Proposed Intervention: adopting a fall prevention protocol comprising wearable sensors to track patient mobility and ensure staff is informed of a patient’s impending fall
(Professor Feedback: Your topic is approved with the following suggestions: Narrow own to one intervention that is backed up by a professional nursing organization or EBP article and focus your paper around that intervention😀 Also focus on a report or survey pre and post to measure the success of your project and include that in your paper.)
Based on the AACN’s Essentials of Baccalaureate Education for Nursing, the student will identify a quality care or patient safety issue that exists in their clinical setting and create a proposal with goals, objectives, and strategies to address the issue. This project will integrate and demonstrate leadership and/ or management qualities which include identification of the problem, data collection, research review and interprofessional communication. Included are elements of budgeting, staffing, staff and patient satisfaction, and measurable elements that can be evaluated. The project will require collaboration with stakeholders such as quality councils, finance, nursing, and other departments. The student will attempt to present the proposed project to the leadership of the facility. Course faculty will guide the students in completion of this assignment. Yourimplementation and measurement strategies must be developed from evidence-based literature and be presented in correct APA format.
EBP Leadership Scholarly Paper for the Project:
The project focuses on a need of the unit/agency where you practice. It is a demonstration of how you have mastered the process improvement and evidence-based professional practice content grounded in the nursing process based on evidence from previous courses. The project will be presented in a scholarly paper that includes the following:
- Brief description of the practice setting
- Clear definition of the management or leadership problem
- Significance of the problem for nursing practice
- Review of the literature related to the problem (supported by peer-reviewed references)
- Proposed interventions to address the problem – Include alternatives and why you chose one intervention over the other (supported by peer-reviewed references)
- Resources required to implement – Personnel, equipment and fiscal, stakeholders, regulatory/ legal components
- Potential barriers and how to overcome
- How you will evaluate your intervention -Specific, Measurable, Attainable Goals or Outcomes – Includes the time frame and how you will measure the goals. Include any results, if implemented and available. Use SMART goals.
- Impact of the proposed interventions – Anticipated if not implemented completely
- How will you disseminate your results after the completion of the project?
- Conclusion
APA (7th ed.) format should be followed in the paper. Clear and concise writing is critical to presenting your thoughts. The paper should be 8-10 pages excluding the title page, references, and any appendices (if used). Include any handouts or PowerPoints that you might have used in presenting the project. These will be considered appendices.
