Strategic or Operational
Increase patient satisfaction by 15% over the next three years
What is Strategic?
Our hospital has experienced nurse educators
What is Strength
AONL stands for...
What is American Organization for Nursing Leadership?
PDSA stand for
What is plan-do-study-act
Moving decision-making authority closer to the people doing the work
What is decentralization?
Implement a patient rounding checklist next month.
What is Operational?
Another department is interested in developing an interdisciplinary professional education (IPE) partnership
What is Opportunity from SWOT/SOAR?
AONL focuses on developing and advancing...
What is Nursing Leadership
the primary purpose of the PDSA cycle
What is to test a change, learn from the results, and adapt an intervention
collaborative decision-making and accountability between the bedside RNs and nurse leaders
What is shared governance?
Become a regional leader in workforce well-being
What is Strategic?
What do we want our nursing workforce to look like 5 year from now?
What is Aspiration from SOAR?
What is Strategic Management?
Before implementing a new rounding process one unit tests the process
What is pilot test or testing on small scale before implementing widely
A group of frontline RNs that collaborate to make decisions about patient care and clinical standards
What is a Unit Practice Council?
Train 95% of staff on the new resilience program by September
What is Operational?
"How will we know our workforce strategy has been successful?"
What is Results from SOAR?
A nurse manager is developing a grid that aligns strategy with actions she must achieve on her unit.
What is an Operational Plan?
Enhancing patient experience, Reducing costs, improving patient outcomes/population health, improving provider well-being, and advancing health equity
What is the Quintuple Aim?
Organizational structures and procedures that help advance flexible and decentralized decision-making?
What is structural empowerment?
The nursing department implements quarterly well-being assessments, peer-support programs and monitors turnover
What is Operational
Your hospital has: excellent patient satisfaction scores, high nurse turnover, a growing population of older adults, and a new university partnership opportunity. Identify 2 SWOT elements which could also be SOAR elements and which are they.
What is Strengths: excellent patient satisfaction scores and Opportunity: University Partnership?
A nurse leader notices turnover is increasing and instead of immediately hiring more nurses, the leader reviews workforce data, talks with bedside RNs, examines workload and scheduling, identifies barriers, develops a long-term workforce strategy and aligns the strategy with measurable objectives. Identify 2 AONL leadership competencies demonstrated:
What is workforce leadership and optimization, communication & relationship building, and/or strategic management?
This organization has supported and helped strengthen quality, safety, equity and health outcomes in 62 countries
Who is IHI?
The report that challenged nurses to strive for board engagement and join boards of organizations.
What is the IOM The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health report?