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Assessing The Problem: Leadership, Collaboration, Communication, Change Management, and Policy Considerations

This document outlines the requirements for a 5-7 page written assessment defining a patient, family, or population health problem that will be the focus of a capstone project. The assessment must analyze the problem from leadership, collaboration, communication, change management, and policy perspectives. It should define the problem, relevant patients, supporting data, and relevance to nursing practice. It also requires analyzing literature on evidence-based practices and barriers, as well as proposing leadership strategies to address the problem through collaboration, communication, and change management. The assessment must meet APA formatting standards and cite at least five scholarly sources to demonstrate course competencies.

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Assessing The Problem: Leadership, Collaboration, Communication, Change Management, and Policy Considerations

This document outlines the requirements for a 5-7 page written assessment defining a patient, family, or population health problem that will be the focus of a capstone project. The assessment must analyze the problem from leadership, collaboration, communication, change management, and policy perspectives. It should define the problem, relevant patients, supporting data, and relevance to nursing practice. It also requires analyzing literature on evidence-based practices and barriers, as well as proposing leadership strategies to address the problem through collaboration, communication, and change management. The assessment must meet APA formatting standards and cite at least five scholarly sources to demonstrate course competencies.

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Assessing the Problem: Leadership, Collaboration, Communication, Change

Management, and Policy Considerations

In a 5-7 page written assessment, define the patient, family, or population health problem
that will be the focus of your capstone project. Assess the problem from a leadership,
collaboration, communication, change management, and policy perspective.

 Define a patient, family, or population health problem that’s relevant to your


practice.
o Summarize the problem you’ll explore.
o Identify the patient, family, or group you intend to work with during your
practicum.
o Provide context, data, or information that substantiates the presence of the
problem and its significance and relevance to the patient, family, or
population.
o Explain why this problem is relevant to your practice as a baccalaureate-
prepared nurse.
 Analyze evidence from peer-reviewed literature and professional sources that
describes and guides nursing actions related to the patient, family, or population
problem you’ve defined.
o Note whether the authors provide supporting evidence from the literature
that’s consistent with what you see in your nursing practice.
o Explain how you would know if the data are unreliable.
o Describe what the literature says about barriers to the implementation of
evidence-based practice in addressing the problem you’ve defined.
o Describe research that has tested the effectiveness of nursing standards
and/or policies in improving patient, family, or population outcomes for
this problem.
o Describe current literature on the role of nurses in policy making to
improve outcomes, prevent illness, and reduce hospital readmissions.
o Describe what the literature says about a nursing theory or conceptual
framework that might frame and guide your actions during your clinical
practicum.
 Explain how state board nursing practice standards and/or organizational or
governmental policies could affect the patient, family, or population problem
you’ve defined.
o Describe research that has tested the effectiveness of these standards
and/or policies in improving patient, family, or population outcomes for
this problem.
o Describe current literature on the role of nurses in policy making to
improve outcomes, prevent illness, and reduce hospital readmissions.
o Describe the effects of local, state, and federal policies or legislation on
your nursing scope of practice, within the context of this problem.
 Propose leadership strategies to improve outcomes, patient-centered care, and the
patient experience related to the patient, family, or population problem you’ve
defined.
o Discuss research on the effectiveness of leadership strategies.
o Define the role that you anticipate leadership must play in addressing the
problem.
o Describe collaboration and communication strategies that you anticipate
will be needed to address the problem.
o Describe the change management strategies that you anticipate will be
required to address the problem.
 Organize content so ideas flow logically with smooth transitions.
 Apply APA style and formatting to scholarly writing.
 Additional Requirements
 Format: Format your paper using APA style. Use the APA Style Paper Template.
An APA Style Paper Tutorial is also provided to help you in writing and
formatting your paper. Be sure to include:
o A title page and reference page. An abstract is not required.
o A running head on all pages.
o Appropriate section headings.
 Length: Your paper should be approximately 5–7 pages in length, not including
the reference page.
 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.

By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in


the course competencies through the following assessment scoring guide criteria:

 Competency 1: Lead people and processes to improve patient, systems, and


population outcomes.
o Define a patient, family, or population health problem that’s relevant to
personal and professional practice.
 Competency 2: Make clinical and operational decisions based upon the best
available evidence.
o Analyze evidence from peer-reviewed literature and professional sources
that describes and guides nursing actions related to a defined patient,
family, or population problem.
 Competency 5: Analyze the impact of health policy on quality and cost of care.
o Explain how state board nursing practice standards and/or organizational
or governmental policies could affect a defined patient, family, or
population problem.
 Competency 7: Implement patient-centered care to improve quality of care and
the patient experience.
o Propose leadership strategies to improve outcomes, patient-centered care,
and the patient experience related to a defined patient, family, or
population problem and document the practicum hours spent with these
individuals or group in the Core Elms Volunteer Experience Form.
 Competency 8: Integrate professional standards and values into practice.
o Organize content so ideas flow logically with smooth transitions.
o Apply APA style and formatting to scholarly writing.

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