Category: Nursing

Prepare an evaluation (5-7 pages) of an existing QI initiative to determine if the initiative is effective.
Too often, discussions about quality health care, care costs, and outcome measures take place in isolation—various groups talking among themselves about results and enhancements. Nurses are critical to the delivery of high-quality, efficient health care. As a result, they must develop their skills in reviewing and evaluating performance reports. They also need to be able to communicate outcome measures related to quality initiatives effectively. Patient safety and positive institutional health care outcomes mandate collaboration among nursing staff members to ensure the integration of their perspectives in all quality care initiatives.
In the first assessment, you analyzed an adverse event or a near miss, and outlined a QI initiative to address it. This assessment will give you practice and the confidence to evaluate a quality care initiative in much the same way you might in your health care setting to
help determine if the initiative is effective.
Too often, discussions about quality health care, care costs, and outcome measures take place in isolation—each group talking among themselves about results and enhancements. Because nurses are critical to the delivery of high-quality, efficient health care, it is essential that they develop the proficiency to review, evaluate performance reports, and be able to effectively communicate outcome measures related
to quality initiatives. The nursing staff’s perspective and the need to
collaborate on quality care initiatives are fundamental to patient safety and positive institutional health care outcomes.
Imagine you have been asked to prepare and deliver an analysis of an existing QI initiative at your workplace. The QI initiative you choose to analyze should be related to a specific disease, condition, or public
health issue of personal or professional interest to you. The purpose of the report is to assess whether the specific quality indicators point
to improved patient safety, quality of care, cost and efficiency goals,
and other desired metrics. Your target audience is nurses and other health professionals with specializations or interest in your chosen condition, disease, or public health issue.
In your report, you will:
Analyze a current QI initiative in a health care setting.
Identify what prompted implementation of the QI initiative.
Evaluate problems that arose during the initiative or problems that were not addressed.
Evaluate the success of a current QI initiative through recognized benchmarks and outcome measures as required to meet national,
state, or accreditation requirements.
Identify the core performance measurements related to successful treatment or management of the condition.
Evaluate the impact of the quality indicators on the health care facility.
Incorporate interprofessional perspectives related to the success of actions used in the QI initiative as they relate to functionality and outcomes.
Recommend additional indicators and protocols to improve and expand outcomes of a current quality initiative.
Ensure your analysis conveys purpose, in an appropriate tone and
style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly writing standards.
Be sure to address all of the bullet points. You may also want to read the Quality Improvement Initiative Evaluation Scoring Guide to better understand the performance levels that relate to each grading criterion. Additionally, be sure to review the Guiding Questions: Quality Improvement Initiative Evaluation [DOCX] document for additional clarification about things to consider when creating your assessment.
Your assessment should also meet the following requirements:
Length of submission: A minimum of five but no more than seven double-spaced, typed pages, not including the title page and References section.
Number of references: Cite a minimum of four sources of scholarly or professional evidence that support your evaluation, recommendations, and plans. Current source material is defined as no older than five years unless it is a seminal work. Review the Nursing Master’s Program (MSN) Library Guide for guidance.
APA formatting: Resources and citations are formatted according to current APA style. Review the Evidence and APA section of the Writing Center for guidance.
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your
proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:
Competency 2: Plan quality improvement initiatives in response to routine data surveillance.
Recommend additional indicators and protocols to improve and expand outcomes of a quality initiative.
Competency 3: Evaluate quality improvement initiatives using sensitive and sound outcome measures.
Analyze a current quality improvement initiative in a health care setting.
Evaluate the success of a current quality improvement initiative through recognized benchmarks and outcome measures as required to meet national, state, or accreditation requirements.
Competency 4: Integrate interprofessional perspectives to lead quality improvements in patient safety, cost effectiveness, and work life quality.
Incorporate interprofessional perspectives related to the success of actions utilized in a quality improvement initiative as they relate to functionality and outcomes.
Competency 5: Apply effective communication strategies to promote quality improvement of interprofessional care.
Convey purpose, in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly writing standards.
AREAS NEEDS TO RETOUCHED
Competency 4
Integrate
interprofessional perspectives to lead quality improvements in patient safety, cost effectiveness, and work life quality.
Criterion
Incorporate
interprofessional perspectives related to the success of actions utilized in a quality improvement initiative as they relate to functionality and outcomes.
Your Result:BASIC
Attempts to incorporate
interprofessional perspectives,
but includes insufficient
interprofessional feedback
related to initiative functionality
and outcomes.
Faculty Comments:I
can see that you attempted to incorporate interprofessional perspectives related to initiative functionality and outcomes. Who did you talk to? What was team’s perspective? What specific details can you provide to strengthen your interprofessional feedback related to initiative functionality and outcomes? Please take a look at the “distinguished” requirements for this section so you will see what needs
to be added.
Competency 5
Apply effective communication strategies to promote quality improvement of interprofessional care.
Criterion
Convey
purpose, in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly writing standards.
Your Result:NON_PERFORMANCE
Does
not convey purpose, in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and writing scholarly standards.
Faculty Comments:Your
assessment was well written, organized and had credible, reliable resources. However, you assignment is not written in APA format, which is a requirement for all assessments. I strongly encourage you to reach out to your tutor, who has wonderful resources to help you with APA. Here’s a link to the Capella Writing Center to learn more about scholarly writing: https://campus.capella.edu/web/writing-center/home
Here’s a link to APA formatting that may be helpful: http://www.apastyle.org/learn/tutorials/basics-tutorial.aspx

