Disaster Plan With Guidelines for Implementation: Tool Kit for the Team
Overview: Develop a disaster preparedness tool kit for a community or population. Then, develop a 5-slide presentation for your care coordination team to prepare them to use the tool kit to execute a disaster preparedness plan.
Note: The assessments in this course build upon the work you completed in previous assessments. Therefore, complete the assessments in the order in which they are presented.
Disaster planning is vital to ensuring effective and seamless coordination, throughout the recovery period, among those affected by the disaster and an extensive array of health care providers and services. Care coordination, as part of an overall disaster response effort, helps ensure that victims receive needed care as access to providers and services are gradually restored over time. SHOW LESSThis assessment provides an opportunity for you to develop a disaster preparedness tool kit for a community or population of your choice, and prepare your care coordination team to use the tool kit to execute that plan.
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:
Competency 1: Propose a project for change, for a community or population, within a care coordination setting.
Identify the key elements of a disaster preparedness tool kit for providing effective care coordination to a community or population.
Competency 2: Align care coordination resources with community health care needs.
Assess the care coordination needs of a community or population in a disaster situation.
Identify the personnel and material resources needed in an emergency to provide the necessary coordinated care.
Competency 3: Apply project management best practices to affect ethical practice and support positive health outcomes in the delivery of safe, culturally competent care in compliance with applicable regulatory requirements.
Describe standards and best practice methods for safeguarding the provision of ethical, culturally-competent care in challenging circumstances.
Identify applicable local, national, or international regulatory requirements governing disaster relief that influence coordinated care.
Competency 4: Identify ways in which the care coordinator leader supports collaboration between key stakeholders in the care coordination process.
Analyze the interagency and interprofessional relationships essential to coordinated care in a disaster.
Competency 5: Communicate effectively with diverse audiences, in an appropriate form and style, consistent with applicable organizational, professional, and scholarly standards.
Prepare a care coordination team to use a disaster preparedness tool kit for implementing a disaster preparedness project plan.
Support main points, arguments, and conclusions with relevant and credible evidence, correctly formatting citations and references using APA style.
Competency Map CHECK YOUR PROGRESSUse this online tool to track your performance and progress through your course.
Assessment Instructions
Note:Your work in Assessments 1 and 2 will inform your work in this assessment. Therefore, complete the assessments in the order in which they are presented.
Preparation
For this assessment, you will assume the role of Care Coordinator for Disaster Care in the same practice setting you chose for Assessment 1. Within this context, you will develop a disaster planning tool kit to provide comprehensive community health care disaster relief or to meet the care needs of a specific population within the community. Choose a current event or hypothetical disaster scenario as the basis for your tool kit. Explore past and recent disasters and lessons learned.
After completing your disaster planning tool kit for your particular situation, you will then develop a short presentation for your care coordination team to prepare your team for using the tool kit.
Note:Remember that you can submit all—or a portion of—your draft documents to Smarthinking for feedback before you submit the final version of this assessment. If you plan on using this free service, be mindful of the turnaround time of 24–48 hours for receiving feedback.
Presentation Tools
You may use Microsoft PowerPoint or any other suitable presentation software to create your slides. If you elect to use an application other than PowerPoint, check with your instructor to avoid potential file compatibility issues.
Use the speaker’s notes section of each slide to develop your talking points and cite your sources, as appropriate. If you need help designing your presentation, you are encouraged to review the various presentation resources provided for this assessment. These resources will help you to design an effective presentation, whether you choose to use PowerPoint or other presentation design software.
You have the option of either recording a voiceover track for your presentation or creating a video. In either case, you may use Kaltura Media or other technology of your choice for your audio or video recording
If using Kaltura Media, refer to Using Kaltura for directions on recording and uploading your video in the courseroom.
Note: If you require the use of assistive technology or alternative communication methods to participate in this activity, please contact Disability Services to request accommodations.
Requirements
For this assessment:
Develop a disaster planning tool kit that includes:
The policy for the disaster preparedness plan.
