CAPSTONE PROJECT—COMPREHENSIVE HEALTHCARE CHANGE PROPOSAL BSNU CAPSTONE — D226 P

Posted: September 25th, 2023

CAPSTONE PROJECT—COMPREHENSIVE HEALTHCARE CHANGE PROPOSAL
BSNU CAPSTONE — D226
PRFA — NQM1
TASK OVERVIEWSUBMISSIONSEVALUATION REPORT
COMPETENCIES
738.9.1 : Develop a Proposal for Change
The learner proposes a change within the healthcare environment that incorporates clinical expertise and individual values.
738.9.2 : Optimize Health Outcomes
The learner collaborates with interprofessional teams, patients, families, and communities to optimize value-based healthcare.
738.9.3 : Propose Changes to Healthcare Practices
The learner participates in continuous quality improvement to promote innovative, ethical, value-based healthcare supported by evidence.
738.9.4 : Integrate Technology Improvement Initiatives
The learner integrates informatics knowledge and skills into the planning process to promote innovative, safe, healthcare improvements.
738.9.5 : Influence Excellence in Healthcare
The learner applies interpersonal skills to influence compassionate excellence in value-based healthcare.
INTRODUCTION
Healthcare organizations value proposal and implementation plans that reduce cost and increase patient safety, efficiency, and outcomes. The D226 capstone project allows professional nurses the ability to apply knowledge obtained throughout the BSNU program. For this task, you will comprehensively address a healthcare change by creating a proposal and implementation plan. An emphasis is placed on the transition and culmination of learned skills throughout your WGU experience. The competencies of development, optimization, integration, and influence will require relevant evidence and information to support your proposal. Using clinical knowledge, collaboration, quality improvement, innovation, and informatics, you will apply your expertise and value-based healthcare skills to address your proposal systematically.
REQUIREMENTS
Your submission must be your original work. No more than a combined total of 30% of the submission and no more than a 10% match to any one individual source can be directly quoted or closely paraphrased from sources, even if cited correctly. The originality report that is provided when you submit your task can be used as a guide.
You must use the rubric to direct the creation of your submission because it provides detailed criteria that will be used to evaluate your work. Each requirement below may be evaluated by more than one rubric aspect. The rubric aspect titles may contain hyperlinks to relevant portions of the course.
Tasks may not be submitted as cloud links, such as links to Google Docs, Google Slides, OneDrive, etc., unless specified in the task requirements. All other submissions must be file types that are uploaded and submitted as attachments (e.g., .docx, .pdf, .ppt).
Proposal
A. Create a proposal by doing the following:
1. Propose one innovative, value-based healthcare change that will affect patient outcomes.
a. Select an organizational sponsor in a leadership role and meet with them to authorize your proposed change and complete the attached “Professional Verification Form.”
Note: See the “Professional Verification Form” for details on how to complete the document, and include all required sections. An organizational sponsor is an individual who fulfills a leadership role, such as a supervisor, manager, director, or clinical specialist.
b. Summarize the discussion you had with your organizational sponsor, including feedback received from the sponsor.
c. Explain any changes you had to make to your proposal based on the sponsor’s feedback, or explain why no changes were needed based on your sponsor’s feedback.
2. Provide organizational, local, or national data that support the need for the proposed change.
3. Describe two barriers that may hinder making the proposed change.
4. Discuss a potential negative outcome if your proposed change is not implemented.
a. Discuss a potential action that you can take if there is a lack of support for your proposed change.
5. Discuss two ways this proposed change could enhance value-based care.
6. Describe the key stakeholders by title that are essential to the success of this proposal, including their role in the proposed change.
a. Describe how you would plan to collaborate with your key stakeholders.
Implementation Strategy
B. Create an implementation strategy by doing the following:
1. Identify the key resources needed to implement your proposed change.
2. Identify the costs associated with implementing your proposed change.
3. Discuss two benefits of implementing your proposed change.
4. Provide a timeline for your implementation strategy that includes the following phases:
• planning
• milestones
• implementation
• evaluation
5. Explain how you would use data to support your implementation strategy.
6. Analyze the potential outcomes of your proposed change by doing the following:
a. Discuss a potential financial benefit of the outcome of your proposed change.
b. Discuss two potential ethical implications of the proposed change.
7. Discuss how you could integrate technology into your implementation strategy, including a relevant example of how the technology would be used.
8. Describe how you would measure your proposed change’s success.
Reflection
C. Write a reflection statement by doing the following:
1. Describe how you were a change agent in creating this proposed change and implementation plan, including a relevant example.
2. Examine your influence over the proposed change by doing the following:
a. Describe the knowledge and skills you obtained and used, including a relevant example.
b. Analyze how you could expand the proposal beyond the organization or environment in which you envisioned your proposed change would take place.
D. Incorporate the following components of APA into your task:
• citations that include the author(s) and date of publication—for example: (author, date)
• references that include all four components, in the order of author, date, title, and location
E. Demonstrate professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission.
File Restrictions
File name may contain only letters, numbers, spaces, and these symbols: ! – _ . * ‘ ( )
File size limit: 200 MB
File types allowed: doc, docx, rtf, xls, xlsx, ppt, pptx, odt, pdf, txt, qt, mov, mpg, avi, mp3, wav, mp4, wma, flv, asf, mpeg, wmv, m4v, svg, tif, tiff, jpeg, jpg, gif, png, zip, rar, tar, 7z
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