Assessment 3 Instructions: Improvement Plan In-Service Presentation

For this assessment, you will develop an 8-14 slide PowerPoint presentation with thorough

speaker's notes designed for a hypothetical in-service session related to the safe medication

administration improvement plan you developed in Assessment 2.

Demonstration of Proficiency

By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the

following course competencies and assessment criteria:

 Competency 1: Analyze the elements of a successful quality improvement initiative.

 Explain the need and process to improve safety outcomes related to

medication administration.

 Create resources or activities to encourage skill development and process

understanding related to a safety improvement initiative on medication

administration.

 

 Competency 4: Explain the nurse’s role in coordinating care to enhance quality and

reduce costs.

 List clearly the purpose and goals of an in-service session focusing on safe

medication administration for nurses.

 Explain audience's role in and importance of making the improvement plan

focusing on medication administration successful.

 

 Competency 5: Apply professional, scholarly, evidence-based strategies to

communicate in a manner that supports safe and effective patient care.

 Slides are easy to read and error free. Detailed speaker notes are provided.

Speaker notes are clear, organized, and professionally presented.

 Organize content with clear purpose or goals and with relevant and evidence-

based sources (published within 5 years).

 

Scenario

For this assessment it is suggested you take one of two approaches:

1. Build on the work that you have done in your first two assessments and create an

agenda and PowerPoint of an educational in-service session that would help a

specific staff audience learn, provide feedback, and understand their roles and

practice new skills related to your safety improvement plan pertaining to medication

administration, or

 

2. Locate a safety improvement plan through an external resource and create an

agenda and PowerPoint of an educational in-service session that would help a

specific staff audience learn, provide feedback, and understand their roles and

practice new skills related to the issues and improvement goals pertaining to

medication administration safety.

Instructions

The final deliverable for this assessment will be a PowerPoint presentation with detailed

presenter's notes representing the material you would deliver at an in-service session to

raise awareness of your chosen safety improvement initiative focusing on medication

administration and to explain the need for it. Additionally, you must educate the audience

as to their role and importance to the success of the initiative. This includes providing

examples and practice opportunities to test out new ideas or practices related to the safety

improvement initiative.

Be sure that your presentation addresses the following, which corresponds to the grading

criteria in the scoring guide. Please study the scoring guide carefully so you understand

what is needed for a distinguished score.

 List the purpose and goals of an in-service session focusing on safe medication

administration for nurses.

 Explain the need for and process to improve safety outcomes related to medication

administration.

 Explain to the audience their role and importance of making the improvement plan

focusing on medication administration successful.

 Create resources or activities to encourage skill development and process

understanding related to a safety improvement initiative on medication

administration.

 Communicate with nurses in a respectful and informative way that clearly presents

expectations and solicits feedback on communication strategies for future

improvement.

There are various ways to structure an in-service session; below is just one example:

 Part 1: Agenda and Outcomes.

 Explain to your audience what they are going to learn or do, and what they

are expected to take away.

 Part 2: Safety Improvement Plan.

 Give an overview of the current problem focusing on medication

administration, the proposed plan, and what the improvement plan is trying

to address.

 

 Explain why it is important for the organization to address the current

situation.

 

 Part 3: Audience’s Role and Importance.

 Discuss how the staff audience will be expected to help implement and drive

the improvement plan.

 Explain why they are critical to the success of the improvement plan focusing

on medication administration.

 Describe how their work could benefit from embracing their role in the plan.

 Part 4: New Process and Skills Practice.

 Explain new processes or skills.

 Develop an activity that allows the staff audience to practice and ask

questions about these new processes and skills.

 In the notes section of your PowerPoint, brainstorm potential responses to

likely questions or concerns.

 Part 5: Soliciting Feedback.

 Describe how you would solicit feedback from the audience on the

improvement plan and the in-service.

 Explain how you might integrate this feedback for future improvements.

 

Remember to account for activity and discussion time.

Additional Requirements

 Presentation length: There is no required length; use just enough slides to address

all the necessary elements. Remember to use short, concise bullet points on the

slides and expand on your points in the presenter's notes. If you use 2 or 3 slides to

address each of the parts in the above example, your presentation would be at least

10 slides and no more than 15 slides (not including the title, conclusion, or

references slides).

 Speaker notes: Speaker notes (located under each slide) should reflect what you

would actually say if you were delivering the presentation to an audience. This

presentation does NOT require audio or a transcript. Another presenter would be

able to use the presentation by following the speaker's notes.

 APA format: Use APA formatting for in-text citations. Include an APA-formatted

reference slide at the end of your presentation.

 Number of references: Cite a minimum of 3 sources of scholarly or professional

evidence to support your assertions. Resources should be no more than 5 years old.