Go to the NINR website: https://www.ninr.nih.gov and identify the four current priorities for nursing research under NURSING RESEARCH DEVELOPS KNOWLEDGE TO…. Do you agree with the priorities or would you recommend addition or elimination of some of the priorities? Describe how these research initiatives can be translated into evidence-based practice in your work environment.

Your initial posting should be at least 400 words in length and utilize at least one scholarly source other than the textbook

1. Please find an experimental or quasi-experimental or descriptive article you wild like to use for the article critique assignment.  Make sure it is from a nursing journal and is not older than five years. on a topic of your interest. 
2. Review the article and provide a summary of the article, and answer the following questions: 
   1. Discuss whether you think the article is true-experimental, quasi-experimental, or no experimental. You must also state what type of quantitative design (descriptive, correlational, etc.)
   2. Where was the setting of the study?
   3. What are the sampling methods?  Does the sample reflect the population (representativeness)?  What about sample size?  What was the risk of sampling error in the study?  Did the author acknowledge the sample criteria?  Inclusion or exclusion?
   4. What are the variables being measured?
   5. What data collections methods were used?
   6. What is the intervention?

250-300 words needed

  

This assignment consists of both an interview and a PowerPoint (PPT) presentation.

Assessment/Interview

Select a community of interest in your region. Perform a physical assessment of the community.

1. Perform a direct assessment of a community of interest using the “Functional Health Patterns Community Assessment Guide.”

2. Interview a community health and public health provider regarding that person’s role and experiences within the community.

Interview Guidelines

Interviews can take place in-person, by phone, or by Skype.

Develop interview questions to gather information about the role of the provider in the community and the health issues faced by the chosen community.

Complete the “Provider Interview Acknowledgement Form” prior to conducting the interview. Submit this document separately in its respective drop box.

Compile key findings from the interview, including the interview questions used, and submit these with the presentation.

PowerPoint Presentation

Create a PowerPoint presentation of 15-20 slides (slide count does not include title and references slide) describing the chosen community interest.

Include the following in your presentation:

1. Description of community and community boundaries: the people and the geographic, geopolitical, financial, educational level; ethnic and phenomenological features of the community, as well as types of social interactions; common goals and interests; and barriers, and challenges, including any identified social determinates of health.

2. Summary of community assessment: (a) funding sources and (b) partnerships.

3. Summary of interview with community health/public health provider.

4. Identification of an issue that is lacking or an opportunity for health promotion.

5. A conclusion summarizing your key findings and a discussion of your impressions of the general health of the community.

While APA style is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and documentation of sources should be presented using APA format ting 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.

You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Refer to the LopesWrite Technical Support articles for assistance. 

 

Prepare a 10–20-slide presentation of the strategic plan you developed in Assessment 2, to be delivered to key stakeholders at a strategic visioning session.

Note: Each assessment in this course builds on the work you completed in the previous assessment. Therefore, you must complete the assessments in this course in the order in which they are presented.

SHOW LESS

The implementation and success of a strategic plan depends on the support of key stakeholders. This in turn depends on your ability to communicate clearly and persuasively with decision makers and to sell your vision of the future. You must also be able to lead the initiative and sustain strategic direction. This assessment provides you with an opportunity to showcase your strategic thinking and exercise the communication skills necessary to move your strategic plan forward toward implementation.

By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:

• Competency 1: Evaluate qualities and skills that promote effective leadership within health care organizations.
  • Explain why one’s leadership qualities and skills are well suited to successfully implementing a strategic plan and sustaining strategic direction.
• Competency 2: Apply strategies to lead high-performing health care teams to meet organizational quality and safety goals.
  • Summarize a strategic plan aimed at achieving desired quality or safety improvements within a care setting.
  • Describe the necessary actions for aligning the structure, systems, shared values, management style, staff, and skills of a care setting with strategic goals.
  • Explain how the implementation and outcomes of a strategic plan will be evaluated against current performance benchmarks.
• Competency 3: Apply cultural, ethical, and regulatory considerations to leadership decision making.
  • Explain how relevant cultural, ethical, and regulatory considerations influence the design of a strategic plan and strategies for its implementation.
• Competency 4: Integrate leadership and health care theories into the role of the nurse leader.
  • Explain one’s role, as a nurse leader, in successfully implementing a strategic plan and sustaining strategic direction.
• Competency 5: Communicate with stakeholders and constituencies to build collaborative partnerships and create inclusive work environments.
  • Explain a strategy for communicating with stakeholders and constituencies who are essential to implementing a strategic plan and sustaining strategic direction.
  • Communicate analyses clearly and in a way that demonstrates professionalism and respect for stakeholders and colleagues.
  • Integrate relevant and credible sources of evidence to support assertions, correctly formatting citations and references using APA style.

