NR 392 Week 1 Course Project Milestone 1

NR 392 Week 1 Course Project Milestone 1

NR 392 Week 1 Course Project Milestone 1

Course ProjectMilestone 1

Guidelinesand Grading Rubrics

Purpose

To apply lessons in quality improvement in nursing to a real world nursing issue. This Course Project will use the Six Sigma DMAIC process. NR 392 Week 1 Course Project Milestone 1

Course Outcomes

The Course Project enables the student to meet the following course outcomes:

CO 1: Identify the role of the BSN nurse in the quality improvement process as a member of the collaborative interprofessional team (PO#2 & 7)

CO 2: Discuss effective processes and strategies to improve quality in nursing (PO#2 & 8)

Points

The entire project is worth 600 points. Milestone 1 is worth 100 points of this total. NR 392 Week 1 Course Project Milestone 1

Due Date

Submit your completed NR392 Milestone 1 to its Dropbox by Sunday, 11:59 p.m. MT, end of Week 1.

Requirements and Guidelines

Quality improvement is an important issue in professional nursing today.In Milestone 1, the student will define a nursingcare issue(not a workforce issue such as staffing) from a current or former workplace or clinical setting that could be impacted by improved quality. The student will then provide details about this issue, as well as explain the reason this issue was selected. Milestone 1 is due at the end of Week 1.

Carefully review this Milestone 1 Guidelines document rubric and the Milestone 1 Template.

Download the Milestone 1 Template. Save it to your computer in Microsoft Word 2010 (or later) as a .docx file with the file name: Your Last Name NR392 Milestone 1.docx.

Carefully review the rubric criteria for Milestone 1 and type directly on your saved Milestone 1 Template.

The instructor will score Milestone 1 and provide feedback and a clear statement regarding the selected issue:

o Accepted without revisions,

o Accepted with revisions needed, OR

o Not accepted.

If the issue needs revisions or is not accepted, the instructor will indicate if the student should communicate further revisions to the instructor. No additional points will be earned for revisions to Milestone 1 issue, but these revisions will greatly enhance success on later milestones. NR 392 Week 1 Course Project Milestone 1

Course Project Milestone 1 Template

Directions: Prior to completing this template, carefully review Course Project Milestone 1 Guidelines paying particular attention to how to name the document and all rubric requirements. After saving the document to your computer, type your answers directly on this template and save again. This assignment is due by Sunday end of Week 1 by 11:59 p.m. Mountain Time. NR 392 Week 1 Course Project Milestone 1

Your Name:__________________________

Assignment Criteria     Your Answers:

(NOTE: See Milestone 1 Grading Rubric for details required in each area.)

Nursing Care Issue and Outcome

30 points

Nursing Care Issue:

Outcome:

Details of the Issue

45 points

Reason Issue Selected

25 points

Description

Use a provided template to develop a 3-5 page proposal for an intervention and implementation plan related to the health problem you defined in the first assessment.

Important: You must complete all of the assessments in order for this course. NR 392 Week 1 Course Project Milestone 1

For this assessment, you will be designing and planning the implementation for the intervention to improve the health problem you defined in the first assessment. You will also examine implications of interprofessional collaboration, technology, and organizational and governmental policies for your intervention and implementation plans.

DEMONSTRATION OF PROFICIENCY

By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the course competencies through the following assessment scoring guide criteria:

  • Competency 3: Transform processes to improve quality, enhance patient safety, and reduce the cost of care.
    • Propose an intervention plan that references relevant processes to improve quality and safety, and reduce costs in the context of a chosen health problem. NR 392 Week 1 Course Project Milestone 1
  • Competency 4: Apply health information and patient care technology to improve patient and systems outcomes.
    • Analyze technology within a chosen health care practice context to support a proposed plan.
  • Competency 5: Analyze the impact of health policy on quality and cost of care.
    • Explain the ways in which existing governmental or organizational policies could impact the proposed plan.
  • Competency 6: Collaborate interprofessionally to improve patient and population outcomes.
    • Explain strategies for communicating and collaborating with patients and interprofessional teams to improve health outcomes. NR 392 Week 1 Course Project Milestone 1
  • Competency 8: Integrate professional standards and values into practice.
    • Communicate professionally in writing that is clear and logically organized, with correct grammar, spelling, and use of APA style.

Important: Complete this assessment second.

PROFESSIONAL CONTEXT

As a professional nurse, you perform a critical role in solving a host of health care problems. In this assessment, you will use the literature to plan best-practice strategies to foster positive health outcomes for your chosen patient or population.

PREPARATION

Your intervention and implementation plan should be carried out in an interprofessional context, aligned to your topic, and based on the work you did in the first assessment. You should find collaborators as soon as possible so you can solicit their feedback about intervention and implementation plans to inform your approach. NR 392 Week 1 Course Project Milestone 1

INSTRUCTIONS

Having identified a health problem relevant to your current or future nursing practice and reviewed the literature to support nursing standards, decision making, and improvement strategies, you should now plan an intervention to address the chosen health problem based on the research you conducted.

Construct a plausible plan that leverages the best practices and research collected to date as well as additional research into similar projects that you find in the literature. Be sure to frame your plan within the context of the health care setting in which you are completing your practicum hours. Incorporate relevant site-specific processes and policies into your implementation plan. NR 392 Week 1 Course Project Milestone 1

Use the Plan Proposal Template [DOC] to complete this assessment.

As you develop your plan, be sure to address the following:

  • Remote collaboration and communication with patients and colleagues to improve health outcomes. The patients and colleagues can be friends and family.
  • Governmental or organizational policies that could affect the plan.
  • Quality and safety improvement strategies. NR 392 Week 1 Course Project Milestone 1
  • Technology at the site that could be leveraged.

SCORING GUIDE CRITERIA

Your submission will be assessed based on the following criteria:

  • Propose an intervention plan that references relevant processes to improve quality and safety, and reduce costs in the context of a chosen health problem.
  • Analyze technology within a chosen health care practice context to support a proposed plan.
  • Explain the ways in which existing governmental or organizational policies could impact the proposed plan.
  • Explain strategies for communicating and collaborating with patients and interprofessional teams to improve health outcomes.
  • Communicate professionally in writing that is clear and logically organized, with correct grammar, spelling, and use of APA style.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS

  • Length of submission: Use the provided template. Most submissions will be 3 to 5 pages. You do not need to include a title page. Be sure to complete the reference page at the end of the template.
  • Number of references: Cite a minimum of 5 sources of scholarly or professional evidence that support your central ideas. Resources should be no more than five years old. NR 392 Week 1 Course Project Milestone 1
  • APA formatting: Make sure that in-text citations and reference list follow current APA style.

Portfolio Prompt: Remember to save the assessment to your ePortfolio. After you complete your program you may want to consider leveraging your Portfolio as part of a job search or other demonstration of your academic competencies. NR 392 Week 1 Course Project Milestone 1