Professional Coalition Project: Assignment Guidelines

Involvement in interdisciplinary coalitions allows the healthcare leader to gain an understanding regarding navigating socio-political environments as well as providing macro leadership within a broader community setting.  The purpose of this project is to build and provide leadership to a coalition that addresses a healthcare concern.  Leadership skills at the macro-level will be applied.

Course Outcomes:

CO #1: Analyze leadership qualities that facilitate collaboration and cooperation at the individual, team, community, and organizational levels within diverse healthcare settings to foster human health. (MPH PO #1, MSN PO # 1, 7)

CO #5: Incorporate ongoing leadership character development, values and ethical principles into a living leader role that collaborates with and engages individuals, teams, agencies, and organizations locally as well as globally. (MPH PO #8, MSN PO #5)

Due Date: Sunday 11:59 PM MT at the end of Week 7

Total Points Possible: 125 Points

REQUIREMENTS:

Description of the Identified Healthcare Concern

You are the Vice-President of Nursing Services at a 500 bed facility that provides healthcare to a 6 county region that occurs in two different but adjoining states.  Recently you attended a national conference regarding infectious diseases and the potential for their spread with our current global environment.  Upon return from the conference, you have a conversation with a local public health official who identifies that there is no regional plan to combat an infectious disease outbreak.  In addition, the official noted the presence of several barriers which will make the development of a plan more of a challenge.  These include, but are not limited to:

• Identification of a plan that would cover a large region and a diverse population of approximately one million people
• Identification of a plan that could be coordinated from one facility, but interact successfully with 6 different counties and two different state governments
• The presence of a regional airport which increases the opportunity for introducing an infectious disease to the region

From the conversation, you realize that a coalition will be needed and that macro leadership skills are required for the coalition to be successful.  You now accept the challenge to build a coalition within the region to develop a plan that would resist a sudden outbreak of an infectious illness.

Description of the Assignment

The purpose of this project will be to address a healthcare concern occurring within a community by providing macro level leadership needed to build a coalition.  The identified coalition will seek to resolve the healthcare concern.

• This assignment will be presented via PowerPoint and will include 15 – 20 slides (excluding

title and references slides).

• Introduction provides information regarding:
  • Introductory slide(s) provided ALL of the following:
  • Definition of macro-leadership
  • Definition of coalitions
  • Explanation why a coalition would be helpful in resolving this identified healthcare concern.
• Section One identifies macro-leadership skills and requires information related to each of the

following areas:

• Explain the difference between micro and macro leadership.
• Explain how a macro leader demonstrates:
  • Mastery of self
  • Mastery of communication
  • Mastery of relationships
• Explain how a macro-leader can overcome one disadvantage to using coalitions

• Section Two discusses the coalitions in general by including the following information:
  • How will you pool available local and state resources?
  • How will you foster communication with individuals living in the region as well as local and state governments?
  • How will you maintain the energy of the coalition members?
  • How will you convince members to work together and avoid turf issues?
• Section Three presents the specific coalition that you will suggest in order to resolve the identified healthcare concern. The following information is required:
  • What will be your vision statement for the coalition?
  • How many individuals will you have on the steering committee for the coalition?
  • What type of individuals would you recruit for steering committee membership?
  • How will the coalition interact with local and state governments to develop an acceptable plan?
  • How will you evaluate the effectiveness of the coalition?
• Conclusion provides a summary of the key points from the presentation as well as of

insights gained (what was learned) regarding macro leadership.

 

Criteria for Format and Special Instructions

1. The PowerPoint Presentation (excluding the Title slide and References slide) should equal

15–20 PowerPoint slides. Points will be lost for not meeting these length requirements.

2. Speaker notes are required. These notes should expand the information found on the slide.
3. References are to be cited in the Speaker notes
4. This assignment must be submitted to TurnItIn™, as required by the TurnItIn™ policy.  A

Similarity Index of “blue” or “green” must be obtained.  A score in the blue or green range

indicates a similarity of less than 24% which is the benchmark for CCN graduate nursing

students.  Any other level of similarity index level requires the student to revise the

assignment before the due date and time.  To allow sufficient time for revision, early

submission of the assignment to TurnItIn™ is highly encouraged.  The final submission will

be graded by faculty.  If a Turnitin™ report indicates that plagiarism has occurred, the

Academic Integrity policy will be followed.

5. The textbooks required and lesson information for this course may not be used as a reference for

this assignment.

4. A minimum of 5 (five) scholarly references must be used. Scholarly references need to be current, 5 years or less (anonymous authors or web pages are not acceptable).
5. Must follow APA guidelines as found in the 6^th edition of the manual. Ideas and information that come from readings must be cited and referenced correctly.
6. Rules of grammar, spelling, word usage, and punctuation are followed and consistent with formal written work as found in the 6^th edition of the APA manual.

 

Directions and Grading Criteria

Category	Points	%	Description
Introduction	10	8	Define macro-leadership Define coalitions Explain why a coalition would be helpful in resolving this identified healthcare concern.
Section One: Identifying macro-leadership skills	25	20	Explain the difference between micro and macro leadership. Explain how a macro leader demonstrates: ·         Mastery of self ·         Mastery of communication ·         Mastery of relationships Explain how a macro-leader can overcome one disadvantage to using coalitions
Section Two: Discussing Coalitions	25	20	Provide a comprehensive response to each of the following questions regarding coalitions: ·         How will you pool available local and state resources? ·         How will you foster communication with individuals living in the region as well as local and state governments? ·         How will you maintain the energy of the coalition members? ·         How will you convince members to work together and avoid turf issues?
Section Three: Building the Coalition	25	20	Provide a comprehensive response to each of the following questions regarding you specific coalition: ·         What will be your vision statement for the coalition? ·         How many individuals will you have on the steering committee for the coalition? ·         What type of individuals would you recruit for steering committee membership? ·         How will the coalition interact with local and state governments to develop an acceptable plan? ·         How will you evaluate the effectiveness of the coalition?
Conclusion	10	8	Summarize key points from the assignment Provide self-reflection regarding you learning about coalitions
APA Format	10	8	APA guidelines as found in the 6th Edition of the manual utilized.
Citations in Text	5	2	Ideas and information that come from readings must be cited and referenced correctly in Speaker’s notes.
Creativity	10	8	Uses professional creativity and recommended presentation techniques for PowerPoint slides.
Writing Mechanics	5	2	Rules of grammar, spelling, word usage, and punctuation are followed and consistent with formal written work as found in the 6th Edition of the APA manual.   A Similarity Index of “blue” or “green” was achieved.
Total	125	100