NURS 6310 DNP Practicum for CNS Practice III: Strategic Planning in Healthcare
This is a strategic focused clinical course where students demonstrate knowledge of strategic planning in healthcare and strategic level assessments of policy and practice that supports the Military Health System (MHS) Quadruple Aim, improve patient outcomes and guide change in support of high reliability organizations. Students will examine and analyze strategic planning processes and issues with an emphasis on strategic decision making, plan making, and implementation in healthcare settings. This course is designed to help students develop an evidence-based framework to implement quality systems and execute strategic level organizational strategies. Quality management tools will be examined and blended with strategic planning tools (dashboards, balance scorecards, organizational metrics, and audit tools) to ensure integration of organizational strategy and continuous process improvement programs. Students will gain knowledge of identifying organizational barriers, developing action and prioritization of plans, strategic decision-making and how to implement and execute strategic plans. Students will work collaboratively with subject matter experts and organizational leadership to perform an organizational assessment of policy and current state related to strategic level practice issues. From this, the student will analyze the findings and compare current state to evidence based recommendations to identify gaps in knowledge, policy, and practice. The course will culminate in the development of recommendations and dissemination of the findings to the organizational leadership in order to enhance patient outcomes for the adult and geriatric population.