Apply leadership concepts, skills, and decision making in the provision of high quality nursing care, healthcare team management, and the oversight and accountability for care delivery in a variety of settings.
LEADERSHIP
SMART Goal
Focus on Working in Interdisciplinary and/or Interprofessional Teams (Hospice)
Please Follow instructions exactly.
My Leadership SMART Goal:
Guidelines
PURPOSE
The purpose of this assignment is to develop a SMART-formatted goal related to your professional
leadership applicable to your current practice setting or future leadership aspirations. This goal is
about YOUR leadership development, not those of the organization or the department where you work. Many
organizations have developed the SMART-goal framework as they strive for performance improvement. Your
goal may tie to one of the departmental or organizational SMART goals but the components of the goal
are about YOUR leadership development The Institute of Medicine’s quality initiative has identified
five core healthcare profession competencies. This assignment focuses on only two of those initiatives.
Either Patient-Centered Care or Working in Interdisciplinary and/or Interprofessional Teams will serve
as a framework for identification of YOUR leadership SMART goal.
COURSE OUTCOMES
Completion of this assignment enables the student to meet the following course outcomes.
CO 1: Apply leadership concepts, skills, and decision making in the provision of high quality nursing
care, healthcare team management, and the oversight and accountability for care delivery in a variety
of settings. (PO #2)
CO 4: Apply concepts of leadership and team coordination to promote the achievement of safe and quality
outcomes of care for diverse populations. (PO #4)
CO 5: Apply improvement methods, based on data from the outcomes of care processes, to design and test
changes to continuously improve the quality and safety of healthcare. (PO #8)
CO 8: Apply concepts of quality and safety using structure, process, and outcome measures to identify
clinical questions as the beginning process of changing current practice. (PO #8)
DUE DATES
This assignment consists of the completion of the My Leadership SMART Goal paper. Submit assignment to
the Dropbox by Sunday, 11:59 p.m. MT, by the end of Week 4.
POINTS
This assignment is worth 200 points.
DIRECTIONS
Review the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) core healthcare competencies. Select ONE of the competencies
that you will work on for developing a Leadership SMART Goal. You are to select one of the following
competencies for YOUR SMART goal.
Managing Patient-Centered Care or
Working in interdisciplinary and/or interprofessional teams;
1. Create ONE leadership goal that is in the SMART goal format. You practiced this in the Week 3
Discussion, and received valuable feedback from your instructor and peers. Please refer to this as you
work on the assignment.
S – Specific (Who besides YOU is involved in the goal, what is YOUR goal, where will it take place?)
M – Measurable (How are YOU going to achieve the goal?) Be specific with measureable outcomes.
A – Attainable (What resources and/or experts are available to assist YOU with attaining YOUR goal?)
R – Realistic (Is YOUR goal something that is realistically obtainable in YOUR professional practice?)
Be specific.
T – Time bound (What specific dates or weeks will YOU accomplish each task related to your leadership
goal?)
• Example NOT in SMART format: I will learn how to be a manager. This goal is lofty, not measurable,
and unattainable in the time allotted, probably not realistic, and not time bound.
• Example in SMART Format: I will learn the disciplinary process of an employee who has excessive
absences, by locating the organization’s attendance policy and meeting with the unit manager, reviewing
peer-reviewed articles and credible websites to obtain information on the disciplinary process by Week
4 (or specified date).
Note: This particular example relates to Core Competency: Managing Patient-Centered Care.
This example is a SMART goal that is Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, and Time-bound.
S-Specific
o Who- Your name, or “I” Indicate others who may be involved.
o What- Learn the disciplinary process of employees who have excessive absences
o Where- Your organization
M-Measurable
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