Analyze the nurse’s role in leading change and driving improvements in the quality and experience of care.

Guiding Questions

Evaluation Plan Design

This document is designed to give you questions to consider and additional guidance to help you successfully complete the Evaluation Plan Design assessment. You may find it useful to use this document as a pre-writing exercise, an outlining tool, or as a final check to ensure that you have sufficiently addressed all the grading criteria for this assessment. This document is a resource to help you complete the assessment. Do not turn in this document as your assessment submission.

Part 1: Evaluation Plan

Define the outcomes that are the goal of an intervention plan.

· What are the outcomes that you are attempting to achieve with your intervention and project?

· How do the outcomes illustrate the purpose of your intervention and project?

· How do the outcomes illustrate what you hope to accomplish your intervention and project?

· How do the outcomes establish a framework that can be used to achieve an improvement in the quality, safety, and experience of care?

Create an evaluation plan to determine the impact of an intervention for a health promotion, quality improvement, prevention, education, or management need.

· How are you going to measure and evaluate the degree to which you achieved your outcomes?

· What data do you need to fully evaluate the outcomes?

· How will you collect the needed data?

· What tools or technology will you use to aid in data collection?

· What strategies will you use to analyze and evaluate the collected data?

· What tools or technology will you use to aid in data analysis?

· How will the evaluation plan illustrate the impact that your intervention plan had, or will have?

Part 2: Discussion

Advocacy

Analyze the nurse’s role in leading change and driving improvements in the quality and experience of care.

· How does the nurse help to lead change in professional practice and interprofessional teams?

· How does the nurse help to drive improvements in the quality and experience of care in professional practice and interprofessional teams?

Explain how the intervention plan affects nursing and interprofessional collaboration, and how the health care field gains from the plan.

· How does your intervention plan affect the nursing profession and role?

· In other words, how does your intervention plan improve the nursing profession and practices?

· How does your intervention plan affect interprofessional collaboration related to improving outcomes for the target population and setting of your intervention plan?

· What are other gains and benefits to the health care field in general from your intervention plan and project?

Future Steps

Explain how the current project could be improved upon to create a bigger impact in the target population as well as to take advantage of emerging technology and care models to improve outcomes and safety.

· How could your intervention plan and project be revised to create improved or broader-reaching impacts for your target population?

· How could your intervention plan and project better take advantage of emerging technology to improve performance related to the outcomes of the intervention plan?

· How could your intervention plan and project better take advantage of emerging care models to improve achievement of the project’s outcomes, as well as to improve patient safety?

Reflection on Leading Change and Improvement

Reflect on how the project has impacted your ability to lead change in personal practice and future leadership positions.

· How has your work on your capstone project impacted your ability to lead change in your personal practice and current care setting?

· How has your work on your capstone project impacted your ability to lead change in any future leadership positions you may have?

Reflect on the ways in which the completed intervention, implementation, and evaluation plans can be transferred into your personal practice to drive quality improvement in other contexts.

· How can the work you have undertaken with your capstone project be transferred into your current practice and care setting?

· How can the work you have undertaken with your capstone project be transferred into other care settings and contexts?

Address Generally Throughout

Integrate resources from diverse sources that illustrate support for all aspects of an evaluation plan for an intervention, as well as for professional discussion about the plan.

· Do the resources cited support all aspects of your evaluation plan?

· Do the resources cited support your professional discussion of the plan and your practice?

· Do your resources come from a diversity of sources?

· For example: the literature, professional standards, existing health care policy, relevant health care laws, et cetera.

· Do you cite a minimum of 3–6 resources?

Communicate evaluation plan and discussion of the project in a professional way that helps the audience to understand how the outcomes will be evaluated, as well as what was learned through the project process.

· Is your writing clear and professional?

· Does your writing effectively communicate your proposed evaluation plan?

· Does your writing effectively communicate what was learned throughout the project process?

· Is your writing free from errors?

· Is your submission 4–6 pages?

· Does your submission conform to current APA style standards?

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