DESIGN YOUR OWN HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION Management Term Paper

Assignment 3 - DESIGN YOUR OWN HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION
Introduction
Congratulations! Having spent the past few months reading the course material related to organizations in class you have gained some new knowledge and understandings. Now, you have the opportunity to apply some of what you have learned in a "real-life" exercise where you will design your own health care organization. You were the successful candidate for the following job ad.
Wanted
A hard-working, intelligent health care leader who has current knowledge of the principles of organizational theory, design and behaviour. The successful applicant has successfully completed the unit objectives for this class. The successful candidate has the opportunity to create a new health care organization. This new unit/organization can be a new nursing unit in a large urban hospital, a community health facility, a remote rural health clinic, a tertiary hospital or another type of health care organization. The Board Chair (instructor) requests a written submission (maximum of 10 typed double-spaced pages plus maximum of 5 pages of appendices) at the completion of this project (end of the course). The final submission should include references to current literature on organizational theory, both from the course materials and additional to the course. The final submission is to be presented in current APA format.
Sections to Include in Your Final Submission
(In all sections justify your decisions. Use references from course and other materials as appropriate. Put all references in current APA format.)
1. Determine the type of organization you are designing. Give your organization a name. Describe the mission statement and values of your organization.
2. Draw an organizational chart for your organization indicating how you will include interdisciplinary members of the organization. Describe your organizational design.
3. Describe the leader of your unit/organization. Give the leader/manager a name and describe the leadership style and characteristics of the leader/manager.
4. Write an ad that will be used to recruit staff for your unit/organization. Indicate where, and when, you will advertise for staff.
5. Discuss the flow of communication within your organization. Describe 5 strategies the leader will use to ensure effective communication.
6. Describe one team that will function in your organization. Include a description of your rationale for forming this team and describe how you will ensure the group will function effectively,
7. You need to chair a committee to develop a policy related to the use of social media at work. What would your draft policy include?
8. On the first day your new unit/organization opens the leaders comes across two nurses having a heated debate in the hallway related to how student nurses should be mentored. Describe how the leader should handle this situation. Justify your discussion using current literature.
9. Are you going to support evidenced-informed practice in your organization? Why or why not? Are there any other ways you will ensure quality of care?
10. Describe the work design used in your organization and justify this choice based on organizational theory literature.
Guide - Designing Your Own Health Care Organization Exercise

Name:

Score:
/ 40
1. Depth on Design| Maximum 20 points
Criteria:
• Integrates knowledge learned in class in design
• Design plan is detailed enough to provide a useful document to an administrator planning an organization
• Additional references outside those provided in class are used to increase the sophistication
• Includes all required elements of the design and justification for design decisions
Comments:

Score:
/ 20
2. Organization | Maximum 15 points
Criteria:
• Design is developed in a logical way using a format that includes all suggested aspects
• The design plan is concise and precise and easy for a reader to follow
• Key decision points made in the final submission are referenced
• The design elements flow together in an integrated plausible plan
Comments:

Score:
/ 15
3. Grammar, Format, Editorials | Maximum 5 points
Criteria:
• Paper is clear of editorial errors that distract from the presentation
• The format provides ease of readability
• References are provided according to current APA style
• There is evidence of creativity in the design
Comments:

Score:
/ 5
Clarifications and Additional Instructions on Assignment #3
• This project is intended to be a plan or proposal for a new service. It should outline a service that does not exist, a service that you are envisioning in your own mind. This assignment gives you an opportunity to create something based on what you’ve learned. You may describe a plan for a new service within a real and existing organization – for example, a new clinic that you envision within the actual hospital where you work – but it should not outline a plan that is already underway where you work. It may also outline a plan for something new that stands alone. Be clear in your paper what you are imagining and how it is structured.
• As a plan, this paper should be future-oriented so it should be written in the future tense. It becomes very confusing to read if you describe it in the past or present tense because then I can’t tell if it’s your idea or if it’s part of a real organization or something new, etc.
• If you are describing the manager by name (as suggested in the instructions) then be clear if you see that as you. Again, this becomes very confusing if you pretend you are someone else with a different name.
• In the assignment instructions in the assessment section of the course, you are asked to describe how a leader should respond to a debate about how student nurses should be mentored (Point #8). This scenario fits awkwardly into some papers so you may omit it as long as you do have a section on conflict management. You may create your own scenario if that supports your discussion.
• Please indicate whether your proposed healthcare organization/service will be publicly or privately funded and outline any considerations regarding access that result from your funding model.
• Please write the paper with standard margins 1’