Discussion: Capella University Building a Successful Health Organization Culture Paper
Question Description
Write a 2-3 page report that identifies three evidence-based recommendations for health care organizational improvement for your selected organization, with the rationale for each.
INTRODUCTION
As a leader of a health organization, you will need to keep abreast of research and best practices in the field to create a culture within the organization that supports innovation, sustainability, and a drive to customer-focused results.
For this assessment, you will review all of the information from your analyses in the other assessments and prepare evidence-based recommendations for health care organizational improvement.
Assessment 5 will give you the opportunity to synthesize all of the feedback on the different assessments and give a presentation of a complete case study and recommendations as if you were presenting to the company’s leadership team.
SCENARIO
In the process of analyzing your selected health care organization, you have explored strategic initiatives, organizational structure, current trends in the industry, and creating an innovative culture. There will always be the expectation that you have considered relevant data, benchmark measures, current research, and best practices when leading a health care organization.
Now is the time to synthesize all of the information from your analyses and research to prepare recommendations to the leadership team in a report format. Be thinking of how you will share this information in a presentation to the leadership team in Assessment 5.
YOUR ROLE
You are a senior leader of a health care organization, and you have done a complete analysis of the organization. The next step is to consider all of the research and data so that you can propose recommendations for improvements in a report to the organization that will drive health care results.
REQUIREMENTS
Create a report that includes the following:
Think critically to analyze evidence-based strategies to develop an effective organizational culture, using relevant data and measures such as benchmarks, research, and best practices.
Synthesize data to make three recommendations that impact the culture of your selected health organization that is driving results for access, quality, and cost-effectiveness. Such recommendations should apply innovative, strategic, agile, responsive, sustainable, and/or evidence-based approaches to position the organization to systematically drive health care results into the future.
DELIVERABLE FORMAT
Report requirements:
Ensure written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message and quality.
Use at least two scholarly resources beyond those used in this course, cited in APA format.
Your report should be between 2–3 content pages, in addition to a title page and references page.
Use 12 point, Times New Roman.
Related company standards:
Use a professional report format of your choice. Remember that you are preparing a professional document meant for executive leadership with limited time. Your report should follow the corresponding MBA Academic and Professional Document Guidelines (available in the MBA Program Resources), including single-spaced paragraphs. If you are new to this type of writing and document style, you may wish to use these sections as a way to organize your report:
Title Page.
Analysis of strategic initiatives, organizational structures, and current trends.
Minimum three recommendations.
Conclusion.
References.
EVALUATION
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies through corresponding scoring guide criteria.
Competency 1: Analyze a health organization’s strategic initiatives and their ability to ensure access, quality services, and cost effectiveness.
Describe the analysis of the strategic initiatives, organizational structures, and current trends that impact the health care organization.
Competency 5: Recommend evidence-based strategies to develop an organizational culture in a health care setting that is agile, innovative, and responsive.
Recommendation #1: Propose an evidence-based strategy to develop an organizational culture in a health care setting that is agile, innovative, and responsive.
Recommendation #2: Propose an evidence-based strategy to develop an organizational culture in a health care setting that is agile, innovative, and responsive.
Recommendation #3: Propose an evidence-based strategy to develop an organizational culture in a health care setting that is agile, innovative, and responsive.
Competency 6: Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations for professionals in health care administration.
Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations for professionals in health care administration.
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You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.
Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.
Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.
The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.
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These projections are based on the trends that include increase in population, a larger proportion of elderly persons, increase in technology, and advances in medical sciences. These were already preexisting before the height of Covid19 pandemic. The extreme shortage we are now experiencing could be brought upon by these combined reasons. When COVID19 started, we were faced by an enemy we have no knowledge about, and it affected the world. The healthcare workforce was exhausted and got infected as well, of which some we lost along the way. These brought scare to fellow healthcare workers and chose to quit their jobs making it hard for facilities and shaken by the increased staffing shortage. Research shows that optimized nurse staffing is integral to high-level patient care and better patient and family experience (Grant, 2022). Healthcare facilities had to provide care to their patients and so they mostly relied on agency staffing to get by.
Use of Direct Quotes
I discourage overutilization of direct quotes in DQs and assignments at the Masters’ level and deduct points accordingly.
As Masters’ level students, it is important that you be able to critically analyze and interpret information from journal articles and other resources. Simply restating someone else’s words does not demonstrate an understanding of the content or critical analysis of the content.
It is best to paraphrase content and cite your source.
LopesWrite Policy
For assignments that need to be submitted to LopesWrite, please be sure you have received your report and Similarity Index (SI) percentage BEFORE you do a “final submit” to me.
Once you have received your report, please review it. This report will show you grammatical, punctuation, and spelling errors that can easily be fixed. Take the extra few minutes to review instead of getting counted off for these mistakes.
Review your similarities. Did you forget to cite something? Did you not paraphrase well enough? Is your paper made up of someone else’s thoughts more than your own?
Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in LoudCloud for tips on improving your paper and SI score.
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The university’s policy on late assignments is 10% penalty PER DAY LATE. This also applies to late DQ replies.
Please communicate with me if you anticipate having to submit an assignment late. I am happy to be flexible, with advance notice. We may be able to work out an extension based on extenuating circumstances.
If you do not communicate with me before submitting an assignment late, the GCU late policy will be in effect.
I do not accept assignments that are two or more weeks late unless we have worked out an extension.
As per policy, no assignments are accepted after the last day of class. Any assignment submitted after midnight on the last day of class will not be accepted for grading.
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