Present your approved intervention to the patient, family, or group. Plan to spend at least 3 practicum hours exploring these aspects of the problem with the patient, family, or group. During this time, you may also consult with subject matter and industry experts of your choice.
The assessment requirements, outlined below, correspond to the scoring guide criteria, so address each main point. Read the performance-level descriptions for each criterion to see how your work will be assessed. In addition, note the additional requirements for supporting evidence.
· Assess the contribution of your intervention to patient or family satisfaction and quality of life.
· Describe feedback received from the patient, family, or group on your intervention as a solution to the problem.
· Explain how your intervention enhances the patient, family, or group experience.
· Describe your use of evidence and peer-reviewed literature to plan and implement your capstone project.
· Explain how the principles of evidence-based practice informed this aspect of your project.
· Assess the degree to which you successfully leveraged health care technology in your capstone project to improve outcomes or communication with the patient, family, or group.
· Identify opportunities to improve health care technology use in future practice.
· Explain how health policy influenced the planning and implementation of your capstone project, as well as any contributions your project made to policy development.
· Note specific observations related to the baccalaureate-prepared nurse’s role in policy implementation and development.
· Explain whether capstone project outcomes matched your initial predictions.
· Discuss the aspects of the project that met, exceeded, or fell short of your expectations.
· Discuss whether your intervention can, or will be, adopted as a best practice.
· Describe the generalizability of your intervention outside this particular setting.
· Document the time spent (your practicum hours) with these individuals or group in the BSN Learner Time Reporting Volunteer Experience Form.
· Assess your personal and professional growth throughout your capstone project and the RN-to-BSN program.
· Address your provision of ethical care and demonstration of professional standards.
· Identify specific growth areas of which you are most proud or in which you have taken particular satisfaction.
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:
· Competency 2: Make clinical and operational decisions based upon the best available evidence.
· Describe one’s use of evidence and peer-reviewed literature to plan and implement a capstone project.
· Competency 3: Transform processes to improve quality, enhance patient safety, and reduce the cost of care.
· Explain whether capstone project outcomes matched one’s initial predictions and documents the practicum hours spent with these individuals or group in the Volunteer Experience Form. Document the completion of nine hours of practicum time.
· Competency 4: Apply health information and patient care technology to improve patient and systems outcomes.
· Assess the degree to which one successfully leveraged health care technology in a capstone project to improve outcomes or communication with a patient, family, or group.
· Competency 5: Analyze the impact of health policy on quality and cost of care.
· Explain how health policy influenced the planning and implementation of one’s capstone project, as well as any contributions the project made to policy development.
· Competency 7: Implement patient-centered care to improve quality of care and the patient experience.
· Assess the contribution of an intervention to patient, family, or group satisfaction and quality of life.
· Competency 8: Integrate professional standards and values into practice.
· Assess one’s personal and professional growth throughout a capstone project and the RN-to-BSN program.