Required Resources
Read/review the following resources for this activity:

• Textbook: Chapter that pertains to your chosen topic
• Lesson
• Link (Word doc): Week 6 Assignment Template (Use this template to complete the assignment.) 
• Minimum of 4 scholarly sources (from Week 5)

Introduction
This week you continue the individual assignment, working toward completing your Week 7 PowerPoint presentation.

PowerPoint Project Timeline

Due

Description

Week 4

PowerPoint Topic and Organization

Week 5

PowerPoint Outline Rough Draft

Week 6

PowerPoint Outline Final Draft, Images, and Sources

Week 7

PowerPoint Presentation

Week 8

PowerPoint Evaluation

Instructions
For the final outline, continue conducting research for your presentation, locating specific scholarly sources to include on your references page as needed.

Include and submit the following components:

• Page 1
  • Title page (title of speech, name of presenter, audience prepared for – school or institution, date). You can use this information to create your first slide in PowerPoint.
• Pages 2-3
  • General topic, specific topic, thesis statement (one sentence)
  • Introduction paragraph (written out)
  • Body in outline format using complete sentences
  • Summary or conclusion paragraph
• Pages 4-5
  • 5 visuals to be used in your PowerPoint
    • Beneath each visual describe why you selected this visual and how you plan to use this visual in your PowerPoint.
    • Paste the images onto the document. Do not simply provide a URL for each image.
• Page 6
  • References page with minimum of 4 authoritative, outside scholarly sources.
    • These sources can include the sources referenced during Week 5, but you are free to change those sources if they are no longer serving as support for your PowerPoint.
    • Anonymous authors or web pages are not acceptable.
    • References must be written in APA format with hanging indents, in alphabetical order, and with everything double spaced. The word “references” should be centered.
    • Include copyrighted image resources in this list. You can copy and paste these citations to use as the last slide in your PowerPoint.

Presentation Note

Do not copy and paste your table of contents, final outline, or visuals description plan into your PowerPoint slides in your Week 7 submission. Your speech slides must be created as a meaningful presentation.

• Use a few bullets for each slide with one phrase or one sentence for each bullet.
• Do not put any paragraphs into the slides.

Writing Requirements (APA format)

• Length: 6 pages (including the title page and references page)
• 1-inch margins
• Double spaced
• 12-point Times New Roman font

Grading
This activity will be graded based on W6 Outline Final Draft Grading Rubric.

Course Outcomes (CO): 1, 3

Due Date: By 11:59 p.m. MT on Sunday

Promoting Health Care Quality-  Quality Improvement Issue  

To help you move forward with your Course Project, this week you identify a quality issue that you would like to address and submit a description of this issue for Instructor feedback.   Your proposed issue should reflect a genuine need for improvement within your selected health care organization. Through your Course Project, you will analyze this issue and propose strategies to improve outcome(s), including the redesign of a related process.  

To prepare: •Review the six quality improvement aims from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) presented in Chapter 3 of the Sadeghi, Barzi, Mikhail, and Shabot text. 

•Conduct a search of the literature to help you identify a specific issue that warrants attention and action to promote quality improvement. 

•Consider what you have surmised thus far through your analysis of the organization that you selected. What have you noticed that could help you identify a quality-related need for improvement? For instance: 

•What has captured your attention in meetings, reports, and/or daily activities? 

•Have you noticed discrepancies between activities in the organization and recommendations in the research literature, quality standards, and/or the organization’s stated policies and procedures? 

•If so, what do you think could be the reason(s) for variations or gaps between what you have observed and what is recommended?  

•Identify a quality improvement issue that you would like to investigate for this project.

The instructions for this assignment asks for students to identify a quality improvement issue, and provide a description of the issue they wish to pursue. This can be accomplished in 2 paragraphs.

ReferencesHickey, J. V., & Brosnan, C. A. (2017). Evaluation  of health care quality in for DNPs (2nd  ed.). New York, NY: Springer Publishing Company.  

•Chapter 10, “Evaluation of Patient Care Standards, Guidelines, and Protocols” (pp. 207-226)

 •Chapter 12, “Evaluating Populations and Population Health” (pp. 265-280) Chapter 10 reviews methods for using national, local, and organizational standards to evaluate the quality of health care practices. Chapter 12 examines strategies for identifying quality issues through the evaluation of populations.   Sadeghi, S., Barzi, A., Mikhail, O., & Shabot, M. M. (2013). Integrating quality and strategy in health care organizations, Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Publishers. 

 •Chapter 3, “General Concepts in Quality” (pp. 45–82) See the six aims for quality proposed by the Institute of Medicine (IOM).   Bellot, J. (2011). Defining and assessing organizational culture. Nursing Forum, 46(1), 29–37.

https://class.waldenu.edu/bbcswebdav/institution/USW1/201870_27/MS_NURS/NURS_6231/artifacts/USW1_NURS_6231_Week04_Bellot_2011.pdf