Capstone Project Milestone 3: Educating Staff: Implementing Change Guidelines
Purpose
The purpose of this assignment is to create the Educating Staff: Implementing Change Project PowerPoint presentation. Your plan is to educate the staff that will be involved in the pilot program. You will need to educate them on the problem, show the supporting evidence, and how your pilot plan will be implemented.
Course Outcomes
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This assignment enables the student to meet the following Course Outcomes.
- CO2: Proposes leadership and collaboration strategies for use with consumers and other healthcare providers in managing care and/or delegating responsibilities for health promotion, illness prevention, health restoration and maintenance, and rehabilitative activities. (PO2)
- CO3: Communicates effectively with patient populations and other healthcare providers in managing the healthcare of individuals, families, aggregates, and communities. (PO3)
- CO7: Integrates the professional role of leader, teacher, communicator, and manager of care to plan cost-effective, quality healthcare to consumers in structured and unstructured settings. (PO7) Capstone Project Milestone 3: Educating Staff: Implementing Change Guidelines.
Directions
- A tutorial with tips on completing this assignment may be viewed at https://atge.webex.com/atge/ldr.php?RCID=8912a4b3268463312e115abf9e73efd6(Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
- Create an educational presentation for staff before the launch of your change project. This should inform the staff of the problem, your potential solution, and their role in change project.
- The format for this proposal will be a PowerPoint presentation.
- Tutorial: For those not familiar with the development of a PowerPoint slideshow, the following link to the Microsoft website may be helpful. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/support/training-FX101782702.aspx(Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. The Chamberlain Student Success Strategies (SSPRNBSN) offers a module on Computer Literacy that contains a section on PowerPoint. You can access SSPRNBSN from your Canvas course list.
- The length of the PowerPoint presentation should be 15-20 slides; excluding the title and reference slides. Capstone Project Milestone 3: Educating Staff: Implementing Change Guidelines.
- Below are the main topics or bullet points for your slides:
- Title slide
- Description of the Ace Star change model that you have used for this project.
- Practice Issue (Using the one of the required articles)
- Scope of the problem—use basic statistics from what you know of the problem in your work area.
- Your team/stakeholders
- Evidence to support your need for change—from your Evidence Summary
- Action Plan
- Timeline for the plan Capstone Project Milestone 3: Educating Staff: Implementing Change Guidelines
- The nurse’s role and responsibility in the pilot program
- Procedure (what steps are to be taken to complete this change process, from start to finish?)
- Forms that will be used (if applicable)
- Resources available to the staff—including yourself
- Summary
- References
- Citations and References must be includedto support the information within each topic area. Refer to the APA manual, Chapter 7, for examples of proper reference format. Citations are to be noted for all information contained in your paper that is not your original idea or thought. Ask yourself, “How do I know this?” and then cite the source. Scholarly sources are expected, which means choose peer-reviewed journals and credible websites.
Guidelines
- Application: Use Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 or later.
- Length: The PowerPoint slide show is expected to be between 15-20 slidesin length (not including the title slide and reference list slides).
- Submission: Submit your by 11:59 p.m. Sunday by the end of Week 6.
- Late Submission: See the Policies on late submissions.
- Tutorial: For those not familiar with the development of a PowerPoint slideshow, the following link to the Microsoft website may be helpful. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/support/training-FX101782702.aspx(Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. The Chamberlain Student Success Strategies (CCSSS) offers a module on Computer Literacy that contains a section on PowerPoint. The link to SSP CCSSS may be found under your course list in the student portal Capstone Project Milestone 3: Educating Staff: Implementing Change Guidelines.
Best Practices in Preparing a PowerPoint Presentation
The following are best practices in preparing this presentation.
- Be creative.
- Incorporate graphics, clip art, or photographs to increase interest.
- Make easy to read with short bullet points and large font.
- Use speaker notes(found under the section View and “Notes” in the PowerPoint template you choose. These are for your personal use to use as a reference if you are giving your presentation to an audience and they help faculty identify what you will speak to your audience about.
- Review directions thoroughly.
- Cite all sources within the slides with (author, year) as well as on the Reference slide.
- Proofread prior to final submission Capstone Project Milestone 3: Educating Staff: Implementing Change Guidelines.
