Leadership Action Plan

PowerPoint Slideshow Guidelines

Updated 1/20

Purpose

The purpose of this PowerPoint presentation is to present the best plan of action, as a leader, assigned to make a change to a problem or issue in your place of work. If you are not presently working, use information from your prelicensure experience or previous healthcare experience. You will be using the Joint Commission National Patient Safety Goals to align with the problem or issue that you see in your workplace or most recent place of employment. You will prepare a PowerPoint presentation and share how you will meet one of the goals in your place of work that will solve the problem or issue you have selected.

Course Outcomes

Completion of this assignment enables the student to meet the following course outcomes.

CO1: Apply leadership concepts, skills, and decision making in the provision of high-quality nursing care, healthcare team management, and the oversight and accountability for care delivery in a variety of settings. (PO2)

CO2: Implement patient safety and quality improvement initiatives within the context of the interprofessional team through communication and relationship building. (PO3)

CO3: Participate in the development and implementation of imaginative and creative strategies to enable systems to change. (PO7)

CO7: Apply leadership concepts in the development and initiation of effective plans for the microsystems and system-wide practice improvements that will improve the quality of healthcare delivery. (POs 2 and 3)

CO8: Apply concepts of quality and safety using structure, process and outcome measures to identify clinical questions as the beginning process of changing current practice. (PO8)

Due Dates

This assignment is to be submitted by Saturday, 11:59 p.m. MT, end of Week 6.

Directions

1. Develop a PowerPoint slideshow consisting of 8-15 slides. Include the following. Title slide, written speaker notes, and Reference slide. Do not use Voice Over recordings. All information needs to be written in slides and speaker notes. No information in comment section will be graded.
2. You are required to complete the assignment 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 “.pptx” format. 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.
3. As the leader, you have identified a problem or issue related to one of the National Patient Safety Goals 2019 created by the Joint Commission that will lead to quality improvement. You will find the National Patient Safety Goals using this link: https://www.jointcommission.org/assets/1/6/2019_HAP_NPSGs_final2.pdf.  (Links to an external site.)Assess the problem or issue. State the problem/issue and identify three rationales (reasons) that the problem exists. References are used. Scholarly articles must be published within the last 5 years, peer-reviewed, from the Chamberlain library only and must provide the permalink
4. Review the information provided in our library on how to search for journal articles (Links to an external site.).
5. Review the information provided in the library on how to locate and copy a journal permalink (Links to an external site.). (Links to an external site.)
6. Assess the problem or issue. State the problem/issue and identify three rationales (reasons) that the problem exists. References are used.
7. Determine the people who are involved in the issue and explain three reasons as to how their role will contribute to the problem or issue solution.
8. Identify three solutions and discuss the purpose, cost and desired outcome.
9. Pick one solution to share with the director and discuss why this solution was chosen over the others. Use a scholarly reference.
10. Make an action plan to share the solution with the director and staff.
11. Summarize issue, plan and desired outcome and purpose for quality improvement on slide.
12. Reflect on your learning and value of doing the assignment.
13. Include written speaker notes for all slides except title slide and reference slide.
14. Submit your PowerPoint slideshow by 11:59 p.m. MT, Saturday, end of Week 6.

Best Practices in Preparing PowerPoint Presentations

The following are best practices in preparing this presentation.

• Watch tutorial below.
• Be creative.
• Incorporate graphics, clip art, or photographs to increase interest.
• Make easy to read with short bullet points and large font.
• Review directions thoroughly.
• Proofread prior to final submission.
• Spell check for spelling and grammar errors prior to final submission.
• Abide by the Chamberlain academic integrity policy.

PowerPoint Presentation

Directions:

1. Review the case study.

2. Download the provided PowerPoint template to create a presentation that includes:

· Your name on the title slide of the presentation

· Identification of two or more issues with existing system

· Identification of “work-a-round” solutions when using existing system

· Overview of standard language used only in nursing

· Overview of multidisciplinary standard language

· Set of five (5) open-ended survey questions for staff input on transitioning to the new system

· Presentation is free of spelling and grammar errors.

