Purpose

The purpose of this assignment is to consider the value of a culture of excellence and leadership strategies which support a culture of excellence within the student’s selected MSN track.  Students will identify organizational characteristics which support a culture of excellence.  In addition, students will identify an existing organizational mission, vision, and values and create an original concept map to portray the interrelationships between each element.  The extent to which the organizational mission, vision, and values reflect a culture of excellence will be examined.  Leadership strategies which promote a culture of excellence and support the Chamberlain Care Model® will be applied.

Part I: Concept Map

1. Identify the mission, vision, and values of a selected organization.
2. Create a concept map which portrays the relationships between the organizational mission, vision and core values, depicting how they do or do not support a culture of excellence.  The concept map must be your own, original work.

Part II: Written Paper

1. In a three- to four- page paper, address the elements below.  Use a minimum of four peer-reviewed scholarly sources, current within five years, to support your work. See rubric for specific, required content criteria within each section of the paper:

1. Provide an introduction to the paper.
2. Discuss the characteristics of a culture of excellence.
3. Present the mission, vision, and values of a selected organization, and explain the interrelationships between each element in the concept map.  Describe how the mission, vision, and values do or do not support a culture of excellence.
4. Discuss application of three specific leadership strategies which promote a culture of excellence, and how they support the Chamberlain Care Model®.
5. Provide a conclusion to the paper.  

Preparing the Assignment

Criteria for Format and Special Instructions

1. Abide by the Chamberlain College of Nursing Academic Integrity Policy.
2. Part I:  Create and submit a concept map as a pdf or word document.  
   1. Concept map may be neatly drawn by hand or created using software.
   2. Concept map must be clear and legible.
   3. Concept map must be the student’s original work.  
3. Part II: Using Microsoft Word 2013, create the written paper for this assignment.  Include a title page with your name, date, and course information, as well as a reference page.
   1. The paper (excluding title and reference pages) should be three to four pages in length.
   2. A minimum of four (4) peer-reviewed scholarly sources, current within five years, are required.
   3. Sources older than five years may not be used without the permission of the class professor.
   4. Only one short quote (15 words or less) may be used within the body of your writing.
   5. Title page, running head, pagination, subheadings, body of paper, citation of sources, and reference page must follow APA guidelines as found in the 6^th edition of the manual.
   6. Rules of grammar, spelling, word usage, punctuation, sentence and paragraph structure are followed and consistent with formal, scholarly writing as noted in the APA Manual (6^th edition).
   7. First person may only be used in the self-reflection portion of the assignment (see conclusion section for criteria).