Evaluation Plan Design
The evaluation plan is the process of describing how one can monitor and evaluate a specific program. These evaluation programs are also important in improving the program and making informed-decision on an issue under investigation (Rohatinsky et al., 2020). Evaluation design allows for determining the effectiveness of projects and offering informed-decision on the changes that can be made to ensure that the desired outcomes are met. Therefore, the purpose of this assignment is to develop an evaluation plan on the identified clinical problem of the gap between a senior-year nursing student and a new nurse.
The Expected Outcomes
The proposed project seeks to identify the clinical problem of the gap between a senior-year nursing student and a new nurse. This gap has been widening in the recent past because most healthcare professionals lack a program to mentor new nurses into practice. The effect is evident in compromised patient safety and healthcare quality. The expected outcome from this project includes bridging of the gap between senior nursing students and new nurse. This will be reflected in improved patient care, reduced readmission rates, improved teamwork, and high job satisfaction among new nurses. Poor patient care has been an issue linked to inadequate skills among professionals to devise better methods of patient care. Improved patient care would as well result in low readmission rates that further relay more information on the improved quality of the healthcare delivery (Rohatinsky et al., 2020). The evaluation of these outcomes would be significant in understanding the effect of mentorship in improving the clinical outcome among new nurses.
Recording the readmission rate after undertaking the intervention in the mentorship program in a healthcare facility would be significant in measuring the impact of the intervention in improving the desired outcome. The outcome from the readmission rates would be effective in establishing a framework that can be used to achieve quality, safety, and experience of care (Albarqouni et al., 2018). The outcome of reduced readmission would show that the care offered to patients has improved, and nurses have gained addition and effective skills in attaining the unique needs of the patients at the facility.
Data Collection Tool and Data Collection Method
Electronic healthcare records (EHRs)will be the primary data source for the evaluation plan. This makes the EHRs a significant data source in the evaluation plan. The data from this system will show if the proposed intervention is effective and can meet the desired patient outcome by improving the mentorship of new nurses. Again, the EHRs effectively capture the most accurate patient data as they are used in the daily monitoring of patients in an institution (Brownson et al., 2018). This makes the tool significant in developing an evaluation plan.
Chart audits will also be used in this project. Chart audits done internally are used to measure activities that aid in supporting an organization to achieve its main objectives, the evaluation of care quality, and the assessment of staff performance (Terweeb et al., 2018). This tool will be designed to have a series of questions that seeks to clarify whether the mentorship programs are important in assessing the nurse’s skills. The outcome will be measured in percentages, and the data will involve determining consistency in the data collected.
This project will use an interval test. This statistical test is selected because it can determine whether the outcomes on blood pressure vary within the two interventions. The trend recorded on patient outcomes before the intervention will be compared to the trend noted after (Terwee et al., 2018). This comparison would provide the most effective conclusion that will either support or decline the proposed project.
Part 2: Discussion
Advocacy
Nurses have an essential role to play in the intervention program. The process would entail engaging the nurses in establishing the program. This process will entail increasing the flexibility of the nurses to allow them to have time with their mentors during the process. Maintaining the intervention after implementation will be achieved by engaging nurse leaders and other frontline workers because they are the main drivers of this project. The healthcare providers must receive satisfactory training on implementing and sustaining the proposed solution (Albarqouni et al., 2018). The unity among nurses would be effective in developing a mentorship plan that would be significant in meeting the desired outcome.
The intervention plan would be significant in developing the relationship between the senior and new nurses at the facility. Indeed, the senior nurses would get the opportunity to sharpen the skills of the new nurses, who would be expected to drive the facility towards meeting its positive outcome on patient safety and quality (Rohatinsky et al., 2020). The organization and the new nurses would gain from the intervention as it would improve interprofessional collaboration. The improved care would be one of the significant outcomes the facility would expect from the process.
Future Steps
The current project would be significant in enlightening the new nurses on the new technology used that can improve the desired outcome. The process would result in the development of skilled young nurses with the desire to meet the desired healthcare outcome (Chan et al., 2020). In doing so, the new nurses would also increase in number and could effectively attend to a large population of patients. The impact would be felt in the entire healthcare system as all the nurses would work towards a common goal of improving patient care and safety.
Note: Each assessment in this course builds on the work you completed in the previous assessment. Therefore, you must complete the assessments in this course in the order in which they are presented.
……SO ITS ALL BASED ON “How does the use of individual and/or group therapy compare to medication in treating depression in psychiatric adolescent patients?”
Develop a 4–6-page plan that will allow you to evaluate your intervention.
Once an intervention is planned and implemented it is important to evaluate the degree to which the outcomes of the project were achieved. By evaluating the desired outcomes of an intervention, it is possible to make more informed decisions about opportunities for continuous improvement. It is also possible to identify strategies and approaches that could be useful in improving one’s personal practice in other contexts or care areas.
Questions to Consider
As you prepare to complete this assessment, you may want to think about other related issues to deepen your understanding or broaden your viewpoint. You are encouraged to consider the questions below and discuss them with a fellow learner, a work associate, an interested friend, or a member of your professional community. Note that these questions are for your own development and exploration and do not need to be completed or submitted as part of your assessment.
What specific piece or pieces of technology did you propose using in your implementation plan?
How did the type of technology you chose impact the development of your implementation plan?
How will the incorporation of the technology you propose make your implementation plan more successful?
Assessment Instructions
INSTRUCTIONS
Note: The assessments in this course are sequenced in such a way as to help you build specific skills that you will use throughout your program. Complete the assessments in the order in which they are presented.
Your evaluation plan design will be the forth section of your final project submission. The goal for this is to finalize the outcomes that your plan is seeking to achieve and to create a plan to evaluate the degree to which those outcomes were achieved after your intervention plan has been implemented. This will allow you and your care setting to determine the degree to which the plan was successful in addressing the identified need of your target population and setting.
You will also discuss ways in which your role allows you to lead change and drive quality improvement, and to potentially improve the project in the future. In addition, you will reflect on how the project will leave you better prepared for success in other aspects of your current and future career. Provide enough detail so that the faculty member assessing your implementation plan design and discussion will be able to provide substantive feedback that you will be able to incorporate into the final draft of your project.
At minimum, be sure to address the bullet points below, as they correspond to the grading criteria. You may also want to read the scoring guide and the Guiding Questions: Evaluation Plan Design document (linked in the Resources) to better understand how each criterion will be assessed. In addition to the bullet points below, provide a brief introduction that refreshes the reader’s memory about your problem statement, your planned intervention, and how you intended to implement your intervention (this should only be a single paragraph).
Reminder: these instructions are an outline. Your heading for this this section should be Evaluation of Plan and not Part 1: Evaluation of Plan.
Part 1: Evaluation of Plan
Define the outcomes that are the goal of an intervention plan.
Create an evaluation plan to determine the impact of an intervention for a health promotion, quality improvement, prevention, education, or management need.
Part 2: Discussion
Advocacy
Analyze the nurse’s role in leading change and driving improvements in the quality and experience of care.
Explain how the intervention plan affects nursing and interprofessional collaboration, and how the health care field gains from the plan.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS
Length of submission: 4–6 pages, double spaced.
Number of resources: Minimum of 3–6 resources. (You may use resources previously cited in your literature review to contribute to this number. Your final project will require 12–18 unique resources.)
Written communication: Written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message.
APA formatting: Resources and citations are formatted according to current APA style. Header formatting follows current APA levels.
Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.
