Educational Program on Risk Management Part Two – Slide Presentation
Five named sections, a slide budget, and a bullet limit that is a marking criterion rather than styling advice. The Challenges section is where most decks go thin.
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Last reviewed · August 22, 2026
Five sections across fifteen slides, with a bullet limit
Treat the format rules as marking criteria, because that is how they will be applied. Twelve to fifteen slides across five sections is roughly two to three slides each, and speaker notes on every slide are required rather than optional. The seven-bullet limit and the ban on dense text are the mechanism that forces the detail into the notes, which is where a marker looks to see whether you could actually deliver this. Write the notes as what you would say, not as the sentences you deleted from the slide. Fifteen slides is also fewer than it sounds once a title slide and a reference slide are taken out, so plan the section split on paper before building anything: two slides for the introduction, three each for rationale, support and implementation, and two or three for challenges is a division that fits and leaves the last section room to be more than a bullet list of worries.
Then take the five sections seriously, because they ask for different things and the last two carry the weight. Rationale is why this risk matters here, and it should rest on something measurable: an incident rate, a near-miss trend, a regulatory finding or a benchmark your organisation sits badly against. Support is the evidence that your proposed strategy works, and it is where standards from accreditation bodies and published studies belong. Implementation is the section that separates a plan from a wish, so name who is trained, when, what changes in the workflow, who owns the change afterwards and how compliance is monitored. Challenges is where decks go thin, because it feels like arguing against yourself; do it properly and it becomes the strongest section. Real challenges include staff time on a short-staffed unit, the reporting culture problem where incident reports fall when people fear blame, and the invisibility of a risk reduction that works. Give each a mitigation.
Likely learning objectives
- Design a deck to a slide budget with detail moved into speaker notes.
- Ground a rationale in a measurable local signal.
- Specify implementation with ownership and monitoring.
- Anticipate real challenges and pair each with a mitigation.
Assignment instructions
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The purpose of this assignment is to create an educational risk management presentation. Building upon the outline for an educational session you created in the Educational Program on Risk Management Part One: Outline of Topic 2 assignment, develop a 12-15 slide PowerPoint presentation that expands in greater detail on how and why your organization should implement your proposed risk management strategy. Incorporate any instructor feedback from the Topic 2 assignment into this presentation and include talking points in the speaker notes section of each slide. Keep in mind that the PowerPoint is meant to serve as a visual aide to bolster your presentation and is intended to highlight main ideas and key points. Do not use dense blocks of text or more than 7 bullet points of text per slide. However, you may include supplementary images, graphs, and data where relevant. To successfully complete this assignment, include the following sections as per your outline from Topic 2, though you may include any additional sections as needed: Introduction Rationale Support Implementation Challenges Evaluation Opportunities You are required to support your statements with a minimum of six citations from appropriate credible sources. Refer to the resource, “Creating Effective PowerPoint Presentations,” located in the Student Success Center, for additional guidance on completing this assignment in the appropriate style. While APA style is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and documentation of sources should be presented using APA formatting guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion. Study Materials Legal and Ethical Essentials of Health Care Administration Educational Program on Risk Management Part Two – Slide Presentation Read Chapters 18, 19, and 26 in Legal and Ethical Essentials of Health Care Administration. URL: https://www.gcumedia.com/digital-resources/jones-and-bartlett/2013/legal-and-ethical-essentials-of-health-care-administration_2e.php chapter 10: EMTALA and Managed Care Read “Chapter 10: EMTALA and Managed Care,” by Moffat, from EMTALA Answer Book (2015). URL: https://lopes.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=bth&AN=99912645&site=ehost-live&scope=site Network Strategies: Finding a Better Path Through Coordinated Care Read “Network Strategies: Finding a Better Path Through Coordinated Care,” by Horn, from Benefits Magazine (2015). URL: https://lopes.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=bth&AN=102649158&site=ehost-live&scope=site College of Nursing and Health Care Professionals: Do We Know What Our Future Is? Watch the video “College of Nursing and Health Care Professionals: Do We Know What Our Future Is?” URL: http://lc.gcumedia.com/zwebassets/courseMaterialPages/nur508_healthcare-reform-video-series-v1.1.php EMTALA: A Shifting Landscape View the presentation “EMTALA: A Shifting Landscape,” located on the American Bar Association (ABA) website. URL: https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/administrative/healthlaw/EMTALA_4_10_18.authcheckdam.pdf Assessing Changes to Medicaid Managed Care Regulations: Facilitating Integration of Physical and Behavioral Health Care Read “Assessing Changes to Medicaid Managed Care Regulations: Facilitating Integration of Physical and Behavioral Health Care,” by Edwards (2017), located on The Commonwealth Fund website. URL: https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2017/oct/assessing-changes-medicaid-managed-care-regulations-facilitating The Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control Program Protects Consumers and Taxpayers by Combating Health Care Fraud Read “The Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control Program Protects Consumers and Taxpayers by Combating Health Care Fraud,” from the CMS Newsroom (2016), located on the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) website. URL: https://www.cms.gov/newsroom/fact-sheets/health-care-fraud-and-abuse-control-program-protects-consumers-and-taxpayers-combating-health-care Educational Program on Risk Management Part Two – Slide Presentation
Turn the brief into deliverables
- 01Twelve to fifteen slides covering all five named sections.
