PowerPoint Presentation Guideline and Rubric
Purpose
The purpose of this assignment is to
- Provide learners with the opportunity to disseminate evidence-based practice topics identifies during the capstone expertise to colleagues in the healthcare environment.
- Provide learners with the opportunity to communicate a scholarly project in a professional manner using the format of a narrated PowerPoint (PPT) presentation.
Course Outcomes
This assignment enables the student to meet the following course outcomes:
CO 1: Apply leadership skills concepts of project management as an informatics nurse specialist in an organizational setting to develop, implement and evaluate successful project plans. (PO 4,5)
CO 2: Using current knowledge, standards of practice, and research from evidence-based literature, synthesize a foundation for the informatics nurse specialist role. (PO 3,4)
CO3: Exemplify professional values and scholarship that support the role of a student in a practicum setting. (PO 4)
CO4: Contribute to the body of nursing informatics knowledge through research, planning, evaluation and dissemination of findings. (PO 4)
- Week 7 Assignment Submission
Requirements
After completion of the Capstone Experience, determine what comprises the most relevant data and evidence that support recommendations for resolution of the issue/concern. What do your peers need to know to understand and appreciate the issue you have identified? Develop a concise outline, presenting the topic, existing literature from your annotated bibliography, and recommended resolution of the problem/concern. There is also a PPT Template that may be found in Course Resources that will assist with the development of the presentation.
Preparing the Assignment
The following should be incorporated into the presentation:
- Identification, definition, and description of the issue or problem.
- Summary of relevant literature/evidence related to the issue. This should include the annotated bibliography you developed to support your research topic.
- Project details – describe context, target recipients, recommendations for how you might resolve the issue including any plan you might have for dissemination after graduation.
- Summary of project: proposed resolution of the chosen issue, next steps, expected outcomes, and evaluation if project was presented or implemented after graduation.
- Appropriate APA format 6th edition
- Slides need to be professional in appearance and include narration.
- Correct grammar, spelling, and punctuation.
Requirements:
- 12-15 slides of text, excluding title and reference slides
- 1-2 slides with references, in APA Style
- Documentation of all sources (everything must be cited including ideas, images, statistics, data, facts, quotations, all journal articles and other references, and/or summary or paraphrase of others’ ideas.
- Definition of key terms or explanation of relevant facts
See the PPT template found in Course Resources that will assist with the development of the presentation.
Directions and Grading Criteria
| Points | % | Description | |
| Identification, definition and description of the issue or problem | 15 | 15% | Provides full and complete identification, definition and description of the issue or problem
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| Summary of annotated bibliography /evidence related to the issue. | 15 | 15% | Fully discusses annotated bibliography /evidence related to the issue |
| Issue /Project details: describe context, target recipients, plan you might have for dissemination of information after graduation | 15 | 15% | Issue /Project details: describe context, target recipients, plan you might have for dissemination of information after graduation |
| Summary of project: proposed resolution of the chosen issue, next steps, expected outcomes and evaluation of project | 15 | 15% | Summary thorough and well-supported; thinking clear; information relevant |
| Annotated bibliography | 15 | 15% | Annotated bibliography |
| Slides need to be professional in appearance and include narration.
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15 | 15% | Slides need to be professional in appearance and include narration.
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| APA format, grammar, punctuation, and spelling; sources correctly cited | 10 | 10% | Grammar, APA and spelling correct with no errors |
| 100 | 100 | A quality paper will meet or exceed all of the above requirements. |
Grading Rubric
| Assignment Criteria | Exceptional
(100%) Outstanding or highest level of performance |
Exceeds
(88%) Very good or high level of performance |
Meets
(80%) Competent or satisfactory level of performance |
Needs Improvement
(38%) Poor or failing level of performance |
Developing
(0) Unsatisfactory level of performance |
| Identification, definition and description of the issue or problem | 15 Points | 13 Points | 12 Points | 6 Points | 0 Points |
| Provides full and complete identification, definition and description of the issue or problem | Provides adequate identification, definition and description of the issue or problem | Provides partial identification, definition and description of the issue or problem | Provides minimal identification, definition and description of the issue or problem | Does not identify, define or describe the issue or problem. | |
| Fully discusses annotated bibliography /evidence related to the issue | 15 Points | 13 Points | 12 Points | 6 Points | 0 Points |
| Fully discusses annotated bibliography /evidence related to the issue | Adequately discusses annotated bibliography /evidence related to the issue | Partially discusses annotated bibliography /evidence related to the issue | Barely discusses annotated bibliography /evidence related to the issue | Does not discusses annotated bibliography /evidence related to the issue | |
| Project details: describe context, target recipients, plan you might have for dissemination of information after graduation | 15 Points | 13 Points | 12 Points | 6 Points | 0 Points |
| Project details fully described | Project details adequately described | Project details partially described | Project details minimally described | Project details not described | |
| Summary of project: proposed resolution of the chosen issue, next steps, expected outcomes and evaluation of project | 15 Points | 13 Points | 12 Points | 6 Points | 0 Points |
| Summary thorough and well-supported; thinking clear; information relevant | Summary includes adequate good points, but could be further developed | Summary includes limited good points | Summary incomplete | Summary not included | |
| Annotated bibliography | 15 Points | 13 Points | 12 Points | 6 Points | 0 Points |
| Complete Annotated bibliography | Partial list of Annotated bibliography | Limited list of Annotated bibliography | Incomplete or incorrect Annotated bibliography | No Annotated bibliography | |
| Slides need to be professional in appearance and include narration.
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15 Points | 13 Points | 12 Points | 6 Points | 0 Points |
| Slides need to be professional in appearance and include narration.
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Interesting presentation with a few crowded slides or dull presentation | Presentation is a little unorganized and has a few crowded slides | Presentation is dull and contains multiple crowded slides | Presentation includes numerous crowded slides and has no flow. | |
| Writing mechanics and APA | 10 Points | 9 Points | 8 Points | 4 Points | 0 Points |
| Grammar, APA and spelling correct with minimal errors | Two to three errors in APA, grammar, spelling, and syntax and/or citations are missing | Four to six errors in APA, grammar, spelling and syntax and/or citations are missing | Seven errors in APA, grammar, spelling, syntax and/or citations are missing | Eight or more errors in APA, grammar, spelling and syntax and/or citations are missing | |
| Total Points Possible = | 100 points | ||||

