Assessing the Problem: Leadership, Collaboration, Communication, Change Management, and Policy Considerations

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In a 5 page written assessment, define the patient, family, or population health problem that will be the focus of your capstone project. Assess the problem from a leadership, collaboration, communication, change management, and policy perspective. Plan to spend approximately 2 direct practicum hours meeting with a patient, family, or group of your choice to explore the problem and, if desired, consulting with subject matter and industry experts. Document the time spent (your practicum hours) with these individuals or group in the Core Elms Volunteer Experience Form.

Introduction

Nurses in all professional roles work to effect positive patient outcomes and improve organizational processes. Professional nurses are leaders in problem identification, planning, and strategy implementationskills that directly affect patient care or organizational effectiveness.

Too often, change agents jump to a conclusion that an intervention will promote the envisioned improvement. Instead, the ideal approach is to determine which interventions are appropriate, based on an assessment and review of credible evidence. Interventions could be patient-facing or involve a change in policy and process. In this assessment, youll identify and make the case for your practicum focus area, then explore it in depth from a leadership, collaboration, communication, change management, and policy perspective.

This assessment lays the foundation for the work that will carry you through your capstone experience and guide the practicum hours needed to complete the work in this course. In addition, it will enable you to do the following:

Develop a problem statement for a patient, family, or population thats relevant to your practice.

Begin building a body of evidence that will inform your approach to your practicum.

Focus on the influence of leadership, collaboration, communication, change management, and policy on the problem.

Part 1

Define the patient, family, or population health problem that will be the focus of your capstone project. Assess the problem from a leadership, collaboration, communication, change management, and policy perspective and establish your evidence and research base to plan, implement, and share findings related to your project.

Part 2

Connect with the patient, family, or group youll work with during your practicum. During this portion of your practicum, plan to spend at least 2 hours meeting with the patient, family, or group and, if desired, consulting with subject matter and industry experts of your choice.

Requirements

Define a patient, family, or population health problem thats relevant to your practice.

Summarize the problem youll explore.

Identify the patient, family, or group you intend to work with during your practicum.

Provide context, data, or information that substantiates the presence of the problem and its significance and relevance to the patient, family, or population.

Explain why this problem is relevant to your practice as a baccalaureate-prepared nurse.

Analyze evidence from peer-reviewed literature and professional sources that describes and guides nursing actions related to the patient, family, or population problem youve defined.

Note whether the authors provide supporting evidence from the literature thats consistent with what you see in your nursing practice.

Explain how you would know if the data are unreliable.

Describe what the literature says about barriers to the implementation of evidence-based practice in addressing the problem youve defined.

Describe research that has tested the effectiveness of nursing standards and/or policies in improving patient, family, or population outcomes for this problem.

Describe current literature on the role of nurses in policy making to improve outcomes, prevent illness, and reduce hospital readmissions.

Describe what the literature says about a nursing theory or conceptual framework that might frame and guide your actions during your clinical practicum.

Explain how state board nursing practice standards and/or organizational or governmental policies could affect the patient, family, or population problem youve defined.

Describe research that has tested the effectiveness of these standards and/or policies in improving patient, family, or population outcomes for this problem.

Describe current literature on the role of nurses in policy making to improve outcomes, prevent illness, and reduce hospital readmissions.

Describe the effects of local, state, and federal policies or legislation on your nursing scope of practice, within the context of this problem.

Propose leadership strategies to improve outcomes, patient-centered care, and the patient experience related to the patient, family, or population problem youve defined.

Discuss research on the effectiveness of leadership strategies.

Define the role that you anticipate leadership must play in addressing the problem.

Describe collaboration and communication strategies that you anticipate will be needed to address the problem.

Describe the change management strategies that you anticipate will be required to address the problem.

Document the time spent (your practicum hours) with these individuals or group in the Core Elms Volunteer Experience Form.

Organize content so ideas flow logically with smooth transitions.

Apply APA style and formatting to scholarly writing.

Competency 1: Lead people and processes to improve patient, systems, and population outcomes.

Define a patient, family, or population health problem thats relevant to personal and professional practice.

Competency 2: Make clinical and operational decisions based upon the best available evidence.

Analyze evidence from peer-reviewed literature and professional sources that describes and guides nursing actions related to a defined patient, family, or population problem.

Competency 5: Analyze the impact of health policy on quality and cost of care.

Explain how state board nursing practice standards and/or organizational or governmental policies could affect a defined patient, family, or population problem.

Competency 7: Implement patient-centered care to improve quality of care and the patient experience.

Propose leadership strategies to improve outcomes, patient-centered care, and the patient experience related to a defined patient, family, or population problem and document the practicum hours spent with these individuals or group in the Core Elms Volunteer Experience Form.

Competency 8: Integrate professional standards and values into practice.

Organize content so ideas flow logically with smooth transitions.

Apply APA style and formatting to scholarly writing.