Budget Create a budget for your grant proposal, using the categories described in this week’s material (personnel, supplies, equipment, travel, and other.). Write a budget justification for each line item in your budget. Your paper should be 4-5 pages in length

MIDTERM ASSIGNMENT
Personal narrative & cover letter
INSTRUCTIONS
Tell a story about how different media have shaped your perspectives throughout your life Use specific examples to reflect on how media hate impacted your sense of self or your perception of others. Use our course readings to reflect on the relationship between your own experiences and the
broader impact of media on society-
REQUIREMENTS
The following requirements address three broad areas of academic and professional waiting
presentation, evidence, and narrative. To earn a satisfactory score, your essay must:
Presentation
• Use APA or MILA formatting style consistently throughout the document
• Use Standard English conventions of capitalization, punctuation, and spelling
• Include a separate 200-word cover letter (any formatting) that discusses your wnting process
and reflects on the course.
• Achieve between 1,200 and 2,000 words, excluding the corer letter and bibliography

Benchmark – What Are the Data Saying?

Requires Lopeswrite
Assessment Description
The DNP must have a basic understanding of statistical measurements and how they apply within the parameters of data management and analytics.
In this assignment, you will demonstrate understanding of basic statistical tests by performing the appropriate test for the given project data below using SPSS and by reporting the analyzed results in written paper.
General Requirements:
Use the following information to ensure successful completion of the assignment:
 Use the “Comparison Table of the Variable’s Level of Measurement,” located in the DNP-
830A folder of the DNP PI Workspace, to complete the assignment.
 Review the “Working with Inferential Statistics” and “Working With Descriptive Statistics”
tutorials, located in the DNP-830A folder of the DNP PI Workspace, for assistance as
needed.
 Doctoral learners are required to use APA style for their writing assignments. The APA
Style Guide is located in the Student Success Center.
 This assignment uses a rubric. Review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to
become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
 You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. A link to the LopesWrite
technical support articles is located in Class Resources if you need assistance.
 Learners will submit this assignment using the assignment dropbox in the digital
classroom. In addition, learners must upload this deliverable to the Learner Dissertation
Page (LDP) in the DNP PI Workspace for later use.
Directions:
Part 1:
Using the data in the “Comparison Table of the Variable’s Level of Measurement” display the
dependent variables and the level of measurement in a comparison table. You will attach the
comparison table as an appendix to your paper.
After downloading the data set, run the appropriate statistics in SPSS based on the steps listed
below.

Provide a conclusive result of the data analyses based on the guidelines below for statistical
significance.

