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ASSIGNMENT #1 (WEIGHT 15%) POSTER
ASSIGNMENT: SURGICAL WAIT LIST ISSUES for
ELECTIVE SURGERIES DURING COVID 19
Deadline: All Assignments must meet the due date in drop box and not accepted via email.
Given this is a Post Graduate Program, no late assignments are accepted. All dates are noted in
the weekly, your calendar and submission box. Therefore the instructor will not accept any
assignment outside of the drop box deadline date and time. Therefore, please do not email your
professor as your assignment will not be accepted. Students are expected to project manage their
time and take responsibility. This includes issues with not being familiar with FOL, computer
dysfunction, uploading issues and/or inability to project manage time effectively. The only
exception is for circumstances that are outlined on the Course Information Sheet (i.e. death of an
immediate family member where you must travel to attend the funeral or illness that includes a
medical note).As noted on your detailed course syllabus, your individual assignment(s) are based
on your own personal experience and insightful knowledge, and not to be shared with other
students. This is also noted on each of the individual assignments. Therefore, any time you hand
in an assignment with your name on it, it is presumed to have been created entirely by you unless
you indicate otherwise. In other words, you are to provide a citation indicating the information is
from another source. In addition, any content you did not create yourself (i.e., ideas, information,
data graphics, etc.) must be cited using APA, 7th ed. Resources re: APA 7th ed. are posted under
the tab “APA resources” in FOL.
General Instructions (Developed by Silvie MacLean, Professor):
Purpose: The purpose of this written lab is to assess your ability to critically examine and understand key
information that relates to understanding the environmental impact covid-19 has had on surgical elective wait lists.
Key questions are used to examine your critical thinking and writing skills.
Length: This assignment must be completed in WORD and involves answering key questions that are
detailed in page 2 of this assignment. The length of the assignment consists of two parts. Both parts must
be uploaded to the drop box separately. The first part is the main assignment which includes your poster
on the front page and the references on your second page. The second part which is entitled “storyboard”
includes all your research. Specifically, your storyboard will outline all your questions and answers in a
word document with the research evidence via the references. The assignment will be incomplete if your
story board is not included. As noted above, this is an individual assignment and it must conform to APA
7 referencing and writing style guidelines. A main rubric is used to assess/grade your lab. Resources re:
APA are posted on FOL. The following are the minimum standards for all written assignments:
▪
Integrity: Ensure your assignment contains no plagiarized segments. If it does, it will be
considered an academic offence. Note: Quotations and paraphrasing of any source without proper
in-text citations and attached reference list is considered plagiarism.
▪ Purpose: Ensure that your assignment achieves the primary purpose at least in a minimal way. A
rubric is provided as an assessment to your learning and to improve your inquiry, analysis and
writing skills.
▪ Readability: Ensure that your assignment is edited to account for the majority of grammar,
punctuation, and spelling errors. If it contains too many errors that create confusion of
meaning and severely limits communication, then it will not meet the minimum standards.
▪ References: Per APA 7, you must reference ALL sources from which you obtained information
from and provide an in-text citation and references. If you have not cited work or provided a
reference list, this is considered PLAGIARISM and you may receive a grade of 0. (Note:
plagiarism is an academic offence – please check Fanshawe’s A136 policy.
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ASSIGNMENT #1 (WEIGHT 15%) HEALTH SYSTEMS
MANAGEMENT: POSTER ASSIGNMENT
Detailed Assignment Instructions: It has been communicated that much of what is carried on in your experience
at Fanshawe will carry forward to your success in the real world (e.g. as health information managers). The
poster/advertisement assignment is designed to challenge students to create a visual, informational poster using an 8
½’’ x 11” paper in WORD. Fonts: 16 for titles; Fonts: 12 for information as it relates to understanding how to
reduce surgical wait list during a pandemic. Unfortunately, wait times have been impacted by reduced service
delivery during the COVID-19 pandemic. Under the Chief Medical Officer of Health’s Directive #2, health service
providers and health service organizations including hospitals were directed to. For this assignment you will research
using relevant Canadian journal articles and develop a training policy poster that is aimed to collaborate with all
staff that work within a southwest regional hospital to reduce surgical wait list times. Wiseman et al. (2020)
purports that to reduce the significant impact on patients’ health outcomes, it is imperative to receive surgeon input,
have effective leadership, and work collaboratively across all staff divisions during the strategy development,
implementation and management of surgical wait lists. However, there still remains ideas how this strategy would
be developed. Therefore, your poster is focused on hospital staff aimed at reducing surgical wait list for elective
surgeries and non-emergency procedures (i.e. southwest hospital).
