed plan for change the master’s prepared nurse could initiate, provide rationale.4. Discuss strategies the master’s prepared nurse can utilize to initiate change and improve outcomes.5. Discuss the essential elements needed by a master’s prepared nurse leader to be an effective change agent.6. Discuss why the leadership role is an integral component for the mastered prepared nurse.7. Define intraprofessional collaboration and communication.a. Discuss the impact intraprofessional collaboration and communication has on the change process.b. Discuss how the master’s prepared nurse leader can facilitate intraprofessional communication and collaboration during the change process.c. Discuss barriers to and drivers of effective collaboration communication between interdisciplinary healthcare members.8. The scholarly paper should be five (5) to six (6) pages excluding the title and reference pages.9. Include level 1 and level 2 headings, an introductory paragraph, purpose statement, and a conclusion.10. Write the paper in third person, not first person (meaning do not use ‘we’ or ‘I’).11. Include a minimum of three (3) references from professional peer-reviewed nursing journals to support the paper. References should be from scholarly peer-reviewed journals (review in Ulrich Periodical Directory) and be less than five (5) years old.12. APA format is required (attention to spelling/grammar, a title page, a reference page, and in-text citations).
