Nursing during an epidemic, pandemic or natural disaster across the country or around the globe

You must use the Presentation Template Download Presentation Template. Failure to use the template will result in a 40-point deduction on your grade.

1. Choose from one of the following topics (you may choose a different topic, but it must be pre-approved by your faculty. Failure to do so will result in a zero score on the assignment.):
2. You must use the PowerPoint presentation template provided at the top of this assignment.
3. You are to create bullet points for each slide, not including the title and reference slides. Every slide must have a speaker note with a minimum of 4-5 sentences addressing the bulleted items on the slide.
4. Include a minimum of 4-5 peer-reviewed research articles as references in the presentation. All research articles need to have been published within 5 years from today’s date. No blog, chat, other university or Wikipedia information allowed in presentation. The PowerPoint presentation must follow current APA style. 
5. Your presentation should only include the following slides:
   1. Title slide
   2. Why the topic was chosen
   3. How your topic impacts nursing practice
   4. Current relevance of the topic
   5. Clinical Practice Integration
   6. Plan for lobbying: Describe your plan on what and how you would lobby your legislators or local government for funding and support for your chosen issue/trend.
   7. Conclusion
   8. Reference slide
6. High Turnitin scores will be evaluated on an individual basis and may result in points deducted and/or a grade of “zero” for the assignment. Use the Turnitin Plagiarism Check to upload your assignment and verify your plagiarism score before submitting your assignment.

You will need to follow these steps below for saving your PowerPoint so that your speaker notes are visible:  

1. Open your PPT and go to “file” in top left corner.  
2. Click “print” option. Make sure “print all slides” and “print slides with notes” is selected.  
3. Go to “Save As” on the left hand side and be sure you save as a PDF.  
4. Under your save as selection, click “more options”. Select the “Options” button and click the “Publish What” pull-down and then select “Notes Pages.” (If you click slides it will not show the speaker notes)  
5. Click “OK.”  
6. Complete your selection process by checking “Open file after publishing” and selecting the “Optimize for: ‘Standard’ and ‘Minimum Size’” choices.  
7. Click on “Save” next to the “Tools” button at the bottom of the box.