Using key subheadings (in other words, please do not write out your questions/components);
Your poster must include reliable research and answer the following key questions/components:
1. Create a synthesis of how the covid-19 pandemic has had an impact on surgical elective wait list (define
elective surgery) – Outline factors/rationale that have contributed to the wait lists? Identify the risks this
has had on specific patient populations. Evaluate what hospitals can do to ensure the safety and health
outcomes of patients waiting for elective and non-emergency surgeries.
2. What are the key priorities hospitals should focus on to reduce surgical wait list times? What are
the key factors and financial accountability priorities which hospitals should consider for patients
waiting for elective and non-emergency surgeries (i.e. cancer surgery)? Remember people,
processes and structures when answering this question.
3. Identify what information or support may be offered to patients while they wait for their surgery?
What concerns might patients while their surgery is postponed and what can hospital do to assure
the patient and their family their health remains a priority? Provide justification/rationale that
your recommendation to the family model is the best going forward.
4. Design a checks and balances surgical priority framework which hospitals may use to reduce
surgical wait lists for elective and non-emergency surgeries.
Important checklist:
i.
Ensure you have answered all the questions being asked on your poster and to spell check
your poster. These questions are outlined on your final assignment instructions.
When answering each question, ensure you are providing APA in-text citation for all detailed
information. Be creative and use visuals and symbols, clip art etc…
ii.
It is important that you NOT write out the questions as this will result in clutter. Instead
use key headers that summarize what you are answering.
iii.
Please use the rubric as your guide as this will be used to assess your grade.
iv.
You can respond in bullet points but ensure that your grammar is correct.
v.
Follow APA documentation. Use only Canadian references for the data integrity poster. This
will help you score points for relevancy.
vi.
Ensure your poster has visuals and not cluttered.
vii.
Ensure that your poster be uploaded via PPT or WORD as it will be going through the Turn-itIn to check for plagiarism. I will NOT accept PDF’s for any assignment.
Remember for this assignment, please only use Canadian context. US context is not relevant
or consistent with Canadian healthcare system All the best! Professor Silvie MacLean
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ASSIGNMENT #1 (WEIGHT 10%) HEALTH SYSTEMS
MANAGEMENT: POSTER ASSIGNMENT
A Rubric is included below, which outlines the expectations for this assignment. Because you are
uploading the assignment to FOL, please note that you must ensure the format is readable on the
FOL system and must be in Word. You are expected to use the main textbook and PPT lecture
information in this course and at least 5 primary journal articles for this poster.
RUBRIC FOR POSTER PROJECT
GENERAL
EXPECTATI ONS
Points
Earned
Does Not Meet
Expectations
0
Not balanced,
Layout
cluttered, insufficient
(appropriately uses white space
WORD or PPT)
Titles and
Subtitles
Writing and
Grammar
Quality of
Information and
Supported by a
detailed
storyboard
created in word.
Follows APA and
Academic
Integrity
And addresses all
questions Criteria*
(including
Referencing and
citations of
information)
Few or no titles or
subtitles to clarify text
Meets Expectations
Exceeds
Expectations
Score
2
4
4
Balanced,
Creatively enhances
uncluttered, adequate
information
white space
Most titles and
subtitles are clear,
enhance readability
All titles and subtitles are
clear, enhance readability
Poorly written and
unorganized, hard to
follow
Adequately written
and organized,
reasonably easy to
follow
Information is not
clear, inaccurate, not
concise. Story board is
obscurely written and
plagiarized without
following academic
integrity and APA 7th
edition documentation.
Information is mostly Information is clear,
clear, could be more accurate, concise. Story
concise. Story board board is clear and concise
is present but missing outlining all the questions
important concepts to and answers to address on
address in the
the assignment.
questions in the
assignment.
Complete
information required
is not provided with
issues with not
following APA and
academic integrity
(i.e. no citation for
info or images)
Information is complete and
Complete
exceeds requirement (all 4
information is mostly components included) and
provided as required. follows APA and academic
Some issues with not integrity with appropriate
using own words but citations for all information
uses citations.
and images. References
follow APA 7th edition
documentation protocols.
Well written and
organized, easy to follow
20
Total
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