Develop a disaster management plan, in the form of a presentation, for addressing the risks you’ve identified in your risk assessment.
Introduction
In your first assessment, you assessed risks and areas of need for a potential crisis situation and community you chose to focus on. In this assessment, you’ll develop a disaster management plan for actually addressing the risks you identified earlier, and you’ll do it in the form of a presentation.
As a master’s-prepared nurse, you may well find yourself in situations that call for you to lead by bringing different stakeholders and representatives of agencies together. For this assessment, imagine that you’re making a presentation to a group of leaders of local, state, and federal organizations. You’ve been tasked with giving clarity for the management of a disaster.
Preparation
As with your previous assessment, you’ll need to incorporate research to share the most relevant and applicable knowledge in the field about how to handle the type of situation you’ve selected. This will also make your plan more compelling. So be sure to spend time researching information about experiences and solutions for the type of disaster you’re focusing on. Also, if you haven’t already, familiarize yourself with PowerPoint or similar software.
Instructions
In your presentation:
- Design evidence-based interventions to mitigate population health risks.
- Your disaster management plan should provide the specific steps of your plan to reduce risks of infection during the natural or manmade disaster you chose for your first assessment.
- Draw from current research to provide evidence to support the steps you’re planning. By doing that, you’ll strengthen your case among your audience for why these are important steps in this situation.
- Demonstrate ethical decision making that includes diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in advanced preparedness to protect populations.
- Just as when you identified risks in your first assessment, it should be clear in your disaster management plan how the recommended steps best address the specific needs of the different affected populations of the location you’ve selected.
- Lead and collaborate with teams by developing a comprehensive plan that takes into consideration interprofessional roles and responsibilities.
- Your plan should take into account the perspectives of the different interprofessional teams that will need to implement the plan, and it should clearly let those teams know their roles and points of collaboration. It should address the totality of what has to be managed: who should be involved and what steps should they implement? For example, how would you coordinate the implementation of infection control measures, such as proper use of personal protective equipment?
- Evaluate emergency preparedness and readiness of partners to organize during natural and manmade disasters on a systems level.
- As with any plan, provide not only the action steps, but rationales for why these are the best-suited steps for the situation. Your process of evaluation will call out the typical strengths and weaknesses of disaster response plans and partner organizations, and how this plan addresses those. Support your evaluation with research.
- Evaluate and make recommendations for improvements in interprofessional communication of individual information.
- Include a communication plan. How would you recommend communicating with people about infection control to help them make better choices about mitigating their risk related to infection? Your evaluation process will share research and insight about why you prioritized these steps.
- Convey purpose, in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly communication standards.
- Is your presentation clear and persuasive for the different people who make up your professional audience, and does it use APA style?
Use PowerPoint or similar software.
Additional Requirements
To achieve a successful assessment experience and outcome, you are expected to meet the following requirements.
- Tools and technology: You may use PowerPoint or other presentation software of your choice.
- Written communication: Make sure your writing is succinct and clear, and is free of errors that detract from the overall message.
- Speaker notes: Submit your PowerPoint (or similar file) and include your speaker notes in your PowerPoint.
- Design quality: Employ effective design strategies to visually organize the information. Avoid colored slide backgrounds and backgrounds with texture, as they have the effect of reducing viewer comprehension. Use graphics to call attention to, highlight, and clarify information for the viewer. Graphics that do not directly support specific content on your slide are distracting and reduce viewer comprehension.
- Length of presentation: About 15 slides.
- Resources: Include a minimum of three current scholarly sources (peer-reviewed articles, books, websites, and dissertations) to support your case.
- APA formatting: Resources and citations are formatted according to current APA style and formatting guidelines. Refer to the Evidence and APA section of the Writing Center for guidance.
Competencies Measured
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:
- Competency 1: Design person-centered care that integrates biological, psychological, and social factors and considers their complex interactions.
- Demonstrate ethical decision making that includes DEI in advanced preparedness to protect populations.
- Competency 2: Propose improvements to system-level interventions to protect populations.
- Design evidence-based interventions to mitigate population health risks.
