Assignment: Mobilization Plan for Highly Contagious Virus

Create an 8–10-slide mobilization plan PowerPoint presentation (with detailed speaker’s notes) for a mobilization plan by your health care organization to commit 20 nurses to participate in a 4-month-long multinational effort to treat patients exposed to a highly contagious virus in a hot zone in Africa.

Nursing leaders must incorporate approaches that are inclusive and respectful of all stakeholders in the health care workforce, patient population, and the larger community that is served by the organization. Communication among members of teams, between departments and service lines, within large networks, with strategic business partners, and with patients, families, or support persons requires awareness of various facets of effective communication and cultural competence.

A mobilization plan for an international medical mission requires careful planning of organizational structure roles, power distribution, and team member empowerment.

By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:

• (IMPORTANT) Competency 1: Identify nursing leadership priorities, using a systems perspective.
  • -Apply systems thinking to determine a) the impact of the mobilization effort on hospital staffing and b) the actions needed to assure safe, quality care for the mission patients and personnel.
• (IMPORTANT) Competency 2: Apply systems theory and systems thinking to facilitate health care delivery and patient outcomes.
  • -Identify the major stakeholders within the health care system that would be affected by the mobilization plan.
• (IMPORTANT) Competency 3: Analyze the role of multiculturalism and diversity in organizational and systems structure and leadership.
  
  • -Examine potential multicultural and diversity issues that mission personnel may encounter.

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• (IMPORTANT) Competency 4: Evaluate how power relates to health care organizational structure, behavior, and leadership.
  • -Describe the medical mission team’s organizational structure and assess how this structure empowers team members.
• (IMPORTANT) Competency 5: Communicate in a manner that is consistent with the expectations of a nursing professional.
  • Write content clearly and logically, with correct use of grammar, punctuation, mechanics, and current APA style.

Mobilization Plan for Highly Contagious Virus

Assessment Instructions

Preparation

Use the Capella library and the Internet to help you complete this assessment. For help using PowerPoint, refer to the Microsoft Tutorials and other resources located in the Suggested Resources and left navigation menu of the courseroom.

This assessment is based upon the scenario below. The scenario is very limited in detail; where more detail is needed, incorporate any assumptions you make to flesh out the scenario. It is intended to assess your ability to communicate your approach to a challenge by evaluating issues of organization, leadership, safety, quality improvement, multiculturalism and diversity.

Your approach should be very conceptual and high-level.

Scenario
Your health care organization has recently committed 20 nurses to participate in a 4-month-long multinational effort to treat patients exposed to a highly contagious virus in a “hot zone” in Africa. The director of your organization has asked you, because of your previous medical mission experience, to outline nursing-related plans for preparing for the mobilization and present this information at an upcoming staff meeting.

Deliverable: Mobilization Plan PowerPoint Presentation

Create an 8–10-slide PowerPoint presentation (with detailed speaker’s notes) of your mobilization plan. It should be targeted toward members of the hospital’s administrative staff, nurses, and the physicians who will also participate in this medical mission.

• Use bullet points and phrases on the slides.
• The narrative, or explanation for each slide, should be in the speaker’s notes section.

The mobilization plan should address the following:

• Identify the major stakeholders within the health care system that would be affected by the mobilization plan.
• Analyze how the mobilization effort will impact staffing patterns and nursing care at the hospital.
• Describe the medical mission team’s organizational structure of the mission team and how power is distributed.
  • Include one slide of an organizational diagram for the mission.
    • Describe the roles (in the speaker’s notes).
• Assess how the organizational structure empowers team members.
  • Provide 1–2 examples of how team members will have power.
• Identify key actions needed to assure quality of care and safety for mission patients and personnel.
• Evaluate potential power issues that may arise when dealing with a multinational contingent.
  • (Be generic; that is, do not address individual nationalities, races, et cetera.)
  • Consider interactions with health care personnel from other countries.
• Examine potential multicultural and diversity issues that mission personnel may encounter.
  • Consider that the indigenous population may be hostile to treatment.
  • Outline possible training requirements to improve cultural competencies of the personnel.

Mobilization Plan for Highly Contagious Virus

Additional Requirements

• Written communication: Written communication should be free of errors that detract from the overall message.
• APA formatting: Resources and in-text citations should be formatted according to current APA style and formatting.
• Length: Presentation should be 8–10 slides. Include speaker’s notes on each content slide.
• References: Include a minimum of three peer-reviewed resources on the final slide (in APA format).
• General formatting: Choose an appropriate theme if using a template

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Falls are one of the leading causes of hospitalization and should be avoided as much as possible. Falls are more common in older people. According to Medical Mutual Insurance Company of Maine (n.d.), 15.9% of Americans over the age of 65 have fallen at least once. Furthermore, 1.8 million (31.3%) of those who fell suffered a fracture. According to the CDC, one in every three older adults falls each year, and the likelihood of tripping increases with age. Cognitive impairment, balance/gait impairment or dizziness, lower extremity weakness, and falls within the last 6 months are all factors that can contribute to falls.
Staying within arm’s reach is a good way to avoid falling. Staff caring for patients who have one or more of the risks listed above will keep an arm’s length away from the patient when they are out of bed or chair, and even in the bathroom, which is the most common place where falls occur. They can then act quickly to prevent falls.

I believe that the nursing profession frequently faces the shortage dilemma. The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated a national shortage of registered nurses, making it more important than ever for policymakers to invest in higher education, coordinate strategies to relieve pressures on the nursing workforce, and make the entire health care system more equitable and stable.

When one of the nurses on my unit requests a day off, the patients assigned to her are shared and attached to the other nurses. However, this does not account for the number of patients that a nurse currently cares for. As a result, the nurse-patient ratio continues to rise, affecting quality of care delivery as nurses are required to attend to more patients. We now have three nurses. As a result, more patients will increase the ratio. Because all nurses are committed to their jobs, they do everything in their power to provide the best possible care to the patients assigned to them. As a result, nurses have little time to rest because they spend extra hours with patients, causing fatigue and reducing their effectiveness. (2019, Lu, Zhao, and While)

This is the tricky part. In California, a safe patient ratio is required by law. The California Nurses Association successfully sponsored and lobbied the California Legislature to pass legislation in 1999. This is what current nurses must and are attempting to do. The hospital industry is the most difficult part. While California had won the safe staffing provision, “hospital executives and the hospital industry, including the California Hospital Association, lobbied vigorously to defeat the law.” (2022, National Nurses United). Unfortunately, nurses will have to continue marching and forming unions to advocate for themselves. In our small hospital, we have a “CEO forum” where we discuss potential changes to our facilities. In the winter, I instruct our nurses to request safe patient ratios. We see the majority of our patients in the winter because we have “snow birds.” As long as we continue to make our voices heard, there may be hope for change.

I understand this is a lot of information to cover in 5 weeks, however, the Bible says in Philippians 4:13 that we can do all things through Christ that strengthens us. Even in times like this, we are encouraged by God’s word that we have that ability in us to succeed with His strength. I pray that each and every one of you receives strength for this course and life generally as we navigate through this pandemic that is shaking our world today. Relax and enjoy the course!

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