Leadership in Program Planning

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As a nurse who is involved as a leader, you may be in a position to develop and implement wellness and prevention programs, disease management programs, or quality management programs. Such program development can enable the nurse leader to foster a proactive approach that involves the patient in the management of her individual health care needs. By utilizing a self-health-care approach, the goal is for the patient to have a better understanding of matters relating to his health, to maintain a more active lifestyle, and to have mental well-being.

Your assignment this week is to demonstrate your leadership ability by planning one of the following programs, to be implemented in either your workplace or somewhere within your community:

· Prevention program.

· Disease management program.

· Quality management program.

Write up your chosen program idea in a formal APA paper with a title page and references (no abstract required). The paper should include:

1. Introduction of program idea.

2. Narrative description: The narrative provides the overall description for each of the major components of your chosen program idea.

3. Statement of problem or needs and resources assessment: This should represent a brief synopsis of the key findings identified for why you want to implement this program (this must be supported with a minimum of two references). Define the priority target populations or community sectors (for example, high school students, college students, alcohol outlets, neighborhood zone, nursing or medical staff, certain patient demographic, et cetera).

4. Planning process and identification of priorities: This section should include the overall planning process of how you would put the program together. What are current nursing evidence-based practices and research components that would support your program idea? (You should have a minimum of three.)

5. Project management and collaboration: Describe the overall collaboration, organization, and management structure that would be needed to implement your program idea.

6. Strategies and tools to manage information: Identify strategies to use information management tools to monitor the outcomes of your suggested program.

7. Conclusion of your program idea.

Assignment 2
Health Care Policy Annotated Bibliography
Introduction
For this week’s assignment, you will prepare an annotated bibliography on a topic related to health care that is currently impacted by a policy change or potential policy change. The policy that is or will impact change should be related to the health care system or nursing specifically. Look for information that shows that the policy, in your opinion, improved or did not improve the health care system or nursing practice.

Choose a Policy Issue
The area that you choose to focus on could include particular interests that would lead you to explore articles that look at legal, ethical, and regulatory process in health care or nursing practice.

 Access to care.

 Acute and chronic illness.

 Advanced practice nursing.

 Aging.

 Changing practice patterns and the physician.

 Diagnosis-related groups.

 Disparities in health care

What Is an Annotated Bibliography?
Use the four articles that you chose, keeping the following information in mind:

· A bibliography is a list of sources (books, journals, Web sites, periodicals, et cetera) one has used for researching a topic. A bibliography usually just includes the bibliographic information (that is, the author, title, publisher, et cetera).

· An annotation is a summary or evaluation.

· Therefore, an annotated bibliography includes a summary or evaluation of each of the sources in the bibliography. For this assignment, you are expected to include both a summary and an evaluation.

· Your annotations should address the following three areas for EACH of the four articles you select:

1. Summarize: What are the main arguments? What is the point of this article or chapter? What topics are covered? If someone asked what this source is about, what would you say?

2. Evaluate: Is it a useful source? How does it compare with other sources in your bibliography? Is the information reliable? Is this source biased or objective? What is the goal of this source? (Or the goal of the writer?)

3. Reflect: How does the source assist or fit into your practice? Was this source helpful to you? How might this source help you shape an argument (in favor of or against) the topic presented? Has the source changed how you think about this topic?

Assignment Grading
Be sure to consult the scoring guide for this assignment to see how your work will be graded. Notice that you will be expected to apply APA writing style to write clearly and logically, with correct use of grammar, punctuation, and mechanics. You may wish to consult Chapter 3 and Chapter 4 in the APA manual and the information listed in this unit’s Writing Resources study.

Review your annotated bibliography and make sure it is complete, using the checklist below.

Components of the annotated bibliography:
· Begins with a title page that includes your name.

· Lists citation information for the articles or chapters, formatted in APA style.

· Each citation is followed by an annotation, approximately one page in length.

· The bibliography comprises a variety of credible perspectives.

· The final page consists of a reference list that includes all of your APA-formatted citations, in alphabetical order.

· The assignment is 6-8 pages long, including the title page and references.

Each annotation should contain some or most of the following:
· Provides the reader with more information about the content of the sources.

· Consists of a paragraph that is both descriptive and evaluative (about 150 words).

· Offers both a description and a critical assessment of the articles or chapters being annotated.

· Gives the reader a sense of the quality of the source.

· Gives a sense of the argumentative position of the author relative to others in the field.