1. PAIRED SAMPLE T-TEST: Identify the
   variables BaselineWeight and InterventionWeight. Using the Analysis menu in SPSS, go
   to Compare Means, Go to the Paired Sample t-test. Add
   the BaselineWeight and InterventionWeight in the Pair 1 fields. Click OK. Report the
   mean weights, standard deviations, t-statistic, degrees of freedom, and p level. Report
   as t(df)=value, p = value. Report the p level out three digits.
2. INDEPENDENT SAMPLE T-TEST: Identify the
   variables InterventionGroups and PatientWeight. Go to the Analysis Menu, go to
   Compare Means, Go to Independent Samples t T-test. Add InterventionGroups to the
   Grouping Factor. Define the groups according to codings in the variable view
   (1=Intervention, 2 =Baseline). Add PatientWeight to the test variable field. Click OK.
   Report the mean weights, standard deviations, t-statistic, degrees of freedom, and p level.
   Report t(df)=value, p = value. Report the p level out three digits
3. CHI-SQUARE (Independent): Identify the
   variables BaselineReadmission and InterventionReadmission. Go to the Analysis
   Menu, go to Descriptive Statistics, go to Crosstabs. Add BaselineReadmission to the row
   and InterventionReadmission to the column. Click the Statistics button and choose Chi-
   Square. Select eta to report the Effect Size. Click suppress tables. Click OK. Report the
   frequencies of the total events, the chi-square statistic, degrees of freedom, and p Report
   ꭓ2 (df) =value, p =value. Report the p level out three digits.
4. MCNEMAR (Paired): Identify the variables BaselineCompliance and Go to the Analysis
   Menu, go to Descriptive Statistics, go to Crosstabs. Add BaselineCompliance to the row
   and InterventionCompliance to the column. Click the Statistics button and choose Chi-
   Square and McNemars. Select eta to report the Effect Size. Click suppress tables. Click
   OK. Report the frequencies of the events, the Chi-square, and the McNemar’s p level.
   Report (p =value). Report the p level out three digits.
5. MANN WHITNEY U: Identify the variables InterventionGroups and Using the Analysis
   Menu, go to Nonparametric Statistics, go to LegacyDialogs, go to 2 Independent samples.
   Add InterventionGroups to the Grouping Variable and PatientSatisfaction to the Test
   Variable. Check Mann Whitney U. Click OK. Report the Medians or Means, the Mann
   Whitney U statistic, and the p level. Report (U =value, p =value). Report the p level out
   three digits.
6. WILCOXON Z: Identify the variables BaselineWeight and InterventionWeight. Go to the
   Analysis Menu, go to Nonparametric Statistics, go to LegacyDialogs, go to 2 Related
   samples. Add the BaselineWeight and InterventionWeight in the Pair 1 fields. Click OK.
   Report the Mean or Median weights, standard deviations, Z-statistic, and p Report as
   (Z =value, p =value). Report the p level out three digits.
   Part 2
   Write a 1,000-1,250-word data analysis paper outlining the procedures used to analyze the
   parametric and nonparametric variables in the mock data, the statistics reported, and a conclusion
   of the results. Include the following in your paper:
7. Discussion of the types of statistical tests used and why they have been chosen.
8. Discussion of the differences between parametric and nonparametric tests.
9. Description of the reported results of the statistical tests above.
10. Summary of the conclusive results of the data analyses.
11. Attach the SPSS outputs from the statistical analysis as an appendix to the paper.
12. Attach the “Comparison Table of the Variable’s Level of Measurement” as an appendix to
    the paper.
    Use the following guidelines to report the test results for your paper:
     Statistically Significant Difference: When reporting exact p values, state early in the
    data analysis and results section, the alpha level used for the significance criterion for all
    tests in the project. Example: An alpha or significance level of < .05 was used for all
    statistical tests in the project. Then if the p-level is less than this value identified, the result
    is considered statistically significant. A statistically significant difference was noted
    between the scores before compared to after the intervention t(24) = 2.37, p = .007.
     Marginally Significant Difference: If the results are found in the predicted direction but
    are not statistically significant, indicate that results were marginally Example: Scores
    indicated a marginally significant preference for the intervention group (M = 3.54, SD =
    1.20) compared to the baseline (M= 3.10, SD = .90), t(24) = 1.37, p = .07. Or there was a
    marginal difference in readmissions before (15) compared to after (10) the intervention
    ꭓ2(1) = 4.75, p = .06.
     Nonsignificant Trend: If the p-value is over .10, report results revealed a non-significant
    trend in the predicted direction. Example: Results indicated a non-significant trend for the
    intervention group (14) over the baseline (12), ꭓ2(1) = 1.75, p = .26.
    The results of the inferential analysis are used for decision-making and not hypothesis testing. It is
    important to look at the real results and establish what criterion is necessary for further
    implementation of the project’s findings. These conclusions are a start.
    Portfolio Practice Immersion Hours:
    It may be possible to earn portfolio practice immersion hours for this assignment. Enter the
    following after the References section of your paper:
    Practice Immersion Hours Completion Statement DNP-830A
    I, (INSERT NAME), verify that I have completed and logged (NUMBER OF) clock minutes/hours in
    association with the goals and objectives for this assignment. I also have tracked said practice
    immersion hours in the Lopes Activity Tracker for verification purposes and will be sure that all
    approvals are in place from my faculty and practice immersion preceptor/mentor before the end of
    the course.
    Benchmark Information:
    This benchmark assignment assesses the following programmatic competencies:

DNP
3.1: Demonstrate the conceptual ability and technical skills to develop and execute an evaluation
plan involving data extraction from practice information systems and databases.
Midterm Conference Evaluation: Individual Success Plan (ISP)
The Individual Success Plan (ISP) assignment in this course requires your collaboration with the
course faculty early on to establish a plan for successful completion of mutually identified and
agreed-upon specific deliverables for your programmatic requirements. Programmatic
requirements are: (1) completion of required practice immersion hours, (2) completion of work
associated with program competencies, and (3) work associated with completion of your Direct
Practice Improvement (DPI) Project.
A midterm conference will occur no later than Topic 5 and is intended for the learner, faculty, and
preceptor/mentor to discuss learner progress toward meeting the course goals. The faculty
member will meet with the preceptor/mentor to conduct the learner’s midterm conference
evaluation, whether in person or virtually. The preceptor/mentor will meet with the learner to review
the evaluation form (either in person or virtually). If there are areas that need improvement, the
faculty will meet with the learner to complete a remediation form.
General Requirements:
Use the following information to ensure successful completion of the assignment as it pertains to
deliverables due in this course.
 Use the Individual Success Plan (ISP) developed in Topic 1 as a personal plan for
completing your practice immersion hours and how competencies will be met. All of the
major milestones and deliverables should be indicated in the timeline.
 Conferences may be conducted face-to-face or via technology. A copy of the signed
document will be uploaded into the digital classroom no later than the end of Topic 5.
 Doctoral learners are required to use APA style for their writing assignments. The APA
Style Guide is located in the Student Success Center.
 This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment
to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
 You are not required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite.
 Learners will submit this assignment using the assignment dropbox in the digital
classroom. In addition, learners must upload this deliverable to the Learner Dissertation
Page (LDP) in the DNP PI Workspace for later use.
Directions:

1. Complete required practice immersion hours.
2. Completion work associated with program competencies and work associated with
   completion of your Direct Practice Improvement (DPI) Project.
3. Follow the instructions and complete the ISP.

