Change Strategy and Implementation Assignment

Analyze a professional environment and relevant data, and develop a change strategy (3-5 pages) and discuss how to implement it successfully.
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Introduction
Professional Context Change Strategy and Implementation Assignment
One area in health care that it is necessary to consider is the environment in which nurses work. It is important that this environment evolves and changes so that all patients are adequately supported. For this assessment, you will develop a change strategy to improve the health care environment. These changes can be rooted in a desire to improve clinical outcomes and data related to assessment accuracy, drug administration, or disease recovery rates. A key skill for master’s-level nurses is to be able to evaluate clinical data and create a change plan to help drive improvements in the data to reach set goals. Change Strategy and Implementation Assignment
Scenario
Consider a current environment. This could be your current care setting, the care setting presented in the scenario Vila Health: Using Concept Maps for Diagnosis, or a care setting in which you are interested in working. For the setting that you choose you will need to have a data set that depicts sub-optimal outcomes related to a clinical issue. This data could be from existing sources in the course, a relevant data set that already exists (a data set from the case study you used as a basis for your previous Concept Map assessment or from your current place of practice), or an appropriate data set that you have created yourself. (Note: if you choose to create your own data set, check with your instructor first for approval and guidance.)
After you have selected an appropriate data set, use your understanding of the data to create at least one realistic goal (though you may create more) that will be driven by a change strategy appropriate for the environment and goal. Change Strategy and Implementation Assignment
Potential topics for this assessment could be:
• Consider ways to help minimize the rate of secondary infections related to the condition, disease, or disorder that you focused on for your previous Concept Map assessment. As a starting point, you could ask yourself, “What could be changed to facilitate safety and minimize risks of infection?” Change Strategy and Implementation Assignment
• Consider how to help a patient experiencing traumatic stress or anxiety over hospitalization. As a starting point, you could ask yourself, “How could the care environment be changed to enhance coping?”
Once you determine the change you would like to make, consider the following:
• What data will you use to justify the change?
• How can the team achieve this change with a reasonable cost?
• What are the effects on the workplace? Change Strategy and Implementation Assignment
• What other implementation considerations do you need to consider to ensure that the change strategy is successful?
• How does your change strategy address all aspects of the Quadruple Aim, especially the well-being of health care professionals?
• Once the change strategy is implemented, how would you evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of the care system if the desired outcomes are met? Change Strategy and Implementation Assignment
Instructions
Your assessment submission should include a data table that illustrates the current and desired states of the clinical issue you are attempting to improve through your application of change strategies. Additionally, you will need to explain the rationale for your decisions around your chosen change strategies, as well as how the change strategies will be successfully implemented. The bullet points below correspond to the grading criteria in the scoring guide. Be sure that your change strategy addresses all of them. You may also want to read the Change Strategy and Implementation scoring guide and Guiding Questions: Change Strategy and Implementation [DOCX] Download Guiding Questions: Change Strategy and Implementation [DOCX]to better understand how each grading criterion will be assessed.
• Develop a data table that accurately reflects the current and desired states of one or more clinical outcomes. Change Strategy and Implementation Assignment
• Propose change strategies that will help to achieve the desired state of one or more clinical outcomes.
• Justify the specific change strategies used to achieve desired outcomes.
• Explain how change strategies will lead to quality improvement with regard to safety and equitable care.
• Explain how change strategies will utilize interprofessional considerations to ensure successful implementation.
• Communicate the change plan in a way that makes the data and rationale easily understood and compelling. Change Strategy and Implementation Assignment
• Integrate relevant sources to support assertions, correctly formatting citations and references using current APA style.
Example assessment: You may use the assessment example, Assessment 2 Example [PDF] Download Assessment 2 Example [PDF], to give you an idea of what a Proficient or higher rating on the scoring guide would look like. Change Strategy and Implementation Assignment
Submission Requirements
• Length of submission: 3–5 double-spaced, typed pages, not including the title and reference pages. Your plan should be succinct yet substantive.
