Create an 8–10-slide mobilization plan PowerPoint presentation (with detailed speaker’s notes) for a mobilization plan by your health care organization to commit 20 nurses to participate in a 4-month-long multinational effort to treat patients exposed to a highly contagious virus in a hot zone in Africa.

Nursing leaders must incorporate approaches that are inclusive and respectful of all stakeholders in the health care workforce, patient population, and the larger community that is served by the organization. Communication among members of teams, between departments and service lines, within large networks, with strategic business partners, and with patients, families, or support persons requires awareness of various facets of effective communication and cultural competence. A mobilization plan for an international medical mission requires careful planning of organizational structure roles, power distribution, and team member empowerment.

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By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:

• Competency 1: Identify nursing leadership priorities using a systems perspective.
  • Identify the major stakeholders within the health care system that would be affected by the mobilization plan.
• Competency 2: Apply systems theory and systems thinking to facilitate health care delivery and patient outcomes.
  • Apply systems thinking to determine the impact of the mobilization effort on hospital staffing and care patterns.
  • Identify key actions needed to assure quality of care and safety for mission patients and personnel.
• Competency 3: Analyze the role of multiculturalism and diversity in organizational and systems structure and leadership.
  • Examine potential multicultural and diversity issues that mission personnel may encounter.
• Competency 4: Evaluate how power relates to health care organizational structure, behavior, and leadership.
  • Describe the medical mission team’s organizational structure and how power is distributed.
  • Assess how the organizational structure empowers team members.
  • Evaluate potential power issues that may arise when dealing with a multinational contingent.
• Competency 5: Communicate in a manner that is consistent with the expectations of a nursing professional.
  • Write content clearly and logically, with correct use of grammar, punctuation, and mechanics.
  • Correctly format citations and references using current APA style.
• Power
• Leadership is often referred to as a power relationship and to be in a leadership role is to have some degree of power (Grossman & Valiga, 2013). The power that comes as a natural part of being a leader can be used most effectively not by control; but by influencing the direction of a group and the accomplishment of a vision. Power does not come just from having a position of authority; but also from having self-confidence, knowledge, a sense of purpose, and commitment to an ideal. Good communication skills, flexibility, a willingness to collaborate with others, as well as being open to other ideas and risks are sources of power. Leaders empower others by sharing the vision and inspiring commitment to a project or mission.
• Reference
• Grossman, S. C. & Valiga, T. M. (2013). New leadership challenge: Creating the future of nursing (4th ed.). Philadelphia, PA: F. A. Davis.

To deepen your understanding, you are encouraged to consider the questions below and discuss them with a fellow learner, a work associate, an interested friend, or a member of the health care community.

• When do you feel powerful in your practice as a nurse?
  • When do you feel powerless?
  • What are the differences in how you respond in those situations?
• Does having influence equate to having power?
• Do you feel that power comes only with having a position and title, or do you see power coming from other means, that is, clinical competence, collaboration, or knowledge?

Tying It All Together

Well, the point we were trying to make here is that without showing you anymore or any less information than the executive rocket scientists sat through, we put it together in a form we think, it is fair to say, might have led them to a different conclusion and maybe, just maybe, seven people would not have died. All right. So what can we conclude from all of this? Well, very simply, data and informational alone does not necessarily equal knowledge transfer. You can put all of the numbers up on the slide that you want. You can give rocket scientists all the information that they need, but if it is not put together in a form that they can instantly receive, you cannot guarantee that knowledge transfer will occur.

Knowledge transfer occurs only when information is presented within a context that’s designed for human absorption. And how do we create a context? They will do that. It is very simple. We design slides so that first the presenter can maintain eye contact with the audience throughout the presentation. And second, so that we limit the amount of information that comes up on the screen at any one time, assuring that the presenter and the audience are always on the same page. In short, you want to follow the rules.

Ladies and gentlemen, I appreciate your time today, and I hope that you go from here with a whole different perspective on presentation design. And when you next open up PowerPoint and you start to type away, please keep in mind the seven rules that you learned here today. And even though your clients probably won’t die if you don’t do it right, understand that knowledge transfer also probably won’t occur. You know the rules. Please use them only for good. Thank you.

References

• Evermeer Productions and J. Douglas Jefferys, with PublicSpeakingSkills.com present: Conquering Death By PowerPoint

Preparation

Use the Internet to help you complete this assessment. For help using PowerPoint, refer to the Microsoft Tutorials and other resources located in the Suggested Resources and left navigation menu of the courseroom.

This assessment is based upon the scenario below. The scenario is very limited in detail; where more detail is needed, incorporate any assumptions you make to flesh out the scenario. It is intended to assess your ability to communicate your approach to a challenge by evaluating issues of organization, leadership, safety, quality improvement, multiculturalism and diversity.

Your approach should be very conceptual and high-level.

Scenario

Your health care organization has recently committed 20 nurses to participate in a 4-month-long multinational effort to treat patients exposed to a highly contagious virus in a “hot zone” in Africa. The director of your organization has asked you, because of your previous medical mission experience, to outline nursing-related plans for preparing for the mobilization and present this information at an upcoming staff meeting.

Deliverable: Mobilization Plan PowerPoint Presentation

Create an 8–10-slide PowerPoint presentation (with detailed speaker’s notes) of your mobilization plan. It should be targeted toward members of the hospital’s administrative staff, nurses, and the physicians who will also participate in this medical mission.