Activity 1:

Please become familiar with your learning outcomes for the module

On successful completion of this module the student will be expected to be able to:

1. Demonstrate knowledge of epidemiology, demography, genomics and the wider determinants of health, illness and wellbeing and apply this to an understanding of global patterns of health and wellbeing outcomes.

2. Discuss and explain the factors that may lead to inequalities in health outcomes.

4. Consider how mental, physical, behavioural, and other health related outcomes may be improved by understanding and explaining the principles, practice, and evidence-base for health screening programmes.

5. Apply understanding of national and local data related to the health care needs and associated services of a local population.

(NO COVID 19 PLEASE). 

Activity 1:

To write your health report you will need to become familiar with some key public health information sites.  As such please review the following links:

NHS digital (Links to an external site.)

Office of National Statistics (Links to an external site.)

NHS England Data Catalogue (Links to an external site.)

PHE Public Health Profile (Links to an external site.)

PHE Public Health Fingertips (Links to an external site.)

The Health Report

The assignment for Module 2 is a 3000-word health needs assessment reviewing local, national, and worldwide health patterns and wellbeing outcomes. You will choose a locality familiar to you (Within the UK could be Cambridgeshire or London Borough of Hillingdon) and identify one public health need within this area. You will highlight the implications for healthcare for this public health need.  Additionally, for your selected health need you will identify and understand the local health services available and the role of the nurse in health promotion delivery.

Overview

There are 2 sections to the report:

Undertake a virtual research tour of your local health, social services, and health services to identify one key public health concern. Discuss what the data suggests about public health needs and implications for healthcare locally. Compare this to national and worldwide statistics.  Identify key inequalities and barriers within this area that may impact on healthcare.

With focus on the public health concern that you have identified discuss and highlight the health services, charities, screening, and role of the nurse in this area.

Guidance to undertake the Report.

Module Exploring and Promoting Health and Well-being.

3000-word Health Needs Assessment Report.

Proforma

Title Page

Contents Page

1. Introduction ………….1500 words

2. a) Locality

b) Health and Social Care data – to include diagrams, tables etc.

3. a) Determinants, inequalities, and barriers to health

4. a) Review of current service provision …………1000 words

b) Role of the Nurse in health promotion and screening

5. Conclusion …………………….500 words

6. Recommendations for practice

7. Reference List

8. Appendices – if required

1. Introduction: (1500 words)

Briefly highlight what the report is about, the reason for the report, the locality you are discussing and the local public health concern you have chosen to identify specific healthcare services and review the role of the nurse in promoting health in this area.

2) Undertake a virtual research tour of your local health, social services, and health services to identify key areas of public health concern.

a) Choosing a locality:

Choose one area or locality.

The local area you study in this area should be:

Somewhere that interests you and/or which you are familiar with (placement area or local home area)

One which you can use published data to inform a discussion about social and health care needs in that area.

Detail your choice of area.

NB: It would be better to pick a county as your locality because you are more likely to get reliable data (If data collection is not at 90% of the population it will not be recorded in the figures and merely be left blank).

b) Collect and discuss social and health data about that area that you have chosen:

Finding Statistics and Information:

Gather insight data on ONE prevalent public health need.

This data should be gathered from local joint strategic needs assessments around the health of your chosen population, in your chosen community and in relation to your field of nursing mental ill health like depression or suicide if you are a mental health nurse.

Utilise information from reputable source using Public health England Local Authority Health Profiles (Links to an external site.)

Other sights that will support the data in your assignment could include NHS digital (Links to an external site.), Office of National statistics (Links to an external site.), and NHS England Data Catalogue. (Links to an external site.)

Identify one key health and social care issue in your chosen locality by reviewing the epidemiology and prevalence of this data, e.g., mental ill health like depression or suicide if you are a mental health nurse.

Demonstrate the Statistics.

Demonstrate this data in tables, graphs, or pie chart and in a brief written summary.

Identify your sources.  

Discuss the Statistics:

Discuss what the data suggests about public health care need in that area and the implications for health care. Support this information with key research that may validate your findings.

Within your discussion compare your findings to national and worldwide figures. What implications can you draw from this?

3. Identify the determinants, inequalities, and barriers to health:

Within your locality, identify the environmental, societal, and social determinants of health (like poverty, education, culture, economy, geography, and gender) that create health inequalities.

Health inequalities are unfair avoidable differences between groups of people. Look at the differences in the status of people’s health such as the life expectancy, access to care, behavioural risk factors from the data. E.g., It may be that this particular county that has higher suicide rates than the rest of the UK, find out why this might be the case.