Overview: Dr. Marcia Stanhope (2016) explained that evidence-based  public health practice refers to those decisions made by using the best  available evidence, data and information systems and program frameworks;  engaging community stakeholders in the decision-making process;  evaluating the results; and then disseminating that information to those  who can use the information.

Practicum Discussion: This week, your assignment will be to  incorporate all of the information you have gathered from the  community—including the population itself, health data,  interviews/conversations with interested community members, and your  community assessment, including your Windshield Survey—as well as what  you have gathered from scholarly literature to propose measureable  interventions. Measureable interventions mean that the results can be  measured through some data that could be collected (Stanhope, 2016).  This requires thinking in terms of actions and then measuring results.  An evaluation of interventions is important to see whether or not they  are effective in solving a health care problem. Remember, you will need  to use the data you gathered to determine whether or not a problem  exists in your community and to then determine whether your  interventions might be effective.

Please discuss the following points in your Practicum Discussion:

• Identify one evidence-based behavior change that would promote health in your selected population.
• Suggest one specific culturally sensitive, evidence-based,  measureable intervention to address the health problem for your selected  population.
• Think in terms of measuring outcomes. What outcomes would you expect to see once the intervention(s) are in place? Be specific.

Case Study, Chapter 23, Professional Identity and Image

Nursing care is frequently perceived by the public as simple and unskilled. Many male nurses live in fear of how their caring actions might be interpreted. Many nurses hold that stereotypes about the profession are true, just as the general public does. Public identity and image has been a struggle for nurses for a long time. The greater public clearly does not understand what professional nursing is all about, and the nursing profession has done a poor job of correcting long-standing, historically inaccurate stereotypes.

1. What are the common nursing stereotypes?

2. What was the role of the Center for Nursing Advocacy? Discuss the role of Truth about Nursing in addressing inaccurate or negative portrayals of nursing in the media and the process they use to raise public and professional awareness of the issues surrounding nursing public image?

3. What are some of the ways of changing nursing’s image in the public eye?

4. One of the most important strategies needed to change nursing’s image is to change the image of nursing in the mind of the image makers. What are some of the key ways for nurses to interact with the media?

Group Project

Group members need to assume AP roles (clinical and non-clinical) either by volunteering or being assigned by the group leader. A group leader must be decided and may be a nurse manager/nurse administrator, CNS, NP (maybe more than one and from different specialties), NI, and NE. CNLs and RNs may be also be part of the group scenario.  (there are 4 group members)

All members are expected to demonstrate leadership knowledge and skills, but also must be willing to follow. Each group will demonstrate the core competencies and principals of transformational leadership in the group work. (See rubric). The final evidence of the group work will be power point presentation that discusses the scenario addressing the assigned domain, the roles and the outcomes. 

The master’s prepared nurse demonstrates leadership in the four domains: the profession of nursing, clinical practice arena, health policy arena, and systems level. The impact could be found in health promotion, disease prevention/management, quality improvement and/or within management of a health system. 

In conclusive remarks, search and agree upon a quotation from a library article related to leadership in an advanced nursing role and include with how it applied to your clinical decision/management issue of your assigned domain. Leadership journals from SOU Library are The Journal of Nursing Scholarship or Nursing Leadership Forum or the American Journal of Nursing, Journal of Nursing Administration, Nursing Administration Quarterly, Nursing Management or Health Care Management Review

Library quotation:

“transformational leaders who set clear expectations, praise employees for good performance, are fair, and are concerned about employees may play a part in bringing about feelings of attachment to one’s work and psychological safety”

Reference:

Monje Amor, A., Abeal Vázquez, J. P., & Faíña, J. A. (2019). Transformational leadership and work engagement: Exploring the mediating role of structural empowerment. European Management Journal. https://doi-org.southuniversity.libproxy.edmc.edu/10.1016/j.emj.2019.06.007

CASE SCENARIO:

Disease Prevention: Obesity in school age children is a significant problem. Melissa, a former elementary school teacher, is a new CNL who has recently joined her state nursing association and is passionate about the 30% or more of the students being over-weight. The local nursing association is looking for a community project to address disease prevention. Melissa has approached the officers with her concern. What AP roles, core competencies and support are needed to make this happen?