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The Role of the Nurse Manager module of the CUSP Toolkit addresses the role of nursing leaders for your quality improvement initiative.

Contents

Slide 1. Cover Slide.
Slide two. Learning Objectives
Slide three. What is a Nurse Director?
Slide four. Why Are Nurse Managers So Important?^{i, 2, 3, 4}
Slide 5. The Nurse Manager's Dual Roles
Slide six. Oversee Unit-Based Operations
Slide 7. The Leadership and Management Roles of the Nurse Manager
Slide eight. The Nurse Manager as a Mentor and Coach
Slide 9. Responsibilities of the Nurse Manager
Slide 10. Human Resources Management⁴
Slide 11. Encourage Professional person Development of Staff
Slide 12. Customer Focus
Slide 13. Fiscal Responsibility
Slide fourteen. Standards of Care
Slide 15. Alignment with Organizational Goals⁵
Slide xvi. Frameworks that are Useful for Nurse Managers
Slide 17. The Baldridge Health Care Criteria for Performance Excellence Framework⁶
Slide xviii. Quint Studer's Five Pillars^vii
Slide 19. Balanced Scorecard⁸
Slide 20. The American Organization of Nurse Executives Nurse Manager Leadership Partnership Learning Domain Framework⁹
Slide 21. Measurement Tactics: Customer/Patient Focus
Slide 22. Work Alignment
Slide 23. Quality/Prophylactic
Slide 24. Financial
Slide 25. Summary
Slide 26. CUSP Tools
Slide 27. TeamSTEPPS® Tools
Slide 28. References
Slide 29. References
Slide 30. References

Slide 1. Cover Slide

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The Part of the Nurse Manager module of the Comprehensive Unit-based Safe Plan (or CUSP) Toolkit addresses the role of nursing leaders for your quality improvement initiative. This module explains the responsibilities of the nurse manager, leadership and direction roles of the nurse manager, key business and wellness care quality comeback frameworks, and quality measurement.

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Slide 2. Learning Objectives

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In this module we will:

• Particular the responsibilities of the nurse director.
• Explain the leadership and management responsibilities of the nurse manager.
• Describe the key concern and wellness care quality improvement frameworks.
• List the quality improvement measures nurse managers employ.

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Slide 3. What is a Nurse Managing director?

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Nurse managers work with their staff to coordinate all aspects of daily patient care on the unit. By ensuring that staff, patients, and patients' families are communicating, nurse managers help unit staff members deliver the safest possible care.

Nurse managers:

• Embody both the nurse and executive roles.
• Typically report to a supervising nursing leader.
• Are responsible for the function of their unit.

The CUSP framework is a proven tool that nurse managers tin can use to amend the prophylactic civilization on their unit. Nurse managers are the leader of their unit and tin influence the unit'south civilization and ability to embrace change. Nurse managers can support their unit'southward CUSP activities by integrating CUSP principles and tools into the unit'southward workflow. Because nurse managers are in a position to align the unit's goals and processes with a civilization change framework, they play an integral function in the support of a unit's CUSP work.

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Slide 4. Why Are Nurse Managers So Important?^{1, 2, three, 4}

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Nurse managers see the big picture on the unit of measurement and work to ensure the unit of measurement's workflows and its activities are aligned with the hospital's strategic plans.

Serving in this capacity, nurse managers are change agents on their unit. They work with staff to initiate new policies and procedures that help the unit squad reach their quality improvement goals and sustain their CUSP efforts. Nurse managers lead their unit of measurement staff in preventing patient harm in their unit of measurement, empowering nurses to be the showtime line of defense against patient harm.

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Slide 5. The Nurse Director's Dual Roles

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Nurse managers maintain 2 roles within the unit of measurement: They deliver clinical intendance and serve as authoritative leaders on their unit. When nurse managers interact with an administrator, they wear ane hat. When nurse managers interact with unit of measurement staff, they article of clothing a different hat. These 2 groups can accept different agendas, and the nurse managing director has the unique position of understanding both groups. Nurse managers are a conduit for communication and comprehension betwixt the two groups to movement the unit toward the hospital's strategic goal.