Questions to Consider

As you prepare to complete this assessment, you may want to think about other related issues to deepen your understanding or broaden your viewpoint. You are encouraged to consider the questions below and discuss them with a fellow learner, a work associate, an interested friend, or a member of your professional community. Note that these questions are for your own development and exploration and do not need to be completed or submitted as part of your assessment.

Reflect on the current cultural climate in your care setting.

• What aspects of the current cultural climate would aid in achieving one or more specific goals contained in your strategic plan?
• What aspects of the current cultural climate would present a challenge in achieving one or more specific goals contained in your strategic plan?
• What leadership theories, models, or strategies could help you turn this challenge into an opportunity?

Effectively communicating with internal and external stakeholders and constituencies can help in achieving strategic initiatives.

• How would you communicate the essential aspects of the strategic plan you developed in Assessment 2 to stakeholders or groups, both internal and external to your care setting?

 

Assessment Instructions

Note: In this assessment, you will develop a presentation to stakeholders for the strategic plan you developed in Assessment 2.

Preparation

Your strategic plan has been reviewed, and you have been asked to present your plan—including operational recommendations and strategic control mechanisms—at a strategic visioning session with key stakeholders (senior leaders if your plan is organization-wide, community leaders if your plan is for a community health project, or the nurse manager of a specific department or team). This session is the next step in moving your plan toward implementation.

Your deliverable for this assessment is a slide deck of 10–20 slides to supplement your presentation and facilitate discussion of your plan. You may use Microsoft PowerPoint or any other suitable presentation software. Please use the notes section of each slide to develop your talking points and reference your sources, as appropriate.

If you choose to use PowerPoint and need help designing your presentation, a link to Microsoft tutorials is provided in the Supplemental Resources in the left-hand navigation pane of your FlexPath courseroom. An additional PowerPoint guide is linked in the Resources.

Presentation Design Tips

Being able to effectively address any audience is a necessary leadership skill. Remember that you are the speaker, not a projectionist. Your purpose is not to present a slide show. Your audience is there to listen to what you have to say, not read your slides—or worse, listen to you read them. Design your presentation slides to compliment and reinforce your message and engage your listeners.

The following tips will help you create presentation slides that work to your advantage:

• Focus on the content of your presentation and the development of your main points. Remember that your purpose is to garner support for your plan and build partnerships for implementation.
• Consider your intended audience and how best to communicate effectively with them.
• Create slides that support your presentation. They should not be your presentation.
  • Use a professional presentation template, or one used in your organization.
  • Ensure that your slide background provides sufficient visual contrast for your text and graphics.
  • Avoid filling your slides with text. Use speaker notes to record the details you want to communicate to your audience.
  • Be judicious in your use of bulleted lists. You might even consider a separate slide for each main point.
  • Use images and graphics, when appropriate, to illustrate information and make your points. Presentation slides are a visual medium. Images are more effective than text at engaging your audience.
  • Avoid using images that are simply decorative. They can be a visual distraction and do not contribute to your message.
  • Avoid using flashy slide transitions and animations. They can be both distracting and annoying. Keep your slide transitions consistent throughout the presentation.
  • Add a slide to the end of your presentation to prompt questions from the audience.

Requirements

Note: The requirements outlined below correspond to the grading criteria in the scoring guide, so, at a minimum be sure to address each point. In addition, you are encouraged to review the performance level descriptions for each criterion to see how your work will be assessed.

Communication, Supporting Evidence, and APA Style

• Present your plan in a professional and respectful way, with the goal of garnering support for your plan and building partnerships for implementation.
  • Address stakeholders’ needs and concerns.
  • Communicate the need to work collaboratively on implementation.
• Integrate relevant and credible sources of evidence to support your assertions.
  • Cite at least 3–5 sources of scholarly or professional evidence.
• Apply correct APA formatting to all in-text citations and references.
• Add a references slide to your slide deck.
• Proofread your slides to minimize errors that could distract the audience and make it more difficult to focus on the substance of your presentation.

Presentation

• Summarize your plan for achieving 2–3 main goals. Include corresponding metrics, targets, and initiatives to help achieve the desired quality or safety improvements in the care setting.

Note: It may be useful to think about what you hoped to achieve in addressing your care setting’s positive core or specific area of concern in Assessment 1. For example:

• Progress toward achieving the Triple Aim.
• Better patient safety outcomes.
• Lower readmission rates.
• Higher volume of patients and care.
• Increased financial gain.
• Minimizing staff burnout.
• Improved relationship and trust with the community or a specific population.

In addition, remember to consult the literature, research studies, and resources from professional and governmental organizations when developing metrics, targets, and initiatives.

