What are the decisions you made in designing your proposed intervention? Include any ethical considerations or issues you felt were relevant, the setting in which the intervention wil
What are the decisions you made in designing your proposed intervention? Include any ethical considerations or issues you felt were relevant, the setting in which the intervention will occur, the interventions that were selected and why, and how you plan to implement the intervention.
Cite any sources in APA format.
Step 5: Develop a Plan for Evaluating the Effectiveness of Your Intervention
Objective: To develop a method to determine if your Intervention achieved your goals.
For each goal, create an evaluation plan including:
Change Team member responsible for data collection, analysis, and presentation
A measure and target ranges for the measure.
Study design (usually pre- and post-intervention study)
Sample (study group) or data source with comparison group
Methods for data collection, analysis, interpretation, and presentation.
Timelines for baseline and for post-intervention data collection and analysis
Resources required
Step 6: Develop an Implementation Plan
Objective: Part A: To develop a plan for training or educating your staff/patients to successfully
implement your intervention.
Part B: To develop a plan for putting your intervention into place.
Part A: Develop a Plan for Staff and/or Patient Training
Identify your Instructors, trainee audience(s) and their specific training requirements.
Determine who needs to be trained on what knowledge/skills and by when in order to achieve
your aims.
Part B: Develop an Implementation Plan for the Intervention
Ensure you have collected all baseline data before implementing the intervention.
Identify the person(s) responsible for implementation.
Determine how you will implement your intervention in order to achieve your aims.
Identify who will use what team strategies and tools, when and where.
Create an implementation timeline.
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NUR695 Scholarly Paper Guidelines
The major assignment deliverable for your capstone course is a scholarly paper to be written on a
topic related to nursing education. You are to identify an issue, need, gap, or opportunity associated
with:
a. any issue in nursing education at any level (e.g. pre-licensure; post-licensure, graduate);
b. nursing education as it relates to a selected patient population; or
c. nursing education as it relates to healthcare administration.
You are to develop a research question on your chosen topic and propose an evidence-based
intervention for the identified problem. A thorough investigation of research studies from the literature,
evidence-based practice guidelines, and/or models for best practices will support your proposed
intervention. You will describe and evaluate potential outcomes for the intervention and the metrics
that can potentially be used to measure the outcomes of the proposed intervention. You may choose
to complete the intervention and write about actual results if time permits. Should you elect to do this,
you must gain prior approval from your professor.
As part of this assignment, you will need to choose a healthcare journal for manuscript submission
and will follow the author guidelines for the chosen journal. The paper will be developed and
submitted to your professor for grading in sections throughout the course. Each section will be
reviewed and graded separately; this provides you with continuous formative feedback on the paper
throughout the course.
Basic guidelines are as follows:
1. The scholarly paper is to have a title page that follows the current APA manual guidelines.
2. Size and font style: Font size should be 10-12 point.
3. All work should have appropriate citations and reference lists.
4. Citations and references are to follow the APA manual format.
References should be no more than 5 years old unless they are considered landmark
articles. Those from more than 5 years ago may reflect information and practice that is
outdated and generally is not used.
Sources:
o Wikipedia (or similar sites) is not to be used as a reference.
o Taber’s and/or other medical dictionaries or encyclopedias are not to be used as
references.
Follow guidelines on Scholarly Sources Handout posted in week 2
Topic Choice, Summary Statement & Journal Name for Submission of Manuscript to be
submitted by Saturday 11:59 pm MT of Week #2
The first section of your scholarly paper is due in Week #2. In this assignment, you will identify your
topic and provide a summary of the scholarly work. Many students start their work with a topic that is
much too broad. The research question that you will post in Discussion Forum #1 this week is a part
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of this assignment. The research question will help to narrow your topic and must focus on an issue
related to nursing education.
For guidance, please refer to this week’s reading assignment, Chapter 11 in Oermann & Hays:
Writing for Publication in Nursing. This chapter discusses the “Writing Process” in depth. When
thinking of a focus for the scholarly paper it is important to ask yourself the following questions: What
difference will it make as a contribution to the profession of nursing? How will it be a meaningful
product that can be utilized by others?”
The final part of this week’s assignment is the selection of the peer-reviewed journal that would be
your choice for publication of your scholarly paper. Due to the short nature of the course, you are not
required to submit your paper for publication. You will be required to follow that journal’s author
guidelines for your virtual poster presentation in week 10.
Background/ Introduction to be submitted by Saturday 11:59 pm MT of Week #3
The background/ introduction provides the reader with a clear sense of why the topic for the scholarly
paper was chosen, and includes the following elements:
1. Background knowledge-brief summary of current knowledge of problem being addressed, and
characteristics of the organization(s) in which it occurs.
2. Local problem-nature and severity of the problem.
3. Intended improvement – describes the changes and improvements in care processes and
patient outcomes of the proposed interventions
4. Study questions-clearly states precisely the primary improvement-related question that the
study intervention is designed to answer.
Literature Review to be submitted by Saturday 11:59 pm MT of Week #4
The literature review includes identifying current nursing, medical, and other pertinent journals and
textbooks related to your chosen topic. Conducting a literature review includes a search of databases
in order to identify information relevant to your topic. Literature searches should be limited to peer-
reviewed professional nursing and medical journals, texts, and writings. NOTE: Include in your
scholarly paper the databases where you obtained your required 10 articles (ex. CINAHL, PsychInfo,
PubMed etc.).
After identifying the articles to be used in your literature review, conduct a critical analysis of each
article and summarize the findings. The literature you choose should support your proposed
intervention. While there is no page number requirement for the literature search it is typical that this
portion of the paper may be around five pages.
