To Prepare:
- Review the Resources and reflect on your thinking regarding the role of the nurse in the design and implementation of new healthcare programs.
- Select a healthcare program within your practice and consider the design and implementation of this program.
- Reflect on advocacy efforts and the role of the nurse in relation to healthcare program design and implementation.
The Assignment:
In a 2 1/2 page paper, create an interview transcript of your responses to the following interview questions:
- Tell us about a healthcare program, within your practice. What are the costs and projected outcomes of this program?
- Who is your target population?
- What is the role of the nurse in providing input for the design of this healthcare program? Can you provide examples?
- What is your role as an advocate for your target population for this healthcare program? Do you have input into design decisions? How else do you impact design?
- What is the role of the nurse in healthcare program implementation? How does this role vary between design and implementation of healthcare programs? Can you provide examples?
- Who are the members of a healthcare team that you believe are most needed to implement a program? Can you explain why?
American Nurses Association (ANA). (n.d.). Advocacy
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- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). (n.d.). Step by step: Evaluating violence and injury prevention policies: Brief 4: Evaluating policy implementation
- Links to an external site.. Retrieved from https://www.cdc.gov/injury/pdfs/policy/Brief%204-a…
- Congress.gov
- Links to an external site.. (n.d.). Retrieved September 20, 2018, from https://www.congress.gov/
- Klein, K. J., & Sorra, J. S. (1996). The challenge of innovation implementation
- Links to an external site.. Academy of Management Review, 21(4), 1055–1080.
- Sacristán, J., & Dilla, T. D. (2015). No big data without small data: Learning health care systems begin and end with the individual patient
- Links to an external site.. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 21(6), 1014–1017.
- Tummers, L., & Bekkers, V. (2014). Policy implementation, street level bureaucracy, and the importance of discretionLinks to an external site.. Public Management Review, 16(4), 527–547.