Week4 (There are 2 Assignments)

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Week 4—Assignment 2: Simulate an Executive-Level Strategy Meeting with Your Leadership Team

Instructions

Congratulations, you have assembled your leadership team, and they are excited to

participate in this meeting with you. Because your leadership team represents various roles—

including the chief nursing officer (CNO), who is responsible for the clinical aspect of patient

care delivery; the CFO, who is responsible for leveraging funds to keep abreast of trends in

healthcare expenditures; and the chief technology officer (CTO), who is in charge of the

protection of patient personal health information—this activity represents a simulated

interprofessional meeting.

Working in a sector as complicated and complex as healthcare requires a type of leadership

known as relational leadership, where individuals with professional roles and expertise can

be maximized when their work is coordinated with other professionals in an atmosphere of

trust, where communication is collaborative, and where there is an appreciation for each

other’s roles and responsibilities. Interprofessional teams function best when each member

views their role from the leader’s perspective, which fosters high-level strategic decision-

making and action-taking, consensus building, and accountability sharing (Nelson, Tassone, &

Hodges, (2014).

References:

Nelson, S., Tassone, M., & Hodges, B. D. (2014). Structuring for success. In Creating the

health care team of the future: The Toronto model for interprofessional education and

practice (pp. 38-41). Ithaca, NY: IRL Press.

Key individuals on your leadership team have been identified to address the issues facing

your organization. You, as the CEO will facilitate a simulated strategy meeting with the CFO,

CNO, and the CTO. In your simulated interprofessional meeting, you will review the Issue

Brief Working Template from Week 3, which you also included in your simulated

memorandum to your team in this week’s first assignment.

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For this simulated meeting, you will look at the issues from multiple perspectives including

the financial implications on the organization from the CFO’s perspective, the delivery of

safe and quality clinical healthcare from the CNO’s perspective, the safeguards needed to protect

patient health information from the perspective of the CTO, and the overall

perspective that you have as the CEO. Your assignment is to describe how you would

conduct your meeting to engage these senior leaders in an iterative process to narrow down

to the top 10 issues to the final three issues on which you and your team will now focus. You will

also report on what challenges and conflicts which may occur during the consensus-

building dialogue.

The Medicare reimbursement issue is already affecting your hospital’s financial situation and

has surfaced to be of grave concern. Since this issue has the most potential to disrupt

hospital operations and the delivery of quality healthcare, you have made the decision and

must inform your leadership team that the Medicare reimbursement issue must be one of the three

issues addressed.

As the outcome of this simulated meeting and for this assignment, you will a) create the

meeting minutes (sample shown below) reflecting the discussion during the simulated

meeting, and b) revise your Issue Brief Working Template to reflect only the three issues that your

team has chosen. Your team concurs with your projection about the need to address

the reimbursement issue and has made this their top priority. Your revised Issue Brief

Working Template will have this issue as the number one priority.

Sample meeting minutes are shown here.

Table 4. Sample meeting minutes

Hospital X Leadership Team Meeting Agenda/Minutes

<Date> <Location>

Attendees: <List fictitious names with job titles>

Item #1: Review of the top 10 issues and trends affecting our organization

Discussion: <Insert simulated discussion among your leadership team which would occur during your meeting. Describe the process you would use to reach consensus to narrow down the list of 10 issues to three issues. Action: <Insert the action to be taken as the result of this simulated meeting which involves revision of the Issue Brief Working Template to list the top three issues, with the consensus to give top priority to the reimbursement issue.>

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Item #2: Strategies to address the prioritized issues

Discussion: <Insert simulated discussion regarding the strategies and recommendations you provided in your Issue Brief Working Template and the challenges or conflicts which may arise during this discussion.> Action: <Insert changes to the Issue Brief Working Template to include the strategies and recommendations for each of the three issues where you predict your simulated team provided their input.>

Item #3: Next steps Discussion: <Insert the simulated discussion you would have to inform your team you are scheduled to make a presentation to the hospital board of trustees for your annual financial update and will include in your report the effect the current U.S. reimbursement mechanisms are having on the services provided to patients, and this issue has been given top priority by your leadership team.> Action: <List the responsibilities your simulated team members have for these top three issues.>

Respectfully submitted, <Insert your name>

Length: This assignment will have a title page, the minutes from your simulated team

meeting, your revised Issues Brief Working Template from Week 3, which now reflects the

top three issues—with the U.S. reimbursement mechanisms as the top issue, and a reference

page.

References: A minimum of 5 scholarly references are required for this assignment.