30 Jan Presentation Formatting

Unit 03 Assignment 1

Quality and Safety Gap Analysis

Professional Context

As a nurse leader, you must be able to assess your organization’s ability to deliver safe, high-quality patient care. In so doing, you may be required to perform a gap analysis of a quality or safety issue as the first step in improving outcomes. Failure to meet benchmarks for safe and effective patient care can have reimbursement, regulatory, and legal consequences.

This assignment provides an opportunity to develop the knowledge, skills and attitudes required to successfully implement changes that improve patient outcomes by:

Evaluating the current culture of an organization.

Performing an outcomes gap analysis.

Determining what changes are needed to bridge the gap.

Examining current thinking on this topic contained in the literature.

Scenario

As a nurse leader, you are fully aware of the hazardous nature of health care and that organizations must continually work to improve the quality and safety of the care they provide to patients. For this assignment, you will identify a systemic problem in your organization, practice setting, or area of interest, that is associated with adverse quality and safety outcomes (for example, an increase in the incidence of falls or medical errors). You will then analyze the gap between current and desired performance.

Your gap analysis will provide the basis for the remaining assignments in this course.

Instructions

Perform a quality and safety gap analysis.

The requirements outlined below correspond to the grading criteria in the Quality and Safety Gap Analysis Scoring Guide, so be sure to address each point. You may also want to review the performance level descriptions for each criterion to see how your work will be assessed. Additionally, the Guiding Questions: Quality and Safety Gap Analysis document, linked in the Resources, provides additional considerations that may be helpful in completing your assignment.

Note: Remember that you can submit all, or a portion, of your draft analysis to Smarthinking for feedback, before you submit the final version for this assignment. However, be mindful of the turnaround time of 24–48 hours for receiving feedback if you plan on using this free service.

Writing and Supporting Evidence

Communicate analysis data and information clearly and accurately, using correct grammar and mechanics.

Integrate relevant and credible sources of evidence to support assertions, correctly formatting citations and references using APA style. Use 3–4 scholarly or professional sources.

Conducting the Gap Analysis

Identify a systemic problem in your organization, practice setting, or area of interest that contributes to adverse quality and safety outcomes.

Propose specific practice changes that will improve quality and safety outcomes and bridge the gap between current and desired performance.

Prioritize proposed practice changes.

Determine how proposed practice changes will foster a culture of quality and safety.

Determine how a particular organizational culture or hierarchy might affect quality and safety outcomes.

Justify necessary changes with respect to functions, processes, or behaviors specific to your organization that correct or mitigate adverse quality and safety outcomes.

Submission Requirements

Format your document using APA style.

Use the APA Style Paper Template, linked in the Resources. An APA Style Paper Tutorial is also provided in the Resources to help you in writing and formatting your analysis. Be sure to include:

A title page and reference page. An abstract is not required.

A running head on all pages.

Appropriate section headings.

Properly-formatted citations and references.

Your analysis should be 4–5 pages in length, not including the title page and reference page.

Portfolio Prompt: You may choose to save your gap analysis to your ePortfolio.

Resources

Quality and Safety Gap Analysis Scoring Guide.

Academic Honesty & APA Style and Formatting.

Vila Health: Quality and Safety Gap Analysis | Transcript.

Smarthinking.

Introduction to the Writing Center.

APA Style Paper Template [DOCX].

Guiding Questions: Quality and Safety Gap Analysis [DOCX].

ePortfolio.

APA Guide.

APA Style Paper Tutorial [DOCX].

Unit 05 Assignment 1

Executive Summary

Professional Context

As a nurse leader, you must be able to access, identify, and describe outcome measures as they relate to safety and quality problems in your organization.

This assignment provides an opportunity to examine existing outcome measures, assess their strategic value, and present your findings to executive leaders in a manner that will help you gain their support.

Scenario

The gap analysis you completed in Unit 3 was the first step toward improving outcomes. Your analysis of the gap between current and desired performance has provided the information you need to move forward with proposed changes. Your next step is to focus on existing outcome measures and their relationship to the systemic problem you are addressing. For this assignment, you have been asked to draft a summary of existing outcome measures for your organization’s executive team to raise awareness of the problem and the strategic value of existing measures.

Instructions

Write an executive summary of existing outcome measures in your current organization or practice setting.

