TOPIC: Benchmark – Funding Plan

The purpose of this assignment is to create a plan for funding an intervention while applying financial planning and management best practices.

Write a 1,200-1,500 word plan for funding, including the following information:

1. Description of the data used to determine the targeted health disparity.
2. Description of the health disparity targeted through the intervention.
3. Description of intervention sustainability.
4. Description of possible cost savings resulting from intervention implementation.
5. Rationale for chosen sources of funding.
6. A proposed budget that includes total cost of implementation, expenses, and amount of funding received.
7. Description of adherence to financial planning and management best practices.

Include up to two resources in your paper.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide.

You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. 

Benchmark Information

This benchmark assesses the following programmatic competency:

MSN Public Health Nursing

6.6: Apply financial planning and management best practices in the development and administration of public health nursing interventions.

STUDY MATERIALS

Read Chapter 5 in Public Health Nursing: Population-Centered Health Care in the Community.

Read “Prevention and Public Health Fund” (2016), located on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services website. URL: https://www.hhs.gov/open/prevention/index.html#

Read “Public Health Financing” (2013), located on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website. URL: https://www.cdc.gov/stltpublichealth/docs/finance/Public_Health_Financing-6-17-13.pdf

Explore “Chapter 42. Getting Grants and Financial Resources,” located on the Community Toolbox website (2018). URL: https://ctb.ku.edu/en/table-of-contents/finances/grants-and-financial-resources

Explore “Chapter 43. Managing Finances,” located on the Community Toolbox website (2018). URL: https://ctb.ku.edu/en/table-of-contents/finances/managing-finances

Explore the Grants page of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website. URL: https://www.cdc.gov/grants/

Explore the grants.gov website for information about grants available for population-based interventions. URL: https://www.grants.gov/

Prepare a 10-15 slide PowerPoint presentation, with speaker notes, that examines the significance of an organization’s culture and values. For the presentation of your PowerPoint, use Loom to create a voice-over or a video. Refer to the Topic Materials for additional guidance on recording your presentation with Loom. Include an additional slide for the Loom link at the beginning, and an additional slide for References at the end.

1. Outline the purpose of an organization’s mission, vision, and values.

2. Explain why an organization’s mission, vision, and values are significant to nurse engagement and patient outcomes.

3. Explain what factors lead to conflict in a professional practice. Describe how organizational values and culture can influence the way conflict is addressed.

4. Discuss effective strategies for resolving workplace conflict and encouraging interprofessional collaboration.

5. Discuss how organizational needs and the culture of health care influence organizational outcomes. Describe how these relate to health promotion and disease prevention from a community health perspective.

While APA style format is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and in-text citations and references should be presented using APA documentation guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

Just some guidelines: Do NOT read your slides as I (audience) can see the slide. Rather, further explain the information you placed on the slide with examples and expanded examples when you are recording in LOOM. Pretend you are delivering the presentation to a live audience. You would not “Read” all the slides if you were doing a live presentation. You would discuss what is one the slides and add examples.

Make sure to include speaker notes in your power point but when you record your presentation, you will also add more conversation than you inserted as speaker notes. Do not place large amounts of text on the slides as it clutters the slides. Rather you can insert short paragraphs, phrases, etc and then enter your speaker notes in the white space BELOW the actual slide, and then your LOOM presentation will be longer in length as you bring the presentation all together. Do NOT insert large pictures nor copyrighted pictures in your power point as it makes your file too large to submit. You may use 1-3 very small pictures if you feel the need to do so but pictures are not required. If your file is too large to submit to the gradebook, you will have to remove pictures, so please be mindful of this.

I will have to present this assignment to loom in my student portal. Do not include pictures for me. Thank you.

Assignment Directions

1. Read over each of the following directions, the required Reading Research Literature worksheet, and grading rubric.
2. Review the video below these directions, which contains a tutorial for your Week 6 Assignment. Tutorial may look slightly different session to session. Grading criteria and rubric will be the same. 
3. Download and complete the required Reading Research Literature (RRL) worksheet (Links to an external site.). This must be used. 
4. Your required article is available to you in an announcement: IMPORTANT: Assigned Article for Week 6 Assignment. Please go to your announcement to locate the required article assigned for this session.
5. This assignment contains:
   • Purpose of the Study:  Using information from the required article and your own words, summarize the purpose of the study.  Describe what the study is about. 
   • Research & Design:  Using information from the required article and your own words, summarize the description of the type of research and the design of the study.  Include how it supports the purpose (aim or intent) of the study.
   • Sample:  Using information from the required article and your own words, summarize the population (sample) for the study; include key characteristics, sample size, sampling technique.
   • Data Collection:  Using information from the required article and your own words, summarize one data that was collected and how the data was collected from the study.
   • Data Analysis:  Using information from the required article and your own words, summarize one of the data analysis/ tests performed or one method of data analysis from the study; include what you know/learned about the descriptive or statistical test or data analysis method.
   • Limitations:  Using information from the required article and your own words, summarize one limitation reported in the study.
   • Findings/Discussion:  Using information from the required article and your own words, summarize one of the authors’ findings/discussion reported in the study. Include one interesting detail you learned from reading the study.
   • Reading Research Literature:  Summarize why it is important for you to read and understand research literature.  Summarize what you learned from completing the reading research literature activity worksheet.
6. You are required to complete the worksheet using the productivity tools required by Chamberlain University, which is Microsoft Office Word 2013 (or later version), or Windows and Office 2011 (or later version) for MAC. You must save the file in the “.docx” format. Do NOT save as Word Pad. A later version of the productivity tool includes Office 365, which is available to Chamberlain students for FREE by downloading from the student portal at http://my.chamberlain.edu (Links to an external site.). Click on the envelope at the top of the page.
7. Submit the completed Reading Research Literature Worksheet to the Week 6 Assignment.

Best Practices

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Scholarly Sources and Citations 

• Use APA format in citations and references.

Melissa, a 12-year-old girl with cystic fibrosis comes to the primary care office with complaints of increased cough and productive green sputum over the last week. She also complains of increasing shortness of breath. She denies sore throat or nasal congestion. On physical examination her temperature is 101 and she has inspiratory wheezes bilaterally. Negative lymphadenopathy noted. Posterior pharynx is pink without exudate. BP 112/72 HR 96 RR 28.

1. In cystic fibrosis, the airway microenvironment favors bacterial colonization. In a minimum of 150 words explain the pathophysiological reason for this occurrence.

Professional Capstone and Practicum Reflective Journal

Students are required to submit weekly reflective narratives throughout the course that will culminate in a final, course-long reflective journal due in Topic 10. The narratives help students integrate leadership and inquiry into current practice.

This reflection journal also allows students to outline what they have discovered about their professional practice, personal strengths and weaknesses, and additional resources that could be introduced in a given situation to influence optimal outcomes. Each week students should also explain how they met a course competency or course objective(s).

In each week’s entry, students should reflect on the personal knowledge and skills gained throughout the course. Journal entries should address one or more of the areas stated below.  In the Topic 10 graded submission, each of the areas below should be addressed as part of the summary submission.

1. New practice approaches
2. Interprofessional collaboration
3. Health care delivery and clinical systems
4. Ethical considerations in health care
5. Practices of culturally sensitive care
6. Ensuring the integrity of human dignity in the care of all patients
7. Population health concerns
8. The role of technology in improving health care outcomes
9. Health policy
10. Leadership and economic models
11. Health disparities

While APA style is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and in-text citations and references should be presented using APA documentation guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.