• Number of references: Cite a minimum of 3–5 sources of scholarly or professional evidence that supports your goal setting, proposed change strategies, quality improvement, and interprofessional considerations. Resources should be no more than five years old.
• APA formatting: The APA Template Tutorial [DOCX] can help you in writing and formatting your analysis. No abstract is required. Change Strategy and Implementation Assignment

Guiding Questions: Change Strategy and Implementation
This document is designed to give you questions to consider and additional guidance to help you successfully complete the Change Strategy and Implementation assessment. You may find it useful to use this document as a pre-writing exercise, as 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. Change Strategy and Implementation Assignment
Develop a data table that accurately reflects the current and desired states of one or more clinical outcomes.
• Does your data table clearly and accurately reflect the current state of one or more clinical outcomes?
o If applicable, have you appropriately citied the source for this data?
o Is your data HIPAA compliant? Change Strategy and Implementation Assignment
• Does your data table clearly and accurately reflect the desired state of one or more clinical outcomes?
o Have you based your desired state on best practices, guidelines, or regulations?
 Have you cited the relevant sources of evidence that you used to set your desired outcome state?
 Is your data HIPAA compliant?
• Are the data and outcomes in your table relevant to a specific care setting, case study, or other clearly defined condition or issue?
• Are the data and the outcomes relevant and appropriate for the change strategy you will be proposing?
Propose change strategies that will help to achieve the desired state of one or more clinical outcomes.
• What change strategies do you propose implementing to help achieve your desired outcomes? Change Strategy and Implementation Assignment
• How will you implement the change strategies to help achieve your desired outcomes in the context of the care setting or case study you are using for this assessment?
o What other implementation considerations do you need to take into account to ensure that the change strategy is successful?
o What implementation challenges or hurdles might exist and how might you deal with them?
• How could the efficiency and effectiveness of the care system be evaluated to see if the desired outcomes are met?
Justify the specific change strategies used to achieve desired outcomes.
• Why is each change strategy you have chosen to implement relevant and appropriate for achieving one or more of your desired outcomes? Change Strategy and Implementation Assignment
o What evidence (literature, best practices, professional guidelines, et cetera) supports your reasoning for implementing a chosen change strategy in the context of the care setting, case study, or desired outcomes you are considering for this assessment?
 How does the evidence support your reasoning and proposed implementation? Be specific.
Explain how change strategies will lead to quality improvement with regard to safety and equitable care. Change Strategy and Implementation Assignment
• Which change strategy (or strategies) will most likely lead to quality improvements in the area of patient safety?
o How will it contribute to quality improvements in this area?
• Which change strategy (or strategies) will most likely lead to quality improvements in the area of equitable care?
o How will it contribute to quality improvements in this area?
• How might the strategy (or strategies) lead to other improvements related to the Quadruple Aim? Change Strategy and Implementation Assignment
Explain how change strategies will utilize interprofessional considerations to ensure successful implementation.
• Which proposed change strategy (or strategies) will best leverage interprofessional considerations and strategies?
o How will it help ensure successful implementation across interprofessional or multidisciplinary teams?
o How does your change strategy address the well-being of health care professionals?
Communicate a change plan in a way that makes the data and rationale easily understood and compelling. Change Strategy and Implementation Assignment
• Is your data table clearly presented?
• Are the links between your data table, desired outcomes, and change strategy and implementation clear and justified?
• Is your writing clear and professional?
• Is your writing free from errors? Change Strategy and Implementation Assignment
• Is your submission 3–5 pages (not including the title page and reference list)? Change Strategy and Implementation Assignment
Integrate relevant sources to support assertions, correctly formatting citations and references using current APA style.
• Did you use 3–5 sources in your assessment?
o Are the sources you used no more than five years old?
• Are your sources cited in APA format throughout the assessment?
• Have you included an attached reference list?
• Did you use the APA Paper Template for the proper formatting and to include a running head and title page?
o No abstract is need Change Strategy and Implementation Assignment