Guidelines on how to employ the policy in practice.
Recommendations for identifying and working with stakeholders to achieve buy-in and support to implement and sustain the plan.
Develop a presentation for your care coordination team to prepare them to use the disaster planning tool kit to implement a disaster preparedness plan.
Use the care coordination project plan you developed in Assessment 1 as a model for your tool kit in this assessment. You may choose to develop an overarching plan for the entire community or to address the care needs of a specific population within the community. You may address the same population you chose in Assessment 1 or Assessment 2.
Tool Kit Documents and Presentation Format and Length
Format your tool kit using APA style.
Your tool kit should consist of a one page summary explaining what you did and why. Place as appendices the policy, guidelines, and recommendations.
Your document should also include:
A title page and references page. An abstract is not required.
A running head on all pages.
Appropriate section headings.
Be sure that the content of your document is clear, well-organized, and does not exceed 3–5 pages.
At a minimum, your presentation must include the following slides:
Title.
Purpose (the reasons for your presentation).
References (at the end of your presentation).
Use the speaker’s notes section of each slide to develop your talking points and cite your sources, as appropriate.
Your slide deck should consist of approximately 5 slides, not including the title, purpose, and references slides.
Supporting Evidence
Cite 5–7 sources of scholarly or professional evidence to support your project plan.
Developing Your Disaster Planning Tool Kit and Presentation
Note:The requirements outlined below correspond to the grading criteria in the scoring guide. Be sure that, at a minimum, you address each criterion. You may also want to read the Disaster Plan With Guidelines for Implementation: Tool Kit for the Team scoring guide to better understand how each criterion will be assessed.
Assess the care coordination needs of a community or population in a disaster situation.
What key challenges is the community or population likely to face?
What lessons learned are offered by similar disasters?
What evidence supports your conclusions?
Identify the key elements of a disaster preparedness project plan for providing effective care coordination to a community or population.
What are the potential effects of the disaster on care coordination?
What factors should your plan address? For example, consider training, coordination with outside organizations, or evacuation.
What resources might aid your planning process? For example, a facility risk assessment or hazard vulnerability analysis?
Identify the personnel and material resources needed in an emergency to provide the necessary coordinated care. For example, consider the following:
First responders.
Critical access points for care.
Ambulance transport.
Types of critical supplies and equipment, such as ventilators with generators.
Medicine and other life support needs.
Describe standards and best practice methods for safeguarding the provision of ethical, culturally-competent care in challenging circumstances.
What standards and practices are most applicable in this instance? Why?
How do they safeguard the provision of ethical, culturally-competent care?
Analyze the interagency and interprofessional relationships essential to coordinated care in a disaster.
What role do particular agencies or organizations play in a disaster?
Why are these relationships essential?
Identify applicable local, national, or international regulatory requirements governing disaster relief that influence coordinated care.
What are the implications and consequences for care coordination?
Prepare your care coordination team to implement the project plan.
Clearly communicate the important aspects of plan implementation, including specific actions and their underlying rationale.
What questions, objections, or resistance might you expect? How will you respond?
Express your main points, arguments, and conclusions coherently.
Proofread your slides to minimize errors that could distract the audience and make it more difficult to focus on the substance of your presentation.
Support main points, arguments, and conclusions with relevant and credible evidence, correctly formatting citations and references using APA style.
Is your supporting evidence clear and explicit?
How or why does particular evidence support a claim?
Will your audience see the connection?
Additional Requirements
Be sure that you have used the APA Style Paper Template [DOCX]to format your project tool kit and that your document includes:
A title page and references page.
A running head on all pages.
Appropriate section headings.
In addition, be sure that:
Your slide deck consists of approximately 5 slides, not including the title, purpose, and references slide.
You have cited 5–7 sources of relevant and credible scholarly or professional evidence to support your project plan.
Use the speaker’s notes section of each slide to develop your talking points and cite your sources, as appropriate.
Portfolio Prompt:You may choose to save your project plan, presentation, and guidelines to your ePortfolio.
