NURS6618: Leadership in Care Coordination

NURS6618 is the leadership course that closes the care coordination sequence at Capella University for MSN and graduate certificate students.

The page was filed as Care Coordination Capstone, but Capella's 2025-2026 catalogue lists NURS6618 as Leadership in Care Coordination.

Students propose a project for change in a care coordination setting, aligning resources with community health care needs, apply project management practices, and identify how the leader supports collaboration between key stakeholders.

The challenge is scope. A change project must be small enough to be realistic and specific enough to evaluate, yet connected to a real community need and to ethical and regulatory requirements.

What NURS6618 Covers

Key Ideas You Will Use

From Problem to Aim

A strong proposal starts with a clear problem, then a measurable aim. "Reduce missed follow-up appointments" is a theme; "increase the share of discharged patients who attend a follow-up visit within a set number of days" is an aim you can measure. Name the time frame and the group.

Stakeholder Analysis

List each stakeholder, what they care about, how much influence they have and what you need from them. This table also shows where resistance may come from, and it supports your communication plan.

Typical Assignments and How to Approach Them

Planning the Proposal

Keep the first draft to one page of bullet points. If the plan cannot be explained briefly, it is probably too broad.

A Step-by-Step Study Approach

Because the course asks for a change project proposal, treat the work as a small piece of project management. The following routine keeps the proposal consistent from the first outline to the final proofread.

1. Pick a problem you can describe with local evidence, such as missed referrals or repeated admissions.
2. Find two or three studies on interventions for that problem and note the settings.
3. Write one measurable aim and a one-line description of the change.
4. Build a timeline table with milestones, owners and the resource needed at each step.
5. Add a risk table with likelihood, effect and your response.
6. Draft the stakeholder section last, because you now know what you need from each group.

Regulatory compliance is easy to overlook. A short paragraph naming the privacy and safety rules that apply to your setting, and how the project meets them, shows that you are thinking about safe care.

A Worked Outline for a Project Management Plan

The table below uses an invented referral tracking project to show the level of detail that tends to satisfy a project management criterion.

A table like this can anchor several sections of the paper, because the same milestones appear in your communication plan and your evaluation plan.

Where Students Get Stuck

• Projects too large. Narrow to one group, one setting and one change.
• No measures. Add at least one process measure and one outcome measure.
• Ignoring risks. Name what could go wrong and what you would do.
• Thin ethics. Show how privacy, consent and fairness are handled in the project.

Study Tips for NURS6618

• Choose a topic you can explain in two sentences before drafting.
• Use one project management tool consistently, such as a timeline table.
• Ask what the community gains, and write that into the aim.
• Check each rubric criterion against a heading in your paper.

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