Instruction
Competency 1: Lead people and processes to improve patient, systems, and population outcomes.
Explain ways in which leadership of people and processes was utilized while designing an intervention and implementation plan.
Competency 2: Make clinical and operational decisions based upon the best available evidence.
Justify decisions related to developing a professional product with relevant research, evidence, and best practices.
Competency 3: Transform processes to improve quality, enhance patient safety, and reduce the cost of care.
Demonstrate process improvements in the quality, safety, or cost of care as a result of a direct clinical intervention and a developed professional product.
Competency 7: Implement patient-centered care to improve quality of care and the patient experience.
Demonstrate patient-experience improvements resulting from a clinical intervention and implementation of a newly developed professional product.
Competency 8: Integrate professional standards and values into practice.
Communicate professionally in writing that is clear and logically organized, with correct grammar, spelling, and use of APA style.
Instructions
For this assessment, you will develop and deliver a professional product to address the health problem defined in your first assessment to improve care and the patient experience. This will be delivered remotely rather than face-to-face to the individual or group that you have identified. Appropriate examples include development of a community education. The product must be useful in a practice setting, relevant to your project, and designed to improve some aspect of care or the patient experience that can be used in your own practice, with your family or community, KEEP IN MIND THE PATIENT IN QUESTION LIVES IN EUROPE, a nation with a free healthcare access system.
Relevant products must include an informative flyer (hand out) and are not limited to:
Patient safety plan.
Teaching plan.
An educational power point presentation for the patient and relative.
For the brief APA-style paper, one organizational option is:
Summary of intervention and implementation:
What did you do?
How did you lead in terms of the processes used in the project?
With what participants?
Who were your interprofessional collaborators?
How did you lead them in this project?
What were your key findings?
Evidence-based rationale for professional product development:
What professional product did you develop?
Why did you choose this type of product?
How does it align with your intervention?
How will the product help improve outcomes?
How will the product enhance the patient experience?
How does the product improve a process related to quality, safety, and/or cost of care?
How do relevant research, evidence, and best practices support your choice of professional product and approach?
For your professional product, you may choose to develop a deliverable that could be used in your care setting to communicate and sustain relevant improvements related to the intervention you carried out. The key is that the professional product is useful to the target audience.
Scoring Guide Criteria
Your brief paper and professional product will be assessed according to the following scoring guide criteria:
Explain ways in which leadership of people and processes was utilized while designing an intervention and implementation plan.
Demonstrate process improvements in the quality, safety, or cost of care as a result of a direct clinical intervention and a developed professional product.
Demonstrate patient-experience improvements resulting from a clinical intervention and implementation of a newly developed professional product.
Justify decisions related to developing a professional product with relevant research, evidence, and best practices.
Communicate professionally in writing that is clear and logically organized, with correct grammar, spelling, and use of APA style.
Additional Requirements
Length of submission: APA-style paper should be 2–4 pages of content plus title and reference pages. There is no length requirement for your professional product. The type of deliverable you choose will determine its length and format.
Number of references: Cite a minimum of 5 sources of scholarly or professional evidence that support your decisions and rationale in your APA-style paper. Resources should be no more than 5 years old.
APA formatting: References and citations are formatted according to current APA style. Use appropriate APA citations (in-text and reference list) in the paper and professional product.