Creating an Impactful Presentation Tamara Passut, RN, MBA Patient Safety Manager, Fayetteville NC VA Medical Center 4/17/2015

Disclosure The presenter nor those in a position to control content have no relevant financial disclosures to make. There will not be discussion of any off-label, experimental, or investigational use of drugs or devices in this presentation This program is not being supported by any commercial funding.

Objectives 1. Understand how to create a dynamic PowerPoint presentation 2.Identify key elements of a good presentation 3.Have hands-on practice building a presentation 4. Leave with an example template for future use

Outline Layout and design Contents Notes “FLARE” Summary Citations

Creating a Layout and Design PowerPoint automatically gives each new page or “slide” a title and a body - Don’t like that? Great, neither do we! In the “home” tab, click on “layout” where you will see more options. - Don’t like that? Fine! Do whatever you like!

Creating a Layout and Design Fact: PowerPoint can be Boring! Tip: Prevent that! Click on the “design tab” click

Contents  Provide disclosure  ACCME prohibits logos or brand names  Hit your learning objectives  Reference evidence-based guidelines/current published research  Involve your audience

Contents  Keep it Simple  Use No more than 4 bullets per slide  Slides are for trigger words, not your notes  Pictures and graphs get your point across better  Don’t read all of the words on your slide  There are too many bullets and words on this page  Help me to scale this page down to focus on only the MOST important points

Your Notes  Keep your notes and resources in the “click to add notes” section at the bottom of this screen  You won’t read these, but your will program your brain while you write them  Keep focused and do not skip ahead  This slide is currently boring and too busy with words.  Now, try and edit this slide to minimize the amount of bullets and words on the screen  Remember to keep everything on the page related to your header at the top

FLARE  Places to get “flare”  How to bring it in  How to move it around

FLARE  Animate your text  Delay objects animation by click or timing

Summary  Outline  Layout and design  Contents  Notes  “FLARE”  Summary  Citations

References  Cite all your references MLA Citation Examples. University of Maryland University College Web. 13 Apr

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