Doctoral Degree in Nursing
For this week’s online class activity, you will review the three articles assigned to you within this week’s module. In at least 250 words, you will explain the differences between the Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Nursing, and the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP). When does one degree seem more appropriate than the other?

PLEASE FOLLOW ALL DIRECTIONS. APA 7TH EDITION IS A MUST. 
SCENARIO 
For this assessment, assume you are a nurse attending a meeting of your state’s nurses association. A nurse informaticist conducted a presentation on her role and its impact on positive patient and organizational outcomes in her workplace. You realize that your organization is undergoing many technological changes. You believe this type of role could provide many benefits to your organization.
Review the focus of the new nurse informaticist position you will propose by examining the Assessment 01 Supplement: Nursing Informatics in Health Care [PDF] Download Assessment 01 Supplement: Nursing Informatics in Health Care [PDF]resource.
You decide to pursue proposing a nurse informaticist role in your organization. You speak to your chief nursing officer (CNO) and human resources (HR) manager, who ask you to prepare a 4–5 page evidence-based proposal to support the new role. In this way, they can make an informed decision as to whether the addition of such a role could justify the return on investment (ROI). They need your proposal before an upcoming fiscal meeting. This is not an essay, but instead, it is a proposal to create a new Nurse Informaticist position.
One important part of this assessment is the justification of the need for a nurse informaticist in a health care organization and references from relevant and timely scholarly or professional resources to support the justification for creating this nurse informaticist position. The term justify means to show or prove that the nurse informaticist position brings value to the organization. This justification must include evidence from the literature to support that this position will provide a return on investment for the organization.  
PROPOSAL FORMAT
The chief nursing officer (CNO) and human resources (HR) manager have asked you to include the headings below in your proposal and to be sure to address the bullets following each heading. Remember that you will emphasize the focus of the new nurse informaticist position as described in the Assessment 01 Supplement: Nursing Informatics in Health Care [PDF] Download Assessment 01 Supplement: Nursing Informatics in Health Care [PDF]resource.
Nursing Informatics and the Nurse Informaticist
What is nursing informatics?
What is the role of the nurse informaticist?
Nurse Informaticists and Other Health Care Organizations
What is the experience of other health care organizations with nurse informaticists?
How do these nurse informaticists interact with the rest of the nursing staff and the interdisciplinary team?
Impact of Full Nurse Engagement in Health Care Technology
How does fully engaging nurses in health care technology impact:
Patient care?
Protected health information (security, privacy, and confidentiality)?
In this section, you will explain evidence-based strategies that the nurse informaticist and interdisciplinary team can use to effectively manage patients’ protected health information, particularly privacy, security, and confidentiality. Evidence-based means that they are supported by evidence from scholarly sources.
Workflow?
Costs and return on investment?
Opportunities and Challenges
What are the opportunities and challenges for nurses and the interdisciplinary team with the addition of a nurse informaticist role?
How can the interdisciplinary team collaborate to improve quality care outcomes through technology?
Summary of Recommendations
What are 3–4 key takeaways from your proposal about the recommended nurse informaticist role that you want the CNO and the HR manager to remember?
This is the section where the justification for the implementation of the nursing informaticist role is addressed. Remember to include evidence from the literature to support your recommendation.
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS
Written communication: Ensure written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message.
Submission length: 4–5 double-spaced pages, in addition to title and references pages.
Font: Times New Roman, 12 point.
Citations and References: Cite a minimum of three current scholarly and/or authoritative sources to support your ideas. In addition, cite a minimum of one current professional blog or website to support your central ideas. Current means no more than five years old.
APA formatting: Be sure to follow APA formatting and style guidelines for citations and references. For an APA refresher, consult the Evidence and APA page on Campus.
COMPETENCIES MEASURED
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:
Competency 1: Describe nurses’ and the interdisciplinary team’s role in informatics with a focus on electronic health information and patient care technology to support decision making.
Define nursing informatics and the role of the nurse informaticist.
Explain how the nurse collaborates with the interdisciplinary team, including technologists, to improve the quality of patient care.
Justify the need for a nurse informaticist in a health care organization.
Competency 2: Implement evidence-based strategies to effectively manage protected health information.
Explain evidence-based strategies that the nurse and interdisciplinary team can use to effectively manage patients protected health information (privacy, security, and confidentiality).
Competency 5: Apply professional, scholarly communication to facilitate use of health information and patient care technologies.
Follow APA style and formatting guidelines for citations and references.
Create a clear, well-organized, and professional proposal that is generally free from errors in grammar, punctuation, and spelling.

