Week 4 Assignment: NURS 6231: HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS AND QUALITY OUTCOMES
This assignment is to related to Regional One Health, Memphis, TN….
Learning Resources
Note: To access this week’s required library resources, please click on the link to the Course Readings List, found in the Course Materials section of your Syllabus.
Required Readings
Hickey, J. V., & Brosnan, C. A. (2017). Evaluation of health care quality in for DNPs (2nd ed.). New York, NY: Springer Publishing Company.
Chapter 10, “Evaluation of Patient Care Standards, Guidelines, and Protocols” (pp. 207-226)
Chapter 12, “Evaluating Populations and Population Health” (pp. 265-280)Chapter 10 reviews methods for using national, local, and organizational standards to evaluate the quality of health care practices. Chapter 12 examines strategies for identifying quality issues through the evaluation of populations.
Sadeghi, S., Barzi, A., Mikhail, O., & Shabot, M. M. (2013). Integrating quality and strategy in health care organizations, Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Publishers.
Chapter 3, “General Concepts in Quality” (pp. 45–82)See the six aims for quality proposed by the Institute of Medicine (IOM).
Bellot, J. (2011). Defining and assessing organizational culture. Nursing Forum, 46(1), 29–37.
Defining and assessing organizational culture by Bellot, J., in Nursing Forum, 46(1), 29–37. Copyright 2011 by John Wiley & Sons – Journals. Reprinted by permission of John Wiley & Sons – Journals via the Copyright Clearance Center.
Bellot reviews the definition of organizational culture, methods for evaluating organizational culture, and the application of Schein’s framework to defining the culture of health care organizations.
Dixon, M. A., & Dougherty, D. S. (2010). Managing the multiple meanings of organizational culture in interdisciplinary collaboration and consulting. Journal of Business Communication, 47(1), 3–19.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.This article demonstrates the importance of not only understanding the culture of an organization, but also how these dynamics affect workplace performance and retention of employees.
Hartnell, C. A., Ou, A. Y., & Kinicki, A. (2011). Organizational culture and organizational effectiveness: A meta-analytic investigation of the competing values framework’s theoretical suppositions. Journal of Applied Psychology, 96(4), 677–694.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.This article presents a study on the relationship between culture types and organizational effectiveness. The authors apply specific values frameworks to determine the relationships while also assessing the competing values framework.
Schein, E. H. (1996). Three cultures of management: The key to organizational learning. Sloan Management Review, 38(1), 9–20.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.In this seminal article, Schein identifies three subcultures found within an organization and the effects of these competing cultures on an organization’s effectiveness.
Wait, S. T., & Dayman, M. A. (2012, July/August). Company culture drives business value. Value Examiner, 30–31.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.The authors connect company culture to innovation and success.
This report briefly outlines the six aims of the IOM to improve the quality of health care.
Grading Criteria
Post by Day 3 and Respond by Day 6
Project 1: Promoting Health Care Quality
Section 1: Organizational Systems and Structures Evaluation
- Continue to analyze your selected organization, as indicated in Week 3 (Section 1 of the Course Project).
- In addition, consider the ideas and information exchanged in this week’s Discussion. Continue to analyze essential elements of organizational culture and evaluate the influence of culture on the ability to achieve goals within your selected organization.
Write a 3- to 5-page paper in which you:
- Provide a description of the organization you selected
- Present your analysis of the organization with attention to:
- Its mission, vision, values
- Strategic plan, goals, and objectives
- Key operational processes and patterns
- Information technology use
- Organizational priorities and investments, as indicated by financial data
- The essential elements of the organization’s culture
- The influence of culture on meeting organizational goals