Develop an intervention (your capstone project), as a solution to the patient, family, or population problem you've defined. Submit the proposed intervention to the faculty for review and approval. This solution needs to be implemented (shared) with your patient, family, or group. You are not to share your intervention with your patient, family, or group or move on to Assessment 5 before your faculty reviews/approves the solution you submit in Assessment 4. In a separate written deliverable, write a 5–7 page analysis of your intervention.

Please submit both your solution/intervention and the 5–7 page analysis to complete Assessment 4.

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Introduction

In your first three assessments, you applied new knowledge and insight gleaned from the literature, from organizational data, and from direct consultation with the patient, family, or group (and perhaps with subject matter and industry experts) to your assessment of the problem. You’ve examined the problem from the perspectives of leadership, collaboration, communication, change management, policy, quality of care, patient safety, costs to the system and individual, technology, care coordination, and community resources. Now it’s time to turn your attention to proposing an intervention (your capstone project), as a solution to the problem.

Preparation

In this assessment, you’ll develop an intervention as a solution to the health problem you’ve defined. To prepare for the assessment, think about an appropriate intervention, based on your work in the preceding assessments, that will produce tangible, measurable results for the patient, family, or group. In addition, you might consider using a root cause analysis to explore the underlying reasons for a problem and as the basis for developing and implementing an action plan to address the problem. Some appropriate interventions include the following:

· Creating an educational brochure.

· Producing an educational voice-over PowerPoint presentation or video focusing on your topic.

· Creating a teaching plan for your patient, family, or group.

· Recommending work process or workflow changes addressing your topic.

Plan to spend at least 3 direct practicum hours working with the same patient, family, or group.

In addition, you may wish to complete the following:

· Review the assessment instructions and scoring guide to ensure that you understand the work you will be asked to complete and how it will be assessed.

· Conduct sufficient research of the scholarly and professional literature to inform your work and meet scholarly expectations for supporting evidence.

Note: As you revise your writing, check out the resources listed on the Writing Center’s 

Writing Support
 page.

Instructions

Complete this assessment in two parts: (a) develop an intervention as a solution to the problem and (b) submit your proposed intervention, with a written analysis, to your faculty for review and approval.

Part 1

Develop an intervention, as a solution to the problem, based on your assessment and supported by data and scholarly, evidence-based sources.

Incorporate relevant aspects of the following considerations that shaped your understanding of the problem:

· Leadership.

· Collaboration.

· Communication.

· Change management.

· Policy.

· Quality of care.

· Patient safety.

· Costs to the system and individual.

· Technology.

· Care coordination.

· Community resources.

Part 2

Submit your proposed intervention to your faculty for review and approval.

In a separate written deliverable, write a 5–7 page analysis of your intervention.

· Summarize the patient, family, or population problem.

· Explain why you selected this problem as the focus of your project.

· Explain why the problem is relevant to your professional practice and to the patient, family, or group.

In addition, address the requirements outlined below. These requirements correspond to the scoring guide criteria for this assessment, so be sure to 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 document format and length and for supporting evidence.

· Define the role of leadership and change management in addressing the problem.

· Explain how leadership and change management strategies influenced the development of your proposed intervention.

· Explain how nursing ethics informed the development of your proposed intervention.

· Include a copy of the intervention/solution/professional product.

· Propose strategies for communicating and collaborating with the patient, family, or group to improve outcomes associated with the problem.

· Identify the patient, family, or group.

· Discuss the benefits of gathering their input to improve care associated with the problem.

· Identify best-practice strategies from the literature for effective communication and collaboration to improve outcomes.

· Explain how state board nursing practice standards and/or organizational or governmental policies guided the development of your proposed intervention.

· Cite the standards and/or policies that guided your work.

· Describe research that has tested the effectiveness of these standards and/or policies in improving outcomes for this problem.

· Explain how your proposed intervention will improve the quality of care, enhance patient safety, and reduce costs to the system and individual.

· Cite evidence from the literature that supports your conclusions.

· Identify relevant and available sources of benchmark data on care quality, patient safety, and costs to the system and individual.

· Explain how technology, care coordination, and the utilization of community resources can be applied in addressing the problem.

· Cite evidence from the literature that supports your conclusions.

· Write concisely and directly, using active voice.

· Apply APA formatting to in-text citations and references.

Additional Requirements

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Format: Format the written analysis of your intervention using APA style. 

APA Style Paper Tutorial [DOCX]
 is provided to help you in writing and formatting your paper. Be sure to include:

· A title page and reference page. An abstract is not required.

· Appropriate section headings.

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Length: Your paper should be approximately 5–7 pages in length, not including the reference page.

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Supporting evidence: Cite at least five sources of scholarly or professional evidence that support your central ideas. Resources should be no more than five years old. Provide in-text citations and references in APA format.

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Proofreading: Proofread your paper, before you submit it, to minimize errors that could distract readers and make it more difficult for them to focus on its substance.

Portfolio Prompt: Save your intervention to your 
ePortfolio. After you complete your program, you may want to consider leveraging your portfolio as part of a job search or other demonstration of your academic and professional competencies.

Competencies Measured

By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:

· Competency 1: Lead people and processes to improve patient, systems, and population outcomes.

· Define the role of leadership and change management in addressing a patient, family, or population health problem and includes a copy of intervention/solution/professional product.

· Competency 3: Transform processes to improve quality, enhance patient safety, and reduce the cost of care.

· Explain how a proposed intervention to address a patient, family, or population health problem will improve the quality of care, enhance patient safety, and reduce costs to the system and individual.

· Competency 4: Apply health information and patient care technology to improve patient and systems outcomes.

· Explain how technology, care coordination, and the utilization of community resources can be applied in addressing a patient, family, or population health problem.

