This post covers Non Performance, as detailed below.
Develop a 4–6 page plan that will allow you to evaluate your intervention. You will also be required to submit your completed practicum hours using Capella Academic Portal.
Introduction
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.
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.
Preparations
- Read Guiding Questions for Assessment 5: Evaluation Plan Design [PDF]. This document is designed to give you questions to consider and additional guidance to help you successfully complete this assessment.
- 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?
Context
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.
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 fourth 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 would have been achieved if your intervention plan has been implemented. This will allow you 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 rubric and the Guiding Questions for Assessment 5: Evaluation Plan Design [PDF] 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 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 the evaluation plan and discuss 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 double-spaced pages.
- Number of resources: 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. Refer to APA Paper Tutorial if you need additional guidance.
- Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.
Competencies Measured
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:
- Competency 1: Lead organizational change to improve the experience of care, population health, and professional work life while decreasing the cost of care.
- Create an evaluation plan to determine the impact of an intervention for a health promotion, quality improvement, prevention, education, or management need.
- Analyze the nurse’s role in leading change and driving improvements in the quality and experience of care.
- Reflect on how the project has impacted one’s ability to lead change in personal practice and future leadership positions.
- Demonstrate completion of hours toward the practicum experience.
- Competency 2: Evaluate and apply the best available evidence for use in clinical and organizational decision making.
- 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.
- Competency 3: Drive process improvements to lead a culture of safety and quality.
- Reflect on the ways in which the completed intervention, implementation, and evaluation plans can be transferred into one’s personal practice to drive process improvement in other contexts.
- Competency 4: Design person centered and population centered care to improve health outcomes and advance health equity.
- Define the outcomes that are the goal of an intervention plan.
- Competency 5: Integrate strategies to improve communication and collaboration among team members to optimize care and strengthen outcomes.
- Explain how the intervention plan affects nursing and interprofessional collaboration, and how the health care profession gains from the plan.
- Competency 6: Integrate knowledge of existing and emerging information, communication, and healthcare technologies to improve safety and quality, and decrease the cost of care.
- Explain how the current project could be improved upon to create a bigger impact in the target population as well as take advantage of emerging technology and care models to improve outcomes and safety.
- Competency 8: Communicate effectively, in an appropriate form and style, consistent with organizational, professional, and scholarly standards.
- Communicate an evaluation plan and discuss 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.
- Correctly format the assessment, citations, and references using APA style.
Scoring Guide
Use the scoring guide to understand how your assessment will be evaluated.
Criterion 1
Define the outcomes that are the goal of an intervention plan.
Distinguished
Defines the outcomes that are the goal of an intervention plan, impartially discussing pros and cons of alternative outcomes.
Proficient
Defines the outcomes that are the goal of an intervention plan.
Basic
Suggests the outcomes of an intervention plan, but proposed outcomes do not illustrate the purpose of the intervention or do not establish a framework for an improvement in the quality, safety, or experience of care.
Non Performance
Does not suggest the outcomes that are the goal of an intervention plan.
Criterion 2
Create an evaluation plan to determine the impact of an intervention for a health promotion, quality improvement, prevention, education, or management need.
Distinguished
Creates an evaluation plan to determine the impact of an intervention for a health promotion, quality improvement, prevention, education, or management need, and identifies assumptions on which the evaluation plan is based.
Proficient
Creates an evaluation plan to determine the impact of an intervention for a health promotion, quality improvement, prevention, education, or management need.
Basic
Attempts to create an evaluation plan, but omits details about the collection, analysis, or evaluation of data to fully evaluate the outcomes, or does not clearly relate the evaluation plan to the intervention plan.
Non Performance
Does not create an evaluation plan to determine the impact of the intervention.
Criterion 3
Analyze the nurse’s role in leading change and driving improvements in the quality and experience of care.
Distinguished
Analyzes the nurse’s role in leading change and driving improvements in the quality and experience of care, and identifies assumptions on which the analysis is based.
Proficient
Analyzes the nurse’s role in leading change and driving improvements in the quality and experience of care.
Basic
Superficially discusses the nurse’s role in leading change and driving improvements in the quality and experience of care.
