Project Translation and Planning

In this week’s assignment you work through the planning and implementation stages of the project. This will require you to determine goals, resources needed, and consider change management.

***PLEASE SEE WEEK 4 GRADING CRITERIA IN THE STUDENT ACADEMIC RESOURCE SECTION

Define an improvement goal and explain how you would measure the change.

Create a project plan, including the following: including supplies and equipment and people

• Resources needed for your project, including supplies, equipment, people
• Detailed timeframe for implementation of your project (ie. Days, months, year, etc)
• Data collection mechanisms (How will you get your data?)
• Discuss both change and nursing leadership theories to ensure success of your plan

Using a minimum of 3 scholarly/peer reviewed articles, Format your assignment as one of the following:

• 18- to 20-slide presentation in APA format with speaker notes (slide count does not include the title and reference slide)
• 875 to 1000 -word paper in APA format (title and reference page not included in word count)

Materials

Review key quality improvement strategies to apply to this week’s assignment:

• Root Cause Analysis from The Joint Commission
• Root Cause Analysis from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
• Failure Modes and Effects Analysis from Institute for Healthcare Improvement
• Plan-Do-Study-Act from Institute for Healthcare Improvement

Note: The Failure Modes and Effects Analysis document is provided from www.IHI.org with permission of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), ©2004.

Please Note: To meet substantive post requirements, your response must be a minimum of 150 words in length and use at least one scholarly/peer reviewed reference appropriately cited per APA format in the response and referenced at the end of your post in APA format to support your response.

Explore evidence-based practice models:

• The Iowa Model of Evidence-Based Practice to Promote Quality Care from AORN Journal, Volume 103, Issue 1, January 2016, page 53, from this week’s Electronic Reserve Readings
• Johns Hopkins Nursing Evidence-Based Practice Model and PET tool from Johns Hopkins Nursing Evidence-Based Practice: Models and Guidelines

How has the EBP movement influenced nursing practice, education, and research?

Please Note: To meet substantive post requirements, your response should be a minimum of 150 words in length and use at least one scholarly/peer reviewed reference appropriately cited per APA format in the response and referenced at the end of your post in APA format to support your response.