Strategic Planning for Nurses

Contents:

PART 1: Nursing and a New Frontier: The Need for Strategic Planning

Chapter 1: Why Nursing Needs Strategic Planning: Professional Empowerment in the New Millennium • Connecting Nursing to Strategic Planning • Yeah, We’ve Heard-Nursing Is in Crisis • Benchmarks, Competencies, Linkages, and Excellence: We Need a Plan! • A Word About Disempowerment • Nursing's Drivers: Standards, Guidelines, and Ethics: The Bar Is Set-It's Pretty High-How Do We Reach It? • Profession: Requiring Specialized and Advanced Training and Intellectual Ability • Nursing Is a Science: Science Is Based on Research • Chasms-Nursing's Challenges for the 21st Century: Serious Problems That Need Clear and Effective Solutions • The IOM Has a Pretty Clear Vision-Do Nurses See it Too? • Review Questions • References

Chapter 2: The Healthcare Habitat: The Evolving Professional Home of Nursing • Dawning of a ?New Age?: The Knowledge Worker • The National Nurse, Pay for Performance, and Magnet Status: • The New Global Frontier-Is Nursing Part of the Discovery, or Safe at Home All Cuddled in White? • A New Health System for the 21st Century • International Nursing: A 43 Million Shortfall • Teleconnections, Telenursing, Tele-everything • Anticipating the Future of Nursing • Review Questions • References 

Chapter 3: The Business That We Find Ourselves In • The Business That We Find Ourselves In • A Brief History of When and How Care Merged with Business • Business Models of Care • Putting a Price Tag on Nursing's Product: Care • How Nurses Get Paid • Recommended Reading • Review Questions • References

PART 2: The Principles and Foundations of Strategic Planning

Chapter 4 : Just What Is Strategic Planning? • Defining Strategy, Strategic Plans, and the Strategic Planning Process: Getting Over Jargon Intimidation • What Are the Components of a Strategic Plan? • Who Needs To Be Involved with a Strategic Plan? • Project Versus Technical Strategies • Strategic Thinking and ?Visioning?: The Thinks You Can Think! • The Visioning Process... Who? • Review Questions I • References • Appendix 4a: SWOT Worksheet • ? Appendix 4b: Glossary

Chapter 5: Tools from the Strategic Planning Workbench • Tool 1: Strategic Maps • Tool 2: Strategic Intent • Tool 3: Force-Field Analysis • Tool 4: Process Cycling • Tool 5: Strategy Dynamics • Review Questions • References • Appendix 5a: Strategic Map Template: • Appendix 5b: Identifying Process Cycles and Force-Field Analysis • Appendix 5c: Evaluation of Strategy Dynamics.

Chapter 6: Strategic Planning: Why It's Not Just for the Boardroom Anymore • Welcome to the Knowledge Age! • Opening the Process to All Stakeholders • The Information Cascade Should Flow Up and Down: Changed Management Paradigms of the Knowledge Age? • Cascading Up: Creating the Flow • Process Management and Leadership Decision: The Nurse's Sphere of Influence and Locus of Control • What Does Your Job Description Say About You and What You Do as a Nurse? • Stronger Than Before, a Strengthening Momentum • Review Question • Reference

Chapter 7: The Three Key Elements of the Strategic Planning Process: A Vision That Guides Nursing's Future Action • Element 1- The Strategic Review: Where Is Nursing Now? • Element 2-Clarifying Values and Vision: Where Is Nursing Going and Why? • Element 3-Mission, Goals, and Strategic Objectives: Bringing Those Values and Visions to Life • Three Case Studies Demonstrating How SP Is Applied by Practicing Nurses to Solve Problems in Their Specialty Areas in Nursing • Review Questions • References • Appendix 7: Sample Template of the Strategic Planning Process

PART 3: Architects, Change Agents, and Communicators: Digging a Little Deeper 

Chapter 8: Overview of Strategic Planning Theories :Strategic Planning Architecture • Strategic Planning Architects • Theories: GPS Locators Navigating the Winding Paths of Change • How Do Business Models and Theories Align with Nursing's Models and Theories? • The Basic Principles of Strategic Planning • Strategic Planning Looks a Lot Like the Nursing Process! • Imagineering and Brainstorming: Bringing It Together • Review Questions • References • Appendix 8: Bibliography

Chapter 9: Understanding Change Theory: Strategic Planning Change Agents • Orchestrating Change Around a Changeless Core • Paradigms in Nursing • Strategic Review: Nursing's Diversity • If Change Is the Only Constant,? Why Is It So Hard? • Review Questions • References • Appendix 9: Change Agents

Chapter 10: Communicating the Strategic Plan • Nonverbal Communication • Verbal Communication • Metacommunication • Say What, Say How? Communication Basics and Barriers in Health Care • de Bono's Six Ways to See Perspectives and Style • The Leader Within: Have You Met? Principles Versus Technique • A Note on “Strategic Thinking? • What's with This Meeting Anyway? Meeting Etiquette? • Remember Your Goal, Excellence in Care: All the Other Stuff Is Just Stuff • Review Questions • References • Appendix 10 : Calculate Your Communication Quotient

Chapter 11: Eight Cautionary Tales of Strategic Planning • Complexity Overload and Decision-Making Shortcuts • Hail, Hail, the Gang Is Not All Here • Fuzzy Vision in a Dark Room • I Can See Just Fine; I Forgot That You Wear Corrective Lenses • Absence of Planning Short-Term Results or Not Recognizing Them: There Is More Than One Golden Ring! • Roadblocks-And No Way Around (Or So You Think!) • This Isn?t Really the Finish Line-Don’t Celebrate Too Soon • Change That Is a Square Peg in a Round Hole: Culture Alignment and Corporate Alignment-Wow, Can They Ever Collide! • Let's Think About Your Strategic Planning Experience: Successes, Failures, Strengths, and Weaknesses • Have You Fallen Prey to Strategic Planning's Pitfalls? • A Few Words About the Word Failure • Review Questions • References • Index

About the Authors:

Michele Sare has been an RN for 34 years. The role of nurse educator has dominated her career. She has had the privilege of working in developing countries, six states, in resource challenged settings and in healthcare settings with abundant resources. She has worked in trauma care, public health, education, acute, transitional, disability and long term care, policy development, contract nursing, rural and frontier nursing, school nursing, nursing administration and even camp nursing. Through her years as a professional nurse, and from her youthful years as a candy striper, a dental hygienist in the jungles of New Guinea and a nurse's aid, she has seen and felt the privilege of what it means to provide care.

LeAnn Ogilvie has been a registered nurse for 16 years. The majority of her nursing career has been in critical care. Currently the lead clinical educator in an acute care facility, she also has experience as a clinical and distance learning instructor for a practical nursing program.