Care Setting Environmental Analysis

Part 1: Appreciative Inquiry Discovery and Dream

· Synthesize stories and evidence about times when a care setting performed at its best with regard to quality and safety goals.

. Collect stories from your care setting. You may collect stories through interviews or conversations with colleagues or provide your own.

. Explain how your stories are related to quality and safety goals.

. Describe the evidence you have that substantiates your stories.

. Identify the positive themes reflected in your stories.

. Describe other evidence (for example: data, awards, accreditations) that validates your care setting's positive core.

· Propose positive, yet attainable, quality and safety improvement goals for your care setting.

. Explain how accomplishing these goals will lead to ethical and culturally-sensitive improvements in quality and safety.

. Explain how your proposed goals align with your care setting's mission, vision, and values.

Part 2: SWOT Analysis

· Conduct a SWOT analysis of your care setting, with respect to quality and safety goals.

. Provide a narrative description of your analysis.

. Identify the assessment tool you used as the basis of your analysis.

. Describe your key findings and their relationships to quality and safety goals.

· Describe one area of concern that you identified in your SWOT analysis—relevant to your care setting's mission, vision, and values—for which you would propose pursuing improvements.

. Explain how this area of concern relates to your care setting's mission, vision, and values.

. Explain why you believe it will be necessary and valuable to pursue improvements related to this area of concern.

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Part 3: Comparison of Approaches

Compare the AI and SWOT approaches to analysis and reflect on the results.

· Describe your mindset when examining your care setting from an AI perspective and from a SWOT perspective.

· Describe the types of data and evidence you searched for when taking an AI approach and a SWOT approach.

· Describe the similarities and differences between the two approaches when communicating and interacting with colleagues.

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Part 4: Analysis of Relevant Leadership Characteristics and Skills

Analyze the leadership characteristics and skills most desired in the person leading potential performance improvement projects, taking both an AI and SWOT approach.

· Explain how these characteristics and skills would help a leader facilitate a successful AI-based project and a successful SWOT-based project.

· Comment on any shared characteristics or skills you identified as helpful for both AI and SWOT approaches.