One of the most important roles of an advanced professional nurse is leading change to improve healthcare delivery or outcomes through evidence-based innovation in practice. In this assessment, you will demonstrate competency as a nurse innovator by discussing disruptive innovation, identifying the benefits and challenges of analyzing big and small data, and proposing an evidence-based disruptive innovation to enhance healthcare for a designated population. To successfully complete the assessment, you will demonstrate competency in essential elements of innovation such as disruption, the role of nurse innovator, and incorporating the use of data to change healthcare practices to improve outcomes. You will also demonstrate competency in how to search, appraise, level, and synthesize peer-reviewed, scholarly evidence that supports your proposed disruptive innovation in practice.
Here is the rubric of the questions that need to be answered in each section:
Use the attached “Evidence-Based Innovation Plan Template” located in the attached documents section to complete this assessment.
A. Discuss 2 examples of disruptive innovation that improved healthcare outcomes. Provide scholarly source(s).
B. Discuss how an MSN-prepared nurse innovator demonstrates one of the nursing roles described in the “WGU Nursing Programs Conceptual Model” located in Supporting Documents. The discussion should be detailed, with at least one example, and should specifically focus on one of the three nursing roles included in the WGU Nursing Programs Conceptual Model:
• Nurse as Detective
• Nurse as Scientist
• Nurse as Manager of the Healing Environment
C. Discuss the use of big data and technology in nursing innovation by doing the following:
1. Describe one benefit and one challenge of using big data to support innovation.
2. Discuss how the American Nurses Association (ANA) Code of Ethics guides ethical utilization of big data in developing innovative practices. The discussion should include 1 scholarly source.
3. Describe an example of a new technology or technology enhancement that resulted in improved outcomes in a healthcare organization.
D. Discuss a disruptive innovation by doing the following:
1. Describe a proposed disruptive innovation and how the innovation will improve healthcare outcomes in a specific healthcare organization.
2. Describe the healthcare organization in which the disruptive innovation is proposed, including the type of organization, urban or rural setting, and population served.
3. Discuss how the disruptive innovation in D1 supports a goal or strategy related to improvement in the healthcare delivery or health outcomes of the selected healthcare organization.
E. Provide scholarly evidence for your disruptive innovation by doing the following:
1. Complete the Relevant Sources Summary Table located in the Evidence-Based Innovation Plan Template to appraise 5 relevant peer-reviewed scholarly sources using the “WGU Evidence Leveling Tool” located in Supporting Documents. The sources must be published in the last five years.
2. Synthesize the findings of all the 5 peer-reviewed scholarly sources from E1, including identification of themes.
Note: Refer to Unit 3 Appraising and Synthesizing the Evidence in the course materials (p. 29). Suggested length 1–2 pages.
3. Discuss how the evidence supports the disruptive innovation described in D1.
Note: Refer to Essential Reading Chapter 5: “Literature Reviews: finding and Critically Appraising Evidence” in the course materials (p. 29).
F. Reflect on the role of nurse innovator by doing the following:
1. Discuss how developing an evidence-based disruptive innovation proposal to improve healthcare outcomes has changed your understanding of the advanced professional nurse role.
2. Describe 2 strategies a nurse innovator would use to support a culture of disruptive innovation in a healthcare organization.
G. Acknowledge sources, using in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.