Select a research article that uses a randomized controlled trial focusing on a clinical nursing problem of your choice. Use this research article to address the following questions:
Provide an APA reference of the article including a GCU permalink or working link used to access the article.
Using the “CASP Randomized Controlled Trial Checklist,” found in topic Resources, evaluate the study. Based on your findings, summarize the critical appraisal of the selected research article.
Do the benefits of the experimental intervention outweigh the harms and costs? Identify and discuss one other ethical consideration applicable to quantitative research studies such as this one.
Initial discussion question posts should be a minimum of 200 words and include at least two references cited using APA format. Responses to peers or faculty should be 100-150 words and include one reference. Refer to “RN-BSN Discussion Question Rubric” and “RN-BSN Participation Rubric,” located in Class Resources, to understand the expectations for initial discussion question posts and participation posts, respectively.

Read/review the following resources for this activity:
Cummings-Clay, D. (n.d.). Child developmentLinks to an external site.. Pressbooks. https://library.achievingthedream.org/hostoschilddevelopmenteducation/
Module 8. Prenatal Development
Module 9: Early Childhood
Lally, M., & Valentine-French, S. (2019). Lifespan development: A psychological perspectiveLinks to an external site. (2nd ed.). Open Textbook Library. https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/lifespan-development-a-psychological-perspective
Chapter 7. Emerging and Early Adulthood
Chapter 8. Middle Adulthood
Chapter 9. Late Adulthood
edapt concepts
Minimum of 2 scholarly sources (in addition to the edapt and ebook resources listed above). Remember to use the Chamberlain LibraryLinks to an external site. to research scholarly resources 
A review of the scholarly literature will uncover a prevalence of risky sexual behaviors and a high rate of sexually transmitted infections in individuals over 60 years of age. For this assignment, it is your responsibility to investigate the phenomenon of increased sexually transmitted infections, and you must provide at least 3 well-researched reasons why the elderly are at an increased risk of contracting an STI compared to their younger counterparts. And finally, provide at least 2 possible solutions to quell this problem. 
In side quotes 
reference
APA 7 format

I want a thorough work done. Harvard cite them rite  format. No plagiarism, no AI. Scholarly sources not more than 5 years. Follow the project plan structure 

