Assignment
Purpose
The purpose of this assignment is to develop skills to lead organizations in the creation of cultures of excellence. These skills support the professional formation of the advanced nursing role.
Course Outcomes
This assignment enables the student to meet the following course outcome:
CO 1: Examine leadership competencies and underpinnings essential for advanced nursing practice. (POs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
CO 2: Evaluate factors that influence healthcare delivery across diverse settings. (POs 1, 5)
CO 5: Develop professional competencies to lead in diverse healthcare settings. (POs 2, 3, 4, 5)
Preparing the Assignment
Follow these guidelines when completing each component of the assignment. Contact your course faculty if you have questions.
General instructions:
Reflect on the mission, vision, and values of a workplace organization and how the workplace organization addresses a culture of excellence. Note: you may use the same workplace organization that you discussed in this week’s Collaboration Café.
Include the following sections (detailed criteria listed below and in the grading rubric):
Use Canva.com or another platform of your choice to create an infographic. View the video below to learn more about using Canva.
Using Canva
Ensure the infographic is readable.
Ensure the infographic is well-organized and easy to follow.
Correctly cite and reference ideas and information that come from scholarly sources of information. Include in-text citations and list references at the bottom of the infographic.
Follow rules of grammar, spelling, word usage, and punctuation consistent with formal, scientific writing.
Abide by Chamberlain University academic integrity policy.
Submit the completed infographic as a PDF or JPG file to the assignment Dropbox.
Submit a screenshot of the completed infographic.
Highlight the date and time your infographic was created as shown in the image below.
The submitted infographic must match the screenshot and reflect the current academic session.
Hello, today we are going to look at a website called canva.com. That is C-A-N-V-A.com. This website will let you create infographics, worksheets, social media, lots of different picture media-related kind of things. We’re gonna focus today on infographic. You can see here that Infographic is listed. If you don’t see Infographic when you pull yours up, you can search for it there. canva.com is a free website that you can sign up for to create some of this stuff. So when you choose Infographic, notice that some of these are marked free and some of them are not. So the ones that are not marked free, of course, are not free. And you would have to pay to use them. So using this for a class, obviously just choose one of the free ones that you like. These templates are really easy to use. You can kinda scroll through and see which one visually appeals to you, that you like. Some people like more simple colors, two tones. Some people like more colors. That usually kind of boils down to personal preference, but you may have some directive from your instructor on some criteria about that. So if you do have some instruction about numbers of colors, or simplicity, or complexity of your infographic, be sure to pay attention to those guidelines. So this random one I chose here is The Best Health Apps. This is a preformed infographic. Of course, I wanna change this to my own information. And you can tell here, to look at it, I could click on these boxes and edit them, but it’s really small. So you can use Ctrl and your + to make that bigger and easier to work with, okay? So whatever your topic is, just change your title. So say our title is, Health Promotion. And you can see how Promotion did not all fit on that line. So you can drag that box out. You can move this box around. Play with it like that. You can move your stethoscope over, maybe, if you’re having trouble fitting your title. So you can move things around like that. If you wanna change the background color, we’ll do that over here. You could change it one of the free pictures, or you could change it to a different solid color. So say you like yellow better. This right here would just be a little introductory statement. You’ll notice it’s just three lines long. You can’t get too wordy with these things. A place to put your name as the author of this infographic. And then you would just simply change all of your things here. So pretty simple to use the templates. There’s lots of different choices. You can change your text. Let me show you how to change this stuff real quick. If you want to custom color, you can click on this box up here. Chose these solid colors, or if you have a hex code you could use that up here. Sometimes you have a specific number. If you’re working with marketing groups or things like that, you might have a specific color. If you’re doing this for class, you probably do not have anything too terribly specific like that. So say you want a more busier background but then you’re font doesn’t show up, so you’ve gotta pay attention to things like that too. You can change the color of your font to see if that makes it more visual. You can see it better. Obviously better than the black. But is it too busy for your audience to read? So be sure to pay attention to those kinda things. If you make a change, you’re like, I really don’t like how that turned out, here’s your back button right here. You’ll just undo what you did and go back to where you were, okay? So you can filter, adjust, crop, flip. It’s very similar to other tools that you’re familiar with and use all ready. And it really just takes some getting in here and playing around with different things. So you can put grids in, shapes. You could put a chart if you’ve got some numerical data that you wanna represent. Representing that visually in charts is very helpful. When using an infographic, you do have some different illustrations and icons and things like that. So you can start from a plain one, but it’s probably easier to start from a template. So that is canva.com.
Include the following sections/headings in the infographic.
Culture of Excellence
Explain the concept of a culture of excellence in healthcare.
Identify three specific organizational characteristics or practices that reflect a culture of excellence and briefly describe each characteristic or practice.
Discuss how a culture of excellence is significant to your selected advanced nursing role in one or two sentences.
Provide support from at least one scholarly source.
Mission, Vision, and Values
Describe the mission, vision, and values of a selected healthcare organization (note: the organization you choose must have all three elements: mission, vision, and values statements).
Explain the interrelationships of the mission, vision, and values in one or two sentences.
Describe how an organizationâ€s mission, vision, values, and organizational structure contribute to organizational culture in one or sentences.
Leading a Culture of Excellence
Describe how the advanced nurse leader can leverage the mission, vision, values, and organizational structure to create positive change in the organizational culture in one or two sentences.
Identify two leadership strategies the advanced nurse leader can use to support a culture of excellence and briefly describe each strategy.
Provide support from at least one scholarly source.