Intervention Strategy

Develop a written intervention strategy, 4-pages in length, that can be applied to the resolution or management of a nursing leadership problem.

Introduction

Note: Complete Assessments 1 and 2 before beginning this assessment. You will choose one of the leadership problems illustrated in the associated case study scenarios presented in those assessments as the focus in this assessment.

Consider a bill from the ANA’s Policy & State Government Affairs program or another professional nursing association.

What impact would this bill have on nursing practice, whether or not it passed?

Imagine that you are in charge of a specialty area in your organization and tasked with developing collaborative, cost-effective, and innovative strategies to facilitate positive change.

What situation would be appropriate to address in your work setting?

How would you assess the needs and identify appropriate interventions for change?
Is the intervention cost-effective?

How does the intervention align with the overall organizational culture?

Instructions

Develop an intervention strategy to resolve or manage a nursing leadership problem.

Identify a leadership theory or strategy most applicable to resolving or managing your chosen nursing leadership problem.

Evaluate the theories and strategies you have read about and are already familiar with.

Examine new theories and strategies, as desired. Focus your research on the scholarly and professional literature that can be found in the Capella library or on the Internet.

What is the theory or strategy?

What are the characteristics of the theory or strategy? What does it involve?

Why did you choose that particular theory or strategy?

Explain how your chosen leadership theory or strategy can be applied to resolve or manage your chosen nursing leadership problem.

Provide examples from the literature to support your explanation.

How has the theory or strategy been applied in similar situations?

Explain how consideration of an organizational change model influences your intervention strategy.

How can effective change leadership help build a health care organization’s or system’s capacity for health promotion and facilitate attainment of organizational goals?

Explain how health care policy and legislation might affect the resolution or management of the problem.

What health care policies or legislation might have an impact?

What would that impact be?

Write clearly and concisely, using correct grammar and mechanics.

Express your main points and conclusions coherently.

Proofread your writing to minimize errors that could distract readers and make it more difficult to focus on the substance of your analysis.

Support your main points, claims, and conclusions with credible scholarly or professional evidence, correctly formatting citations and references using current APA style.

Competency 1: Evaluate theories and practices of leadership and management for professional nursing practice.

Identify a leadership theory or strategy that has some applicability to resolving or managing a particular nursing leadership problem.

Explain how a particular leadership theory or strategy can be applied to resolve or manage a nursing leadership problem.

Competency 2: Analyze how organizational goals, models of patient care delivery, and systems models affect health care service delivery.

Explain how consideration of an organizational change model influences an intervention strategy.

Competency 3: Analyze the impact of health care policy, legal and regulatory, and quality control on health care delivery and patient outcomes.

Explain how health care policy and legislation might affect the resolution or management of a nursing leadership problem.

Competency 4: Communicate effectively across disciplines, demonstrating respect for self and others.