SWOT Activity – 10-Slide PowerPoint

Due Week 2 and worth 50 points

As indicated in the Research Activity, out of 200 applicants, you were selected to work as the manager in the research department for a special task force with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Review the CDC website at https://www.cdc.gov. Your first assignment with the special task force is to focus on Opioid Overdose. The CDC reports that from 1999 to 2015, more than 183,000 people died in the U.S. from overdose related to prescription opioids.

The CDC has been researching the impact of opioid overdose to protect the public’s health and prevent opioid overdose deaths using surveillance and research. Your focus is two primary areas: 1) opioid prescribing guidelines for physicians, and 2) ways hospitals can create prescription drug monitoring as a part of their Quality Management Department (seehttps://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/index.html).

The CDC sent you to a local hospital, and based on your Research Activity, you were asked to provide the hospital leaders with a 10-slide PowerPoint to explain your research findings and to include a SWOT analysis. Your research skills used to create a SWOT analysis is based on Chapter 3 in the textbook and from the Research Exercise. SWOT stands for strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats; this analysis tool can be used to identify forces that can potentially help or harm the healthcare organization. Review the SWOT examples in Figures 1 and 2; listen to the Week 1 Lecture in Blackboard, and review the video on SWOT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_6AVRGLXGA.

Figure 1

Figure 2

Your 10-slide SWOT PowerPoint should follow this format:

1. Slide 1 should be a cover page; 
2. Slide 2 is the background; 
3. Slides 3-9 should have a Thesis Statement and follow the SESC formula: State, Explain, Support, and Conclude; and
4. Slide 10 is the reference page and should contain at least three (3) quality peer-reviewed references in SWS format. Note:Wikipedia and similar websites do not qualify as quality resources.
5. This course requires use of new Student Writing Standards (SWS). The format is different than other Strayer University courses. Please take a moment to review the SWS documentation for details.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Analyze the critical management issues, purpose, functions, and performance measures of different departments within healthcare organizations.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in health services organization management.
• Write clearly and concisely about health services organization management using proper writing mechanics.

  

As presented in this week’s readings, many individuals acquire infections in the community as well as during treatment in the hospital. As a nurse, it is important to know what is going on in the world. In addition to reading scholarly literature, reading the paper and watching the news helps to keep a nurse aware of what is going on currently. In addition, many organizations like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) track current health trends and post updates on their websites, along with Fact Sheets to help educate, prevent, and treat new and re-emerging diseases. These Fact Sheets are made to be short and easy to read so that health care professionals and patients are more likely to read and understand the information.

For this Discussion, you will examine an emerging or re-emerging disease and the nurse’s role in prevention and management of the disease. Locate an article in a newspaper, in a lay magazine, or on an organizational website that discusses an emerging or re-emerging infectious disease that is currently affecting your community. Reflect on the article you selected and think about how the emerging or re-emerging disease might affect nursing practice.

Summarize the article you selected and provide the reference. Then, address the following:

· What implications does the disease have for nursing practice?

· How does the emergence of this disease affect your personal practice?

· Why do you think that this disease is emerging/re-emerging?

· What is the nurse’s role in preventing and managing the impact of infectious diseases both from the patient and nurse perspective?

Support your response with references from the professional nursing literature.

Note Initial Post: A 5-paragraph (at least 550 words) response. Be sure to use evidence from the readings and include in-text citations. Utilize essay-level writing practice and skills, including the use of transitional material and organizational frames. Avoid quotes; paraphrase to incorporate evidence into your own writing. A reference list is required. Use the most current evidence (usually ≤ 5 years old).

https://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/clinicians/index.html

https://www.cdc.gov/

 

Write a 2- to 3-page paper that addresses the following:

• Explain how the factor you selected might influence the pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic processes in the patient from the case study you were assigned.
• Describe how changes in the processes might impact the patient’s recommended drug therapy. Be specific and provide examples.
• Explain how you might improve the patient’s drug therapy plan and explain why you would make these recommended improvements.

Title/Subject

Nursing Excellence and Competencies

Type of Service

Course Work

Urgency

3 hours

Citation Style APA Style

No. of Pages/Wordcount

2 page(s)550 Words

No. of Sources/References

3

English UK/US/AU?

English US

Description

Within the Discussion Board area, write 500 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments.

 This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. 

You are required to use 2 scholarly resources, in addition to your textbook. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.

Many hospitals have achieved Magnet Recognition® through the adoption of standards to recognize nursing excellence in the organization. The American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) accredits these organizations and has identified 5 model components and forces of magnetism. They contain the following (ANCC, n.d.a):

Transformational leadership

Structural empowerment

Exemplary professional practice

New knowledge, innovation, and improvements

Empirical quality results

The 14 Forces of Magnetism correlate with the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) competencies and the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) competencies. These forces are as follows (ANCC, n.d.b):

Quality of nursing leadership

Organizational structure

Management style

Personnel policies and programs

Professional models of care

Quality of care

Quality improvement

Consultation and resources

Autonomy

Community and health care organization

Nurses as teachers

Image of nursing

Interdisciplinary relationships

Professional development

Complete the following for this assignment:

Identify 3 of these forces of magnetism, and discuss why these 3 are the most important forces or characteristics that optimize system effectiveness in your organization and your individual performance within an organization

Week 5 (Students: Please post comments in reply box below, not your assignment. Create a parent screen above for individual assignments and replies)

Three activities for this week posting on the discussion board.

1. What do you understand the term protocol to mean (i.e. According to local protocol) and can you describe a circumstance when it would be appropriate to work outside a protocol? 

2. As you assess the plethora of GNP positions what do you need to think about?

Three activities for this week posting on the discussion board.

3. Post one question you would ask an employer at an interview.