The requirements outlined below correspond to the grading criteria in the Executive Summary Scoring Guide, so be sure to address each point. You may also want to review the performance level descriptions for each criterion to see how your work will be assessed. Additionally, the Guiding Questions: Executive Summary document, linked in the Resources, provides additional considerations that may be helpful in completing your assignment.

Note: Remember that you can submit all, or a portion, of your draft summary to Smarthinking for feedback, before you submit the final version for this assignment. However, be mindful of the turnaround time of 24–48 hours for receiving feedback if you plan on using this free service.

Writing and Supporting Evidence

Write clearly and concisely, using correct grammar and mechanics.

Integrate relevant and credible sources of evidence to support your assertions, correctly formatting citations and references using APA style. Use at least four scholarly or professional sources.

Composing the Executive Summary

Explain key quality and safety outcomes.

Determine the strategic value to an organization of specific outcome measures.

Analyze the relationships between a systemic problem in your organization or practice setting and specific quality and safety outcomes.

Determine how specific outcome measures support strategic initiatives related to a quality and safety culture.

Determine how the leadership team would support the implementation and adoption of proposed practice changes affecting specific outcomes.

Submission Requirements

Format your document using APA style.

Use the APA Style Paper Template, linked in the Resources. An APA Style Paper Tutorial is also provided in the Resources to help you in writing and formatting your summary. Be sure to include:

A title page and reference page. An abstract is not required.

A running head on all pages.

Appropriate section headings.

Properly-formatted citations and references.

Your summary should be 4–5 pages in length, not including the title page and reference page.

Portfolio Prompt: You may choose to save your executive summary to your ePortfolio.

Resources

Executive Summary Scoring Guide.

APA Style Paper Template [DOCX].

Introduction to the Writing Center.

APA Guide.

Vila Health: Quality and Safety Gap Analysis | Transcript.

Smarthinking.

APA Style Paper Tutorial [DOCX].

Academic Honesty & APA Style and Formatting.

ePortfolio.

Guiding Questions: Executive Summary [DOCX].

Unit 07 Assignment 1

Outcome Measures, Issues, and Opportunities

Professional Context

As a nurse leader, you may be called upon to submit a detailed report to your executive leadership team and key stakeholders that describes a quality or safety problem and its effects on outcomes, fully supported by relevant and credible data.

This assignment provides an opportunity to draft such a report in which you can call attention to quality and safety issues and opportunities, effectively support your position, and lay out a plan for change.

Scenario

The executive summary you completed in Unit 5 captured the attention and interest of the executive leadership team. They have asked you to provide them with a detailed report addressing outcome measures and performance issues or opportunities, including a strategy for ensuring that all aspects of patient care are measured.

Instructions

Draft a report on outcome measures, issues, and opportunities for the executive leadership team or stakeholder group.

The requirements outlined below correspond to the grading criteria in the Outcome Measures, Issues, and Opportunities Scoring Guide, so be sure to address each point. You may also want to review the performance level descriptions for each criterion to see how your work will be assessed. Additionally, the Guiding Questions: Outcome Measures, Issues, and Opportunities document, linked in the Resources, provides additional considerations that may be helpful in completing your assignment.

Note: Remember that you can submit all, or a portion, of your draft report to Smarthinking for feedback, before you submit the final version for this assignment. However, be mindful of the turnaround time of 24–48 hours for receiving feedback if you plan on using this free service.

Writing and Supporting Evidence

Write coherently and with purpose for a specific audience, using correct grammar and mechanics.

Integrate relevant and credible sources of evidence to support assertions, correctly formatting citations and references using APA style. Use at least six scholarly or professional sources.

Drafting the Report

Analyze organizational functions, processes, and behaviors in high-performing health care organizations or practice settings.

Determine how organizational functions, processes, and behaviors affect outcome measures associated with the systemic problem identified in your gap analysis.

Identify the quality and safety outcomes and associated measures relevant to the performance gap you intend to close.

Create a Quality and Safety Outcomes spreadsheet showing the outcome measures.

Identify performance issues or opportunities associated with particular organizational functions, processes, and behaviors and the quality and safety outcomes they affect.

Outline a strategy, using a selected change model, for ensuring that all aspects of patient care are measured and that knowledge is shared with the staff.

Submission Requirements

Format your document using APA style.

Use the APA Style Paper Template, linked in the Resources. An APA Style Paper Tutorial is also provided in the Resources to help you in writing and formatting your report. Be sure to include:

A title page and reference page. An abstract is not required.

A running head on all pages.

Appropriate section headings.

Properly-formatted citations and references.