- Competency 3: Collaborate to protect population health.
- Lead and collaborate with teams by developing a comprehensive plan that takes into consideration interprofessional roles and responsibilities.
- Evaluate emergency preparedness and readiness of partners to organize during natural and manmade disasters on a systems level.
- Evaluate and make recommendations for improvements in interprofessional communication of individual information.
- Competency 5: Communicate effectively with diverse audiences, in an appropriate form and style, consistent with organizational, professional, and scholarly standards.
- Convey purpose, in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly communication standards.
Scoring Guide
Use the scoring guide to understand how your assessment will be evaluated.
Criterion 1
Design evidence-based interventions to mitigate population health risks.
Distinguished
Designs evidence-based interventions to mitigate population health risks, providing support for why these are the most appropriate interventions.
Proficient
Designs evidence-based interventions to mitigate population health risks.
Basic
Designs interventions, though they may not be supported by evidence or the most effective for mitigating population health risks.
Non Performance
Does not design evidence-based interventions to mitigate population health risks.
Criterion 2
Demonstrate ethical decision making that includes DEI in advanced preparedness to protect populations.
Distinguished
Demonstrates ethical decision making that includes DEI in advanced preparedness to protect populations, and describes how inclusive needs, including potential biases, were identified and addressed in the process of developing a plan.
Proficient
Demonstrates ethical decision making that includes DEI in advanced preparedness to protect populations.
Basic
Demonstrates ethical decision making, though without addressing important opportunities for inclusion in advanced preparedness to protect populations.
Non Performance
Does not demonstrate ethical decision making that includes DEI in advanced preparedness to protect populations.
Criterion 3
Lead and collaborate with teams by developing a comprehensive plan that takes into consideration interprofessional roles and responsibilities.
Distinguished
Leads and collaborates with teams by developing a comprehensive plan that takes into consideration interprofessional roles and responsibilities, providing role-specific details to help make the plan actionable.
Proficient
Leads and collaborates with teams by developing a comprehensive plan that takes into consideration interprofessional roles and responsibilities.
Basic
Develops a plan that takes into consideration some interprofessional roles and responsibilities, though leaving out other important roles and responsibilities.
Non Performance
Does not lead and collaborate with teams by developing a comprehensive plan that takes into consideration interprofessional roles and responsibilities.
Criterion 4
Evaluate emergency preparedness and readiness of partners to organize during natural and manmade disasters on a systems level.
Distinguished
Evaluates emergency preparedness and readiness of partners to organize during natural and manmade disasters on a systems level, providing examples of strengths and weaknesses.
Proficient
Evaluates emergency preparedness and readiness of partners to organize during natural and manmade disasters on a systems level.
Basic
Evaluates emergency preparedness and readiness of partners to organize during natural and manmade disasters, though the evaluation may not look at the most important elements or not those on a systems level.
Non Performance
Does not evaluate emergency preparedness and readiness of partners to organize during natural and manmade disasters on a systems level.
Criterion 5
Evaluate and make recommendations for improvements in interprofessional communication of individual information.
Distinguished
Evaluates and makes recommendations for improvements in interprofessional communication of individual information, providing examples to illustrate the pros and cons of the recommendations.
Proficient
Evaluates and makes recommendations for improvements in interprofessional communication of individual information.
Basic
Makes recommendations for improvements in interprofessional communication of individual information, but without evaluating important options.
Non Performance
Does not evaluate and make recommendations for improvements in interprofessional communication of individual information.
Criterion 6
Convey purpose, in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly communication standards.
Distinguished
Conveys clear purpose, in a tone and style well-suited to the intended audience. Supports assertions, arguments, and conclusions with relevant, credible, and convincing evidence. Exhibits strict and nearly flawless adherence to organizational, professional, and scholarly writing standards, including APA style and formatting.
Proficient
Conveys purpose, in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly communication standards.
Basic
Conveys purpose, in an appropriate tone or style. Clear, effective communication is inhibited by insufficient supporting evidence and/or minimal adherence to applicable writing standards.
Non Performance
Does not convey purpose, in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and writing scholarly standards.