The Joint Commission reported that [poor] communication was the root cause of 66% of Sentinel Events between 1995-2005. Include these aspects:

• The components necessary for effective interpersonal communication.
• Discuss the importance of interprofessional collaboration.
• Apply components of interpersonal communication to interprofessional collaboration.
• Discuss strategies to promote interprofessional collaboration.
• Describe effective strategies to build interprofessional teams.
• Cultural competence

Apply communication skills to interviews, negotiations, and information gathering.

• Identify sources appropriate to specific research topics

    a. Write 1-page paper that includes your short description of the criminal justice policy you will be arguing for or against.

    ** Executive summary clearly describes the information presented in each of the visual aids you selected.

    ** Executive summary draws from three data reputable data sources.

• Analyze elements of effective presentations

   a. PowerPoint presentation includes a title slide.

   ** Each slide includes YOUR OWN visual aid for each of the sets of data (for a total of three visual aids). These can include graphs, tables, pictures, etc. Your visual aids are developed on your own and are not taken from another source (i.e., you created your own charts and tables, you did not copy an already created table or chart and turned it in, and you included the completed citation/reference for your submission and data).

   ** PowerPoint presentation includes a reference slide.