Professional Context
By successfully completing this assignment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assignment criteria:
- Competency 1: Transformation: Facilitate a change process that effectively involves patients, communities, and professionals in the improvement and delivery of health care and wellness.
- Align a problem statement, performance indicators, and outcome measures with an organizational strategic need.
- Provide evidence-based leadership recommendations for problem resolution and organizational transformation.
- Competency 2: Execution: Translate strategy to develop and maintain optimal organizational performance in health care settings.
- Write a concise, substantive summary of current and relevant authoritative literature.
- Analyze performance data and trends.
- Combine clear, coherent, and original writing, in APA style, with relevant and credible evidence from the scholarly and professional literature.
- Competency 3: People: Create an organizational climate that values and supports employees and colleagues in health care settings.
- Articulate the value of a data review project to an organization and to one’s professional health care leadership competency development goals.
Instructions
Develop your data review project final report, as revised from the Unit 8 discussion. Use the Data Review Project Report Template linked in the Resources, for your report outline.
This report should be succinct, substantive, and written for a hypothetical executive leadership team. It is not a lengthy academic paper. Authoritative, evidence-based sources should be integrated into the Evidence-Based Recommendations and Conclusion sections of the report.
Update your initial Unit 3 proposal to reflect that this is a final report. Specifically, provide a minimum of three visual data summaries (for example, pie chart, graph, spreadsheet, and process map), two evidence-based recommendations from the literature, and one new insight. Place these additions in your document under the headings: Data Display, Recommendations, and Conclusion.
Include and label the following appendices:
- Leadership Component.
- Timeline.
- Project Information.
Readers of your final report should have a clear picture of your data summary, recommendations, insights, and the potential impact on the organization. Remember to update the table of contents.
Note: The requirements outlined below correspond to the grading criteria in the scoring guide. Be sure that your final report addresses each point, at a minimum. You may also want to read the Data Review Project Report Scoring Guide to better understand how each criterion will be assessed.
- Align the problem statement, performance indicators, and outcome measures with an organizational strategic need.
- What additional information would strengthen the alignment and make it more explicit?
- Write a concise, substantive summary of current and relevant authoritative literature.
- Provide sufficient breadth and depth in the summary to adequately cover the selected topic.
- Consider adding additional best practice sources to your initial review of a current literature.
- Articulate the value of a data review project to an organization and to one’s professional health care leadership competency development goals.
- Consider a strategic, systems perspective when contemplating value to the organization.
- Express main points, assertions, and conclusions clearly and effectively.
- What evidence do you have to support your conclusions?
- Analyze performance data and trends.
- Review quality improvement concepts such as performance indicators, metrics, and benchmarks.
- Present your visual data displays, along with a concise analysis.
- Describe the significant findings, trends, and any new insights evident from the data summaries.
- Are there any limitations to your findings, obstacles to collection or interpretation of data, or potential for bias?
- Is the data valid and reliable?
- Provide evidence-based leadership recommendations for problem resolution and organizational transformation.
- Identify a short list of interventions to solve the problem, supported by a current (published within the past 3–5 years) authoritative literature.
- Consider how legal, regulatory, ethical, patient safety, and organizational factors are related to the problem.
- Your recommendations should be realistic, within the organization’s capability, and should not be based upon uncertain funding sources, such as government grants, which might be discontinued.
- Your recommendations should be sufficiently compelling to convince the target audience to implement them.
- Most importantly, your conclusion should include a clear statement about how the project added value to the organization and aligned with the organization’s strategic direction and goals.
- Combine clear, coherent, and original writing, in APA style, with relevant and credible evidence from the scholarly and professional literature.
- Apply correct APA formatting to your source citations.
- Consider how or why a particular evidence supports your main points, claims, or conclusions.
- Is your supporting evidence clear and explicit?
