Professional
Coalition Project: Assignment Guidelines

with Scoring
Rubric

Purpose:

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:

o
Introductory slide(s) provided ALL of the
following:

o
Definition of macro-leadership

o
Definition of coalitions

o
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:

o
Explain the difference between micro and
macro leadership.

o
Explain how a macro leader demonstrates:

§ Mastery of self

§ Mastery of
communication

§ Mastery of
relationships

o
Explain how a macro-leader can overcome one
disadvantage to using coalitions

·
Section Two discusses the coalitions in general by including the following
information:

o
How will you pool available local and state
resources?

o
How will you foster communication with
individuals living in the region as well as local and state governments?

o
How will you maintain the energy of the
coalition members?

o
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:

o
What will be your vision statement for the
coalition?

o
How many individuals will you have on the
steering committee for the coalition?

o
What type of individuals would you recruit
for steering committee membership?

o
How will the coalition interact with local and
state governments to develop an acceptable plan?

o
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
TurnItInâ„¢, as required by the TurnItInâ„¢ 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 TurnItInâ„¢ is highly encouraged. The
final submission will

be graded by faculty. If a Turnitinâ„¢ 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, 5years 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