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Care coordination presentation to colleagues guide

A 20-minute video presentation teaching staff-nurse colleagues care coordination basics — collaboration strategies, change management's patient-experience effects, the ethical rationale for coordinated plans, and policy impacts — with a 4-5 page narrative script that is delivered, not submitted.

Aug 12, 2026

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Last reviewed · August 12, 2026

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Aaron Bishop

MA, Education

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What do staff-nurse colleagues need from coordination basics?

The audience is the design constraint most submissions miss: your nurse manager has asked you to teach care coordination basics to fellow staff nurses in your community care center, which makes this peer education, not a policy address — the same course's other presentation assessment speaks to a community organization, and confusing the two audiences produces the wrong presentation for both. Colleagues need what changes their Tuesday: how to run collaboration with patients and families (the scoring guide's own asks — effective strategies, and it rewards named ones like teach-back, motivational interviewing elements, and family-inclusive goal setting), what change management means for the patient experience on the unit, why coordinated plans rest on ethical decision making, and which policy provisions actually alter what nurses do. The scenario's stated purpose — helping colleagues take an expanded role in managing coordination — is the through-line every section should serve.

The change-management criterion is the one with a specific edge the brief telegraphs: identify the aspects of change management that directly affect the elements of patient experience essential to high-quality, patient-centered care. That is a two-link chain — change practices (communication of changes, staff involvement, pacing, feedback loops) connected to experience elements (continuity, trust, responsiveness) — and the assessment even points you to its Managing Change activity as preparation. The ethics criterion wants the rationale for coordinated plans grounded in the nursing code's provisions rather than a general appeal to doing right; the policy criterion wants specific provisions — think readmission penalties, privacy rules, coverage transitions — traced to their consequences for outcomes and patient experience. Raising awareness of the nurse's vital role in the continuum is the closing competency, and it lands best as the presentation's frame: open and close there.

The format has its own trap: the video is the deliverable and the script and reference list are explicitly not submitted — but the 4-5 page narrative script still has to exist and carry APA-cited evidence into what you say, because the scoring guide's communication competency is graded from the recording. Rehearse from the script rather than reading it; a presentation to colleagues that sounds read loses the peer-education register the scenario establishes. Build the deck light (the 20-minute runtime is the constraint that matters), keep one concept per slide, and let the script hold the detail. The nursing care-coordination literature — the professional association's role statement and the cross-sector coordination studies — gives you citable substance for the collaboration and continuum sections without padding the runtime, and both hand you the phrases colleagues will actually remember afterward.

Likely learning objectives

Inferred from the brief — check these against your own rubric.

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Design for the stated audience: peer education that changes what staff nurses do, not a policy briefing.
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Present named collaboration strategies for patients and families rather than generic teamwork talk.
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Chain change-management practices to the patient-experience elements they directly affect.
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Ground the coordinated-plan rationale in the nursing code and trace specific policy provisions to outcomes.
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Deliver from a script without sounding read, inside the 20-minute runtime.

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Develop a 20-minute presentation for nursing colleagues highlighting the fundamental principles of care coordination. Create a detailed narrative script for your presentation, approximately 4–5 pages in length, and record a video of your presentation. Nurses have a powerful role in the coordination and continuum of care. All nurses must be cognizant of the care coordination process and how safety, ethics, policy, physiological, and cultural needs affect care and patient outcomes. As a nurse, care coordination is something that should always be considered. Nurses must be aware of factors that impact care coordination and of a continuum of care that utilizes community resources effectively and is part of an ethical framework that represents the professionalism of nurses. Understanding policy elements helps nurses coordinate care effectively. This assessment provides an opportunity for you to educate your peers on the care coordination process. The assessment also requires you to address change management issues. You are encouraged to complete the Managing Change activity. Completing course activities before submitting your first attempt has been shown to make the difference between basic and proficient assessment. Demonstration of Proficiency By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the course competencies through the following assessment scoring guide criteria: Competency 2: Collaborate with patients and family to achieve desired outcomes. Outline effective strategies for collaborating with patients and their families to achieve desired health outcomes. Competency 3: Create a satisfying patient experience. Identify the aspects of change management that directly affect elements of the patient experience essential to the provision of high-quality, patient-centered care. Competency 4: Defend decisions based on the code of ethics for nursing. Explain the rationale for coordinated care plans based on ethical decision making. Competency 5: Explain how health care policies affect patient-centered care. Identify the potential impact of specific health care policy provisions on outcomes and patient experiences. Competency 6: Apply professional, scholarly communication strategies to lead patient-centered care. Raise awareness of the nurse’s vital role in the coordination and continuum of care in a video-recorded presentation. Script and reference list are not submitted. Preparation Your nurse manager has been observing your effectiveness as a care coordinator and recognizes the importance of educating other staff nurses in care coordination. Consequently, she has asked you to develop a presentation for your colleagues on care coordination basics. By providing them with basic information about the care coordination process, you will assist them in taking on an expanded role in helping to manage the care coordination process and improve patient outcomes in your community care center. To prepare for this assessment, identify key factors nurses must consider to effectively participate in the care coordination process. You may also wish to: Care Coordination Presentation To Colleagues Essay Review the assessment instructions and scoring guide to ensure you understand the work you will be asked to complete. Allow plenty of time to rehearse your presentation. Note: Remember that you can submit all, or a portion of, your draft presentation to Smarthinking Tutoring for feedback, before you submit the final version for this assessment. If you plan on using this free service, be mindful of the turnaround time of 24–48 hours for receiving feedback. Recording Equipment Setup and Testing Check that your recording equipment and software are working properly and that you know how to record and upload your presentation. You may use Kaltura (recommended) or similar software for your audio recording. A reference page is required. However, no PowerPoint presentation is required for this assessment. If using Kaltura, refer to the Using Kaltura tutorial for directions on recording and uploading your video in the courseroom. Note: If you require the use of assistive technology or alternative communication methods to participate in this activity, please contact DisabilityServices@capella.edu to request accommodations. Instructions Complete the following: Develop a presentation for nursing colleagues highlighting the fundamental principles of care coordination. Include community resources, ethical issues, and policy issues that affect the coordination of care. To prepare, develop a detailed narrative script. The script will be submitted along with the video. Record a video of your presentation. Note: For this assessment, develop your audio script, then record your presentation. You are not required to deliver your presentation to an actual audience but you certainly could. Presentation Format and Length Create a detailed narrative script for your presentation, approximately 4–5 pages in length. Include a reference list at the end of the script. Supporting Evidence Cite 3–5 credible sources from peer-reviewed journals or professional industry publications to support your presentation. Include your source citations on a references page appended to your narrative script. Watch the example video in your course room to hear how citations are referenced. Grading Requirements The requirements outlined below correspond to the grading criteria in the Care Coordination Presentation to Colleagues Scoring Guide, so be sure to address each point. Read the performance-level descriptions for each criterion to see how your work will be assessed. Outline effective strategies for collaborating with patients and their families to achieve desired health outcomes. Provide, for example, drug-specific educational interventions, cultural competence strategies. Include evidence that you have to support your selected strategies. Identify the aspects of change management that directly affect elements of the patient experience essential to the provision of high-quality, patient-centered care. Explain the rationale for coordinated care plans based on ethical decision making. Consider the reasonable implications and consequences of an ethical approach to care and any underlying assumptions that may influence decision making. Identify the potential impact of specific health care policy provisions on outcomes and patient experiences. What are the logical implications and consequences of relevant policy provisions? Care Coordination Presentation To Colleagues Essay What evidence do you have to support your conclusions? Raise awareness of the nurse’s vital role in the coordination and continuum of care in a video-recorded presentation. Script and reference list are not submitted. Fine tune the presentation to your audience. Stay focused on key issues of import with respect to the effects of resources, ethics, and policy on the provision of high-quality, patient-centered care. Adhere to presentation best practices. Additional Requirements Submit both your presentation video and script. The script should include a reference page. See Using Kaltura for more information about uploading multimedia files. You may submit the assessment only once, so be sure that both assessment deliverables are included.

