Leadership And Policy Development

Wk 2 Summative Assessment: Translating Leadership Theories and Models Into Practice Paper and Presentation

This assessment measures your ability to translate leadership models to nursing practice for complex healthcare systems.

An organization’s ability to change and adapt will ultimately be dependent on you as a nurse leader and whether you can translate a leadership theory (transformational leadership theory) to create a culture of change in your organization.

Nurse leaders have several strategies they can use to create a culture of change in an organization. In this assessment, you will first identify your own leadership plan and then apply it to a workplace problem.

Assessment DeliverablePart 1

Create a 700-word minimum personal transformational leadership plan explaining how you would create a culture of change as a nursing leader in your organization.

Include the following in your plan:

• Compare and contrast how transformational leadership differs from transactional leadership.
• Discuss the reasons why applying transformational leadership would be appropriate when changing culture in an organization.
• Identify your transformational leadership traits, including considerations for diversity, equity, and inclusion.
• Describe the importance of interprofessional collaboration in creating a change in organizational culture.
• Define how those traits can be used to develop strategies that can be used within the organization to refine, maintain, or change the organization’s culture.
• Describe the effect the organization’s current culture has on the ability of a leader to drive change.

Part 2

Create an 8- to 10-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation, with speaker notes, in which you do the following:

• Identify a problem in your workplace that you would like to change, but the current culture does not make it possible.
• Define the current culture and anything that makes implementing change challenging.
• Discuss how you can address that challenge.
• Apply your transformational leadership traits to facilitate the change.
• Identify the barriers to change.
• Determine how you will overcome the barriers and develop contingencies for anticipated resistance.
• Address what you will do to ensure the change’s sustainability.

Include a minimum of 4 peer-reviewed scholarly references from the University Library.

Cite your sources and format your paper according to APA guidelines.

Submit your assessment.

Assessment Support

• Review the rubric for guidance on deliverable expectations.