Examine the importance of professional associations in nursing. Choose a professional nursing organization that relates to your specialty area, or a specialty area in which you are interested. Provide a detailed overview the organization and its advantages for members. Include the following: Describe the organization and its significance to nurses in the specialty area. Include its purpose, mission, and vision. Describe the overall benefits, or “perks,” of being a member. Explain why it is important for a nurse in this specialty field to network. Discuss how this organization creates networking opportunities for nurses. Discuss how the organization keeps its members informed of health care changes and changes to practice that affect the specialty area.  Discuss opportunities for continuing education and professional development.

Purpose

The purpose of this PowerPoint presentation is to locate and compare performance measurement data on common health conditions for the hospitals in your area. You will investigate the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services websites and locate the section called Hospital Compare. There you will find data for hospitals within a 50-mile radius of the community where you are working or had your prelicensure clinical experiences. You will prepare a PowerPoint presentation and share the results of your findings. Opportunities for improving performance measurement indicators will be shared.

Directions

1. Review information found on the following website related to hospital compare http://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Quality-Initiatives-Patient-Assessment-Instruments/HospitalQualityInits/HospitalCompare.html (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

2. Read the information carefully and then locate the following website. http://www.medicare.gov/hospitalcompare (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

3. Search for hospitals within a 50-mile radius of the community where you are working or had your prelicensure clinical experiences. Type in your zip code. Select your hospital and two others. Select hospitals/facilities and choose compare. If you live in a remote area and there are no hospitals listed within a 50-mile radius, select a zip code for a family member or a close friend who does not live near you. The idea is to review comparative data.

4. Click on the following topics to learn more.

a. Survey of patient’s experiences

b. Timely and effective care (focus your search on two of the conditions that apply to services provided at the hospitals)

c. Readmissions, complications, and deaths

5. Carefully read the information provided.

6. Develop a PowerPoint slideshow consisting of 8-10 slides. Include the following, keeping in mind what all this data means.

a. Title slide with information pertinent to the course.

b. List reasons to recommend the website Hospital Compare to consumers (patients).

c. List reasons to recommend the website Hospital Compare to staff who may seek employment.

7. For the slides below, clearly label the name of each hospital:

a. Summarize patient experiences data for each hospital.

b. Summarize timely and effective care data for two conditions.

c. Summarize data for readmissions and complications and deaths.

d. List recommendations for improving data for one selected facility.

e. Summarize what you learned from this experience.

8. Tutorial: For those not familiar with the development of a PowerPoint slideshow, the following link to the Microsoft website may be helpful. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/support/training-FX101782702.aspx (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. 

9. You are required to complete the assignment using the productivity tools required by  which is Microsoft Office Word 2013 (or later version), or Windows and Office 2011 (or later version) for MAC. You must save the file in the “.pptx” format. 

Textbook :  Finkelman, A., 2016 Leadership and Management for Nurses: Core Competencies for Quality Care (3rd Edition), Pearson Learning Solutions, Boston, MA 

Best Practices in Preparing PowerPoint Presentations:

The following are best practices in preparing this presentation.

-Be creative.

-Incorporate graphics, clip art, or photographs to increase interest.

-Make easy to read with short bullet points and large font.

-Review directions thoroughly.

– Zip Code to use: 11220

  

