Week 6 Overview
Week 6: Leadership for Policy Change and Implementation
Overview
This week, strategies for change in organizational and public policy will be discussed. Emphasis will be placed on agenda and goal setting along with the necessary characteristics for successful leadership in policy change and implementation. The use of interdisciplinary collaboration will also be discussed.
Objectives
At the end of this week, the student will be able to:
• Describe the type of leadership necessary for policy change and/or implementation of policy to take place.
• Explain and apply the principles of agenda and goal setting to the policy process.
• Compare and contrast the benefits of interdisciplinary collaboration with working only within one’s own discipline.
• Identify and discuss the strategies that result in change in organizations and in the arena of public and private health care policy.
Content Outline
• Leadership for policy change and implementation
• Agenda and goal setting
• Interdisciplinary collaboration
• Strategies that lead to change in organizational, public and private policy
Assignments
Read
• Freshman, Rubino, and Chassiakos Text:
Chapter 4 Fostering Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Healthcare Organizations
Chapter 6 Interprofessional Collaboration: A Nursing Perspective
Chapter 8 Management and Administration of Collaborative Models
• Longest text: Chapters 7, 8.
• Chism text: Chapter 2: Leadership, Collaboration, and the DNP Graduate
Review
• Longest text: Review Chapters 3 and 5.
• Zaccagnini and White Text: Review Chapter 6: Interprofessional Collaboration or Improving Patient and Population Health
Activities
• In order to add to your understanding of the topics for this week, complete a literature review as needed. As with all literature reviews, peer reviewed articles within the last 5 years are preferable. Material over 10 years old is not acceptable. When citing any of your findings in your literature review, proper APA is required.
Optional Resources to Explore
• Transformational Leadership: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/cutting-edge-leadership/200903/are-you-transformational-leader
Discussion
Week 6 Discussion: Interdisciplinary Collaboration
• Identify 2 opportunities for policy development in your clinical area that do not now exist. Describe how these opportunities evolved over time and why they have the potential for policy development.
• Provide an additional 2 examples of how interdisciplinary collaboration might contribute to policy development or a policy change within your current organization that do not now exist. If you are not currently working in a clinical area, discuss an opportunity in one in which you have worked in the past or in your current work situation.
To clarify the requirements of this week’s discussion thread, you will be required to provide a total of 4 examples (2 opportunities/examples in your clinical area and 2 examples in interdisciplinary collaboration)
The deadline for your initial posting is 8:00 a.m. Thursday. You are also to respond to at least two of your colleagues’ postings. Your contributions should:
• Add to the academic value of the conversation
• Add experiential value
• Challenge or question prevailing ideas and/or assumptions with new evidence or well-argued, substantiated alternative perspectives
• Make connections between contributions of others so that synergies are created.
The deadline for the last of your response postings is 11:59pm of this week.
Written Assignment
Treatment Recommendations for Major Depressive Disorder in Older Adults
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