Explain and evaluate quality improvement initiatives using sensitive and sound outcome measures.

Deliver to the interprofessional team a presentation (12-15 slides) that analyzes an existing workplace quality improvement initiative related to a specific disease, condition, or public health issue of interest. The presentation’s purpose is to inform and get buy-in from the interprofessional team.

Introduction
Too often, discussions about quality health care, care costs, and outcome measures take place in isolation—various groups talking among themselves about results and enhancements. Nurses are critical to the delivery of high-quality, efficient health care. As a result, they must develop their skills in reviewing and evaluating performance reports. They also need to be able to communicate outcome measures related to quality initiatives effectively. Patient safety and positive institutional health care outcomes mandate collaboration among nursing staff members to ensure the integration of their perspectives in all quality care initiatives.

In this assessment, you will have the opportunity to analyze a quality improvement initiative in your workplace. You will then present your analysis to a group of nurses and other health care professionals. The purpose of your presentation is to inform and enlist support for the initiative from your audience.

Preparation
Quality Initiative Selection
In this assessment you will deliver an analysis of an ongoing quality improvement initiative in your workplace. The initiative you analyze must relate to a specific disease, condition, or public health issue of personal or professional interest to you. The purpose of your analysis is to assess whether specific quality indicators point to improved patient safety, quality of care, cost and efficiency goals, and other desired metrics. Your audience consists of nurses and selected health care professionals with specializations or interest in your selected condition, disease, or issue. You hope to inform and garner support for the initiative from your audience.

Recording Your Presentation
To prepare to record a voice-over for your presentation:

Microsoft PowerPoint also allows you to record your narration with your slides. If you choose this option, simply submit your presentation to the appropriate area of the courseroom. Your narration will be included with your slides.
Remember to practice delivering and recording your presentation multiple times to ensure effective delivery.

The optional QI Initiative Evaluation Presentation Template [PPTX] is provided to help you prepare your slides.

In your presentation, you will:

Analyze a current quality improvement initiative in a health care or practice setting according to strategic organizational initiatives.
Explain the rationale behind the QI improvement initiative. What prompted the initiative?
Detail problems that were not addressed and any issues that arose from the initiative.
Evaluate the success of a current quality improvement initiative according to recognized national benchmarks.
Analyze the benchmarks used to evaluate success. Which aspects of the initiative were most successful? What outcome measures are missing or could be added?
Incorporate one appropriate supporting visual (such as a graph or chart) that showcases the most critical aspect of this presentation.
Incorporate interprofessional perspectives related to initiative functionality and outcomes.
Integrate the perspectives of interprofessional team members involved in the initiative. Who did you talk to? What are their professions? How did their perspectives impact your analysis?
Recommend additional indicators and protocols to improve and expand outcomes of a quality initiative.
Identify specific process or protocol changes as well as technologies that would improve quality outcomes.
Ensure slides are easy to read and error free. Provide detailed speaker notes. Also ensure audio is clear, organized, and professionally presented.
Organize content with clear purpose/goals and with relevant and evidence-based sources (published within 5 years).
Additional Requirements
Presentation length: A maximum of 20 minutes.
Number of slides: 12-15 slides. Balance text and visuals. Avoid text-heavy slides. Use speaker’s notes for additional content.
Font and font size: Appropriate size and weight for presentation, generally 24-28 point for headings; no smaller than 18 point for bullet-point text. Use a suitable professional typeface such as Times or Arial throughout the presentation.
Number of references: Cite a minimum of seven current scholarly and/or authoritative sources to support your analysis. Current is defined as no older than 5 years unless a seminal work.
APA formatting: Adhere to APA style and formatting guidelines for citations and references. Consult these resources for an APA refresher:
Evidence and APA.
APA Module.
American Psychological Association. (n.d.). APA style. https://www.apastyle.org/
Competencies Measured
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:

Competency 2: Plan quality improvement initiatives in response to routine data surveillance.
Recommend additional indicators and protocols to improve and expand quality outcomes of a quality initiative.
Competency 3: Explain and evaluate quality improvement initiatives using sensitive and sound outcome measures.
Analyze a current quality improvement initiative in a health care or practice setting according to strategic organizational initiatives.
Evaluate the success of a current quality improvement initiative according to recognized national benchmarks.
Competency 4: Integrate interprofessional perspectives to lead quality improvements in patient safety, cost effectiveness, and work life quality.
Incorporate interprofessional perspectives related to initiative functionality and outcomes.
Competency 5: Apply effective communication strategies to promote quality improvement of interprofessional care.
Slides are easy to read and error free. Detailed speaker notes are provided. Audio is clear, organized, and professionally presented.
Organize content with clear purpose/goals and with relevant and evidence-based sources (published within 5 years).
SCORING GUIDE
Use the scoring guide to understand how your assessment will be evaluated.

Discuss two police eligibility requirements that have historically discriminated against racial/ethnic minority or female applicants.

Respond to each of the following:
Using the career perspective of law enforcement, what are some strategies police departments should use to recruit and maintain quality police officers? What strategies should police departments avoid?
Discuss two police eligibility requirements that have historically discriminated against racial/ethnic minority or female applicants. How are police departments attempting to recruit individuals with diverse backgrounds today?
Why is communication important for police? List two guidelines for effective communication and use examples to illustrate their importance.
What is stress? Describe two categories of stress for police officers.
Police-citizens encounters are transactional. What does that mean? What are the implications of the transactional view for police use of force?

