Question Description
Scenario
You were recently promoted to the position of Director of the Medical Surgical unit at your local hospital. You just finished meeting with a group of Directors who were discussing the Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infection (CAUTI) rates. Your unit’s CAUTI rate has not decreased since the implementation of a new policy over a year ago. Financial repercussions of the high CAUTI rate cannot continue. You have been given the task of reviewing the policy and creating a SWOT Analysis, offering recommendations for change.
Instructions
Integrating principles of leadership and management, create a SWOT Analysis of the policy linked here. In the SWOT Analysis, include the following:
- S: Strengths of policy
- Choose strengths/positive aspects of the policy, including regulatory guidelines.
- Support choice of strengths with current literature.
- W: Weaknesses of policy
- Choose weaknesses/concerns of the policy related to regulatory guidelines.
- Include weaknesses/concerns of the policy related to financial guidelines.
- Support choice of weaknesses with current literature.
- O: Opportunities
- Include opportunities for growth or improvement of the policy.
- Include perceived opportunities for financial, legal, ethical, quality and safety.
- Support choice of opportunities with current literature.
- T: Threats
- Include perceived threats to financial, legal, ethical, quality and safety.
- Support choice of threats with current literature.
- Propose clearly stated and concise recommendations for change.
- Include descriptions of necessary actions.
- Use evidence to support your recommendations.
Be sure to use professional language and attribution for credible sources with correct APA citation, spelling, and grammar.
Resources
Click here for a Library and Learning Services page on creating a SWOT Analysis.
