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. Also, afamily, or group of your choice to explore the problem. If desired, consulting with the subject matter and industry experts.Also, document the time spent (your practicum hours) with these individuals or group in the Core Elms Volunteer Experience Form.Introduction
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. Generally, 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. Also, 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.
Also, 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.
Also, focus on the influence of leadership, collaboration, communication, change management, and policy on the problem.
Preparation
Additionally, 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. Lastly, 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).
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