Non Performance
Does not discuss the nurse’s role in leading change and driving improvements in the quality and experience of care.
Criterion 4
Explain how the intervention plan affects nursing and interprofessional collaboration, and how the health care profession gains from the plan.
Distinguished
Explains how the intervention plan affects nursing and interprofessional collaboration, and how the health care profession gains from the plan; identifies areas of uncertainty, knowledge gaps, or additional information that would be needed in order to gain a more complete understanding.
Proficient
Explains how the intervention plan affects nursing and interprofessional collaboration, and how the health care profession gains from the plan.
Basic
Provides a cursory or unconvincing explanation of how the intervention plan affects nursing and interprofessional collaboration, and how the health care profession gains from the plan.
Non Performance
Does not explain how the intervention plan affects nursing and interprofessional collaboration, and how the health care profession gains from the plan.
Criterion 5
Explain how the current project could be improved upon to create a bigger impact in the target population as well as take advantage of emerging technology and care models to improve outcomes and safety.
Distinguished
Explains how the current project could be improved upon to create a bigger impact in the target population as well as take advantage of emerging technology and care models to improve outcomes and safety; identifies assumptions underlying the proposed improvements.
Proficient
Explains how the current project could be improved upon to create a bigger impact in the target population as well as take advantage of emerging technology and care models to improve outcomes and safety.
Basic
Provides a cursory explanation of how the project could be improved upon, missing opportunities related to emerging technology or care models and ignoring potential for improved and broader-reaching impacts.
Non Performance
Does not suggest how the current project could be improved upon to create a bigger impact in the target population or take advantage of emerging technology and care models to improve outcomes and safety.
Criterion 6
Reflect on how the project has impacted one’s ability to lead change in personal practice and future leadership positions.
Distinguished
Reflects on how the project has impacted one’s ability to lead change in personal practice and future leadership positions, and suggests goals for future personal growth.
Proficient
Reflects on how the project has impacted one’s ability to lead change in personal practice and future leadership positions.
Basic
Discusses how the project has impacted one’s ability to lead change in personal practice and future leadership positions, but discussion lacks thoughtfulness or self-reflection.
Non Performance
Does not discuss how the project has impacted one’s ability to lead change in personal practice and future leadership positions.
Criterion 7
Reflect on the ways in which the completed intervention, implementation, and evaluation plans can be transferred into one’s personal practice to drive process improvement in other contexts.
Distinguished
Reflects on the ways in which the completed intervention, implementation, and evaluation plans can be transferred into one’s personal practice to drive process improvement in other contexts; impartially considers conflicting evidence or other perspectives.
Proficient
Reflects on the ways in which the completed intervention, implementation, and evaluation plans can be transferred into one’s personal practice to drive process improvement in other contexts.
Basic
Discusses how the completed intervention, implementation, and evaluation plans can be transferred into one’s personal practice to drive process improvement in other contexts, but discussion lacks thoughtfulness or insight.
Non Performance
Does not discuss the ways in which the completed intervention, implementation, and evaluation plans can be transferred into one’s personal practice to drive process improvement in other contexts.
Criterion 8
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.
Distinguished
Integrates relevant and timely resources from diverse sources that illustrate support for all aspects of an evaluation plan for a planned intervention, as well as a thorough professional discussion about the plan.
Proficient
Integrates 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.
Basic
Integrates resources, but they do not support all aspects of the evaluation plan or they do not come from a diversity of sources.
Non Performance
Does not integrate resources from diverse sources that illustrate support for all aspects of an evaluation plan for a planned intervention, as well as professional discussion about the plan.
Criterion 9
Communicate an evaluation plan and discuss 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.
Distinguished
Communicates an evaluation plan and discusses 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. Grammar, punctuation, and spelling are error-free.
Proficient
Communicates an evaluation plan and discusses 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.
Basic
Inconsistently communicates an evaluation plan and/or discusses the project in a way that partially helps the audience to understand how the outcomes will be evaluated, or incompletely communicates what was learned through the project process.
Non Performance
Does not communicate an evaluation plan or discuss 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.