Turn the brief into deliverables

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A video-recorded presentation, approximately 20 minutes, teaching care coordination basics to nursing colleagues.
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A detailed narrative script of approximately 4-5 pages supporting the recording (script and reference list are not submitted).
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Coverage of the scoring-guide criteria: collaboration strategies, change management and patient experience, ethical rationale, policy provisions, and the nurse's continuum role.

How do the five competencies become a 20-minute arc?

The frame: why coordination is ours

Open with the nurse's vital role in the coordination and continuum of care — the scenario's purpose and the awareness competency, established up front.

Collaboration that has names

Present the effective strategies for working with patients and families toward desired outcomes — teach-back, family-inclusive goal setting, structured communication — as things colleagues can use this week.

Change management, chained to experience

Identify the change-management aspects that directly affect patient-experience elements — how changes are communicated, who is involved, how feedback flows — with the chain explicit.

Ethics and policy, made concrete

Give the code-grounded rationale for coordinated plans, then trace specific policy provisions to their effects on outcomes and experience.

The expanded role, closed

Close by returning to what colleagues can now take on in managing coordination in the community care center — the scenario's stated purpose delivered.

Which coordination and change sources feed the script?

Recommended databases

Course activities (Managing Change) and scoring guide
ANA resources
PMC

Search sequence

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Complete the Managing Change activity first; the change-management criterion is written from it.
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Read the professional association's care-coordination role statement for the framing and continuum language.
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Pull a cross-sector coordination study for the collaboration section's evidence.
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Write the script, then extract the deck — and rehearse until the delivery stops sounding read.

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.

Nothing here is cleared for citation until you have read it.

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Care Coordination and the Essential Role of Nurses
American Nurses Association · 2024
The profession's own statement of the nurse's coordination role — the framing competency's source and the presentation's opening and closing substance.
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Nurses' and Patients' Perspectives on Care Coordination Across Health Care and Social Services Sectors: A Qualitative Study
PMC / National Library of Medicine · 2025
Evidence for the collaboration and continuum sections: what coordination looks like across sectors from both nurse and patient perspectives.
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Change Management In Health Care
StatPearls, NCBI Bookshelf · 2023
The change-management vocabulary the patient-experience chain is built from — practices, resistance, communication — in citable form for the script.

Review before submission

Common mistakes

Presenting to the wrong audience — this assessment's listeners are staff nurses, not a community organization.
Talking about collaboration abstractly when the criterion asks for effective strategies you can name and demonstrate.
Treating change management as an org-theory detour instead of chaining it to the patient-experience elements the brief specifies.
Arguing the ethics section from sentiment rather than the code's provisions.
Reading the script on camera, which forfeits the peer-education register the scenario sets.
Building a dense deck for a 20-minute runtime instead of one concept per slide with the script carrying detail.

Submission checklist

Video recorded and within the expected runtime; audio clear.
All five criteria covered: collaboration, change management, ethics, policy, continuum role.
Named strategies and specific policy provisions, not categories.
Script written (4-5 pages) and rehearsed; not submitted, per the brief.
Opens and closes on the nurse's vital role in the coordination continuum.

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