NURS-FPX6626: Care Coordination Leadership

NURS-FPX6626 closes out the 6618-6626 advanced care coordination cluster by bringing leadership, workflow design, and ethical/legal practice together into a single applied focus: how a nurse leader actually builds and sustains the team and culture that makes coordinated care work. Where NURS-FPX6618 introduces leadership concepts for individual care coordination initiatives, this course addresses leadership at the team and organizational level — staff development, change management, and sustaining improvements over time. Here's what the assessments typically require and how expert support for NURS-FPX6626 can help.

Course Overview

NURS-FPX6626 functions as a synthesis course within the advanced care coordination sequence. Students draw on the workflow and structure concepts from NURS-FPX6622, the healthcare delivery models from NURS-FPX6620, and the ethical/legal considerations from NURS-FPX6624, and apply them through a leadership lens: how does a nurse leader build a team capable of executing a coordinated care structure, manage the organizational change required to implement it, and sustain those gains once the initial project ends?

Typical coursework includes assessing team and organizational readiness for a care coordination initiative, developing a leadership and staff development plan, applying a change management framework to implementation, and creating a sustainability plan that keeps improvements in place after the initial leadership push ends.

Common Assessment Focus Areas

NURS-FPX6626 is a newer addition to Capella's DNP curriculum and is not yet broadly indexed by third-party assessment-tracking sites. Based on its position as the capstone of the 6618-6626 cluster and the structure of comparable leadership capstone courses in the program, assessments are reasonably expected to focus on:

• 1Assessing Team and Organizational Readiness

  Assess a care coordination team's and organization's readiness to implement a coordinated care initiative, identifying leadership gaps, staff training needs, and cultural barriers to change.

• 2Leadership and Staff Development Plan

  Develop a leadership and staff development plan that builds the skills and engagement needed for the care coordination team to execute its workflow effectively, addressing training, mentorship, and role clarity.

• 3Applying a Change Management Framework

  Apply a recognized change management framework (such as Lewin's model or Kotter's eight steps) to guide the implementation of a care coordination initiative, anticipating resistance and planning stakeholder engagement.

• 4Sustainability and Leadership Reflection

  Create a sustainability plan for maintaining the care coordination improvements after the initial implementation phase, and reflect on the leadership competencies developed across the assessment sequence.

Because the exact rubric can vary by section, always work from your own course shell instructions and grading rubric — the framework above reflects how this capstone course is structured within the broader DNP care coordination curriculum, not a confirmed assessment list.

How We Help With NURS-FPX6626

• Conducting a realistic team and organizational readiness assessment grounded in a specific care setting
• Building leadership and staff development plans that address concrete training and engagement gaps
• Correctly applying change management frameworks (Lewin, Kotter, ADKAR) to a care coordination initiative
• Writing sustainability plans that go beyond "continue monitoring" into specific accountability structures
• Tying the leadership reflection back to the specific competencies developed across all four assessments
• APA 7 formatting and integration of current nursing leadership and change management literature

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