Criterion 10
Correctly format the assessment, citations, and references using APA style.
Distinguished
Correctly formats the assessment, citations, and references using APA style. Citations and references are free from all errors.
Proficient
Correctly formats the assessment, citations, and references using APA style. Citations and references contain few errors.
Basic
Formats the assessment, citations, and references using APA style, but with errors and inconsistencies.
Non Performance
Does not format the assessment, citations, and references using APA style.
Criterion 11
Demonstrate completion of hours toward the practicum experience.
Distinguished
Demonstrates completion of hours toward the practicum experience and provides a clear and concise description of the focus of the clinical hours and alignment to the capstone project.
Proficient
Demonstrates completion of hours toward the practicum experience.
Basic
Demonstrates completion of hours toward the practicum experience, but provides no details about activities completed during those hours.
Non Performance
Does not demonstrate completion of hours toward the practicum experience.
Guiding Questions for Assessment 5: Evaluation Plan Design
This document is designed to give you questions to consider and additional guidance to help you successfully
complete the Evaluation Plan Design assessment. You may find it useful to use this document as a pre-writing
exercise, an outlining tool, or as a final check to ensure that you have sufficiently addressed all the grading
criteria for this assessment. This document is a resource to help you complete the assessment. Do not turn in
this document as your assessment submission.
Part 1: Evaluation Plan
Define the outcomes that are the goal of an intervention plan.
- What are the outcomes that you are attempting to achieve with your intervention and project?
o How do the outcomes illustrate the purpose of your intervention and project?
o How do the outcomes illustrate what you hope to accomplish your intervention and project?
o How do the outcomes establish a framework that can be used to achieve an improvement in the
quality, safety, and experience of care?
Create an evaluation plan to determine the impact of an intervention for a health promotion, quality
improvement, prevention, education, or management need.
- How are you going to measure and evaluate the degree to which you achieved your outcomes?
o What data do you need to fully evaluate the outcomes?
How will you collect the needed data?
What tools or technology will you use to aid in data collection?
o What strategies will you use to analyze and evaluate the collected data?
What tools or technology will you use to aid in data analysis?
- How will the evaluation plan illustrate the impact that your intervention plan had, or will have?
Part 2: Discussion
Advocacy
Analyze the nurse’s role in leading change and driving improvements in the quality and experience of
care.
- How does the nurse help to lead change in professional practice and interprofessional teams?
- How does the nurse help to drive improvements in the quality and experience of care in professional
practice and interprofessional teams?
Explain how the intervention plan affects nursing and interprofessional collaboration, and how the
health care field gains from the plan.
- How does your intervention plan affect the nursing profession and role?
o In other words, how does your intervention plan improve the nursing profession and practices?
How does your intervention plan affect interprofessional collaboration related to improving outcomes for
the target population and setting of your intervention plan?
- What are other gains and benefits to the health care field in general from your intervention plan and
project?
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.
- How could your intervention plan and project be revised to create improved or broader-reaching
impacts for your target population?
- How could your intervention plan and project better take advantage of emerging technology to improve
performance related to the outcomes of the intervention plan?
- How could your intervention plan and project better take advantage of emerging care models to
improve achievement of the project’s outcomes, as well as to improve patient 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.
- How has your work on your capstone project impacted your ability to lead change in your personal
practice and current care setting?
- How has your work on your capstone project impacted your ability to lead change in any future
leadership positions you may have?
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.
- How can the work you have undertaken with your capstone project be transferred into your current
practice and care setting?
- How can the work you have undertaken with your capstone project be transferred into other care
settings and 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.
- Do the resources cited support all aspects of your evaluation plan?
- Do the resources cited support your professional discussion of the plan and your practice?
- Do your resources come from a diversity of sources?
o For example: the literature, professional standards, existing health care policy, relevant health care
laws, et cetera.
- Do you cite a minimum of 3–6 resources?
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.
- Is your writing clear and professional?
- Does your writing effectively communicate your proposed evaluation plan?
- Does your writing effectively communicate what was learned throughout the project process?
- Is your writing free from errors?
- Is your submission 4–6 pages?
- Does your submission conform to current APA style standards?
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