NR 504 Week 7 Assignment, Professional Coalition Project
NR 504 Week 7 Assignment, Professional Coalition Project
Purpose:
Involvement in interdisciplinary coalitions allows the healthcare leader to gain an understanding regarding navigating socio-political environments as well as providing macro leadership within a broader community setting. The purpose of this project is to build and provide leadership to a coalition that addresses a healthcare concern.
Requirements: Description of the Identified Healthcare Concern:
You are the Vice-President of Nursing Services at a 500 bed facility that provides healthcare to a 6 county region that occurs in two different but adjoining states. Recently you attended a national conference regarding infectious diseases and the potential for their spread with our current global environment. Upon return from the conference, you have a conversation with a local public health official who identifies that there is no regional plan to combat an infectious disease outbreak. In addition, the official noted the presence of several barriers which will make the development of a plan more of a challenge……….. limited to:
- Identification of a plan that would cover a large region and a diverse population of approximately one million people
- Identification………..different state governments
- The presence of a regional airport which increases the opportunity for introducing an infectious disease to the region
From the conversation…….. You now accept the challenge to build a coalition within the region to develop a plan that would resist a sudden outbreak of an infectious illness.
Description of the Assignment
The purpose of this project will be to address a healthcare concern occurring within a community by providing macro level leadership needed to build a coalition. The identified coalition will seek to resolve the healthcare concern.
- This assignment will be presented via PowerPoint and will include 15 – 20 slides (excluding title and references slides).
- Introduction provides information regarding:
Introductory slide(s) provided ALL of the following, … macro-leadership, Definition of coalitions, Explanation why a coalition would be helpful in resolving this identified healthcare concern.
- Section One identifies macro-leadership skills
- S.ection Two discusses the coalitions in general by including the following information:
- Section Three presents the specific coalition that you will suggest in order to resolve the identified healthcare concern. The following information is required:
- Conclusion provides a summary of the key points from the presentation as well as of insights gained (what was learned) regarding macro leadership.
Criteria for Format and Special Instructions:
- The PowerPoint Presentation (excluding the Title slide and References slide) should equal 15–20 PowerPoint slides. Points will be lost for not meeting these length requirements.
- Speaker notes are … These notes should expand the information found on the slide.
- References are to … cited in the Speaker notes
- This assignment must … submitted to Turn-It-In.