- 02Speaker notes with talking points on every slide.
- 03No more than seven bullet points per slide.
- 04A rationale supported by a measurable local signal.
- 05An implementation section naming ownership and monitoring.
- 06Challenges each paired with a mitigation.
Rationale, support and implementation, then challenges
Introduction and the risk itself
Frame the specific risk and why this audience is being asked to act.
What the assessor is likely looking for
A risk named narrowly enough to be addressed by one strategy.
Rationale from local evidence
Present the incident, near-miss or benchmark data that motivates the change.
What the assessor is likely looking for
A measurable local signal rather than a general claim of importance.
Support from standards and studies
Show the evidence and accreditation expectations behind the strategy.
What the assessor is likely looking for
An external standard cited alongside the study evidence.
Implementation with an owner
Set out training, workflow change, ownership and compliance monitoring.
What the assessor is likely looking for
A named owner and a monitoring method rather than a timeline alone.
Challenges and mitigations
Give real obstacles including reporting culture, and a mitigation for each.
What the assessor is likely looking for
A challenge the audience would recognise from their own unit.
Where risk management evidence and standards are published
Recommended databases
- AHRQ PSNet
- NCBI Bookshelf
- PubMed Central
- GCU Library
Search sequence
- 1.Find your organisation's own incident or near-miss data before writing the rationale.
- 2.Read a primer on the risk you chose and note the standard interventions.
- 3.Look for evidence on reporting culture and blame, for the challenges section.
- 4.Check what accreditation standards say about the risk you are addressing.
Reference shortlist
These are authoritative starting points, not a ready-made bibliography. A qualified reviewer must confirm that each source fits the assignment and supports the claim beside which it is cited.
Culture of Safety
AHRQ Patient Safety Network · 2024
Safety culture, for the reporting behaviour challenge and its mitigation.
Medical Error Prevention and Root Cause Analysis
StatPearls, NCBI Bookshelf · 2023
Error prevention and root cause analysis, for the rationale and support sections.
Patient Safety and Quality
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, NCBI Bookshelf · 2008
Patient safety and quality, for the evidence behind organisational risk strategies.
Never Events
AHRQ Patient Safety Network · 2024
Never events, for the regulatory and payment stakes behind a risk strategy.
Implementation strategies for large scale quality improvement initiatives in primary care settings: a qualitative assessment
BMC Primary Care · 2023
Implementation strategies, for the ownership and monitoring detail.
Before you submit this deck
Common mistakes
- Putting the paragraphs on the slides and leaving the notes empty.
- Arguing the rationale from general importance rather than from local data.
- Describing implementation without saying who owns it afterwards.
- Listing challenges with no mitigation, or omitting the section.
- Ignoring the Topic 2 outline and the feedback the brief tells you to incorporate.
Submission checklist
- Are all five sections present and proportionate?
- Does every slide carry speaker notes?
- Is any slide over seven bullets?
- Is the rationale attached to a number?
- Does each challenge have a mitigation beside it?
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Maren Caldwell
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Medical-surgical nursing, pharmacology and NCLEX preparation
Maren is a registered nurse with over 15 years of clinical and educational experience in medical-surgical nursing. She writes on NCLEX preparation, patient care fundamentals, pharmacology and evidence-based practice.
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