how can i assess the effect of the patient, family, or population problem you've previously defined on the quality of care, patient safety, and costs to the system and individual.
Practicum Focus Sheet, Assessment 2
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Practicum Focus Sheet Assessment 2
Note: Expect to spend at least 2 hours with the patient, family, or group you’ll be working with during this portion of your practicum, exploring issues of patient safety, quality, and costs associated with the health problem you’ve defined. This includes time spent in consultation with subject matter or industry experts. You’ll report on the results of this work as part of your next assessment. For this portion of your practicum, discuss, in depth, how the problem will affect patient safety, quality of care, and costs. Consider the following questions to help guide your exploration of quality, safety, and costs and to make the most of your time:
• Has the patient, family or group experienced any serious safety events because of the problem?
• How many times have they gone to the emergency department (ED)?
• How many times have they been hospitalized?
• What is the frequency of ED visits or hospitalizations?
• How many medications are needed to manage the problem?
• Does insurance pay for these medications?
• Have the medications caused any side effects?
• How often are doctors’ visits or other therapies needed?
• Does insurance pay for these visits or treatments?
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In a 5–7 page written assessment, assess the effect of the patient, family, or population problem you've previously defined on the quality of care, patient safety, and costs to the system and individual. Plan to spend approximately 2 direct practicum hours exploring these aspects of the problem with the patient, family, or group you've chosen to work with and, if desired, consulting with subject matter and industry experts. Document the time spent (your practicum hours) with these individuals or group in the Capella Academic Portal Volunteer Experience Form. Report on your experiences during your first two practicum hours.
Complete this assessment in two parts.
Part 1
Assess the effect of the patient, family, or population problem you defined in the previous assessment on the quality of care, patient safety, and costs to the system and individual. Plan to spend at least 2 practicum hours exploring these aspects of the problem with the patient, family, or group. During this time, you may also consult with subject matter and industry experts of your choice. Document the time spent (your practicum hours) with these individuals or group in the Capella Academic Portal Volunteer Experience Form. Use the Practicum Focus Sheet: Assessment 2 [PDF] Download Practicum Focus Sheet: Assessment 2 [PDF] provided for this assessment to guide your work and interpersonal interactions.
Part 2
Report on your experiences during your first 2 practicum hours, including how you presented your ideas about the health problem to the patient, family, or group.
· Whom did you meet with?
· What did you learn from them?
· Comment on the evidence-based practice (EBP) documents or websites you reviewed.
· What did you learn from that review?
· Share the process and experience of exploring the influence of leadership, collaboration, communication, change management, and policy on the problem.
· What barriers, if any, did you encounter when presenting the problem to the patient, family, or group?
· Did the patient, family, or group agree with you about the presence of the problem and its significance and relevance?
· What leadership, communication, collaboration, or change management skills did you employ during your interactions to overcome these barriers or change the patient's, family's, or group's thinking about the problem (for example, creating a sense of urgency based on data or policy requirements)?
· What changes, if any, did you make to your definition of the problem, based on your discussions?
· What might you have done differently?
The assessment 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, note the additional requirements for document format and length and for supporting evidence.
· Explain how the patient, family, or population problem impacts the quality of care, patient safety, and costs to the system and individual.
· Cite evidence that supports the stated impact.
· Note whether the supporting evidence is consistent with what you see in your nursing practice.
· Explain how state board nursing practice standards and/or organizational or governmental policies can affect the problem's impact on the quality of care, patient safety, and costs to the system and individual.
· Describe research that has tested the effectiveness of these standards and/or policies in addressing care quality, patient safety, and costs to the system and individual.
· Explain how these standards and/or policies will guide your actions in addressing care quality, patient safety, and costs to the system and individual.
· Describe the effects of local, state, and federal policies or legislation on your nursing scope of practice, within the context of care quality, patient safety, and cost to the system and individual.
· Propose strategies to improve the quality of care, enhance patient safety, and reduce costs to the system and individual.
· Discuss research on the effectiveness of these strategies in addressing care quality, patient safety, and costs to the system and individual.
· Identify relevant and available sources of benchmark data on care quality, patient safety, and costs to the system and individual.
· Document the time spent (your practicum hours) with these individuals or group in the Capella Academic Portal Volunteer Experience Form.
· Use paraphrasing and summarization to represent ideas from external sources.
· Apply APA style and formatting to scholarly writing.
how can i determine how health care technology, coordination of care, and community resources can be applied to address the patient, family, or population problem you've defined.
In a 5–7 page written assessment, determine how health care technology, coordination of care, and community resources can be applied to address the patient, family, or population problem you've defined. In addition, plan to spend approximately 2 direct practicum hours exploring these aspects of the problem with the patient, family, or group you've chosen to work with and, if desired, consulting with subject matter and industry experts. Document the time spent (your practicum hours) with these individuals or group in the Capella Academic Portal Volunteer Experience Form. Report on your experiences during the second 2 hours of your practicum.
In this assessment, you'll determine how health care technology, coordination of care, and community resources can be applied to address the health problem you've defined. Plan to spend at least 2 direct practicum hours working with the same patient, family, or group. During this time, you may also choose to consult with subject matter and industry experts.
To prepare for the assessment:
· Review the assessment instructions and scoring guide to ensure that you understand the work you will be asked to complete and how it will be assessed.
· Conduct sufficient research of the scholarly and professional literature to inform your assessment and meet scholarly expectations for supporting evidence.
