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Identify a clinical question

  1. Identify a clinical question related to your area of clinical practice and write the clinical foreground question in PICOT format utilizing the worksheet tool provided as a guide.
  2. Describe why this is a clinical problem or an opportunity for improving health outcomes in your area of clinical practice. Perform a literature search and select five research articles on your topic utilizing the databases highlighted in Chapter 3 of the textbook (Melnyk and Finout-Overholt, 2015).
  3. Identify the article that best supports nursing interventions for your topic. Explain why this article best supports your topic as you compare the article to the other four found in the literature search.

Assignment Expectations:

Length: 1000 – 1500 words
Structure: Include a title page and reference page in APA format. These do not count towards the minimum word count for this assignment. Your essay must include an introduction and a conclusion.
References: Use appropriate APA style in-text citations and references for all resources utilized to answer the questions. A minimum of five (5) scholarly sources are required for this assignment to support the topic.

 

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Compare and evaluate the two Strategic Plans

Select one Strategic Plan from the two listed below and find another plan online or through the Walden University Library”s Gale Virtual Reference Library. Feel free to use the optional links to other Strategic Plans listed below or find your own. Be sure you include the link to the second Strategic Plan in your Assignment. If you work in a health care setting, you can ask for a copy of the Strategic Plan from your organization.

Strategic Plans

Minnesota Department of Veterans Affairs MN Veterans Homes Strategic Plan 2008″2013

Home Again Assisted Living

Links to Other Strategic Plans (optional)

Seattle Children’s Hospital: Laying the Foundation for the Next 100 Years
http://www.seattlechildrens.org/about/strategic-plan/

Trillium Health Centre’s Strategic Plan 2009/10-2011/12
http://trilliumhealthpartners.ca/strategy/public/Pages/Strategic-Plan-2013-2018.aspx

Nevada Strategic Health Care Plan
http://www.lyon-county.org/DocumentCenter/View/6294

The Michigan Prisoner Health Care Improvement Project
http://www.michigan.gov/documents/corrections/Health_Care_Strategic_Plan_222384_7.pdf

UC Davis Health System Strategic Plan
http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/aboutus/pdf/strategic_plan_web.pdf

By Day 7

Write a 2- to 3-page paper to compare and evaluate the two Strategic Plans you select. Address the following:

  • How are the strategies different?
  • What are the key elements of each Strategic Plan?
  • Compare the goals and strategies identified in each one. Which plan is likely to be more successful and why?
  • Put yourself in the role of a manager at one or both facilities. What are your responsibilities in ensuring one or both are successful?
  • What barriers are there to successful implementation of the strategies, and how could the manager overcome these barriers?

 

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Create a new Power Point presentation

For this discussion, you will need to address all of the questions below and be sure to participate fully by responding to your classmates as well. Citations should be used to support your analysis and references should be included in APA format. Be sure to review the Discussion Question Guidelines before you begin!

For this discussion, you will use Microsoft PowerPoint to advertise yourself. You should have at least nine (9) slides of information plus a title slide for your presentation for a total of ten (10) slides. Follow the directions below.

  1. Create a new PowerPoint presentation and save it with the file name of W5DQ_LastName.pptx.
  2. Choose a slide design that suits you. On your first (title) slide, include a title of your choosing to introduce yourself. In the subheading, include the course number, assignment number, and your name.
  3. Create seven slides where you can share your hobbies, interesting times in your life, or just different things about you. You should not include any personal information such as your address, social security number, student ID, or anything sensitive that you would not share with a stranger. Keep any personal information about yourself, your friends, or your family private. Make sure that whatever you choose to share is classroom-appropriate and does not contain nudity, profanity, vulgarity, obscenity, or anything illegal.
  4. Create one slide that will be an “invitation” to your graduation party. Identify the who, what, when, where, and why of the party details. Include appropriate graphics and text formatting to make your invitation appealing.
  5. You will also include one slide that addresses your computer safety. Include your references in the Notes section.
  6. All slides should be formatted creatively and appropriately.
  7. Use the Notes section to describe the special creative touches you added so you make sure you get credit for them. This is a chance to explore the creative features of the software. Have fun and be creative.
  8. Attach the presentation you created for this assignment to your response in the Discussion Area.

In the Discussion Area:

 

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Perform the following tasks

Assignment Overview In this assignment, you will assess a current semi-direct or indirect nursing situation that is in need of change. Observe a healthcare environment, focusing on areas of the nursing process that are inefficient, unsafe, or problematic in nature. Diagnose the problem and choose a nursing change theory that suits the change(s) you want to make. Propose a detailed plan based on your chosen change theory, explaining how to implement change. Develop criteria to evaluate the effectiveness of the plan and include a timeline for your change proposal. Finally, reflect on how your change affects the nursing profession.

 

Assignment Details:

 

Perform the following tasks:

Complete the reading assignment and the interactive lesson before attempting this assignment.

1- Assess a current semi-direct or indirect nursing situation that is in need of change.

—Observe your healthcare environment, focusing on areas of nursing process that are inefficient, unsafe, or problematic in nature.

—-Diagnose the problem and choose a nursing change theory that suits the change you want to make.

—-Propose a detailed plan based on your chosen change theory, explaining how to implement change.

—Develop criteria to evaluate the effectiveness of the plan and include a timeline for your change proposal.

—-Reflect on how your change affects the nursing profession.

2. Write a 3-5 page paper following the criteria below:

—-Your paper should include primary sources and include at least two peer reviewed nursing journal articles.

—-Citations should be in your own words and not direct quotes. o Include a title page, running head, appropriate headings, and reference page.

—-The paper should be double spaced, written in Times New Roman, 12-point font, follow APA style format, and cite all sources correctly.

 

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