Design a training session presentation for one of the role groups in the organization that will be responsible for implementation.
Introduction
Training and educating those within an organization who are responsible for implementing and working with changes in organizational policy is a critical step in ensuring that prescribed changes have their intended benefit. A leader in a health care profession must be able to apply effective leadership, management, and educational strategies to ensure that colleagues and subordinates will be prepared to do the work that is asked of them.
As a master’s-level health care practitioner, you may be asked to design training sessions to help ensure the smooth implementation of any number of initiatives in your health care setting. The ability to create an agenda that will ensure your training goals will be met, and will fit into the allotted time, is a valuable skill for preparing colleagues to be successful in their practice.
This assessment offers you an opportunity to develop and implement effective educational strategies.
Instructions
To help ensure a smooth rollout and implementation of your proposed policy and practice guidelines, design a training session presentation for one of the role groups in the organization that will be responsible for implementation.
·         Provide a brief summary of your strategies for working with your chosen role group.
·         Explain the impact of the new policy on the group and the importance of the change to improve quality of care.
·         Explain how the group is important in implementing your proposed policy and practice guidelines and why you chose this group to pilot your proposal.
·         Determine appropriate instructional content and explain to the group the learning activities and materials they should expect during the training session.
·         Prepare an annotated agenda for a two-hour training session.
During this training session, you will want to ensure that the individuals you are training understand the new policy and practice guidelines. You will need them to buy into the importance of the policy in improving the quality of care or outcomes and their key role in successful policy implementation. You must help them acquire the knowledge and skills they need to be successful in implementing the policy and practice guidelines.
As outcomes of this training session, participants are expected to:
·         Understand the organizational policy and practice guidelines to be implemented.
·         Understand the importance of the policy to improving quality or outcomes.
·         Understand that, as a group, they are key to successful implementation.
·         Possess the necessary knowledge and skills for successful implementation.
Requirements
The strategy summary and annotated training agenda requirements outlined below correspond to the scoring guide criteria, so be sure to address each main point. Read the performance-level descriptions for each criterion to see how your work will be assessed. In addition, be sure to note the requirements for document format and length and for supporting evidence.
·         Summarize evidence-based strategies for working with the role group to obtain their buy-in and prepare them to implement the new policy and apply the associated practice guidelines to their work.
o    Why will these strategies be effective?
o    What measures might provide early indications of success?
·         Explain the impact of the new policy and practice guidelines.
o    How they will be implemented?
o    How will they affect the daily work routines and responsibilities of the role group?
·         Justify the importance of the new policy and practice guidelines with regard to improving the quality of care or outcomes related to the role group’s work.
o    How will the policy and guidelines help improve the quality of care or outcomes?
·         Explain the role group’s importance in implementing the new policy and practice guidelines.
o    Why is the work and buy-in of the role group important for successful implementation?
o    How could you help the group feel empowered by their involvement during implementation?
·         Determine appropriate and effective instructional content, learning activities, and materials for the training session.
o    How will each proposed activity on your agenda support learning and skill development?
o    Can you complete the training within the allotted two hours?
·         Deliver a persuasive, coherent, and effective audiovisual presentation.
o    Be sure that the information and arguments you present are aligned with the needs of your audience.
o    Review the organization of your slides for clarity.
o    Proofread your slides to minimize errors that could distract the audience or make your message more difficult to understand.
Presentation Format and Length
You may use Microsoft PowerPoint or other suitable presentation software to create your slides. If you elect to use an application other than PowerPoint, check with your faculty to avoid potential file compatibility issues.
If using PowerPoint to create your presentation slides, you may use the SoNHS Professional Presentation Guidelines [PPTX] as a template. Be sure that your slide deck includes the following slides:
·         Title slide.
o    Presentation title.
o    Your name.
o    Date.
o    Course number and title.
·         References (at the end of your presentation). Apply current APA formatting to all citations and references.
Your slide deck should consist of 8–12 slides, not including a title slide and references slide.
Ensure you provide speaker notes for each slide to fully address scoring guide criteria.
Supporting Evidence
Cite 2–4 external sources to support your strategies for working with the group you have identified and generating their buy-in, as well as for your approach to the training session, activities, and materials.
Portfolio Prompt: You may choose to save your report to your ePortfolio
Competencies Measured
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:
·         Competency 1: Analyze relevant health care laws, policies, and regulations; their application; and their effects on organizations, interprofessional teams, and professional practice.
o    Explain the impact of a new policy and practice guidelines.
·         Competency 2: Lead the development and implementation of ethical and culturally sensitive policies that improve health outcomes for individuals, organizations, and populations.
o    Justify the importance of a new policy and practice guidelines with regard to improving the quality of care or outcomes related to a selected role group’s work.
·         Competency 4: Develop strategies to work collaboratively with policy makers, stakeholders, and colleagues to address environmental (governmental and regulatory) forces.
o    Summarize evidence-based strategies for working with a selected role group to promote their buy-in and prepare them to implement a new policy and apply associated practice guidelines to their work.
o    Explain a selected role group’s importance in implementing a new policy and practice guidelines.
o    Determine appropriate and effective instructional content, learning activities, and materials for a training session.
·         Competency 5: Produce clear, coherent, and professional written work, in accordance with Capella’s writing standards.
o    Deliver a persuasive, coherent, and effective audiovisual presentation.