· Competency 5: Analyze the impact of health policy on quality and cost of care.

· Explain how state board nursing practice standards and/or organizational or governmental policies guided the development of a proposed intervention.

· Competency 6: Collaborate interprofessionally to improve patient and population outcomes.

· Propose strategies for communicating and collaborating with a patient, family, or group to improve outcomes associated with a patient, family, or population health problem.

· Competency 8: Integrate professional standards and values into practice.

· Write concisely and directly, using active voice.

· Apply APA formatting to in-text citations and references

It is no secret that phones, computers, and technology in general have started to take over the world. It is safe to say that every one of our co-workers owns a cellphone of their own and has probably used it in the workplace at one point or another. “Information technology opens our windows and doors upon the world, allowing us to quickly communicate and exchange data and information within facilities, within healthcare delivery systems, and even across the globe” (Chamberlain College of Nursing, 2020). This can become tricky when put into legal terms in relation to patient safety and privacy. “Communication within the medical field is critical to ensure safe, timely delivery of healthcare” (Chandra, et al., 2023). Considering this patient scenario, it is both unethical and unlawful to take photos and send and receive patient photos on your personal cellphone. This can very easily violate the HIPAA policy because the patient photos are not sent under a secure network and can be breached through the firewall of your own personal cellphone by hackers. It is also possible that someone is using your phone and sees it mistakingly, or you decide to show friends or family the photos of another patients wound. With that being said, technology is very important in healthcare as it allows for more efficient healthcare when used appropriately. “Technology in healthcare today allows for global healthcare information systems (HISs), more specialized clinical information systems (CIS), and the electronic health record” (EHR) (Hebda et al., 2019). Many facilities have started to incorporate secure messaging devices in order to taking pictures, and send messages relating to patient data/care. This makes it so that the healthcare personnel are not taking any healthcare data home as they are to return the device at the end of their shift and the messages delete are a certain amount of time if not deleted previously by the employee. My facility has specific guidelines regarding the use of personal communication devices in patient care settings. This policy states that we are not allowed to take phones within the health care setting that could breech patient information. This includes taking pictures at the desk that could possibly include patient care charts and patient boards in the background of the photo. We do have access to our hospital email, and secure messaging services within applications on our personal cellphones but we have to download and encrypt our phone with certain secure firewalls in order to keep these apps so that the messages remain secure. This allows for us to use our personal phones, almost like in the scenario, but we would be messaging the PCP with a secure application that could not be hacked or shared. 

 

Resources 

Chamberlain College of Nursing. (2020). 
NR-361 RN Information Systems in Healthcare: Week 7 Lesson. Downers Grove, IL: Online Publication.

Chandra, S., Oberg, M., Hilburn, G., Wu, D. T., & Adhyaru, B. (2023). Improving Communication in a Large Urban Academic Safety Net Hospital System: Implementation of Secure Messaging. 
Journal of medical systems, 
47(1), 56. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10916-023-01956-x

Hebda, T., Hunter, K., & Czar, P. (2019). 
Handbook of informatics for nurses & healthcare professionals (6th ed.). Pearson.

 Read the following case study and answer the reflective questions.  Please provide evidence-based rationales for your answers.  APA, 7th ed. must be followed.  

 

you are going to participate in a discussion on a novel or movie.  Please choose one of the stories below and read the novel or watch the movie.  You’ll participate in the discussion thread below related to the story you choose. 

1. Fault in Our Stars novel by Green (2012) or Fault in Our Stars movie (2014)
2. Still Alice novel by Genova (2009) or Still Alice movie (2014)

This family story discussion has two parts:

Part 1:Construct Grid (ALL)

Using the blank construct grid, choose 8 constructs relevant to the family in the novel/movie and complete those rows of the grid.  Share your completed constructs with your discussion group and explain why you chose them. 

Part 2:  Family Story Discussion Fault in Our Stars

The rest of the focus for this week is the Fault in Our Stars book or movie discussion. I am providing the following list of questions to jump start the discussion. You don’t need to answer all of the questions. This is meant to be a free-flowing conversation, and I expect each of you will add your questions throughout the discussion.

Each of you can tell us how you experienced the story, and pick one of the questions below to answer if these help focus your thoughts.

1. John Green uses the voice of a teenage girl to tell this story. Why do you think he choose to do this? Was it effective? How would it have been different if he had told the story from a different voice? How does voice relate to family nursing practice?
2. What does the title, Fault in Our Stars, mean?
3. How would you describe the two main characters, Hazel and Gus?
4. How do Hazel and Gus relate to their cancer?
5. At one point in the book, Hazel states, “Cancer books suck.” What is she really meaning?
6. How do Hazel and Gus change, in spirit, over the course of the novel?
7. Why is “An Imperial Affliction” written by Peter Van Houten Hazel’s favorite book?
8. How many of you looked to see if, “An Imperial Affliction” was an actual book?
9. What do you think about the author Peter Van Houten?
10. Why it was so important for Hazel and Gus to learn what happens after the heroine dies in the An Imperial Affliction?

Part 2:  Family Story Discussion Still Alice

The rest of the focus for this week is the Still Alice book or movie discussion. Below, you’ll find a list of questions to jump start the discussion. You don’t need to answer all of the questions. This is meant to be a free-flowing conversation, and I expect each of you will add your questions throughout the discussion.

Each of you can tell us how you experienced the story, and pick one of the questions below to answer if these help focus your thoughts.

Participate in a book discussion by choosing and answering one of the questions below. 

1. Why do you think the author named the book “Still Alice?”
2. How is Alzheimer’s not only Alice’s diagnosis but also her family’s?
3. How does Alzheimer’s affect roles in a household? 
4. Why do you think the author wrote the book from third person narrative, taking away from the personal connection? 
5. Or, write your own question related to the novel and answer it.