Healthcare employees are expected to communicate important information in written and verbal form

Healthcare employees are expected to communicate important information in written and verbal form. Throughout your career, you may lead meetings or give formal presentations so it is important to become comfortable with presentation programs, like Microsoft PowerPoint. This presentation could be used as a work sample in future interviews if an employer asks about a time you have had to present information.How can I design and deliver an effective PowerPoint presentation?

  • Link to Prior Knowledge: This assignment helps you apply your knowledge from this week’s modules and textbook readings.
  • Career Connection: Healthcare employees are expected to communicate important information in
written and verbal form. Throughout your career, you may lead meetings or give formal presentations so it is important to become comfortable with presentation programs, like Microsoft PowerPoint. This presentation could be used as a work sample in future interviews if an employer asks about a time you have had to present information.

  • NACE Competencies: Digital Literacy
  • Assignment Value: 30 Points

Designing a Presentation

In this assignment, you will create a PowerPoint presentation to convince an audience of a chosen topic. You will select your topic from the scenarios below. You will then create a meeting agenda and presentation to persuade your audience.

Your presentation will be a total of six slides. Specific instructions for each slide are explained below. You will need to use the UMA library or other reliable source to conduct research on your topic. You should use what you have learned in this course to prepare your meeting agenda and use best practices when creating your presentation. A grading rubric is provided at the end of these instructions.

Choose one of the following scenarios. Click on each title to expand the scenario for more details.

 

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Persuade your co-workers to take care of their mental health. 

Motivate diabetic patients to embrace the benefits of diet and exercise. 

Convince your boss to upgrade to a computerized filing system. 

Encourage your patients to stop smoking. 

Guide fellow employees to protect patient privacy.