• Explain how you will communicate your plan to those stakeholders and constituencies who are essential to implementing your plan and sustaining strategic direction.
  • Identify the key individuals or groups with whom you must communicate.
  • Identify the cultural or ethical factors, if any, that are relevant to the design of your communication plan, including how key individuals or groups typically prefer to be contacted.
• Describe the actions you will take to align your care setting’s structure, systems, shared values, management style, staff, and skills with your strategic goals.
  • Describe the changes that are needed to achieve your goals.
  • Describe the goals and processes for on-boarding relevant individuals or groups.
• Explain how you will evaluate the success of your strategic plan.
  • Define successful implementation.
  • Describe the successful outcomes for this project.
  • Explain how will you compare outcomes to current performance benchmarks.
  • Explain how will you collect data to evaluate whether you have achieved specific goals and outcomes.
  • Identify your priorities, assuming you cannot accomplish everything.
• Explain how relevant cultural, ethical, and regulatory considerations influenced the design of your strategic plan and strategies for its implementation.
• Explain your role, as a nurse leader, in successfully implementing your proposed plan and sustaining strategic direction.
  • Explain how leadership and health care theories support your role.
• Explain why your leadership qualities and skills will enable you to successfully implement your plan and sustain strategic direction.
  • Explain why should you be the one to lead this initiative.
  • Explain how have you demonstrated some or all of these qualities in past work.

Additional Requirements

In addition to your slide deck, submit any other relevant documentation or links for this assessment (if you used presentation software or technology other than PowerPoint).

GRADING RUBRIC:

1-  Summarize a strategic plan aimed at achieving desired quality or safety improvements within a care setting. 

Passing Grade:  Summarizes a strategic plan aimed at achieving desired quality or safety improvements within a care setting, and notes inherent weaknesses or threats. 

2-  Explain a strategy for communicating with stakeholders and constituencies who are essential to implementing a strategic plan and sustaining strategic direction. 

Passing Grade:  Explains a strategy for communicating with stakeholders and constituencies who are essential to implementing a strategic plan and sustaining strategic direction, and identifies assumptions on which the strategies are based. 

3-  Describe the necessary actions for aligning the structure, systems, shared values, management style, staff, and skills of a care setting with strategic goals. 

Passing Grade:  Describes the necessary actions for aligning the structure, systems, shared values, management style, staff, and skills of a care setting with strategic goals; proposes criteria for evaluating the success of orientation and on-boarding. 

4-  Explain how the implementation and outcomes of a strategic plan will be evaluated against current performance benchmarks. 

Passing Grade:  Explains how the implementation and outcomes of a strategic plan will be evaluated against current performance benchmarks, and identifies areas of uncertainty or knowledge gaps. 

5-  Explain how relevant cultural, ethical, and regulatory considerations influence the design of a strategic plan and strategies for its implementation. 

Passing Grade:  Explains how relevant cultural, ethical, and regulatory considerations influence the design of a strategic plan and strategies for its implementation; identifies potential conflicts related to cultural, ethical, and regulatory considerations. 

6-  Explain one’s role, as a nurse leader, in successfully implementing a strategic plan and sustaining strategic direction. 

Passing Grade:  Explains one’s role, as a nurse leader, in successfully implementing a strategic plan and sustaining strategic direction, and identifies assumptions. 

7-  Explain why one’s leadership qualities and skills are well suited to successfully implementing a strategic plan and sustaining strategic direction. 

Passing Grade:  Explains why one’s leadership qualities and skills are well suited to successfully implementing a strategic plan and sustaining strategic direction, including plans that acknowledge opportunities for personal growth. 

8-  Communicate analyses clearly and in a way that demonstrates professionalism and respect for stakeholders and colleagues. 

Passing Grade:  Communicates analyses clearly, logically, and persuasively, demonstrating professionalism and respect for stakeholders and colleagues. Grammar and mechanics are virtually error-free. 

9-  Integrate relevant and credible sources of evidence to support assertions, correctly formatting citations and references using APA style. 

Passing Grade:  Integrates relevant and credible sources of evidence to support assertions, correctly formatting citations and references using APA style. Citations are error-free. 

