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Description: Strategic Planning for Nurses: Change Management In Health Care builds insight and breaks boundaries that have historically hampered nursing’s professional progression into the global, business-based healthcare arena. Divided into three parts, this text takes the reader through’the mechanics of strategic planning as it specifically applies to nursing. This unique book delivers specific skill and knowledge-based instruction on business concepts, trends, and issues that face the demographically and culturally diverse nursing workforce of the 21st century.
Accompanied by PowerPoint slides for Instructor Resources!
Contents:
PART 1: Nursing and a New Frontier: The Need for Strategic Planning
Chapter 1: Why Nursing Needs Strategic Planning: Professional Empowerment in the New Millennium • Connecting Nursing to Strategic Planning • Yeah, We’ve Heard-Nursing Is in Crisis • Benchmarks, Competencies, Linkages, and Excellence: We Need a Plan! • A Word About Disempowerment • Nursing’s Drivers: Standards, Guidelines, and Ethics: The Bar Is Set-It’s Pretty High-How Do We Reach It? • Profession: Requiring Specialized and Advanced Training and Intellectual Ability • Nursing Is a Science: Science Is Based on Research • Chasms-Nursing’s Challenges for the 21st Century: Serious Problems That Need Clear and Effective Solutions • The IOM Has a Pretty Clear Vision-Do Nurses See it Too? • Review Questions • References
Chapter 2: The Healthcare Habitat: The Evolving Professional Home of Nursing • Dawning of a “New Age”: The Knowledge Worker • The National Nurse, Pay for Performance, and Magnet Status: • The New Global Frontier-Is Nursing Part of the Discovery, or Safe at Home All Cuddled in White? • A New Health System for the 21st Century • International Nursing: A 43 Million Shortfall • Teleconnections, Telenursing, Tele-everything • Anticipating the Future of Nursing • Review Questions • References
Chapter 3: The Business That We Find Ourselves In • The Business That We Find Ourselves In • A Brief History of When and How Care Merged with Business • Business Models of Care • Putting a Price Tag on Nursing’s Product: Care • How Nurses Get Paid • Recommended Reading • Review Questions • References
PART 2: The Principles and Foundations of Strategic Planning
Chapter 4 : Just What Is Strategic Planning? • Defining Strategy, Strategic Plans, and the Strategic Planning Process: Getting Over Jargon Intimidation • What Are the Components of a Strategic Plan? • Who Needs To Be Involved with a Strategic Plan? • Project Versus Technical Strategies • Strategic Thinking and “Visioning”: The Thinks You Can Think! • The Visioning Process... Who? • Review Questions I • References • Appendix 4a: SWOT Worksheet ‘ • Appendix 4b: Glossary Chapter 5: Tools from the Strategic Planning Workbench • Tool 1: Strategic Maps • Tool 2: Strategic Intent • Tool 3: Force-Field Analysis • Tool 4: Process Cycling • Tool 5: Strategy Dynamics • Review Questions • References • Appendix 5a: Strategic Map Template: • Appendix 5b: Identifying Process Cycles and Force-Field Analysis • Appendix 5c: Evaluation of Strategy Dynamics.
Chapter 6: Strategic Planning: Why It’s Not Just for the Boardroom Anymore • Welcome to the Knowledge Age! • Opening the Process to All Stakeholders • The Information Cascade Should Flow Up and Down:Changed Management Paradigms of the”Knowledge Age” • Cascading Up: Creating the Flow • Process Management and Leadership Decision:The Nurse’s Sphere of Influence and Locus of Control • What Does Your Job Description Say About You and What You Do as a Nurse? • Stronger Than Before, a Strengthening Momentum • Review Question • Reference
Chapter 7: The Three Key Elements of the Strategic Planning Process: A Vision That Guides Nursing’s Future Action • Element 1- The Strategic Review: Where Is Nursing Now? • Element 2-Clarifying Values and Vision: Where Is Nursing Going and Why? • Element 3-Mission, Goals, and Strategic Objectives:Bringing Those Values and Visions to Life • Three Case Studies Demonstrating How SP Is Applied by Practicing Nurses to Solve Problems in Their Specialty Areas in Nursing • Review Questions • References • Appendix 7: Sample Template of the Strategic Planning Process
PART 3: Architects, Change Agents, and Communicators: Digging a Little Deeper
Chapter 8: Overview of Strategic Planning Theories :Strategic Planning Architecture • Strategic Planning Architects • Theories: GPS Locators Navigating the Winding Paths of Change • How Do Business Models and Theories Align with Nursing’s Models and Theories? • The Basic Principles of Strategic Planning • Strategic Planning Looks a Lot Like the Nursing Process! • Imagineering and Brainstorming: Bringing It Together • Review Questions • References • Appendix 8: Bibliography
Chapter 9: Understanding Change Theory: Strategic Planning Change Agents • Orchestrating Change Around a Changeless Core • Paradigms in Nursing • Strategic Review: Nursing’s Diversity • If “Change Is the Only Constant,” Why Is It So Hard? • Review Questions • References • Appendix 9: Change Agents
Chapter 10: Communicating the Strategic Plan • Nonverbal Communication • Verbal Communication • Metacommunication • Say What, Say How? Communication Basics and Barriers in Health Care • de Bono’s Six Ways to See Perspectives and Style • The Leader Within: Have You Met? Principles Versus Technique • A Note on “Strategic Thinking” • What’s with This Meeting Anyway? Meeting Etiquette’ • Remember Your Goal, Excellence in Care: All the Other Stuff Is Just Stuff • Review Questions • References • Appendix 10 : Calculate Your Communication QuotientChapter 11: Eight Cautionary Tales of Strategic Planning • Complexity Overload and Decision-Making Shortcuts • Hail, Hail, the Gang Is Not All Here • Fuzzy Vision in a Dark Room • I Can See Just Fine; I Forgot That You Wear Corrective Lenses • Absence of Planning Short-Term Results or Not Recognizing Them: There Is More Than One Golden Ring! • Roadblocks-And No Way Around (Or So You Think!) • This Isn’t Really the Finish Line-Don’t CelebrateToo Soon • Change That Is a Square Peg in a Round Hole: Culture Alignment and Corporate Alignment-Wow, Can They Ever Collide! • Let’s Think About Your Strategic Planning Experience: Successes, Failures, Strengths, and Weaknesses • Have You Fallen Prey to Strategic Planning’s Pitfalls? • A Few Words About the Word Failure • Review Questions • References • Index ISBN - 9789380108827
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Pages : 256
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