You can use publications such as the Kings Fund (Links to an external site.), NHS England (Links to an external site.), Public Health England outcomes framework (Links to an external site.), Health Knowledge. Org (Links to an external site.), Naidoo and Wills Foundations for Health Promotion Book (chapter 2 and 3) or any other health promotion textbook to help develop your discussion.

Try to really understand the determinants that have impacted to create this health inequality causing a health need in this area.

4. Review the services and health care that are available for the public health need that you have chosen (1000 words)

a) Identify local, national policy, services, charities available for your public health concern

For example, if you have chosen rising teenage depression the services might include GP, CPFT, counselling, NHS therapy, CBT, MIND, Life craft, Samaritans.

Highlight briefly what these services provide and what the local / national guidance recommends, e.g., Cambridge and Peterborough Foundation Trust (CPFT), National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE), Public Health England (PHE), Royal College of Nursing (RCN), Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)

b) Look at the role of the nurse in health promotion and screening in this area

Highlight what nurses do in identifying the health issue and any screening if applicable for the public health need you have identified, e.g., practice nurses and the use of screening tools to identify depression.

Once the health concern is identified look at what the nurse does to make every contact count and to empower the patient to make healthy choices e.g., discussing a change model and apply to the patient who is contemplating change like the empowerment model.

What health promotion services does the nurse provide, e.g., for depression trained mental health primary care nurse, face-to-face patient contact, clinical supervision, planning meetings, role development, communication, and dissemination with the rest of the primary health-care team, and preparation of materials for patient use?

5. Conclusion: (500)

Summarise the findings in your essay and make recommendations for future practice

The  Report Written Assessment

The written assignment for Module 2 is a 3000 word Health Needs Assessment reviewing local, national and world health patterns and wellbeing outcomes. You will choose a locality familiar to you and identify one public health need within this area. You will highlight the implications for healthcare for this public health need.  Additionally for your selected health need you will identify and understand the local health services available and the role of the nurse in health promotion deliver

Learning outcomes that the Public Health report covers

• Demonstrate knowledge of epidemiology, demography, genomics and the wider determinants of health, illness and wellbeing and apply this to an understanding of global patterns of health and wellbeing outcomes (LO 1)
• Discuss and explain the factors that may lead to inequalities in health outcomes. (LO 2)
• Consider how mental, physical, behavioural and other health related outcomes may be improved by understanding and explaining the principles, practice and evidence-base for health screening programmes. (LO4)
• Apply understanding of national and local data related to the health care needs and associated services of a local population. (LO5)

 

Outline of Report

1. Undertake a virtual research tour that explores the health needs of a chosen community, the social services and the health services available to people, in the communities in which they live, and identify a contemporary public health concern. (1500 words)

• Choose one county / locality (where your placement is or your local home area)
• Gather insight data on ONE prevalent public health concern.
• This data should be gathered from local joint strategic needs assessments around the health of your chosen population, in your chosen community and in relation to your field of nursing about e.g Childhood obesity rates or dental decay if you are a child nurse, rates of mental ill health like depression if you are a mental health nurse, or rates of cancer, smoking or long term conditions if you are an adult nurse.
• Needs assessments data information is collated in countywide public health insight data in PHE local authority health profiles. Supportive data and information can also be found in NHS digital, Office of National statistics, NHS England
• Record and report on your chosen public health concern using tables, graphs and a written summary of the data.
• Compare this to national and worldwide figures. What implications can you draw from this?
• Identify any health determinants and inequalities in your chosen locality which may impact on the public health issue you have identified, and the overall health of this community. Relate your findings to social data such as employment rates, level of education, economic deprivation

 

Review the services and health care that is available for the public health need that you have chosen (1000 words)

• Identify local, national services, charities available for your public health concern
• Look at the role of the nurse in health promotion
• Review any screening provided in this area if applicable

Structure

1. Introduction: (300 words)

Briefly highlight what the report is about, the reason for the report, the locality you are discussing and the local public health concern you have chosen to identify specific healthcare services and review the role of the nurse in promoting health in this area.

 

2) Undertake a virtual research tour of your local health, social services, and health services to identify key areas of public health concern. (600 words)

1. a) Choosing a locality: (100 words)

• Choose one area or locality
• The local area you study in this area should be:
  • Somewhere that interests you and/or which you are familiar with (placement area or local home area)
  • One which you can use published data to inform a discussion about social and health care needs in that area
• Detail your choice of area.
• NB: It would be better to pick a county as your locality because you are more likely to get reliable data (If data collection is not at 90% of the population it will not be recorded in the figures and merely be left blank).

