NICHE 101:
Skillbuilding Workshop:
Effective Presentations
PODIUM PRESENTER
Catherine O’Neill D’Amico, PhD, RN, NEA-BC
Director, Programs and Operations
[email protected]; [email protected]
DEMONSTRATING THE SUCCESSES OF YOUR NICHE PROGRAM
Identifying your achievements and presentation venues:
Detail NICHE process and outcomes
improvements:
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What are your NICHE projects?
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What effect did these projects have on
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Patient outcomes?
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Staff outcomes?
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Admissions?
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LOS?
Where can you present these improvements:
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Internally
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Story boards/posters on units and in the lobbies
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Nursing and interdisciplinary grand rounds
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Your agencies research day and/or Nurses’ Week celebrations
Externally
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Local conferences
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NICHE conferences
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Other national and international conferences with geriatric focus
WHICH OF THESE ACHIEVEMENTS HAS THE MOST AVAILABLE DATA TO EXEMPLIFY THE NICHE SUCCESS
Getting started:
What data am I looking for?
How do I know that we have made a difference?
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NDNQI (National Database of Nursing
Quality Indicators)
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Compare your data to benchmarks from external sources
(NDNQI, HCAHPS, JC)
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HCAHPS (the Hospital Consumer
Assessment of Healthcare Providers and
Systems)
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Compare your data over time
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Compare data to Center for Medicare and Medicaid
services date (CMS)
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Joint Commission performance measures
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Quality data collected by your agency not
provided to external sources
Compare your nursing certification data to data available
from certification providers (ANCC).
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Admission, re-admission and length of
stay data collected by your agency
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IDENTIFY A VENUE TO DEMONSTRATE THIS SUCCESS
Next steps:
Identify the next available time you can
present:
Why do I need to do an outline and abstract if this is
an internal presentation?
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Decide if this is a team or an individual project.
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What presentation method are you or the team
comfortable with?
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Develop an outline and an abstract
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Outline what you know and don’t know about this
achievement.
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Do I have external benchmarking data?
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Do I have at least 4 quarters of internal data for
determining a trend?
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Do I have enough knowledge of statistics to
determine if these changes are significant?
Put together an abstract
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The abstract synthesizes what you want to tell your
audience in a concise way
DEMONSTRATING THE SUCCESSES OF YOUR NICHE PROGRAM
What is an abstract?
• Brief comprehensive summary of your work
• Allows the reader to survey the proposed presentation quickly
• Is the first thing that draws interest to the presentation and your project
• When you publish it is the first thing that is retrieved from the database
• Is dense with information
• Describes the problem in one sentence
• Identifies the participants (what patients)
• Essential features of the methodology (what did you do)
• Tells the conclusions or findings
DEMONSTRATING THE SUCCESSES OF YOUR NICHE PROGRAM
Poster presentation:
• Think power point slides – simple and compact
• Keep text to a minimum, avoid redundancy
• Facts in simple phrases or words
• Reduce jargon
• Present numerical data in graphs/charts
• Use color effectively particularly on graphs/charts
• Read from left to right or top down
• Remember the permitted size and shape
• portrait vs. landscape
• As big as 60 x 40; as small as 16 x 20
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DEMONSTRATING THE SUCCESSES OF YOUR NICHE PROGRAM
Poster presentation:
• How far away should the reader be to read it clearly?
• Can it be read at 6 feet away
• Use a consistent and legible font – serif fonts are suggested
• Does it catch the eye of the “browser”?
• Grasp the message in 5 minutes
• Suggested formats
• Develop an information hierarchy
• Use fonts and styles to establish importance
• Have the poster professionally prepared and printed
• Multiple finishes are available; determine based on desired durability
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Author, Author, and Author
Address(es)
Introduction
Results
Conclusions
Replace the “blah, blah, blah” with your own “blah,
blah, blah.”
Blah, blah, blah
Blah, blah, blah
Materials
and
methods
Blah, blah, blah
Further information
© Copy right Colin Purrington. You may use for
making y our poster, of course, but please do not
repost the template on y our own site or upload to
file-sharing sites such as doctoc.com. This verbiage
sounds mean-spirited, perhaps, but I’ve had people
siphon off my whole site and then claim my content
was public domain because they found it via
Google.
Acknowledgments
Blah, blah, blah.
DEMONSTRATING THE SUCCESSES OF YOUR NICHE PROGRAM
Poster is done –NOW WHAT:
• Preparing to present the poster
• Purchase or borrow a tube or carrier designed for posters
• Transport the poster to the conference or other venue in a tube that protects the
contents
• Make copies of the abstract that can be distributed at the conference
• Include your contact information and information for any other team members
• Consider a short reference list with the most important references that were used
• Prepare or bring business cards with you
• Prepare a short talk about your poster to use as viewers come to see your work
• Provide your business card and the abstract to those who request it
• Offer your card and the abstract to those who ask questions about your poster
DEMONSTRATING THE SUCCESSES OF YOUR NICHE PROGRAM
Beyond the poster:
• Preparing to present at the podium
• Preparation that is done to present a poster remains the same
• Remember “think power point slides” – now you will do them and use them
• Templates
• Does your agency or the conference have a template that is suggested for use
• Develop your slides on the template if possible; copy problems
• If no template is provided select a design from Power Point thats simple, easy to read and can
be seen effectively in a light or dark room
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DEMONSTRATING THE SUCCESSES OF YOUR NICHE PROGRAM
Beyond the poster:
• Preparing to present at the podium
• Transition and effects
• Transition is the same through out the presentation
• Effects are okay – a picture or a graph that arrives as you click, but remember this is to the
profession, sounds can be a distraction
• Use pictures, graphs and illustrations effectively
• Prepare bullet points on each slide –
• each slide should stay within the margins of the slide
• Take your abstract and start a script for each slide
• Use the “Notes” and put your script in that space
• Do not repeat the “BULLETS” – explain them
Title Layout
Good for a dark room
Title Layout
GOOD FOR A LIGHT ROOM AND LARGE ROOMS
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TITLE LAYOUT
TOO BUSY; unless subsequent
slides are blank
TITLE LAYOUT
THIS WILL WORK IN A LIGHT OR DARK ROOM – CONSIDER WHAT
YOU WILL PUT ON SUBSEQUENT PAGES; THE DESIGN BORDER
MIGHT GET IN THE WAY
DEMONSTRATING THE SUCCESSES OF YOUR NICHE PROGRAM
Beyond the poster:
• Preparing to present at the podium
This is why sound may not be what you want
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DEMONSTRATING THE SUCCESSES OF YOUR NICHE PROGRAM
Using pictures and graphs:
Dancing Penguins
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Questions
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Thank You
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