Best Practices in Strategic Planning

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Best practices in strategic planning
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Best practices in Strategic planning
According to Abraham, (2012), strategic planning is a process of establishing the direction for
business after looking at the current state to the future of the organization. It enables agencies or
organizations to come up with the mission statement, goals, values, vision and long term goals.
The action plan to reach all this is also written down. A strategic plan enables organizations to
respond to opportunities and challenges in the best way and on time. These organizations include
government agencies that must plan on how to counter public health issues. The government
needs to do future planning of some events which include the outbreak of diseases. This can only
be done through strategic planning.
In a national health strategy document, the government spells the country’s vision, its `
considerations towards budgetary and the actions that will lead to improved and
maintained citizen’s health. Through the document, the direction is provided for improving
people's health and it is also used in the planning process. The activities that strengthen the
health information systems are contained in the national health strategy, ("National Health
Strategy — MEASURE Evaluation,").
The outbreak of influenza could at a greater extent affect my agency because I must explore the
best practices needed for strategic planning to curb this disease. The strategic plan shall be used
by the organization to let the healthcare professionals, the government and the general public of
the probability that any emergency department should have to successfully manage the outbreak
of influenza.
These essential actions can be performed by professional associations the federal entities, public
health professionals at all levels and also hospital staff. The healthcare infrastructure is affected

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and thus it must be protected to ensure that there is an emergency medical treatment. The
strategies should address the required operational planning to cure influenza H1N1 before and
during its outbreak.
National planning here is based on available information. It is challenging, realistic but not
predictive. Management strategy ACEP can be used to make sure that patients get the best care
possible and its members get the best professional responsibilities.to ensure that this pandemic is
managed effectively, there are best practices that can be used in strategic planning.
Some of these strategies in the include implementing and managing programs that aim at
prevention and vaccination, measuring and reporting coverage of vaccinations, addressing the
issues surrounding HCP vaccination employer requirements implementation, ("Strategies to
Achieve the Healthy People 2020 Annual Influenza Vaccine Coverage Goal for Health-Care
Personnel: Recommendations from the National Vaccine Advisory Committee," 2013).
The first practice is training an emergency manager who is designated the duty of leading the
H1N1 preparedness response. The manager must be aware of the community's emergency
preparedness, public health, and resource managers. He/she can establish authority and fulfil the
tasks of ACEP influenza surge preparedness assessment and also come up with an appropriate
community planning guide that is used in maintaining awareness of the health status of the
people, (Fagel, 2011).
The second practice is coming up with the emergency operations H1N1 plan through appointing
the hospital pandemic influenza planning group that is used in reviewing the emergency
operation plan of the hospital.