- Spell check for spelling and grammar errors prior to final submission.
´EDUCATING STAFF: Implementing Change
´Name:
´Institution:
´Description of The Ace Star Change Model Used
´The program adopted ACE Star model to facilitate the proposed change.
´The model creates a link between evidence based practice and the knowledge characteristics, nature and cycles available to nurses.
´In the present case, the model argues that any material treated with antibiotics will develop some form of resistance against microbial infection (Ellis, 2016).
´Using antimicrobial catheters is anticipated to prevent microbial infection incidences.
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´Description of The Ace Star Change Model Used
´The position that antimicrobial catheters can play in reducing the incidence of microbial infection will be verified by collecting secondary evidence from published literature and primary evidence from the results of the pilot study.
´As such, ACE Star model will be used in solving the problem: the position that antimicrobial catheters can play in reducing the incidence of secondary infection for persons using urinary catheters Capstone Project Milestone 3: Educating Staff: Implementing Change Guidelines.
´Practice Issue
´The practice issue to be addressed is the presentation of a viable strategy for countering secondary infection among patients using catheters.
´This acknowledges that both patients and medical personnel are wary of facility acquired urinary tract infection. The implication is that a solution is required to effectively counter secondary infection for patients using catheters.
´In fact, the issue can be presented in the form of a PICO question: “Will using antimicrobial catheters reduce the incidence of secondary infection?”
´The outcome presents the desired result as reduced incidence of secondary infection.
´In using antimicrobial catheters (viewed as a solution), the programs anticipates to arrive at the desired outcome.
´Practice Issue
´´The four PICO elements have been presented as:
´P- (Patient, population, or problem): Patients using catheters.
´I – (Intervention): Using antimicrobial catheters to counter secondary infection.
´C- (Comparison with other treatment/current practice): Catheters without antimicrobial properties.
´O- (Desired outcome): Reduced incidence of secondary infection.
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´Scope of the Problem
´Policies for managing catheters use have been shown to be largely ineffective in preventing secondary infection Capstone Project Milestone 3: Educating Staff: Implementing Change Guidelines.
´The reality is that managing catheters in the wrong way presents opportunities for secondary infection.
´Additionally, the present strategies for managing catheters have only partially eliminated incidences of secondary infection.
´The implication is that there is a need to applying strategies that are more effective in preventing incidence of secondary infection.
´Following this awareness, the present project proposes that antimicrobial catheters will preemptively prevent microbial infections thereby reducing the incidence of secondary infection reported among catheter users.
´Scope of the Problem contd.
´´The project intends to determine whether or not using microbial catheters will have a meaningful effect on incidence of secondary infection. This will be evaluated by comparing incidence for a sample of patients who use microbial catheters against their counterparts who use other catheters Capstone Project Milestone 3: Educating Staff: Implementing Change Guidelines.
´Team and Stakeholders
´The program will be managed by a team comprised of the team manager, a hospital administrator and four nurses.
´The team manager is responsible for assigning responsibilities and ensuring that all aspects of the program proceed as planned.
´The hospital administrator is responsible for ensuring that the program is in line with the facility policies, and that approval is provided for the program to proceed within the facility.
´The four nurses are responsible for implementing the program and collecting data on its results.
´Evidence to Support Need for Change
´Despite effort to improve catheter handling approaches, they are still noted for allowing secondary infection. Capstone Project Milestone 3: Educating Staff: Implementing Change Guidelines.
´This means that an additionally strategy is necessary to address the incidence of secondary infection that cannot be handled by other strategies.
´Given that secondary infections are caused by microbials and antimicrobials specifically target these microbials, then it standard to reason that material subjected to antimicrobial treatment will stem microbial infection.
´Evidence to Support Need for Change contd.
´As such, it is proposed that using antimicrobial catheters ensures that these catheters will not act as an avenue for infection thereby reducing the incidence of secondary infection for catheter users.
´Action Plan
´The project manager will first formalize the project proposal and seek approval from the relevant offices for the project to proceed. The approval includes that provided by ethics board since the program involves human subjects Capstone Project Milestone 3: Educating Staff: Implementing Change Guidelines.
´The second step is to identify the team that will implement the project, and educating them on the project details after successfully recruiting them for the program.