Nurse managers can also use their position to support the unit'southward CUSP work by engaging unit staff and infirmary leaders. Nurse managers can help the CUSP squad implement But Culture principles on their unit to reinforce peer-to-peer coaching and mentoring. Every bit role of their administrative duties, nurse managers tin can ensure the unit has the resources information technology needs to initiate and sustain its CUSP intervention.

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Slide 6. Oversee Unit-Based Operations

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How does the nurse managing director on your unit maintain unit-based operations?

Identify areas inside your CUSP team's work where your unit'southward nurse manager can assist your team. Try to identify one authoritative and one staff-focused area for which your team would like help from unit-level management.

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Slide vii. The Leadership and Management Roles of the Nurse Manager

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Nurse managers lead their unit staff by providing their vision for the unit of measurement's progress toward excellence. Nurse managers are the modify agents for the unit and make decisions that guide the unit's activities. They work closely within their unit to inspire, motivate, and engage administrators, unit staff, and customers. (Customers are discussed later in this module.)

Nurse managers must manage all unit functions that affect patient care and must embody the skill sets needed to be constructive leaders and managers.

As leaders, nurse managers:

• Embody the vision, mission, and values of the unit and share these with staff.
• Motivate staff to strive for professional excellence.

In their leadership role, nurse managers utilise a socio-adaptive skill fix that encourages the use of didactics, coaching, and Simply Civilization principles to engage unit of measurement staff and support unit-based initiatives past ensuring shut working relationships amid unit team members.

Equally managers, nurse managers bargain are responsible for:

• Unit of measurement operations.
• Finances and budgets for the unit of measurement.
• Strategic goal achievement.

Nurse managers in their direction roles utilize a task-oriented, technical skill set. This skill set enables nurse managers to back up the unit'southward work through working with the team to ensure the team has the necessary resources and materials needed to initiate and sustain their intervention.

Embodying these leadership and management skill sets in their daily piece of work helps nurse managers successfully lead and manage the activities that have place on their unit while supporting the quality comeback work of their staff.

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Slide 8. The Nurse Director as a Mentor and Coach

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Tin you identify the traits of a good mentor and double-decker that were identified in the video?

Can you identify a nurse manager or nursing leader who you lot feel would be an splendid coach?

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Slide 9. Responsibilities of the Nurse Director

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Nurse managers are responsible for managing human and financial resources; ensuring patient and staff satisfaction; maintaining a safe surroundings for staff, patients, and visitors; ensuring standards and quality of care are maintained; and aligning the unit'south goals with the infirmary's strategic goals.

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Slide ten. Human Resources Management⁴

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Nurse managers are responsible for hiring, training, and developing employees; thus, nurse managers require stiff coaching skills. When working with staff to achieve their man resources goals, nurse managers must obtain staff satisfaction feedback regularly. Once they analyze the feedback, they tin can develop a plan to commencement the programs and training staff members suggest. Nurse managers' work in this area supports the work of the CUSP team by providing a means of spreading grooming or methodologies using unit-wide curriculum.

When hiring staff, nurse managers ensure the unit of measurement'south staffing needs are met in the most economical way possible and so funds that would otherwise be used for recruitment can instead exist spent on retaining high-performing staff.

In addition to hiring and grooming efforts, nurse managers piece of work closely with staff on professional development. Equally staff members grow inside their roles on the unit, nurse managers mentor staff members. These professional development opportunities allow nurse managers to rent from within when positions get open up on the unit. Promoting positions internally and developing staff for these positions helps increase teamwork on the unit.

Nurse managers work with the staff to better the systems on the unit by applying good system design. When nurse managers work with staff to develop expert systems, they are supporting CUSP quality improvement efforts on their unit. By critically reviewing organization-level breakdowns, nurse managers are working closely with unit staff to use the Science of Safe principles of safe design.

