Scenario

You are assigned to create a strategic plan that facilitates change to improve outcomes in your organization. Knowing that change is based on data, relative position within the dynamics of an organization, and a theoretical foundation, you agree to complete a SWOT analysis supported by a change theory.

Instructions

Generate a SWOT analysis that reflects an understanding of a problem within the context of the organization’s needs and potential for change. As a nurse leader or manager, develop your analysis based on a change theory to improve outcomes by addressing one of the following processes:

• Healing spaces
• Retention of new nurses
• Increase number of BSN RNs
• Nurse leader succession planning
• Clinical ladder

This SWOT analysis will include a description of the strengths of the proposed change, weaknesses within the context of the organization, opportunities for improving outcomes if the proposed change is implemented, and threats to the success of this proposal. A thorough analysis must include the following:

• Identify and integrate a change theory as the foundation of your SWOT analysis justifying the selection of the theory used.
• Description of the problem to be analyzed to promote a change and improve an outcome.
• SWOT analysis to include the following elements:
• Strengths of the proposal for change
• Weakness of the proposal within the context of the organization
• Opportunities for improved outcomes if the proposed change is implemented
• Threats to this proposal, both internal and external to the organization.
• Provides stated ideas with professional language and attribution for credible sources with correct APA citation, spelling, and grammar.

You are required to answer all the DISCUSSION QUESTIONS listed below in each domain.

DOMAIN: HISTORY
1a) Identify two (2) additional questions that were not asked in the case stud and should have been?
1b) Explain your rationale for asking these two additional questions.
1c) Describe what the two (2) additional questions might reveal about the patient’s health.

DOMAIN: PHYSICAL EXAMM
For each system examin in this case;
2a) Explain the reason the provider examin each system.
2b) Describe how the examM findings would be abnormal based on the information in this case. If it is a wellness visit, based on the patient’s age, describe what examM findings could be abnormal.
2c) Describe the normal findings for each system.
2d) Identify the various diagnostic instruments you would need to use to examin this patient.

DOMAIN: ASSESSMENT (Medical Diagnosis)
Discuss the pathophysiology of the:
3a) Diagnosis and,
3b) Each Differential Diagnosis
3c) If it is a Wellness, type ‘Not Applicable’

DOMAIN: LABORATORY & DIAGNOSTIC TESTS
Discuss the following:
4a) What labs should be ordered in the case?
4b) Discuss what lab results would be abnormal.
4c) Discuss what the abnormal lab values indicate.
4d) Discuss what diagnostic procedures you might want to order based on the medical diagnosis.
4e) If this is a wellness visit, discuss what the U.S. Preventive Taskforce recommends for patients in this age group.

PLEASE USE APA REFERENCES NO LONGER THEN 5 YEARS OLD. CASE STUDY IS ATTACHED PLEASE READ THROUGH ALL OF IT BEFORE ANSWERING THE QUESTIONS ABOVE.