Propose a high-level quality improvement initiative for a selected departmental strategic priority, and choose an effective method of presenting your proposal to executive leaders and other stakeholders in the organization and community.
Choose one strategic priority from the departmental strategic plan you developed in Assessment 1 as the focus of a proposed quality improvement initiative.
Note: The assessments in this course must be completed in the order presented; subsequent assessments should be built on both your earlier work and your faculty’s feedback on earlier assessments. If you choose to submit assessments prematurely, without considering and integrating your faculty’s feedback, your assessment may be returned ungraded, resulting in your loss of an assessment attempt.
Note: For Flexpath learners, if you choose to make revisions based on feedback from a previous attempt, you should highlight your revisions in yellow. For example, if you made revisions from attempt one and would like faculty to review the content when grading attempt two, the content needs to be highlighted. Therefore, faculty reviews only the content highlighted on attempts two and three. If the entire paper is highlighted, the paper will be returned ungraded and will count as an attempt. Track changes are not a substitution for highlighted text.
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Develop a presentation, with visual and oral components, of your proposed high-level quality improvement initiative for executive leaders and other stakeholders in the organization and community.
Be creative in showcasing your proposal. Choose a visual presentation method you consider to be both engaging and likely to garner the necessary support and buy-in. For example, you might consider any of the following methods, or something different.
- PowerPoint.
- Visme.
- Prezi.
- Google Slides.
- Keynote.
Whichever method you choose, consider the information needs of your intended audience, their communication preferences, and possible time constraints on processing your proposal. For this assessment, your presentation should be between 8–10 minutes.
Video Recording
If you choose video as your preferred oral presentation method, Kaltura is the recommended tool for video recording. Refer to Using Kaltura for more information about this courseroom tool. You are also free to use any other technology of your choice (such as a video camera or smart phone) to record your video; however, please inform the faculty facilitator of your decision not to use Kaltura to avoid potential technical problems associated with file formats.
For example, if you choose to use PowerPoint with voice over or video, you will need to save and submit in an .mov or .mp4 file format to allow faculty to view without advancing slides.
To record your video, you will need a built-in or external microphone and/or video camera (webcam or other device). Check that your recording equipment and software are working properly and that you know how to record and submit your video. Be sure to set up and test your equipment ahead of time.
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Evaluation
The following tasks correspond to the grading criteria in the scoring guide, so be sure to address each point in the presentation of your proposed quality improvement initiative. Read the performance-level descriptions for each criterion to see how your work will be assessed.
- Explain the rationale for establishing a strategic priority.
- Describe the overarching aim and focus of your proposed quality improvement initiative.
- Use the evidence-based literature to provide broad rationale for establishing this priority.
- Present the key points from a SWOT analysis of a chosen strategic priority.
- Consider the organization’s political landscape and strategic priorities.
- Identify key performance indicators for measuring the success of a quality improvement initiative.
- For example: infection rates, customer satisfaction, financial performance indicators, productivity, nurse satisfaction, or other internal metric.
- These indicators could align with those identified on the departmental balanced scorecard.
- Explain the value of stakeholder feedback and the process for collaborating with stakeholders on the proposed quality improvement initiative.
- Identify key stakeholders and explain why their support for this initiative is crucial to its success.
- Explain how you will leverage stakeholder feedback.
- Explain how one contemporary change theory could be used to facilitate changes inherent in implementing a quality improvement initiative.
- Make policy recommendations to support the proposed quality improvement initiative.
- Your recommendations could entail developing a new policy, revising a current policy, or retiring a current policy.
- Describe the policy implications of this initiative and their impact on the organization.
- Justify your recommendations.
- Communicate clearly and concisely in a form and style appropriate for the audience and for the substance, purpose, and context of the message being conveyed.
- Consider the needs of your audience.
- Be succinct and mindful of communication best practices.
- Carefully review your media and materials to avoid errors that could distract the audience and make it more difficult for them to focus on the substance of your proposed initiative.