Purpose
The purpose of this direct care project is for learners to apply the nursing process to assess if the nursing care provided by professionally certified nurses will result in improved patient outcomes. This is Part 4 of 4 in the Direct Care Project.
| Overview | Points | Due Date | Project |
|---|---|---|---|
| Part 1: Assessment and Diagnosis completed in Week 2 | |||
| Part 2: Planning the Presentation completed in Week 4 | |||
| Part 3: Implementing the Presentation Completed in Weeks 5 or 6 | |||
| Part 4: Evaluation: Check-In | 10 | Wednesday of Week 6 | Required, graded check-in on progress of evaluation of your presentation and project. |
| Part 4: Evaluating the Project | 200 | Sunday end of Week 6 | Evaluate learning and reflect on project. |
Course Outcomes
This direct care project enables the student to meet the following course outcomes:
- CO 1: Apply leadership concepts, skills, and decision making in the provision of quality nursing care. (PO 2)
- CO 2: Apply the nursing process to quality improvement of patient-centered care outcomes. (POs 4, 7)
Part 4 enables the student to meet the following course outcomes:
- CO 1: Apply leadership concepts, skills, and decision making in the provision of quality nursing care. (PO 2)
- CO 2: Apply the nursing process to quality improvement of patient-centered care outcomes. (POs 4, 7)
Directions for Part 4
- Download the Direct Care Part 4: Evaluating the Project template below.
- Gather the information from the surveys and attendance form.
- Complete the template with the following:
- Attendance form data
- Include names, titles, and organization
- Tables of results
- PRE-Survey and POST-Survey results in numerical form
- Interpretation of results
- Summarize data in the tables
- Include any positive or negative changes
- Reflection
- Overall experience
- Summary of outcomes from the pre and post surveys
- Gaps in project (Examples: What else would have been helpful? More data? Better resources?)
- Barriers to the project (Examples: participant interest, time, limited resources, willingness for change)
- Implications for future practice
- How could this project impact your professional practice?
- Attendance form data
- Submit the Direct Care Part 4: Evaluating the Project template and the attendance form. The attendance form will be a separate submission in the grades area.
ANSWER
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4. Interpretation of results
a. Summarize data from the tables
As seen above, there were 3 registered nurses in the survey. The pre-survey indicates a relatively lack of knowledge among the nurses, especially surrounding the correlation between nursing specialty and leadership, nurse specialty and patient outcomes, and the cost …..
b. Include any positive or negative changes
The notable positive change is that all registered nurses were strongly convicted that they would be interested in pursuing specialty certification. Also, there was an increase in knowledge as the registered nurses indicated that they had gained a deeper understanding of their specialty certification and its resulting impact on leadership skills and patient outcomes.
5. Reflection….
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