´Next, the patients will be for recruitment in the program and their voluntary consent to participate sought.
´This would be followed by the program being implemented and data collected on incidence of secondary infection.
´Next, the results would be collected, focusing on incidence of secondary infection.
´Action Plan contd.
´The collected data would then be subjected to statistical analysis that evaluates the relationship between antimicrobial use and secondary infection incidence as the variables of interest Capstone Project Milestone 3: Educating Staff: Implementing Change Guidelines.
´Next, the results would be formalized in a document that shows the program progression from problem presentation to methodology, results and conclusion.
´Finally, the formalized documents would be presented to stakeholders through presentations and published articles.
´Timeline for the Plan
´The program will proceed for eleven months.
´The first month will be spent on conducting extensive research on the existing problem, the need for a solution and propose a viable solution.
´The second month will be spent on conceptualizing and preparing a program to test the viable of the proposed solution.
´The third month will be spent on seeking institutional approval for the program to proceed after which the antimicrobial catheters will be solicited. Capstone Project Milestone 3: Educating Staff: Implementing Change Guidelines.
´The fourth month will be spent on recruiting a team that will implement the program and educating them on the program details.
´The fifth month will be spent on recruiting patients to participate in the program. The recruitment will emphasize voluntary participation.
´Timeline for the Plan contd.
´The sixth month will be spent on implementing the program and collecting data on infection incidence. This will proceed for the next three months. This implies that the program implementation will halt at the end of the ninth month.
´The tenth month will be spent on evaluating the collected data, identifying implications for practice then publishing and presenting the program results.
´The final month will be spent on presenting the results to stakeholders.
´Nurses Role and Responsibility in the Pilot Program
´The nurses will be responsible for implementing the program by subjecting selected patients to antimicrobial catheters use and collecting data on secondary infection incidence.
´In fact, the nurses will identify the treatment and control groups, then ensure that data collection assigns the correct values to each group.
´Procedure
´Once it has been determined that the project will proceed, the project management team will be appointed.
´Next, they will be educated on how the program will proceed to include how to handle patients in each group and how to collect data.
´This was followed by recruitment of patients to participate in the study, focusing on their voluntary participation after informing them of what the program entails.
´The recruited participants would then be assigned to either the treatment group (using antimicrobial catheters) or control group (using normal catheters).
´Finally, the program would proceed will information on secondary infection incidence being collected before analysis to determine if the use of antimicrobial catheters was effective in reducing incidence of secondary infection. Capstone Project Milestone 3: Educating Staff: Implementing Change Guidelines.
´Forms That Will Be Used
´An ethics form will be completed and presented to the ethics review board to seek approval for the study to proceed after confirming that the human participants would not be intentionally harmed.
´A consent form will be presented to participants to inform them of the study details and seek their voluntary participation.
´Resources Available to Staff
´Training on how to use antimicrobial catheters.
´Training on how to collect data from both the treatment and control groups.
´Antimicrobial catheters that will be used on the participants assigned to the treatment group.
´Summary
´Incidence of secondary infection noted as a problem for catheter users.
´This is particularly true when it is considered that catheter management policies have not been effective in preventing all incidence of secondary infection.
´ACE Star model to guide the development of a solution for this problem.
´The intention is to determine whether the use of antimicrobial catheters will reduce the incidence of secondary infection Capstone Project Milestone 3: Educating Staff: Implementing Change Guidelines.
´This proposed solution would be tested through a practice program that recruits nurses and patients to test the proposed solution against standard catheter management practice.
´The program will be run over eleven months during which the program management team will be appointed, program implemented, data collected and results presented to stakeholders.
´References
´Cooper, F., Alexander, C., Sinha, S. & Omar, M. (2016). Policies for replacing long-term indwelling urinary catheters in adults. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2016(7), Art. No.: CD011115. doi:10.1002/14651858.CD011115.pub2
´Ellis, P. (2016). Evidence-based Practice in Nursing (3rd ed.). London: Learning Matter/SAGE Publications Ltd.
´Patterson, C. (2015). Basic principles of infection control. Nursing made Incredibly Easy, 13(3), 28-37 Capstone Project Milestone 3: Educating Staff: Implementing Change Guidelines.
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