 

1. b) Collect and discuss social and health data about that area that you have chosen: 

Finding Statistics and Information:

• Gather insight data on ONE prevalent public health need
• This data should be gathered fromlocal joint strategic needs assessments (JSNA) around the health of your chosen population, in your chosen community and in relation to your field of nursing e.g. Childhood obesity rates if you are a child nurse, rates of mental ill health like depression or suicide if you are a mental health nurse, or rates of cancer, smoking or long term conditions if you are an adult nurse.
• Utilise information from reputable source using Public health England Local Authority Health Profiles(Links to an external site.) 
• Other sights that will support the data in your assignment could include NHS digital(Links to an external site.), Office of National statistics (Links to an external site.) , and NHS England Data Catalogue. (Links to an external site.)
• Identify one key health and social care issue in your chosen locality by reviewing the epidemiology and prevalence of this data, e.g. Childhood obesity rates if you are a child nurse, rates of mental ill health like depression or suicide if you are a mental health nurse, or rates of cancer, smoking or long term conditions if you are an adult nurse

Demonstrate The Statistics (100 words)

• Demonstrate this data in tables, graphs or pie chart and in a brief written summary
• Identify your sources  

Discuss The Statistics: (400 words)

• Discuss what the data suggests about public health care need in that area and the implications for health care. Support this information with key research that may validate your findings
• Within your discussion compare your findings to national and worldwide figures. What implications can you draw from this?

 

3. Identify the determinants, inequalities and barriers to health: (800 words)

• Within your locality, identify the environmental, societal, and social determinants of health (like poverty, education, culture, economy, geography, and gender) that create health inequalities.
• Health inequalities are unfair avoidable differences between groups of people. Look at the differences in the status of people’s health such as the life expectancy, access to care, behavioural risk factors from the data. E.g. It may be that this particular county that has higher suicide rates than the rest of the UK, find out why this might be the case.
• You can use publications such as the Kings Fund(Links to an external site.), NHS England (Links to an external site.), Public Health England outcomes framework (Links to an external site.),  Org (Links to an external site.), Naidoo and Wills Foundations for Health Promotion Book (chapter 2 and 3) or any other health promotion text book to help develop your discussion.
• Try to really understand the determinants that have impacted to create this health inequality causing an health need in this area.

 

4. Review the services and health care that are available for the public health need that you have chosen (1000 words)
5. a) Identify local, national policy, services, charities available for your public health concern

• For example if you have chosen rising teenage depression the services might include GP, CPFT, counselling, NHS therapy, CBT, MIND, Lifecraft, Samaritans
• Highlight briefly what these services provide and what the local / national guidance recommends, e.g. Cambridge and Peterborough Foundation Trust (CPFT), National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE), Public Health England (PHE), Royal College of Nursing (RCN), Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)

1. b) Look at the role of the nurse in health promotion and screening in this area

• Highlight what nurses do in identifying the health issue and any screening if applicable for the public health need you have identified, e.g. practice nurses and the use of screening tools to identify depression
• Once the health concern is identified look at what the nurse does to make every contact count and to empower the patient to make healthy choices e.g. discussing a change  model and apply to the patient who is contemplating change like the empowerment model
• What health promotion services does the nurse provide, e.g. for depression trained mental health primary care nurse, face-to-face patient contact, clinical supervision, planning meetings, role development, communication and dissemination with the rest of the primary health-care team, and preparation of materials for patient use

5. Conclusion:  (300 words)

Summarise the findings in your essay and make recommendations for future practice

Create a poster presentation to communicate an implementation plan to bridge the gap between the evidence you will research and clinical practice. You will then record audio of no more than five minutes presenting your poster.

Introduction

Master’s-level nurses need to be able to think critically about the evidence, outcomes data, and other relevant information they encounter throughout their daily practice. Often the evidence or information that a nurse encounters, researches, or studies is not presented in the exact context of that nurse’s practice. A key skill of the master’s-level nurse is to transfer evidence from the context in which it was presented and apply it to a different context in order to maximize the benefit to patients in that new context.

Professional Context

Master’s-level nurses understand the importance of utilizing evidence-based practice in their healthcare setting. The challenge is bridging the gap between the evidence and clinical practice. “This is the way we’ve always done it,” is a common response and may not indicate evidence-based practice is being utilized. Furthermore, when a practice problem is identified, what are the steps to communicate the need for change with the interprofessional team?

One way to communicate the need for quality improvements, as well as your plans for achieving specific changes, is through a presentation poster. This type of communication tool is used both in the workplace and at professional and academic conferences. Being able to convey the essence and value of a project in a compelling and succinct way is a valuable skill, and it is vital within the constraints of a single poster.

Scenario

You have been asked to give a poster presentation based around your work and research on a clinical problem in your practice setting. The purpose is to lay out the evidence and a potential implementation plan to your colleagues in order to bridge the gap between the evidence and the practice to improve the quality and outcomes of care.

Instructions

Identify a clinical problem in your work setting and develop an implementation plan to carry out your evidence-based practice proposal using a poster presentation. ]

Your Implementation Plan should include the following:

· Background on the clinical problem.

· PICOT question.

· Stakeholders that will be impacted.

· Action plan for implementation.

· Potential barriers to project implementation.

· Baseline data that will be needed to evaluate outcomes.

· Search strategy and databases used.

· Summary of the evidence with a critical appraisal of its quality.

