Week 2 Assignment

Evidence-Based Practice Proposal – Section A: Organizational Culture and Readiness Assessment and Section B: Proposal/Problem Statement and Literature Review

In order to formulate your evidence-based practice (EBP), you need to assess your organization. In this assignment, you will be responsible for setting the stage for EBP. This assignment is conducted in two parts: an organizational cultural and readiness assessment and the proposal/problem statement and literature review, which you completed in NUR-550.

 

Section A: Organizational Culture and Readiness Assessment

It is essential to understand the culture of the organization in order to begin assessing its readiness for EBP implementation. Select an appropriate organizational culture survey tool and use this instrument to assess the organization’s readiness.

Develop an analysis of 250 words from the results of the survey, addressing your organization’s readiness level, possible project barriers and facilitators, and how to integrate clinical inquiry, providing strategies that strengthen the organization’s weaker areas.

Make sure to include the rationale for the survey category scores that were significantly high and low, incorporating details or examples. Explain how to integrate clinical inquiry into the organization.

Submit a summary of your results. The actual survey results do not need to be included.

Section B: Proposal/Problem Statement and Literature Review

In NUR-550, you developed a PICOT statement and literature review for a population quality initiative. In 500-750 words, include the following:

Refine your PICOT into a proposal or problem statement.

Provide a summary of the research you conducted to support your PICOT, including subjects, methods, key findings, and limitations.

General Guidelines:

You are required to cite three to five sources to complete this assignment. Sources must be published within the last 5 years and appropriate for the assignment criteria and nursing content.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Please refer to the directions in the Student Success Center.

Note: After submitting the assignment, you will receive feedback from the instructor. Use this feedback to make revisions for your final paper submission. This will be a continuous process throughout the course for each section.

 

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Organizational Culture and Readiness Assessment

Introduction

The organizational culture and readiness assessment is a tool that can be used to assess your organization’s readiness to adopt the 5C’s. It can also be used as an initial assessment of your organization’s current culture, helping you identify where training needs to happen and when.

Organizational Culture Overview

Organizational culture is the way people in an organization interact and work together. It’s the shared beliefs, values and behaviors that characterize a group.

Organizational cultures can be positive or negative; they can also be adaptive or maladaptive.

Organizational Readiness Assessment

The organizational readiness assessment is the first step of a thorough approach to evaluating an organization’s current state, as well as identifying gaps between their current culture and desired culture. This assessment can be conducted with either a small-scale or large-scale assessment, depending on how much time, resources and budget you have available.

The purpose of this step is to get an accurate understanding of what kind of activities each team member does in order to achieve their goals. It also identifies any areas where new technologies might be useful for improving productivity (e.g., remote work). Finally, this phase helps guide your organization through changes that need to be made so they can align with its goal statements by closing out any unnecessary gaps between what they currently do and how they would like things done differently going forward.

Recommendations

• Focus on your strengths. When you’re looking at a company’s culture, it’s tempting to focus on what isn’t working – the things that are slowing down progress or causing conflict. But one of the best ways to improve organizational readiness is by focusing on what makes your team strong and happy. It’s important for leaders to be able to identify opportunities for improvement in their own areas of responsibility so they can develop plans of action accordingly.

• Develop a plan of action related to each weakness identified during this process (e.g., identifying how employees will learn more about their roles within the organization).

Takeaway:

• Takeaway:

• Organizational readiness assessment is a vital step in the process of preparing for disaster recovery. It can help organizations develop a plan that includes practices that will help them recover from stress and loss in an efficient manner. By taking an organized approach to your own organization’s readiness, you can ensure that everyone understands what needs to be done, when it needs to be done, and how it will affect their working environment.

Conclusion

The takeaway from this article is that organizational readiness assessment is an important process that can help your organization succeed. Take a look at the recommendations and see how they apply to you!