1. Assignment Content
Change management is key to ensuring that an organization
remains adept in providing state-of-the-art health care. As the
world changes and communities evolve, patient and personnel
needs require fresh and effective ways to meet them. Operating
as a reactionary wears heavily on organizations and leaders.
Planning for innovation and its diffusion breathes new life into
the world of care and of work. Day-to-day operations can be a
garden for growth when leadership is skilled at change
management.
This Leadership Project assessment requires you to create a
change project implementation plan designed for making an
impact in your organization. You will create a Microsoft
PowerPoint® presentation incorporating the details of your
change project and daily leadership plan.
Create
a 15- to 20-slide PowerPoint® presentation that includes the
following:
Leadership Change Project
Leaders seek out change opportunities regularly. Innovation,
critical thinking, and decision making are key to making an
impact on an organization through change management. This
assessment is designed to help you look at aspects of your own
clinical practice and become a change agent in your
organization. Use your current or past experience to identify a
change project to implement.

2. Step 1: Select
a topic for a change project.
Review
the following resources for a potential change topic or process
ideas:
Institute for Healthcare Improvement:
Transforming Care at the Bedside
Institute for Healthcare Improvement:
Hospital Inpatient Waste Identification Tool
For process change resources:
TeamSTEPPS® Pocket Guide
Step 2: Identify
the context for your change.
Describe
the setting where the change will take place (e.g., clinical,
insurance, home health, or public and community).
Explain
who is affected (e.g., patients, nurses, leadership, and other
stakeholders in the organization)
Step 3: Review
the literature to find possible solutions and evidence to address
your topic.
Research

3. sources that guide evidence-based practice to improve outcomes
related to your selected topic.
Find
a minimum of three peer-reviewed articles directly related to
addressing your change topic.
Step 4: Create
a draft implementation plan.
Summarize
each article to explain how the evidence you gathered will help
address your change topic.
Explain
how you could use the information in the research to carry out
the change in your identified setting.
Identify
10 ways to include leadership in your daily activities.
Include
an APA-formatted reference page.
Cite
a minimum of 3 APA formatted sources.
Format
your PowerPoint® presentation to ensure the slides only contain
essential information and as little text as possible. Do not
design a slide made up of long bullet points.
Include
detailed speaker notes for each slide of your presentation. Your

4. speaker notes convey the details you would give if you were
presenting.
Review
Create Speaker Notes
page on Microsoft® for more help.
Submit
your assessment.
Resources
Center for Writing Excellence
Reference and Citation Generator
Grammar Assistance
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