NUR 3643-Deliverable 6-Evidence-Based Practice Proposal Plan for Implementation

 This report proposed that the afore-lined-up processes and procedures and data collection from the healthcare stakeholders should be conducted, reviewed, examined, interpreted and implemented within six months. Some of the data collection methods to be used in the proposal include expert interviews through Zoom within the first two weeks of the program. Secondly, in the third week, researchers should hold qualitative interviews to collect data and clinicians’ opinions regarding the proposed EBP. Lastly, the filling of questionnaires by the patients is scheduled for the third month. Later in the program, the proposal suggests that findings be analyzed for reliability in informing the study, sorted, and the data analysis and evaluation should follow. Participant researchers should publish their research on the subject and set the implementation process of the study’s proposals in motion.

Plan for Evaluation

 The evaluation of the EBP is necessary to inform the proposal’s progress through the analysis of the data collected. The primary goal of this proposal is to develop a guide for clinicians to apply current scientific knowledge and match patient preferences to increase satisfaction. Secondly, the proposal aims to reach the clinicians’ expertise with the changing healthcare practice through collecting and analyzing healthcare stakeholders. Lehane et al. (2019) state expert interviews are best evaluated using qualitative content analysis, such as transcribing, reading, paraphrasing, coding, and thematic comparison. Also, the data provided by the patients in the questionnaires are analyzed for five days in the fifth month to evaluate the patient’s preferences and develop effective patient engagement. Lastly, return interviews would be conducted to assess the validity of including the expert opinion in the proposal during the last week of the fifth month. This process ensures that proposed actionable steps are reliable and informed by credible and accurate findings.

Plan to Sustain Practice Change

 The success of sustaining change in EBP needs collaboration from healthcare stakeholders. A significant resource that the proposal would use to maintain permanent change involves setting up a strategic planning system covering the management of the changes and a guide for the nurses to implement the change. For instance, the difference in EBP requires strategic planning and a competency-based approach from the lower levels of healthcare to the senior clinicians. In contrast, leadership should take a top-down approach (Fisher et al. 2016). Therefore, in the proposal, it is vital to plan to implement the competency-based strategy that encourages lower-level healthcare givers to initiate EBP by collecting scientific research information.

The plan also encourages the nurses to seek guidance and expert opinions from senior colleagues across fields, further promoting workplace collaboration. Furthermore, planning to produce a manual detailing all the practice changes and distributing it to the stakeholders to familiarize themselves with them before the scheduled implementation is crucial to ensuring success. Also, the manual will contain a continuous quality improvement form that records the stakeholders’ feedback and checks implementation progress. The information feeding on the manual would be done monthly to ensure sustainability and accountability long after the initial implementation processes kick-off.

References

Dolezel, J., Zelenikova, R., Finotto, S., Mecugni, D., Patelarou, A., Panczyk, M., … & Jarosova, D. (2021). Core evidence‐based practice competencies and learning outcomes for European nurses: Consensus statements. Worldviews on Evidence‐Based Nursing.

Fisher, C., Cusack, G., Cox, K., Feigenbaum, K., & Wallen, G. R. (2016). Developing Competency to Sustain Evidence-Based Practice. The Journal of Nursing Administration, 46(11), 581–585. https://doi.org/10.1097/NNA.0000000000000408

Fowler, C., & McCarthy, A. M. (2019). Iowa model revised: Research and evidence-based practice application.