[Solved] Week 4

Assignment Prompt & Instructions

**Part 1: Assignment Preparation**

Research best practices to identify an effective intervention for your selected problem. Your goal is to gather evidence from scholarly literature to support the most effective intervention strategy.

The performance appraisal tools in this week’s learning activities will help you determine appropriate scholarly sources of evidence to cite.

**Locate** at least 3 original research articles that support your proposed solution to your selected problem.

– The articles must be peer-reviewed, published within the past 5 years, and statistically significant.

**Assignment Deliverable**

To begin, **Write** a 350-word summary of each article in which you:

– Identify current guidelines or best practices relating to your proposed solution, or if there are protocols, the current standard of care.
– Define your proposed intervention(s) to address the problem.
– Explain how the intervention will result in a solution to the problem.

**Include** a reference page with an APA-formatted citation for each article.

**Part 2: Assessment Preparation**

Based on the literature review you completed in Part 1, **identify** the solution that you determined would be most effective in resolving the stated problem and **define** the intended outcomes of implementing the change (e.g., your improvement goal). For quality to improve, **a change** must occur. That change must be quantifiable. In other words, it must be measurable.

**Create** an implementation plan in which you:

– Explain how you will measure the change and how you will know when you have reached your      improvement goal.
– Create a list of outcomes required to reach your outcomes goal. This will allow you to determine the actions needed and the priority of tasks that will result in the desired outcome.
– Determine who will be responsible for each outcome (typically each is assigned to a team member who is motivated to see the successful implementation of the plan).

**Determine** the actions needed to take place for each outcome to occur. Some questions to consider when determining what action needs to take place include:

– Who do we need to talk to?
– Departments
– Stakeholders
– What needs to be decided?
– What resources are needed?
– Budget
– Personnel
– Supplies and equipment
– What milestones need to be set to know we’re on track?
– When do we need to check on the progress of those milestones?

**Develop** an overall time frame for the project.

– What potential setbacks do we need to plan for?

**Develop** a risk management plan.

– Do any tasks need to be done before taking this action?

**Establish** a budget, roles, and who will be responsible for what.

**Determine** how you will monitor progress. This will provide you with the means of tracking actions as they are completed and will make you aware of actions that are late or off track.

– Select an EBP model to guide the implementation of the plan.
– Remember that without a measure, progress becomes a matter of opinion, and opinions can easily change over the course of an implementation timeline.

**Create** an evaluation plan. Your evaluation plan will define the standard of measurement for progress and will include:

– Measurable outcomes (both short-term and long-term formative assessments and summative assessments)
– Data to be collected and how and when it is to be collected
– Established evaluation points where data can be evaluated and adjustments made to the implementation plan as a result.

**Assignment Deliverable**

**Format** your assignment as a 1,050-word paper.

**Include** a reference page with an APA-formatted citation for any supporting evidence.