Types of Planning
Values / Objectives
Organizations Philosophy
Misc Definitions
Policies & Procedures
100
In this process, problems are dealt with separately without integration with the whole organization.
What is reactive planning?
100
Beliefs that have an intrinsic worth for a society or an individual.
What are values?
100
A view that delineates the set of values & beliefs that guide all actions of the organization.
What is philosophy?
100
This is a desired result toward which effort is directed, and it is the aim of the philosophy.
What is a goal?
100
These describe situations that allow only one choice of action.
What are rules?
200
This is a deliberate, intentional, and premeditated process that separates daily management activities from break through initiatives.
What is strategic planning?
200
A belief that is freely chosen, prized and cherished, consciously and consistently repeated, and positively affirmed and enacted.
What is a true value?
200
This philosophy should address fundamental beliefs about nursing and nursing care; the quality, quantity, & scope of nursing services & how nursing will meet organizational goals.
What is nursing service philosophy?
200
The process of identifying strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.
What is SWOT analysis?
200
These are plans that establish customary or acceptable ways of accomplishing a specific take and delineate a sequence of steps of required action.
What are procedures?
300
This process utilizes technology to accelerate change, is future oriented, and believes that the future is always preferable over the present.
What is preactivism?
300
An objective written in terms of the method to be used.
What is a process objective?
300
A description in words used to describe future goals or aims of an organization.
What is a vision statement?
300
Plans reduced to statements or instructions that direct organizations in their decision making.
What are policies?
400
This process considers the past, present, and future and attempts to plan the future of their organization rather than react to it.
What is proactive planning?
400
A belief that does not fit all 4 criteria to be a true value.
What is a value indicator?
400
A philosophy that provides the basis for developing nursing philosophies at the unit level & for nursing services as a whole
What is organizational philosophy?
400
A tool that analyzes data from four organizational prospectives: financial, customers, internal business processes, and learning and growth, to align individual, departmental, and organizational goals and identify entirely new processes for meeting objectives.
What is balanced scoreboard?
400
Policies that are delineated verbally or in writing.
What are expressed policies?
500
This process seeks the status quo, and spends energy preventing change and maintaining conformity.
What is inactivism?
500
An objective that specifies a desired outcome.
What is a result focused objective?
500
A philosophy that specifies how nursing care provided on the unit will correspond with nursing service and organizational goals.
What is unit philosophy?
500
A declaration identifying the reason the organization exists and the organizations constituency & addresses its position regarding ethics principles and standards of practice.
What is a mission statement?
500
Policies that are neither written nor expressed verbally, and have usually developed over time and follow a precedent.
What are implied policies?
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