Draw on the context you developed concerning the gap, need, or opportunity for improvement to choose the team members you will need to address your quality improvement project, a leader to guide your project, an executive sponsor, project stakeholders, and a plan for communicating to various groups and stakeholders.
Introduction
In this assessment, you will identify your team, the relevant stakeholders, and an executive sponsor. You will also decide who will lead the quality improvement team. The team leader is the “driver” of the project and is typically someone with the power and support to implement a change. The leader not only needs to be aware of the clinical, process, or administrative implications and potential consequences of the proposed change, but also be proficient in leadership skills, strategies, and emotional intelligence, with the ability to lead and connect with diverse team members and stakeholders. Does your team leader model effective leadership consistent with change management?
Demonstration of Proficiency
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the course competencies through the following assessment scoring guide criteria:
- Competency 1: Evaluate the application of leadership styles to a practice or process change within a health care or public health delivery system.
- Identify and justify the selection of executive or organizational sponsors.
- Justify the selection of a team leader whose leadership style and attributes are most appropriate to the needs of the project.
- Competency 2: Analyze a health care issue from a leadership perspective, applying quality improvement principles and evidence-based standards.
- Justify the selection of team members appropriate to the needs of the project.
- Justify the selection of key stakeholders for the project.
- Competency 4: Develop a data management plan, including a plan for ethical stewardship for data use and communication.
- Develop a communication plan for the executive sponsor, stakeholders, and team members that explains the purpose, methods, and potential assets and challenges.
- Competency 5: Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, interprofessional, and respectful of the diversity, dignity, and integrity of others.
- Address most components of the assessment prompt appropriately, using the assessment description to structure text.
- Apply APA style and formatting to scholarly writing.
Note: The assessments in this course must be completed in the order presented; subsequent assessments should be built on both your earlier work and your instructor’s feedback on earlier assessments. If you choose to submit assessments prematurely, without considering and integrating your instructor’s feedback, your assessment may be returned ungraded, resulting in your loss of an assessment attempt.
Overview
For this second course assessment, you will continue to build upon the Project Charter you began in the previous assessment. Draw on the context you developed concerning the gap, need, or opportunity for improvement to complete Part 2 of the Project Charter Template:
- Assessment 1: Project Charter Part 1.
- Assessment 2: Project Charter Part 2.
- Assessment 3: Project Charter Part 3.
- Assessment 4: Project Charter Part 4: Poster Presentation.
Your Project Charter will be a foundational plan, so you will not actually implement the project, collect or analyze data, et cetera. You may use fictitious information as needed; however, you also need to obtain data from scholarly literature (cited using the most recent edition of APA style) to support your Project Charter. Try to make it as realistic as you can!
Prepare
Complete the assigned readings and the Applying Leadership Styles media activity before you complete Part 2 of the Project Charter. For this assessment, you need to submit your Project Charter with both Part 1 and Part 2 completed.
Access, download, and review the project chatter template file that you will use to complete your Project Charter. The template is divided into sections that correspond to one of the first three assessments for this course: Project Charter Parts 1–3. Complete each of these sections when the corresponding assessment is due and submit the template with all completed components. The template also includes detailed instructions for completing each section. Please study these instruction
