Returning to the organization in Middleboro (Jasper Gardens Nursing Home) that you have been writing about, you will culminate this fourth part of the writing assignments by assessing the organization, evaluating your findings, and developing a strategic plan that they can use to improve their performance as an organization.
For this assignment, you will write a 6-7 page APA 6th edition formatted paper that provides an overview of your organization, a SWOT analysis, and recommendations to address identified threats and/or weaknesses.
In your paper:
Briefly describe the organization, i.e. purpose/mission, size, market share, # of employees, patient days, revenues, etc.
Complete a SWOT analysis for your health care organization. Provide 3-5 factors that are major issues for each category, i.e. strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats.
Summarize and analyze the data to reflect what you believe are opportunities that will improve quality in your organization.
Choose two factors from the threats or weaknesses and recommend actions to resolve or improve what you identified. Recommendations must be grounded in evidence-based practice.
Using your analysis and recommendations, develop an evidence-based strategic plan that will optimize strengths and opportunities and minimize weaknesses and threats.
Compose your work in a .doc or .docx file type using a word processor (such as Microsoft Word, etc.) and save it frequently to your computer. For those assignments that are not written essays and require uploading images or PowerPoint slides, please follow uploading guidelines provided by your instructor.
Check your work and correct any spelling or grammatical errors. When you are ready to submit your work, click Submit Assignment in the upper right corner. Click on Browse, browse your computer, and select your file. Click Open and verify the correct file name has appeared next to the Browse button. Enter your comments, if any, in the Comments area. Click on Submit Assignment.
Evaluation
This assignment will be graded using the rubric displayed below. Please review this rubric prior to beginning your work. You can also access the rubric on the Course Rubrics page within the Start Here module. This assignment is a pass/fail assignment worth 5% of your final course grade.
This assignment assesses the following module outcomes:
Explain the importance and key components of a strategic plan. (CO1)
Construct strategic and marketing plans that reflect leadership and organizational theories. (CO1)
Implement HCM practices that contribute to a strategic plan and reflect organizational theories. (CO1)
Adapt resource management principles and evidence-based practice to identify opportunities for improvement and optimizing quality. (CO2, CO5)
Write a SWOT analysis for a health care organization to guide decision-making and promote quality. (CO5)
Employ evidence-based practice to guide decision-making and promote quality in a strategic plan. (CO5)
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