What are the areas that you need to work on (specifically related to the concepts presented in the assigned authentic leadership readings NOT generally)?

MGT 6:334: Seminar in Organizational Behavior

AUTHENTIC LEADERSHIP ESSAY
INSTRUCTION
SHEET

The purpose of the authentic leadership essay assignment
is for you to analyze your own leadership for its authenticity. To do this, you
are tasked with reading the assigned articles for the authentic leadership
module and asking/answering questions related to authentic leadership. This
essay requires that you are honest and transparent in your assessment of your
leadership. By reflecting on your own leadership, you are working on developing
your self-awareness, a key component of leadership development. To this end,
you will answer the following:

1.
Using
EACH perspective presented in the authentic leadership readings, analyze your
own leadership. Where does your leadership fit into these perspectives?

2.
What
are the areas that you need to work on (specifically related to the concepts
presented in the assigned authentic leadership readings NOT generally)?

Writing
Conventions:
1.
The
minimum length required for this essay is 3 pages, and the maximum length
allowed for the essay is 4 pages.
2.
Begin
your essay on first line of your Word document (there is no need to include
your name, the class number, the professor’s name, or the essay number in your
document).
3.
Use
1” margins, 12-point Times New Roman font, and double-spacing.
4.
Eliminate
all extra spacing in your essay; this includes extra space after paragraphs. To
do this in Word, select “format,”, then “paragraph,” then change spacing for
both before and after to 0 pt.
5.
Be
sure to use properly APA-formatted in-text citations and references (the
reference page is not included in the page count maximum).

Supplementary Materials:

https://hbr.org/video/5760615517001/the-authenticity-paradox

Compare and contrast the negotiation styles for the home and host countries.

Evaluating Leadership Styles, Cultural Differences and Negotiation
Tasks:
In Week 1, you selected an organization for your course project. Continue to use the company you selected to complete this part of the final project. You will need to select one host country where the company operates to compare with the home country.
Prepare a report on the following topics.
Analyze the cultural, governmental, and legal differences between the home country and one host country for the organization selected. Propose suggestions for managing the differences.
Assess the communication styles between the two countries and develop an optimal plan to avoid miscommunication.
Compare and contrast the negotiation styles for the home and host countries. Using Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions, develop an appropriate negotiation style for the home country to use when negotiating in the host country.
Evaluate the leadership styles of the current CEO/leader of the organization selected and one previous CEO or other executive with a different leadership style. Propose the most appropriate leadership style for leaders of the company when working with employees in the host country.
Assess skills that a manager of the company needs when transferring to the host country. Consider the needs of the industry too.

Write a paragraph reflecting on how you feel about your images and what the photographic process was like for you.

FINAL INDEPENDENT PROJECT – PHOTO-BASED WORK OF ART

The final photographic project serves as your final exam for the course. You will create a small body of work by visualizing and producing 8 photographs on a single theme or subject matter. Students can use digital cameras, film cameras, camera phones, polaroids, etc. You will also write an artist statement describing the concept of the work. Old images are not allowed. All images submitted for the final project must be taken specifically for the project so that you can utilize the new knowledge you gained throughout the semester to inform your view and create a solid group of images unique to you.

Your work can be in the form of any genre or style – landscapes, architecture, objects, people, street photography, fine art, conceptual, documentary, photojournalism, surreal, etc. The more work you look at, the better your ideas will become. I recommend thinking about what subject you’d like to explore throughout the semester as we visit various artists, photographers, and their distinct approaches to the medium. We will discuss further and more in depth throughout the semester as we cross varied intersections that apply to conceptualizing your view and approach.
I want to take the time to invoke your think tank process for your final project as it is in place of your final exam. Thus, it should be treated with as much fervor as a solid study. You’ll find below the assignment description for your Final Independent Project to refresh your memory. One thing to keep in mind is simply that all images submitted for the final should be taken specifically for the final. NO OLD IMAGES accepted! It refutes the entire point of applying your new knowledge to the photographic process. If you’re shooting on your cellphone, no need to worry about the sizes as the files will be small enough to upload. If you’re working with a digital camera, that is where you’ll want to ensure the image is no more than 1200 pixels in the longest direction. Otherwise, you’ll run into issues uploading your images as they’re too large. The best format for you to hand in your images is in a PDF file. This is how your PDF upload should look:

First Page: Artist Statement

Following pages: One image per page (8 in total)

Write a paragraph reflecting on how you feel about your images and what the photographic process was like for you.

*Being that this is in place of your final, the expectation is that you spend a considerable amount of time working on your project. It is always overtly obvious when a student has merely driven around in their car for an hour to capture sunsets or gone to the beach to spend an hour photographing. That’s not what I’m looking for. This is the sort of project you invest your time and energy into really conceptualizing and looking at as much photographic work that relates to your theme as possible. This allows you to see what has been done and gives you something to create a visual dialogue with.

Items to be submitted:
1. Artist Statement – Statement that describes the work
2. 8 images – present each on their own page
3. Self-Assessment – This allows you to reflect on the work