Nurse managers also manage behavior. Managing behavior calls for nurse managers to use empathy, coaching skills, and discipline when working with their staff. The Simply Culture framework supports nurse managers' piece of work considering information technology engages staff and supports teamwork and communication on the unit. Further, it engages staff to interact and coach one another to deliver optimal levels of care.

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Slide xi. Encourage Professional Evolution of Staff

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Can you identify professional person development opportunities on your unit? How will you work with the nurse manager on your unit to promote these opportunities?

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Slide 12. Client Focus

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Nurse managers ensure the care delivered on their unit is customer focused. The infirmary unit has numerous customers, and each has its unique needs and care delivery requirements. Nurse managers are responsible for ensuring the needs of customers are met.

Patient- and family-centered intendance

Nurse managers work with patients, families, and unit staff to develop patient- and family-focused care plans. Involving patients and their families in their intendance ensures the best possible treat the patient and creates a supportive and caring environment in which staff members are able to work closely with patients and their families.

Regulators

Nurse managers must as well adhere to the requirements of regulatory agencies and organizations, such as the Joint Commission and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. The regulations of these organizations will decide almost all components of care commitment and staffing needs on the unit.

Local governments

Local governments take an active interest in the quality of care their local hospital delivers to the community. Nurse managers ensure the goals of the local government are embodied on the unit and community members receive the highest quality of intendance possible.

By engaging these customers, nurse managers ensure the unit is able to deliver the highest quality of care for their patients while adhering to regulations.

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Slide xiii. Fiscal Responsibility

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Nurse managers must understand of the following skills:

Budgeting

Nurse managers ensure the unit's expenses fall within its budget. This includes sharing financial expectations with unit staff then staff members are aware of the unit's financial goals.

Staffing costs

Nurse managers ensure staffing costs remain within the budgeted amounts. They prepare for fluctuations in staffing needs without accruing staff overtime, and when staffing needs overwhelm unit resources, they are responsible for budgeting for temporary help. Nurse managers also support the efforts of the CUSP team past helping the team develop a way for its work to be completed within available staffing resources.

Operating costs and concrete plant costs

Nurse managers are responsible for the maintenance of operating and concrete found costs for the unit. They are responsible for ensuring these costs are kept at a minimum while making sure the needs of the unit are met.

Necessary equipment and supplies

The nurse manager makes sure that staff members accept admission to the equipment and supplies they demand to consummate their CUSP interventions. While the senior executive member of the CUSP squad helps the team secure resources, information technology is the responsibility of the nurse manager to ensure that the squad is able to effectively use those resources. When these items become expensive, the nurse managing director needs to create a solution that satisfies the needs of their staff and does not compromised patient care.

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Slide 14. Standards of Care

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Nurse managers understand the professional and regulatory guidelines (due east.g., Centers for Illness Control and Prevention, Articulation Commission, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) that govern patient care. Regulating agencies and insurance companies mandate that hospitals provide show-based clinical practices equally the standard of care. Nurse managers are responsible for making sure their staff members are educated on standards of care and any changes to those standards so that staff members are able to provide the safest care possible on the unit.

Nurse managers assess compliance with standards and omnibus staff members who are non meeting the standards. Nurse managers piece of work with their physician colleagues to determine the about up-to-date standards of care and to plan for them to be provided to their patients.

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Slide 15. Alignment with Organizational Goals⁵

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Nurse managers are responsible for aligning the unit's goals with the hospital's goals. Nurse managers serve as the decisionmakers who are responsible for the all-time interests of the unit. They brand certain unit staff members are able to clearly run across how unit goals marshal with the hospital'southward goals.

Nurse managers encourage their staff to participate in projects and initiatives. Using the 4E'south, nurse managers engage unit of measurement staff to participate in the project, educate them on the importance of their involvement, execute a plan of action with their staff, and evaluate their progress with the intervention being carried out on the unit.

When working with staff, nurse managers use more than one grade of advice to share and receive information. By supporting constructive advice on the unit of measurement, nurse managers are able to ensure their staff members accept the necessary information to complete quality comeback work.

