Chamberlain College of Nursing NR712 – Topics in Healthcare
Systems Leadership
Selected Topic Paper:
Guidelines and Grading Rubric
PURPOSE
The purpose of this assignment will be to gain an understanding of your new role as a DNP nurse leader,
specifically to address the scope of your new responsibilities and how you will be prepared to meet the
challenges to transform practice through the application of your new knowledge, as well as make a
substantial contribution to improve healthcare system costs, quality, and access.
The DNP is the newest nursing degree and emerged in the midst of calls for greater accountability in the
healthcare system. This educational shift toward doctorial preparedness represents a logical response to a
national call to action around contemporary healthcare agendas. The supporters of the DNP movement
believe this degree will provide leadership in a variety of settings, including nurse executives, quality
managers, clinical program directors, and nursing faculty positions, as well as bring evidence-based practice
and policy changes to the clinical realm and provide practice leadership roles. Your DNP degree will be
acknowledged as a terminal degree with an intellectual base focused on leadership, evidence-based practice,
and policy changes in the clinical realm.
This assignment is to be completed by the end of Week 3 of this course and will require the following
objectives to be addressed.
Describe why you have pursued the DNP degree and what changes in your professional stance will
change as a result of obtaining the degree.
Identify and describe your ideal position and how you will transform practice or contribute to
improving the healthcare system in terms of cost, quality, and access.
In your new role as a DNP prepared nurse, describe what skills and knowledge you will bring forth in
the healthcare or academic setting.
List two of the Eight Recommendations for Transforming the Future (2011) that resonate most with
you and in alignment with your ideal position.
COURSE OUTCOMES
Through this assignment, the student will demonstrate the ability to do the following.
CO 1: Integrate interprofessional collaboration and the DNP role in healthcare service, nursing
scholarship, and advanced practice. (POs 4, 8)
CO 2: Utilize DNP leadership strategies for advancing healthcare policy across diverse healthcare
delivery systems. (POs 2, 3, 4)
CO 3: Analyze selected forces that shape higher education administration from a DNP perspective.
(POs 1, 8)
CO 6: Distinguish the DNP role in affecting healthcare practice and policy change. (POs 1, 2, 3,
4)
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, Chamberlain College of Nursing NR712 – Topics in Healthcare
Systems Leadership
CO 8: Compare and contrast driving and restraining forces that shape DNP leader response to
advance quality and safety initiatives in healthcare. (POs 1, 3, 5, 6)
POINTS
This assignment is worth a total of 250 points.
DUE DATE
This assignment is due at the end of Week 3. Submit it to the basket in the Dropbox by Sunday, 11:59 p.m.
MT. Post questions to the weekly Q & A Forum. Contact your instructor if you need additional assistance. See
the Course Policies regarding late assignments. Failure to submit your paper to the Dropbox on time will result
in a deduction of points.
REQUIREMENTS
Description
The purpose of this assignment will be to gain an understanding of your new role as a DNP-prepared nurse,
specifically to address the scope of your new responsibilities and how you will be prepared to meet the
challenges to transform practice through the application of your new knowledge.
The objectives for this assignment will consist of the following.
1. Describe why you have pursued the DNP degree and what changes in your professional stance will
change as a result of obtaining the degree. (2 pages)
a. Provide your professional and personal accounts of why you are pursuing the degree.
b. Provide your insight as to whether you feel there will be a change in your professional stance
as a result of your degree.
c. How will you be addressed by physicians and non-physicians?
2. Identify and describe your ideal position and how you plan to meet the healthcare challenges, as well
as transform practice (refer to two areas most relevant to you)? (2 pages)
a. How will your new role contribute to improving the healthcare system in terms of cost,
quality, and access?
b. How will your new role contribute to changing practice to the clinical realm through
evidence-based practice?
c. How will your new role contribute to addressing policy changes that impact the clinical
realm?
3. In your new role as a DNP-prepared nurse, describe what skills and knowledge will you bring forth in
the healthcare or academic setting (answer to the area most relevant to you). (1 page)
a. As a nurse leader, what new skills and knowledge will you bring forth compared to a nurse
executive with his or her MSN or MBA?
b. As a nurse faculty member, what new skills and knowledge will you bring forth compared to a
tenured faculty member with their PhD?
c. As a nurse politician, what new skills and knowledge will you bring forth compared to a nurse
leader with his or her MSN or MPH?
d. As a quality improvement specialist, what new skills and knowledge will you bring forth
compared to a nurse quality consultant with his or her MSN or MPH?