The first step of the evidence-based practice process is to evaluate a nursing practice environment to identify a nursing problem in the clinical area. When a nursing problem is discovered, the nurse researcher develops a clinical guiding question to address that nursing practice problem. For this assignment, you will create a clinical guiding question know as a PICOT question. The PICOT question must be relevant to a nursing practice problem. To support your PICOT question, identify six supporting peer-revised research articles, as indicated below. The PICOT question and six peer-reviewed research articles you choose will be utilized for subsequent assignments. Use the “Literature Evaluation Table” to complete this assignment. Select a nursing practice problem of interest to use as the focus of your research. Start with the patient population and identify a clinical problem or issue that arises from the patient population. In 200–250 words, provide a summary of the clinical issue. Following the PICOT format, write a PICOT question in your selected nursing practice problem area of interest. The PICOT question should be applicable to your proposed capstone project (the project students must complete during their final course in the RN-BSN program of study). The PICOT question will provide a framework for your capstone project. Conduct a literature search to locate six research articles focused on your selected nursing practice problem of interest. This literature search should include three quantitative and three qualitative peer-reviewed research articles to support your nursing practice problem. Note: To assist in your search, remove the words qualitative and quantitative and include words that narrow or broaden your main topic. For example: Search for diabetes and pediatric and dialysis. To determine what research design was used in the articles the search produced, review the abstract and the methods section of the article. The author will provide a description of data collection using qualitative or quantitative methods. Systematic Reviews, Literature Reviews, and Metanalysis articles are good resources and provide a strong level of evidence but are not considered primary research articles. Therefore, they should not be included in this assignment. While APA style is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and documentation of sources should be presented using APA formatting guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

AS A REMINDER, THE REQUIREMENT IS 6 PEER-REVISED RESEARCH ARTICLES. THIS LITERATURE SEARCH SHOULD INCLUDE THREE QUANTITATIVE AND THREE QUALITATIVE PEER-REVIEWED RESEARCH ARTICLES TO SUPPORT YOUR NURSING PRACTICE PROBLEM. I WOULD LIKE FOR YOU TO FOCUS ON THE TOPIC “INADEQUATE NURSE-PATIENT STAFFING RATIO”. PLEASE USE ARTICLES THAT IF I CLICK ON THE LINK ON THE REFERENCE PAGE, I CAN VIEW THE ENTIRE ARTICLE ALSO. SEND ME A MESSAGE IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR REQUIRE A CHANGE IN TOPIC. ATTACHED ARE: THE LITERATURE EVALUATION TABLE TEMPLATE FOR YOU TO COMPLETE USING THE 6 ARTICLES, AN EXAMPLE FOR YOU TO FOLLOW, COPY OF GRADING RUBRIC, AND JUST SOME INFORMATION THAT CAN BE HELPFUL. PLEASE USE ARTICLES FROM 2016. ALSO INCLUDE THE PERMALINK FOR THE ARTICLES. YOU CAN USE ONE CITATION FOR THE “SUMMARY OF CLINICAL ISSUE” TO CITE THE CLINICAL ISSUE. SELECTING VERY GOOD ARICLES AND CREATING A VERY GOOD PICOT QUESTION IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE THIS ARTICELS AND PICOT QUESTION CREATED NOW WILL BE UTILIZED IN SUBSEQUENT ASSIGNMENTS AND ALSO BE USED FOR RESEARCH LATER IN THE CLASS. CHECKOUT  “10 TOP PATIENT SAFETY ISSUES OR 2018” TO GET MORE INFORMATION ON THE SUBJECT.

 

Reflection Artifact

Please consider how you have developed the knowledge, skills, and attitudes that enable your achievement of the bachelor’s/master’s level nursing competency/ies listed below. Then write a minimum of 1000 words in APA format describing how this course has helped you achieve these outcomes. Analyze the impact of economic, demographic and technological forces on health care delivery, and the concerns relating to ethical, legal, and social issues that influence nursing practice. Apply a solid foundation of research and theory, focusing on the interrelationships and application of these concepts to nursing practice, education, and leadership Improve population health across the lifespan and across the continuum of healthcare environments through health promotion and disease prevention strategies Explore leadership and management concepts that directly and indirectly influence the nature and functioning of the healthcare system and professional nursing practice Assess health among a diverse patient population, devising strategies for the prevention and early detection of disease across the life span Integrate professional values, attitudes, knowledge, and behaviors into nursing practice

Finally, chose one assignment that you feel best represents your learning in the course. Take a few minutes to revise it, according to comments from your professor. These can be submitted as two files.

Submit the assignments into the drop-box and save a copy of it in a folder on your personal computer.