The bullet points below correspond to the grading criteria in the scoring guide. Be sure that your poster presentation addresses all of them.

· Develop a PICOT question for a chosen clinical problem.

. Include a graphic that is relevant to the clinical problem.

. Provide a background on the clinical problem identified.

· Outline an action plan to implement the EBP project that includes:

. The recommended practice change.

. Proposed timeline for implementation.

. The tools or resources that will be needed to support the project.

· Identify the stakeholders and potential barriers to project implementation.

. Who are the stakeholders that will be impacted?

. What are the potential barriers, such as a lack of knowledge, time, skill level, motivation, or resources that could impact project implementation?

· Propose outcome criteria to evaluate the evidence-based practice project.

. How will outcomes be measured?

. How do your outcomes align with the Quadruple Aim?

· Evaluate the evidence that supports the need for practice change.

. In the notes section of your poster presentation:

. Describe your search strategy and databases that were used.

. Summarize your findings with a critical appraisal of the quality and relevance of your resources.

· Convey purpose of the poster presentation in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly communication standards.

. Integrates relevant and credible sources of evidence to support assertions, using current APA style.

If you choose not to use the provided template, there are templates in PowerPoint or on the Internet that can help you get a start designing your poster.

Submission Requirements

· Font and font size: Appropriate size and weight for a presentation, generally 24–28 points for headings; no smaller than 18 points for bullet-point text. Use a suitable professional typeface, such as Times or Arial, throughout the presentation.

· Length of presentation: No more than five minutes.

· Number of references: Cite a minimum of 3–5 sources of current scholarly or professional evidence that support your evaluation, recommendations, and plans. Current source material is defined as no older than five years unless it is a seminal work.

· APA formatting: Resources and citations are formatted according to current APA style.

Competencies Measured

By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:

· Competency 1: Apply evidence-based practice to plan patient-centered care.

. Outline an action plan to implement the evidence-based practice project that includes the recommendations for practice change, a timeline, and tools or resources needed.

· Competency 2: Apply evidence-based practice to design interventions to improve population health.

. Identify the stakeholders and potential barriers to project implementation.

· Competency 3: Evaluate outcomes of evidence-based interventions.

. Develop a PICOT question for a chosen clinical problem.

. Propose outcome criteria for evaluating the evidence-based practice project and how the outcomes will be measured.

· Competency 4: Evaluate the value and relative weight of available evidence upon which to make a clinical decision.

. Evaluate the value and relevance of the evidence that supports the need for a practice change.

· Competency 5: Synthesize evidence-based practice and academic research to communicate effective solutions.

. Convey purpose of the poster presentation in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly communication standards.

For this assessment, you will develop a 3-5 page paper that examines a safety quality issue pertaining to medication administration in a health care setting. You will analyze the issue and examine potential evidence-based and best-practice solutions from the literature as well as the role of nurses and other stakeholders in addressing the issue.

Health care organizations and professionals strive to create safe environments for patients; however, due to the complexity of the health care system, maintaining safety can be a challenge. Since nurses comprise the largest group of health care professionals, a great deal of responsibility falls in the hands of practicing nurses. Quality improvement (QI) measures and safety improvement plans are effective interventions to reduce medical errors and sentinel events such as medication errors, falls, infections, and deaths. A 2000 Institute of Medicine (IOM) report indicated that almost one million people are harmed annually in the United States, (Kohn et al., 2000) and 210,000–440,000 die as a result of medical errors (Allen, 2013).

The role of the baccalaureate nurse includes identifying and explaining specific patient risk factors, incorporating evidence-based solutions to improving patient safety and coordinating care. A solid foundation of knowledge and understanding of safety organizations such as Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN), the Institute of Medicine (IOM), and The Joint Commission and its National Patient Safety Goals (NPSGs) program is vital to practicing nurses with regard to providing and promoting safe and effective patient care.

You are encouraged to complete the Identifying Safety Risks and Solutions activity. This activity offers an opportunity to review a case study and practice identifying safety risks and possible solutions. We have found that learners who complete course activities and review resources are more successful with first submissions. Completing course activities is also a way to demonstrate course engagement.

Demonstration of Proficiency

By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:

• Competency 1: Analyze the elements of a successful quality improvement initiative.
  • Explain evidence-based and best-practice solutions to improve patient safety focusing on medication administration and reducing costs.
• Competency 2: Analyze factors that lead to patient safety risks.
  • Explain factors leading to a specific patient-safety risk focusing on medication administration.
• Competency 4: Explain the nurse’s role in coordinating care to enhance quality and reduce costs.
  • Explain how nurses can help coordinate care to increase patient safety with medication administration and reduce costs.
  • Identify stakeholders with whom nurses would need to coordinate to drive quality and safety enhancements with medication administration.
• Competency 5: Apply professional, scholarly, evidence-based strategies to communicate in a manner that supports safe and effective patient care.
  • Organize content so ideas flow logically with smooth transitions; contains few errors in grammar or punctuation, word choice, and spelling.
  • Apply APA formatting to in-text citations and references exhibiting nearly flawless adherence to APA format.