The objective of this assignment is for students to display their knowledge on Electronic Healthcare Records
and how EHR as part of nursing informatics, shaped the healthcare industry.
This assignment requires an APA style and format, has to be in word doc and at least, 2-3 pages long excluding
the title and reference pages.

The annotated bibliography must include the citations (the bibliography) to books, articles, and documents utilized to develop the presentation followed by a brief (usually about 150 — 200 words per citation) descriptive and evaluative paragraph (the annotation). The purpose of the annotation is to inform the instructor of the relevance, accuracy, and quality of the sources cited.
Students are required to cite four (4) academic references (one reference being the course textbook and the other three consisting of academic journals, books and other published documents). Intemet websites are not acceptable academic reference. Therefore, the completed annotated bibliography will contain at least four (4) paragraphs, each with a citation and annotation informing the instructor of the relevance, accuracy, and quality of the source cited.
The annotated bibliography must be completed utilizing APA format (12-point font and 1-inch margins, name on the paper, APA citation format, etc.). For a sample of what an Annotated Bibliography_is, visit Purdue Owl Online Writing Lab.

Activity 5
Health Assessment Tool
Create an audio/visual presentation that will describe a healthcare education tool for a specific health need of a specific population that is different than your own.
The presentation should:
Identify the population and how it is different than your own.
Discuss the importance of the health need.
Identify special learning challenges this population faces.
Include a description of the tool to teach the information and explain how it works.
Discuss how the literature supports the use of the technology you have chosen.
Explain how the tool contributes to critical thinking.
Explain how the tool contributes to nursing practice and patient outcomes.
Guidelines:
1.  Choose a population that is different than your own. For example: if you are a 25-year-old woman, who is a U.S citizen and only speak English, choose an older male patient who is from another race, culture, or ethnicity and who speaks limited English).  
Identify the population and how it is different than your own.
Discuss the importance of the health need. For this population.  For example: there is an increased incidence of type 2 diabetes mellitus in the teen population so there a need for a tool to address this population’s special needs.
Identify special learning challenges this population faces. For example: income, sensory impairment, or language.
2.  Develop a teaching tool: Incorporate technology/multimedia into your tool. For example: texts, twitter, blogs, email, YouTube video, video-conferencing, Skype, computer or cell phone app, electronic brochures, and electronic booklets.
Include a description of the tool to teach the information. Explain how the tool works but you do not have to actually create the tool. For example: your tool may be a website, but you do not have to actually create the site.
3. Discussion:
Discuss how the literature supports the use of the technology you have chosen.
Explain how the tool contributes to critical thinking – what skills does it develops.
Explain how the tool contributes to nursing practice and patient outcomes.
Important note:  Develop education materials at the sixth-grade reading level to ensure the general population will understand the information.  Use this simple readability index calculator to check any text that you may incorporate into your teaching materials.  Just click on the link, and when it opens, copy and paste an example from your written text to reveal the reading level.  You can also use Microsoft Word to assess the reading level of your written content by selecting review, spelling and grammar, readability statistics. 
Do not include:
A description of the disease process
What the client can expect from the disease
Extraneous information; For example: if you are creating a tool for patients who have lung cancer do not include statistics about lung cancer unless it is part of your tool. 
Reading and Resources
Read Chapter 9 In Rubenfeld, M. G., & Scheffer, B.K. (2015). Critical thinking TACTICS for nurses: Achieving the IOM competencies (3rd ed.). Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett.
Read Ainsley, B., & Brown, A. (2009). The impact of informatics on nursing education: A review of the literature. Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing 40(5) 228-32.   
Play Video
Additional Instructions:
All submissions should have a title page and reference page.
Utilize a minimum of two scholarly resources.
Adhere to grammar, spelling and punctuation criteria.
Adhere to APA compliance guidelines.
Adhere to the chosen Submission Option for Delivery of Activity guidelines.
Submission Options
Choose One:
Instructions:
Other media (Prezi, etc.) presentation
8 to 12 slides with speaker notes. Add title and reference slides.
Follow Rules of 7.