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Slide 16. Frameworks that are Useful for Nurse Managers

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Hospitals, as businesses, utilise frameworks to increase efficiency and quality of intendance. Some frameworks commonly seen in or adapted for health care include The Malcolm Baldridge Health Care Criteria for Performance Excellence, Quint Studer's Five Pillars, Balanced Scorecard, and the American Organization of Nurse Executives Nurse Manager Leadership Partnership Learning Domain Framework. These frameworks are proven in both the nursing and concern worlds and deliver a results-driven protocol for nurse managers to follow when putting into issue business and wellness care quality comeback initiatives on their units. Nurse managers tin can support their unit's CUSP work through using other quality improvement frameworks. Using additional frameworks provides nurse managers with an additional reference signal to judge the success of the CUSP intervention and align the unit of measurement's work with it.

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Slide 17. The Baldridge Health Care Criteria for Performance Excellence Framework^half-dozen

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The Baldridge Wellness Care Criteria for Operation Excellence accost the cardinal areas of running a successful wellness intendance organization. These are:

• Leadership.
• Strategic planning.
• Customer focus.
• Measurement, analysis, and cognition management.
• Workforce focus.
• Operations focus.
• Results.

The framework provides an integrated approach to performance excellence that nurse managers can use on their unit to brand sure the unit is functioning at optimum efficiency and is engaging the appropriate stakeholders.

Nurse managers can apply this framework to engage their unit staff with the intervention existence implemented on the unit and ensure staff members are aware of the full systematic furnishings of their quality comeback work.

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Slide xviii. Quint Studer's 5 Pillars⁷

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Quint Studer's Five Pillars provide a foundation for setting organizational goals, a direction for service, and an operational focus for nurse managers. When nurse managers align the strategy of the unit beyond the five pillars, the pillars provide the consistency and focus needed to sustain efforts over time.

The 5 pillars are:

• Service.
• Quality.
• People.
• Finance.
• Growth.

When nurse managers apply the Five Pillars to their unit'due south CUSP work, they are providing unit of measurement staff with another means of identifying their piece of work with the unit'due south goals.

The service pillar is related to the quality of service that the unit of measurement staff delivers to patients and their families. When projects are aligned with this pillar, staff members are able to see where their work coincides with the service delivered to patients and their families.

The quality pillar is related to the quality improvement work that the unit of measurement staff members participate in as a part of their CUSP work. When unit goals are aligned with this pillar, the unit is able to see where their CUSP quality improvement work aligns with the goals of the unit of measurement.

Aligning goals with the people pillar provides nurse managers with a means of assessing how the CUSP intervention affects staff.

Aligning unit goals with the finance pillar provides nurse managers with a means of understanding how the CUSP intervention affects finances for the unit.

When unit staff and nurse managers marshal their goals with the growth pillar, they are evaluating their goals confronting measurable growth and development opportunities.

Evaluation is important for determining whether or not an intervention has been successful. The Five Pillars provide an evaluation procedure for an organization. When goals are strategically aligned across the 5 areas, deficiencies in one area are countered by excesses in another. Additionally, aligning goals across the Five Pillars helps keep the organization balanced in its short- and long-term objectives and encourages staff to develop goals that align with the pillars.

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Slide 19. Counterbalanced Scorecard^eight

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Balanced Scorecard is a strategic planning and measurement arrangement that aligns business activities with the system's vision and strategy, improves internal and external communications, and monitors organization performance against strategic goals.

The Balanced Scorecard measures:

• Customer results.
• Internal processes.
• Staff and organizational growth.
• Financial results.
• Vision and strategy.

Nurse managers tin can utilize the Counterbalanced Scorecard when they want to measure out the unit'southward progress. The scorecard is used as a strategic planning and measurement organization for assessing all aspects of the unit. Nurse managers can employ this framework on the unit to obtain a greater understanding of the needs of the unit of measurement team.

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Slide 20. The American Organization of Nurse Executives Nurse Manager Leadership Partnership Learning Domain Framework⁹

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The American System of Nurse Executives Nurse Director Leadership Partnership Learning Domain Framework provides a means for aligning organizational goals and measuring progress toward goal achievement. The framework asks nurse managers to assess their business organisation, personal development, and leadership functions on their unit when they develop goals and assess progress on the unit.

