SWOT Activity – 10-Slide PowerPoint

SWOT Activity – 10-Slide PowerPoint
Due Week 6 and worth 50 points
As indicated in the Research Activity 1 (Opioid Crisis), out of 200 applicants, you were selected to work as the manager in the research department for a special task force with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Review the CDC website at   https://www.cdc.gov/opioids/.  Your first assignment with the special task force is to focus on Opioid Overdose. The CDC reports that from 1999 to 2015, more than 183,000 people died in the U.S. from overdose related to prescription opioids.
You can also read more about the opioid crisis by going to the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services’ website at: https://www.hhs.gov/opioids/about-the-epidemic/index.html .  You can also visit the National Institute on Drug Abuse’s website at: https://www.drugabuse.gov/drugs-abuse/opioids/opioid-overdose-crisis.
The CDC has been researching the impact of opioid overdose to protect the public’s health and prevent opioid overdose deaths using surveillance and research. Your focus is two primary areas: 1) opioid prescribing guidelines for physicians, and 2) ways hospitals can create prescription drug monitoring as a part of their Quality Management Department (see https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/index.html).
The CDC sent you to a local hospital, and based on your Research Activity 1 (Opioid Crisis), you were asked to provide the hospital leaders with a 10-slide PowerPoint to explain your research findings and to include a SWOT analysis. Your SWOT analysis should focus on the issues of the opioid crisis, in relationship to our U.S. healthcare system.  What have we done well?  Where are the gaps?   Your research skills used to create a SWOT analysis is based on Chapter 3 in the textbook and from the Research Activity 1 (Opioid Crisis). SWOT stands for strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats; this analysis tool can be used to identify forces that can potentially help or harm the healthcare organization. Review the SWOT examples in Figures 1 and 2; refer to Chapter 5 in your textbook, listen to the Week 1 Lecture in Blackboard, and review the video on SWOT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_6AVRGLXGA. 
Figure 1

Figure 2

Your 10-slide SWOT PowerPoint should follow this format: 

Slide 1 should be a cover page; 
Slide 2 is the background; 
Slides 3-9 should have a Thesis Statement and follow the SESC formula: State, Explain, Support, and Conclude; and
Slide 10 is the reference page and should contain at least three (3) quality peer-reviewed references in SWS format. Note: Wikipedia and similar websites do not qualify as quality resources.
This course requires use of new Student Writing Standards (SWS). The format is different than other Strayer University courses. Please take a moment to review the SWS documentation for details.

PowerPoint Resources
Here are some tips for using PowerPoint: https://learning.linkedin.com/blog/design-tips/5-best-practices-for-making-awesome-powerpoint-slides
If you are unfamiliar with using the Microsoft PowerPoint software, or need a refresher:
Go here for a quick version: https://www.lynda.com/PowerPoint-tutorials/PowerPoint-Quick-Tips/672242-2.html?srchtrk=index%3a8%0alinktypeid%3a2%0aq%3apowerpoint%0apage%3a1%0as%3arelevance%0asa%3atrue%0aproducttypeid%3a2
Go here is you have a little more time: https://www.lynda.com/PowerPoint-tutorials/Learning-PowerPoint-Desktop-Office-365/748568-2.html?srchtrk=index%3a12%0alinktypeid%3a2%0aq%3apowerpoint%0apage%3a1%0as%3arelevance%0asa%3atrue%0aproducttypeid%3a2
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

Analyze the critical management issues, purpose, functions, and performance measures of different departments within healthcare organizations.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in health services organization management.
Write clearly and concisely about health services organization management using proper writing mechanics.