Assignment: Essay and PowerPoint Presentation
Describe different quality methods within healthcare.
Scenario
Chaparral Regional Hospital is a small, urban hospital of approximately 60 beds, and offers the following:
1. Emergency room services
2. Intensive care
3. Surgical care
4. Obstetrics
5. Diagnostic services
6. Some rehabilitation therapies
7. Inpatient pharmacy services
8. Geriatric services
9. Consumer physician referral services
Recently, the CEO has been hearing complaints from both patients and staff, varying from long wait times to rude physicians. You have been hired to design and implement a Quality Improvement Plan to help uncover quality problems and to satisfactorily resolve them.
Instructions
The CEO has received some resistance from the Board on undertaking a QI program. She has asked you to develop a set of talking points on the pros and cons of common measurement techniques used in healthcare that she can use the next time she runs into a Board member.
Talking points are used to quickly explain something by condensing it into a compelling, but easily digestible, list. If the goal is to increase support for a QI program, the talking points must provide the ideas she needs to convey in order to achieve the goal.
Your talking points should be submitted in a Word document. Your talking points should include the pros and cons of implementing a QI program.
Upon completion of your talking points, please prepare a PowerPoint presentation (or other shareable Webware/software you prefer) with narration where you will explain each talking point to the CEO so they clearly understand and can answer questions from the Board.
• Length of PowerPoint is secondary to the quality of the presentation as a whole.
• Highlight specific pros and cons of QI programs.
• Use the Notes area on each slide as needed to expand on the key points..
Your audio presentation should include an introduction, a concise discussion of each slide, and a conclusion. Make sure to use audience-specific language and tone in your PowerPoint. Remember, you would be presenting this to the CEO of your facility. The presentation will be assessed on your overall knowledge of the content, clarity of your voice, pronunciation of words, organization of your presentation, proper recording of your presentation, overall aesthetics and professionalism, and general clarity of your presentation.
Your presentation should be 10 minutes or less. Make sure to address the following:
1. Include a link to the location of your live video on the last slide of your PowerPoint presentation.
2. Make sure to use audience specific language and tone in your PowerPoint. Remember, you would be presenting this to the management team at your location.
3. Provides a detailed list of pros and cons of implementing a QI plan with clear supporting details.
4. Executes a visual presentation using a supporting tool regarding the talking points with clear supporting visuals and details.
5. Executes narration in support of the talking points in the visual presentation with clearly outlined supporting details.
6. Thoroughly discusses and clearly outlines supporting details of pros and cons of implementing a QI plan.
7. Thoroughly discusses and provides examples of the pros and cons of implementing a QI plan with supporting details.
Format your assignment according to the give formatting requirements:
1. The answer must be double spaced, typed, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the course title, the student's name, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also include a reference page. The references and Citations should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.