4090 Assessment 1 Assessing the Problem: Leadership, Collaboration, Communication, Change Management, and Policy Considerations

In
a 5–7 page written assessment, define the patient, family, or
population health problem that will be the focus of your capstone
project. Assess the problem from a leadership, collaboration,
communication, change management, and policy perspective. Plan to spend
approximately 2 direct practicum hours meeting with a patient, family,
or group of your choice to explore the problem 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.

Introduction

This assessment lays the foundation for the work that will carry you
through your capstone experience and guide the practicum hours needed to
complete the work in this course. In addition, it will enable you to do
the following:

  • Develop a problem statement for a patient, family, or population that’s relevant to your practice.
  • Begin building a body of evidence that will inform your approach to your practicum.
  • Focus on the influence of leadership, collaboration, communication, change management, and policy on the problem.
Preperation

In this assessment, you’ll assess the patient, family, or population
health problem that will be the focus of your capstone project. Plan to
spend approximately 2 hours working with a patient, family, or group of
your choice to explore the problem from a leadership, collaboration,
communication, change management, and policy perspective. During this
time, you may also choose to consult with subject matter and industry
experts about the problem (for example, directors of quality or patient
safety, nurse managers/directors, physicians, and epidemiologists).

To prepare for the assessment, complete the following:

  • Identify the patient, family, or group you want to work with during
    your practicum. The patient you select can be a friend or a family
    member. You’ll work with this patient, family, or group throughout your
    capstone project, focusing on a specific health care problem.
  • Begin surveying the scholarly and professional literature to
    establish your evidence and research base, inform your assessment, and
    meet scholarly expectations for supporting evidence.

In addition, you may wish to complete the following:

Instructions

Part 1

Use Assessment
01 Supplement: Assessing the Problem: Leadership, Collaboration,
Communication, Change Management, and Policy Considerations [PDF]


Download Assessment 01
Supplement: Assessing the Problem: Leadership, Collaboration,
Communication, Change Management, and Policy Considerations [PDF]
to
define the patient, family, or population health problem that will be
the focus of your capstone project. Assess the problem from a
leadership, collaboration, communication, change management, and policy
perspective and establish your evidence and research base to plan,
implement, and share findings related to your project.

Part 2

Connect with the patient, family, or group you’ll work with during
your practicum. During this portion of your practicum, plan to spend at
least 2 hours meeting with the patient, family, or group and, if
desired, consulting with subject matter and industry experts of your
choice. The hours you spend meeting with them should take place outside
of regular work hours. Use the Practicum Focus Sheet [PDF]


Download Practicum Focus Sheet [PDF]

provided for this assessment to guide your work and interpersonal
interactions. Document the time spent (your practicum hours) with these
individuals or group in the Capella Academic Portal Volunteer Experience
Form.

Requirements

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.

  • Define a patient, family, or population health problem that’s relevant to your practice.
    • Summarize the problem you’ll explore.
    • Identify the patient, family, or group you intend to work with during your practicum.
    • Provide context, data, or information that substantiates the
      presence of the problem and its significance and relevance to the
      patient, family, or population.
    • Explain why this problem is relevant to your practice as a baccalaureate-prepared nurse.
  • Analyze evidence from peer-reviewed literature and professional
    sources that describes and guides nursing actions related to the
    patient, family, or population problem you’ve defined.

    • Note whether the authors provide supporting evidence from the
      literature that’s consistent with what you see in your nursing practice.
    • Explain how you would know if the data are unreliable.
    • Describe what the literature says about barriers to the
      implementation of evidence-based practice in addressing the problem
      you’ve defined.
    • Describe research that has tested the effectiveness of nursing
      standards and/or policies in improving patient, family, or population
      outcomes for this problem.
    • Describe current literature on the role of nurses in policy making
      to improve outcomes, prevent illness, and reduce hospital readmissions.
    • Describe what the literature says about a nursing theory or
      conceptual framework that might frame and guide your actions during your
      practicum.
  • Explain how state board nursing practice standards and/or
    organizational or governmental policies could affect the patient,
    family, or population problem you’ve defined.

    • Describe research that has tested the effectiveness of these
      standards and/or policies in improving patient, family, or population
      outcomes for this problem.
    • Describe current literature on the role of nurses in policy making
      to improve outcomes, prevent illness, and reduce hospital readmissions.
    • Describe the effects of local, state, and federal policies or
      legislation on your nursing scope of practice, within the context of
      this problem.
  • Propose leadership strategies to improve outcomes, patient-centered
    care, and the patient experience related to the patient, family, or
    population problem you’ve defined.

    • Discuss research on the effectiveness of leadership strategies.
    • Define the role that you anticipate leadership must play in addressing the problem.
    • Describe collaboration and communication strategies that you anticipate will be needed to address the problem.
    • Describe the change management strategies that you anticipate will be required to address the problem.
    • Document the time spent (your practicum hours) with these
      individuals or group in the Capella Academic Portal Volunteer Experience
      Form.
  • Organize content so ideas flow logically with smooth transitions.
  • Apply APA style and formatting to scholarly writing.
Additional requirements

Format: Format your paper using APA style.

