NHS 8040 Unit 3 Assignment Interview and Leadership Analysis

NHS 8040 Unit 3 Assignment Interview and Leadership Analysis

Overview

While it is still early in your doctoral education process, it is important to start thinking about where you might complete your doctoral capstone project and who could be your preceptor. This assignment provides an opportunity for you to evaluate a potential leader to serve as preceptor at your proposed capstone site. Your interviewee should be in a health care leadership position with a graduate degree in a health care-related field. Ideally he or she should have a doctorate, but a master’s degree is acceptable.

This assignment has two parts:

Interview a health care leader who could serve as your preceptor for your capstone.

Summarize the interview in a 3–5 page paper.

With guidance from the health care leader you interview, determine a gap, need, or opportunity that will serve as the basis for the remaining assignments in this course. It should align with a strategic priority of the organization or health care system.

Keep in mind this could also serve as a capstone topic. Explore the feasibility and fidelity of this with the leader, including alignment with the capstone process and timeline.

Instructions

The following corresponds to the grading criteria in the scoring guide, so be sure to address each listed point. Consider reviewing the performance-level descriptions for each criterion to see how your work will be assessed.

Evaluate the primary leadership style of a chosen leader in a health care management position.

What are the leader’s credentials and what is his or her formal position in the organization?

What role does the leader play in the organization, system, or public health arena?

Is he or she a mentor to others?

How visible is the leader outside the organization?

How would you characterize his or her leadership style?

What is his or her role in communication?

Is he or she viewed as a change agent?

Assess a leader’s organizational role as it relates to quality, safety, and evidence-based standards.

How is the leader’s role interdisciplinary?

What is one example of how this leader facilitates, participates, or fosters interprofessional or interdisciplinary collaboration?

What is an example of how this leader champions quality and safety in the organization or public health system?

Explain the rationale behind the selection of a leader to serve as a preceptor.

Describe why this leader is qualified to be a doctoral preceptor.

Is this person trusted and respected in the organization and community?

Identify the connections he or she has to formal and informal power and how might these be leveraged to assist you in a quality improvement project or evidence-based practice change.

For example, could you get help with navigating policy, recruiting team members, enlisting buy-in?

Identify a gap, problem, or opportunity for a capstone project.

Can this be connected to an organizational, systemic, or public health strategic priority?

What are the implications for patient outcomes and safety?

In the context of the health care system identified, how will you include the voice of the patient?

Summarize a leader’s ability to provide ethical stewardship and oversight when accessing sensitive organizational information.

What is within the leader’s capacity to protect?

What challenges has the leader encountered with regard to the ethical use of the organization’s private data?

How does a leader provide oversight with communications related to organizational information?

Write coherently to support a central idea, using correct grammar, mechanics, and APA formatting.

ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE CLASS

Discussion Questions (DQ)

Initial responses to the DQ should address all components of the questions asked, include a minimum of one scholarly source, and be at least 250 words.

Successful responses are substantive (i.e., add something new to the discussion, engage others in the discussion, well-developed idea) and include at least one scholarly source.

One or two sentence responses, simple statements of agreement or “good post,” and responses that are off-topic will not count as substantive. Substantive responses should be at least 150 words.

I encourage you to incorporate the readings from the week (as applicable) into your responses.

Weekly Participation

Your initial responses to the mandatory DQ do not count toward participation and are graded separately.

In addition to the DQ responses, you must post at least one reply to peers (or me) on three separate days, for a total of three replies.

Participation posts do not require a scholarly source/citation (unless you cite someone else’s work).

Part of your weekly participation includes viewing the weekly announcement and attesting to watching it in the comments. These announcements are made to ensure you understand everything that is due during the week.

APA Format and Writing Quality

Familiarize yourself with APA format and practice using it correctly. It is used for most writing assignments for your degree. Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in LoudCloud for APA paper templates, citation examples, tips, etc. Points will be deducted for poor use of APA format or absence of APA format (if required).

Cite all sources of information! When in doubt, cite the source. Paraphrasing also requires a citation.

I highly recommend using the APA Publication Manual, 6th edition.

Use of Direct Quotes

I discourage overutilization of direct quotes in DQs and assignments at the Masters’ level and deduct points accordingly.

As Masters’ level students, it is important that you be able to critically analyze and interpret information from journal articles and other resources. Simply restating someone else’s words does not demonstrate an understanding of the content or critical analysis of the content.

It is best to paraphrase content and cite your source.

Lopes Write Policy

For assignments that need to be submitted to Lopes Write, please be sure you have received your report and Similarity Index (SI) percentage BEFORE you do a “final submit” to me.

Once you have received your report, please review it. This report will show you grammatical, punctuation, and spelling errors that can easily be fixed. Take the extra few minutes to review instead of getting counted off for these mistakes.

Review your similarities. Did you forget to cite something? Did you not paraphrase well enough? Is your paper made up of someone else’s thoughts more than your own?

Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in LoudCloud for tips on improving your paper and SI score.

Late Policy

The university’s policy on late assignments is 10% penalty PER DAY LATE. This also applies to late DQ replies.

Please communicate with me if you anticipate having to submit an assignment late. I am happy to be flexible, with advance notice. We may be able to work out an extension based on extenuating circumstances.

If you do not communicate with me before submitting an assignment late, the GCU late policy will be in effect.

I do not accept assignments that are two or more weeks late unless we have worked out an extension.

As per policy, no assignments are accepted after the last day of class. Any assignment submitted after midnight on the last day of class will not be accepted for grading.

Communication

Communication is so very important. There are multiple ways to communicate with me:

Questions to Instructor Forum: This is a great place to ask course content or assignment questions. If you have a question, there is a good chance one of your peers does as well. This is a public forum for the class.

Individual Forum: This is a private forum to ask me questions or send me messages. This will be checked at least once every 24 hours.