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Employee Rewards and Recognition
As an HR manager in a large healthcare organization, you have developed a new reward and
recognition program designed to help increase employee motivation and job satisfaction in a
specific hospital department of your choice. You may choose a clinical or nonclinical department.
Based on the course readings and a minimum of four appropriate sources of research, create a 4
page executive summary suitable for presentation to senior leadership on employee motivation
that includes the following:
1. Determine which department is best suited for the reward and recognition program.
2. Identify a specific goal the employees must work on to be eligible for recognition or to receive
the award.
o Examples include reducing errors, increasing customer/patient satisfaction, or reducing costs.
3. Research a specific motivation theory and determine why this method would be the most
practical and effective for this program.
o Examples are the expectancy theory, equity theory, goal-setting theory, Management by Objectives (MBO), or the four-prong model of intrinsic motivation.
4. Explain why the selected theory would be the most practical and effective for the rewards and
recognition program.
5. Recommend 2–3 types of rewards and/or recognition that would the most effective in
motivating the employees to achieve the goals.
6. Create a communication tool for eligible employees announcing the program, rules, and
awards.
o Examples: Email, newsletter, internal Facebook post.
Strayer Writing Standards
This course requires use of new Strayer Writing Standards (SWS). The format is different from
other Strayer University courses. Please take a moment to review the SWS documentation for
details.
• Citations and references must follow SWS or school-specific format. Check with your professor
for any additional instructions.
Evidence-Based Practice and the Quadruple Aim
Nursing Evidence-Based Practice and the Quadruple Aim
Healthcare organizations continually seek to optimize healthcare performance. For years, this
approach was a three-pronged one known as the Triple Aim, with efforts focused on improved
population health, enhanced patient experience, and lower healthcare costs.
More recently, this approach has evolved to a Quadruple Aim by including a focus on improving
the work life of healthcare providers. Each of these measures are impacted by decisions made at
the organizational level, and organizations have increasingly turned to EBP to inform and justify these decisions.
To Prepare:
Read the articles by Sikka, Morath, & Leape (2015); Crabtree, Brennan, Davis, & Coyle (2016);
and Kim et al. (2016) provided in the Resources.
Reflect on how EBP might impact (or not impact) the Quadruple Aim in healthcare.
Consider the impact that EBP may have on factors impacting these quadruple aim elements,
such as preventable medical errors or healthcare delivery.
To Complete:
Write a brief analysis (no longer than 2 pages) of the connection between EBP and the
Quadruple Aim.
Your analysis should address how EBP might (or might not) help reach the Quadruple Aim,
including each of the four measures of:
Patient experience
Population health
Costs
Work life of healthcare providers
Professional Nursing Practice Project
Please confirm if you have access to CINHAL, MedLine to research the articles and that you can
provide an outline of the presentation prior to the due date of 2/20.
This is a 7 – 10 page powerpoint, articles must be summarized in a separate doc and speaker
notes must be added.
Please provide estimate.
Here are additional details
PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE PROJECT
NARRATED POWERPOINTS
Research and select 3 current articles written from 2006-2016, about a current professional
practice topic (NOT a clinical topic), these can include the following subjects (but not limited to):
• Case Management
• Advance Nursing Practice
• Education Preparation of Nurses
• Health Care Delivery Systems
• Legality in Nursing
• Communication in Nursing
• Professionalism in Nursing (ie. Uniforms, organizational involvement)
• Leadership and impact on working environment
• Patient Care Delivery systems
• Financial impact and cost containment issues
• Quality Initiatives
• Staffing Ratios
• Ethical Issues affecting nursing
• Other topic may be considered after consultation and approval by instructor
Introduce the topic then, for each article, summarize the key points in no more than 2 paragraphs
for each article. Then describe the significance of these articles (why is this important). Finally,
summarize the implications these articles in current nursing practice (what affect does this topic
have on nursing).
Researching should be conducted in such data bases as CINHAL, MedLine etc.
Student will develop narrated PowerPoints and post on Blackboard. Each student will comment
on 2 student presentations.
GRADING
Reference Page APA (including grammar, punctuation, etc)
Summarization of articles (avoid long quotes)
Narrated PowerPoints:
*Include information needed to give a thorough understanding of topic, Narrative and notes to
explain each slide, PP presentation completed before deadline, meets or exceeds required
length (7-10 slides)Significance of articles /Implication to practice
Posted comment on
Discussion board respond to 2 fellow student presentations.