Articles over 5 years old will not be accepted, unless approved by instructor.
Proposed Intervention to be submitted by Saturday 11:59 pm MT of Week #5
In this section, it is important to explain to the reader what you plan to do. What are the decisions you
made in designing your proposed intervention? Include any ethical considerations or issues you felt
were relevant, the setting in which the intervention will occur, the interventions that were selected and
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why, and how you plan to implement the intervention. (Please see Chapters 9&10 in Oermann &
Hays.)
Proposed Metrics and Outcomes to be submitted by Saturday 11:59 pm MT of Week #6
In this section you will outline the metrics you would use to measure the success of your proposed
intervention. Include the source of your metrics (should be from the evidence-based practice
literature) and the hypothesized outcomes you anticipate from the intervention. Include risks and both
potential positive and negative outcomes.
Discussion/ Implications/ Conclusions to be submitted by Saturday 11:59pm MT of Week #7
The discussion section of the paper is a place to highlight the successes and the challenges that may
be experienced through the process of implementing the proposed intervention and the results of the
anticipated and unanticipated outcomes. The paper should end with clear and data-driven
conclusions and implications. You should highlight the lessons learned, including next steps for future
investigations and challenges to the proposed intervention. Include implications of policy, education,
practice, research and/or management as applicable.
Abstract to be submitted by Saturday 11:59 pm MT of Week #8
The abstract is a brief comprehensive summary of the entire body of the scholarly paper and should
be approximately 250 words in length. It summarizes all key information about what is contained in
the paper, including the purpose of the project, methods, design, results, and conclusions drawn by
the author. The abstract is placed at the beginning of the paper, however, it is usually written after the
body of the paper is completed. Follow the guidelines for the abstract as required by your chosen
journal. Consult your 6th edition APA manual for abstract protocols and examples.
Final submission of a paper to be submitted by Saturday 11:59 pm MT of week #9
The final submission of your scholarly paper MUST be submitted in its entirety.
All work must be submitted electronically through Blackboard via SafeAssign.
Scholarly Paper Grading Rubric
Descriptors Points Comments
Topic Choice & Summary Statement
o Clearly stated.
o Clearly defined.
o Sufficiently narrowed down to be answered by the
selected methodology used for the intended
intervention to the problem.
(Peer-reviewed journal selection – included in the Week
2 assignment submission)
10 -2 points if not written in 3rd
person
-2 points if APA is incorrect
-2 points if not proofread
prior to submission
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Abstract
o Comprehensive summary of the entire body of the
scholarly paper.
10 -2 points if not written in 3rd
person
-2 points if APA is incorrect
-2 points if not proofread
prior to submission
Introduction
o Clear sense of why the topic for the scholarly paper
was chosen, and includes the following elements:
1. Background knowledge-brief summary of
current knowledge of problem being
addressed, and characteristics of the
organization(s) in which it occurs.
2. Local problem-nature and severity of the
problem.
3. Study questions-clearly states precisely the
primary improvement-related question that
the study intervention is designed to answer.
15 -2 points if not written in 3rd
person
-2 points if APA is incorrect
-2 points if not proofread
prior to submission
Literature Review
o Literature searches for nursing topics on the web
and in databases are limited to peer-reviewed
professional nursing and medical journals, texts,
and writings (no older than 5 years).
o Provides an overview of relevant studies including
work from current nursing, medical, and other
pertinent journals and textbooks related to the
chosen topic.
o The articles evaluated are appropriate to answer the
stated problem, purpose, objectives or goals of the
problem.
15 -2 points if not written in 3rd
person
-2 points if APA is incorrect
-2 points if not proofread
prior to submission
Proposed Intervention
o Clearly states the decisions made in designing the
improvement project.
o Defines any ethical considerations or issues
relevant to QI studies and proposed intervention.
o Clearly identifies the setting in which the work will
be conducted.Do not include the name of the
institution or location (ex. Suburban hospital in
Midwest large city)
o Summary of the interventions chosen and why they
were chosen.
o Identifies the plan to implement quality improvement
appropriate to the problem statement.
o Target population is identified.
10 -2 points if not written in 3rd
person
-2 points if APA is incorrect
-2 points if not proofread
prior to submission
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Metrics and Outcomes
Metrics used to measure the success of the
proposed intervention include the source of the
metrics (from the evidence-based practice literature)
and why they were chosen/their fit with the
proposed intervention.
Intended improvement – describes the changes and
improvements in care processes and patient
outcomes of the proposed interventions
10 -2 points if not written in 3rd
person
-2 points if APA is incorrect
-2 points if not proofread
prior to submission
Discussion/implications/conclusions
o Clearly discusses data-driven conclusions and
implications that have broad applicability.
o Highlights the lessons learned.
o Identifies challenges and potential
methods/approaches.
o Describes the implications of the proposed
intervention, including the implications of policy,
education, practice, research and healthcare
administration as applicable.
o Recommendations for future research.
15
-2 points if APA is incorrect
-2 points if not proofread
prior to submission
Final submission of paper
Overall Quality/Writing Skills/Format
o Guidelines for assignment were followed.
o Appropriate variety of sources used.
o Reference & internet links are current & accessible.
o Correctly cited using APA format.
o Presentation conforms to the author guidelines of
the chosen journal.
o Entire project is consistent with graduate level
scholarly work.
15 -2 points if not written in 3rd
person
-2 points if APA is incorrect
-2 points if not proofread
prior to submission
Total:
100
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