Instructions

Before conducting your training session, you have been asked to submit two items:

• First is a brief summary that lays out your strategies for working with your chosen trainee group, how this training session will help prepare that group to succeed in implementing your proposed institutional policy and practice guidelines, and why you chose this group to pilot your proposal.
• The second is an annotated agenda and training plan for a two-hour workshop for your chosen group.

During this training session, you will want to ensure that the individuals you are training understand the new institutional policy and practice guidelines. You will need them to buy in to the importance of the policy in improving the quality of care or outcomes and to their key role in the success of implementing the policy. You must provide them with sufficient training to learn the knowledge and skills to be successful in implementing the policy and guidelines in practice. Additionally, you have been asked to cite 2–4 external sources to support your plans and strategies for working with the group you have identified and generating their buy-in, as well as for your approach to the training session, activities, or materials.

For your submission, ensure that the following criteria are met by the materials that you develop. Note: The bullet points below correspond to grading criteria in the scoring guide. Be sure your materials are, at minimum, addressing each of the bullets. You may also want to read the Training Session for Policy Implementation Scoring Guide and Guiding Questions: Training Session for Policy Implementation (both linked in the Resources) to better understand how each criterion will be assessed:

Part 1: Brief of Strategies

• Develop strategies for working with a specific group to ensure buy-in and preparedness to implement a policy and apply practice guidelines.

Part 2: Training Agenda

• Explain the institutional policy or practice guidelines that will be implemented.
• Justify the importance of the institutional policy or practice guidelines to improve the quality of care or outcomes that are related to a specific group.
• Advocate for the importance of the role a group will play in implementing an institutional policy or practice guidelines.
• Develop materials that support learning and skill development to enable a group to be successful in applying a policy or practice guidelines to its work.
• Interpret complex policy considerations or practice guidelines for a specific audience with respect and clarity.
• Write content clearly and logically, with correct use of grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
• Integrate relevant sources to support arguments, correctly formatting citations and references using APA style.

Submission Requirements

• Length of submission: 2–5 double-spaced, typed pages. Your brief and agenda should be succinct yet substantive.
  • Please include a title page and a reference list in addition to your 2–5 page submission.
  • Please ensure that your submission clearly identifies your Brief of Strategies and your Training Agenda.
• Number of references: Cite a minimum of 2-4 sources of scholarly, professional, or policy evidence to support your plans and strategies.
• APA formatting: Resources and citations are formatted according to current APA style.