References

Allen, M. (2013). How many die from medical mistakes in U.S. hospitals? Retrieved from https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2013/09/20/224507654/how-many-die-from-medical-mistakes-in-u-s-hospitals.

Kohn, L. T., Corrigan, J., & Donaldson, M. S. (Eds.). (2000). To err is human: Building a safer health system. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.

Professional Context

As a baccalaureate-prepared nurse, you will be responsible for implementing quality improvement (QI) and patient safety measures in health care settings. Effective quality improvement measures result in systemic and organizational changes, ultimately leading to the development of a patient safety culture.

Scenario

Consider a previous experience or hypothetical situation pertaining to medication errors, and consider how the error could have been prevented or alleviated with the use of evidence-based guidelines.

Choose a specific condition of interest surrounding a medication administration safety risk and incorporate evidence-based strategies to support communication and ensure safe and effective care.   

For this assessment:

• Analyze a current issue or experience in clinical practice surrounding a medication administration safety risk and identify a quality improvement (QI) initiative in the health care setting.

Instructions

The purpose of this assessment is to better understand the role of the baccalaureate-prepared nurse in enhancing quality improvement (QI) measures that address a medication administration safety risk. This will be within the specific context of patient safety risks at a health care setting of your choice. You will do this by exploring the professional guidelines and best practices for improving and maintaining patient safety in health care settings from organizations such as QSEN and the IOM. Looking through the lens of these professional best practices to examine the current policies and procedures currently in place at your chosen organization and the impact on safety measures for patients surrounding medication administration, you will consider the role of the nurse in driving quality and safety improvements. You will identify stakeholders in QI improvement and safety measures as well as consider evidence-based strategies to enhance quality of care and promote medication administration safety in the context of your chosen health care setting.

Be sure that your plan addresses the following, which corresponds to the grading criteria in the scoring guide. Please study the scoring guide carefully so that you know what is needed for a distinguished score.

• Explain factors leading to a specific patient-safety risk focusing on medication administration.
• Explain evidence-based and best-practice solutions to improve patient safety focusing on medication administration and reducing costs.
• Explain how nurses can help coordinate care to increase patient safety with medication administration and reduce costs.
• Identify stakeholders with whom nurses would coordinate to drive safety enhancements with medication administration.
• Communicate using writing that is clear, logical, and professional, with correct grammar and spelling, using current APA style

For this assessment, you can use a supplied template to conduct a root-cause analysis. The completed assessment will be a scholarly paper focusing on a quality or safety issue pertaining to medication administration in a health care setting of your choice as well as a safety improvement plan.

 As patient safety concerns continue to be addressed in the health care settings, nurses can play an active role in implementing safety improvement measures and plans. Often root-cause analyses are conducted and safety improvement plans are created to address sentinel or adverse events such as medication errors, patient falls, wrong-site surgery events, and hospital-acquired infections. Performing a root-cause analysis offers a systematic approach for identifying causes of problems, including process and system-check failures. Once the causes of failures have been determined, a safety improvement plan can be developed to prevent recurrences. The baccalaureate nurse’s role as a leader is to create safety improvement plans as well as disseminate vital information to staff nurses and other health care professionals to protect patients and improve outcomes.

 Scenario

For this assessment, you may choose from the following options as the subject of a root-cause analysis and safety improvement plan:

• The specific safety concern identified in your previous assessment pertaining to medication administration safety concerns.
• The readings, case studies, or a personal experience in which a sentinel event occurred surrounding an issue or concern with medication administration.

 Instructions

The purpose of this assessment is to demonstrate your understanding of and ability to analyze a root cause of a specific safety concern in a health care setting. You will create a plan to improve the safety of patients related to the concern of medication administration safety based on the results of your analysis, using the literature and professional best practices as well as the existing resources at your chosen health care setting to provide a rationale for your plan.

Use the Root Cause Analysis and Improvement template to help you to stay organized and concise. This will guide you step-by-step through the root cause analysis process.

Additionally, be sure that your plan addresses the following, which corresponds to the grading criteria in the scoring guide. Please study the scoring guide carefully so you understand what is needed for a distinguished score.

• Analyze the root cause of a patient safety issue or a specific sentinel event pertaining to medication administration in an organization.
• Apply evidence-based and best-practice strategies to address the safety issue or sentinel event pertaining to medication administration.
• Create a feasible, evidence-based safety improvement plan for safe medication administration.
• Identify organizational resources that could be leveraged to improve your plan for safe medication administration.
• Communicate in writing that is clear, logical, and professional, with correct grammar and spelling, using current APA style.

 

Additional Requirements

• Length of submission: Use the provided Root-Cause Analysis and Improvement Plan template to create a 4–6 page root cause analysis and safety improvement plan pertaining to medication administration.
• Number of references: Cite a minimum of 3 sources of scholarly or professional evidence that support your findings and considerations. Resources should be no more than 5 years old.
• APA formatting: Format references and citations according to current APA style.

