Action Plan to Achieve & Support Best Practice Worksheet

STEP VI: Action Plan Due

From the gap analysis identify the key points of the action plan.

The action plan consists of the recommendations for change
The action plan is presented in a table format [see template and example below].
The action plan for changing practice addresses:
Recommendations for changing
Rationale for the proposed actions, citing sources in APA format [no quotations]
Factors currently present that will facilitate implementation of the recommendations
Barriers to implementing recommendations

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Template: Action Plan for Change to Achieve/Support Best Practice

Recommendations

Rationale

(Cite reference)

Facilitators to Implementation

Barriers to Implementation

(Steps to change to Best Practices)

(Summary statement; cite references)

(Currently present)

STEP VII: Cost Analysis/Economic Implications

An explanation of the cost implications of the project (e.g. cost savings) in a narrative and/or table.
Make sure that you cite your sources of the cost information in the body of the cost analysis and on the reference list.
Sometimes the “cost” is not an obvious cost related to equipment or supplies. At times the economic implication is less tangible, for example the cost to incur poor patient satisfaction, or unsatisfied nurses.

STEP VIII: Conclusions and Recommendations

Conclusions from your findings on this project are to be described. What did you learn?
Future recommendations for health care/ nursing practice and research are to be made. What is the logical next step that needs to be taken? For example, often students discover that a limitation of the project is lack of research that supports best practice. The logical next step would be to recommend that more research is needed in this area before practice can be changed.
Recommendations to support the bill or not and why.
This should be in the form of a narrative.

Note: I attached the gap analysis key points and the PICO question i chose for this assignment

PICO QUESTION:

P- Patient population (Adults over 50 years old.)
I- Intervention (Long term COVID precautions)
C- Comparison intervention (One group Only (pretest-posttest) design – Vulnerable population of the elderly.)
O- Outcomes (COVID precautions, Hand washing, standard precautions, reduced positive COVID elderly results.)

T- Timing: (1-3 months)

Question: What are the long term precautions to protect the elderly from COVID infections?

GAP ANALYSIS:

Best Practice Guidelines	What is actually happening: Policy and Procedure, Observation, or Interview	Gap
Hospital workers like nurses and doctors, need to have open communications with patients especially elderly adults, about their COVID results and condition to reduce mental stress. (Olufadewa et al., 2020)	Nurses would get patients COVID tested but would talk about results with doctor or other nurses before the patient.	The nurses should have explained more to the patients that they are being tested for COVID and give them a timeline about when to expect the results.
Companies should implement COVID precautions to protect employees and their families, some precautions are having daily screenings, following CDC guidelines, social distancing, and more. (D’adamo, Yoshikawa, & Ouslander, 2020)	Companies are indeed following the CDC guidelines and have started to implement some COVID precautions, like social distancing, wearing mask, hand washing, and more.	Some companies enforce these COVID precautions more than others, but all of them have put COVID precautions into place.
To promote mental encouragement, communities should do daily check ins, especially on the elderly either physically or by phone. Day, P., Gould, J., & Hazelby, G. (2020)	Local communities have given their people information about what COVID precautions to take but have not gone beyond that.	In some communities COVID precautions have not been enforced and many feel isolated and alone when they are stuck in their houses.