Assessment 4

MUST GET DIDTINGUISHED IN SLL CATEGORIES OR EDIT

Cost Savings Analysis

• Overview; Prepare a spreadsheet of cost savings data showing efficiency gains attributable to care coordination over the course of one fiscal year, and report your key findings in an executive summary, 4–5 pages in length. Information plays a fundamental role in health care. Providers such as physicians and hospitals create and process information as they deliver care to patients. However, managing that information and using it productively poses an ongoing challenge, particularly in light of the complexity of the U.S. health care sector, with its many diverse settings for care and types of providers and services. Health information technology (HIT) has the potential to considerably increase the productivity of the health sector by assisting providers in managing information. Furthermore, HIT can improve the quality of health care and, ultimately, the outcomes of that care for patients.  
• The use of HIT has been upheld as having remarkable promise in improving the efficiency, quality, cost-effectiveness, and safety of medical care delivery in our nation’s health care system. This assessment provides an opportunity for you to examine how utilizing HIT can positively affect the financial health of an organization, improve patient health, and create better health outcomes. By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:  
  • Competency 1: Apply care coordination models to improve the patient experience, promote population health, and reduce costs. 
    • Describe ways in which care coordination can generate cost savings.
  • Competency 2: Explain the relationship between care coordination and evidence-based data. 
    • Describe ways in which care coordination efforts can enhance the collection of evidence-based data and improve quality through the application of an emerging health care model.
  • Competency 3: Use health information technology to guide care coordination and organizational practice. 
    • Explain how care coordination can promote improved health consumerism and effect positive health outcomes.
  • Competency 4: Communicate effectively with diverse audiences, in an appropriate form and style, consistent with applicable organizational, professional, and scholarly standards. 
    • Present cost savings data and information clearly and accurately.
    • Support main points, claims, and conclusions with relevant and credible evidence, correctly formatting citations and references using APA style.
  • Competency Map CHECK YOUR PROGRESSUse this online tool to track your performance and progress through your course.
  • APA Module.
  • Academic Honesty & APA Style and Formatting.
  • APA Style Paper Tutorial [DOCX].
  • Capella Resources  
  • ePortfolio.
  • Research Resources You may use other resources of your choice to prepare for this assessment; however, you will need to ensure that they are appropriate, credible, and valid. The MSN-FP6612: Emerging Health Care Models and Care Coordination Library Guide can help direct your research. The Supplemental Resources and Research Resources, both linked from the navigation menu in your courseroom, provide additional resources to help support you. As you review these resources, you may want to consider the following questions:  
  • What is the main focus of information gathering in health care?
  • How can care coordination efforts enhance the collection of evidence-based data and improve quality?
  • What governmental entities are leading care coordination practices?
  • What influence does data analysis have on the development and advancement of health care policy?

• Asssessment Instructions

• Preparation As the senior care coordinator in your organization, your manager has asked you to examine and report on how care coordination can generate cost savings, improve outcomes, enhance the collection of evidence-based data, and improve health care quality for the community. She would like you to compile cost savings data in a well-organized spreadsheet and present your key findings in an executive summary. Note:Remember that you can submit all or a portion of your draft spreadsheet and executive summary to Smarthinking for feedback before you submit the final version of this assessment. If you plan on using this free service, be mindful of the turnaround time of 24–48 hours for receiving feedback. Requirements Determine how care coordination can reduce costs. Compile your cost savings data in a spreadsheet, using Microsoft Excel or a suitable application of your choice. (If you elect to use an application other than Excel, check with faculty to avoid potential file compatibility issues.) Your spreadsheet should containat least fourcost-saving elements. Identify the cost-saving element, current costs, and anticipated savings. Then create an executive summary using theAPA Style Paper Template [DOCX]. Discuss your cost-saving elements and report key findings from your analysis. Analyzing Cost Savings The requirements outlined below correspond to the grading criteria in the scoring guide. Be sure that your analysis addresses each point, at a minimum. You may also want to read the Cost Savings Analysis Scoring Guide to better understand how each criterion will be assessed.  
  • Describe ways in which care coordination can generate cost savings.
    • What are your primary evidence-based sources of information?
    • Are your conclusions substantiated by the data?
    • What assumptions, if any, underlie your analysis?
  • Explain how care coordination can promote improved health consumerism and effect positive health outcomes.
    • What evidence do you have to substantiate your claims?
  • Describe at least five ways in which care coordination efforts can enhance the collection of evidence-based data and improve quality through the application of an emerging health care model. 
    • Choose any emerging health care model.
  • Present cost savings data and information clearly and accurately.
  • Support main points, claims, and conclusions with relevant and credible evidence, correctly formatting citations and references using APA style.
  • Additional Requirements Executive Summary Format and Length Format your executive summary using APA style:  
  • Use theAPA Style Paper Template [DOCX]provided. Be sure to include:
    • A title page and references page. An abstract is not required.
    • A running head on all pages.
    • Appropriate section headings.
  • See also theAPA Style Paper Tutorial [DOCX]to help you in writing and formatting your executive summary.
  • Your summary should be 4–5 pages in length,not includingthe title page and references page.
  • Supporting Evidence  
  • Cite 4–5 sources of relevant and credible scholarly or professional evidence to support your cost savings analysis.
  • Apply APA formatting to all in-text citations and references.
  • Submit both your spreadsheet and your executive summary. Portfolio Prompt: You may choose to save your spreadsheet and executive summary to your ePortfolio.