Identify opportunities for waste reduction.

Assignment: Identifying Waste

Question Description
NOTE: This is a Two (2) Part Assignment. You will submit: A Power Point Presentation and an Executive Summary. If you miss submitting one or the other part late assignment point deduction will apply.

Think about the clinical environment where you work or one in which you previously worked.

Identify opportunities for waste reduction. Consider the following:

Setting: administrative, operational, clinical
Efficiency
Value to patient
Suggest process changes to improve the situation.

A. Write a 175-word communication to frontline staff and nurse leaders explaining your findings.

Format your 175-word communication work, using UOPX approved Executive Summary Format provided to you by the University. There is no other format accepted for this assignment, this week.
B. Develop a 7- to 10-slide presentation for your department.

Include detailed speaker notes that are cited. Note: The title slide and the reference slide(s) do not count. Title slide and references are formatted per APA format requirements to include double spacing, hang indent

Assignment: Identifying Waste

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.