Capstone Project Change Proposal Presentation Reflection
In order to spread the word on my Capstone Project Change Proposal, I demonstrated my PowerPoint made in Topic 9 to the interdisciplinary team at my practicum site. The audience of this presentation consisted of the nursing director, two staff nurses, the quality improvement coordinator, the physician assistant, and a person representing the hospital administration. All the people were significant in the application and the permanency in the suggested project. The quality improvement coordinator would monitor outcomes and compliance directly by the nursing director and staff nurses who would be directly involved in the project. The questions were answered by the physician assistant, because this expert had a clinical view, and the administrative representative explained how feasible the situation could be due to the costs and the perspective of policy.
In the presentation, I used both of the two major ways to convey professionally. To begin with, I made sure I came out clear and concise with the main point, and used evidence-based data and visual charts to drive the points. Second, I applied a respectful and inclusive attitude that welcomed ideas and comments of all stakeholders. I also pre-empted the possible issues by incorporating the implementation plan, mitigation plans, and anticipated results, which was professional and showed preparedness.
After the presentation, positive reactions were given by the audience. The nursing director valued the organized nature, as well as the data-based reasoning, whereas the physician assistant proposed adding some other clinical indicators in which success should be monitored. Quality improvement coordinator suggested that the proposal should be put into practice in the form of a pilot and then implemented on a large scale. Other questions took some logistical issues like employee training and documentation workload. The slight bias that I had identified was my assumption that all staff would be equally enthusiastic about the change and it might have played a part in my presentation of the staff buy-in data. The realization of this assisted me in reacting to feedback in a more objective way addressing concerns. Such an experience at interprofessional collaboration was extremely beneficial. It emphasized the necessity of involving all the disciplines that are relevant at the beginning of the process in order to obtain different points of views.