Policymaker

REQUIREMENTS
Assignment Criteria for Presentation
1. Develop a 15-slide PowerPoint presentation with speaker notes in APA format, not including title and reference slides. Write speaker notes sufficient enough to enable someone to take over or give the presentation other than you.
2. Describe your visit/presentation, including any PowerPoint presentation materials that you utilized during your policymaker visit. Limit these slides to five slides in this project (of the 15 total slides). This includes any handouts that you left with the policymaker.
3. Discuss the response of the policymaker to your message/ask/recommendation(s).
4. Reflect on the process, follow-up plans, insights gained about the issue and process, and support with evidence.
5. Describe possible future opportunities as a result of this meeting and their importance to nursing.
6. Provide concluding statements summarizing the content.

PREPARING THE PRESENTATION (SEE BELOW)
After completing Policymaker Visit Ungraded Worksheet 3, develop an electronic presentation to describe, analyze, and reflect upon your policymaking visit. Include 5 slides from the PowerPoint presentation that you would have used during an actual policymaker visit. Include a minimum of five (5) classic or current references within the past 5 years (2011-2015) that specifically support insights gained regarding your policy issue and the policymaking process.
Preparing Presentation
1. Describe your call/visit, include your presentation, and discuss your presentation as it occurred.
2. What was the response of the policymaker(s) to your call/visit? What suggestions and feedback did you receive? How would you define success?
3. What’s the next step in this process? What would be your follow-up plan? Do you need to take further immediate action? What about a formal ‘thank-you’? What ideas for continued and future advocacy do you have? Please review the example provided in the Planning Your Visit Ungraded Worksheet 2.
4. What might you do differently? Why? How? What worked or did not work in your strategy or message? Please support this with evidence.
5. What new insights do you have about your policy issue? Relate this to your initial policy analysis as discussed in Your Policy Priority Paper. Describe with specifics, including references.
6. What new insights do you have about the political and policymaking processes as a result of this experience? Please include references.
7. Is there a possibility of future opportunities as a result of this planned visit/presentation? If so, describe. How was this experience important to nursing?