• Use bullet points and phrases on the slides.
• The narrative, or explanation for each slide, should be in the speaker’s notes section.

The mobilization plan should address the following:

• Identify the major stakeholders within the health care system that would be affected by the mobilization plan.
• Analyze how the mobilization effort will impact staffing patterns and nursing care at the hospital.
• Describe the medical mission team’s organizational structure of the mission team and how power is distributed.
  • Include one slide of an organizational diagram for the mission.
    • Describe the roles (in the speaker’s notes).
• Assess how the organizational structure empowers team members.
  • Provide 1–2 examples of how team members will have power.
• Identify key actions needed to assure quality of care and safety for mission patients and personnel.
• Evaluate potential power issues that may arise when dealing with a multinational contingent.
  • (Be generic; that is, do not address individual nationalities, races, et cetera.)
  • Consider interactions with health care personnel from other countries.
• Examine potential multicultural and diversity issues that mission personnel may encounter.
  • Consider that the indigenous population may be hostile to treatment.
  • Outline possible training requirements to improve cultural competencies of the personnel.

Additional Requirements

• Written communication: Written communication should be free of errors that detract from the overall message.
• APA formatting: Resources and in-text citations should be formatted according to current APA style and formatting.
• Length: Presentation should be 8–10 slides. Include speaker’s notes on each content slide.
• References: Include a minimum of three peer-reviewed resources on the final slide (in APA format).
• General formatting: Choose an appropriate theme if using a template.

SCORING GUIDE

Criteria	Non-performance	Basic	Proficient	Distinguished
Identify the major stakeholders within the health care system that would be affected by the mobilization plan.	Does not identify the major stakeholders within the health care system that would be affected by the mobilization plan.	Identifies some, but not all of the major stakeholders within the health care system that would be affected by the mobilization plan.	Identifies the major stakeholders within the health care system that would be affected by the mobilization plan.	Identifies the major stakeholders within the health care system that would be affected by the mobilization plan, and evaluates the suitability of an organization for a medical mission.
Apply systems thinking to determine the impact of the mobilization effort on hospital staffing and care patterns.	Does not apply systems thinking to determine the impact of the mobilization effort on hospital staffing and care patterns.	Identifies staffing and care patterns at the hospital, but does not use systems thinking to examine the impact of the mobilization effort on staffing and patient care.	Applies systems thinking to determine the impact of the mobilization effort on hospital staffing and care patterns.	Applies systems thinking to determine the impact of the mobilization effort on hospital staffing and care patterns, and offers specific strategies to maximize staffing and maintain a high level of patient care.
Describe the medical mission team’s organizational structure and how power is distributed.	Does not describe the medical mission team’s organizational structure and how power is distributed.	Describes the medical mission team’s organizational structure but not how power is distributed.	Describes the medical mission team’s organizational structure and how power is distributed.	Describes the medical mission team’s organizational structure and how power is distributed; the structure is designed so that power is equal among mission team members.
Assess how the organizational structure empowers team members.	Does not assess how the organizational structure empowers team members.	Describes how the medical mission team’s organizational structure operates, but does not address how it empowers the team members.	Assesses how the organizational structure empowers team members.	Assesses how the organizational structure empowers team members, and provides examples of how all team members are empowered to make decisions within the context of their expertise.
Identify key actions needed to assure quality of care and safety for mission patients and personnel.	Does not identify key actions needed to assure quality of care and safety for mission patients and personnel.	Identifies key actions to assure quality of care and safety for patients, but does not address safety for mission personnel.	Identifies key actions needed to assure quality of care and safety for mission patients and personnel.	Identifies key actions needed to assure quality of care and safety for mission patients and personnel, and organizes the actions by critical level.
Examine potential multicultural and diversity issues that mission personnel may encounter.	Does not examine potential multicultural and diversity issues that the mission may encounter.	Misidentifies or omits key multicultural and diversity issues that the mission may encounter.	Examines potential multicultural and diversity issues that the mission may encounter.	Examines potential multicultural and diversity issues that the mission may encounter, and proposes solutions or actions to address each issue.
Evaluate potential power issues that may arise when dealing with a multinational contingent.	Does not evaluate potential power issues that may arise when dealing with a multinational contingent.	Identifies some power issues that may arise during the mission, but does not specifically refer to a multinational contingent.	Evaluates potential power issues that may arise when dealing with a multinational contingent.	Evaluates potential power issues that may arise when dealing with a multinational contingent, and identifies the top priorities and suggests a strategy.
Write content clearly and logically, with correct use of grammar, punctuation, and mechanics.	Does not write content clearly and logically, and there are errors in grammar, punctuation, and mechanics.	Writes with errors in clarity, logic, grammar, punctuation, or mechanics.	Writes content clearly and logically, with correct use of grammar, punctuation, and mechanics.	Writes clearly and logically, with correct use spelling, grammar, punctuation, and mechanics, and uses relevant evidence to support a central idea.
Correctly format citations and references using current APA style.	Does not correctly format citations and references using current APA style.	Uses current APA to format citations and references but with numerous errors.	Correctly formats citations and references using current APA style with a few errors.	Correctly formats citations and references with no errors.

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