  •  Be sure to include:
    • A title page and reference page. An abstract is not required.
    • Appropriate section headings.
  • Length: Your paper should be approximately 5–7 pages in length, not including the reference page.
  • Supporting evidence: Cite at least five sources of
    scholarly or professional evidence that support your central ideas.
    Resources should be no more than five years old. Provide in-text
    citations and references in APA format.

    Context

    Nurses in all professional roles work to effect positive patient
    outcomes and improve organizational processes. Professional nurses are
    leaders in problem identification, planning, and strategy
    implementation—skills that directly affect patient care or
    organizational effectiveness.

    Too often, change agents jump to a conclusion that an intervention
    will promote the envisioned improvement. Instead, the ideal approach is
    to determine which interventions are appropriate, based on an assessment
    and review of credible evidence. Interventions could be patient-facing
    or involve a change in policy and process. In this assessment, you’ll
    identify and make the case for your practicum focus area, then explore
    it in depth from a leadership, collaboration, communication, change
    management, and policy perspective.

  • Competencies Measured

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

    • Competency 1: Lead people and processes to improve patient, systems, and population outcomes.
      • Define a patient, family, or population health problem that’s relevant to personal and professional practice.
    • Competency 2: Make clinical and operational decisions based upon the best available evidence.
      • Analyze evidence from peer-reviewed literature and professional
        sources that describes and guides nursing actions related to a defined
        patient, family, or population problem.
    • Competency 5: Analyze the impact of health policy on quality and cost of care.
      • Explain how state board nursing practice standards and/or
        organizational or governmental policies could affect a defined patient,
        family, or population problem.
    • Competency 7: Implement patient-centered care to improve quality of care and the patient experience.
      • Propose leadership strategies to improve outcomes, patient-centered
        care, and the patient experience related to a defined patient, family,
        or population problem and document the practicum hours spent with these
        individuals or group in the Capella Academic Portal Volunteer Experience
        Form.
    • Competency 8: Integrate professional standards and values into practice.
      • Organize content so ideas flow logically with smooth transitions.
      • Apply APA style and formatting to scholarly writing.

    Scoring Guide

    Use the scoring guide to understand how your assessment will be evaluated.

     

    Define a patient, family, or population health problem that’s relevant to personal and professional practice.
    Distinguished
    Clearly
    and succinctly defines a patient, family, or population health problem
    that’s relevant to personal and professional practice. Fully
    substantiates the presence and relevance of the problem.
    Non Performance
    Does not define a patient, family, or population health problem.

    Analyze
    evidence from peer-reviewed literature and professional sources that
    describes and guides nursing actions related to a defined patient,
    family, or population problem.
    Distinguished
    Analyzes
    evidence from peer-reviewed literature and professional sources that
    describes and guides nursing actions related to a defined patient,
    family, or population problem. Applies relevant, unambiguous criteria
    for evaluating the evidence, and exhibits clear insight into potential
    barriers to evidence-based practice and theoretical guiding frameworks.
    Non Performance
    Does
    not cite evidence from peer-reviewed literature and professional
    sources that describes and guides nursing actions related to a defined
    patient, family, or population problem.

    Explain
    how state board nursing practice standards and/or organizational or
    governmental policies could affect a defined patient, family, or
    population problem.
    Distinguished
    Provides
    an explanation, with examples, of how state board nursing practice
    standards and/or organizational or governmental policies could affect a
    defined patient, family, or population problem, based on a perceptive
    and coherent synthesis of current literature. Provides clear insight
    into how policy affects nursing scope of practice.
    Non Performance
    Does
    not identify state board nursing practice standards and/or
    organizational or governmental policies that could affect a defined
    patient, family, or population problem.

    Propose
    leadership strategies to improve outcomes, patient-centered care, and
    the patient experience related to a defined patient, family, or
    population problem and document the practicum hours spent with these
    individuals or group in the Capella Academic Portal Volunteer Experience
    Form.
    Distinguished
    Proposes
    leadership strategies, supported by examples, to improve outcomes,
    patient-centered care, and the patient experience related to a defined
    patient, family, or population problem. Exhibits clear insight into the
    necessary role of leadership and the need for collaboration,
    communication, and change management in addressing the problem. and
    Documents the practicum hours spent with these individuals or group in
    the Capella Academic Portal Volunteer Experience Form.
    Non Performance
    Does
    not propose leadership strategies to improve outcomes, patient-centered
    care, and the patient experience related to a defined patient, family,
    or population problem, and does not document practicum hours in Capella
    Academic Portal Volunteer Experience Form.

    Organize content so ideas flow logically with smooth transitions.
    Distinguished
    Organizes content so clarity is enhanced and all ideas flow logically with smooth transitions.
    Non Performance
    Does not organize content for ideas to flow logically with smooth transitions.

    Apply APA style and formatting to scholarly writing.
    Distinguished
    Applies
    APA style and formatting to scholarly writing. Exhibits strict and
    nearly flawless adherence to stylistic conventions, document structure,
    and source attributions.
    Non Performance
    Does not apply APA style and formatting to scholarly writing. 
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