Your report should be six pages in length, not including the title page and reference page.

Add your Quality and Safety Outcomes spreadsheet to your report as an addendum.

Portfolio Prompt: You may choose to save your report to your ePortfolio.

Resources

Outcome Measures, Issues, and Opportunities Scoring Guide.

ePortfolio.

Smarthinking.

Vila Health: Quality and Safety Gap Analysis | Transcript.

Example Outcome Measures Spreadsheet [XLSX].

Introduction to the Writing Center.

Academic Honesty & APA Style and Formatting.

APA Guide.

APA Style Paper Tutorial [DOCX].

APA Style Paper Template [DOCX].

Guiding Questions: Outcome Measures, Issues, and Opportunities [DOCX].

Unit 09 Assignment 1

Planning for Change: A Leader’s Vision

Professional Context

As a nurse leader, you will be expected to communicate effectively with leaders and stakeholders at all levels in an organization. You will need to be able to communicate in a variety of ways, depending on your purpose and your audience. Being able to deliver effective presentations is one important skill you will likely be called upon to use often.

This assignment provides an opportunity to hone your presentation skills and garner the support of stakeholder groups who will be key to achieving desired changes in the organization and developing or enhancing a culture of quality and safety.

Scenario

The report you completed in Unit 7 has convinced the executive leadership team of the organizational benefits of taking the next step toward changes to improve outcomes and cultivate a culture of quality and safety. You have been asked to follow up on your report with a presentation to administrative leaders and stakeholders. This will be your opportunity to outline your plan to develop or enhance the organization’s culture of quality and safety. Several key stakeholders will be unable to attend your presentation in person, so you have decided to provide those individuals with a video recording of the presentation.

Preparation

Your deliverables for this assignment are:

A slide deck, to supplement your presentation and facilitate discussion of your plan.

A video recording of your presentation.

Note: Remember that you can submit all, or a portion, of your draft presentation slides to Smarthinking for feedback, before you submit the final version for this assignment. However, be mindful of the turnaround time of 24–48 hours for receiving feedback if you plan on using this free service.

You may use Microsoft PowerPoint or any other suitable presentation software to create your slides. Use the speaker’s notes section of each slide to develop your talking points and reference your sources, as appropriate. If you need help designing your presentation, you are encouraged to review the various presentation resources provided for this assignment. These resources will help you to design an effective presentation, whether you choose to use PowerPoint or other presentation design software.

You may use Kaltura Media, Adobe Connect or other technology of your choice to record your video.

If using Kaltura Media, refer to the Using Kaltura tutorial for directions on recording and uploading your video in the courseroom.

If using Adobe Connect, refer to the instructions and tutorials available from the Using Adobe Connect support page.

Note: If you require the use of assistive technology or alternative communication methods to participate in this activity, please contact Disability Services to request accommodations.

Instructions

Create and record a video presentation for administrative leaders and stakeholders.

The requirements outlined below correspond to the grading criteria in the Planning for Change: A Leader’s Vision Scoring Guide, so be sure to address each point. You may also want to review the performance level descriptions for each criterion to see how your work will be assessed. Additionally, the Guiding Questions: Planning for Change: A Leader’s Vision document, linked in the Resources, provides additional considerations that may be helpful in completing your assignment.

Communication and Supporting Evidence

Argue persuasively to obtain agreement with, and support for, a plan to develop or enhance a culture of safety.

Support your main points, arguments, and conclusions with relevant and credible evidence, correctly formatting citations and references using APA style. Use at least eight scholarly or professional sources.

Developing the Presentation

Summarize the key aspects of a plan to develop or enhance a culture of safety.

Identify existing organizational functions, processes, and behaviors affecting quality and safety.

Identify current outcome measures related to quality and safety.

Explain the steps needed to achieve improved outcomes.

Create a future vision of your organization’s potential to develop and sustain a culture of quality and safety, and of the nurse leader’s role in developing that potential.

Submission Requirements

Presentation Formatting and Length

Your slide deck should consist of 12–15 slides, including a title slide and a references slide.

List your sources on the references slide at the end of your presentation.

Cite at least eight sources of scholarly or professional evidence.

Use of a small font is permitted to fit all eight references on a single slide.

In addition to your slide deck and a link to your video, submit any other relevant documentation or links for this assignment (if you used technology other than Kaltura Media, Adobe Connect, or PowerPoint).

Portfolio Prompt: You may choose to save your presentation to your ePortfolio.