· Review the Practicum Focus Sheet: Assessment 3 [PDF], Download Practicum Focus Sheet: Assessment 3 [PDF], which provides guidance for conducting this portion of your practicum.
Complete this assessment in two parts.
Part 1
Determine how health care technology, the coordination of care, and the use of community resources can be applied to address the patient, family, or population problem you've defined. Plan to spend at least 2 practicum hours exploring these aspects of the problem with the patient, family, or group. During this time, you may also consult with subject matter and industry experts of your choice. Document the time spent (your practicum hours) with these individuals or group in the Capella Academic Portal Volunteer Experience Form. Use the attatched pdf provided for this assessment to guide your work and interpersonal interactions.
Part 2
Report on your experiences during the second 2 hours of your practicum.
· Whom did you meet with?
· What did you learn from them?
· Comment on the evidence-based practice (EBP) documents or websites you reviewed.
· What did you learn from that review?
· Share the process and experience of exploring the effect of the problem on the quality of care, patient safety, and costs to the system and individual.
· Did your plan to address the problem change, based upon your experiences?
· What surprised you, or was of particular interest to you, and why?
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Practicum Focus Sheet, Assessment 3
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Practicum Focus Sheet Assessment 3
Note: Expect to spend at least 2 hours with the patient, family, or group you’ll be working with during this portion of your practicum, exploring issues of technology, care coordination, and community resources associated with the health problem you’ve defined. This includes time spent in consultation with subject matter or industry experts. For this portion of your practicum, discuss in depth how health care technology, the coordination of care, and the use of community resources can be applied to address the problem. Consider the following questions to help guide your exploration of these aspects of the problem and make the most of your time:
Technology • Do they use a device, such as a blood pressure cuff, pulse oximeter, or glucose monitor,
to monitor the problem?
• Have they used a smartphone app to help manage the problem?
• Would telehealth be an option to help manage the problem?
• Are any websites used to obtain more information about the problem?
Care Coordination and Community Resources • Have home care, physical therapy, dialysis, or other types of care been used to manage
the problem?
• Is transportation available to travel to problem-related appointments?
• Have support groups been helpful in addressing the problem?
• Hav religious institutions been helpful in managing the problem?
- Practicum Focus Sheet
- Assessment 3
- Technology
- Care Coordination and Community Resources
how can i Develop an intervention (your capstone project), as a solution to the patient, family, or population problem you've defined. Submit the proposed intervention to the faculty for review and approval.
Develop an intervention (your capstone project), as a solution to the patient, family, or population problem you've defined. Submit the proposed intervention to the faculty for review and approval. This solution needs to be implemented (shared) with your patient, family, or group. You are not to share your intervention with your patient, family, or group or move on to Assessment 5 before your faculty reviews/approves the solution you submit in Assessment 4. In a separate written deliverable, write a 5–7 page analysis of your intervention.
In your first three assessments, you applied new knowledge and insight gleaned from the literature, from organizational data, and from direct consultation with the patient, family, or group (and perhaps with subject matter and industry experts) to your assessment of the problem. You've examined the problem from the perspectives of leadership, collaboration, communication, change management, policy, quality of care, patient safety, costs to the system and individual, technology, care coordination, and community resources. Now it's time to turn your attention to proposing an intervention (your capstone project), as a solution to the problem.
Complete this assessment in two parts: (a) develop an intervention as a solution to the problem and (b) submit your proposed intervention, with a written analysis, to your faculty for review and approval.
Part 1
Develop an intervention, as a solution to the problem, based on your assessment and supported by data and scholarly, evidence-based sources.
Incorporate relevant aspects of the following considerations that shaped your understanding of the problem:
· Leadership.
· Collaboration.
· Communication.
· Change management.
· Policy.
· Quality of care.
· Patient safety.
· Costs to the system and individual.
· Technology.
· Care coordination.
· Community resources.
Part 2
Submit your proposed intervention to your faculty for review and approval.
In a separate written deliverable, write a 5–7 page analysis of your intervention.
· Summarize the patient, family, or population problem.
· Explain why you selected this problem as the focus of your project.
· Explain why the problem is relevant to your professional practice and to the patient, family, or group.
In addition, address the requirements outlined below. These requirements correspond to the scoring guide criteria for this assessment, 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, note the additional requirements for document format and length and for supporting evidence.
· Define the role of leadership and change management in addressing the problem.
· Explain how leadership and change management strategies influenced the development of your proposed intervention.
· Explain how nursing ethics informed the development of your proposed intervention.
· Include a copy of the intervention/solution/professional product.
· Propose strategies for communicating and collaborating with the patient, family, or group to improve outcomes associated with the problem.
· Identify the patient, family, or group.
· Discuss the benefits of gathering their input to improve care associated with the problem.
· Identify best-practice strategies from the literature for effective communication and collaboration to improve outcomes.
· Explain how state board nursing practice standards and/or organizational or governmental policies guided the development of your proposed intervention.
· Cite the standards and/or policies that guided your work.
· Describe research that has tested the effectiveness of these standards and/or policies in improving outcomes for this problem.
· Explain how your proposed intervention will improve the quality of care, enhance patient safety, and reduce costs to the system and individual.
· Cite evidence from the literature that supports your conclusions.
· Identify relevant and available sources of benchmark data on care quality, patient safety, and costs to the system and individual.
· Explain how technology, care coordination, and the utilization of community resources can be applied in addressing the problem.
· Cite evidence from the literature that supports your conclusions.
· Write concisely and directly, using active voice.
· Apply APA formatting to in-text citations and references.