You will submit a final, professional version of your sport outreach plan that includes revisions to your Sport Outreach Plan Comprehensive Draft Assignment built on instructor feedback. The assignment is part of a professional style review and revision process with the objective being for you to create a highly polished, flawless, professional quality plan.
The plan should be directed toward a general audience of your program’s hypothetical
stakeholders- partners, funding sources, participants, staff- and tell them clearly and concisely
what your organization and its activities are all about.
You will submit three Microsoft Word documents-
1. A clean version of the Final Sport Outreach Plan
2. A version that uses the track changes function and your comments where necessary to
clearly indicate where your revisions were made and what the revisions are.
3. A well-organized and clear log of all changes and revisions from the Sport Outreach Plan
Comprehensive Draft  

Instructions:
Research an employee relations case using the following website:  https://www.canlii.org/en/ab/

1. Identify the issues or problems that took place both short term and long term and how the issue or problem could of all been avoided by being proactive.
2. Give a recommendation going forward as if you were the employee relations expert consulting to the company. Draw on what you have learned through the class and the text book if applicable.

Hot Tip: Remember to complete the executive summary last, as it is a summary of section II-VI and information will be repeated.

Required Sections and Guidelines

• Executive Summary, 2 points
  • In 2-3 sentences, summarize the case and issue(s) at high level of the employer and key person (s) (hyperlink the case from CanLII as well)
  • Briefly identify the major problems facing the employer and key person (s)
  • Summarize the judgement and or the recommendation of the case.
• Statement of Problem, 2 points
  • State the problems facing the employer/key person (min 1 – 3)
  • TIP: Include a hyperlink to the page if available
• Causes of Problem, 2 points
  • Identify and link the symptoms and root causes of the problems (How did we get here) (min 1 – 3)
  • Differentiate short term from long term problems
  • Conclude with the decision facing the Judge if any 
• Decision Criteria, 2 points
  • Identify criteria, documentations and/or reference material used in the case.
    • Criteria/References/Case Law (External) (min 1 – 3 each)
    • Documentation/Policies/Reports (Internal) (min 1 – 3 each)
  • TIP: If you are unable to find this data then reference some similar past cases and any internal material that the company should have in place. 
• Recommended Solution and/or justification, 2 points
  • Identify the judgment, and penalty as a result. If there was no information of the case being resolved explain what you think could be a likely court order or what the company should do to prevent this to going to Alberta Employment Standards or to the courts?
  • Judgment or potential judgement in your opinion
  • Financial penalties or your thoughts around what this could cost the company (May be more than financial cost) 
• Reflection / Summary, 2 points
  • In a 5-7 sentence Summary: How could have the issue been avoided? What proactive measures could have been in placed to prevent this situation? What would you recommend to this organization as an employee relations consultant?

 Research an employee relations case using the following website https://www.canlii.org/en/ab/ . Your task will be to identify the issues or problems that took place both short term and long term. Think also about how this could of all been avoided by being proactive. Give a recommendation going forward as if you were the employee relations expert consulting to the company. Draw on what you have learned through the class and the text book if applicable. Remember to complete the executive summary last, as it is a summary of section II-VI and information will be repeated.

 

Required Sections	Format For Written Case Analysis Guidelines
I. Executive Summary     (2 Points)   Complete last	In 2-3 sentences, summarize the case and issue(s) at high level of the employer and key person (s) (hyperlink the case so I can find it)   Answer:   Briefly identify the major problems facing the employer and key person (s)   Answer:   Summarize the judgement and or the recommendation of the case.   Answer:
II. Statement of the Problem   (2 Points)	State the problems facing the employer/key person   Answer (hyperlink to page if available): A B C
III.  Causes of the Problem   (2 Points)	Identify and link the symptoms and root causes of the problems (How did we get here)   Answer : A B C Differentiate short term from long term problems   Answer: Short Term: Long Term:   Conclude with the decision facing the Judge if any
IV. Decision Criteria   (2 Points)	Identify criteria, documentations and/or reference material used in the case.   Criteria/References/Case Law (External): A B C   Documentation/Policies/Reports (internal): A B C If you are unable to find this data then reference some similar past cases and any internal material that the company should have in place.
V.  Recommended Solution, Justification   (2 Points)	Identify the judgment, and penalty as a result. If there was no information of the case being resolved explain what you think could be a likely court order or what the company should do to prevent this to going to Alberta Employment Standards or to the courts?   Judgment or potential judgement in your opinion: A Financial penalties or your thoughts around what this could cost the company (May be more than financial cost)
VI.  Reflection   (2 Points)	In a 5-7 sentence Summary: How could have the issue been avoided? What proactive measures could have been in placed to prevent this situation? What would you recommend to this organization as an employee relations consultant?
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