NR 534 Week 5 Assignment: Organizational Culture and Climate Analysis

NR 534 Week 5 Assignment

This assignment has two steps and requires that you do an actual assessment and analysis of the healthcare organization within which you work.

Step 1: The Assessment Tool

Complete the Organizational Culture and Climate Assessment Tool. The tool is your data collection tool, or “notes-taking” pages you will need to complete before doing the analysis. You may already know some of the information, but some may require communication with key people in the organization, for example, human resources, financial officers, or nurse executives. Submitting the completed tool with your final paper submission is required. It is not included in your page count. You receive credit for completing and submitting it the items in the following outline.

Step 2: The Analysis

Analyze the findings from your assessment following the outline below. (See the rubric for specific criteria within each section)Support your analysis and conclusions with specific evidence from your assessment and scholarly sources. The paper will contain the following components with headings as required. (Remember, no heading is … for the introduction section)

1. Introduction
2. Stated purpose
3. Definition of organizational culture vs climate
4. Broad overview of components of the paper
5. Organizational culture and climate analysis
6. Summary of assessment findings
7. Mission, vision, and goals … in culture and climate
8. Strengths and Opportunities for improvement
9. Climate reflective of culture

III. Healthy, safe, person-centered care environment capacity

1. Describe the organizational culture’s capacity to support
2. What would a visiting potential staff recruit experience about the institution’s culture that would attract them to work there?
3. Nurse leader’s role in setting the organizational culture and climate to promote a healthy work environment?
4. Implications
5. Two strategies to address the opportunities for improvement
6. Alignment of Personal Leadership Profile and Organizational Culture and Climate
7. Conclusion
8. Broadly address the what has been … in the paper
9. Benefits of the completing the assignment