Competency
Explain techniques and barriers of effective communication with diverse populations.
Identify patient treatment preferences and effectively communicate treatment options.
Compare decision-making techniques that guide clients, healthcare professionals, and families to make educated decisions on the best course for care.
Apply the principles of therapeutic communication that facilitate interactions between clients and healthcare providers.
Describe the need for compassion in healthcare.
Utilize various communication skills that demonstrate understanding of client privacy and dignity issues.

Scenario
You are the Community Health Educator at Rassy Medical Center and you must prepare a comprehensive presentation for the next medical conference. Due to the abundance of cases this past year of patient hearing loss due to otitis media with effusion, you have decided to make this illness your core topic.

Instructions
Prepare a presentation for the conference to communicate your topic of otitis media with effusion to other medical professionals. Your presentation will focus on how providers should educate and communicate this illness to their patients. You may use PowerPoint, Prezi, or a similar presentation application of your choice.
Ensure that you create at least 2 or more slides per bullet point below:
Create the dialog that would occur between yourself and the patient explaining what their medical diagnosis is. Keep in mind that your patient has hearing loss.
Present the treatment options for the illness and how you would verbally and visually explain it to your hard-of-hearing patient. Be sure to include other medical providers that the patient may need to see. Images and videos are encouraged.
Construct an FAQ on otitis media with effusion that you would provide to patients to assist them with their question regarding the best care and treatment options for the illness.
Choose five therapeutic communication techniques and define them. Provide a specific example regarding your patient for each technique.
Assuming that your patient’s hearing loss became permanent, provide 2-3 community resources that they would be able to reach out to. Provide contact information and a background on each resource.

Resources
Review this Otitis Media with Effusion Overview article.
Review this article regarding Risk Factors for Recurrent Otitis Media with Effusion.
For assistance with creating PowerPoint presentations, please visit the Rasmussen College Answers page.
For assistance with Prezi, watch this Prezi tutorial.

Competency
Apply the principles of therapeutic communication that facilitate interactions between clients and healthcare providers.
Scenario
Due to an epidemic of strep throat that has recently occurred in the community that Rassy Medical Center serves, the clinic has been forced to open earlier and close later to accommodate that amount of patients that have needed to be seen. The clinic is attempting to assist all of their patients promptly and efficiently, but the long hours have taken a toll on the staff in spite of sending informational voice messages to the patients regarding the epidemic.
The fields of medicine and technology have increasingly paired up to present medical issues via social media. This may help to communicate this issue to the patients and the community.

Instructions
Create a series of social media posts to present the strep throat epidemic to the community. Include images (where appropriate) and text that will clearly and effectively communicate the infectious spread of the strep throat bacteria. The details of the actual announcement are yours to decide. These posts will not be live posts and should be created and submitted in a Word document, PowerPoint presentation, or PDF file.
Be sure to include the following:
2 Facebook posts
2 Instagram posts
2 Tweets (Twitter)
Preventable health measures
When to make an appointment with a healthcare provider

Resources
For assistance with creating Facebook posts, please visit this Facebook resource .
For assistance with creating Instagram posts, please visit this Instagram resource .
For assistance with creating Twitter posts (tweets), please visit this Twitter resource .
For additional writing assistance, please visit the Rasmussen College Writing Guide.

I have uploaded my turn team worksheet as well.

In this assignment, students will pull together the change proposal project components they have been working on throughout the course to create a proposal inclusive of sections for each content focus area in the course. At the conclusion of this project, the student will be able to apply evidence-based research steps and processes required as the foundation to address a clinically oriented problem or issue in future practice.

Students will develop a 1,250-1,500 word paper that includes the following information as it applies to the problem, issue, suggestion, initiative, or educational need profiled in the capstone change proposal:

Background
Problem statement
Purpose of the change proposal
PICOT
Literature search strategy employed
Evaluation of the literature
Applicable change or nursing theory utilized
Proposed implementation plan with outcome measures
Identification of potential barriers to plan implementation, and a discussion of how these could be overcome
Appendix section, if tables, graphs, surveys, educational materials, etc. are created
Review the feedback from your instructor on the Topic 3 assignment, PICOT Statement Paper, and Topic 6 assignment, Literature Review. Use the feedback to make appropriate revisions to the portfolio components before submitting.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Please refer to the directions in the Student Success Center.

Sustaining change can be difficult, as there are many variables that can affect implementation. One critical component of EBP is to ensure that practice change is part of an organization’s culture so it will continue to impact outcomes over time. Name two potential barriers that may prevent your EBP change proposal from continuing to obtain the same desired results 6 months to a year from now, and your strategies for overcoming these barriers.