COURSE:

NR531: Nursing Leadership in Healthcare Organizations

NR531 Week 7 Collaboration Café Administrative Communication

You have just attended a quarterly meeting of the healthcare system’s strategic planning team. Due to a downturn in financial standing, cutbacks are being make to the professional development budget. Within the next quarter, the organization will phase out tuition reimbursement benefits. As chief nursing officer, you will need to convey this message to the nursing services department.

• How do you prepare yourself for delivering this message?
• What will you include in your message?
• What resistance might you anticipate and mitigate in your messaging?
• In what way might “grapevine” communication impact your plan for delivery?

With these elements in mind, describe your plan for communicating this message.

MSN Collaboration Café Guidelines and Rubric

SOLUTION

How do you prepare yourself for delivering this message?

Preparing to deliver the message first entails my complete understanding of the situation. I will need to be ready to answer my employees’ questions and provide them with further contacts to ask more in-depth questions and value the time I have with them (anonymous, 2018). I also need to look at my emotional self-awareness regarding…………………………….$5