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Systems Leadership
Selected Topic Paper:
Guidelines and Grading Rubric
PURPOSE
The purpose of this assignment will be to gain an understanding of your new role as a DNP nurse leader,
specifically to address the scope of your new responsibilities and how you will be prepared to meet the
challenges to transform practice through the application of your new knowledge, as well as make a
substantial contribution to improve healthcare system costs, quality, and access.
The DNP is the newest nursing degree and emerged in the midst of calls for greater accountability in the
healthcare system. This educational shift toward doctorial preparedness represents a logical response to a
national call to action around contemporary healthcare agendas. The supporters of the DNP movement
believe this degree will provide leadership in a variety of settings, including nurse executives, quality
managers, clinical program directors, and nursing faculty positions, as well as bring evidence-based practice
and policy changes to the clinical realm and provide practice leadership roles. Your DNP degree will be
acknowledged as a terminal degree with an intellectual base focused on leadership, evidence-based practice,
and policy changes in the clinical realm.
This assignment is to be completed by the end of Week 3 of this course and will require the following
objectives to be addressed.
Describe why you have pursued the DNP degree and what changes in your professional stance will
change as a result of obtaining the degree.
Identify and describe your ideal position and how you will transform practice or contribute to
improving the healthcare system in terms of cost, quality, and access.
In your new role as a DNP prepared nurse, describe what skills and knowledge you will bring forth in
the healthcare or academic setting.
List two of the Eight Recommendations for Transforming the Future (2011) that resonate most with
you and in alignment with your ideal position.
COURSE OUTCOMES
Through this assignment, the student will demonstrate the ability to do the following.
CO 1: Integrate interprofessional collaboration and the DNP role in healthcare service, nursing
scholarship, and advanced practice. (POs 4, 8)
CO 2: Utilize DNP leadership strategies for advancing healthcare policy across diverse healthcare
delivery systems. (POs 2, 3, 4)
CO 3: Analyze selected forces that shape higher education administration from a DNP perspective.
(POs 1, 8)
CO 6: Distinguish the DNP role in affecting healthcare practice and policy change. (POs 1, 2, 3,
4)
This study source was downloaded by 100000838234991 from CourseHero.com on 07-21-2022 10:20:37 GMT -05:00
NR712 Selected Topics Paper Guidelines Revised 10/24/2013 VU 1
https://www.coursehero.com/file/29136785/NR712-W3-Selected-Topic-Paper-Guidelines-2-1docx/
, Chamberlain College of Nursing NR712 – Topics in Healthcare
Systems Leadership
CO 8: Compare and contrast driving and restraining forces that shape DNP leader response to
advance quality and safety initiatives in healthcare. (POs 1, 3, 5, 6)
POINTS
This assignment is worth a total of 250 points.
DUE DATE
This assignment is due at the end of Week 3. Submit it to the basket in the Dropbox by Sunday, 11:59 p.m.
MT. Post questions to the weekly Q & A Forum. Contact your instructor if you need additional assistance. See
the Course Policies regarding late assignments. Failure to submit your paper to the Dropbox on time will result
in a deduction of points.
REQUIREMENTS
Description
The purpose of this assignment will be to gain an understanding of your new role as a DNP-prepared nurse,
specifically to address the scope of your new responsibilities and how you will be prepared to meet the
challenges to transform practice through the application of your new knowledge.
The objectives for this assignment will consist of the following.
1. Describe why you have pursued the DNP degree and what changes in your professional stance will
change as a result of obtaining the degree. (2 pages)
a. Provide your professional and personal accounts of why you are pursuing the degree.
b. Provide your insight as to whether you feel there will be a change in your professional stance
as a result of your degree.
c. How will you be addressed by physicians and non-physicians?
2. Identify and describe your ideal position and how you plan to meet the healthcare challenges, as well
as transform practice (refer to two areas most relevant to you)? (2 pages)
a. How will your new role contribute to improving the healthcare system in terms of cost,
quality, and access?
b. How will your new role contribute to changing practice to the clinical realm through
evidence-based practice?
c. How will your new role contribute to addressing policy changes that impact the clinical
realm?
3. In your new role as a DNP-prepared nurse, describe what skills and knowledge will you bring forth in
the healthcare or academic setting (answer to the area most relevant to you). (1 page)
a. As a nurse leader, what new skills and knowledge will you bring forth compared to a nurse
executive with his or her MSN or MBA?
b. As a nurse faculty member, what new skills and knowledge will you bring forth compared to a
tenured faculty member with their PhD?
c. As a nurse politician, what new skills and knowledge will you bring forth compared to a nurse
leader with his or her MSN or MPH?
d. As a quality improvement specialist, what new skills and knowledge will you bring forth
compared to a nurse quality consultant with his or her MSN or MPH?
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NR712 Selected Topics Paper Guidelines Revised 10/24/2013 VU 2
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