Develop a disaster management plan, in the form of a presentation, for addressing the risks you’ve identified in your risk assessment.
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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.
o 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.
o 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.
o 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.
o 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.
o 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.
o 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.
o 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.
o Demonstrate ethical decision making that includes DEI in advanced preparedness to protect populations.
· Competency 2: Propose improvements to system-level interventions to protect populations.
o Design evidence-based interventions to mitigate population health risks.
· Competency 3: Collaborate to protect population health.
o Lead and collaborate with teams by developing a comprehensive plan that takes into consideration interprofessional roles and responsibilities.
o Evaluate emergency preparedness and readiness of partners to organize during natural and manmade disasters on a systems level.
o 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.
o Convey purpose, in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly communication standards.
Use the resources linked below to help complete this assessment.
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Disaster Management Evidence-Based Interventions
In this reading list, we take a closer look at evidence-based interventions that will prove helpful as we plan how to address disaster management. These examples are particularly important as we consider creating a framework that focuses on mitigating the risk to population health.
· Assessment 2: Disaster Management Evidence-Based Interventions.
Pharmacological Considerations and Disaster Management
This article addresses the importance of planning ahead before a disaster affects clients’ access to medication. This is a necessary part of disaster planning.
· Assessment 2: Pharmacological Considerations – Disaster Management Evidence-Based Interventions.
Ethical Decision Making: DEI Perspectives
This reading list helps us better understand how to make ethical decisions. Planning for specific needs includes bringing DEI considerations into advanced preparedness to protect vulnerable populations.
· Assessment 2: Ethical Decision Making – DEI Perspectives.
Creating a Presentation
Familiarize yourself with PowerPoint or similar software.
· Refer to the Capella University Library: PowerPoint Presentations library guide to learn more about how create PowerPoint presentations, if that’s the software you decide to use.
· If you are planning to use alternative software to PowerPoint, check with your instructor to make sure your instructor can open files created in those programs.
Note: If you require the use of assistive technology or alternative communication methods to participate in this activity, please contact DisabilityServices@Capella.edu to request accommodations.
Evaluation of Interprofessional Collaboration and Communication
This reading list provides valuable context for how to evaluate interprofessional collaboration and communication. Concepts such as building community resilience and partnering with impacted communities and interprofessional team members will help as you consider choosing the most effective strategies.
· Assessment 2: Evaluation of Interprofessional Collaboration and Communication.
Pharmacological Considerations and Interprofessional Collaboration
This article addresses the importance of interprofessional collaboration during a disaster from a pharmacological point of view, which is an important part of disaster management planning.
· Assessment 2: Pharmacological Considerations – Evaluation of Interprofessional Collaboration and Communication.