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Slide 21. Measurement Tactics: Customer/Patient Focus

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Customer or patient satisfaction feedback, obtained using surveys, is another key tool that allows nurse managers to guess the service the unit provides. These data, when analyzed oftentimes, provide nurse managers feedback that comes directly from patients and their families. This feedback helps nurse managers gauge the unit of measurement'southward performance and engagement with patients and their families. Once the feedback is reviewed, nurse managers share the information obtained from the surveys with the unit of measurement and hospital staff to ensure policies and procedures are aligned with the needs and interests of patients and their families.

These surveys provide a standardized approach for reviewing patient feedback and permits benchmarking across different departments and units within the hospital. Using these surveys, nurse managers can influence the quality of care that their staff members deliver to patients and their families.

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Slide 22. Work Alignment

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Can you identify ways in which your unit's work can be aligned with the quality improvement frameworks outlined in this module?

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Slide 23. Quality/Safety

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Nurse managers should obtain data on quality outcomes and adverse events monthly. One time these data are received, the nurse manager reviews the data to identify trends.

Nurse managers utilise quality and safety measurements to assess the intendance received on their unit. When working on an evidence-based initiative, teams can gear up improvement goals once they obtain baseline data.

Nurse managers apply CUSP tools such equally the Learning From Defects Tool to obtain staff feedback. The quality data from this tool volition provide nurse managers with the information they need to work with staff to accost the issues the tool raises. When working through the Learning From Defects procedure with staff, nurse managers involve the staff in the defect analysis procedure and in developing the activity programme to accost the problems the tool identified.

Boosted quality and safety measurement tools include unit dashboards, newsletters, and staff meetings. These tools provide nurse managers and staff with opportunities to share ideas, create goals, and talk over progress with coming together or exceeding quality and prophylactic goals. During staff meetings and dashboard discussions, staff members can interact to place and solve barriers that are highlighted on the dashboard.

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Slide 24. Financial

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Nurse managers collect financial data to deliver cost-effective care on the unit. Unless nurse managers tin express the fiscal advantages of a change in procedure, the organisation may not corroborate purchases of more mitt hygiene dispensers, bar coding equipment, and other patient safe supplies. Quality and patient rubber tasks may require more staff members to collect and analyze data and brainwash other staff. The professional staffing model uses the professional person characteristics of the registered nurse and supports and sets expectations for their involvement in the quality and patient rubber piece of work done on their unit by building paid hours for quality improvement work into their schedule. During these hours away from patients, nurses nourish quality meetings, consummate research projects, and serve on hospital-broad quality and safety committees. This model has financial benefits for the unit of measurement because it schedules time for the nurses to work closely on cost-saving, quality improvement projects that will yield meliorate outcomes for the entire unit.

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Slide 25. Summary

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In summary, nurse managers support the quality and safety work of the unit past:

• Having an integral office in unit of measurement-based activities at their hospital.
• Serving as leaders and managers to their unit of measurement staff.
• Supporting their unit's CUSP work with other quality improvement frameworks.
• Measuring the success of their CUSP intervention by using additional quality improvement measures.

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Slide 26. CUSP Tools

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In improver to the information presented in this module, CUSP tools are bachelor online by visiting the AHRQ Spider web site: http://world wide web.ahrq.gov/cusptoolkit.

These tools analyze the team members' roles and responsibilities and assist assess unit team culture. They include the:

• Groundwork Quality Comeback Team Information Grade.
• Culture Check-upwardly Tool.
• Daily Goals Checklist.
• Larn From Defects Form.
• Shadowing Another Professional Tool.

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Slide 27. TeamSTEPPS® Tools

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Several TeamSTEPPS® tools also complement the material in this module by helping to improve squad advice. The tools are available online at http://www.ahrq.gov/professionals/education/curriculum-tools/teamstepps/alphabetize.html.

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Slide 28. References

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Slide 29. References

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Slide 30. References

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