NUR 550 Topic 6: Quality Improvement Initiatives And Clinical Prevention Interventions
Description
Objectives:
- Evaluate quality improvement initiatives related to improving population health
- Evaluate clinical prevention interventions that promote health and wellness for
Study Materials
Population Health: Creating a Culture of Wellness Description: Read Chapter 9 and review Chapter 1 in Population Health: Creating a Culture of Wellness.
Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing and Healthcare Description: Read Chapter 19 in Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing and Healthcare.
The Role of the Nurse in Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Description: Read “The Role of the Nurse in Quality Improvement and Patient Safety,” by Hickey and Giardina, from Journal of Neurological and Neurosurgical Nursing(2019).
Reviewing the Literature: Essential First Step in Research, Quality Improvement, and Implementation of Evidence-Based Practice Description: Read “Reviewing the Literature: Essential First Step in Research, Quality Improvement, and Implementation of Evidence-Based Practice,” by Bernhofer, from Journal for Nurses in Professional Development (2015).
Tasks
Topic 6 DQ 1
Description:
Evaluate a clinical preventative intervention designed to promote health and wellness for populations. Summarize the intervention and explain whether it has been successful. You will use the clinical preventative intervention you select for DQ2.
Topic 6 DQ 2
Description:
Discuss how to integrate appropriate information and communication technologies for the clinical preventative intervention in DQ 1 to improve nursing practice and care delivery for individuals and populations.
Topic 6 Participation
Description:
NA
Objectives
Description:
In this course, the student will:
- Explore research articles, nursing and related theories, applying levels of evidence, and theoretical frameworks to identify quality research studies.
- Demonstrate understanding of scientific inquiry, knowledge generation, utilization, and dissemination in advanced nursing practice.
- Evaluate the evidence for potential solutions/innovations that can potentially solve a health care issue and improve patient outcomes.
- Identify gaps in nursing knowledge and evidence-based practice that can potentially be resolved by planning and implementing a practice change project.
- Formulate a clinically researchable question amenable to an innovative evidence-based practice change
- Write a scholarly literature review that supports a clinically researchable question amenable to an innovative evidence-based practice change proposal.
- Evaluate health policy and advocacy issues for the purpose of improving health care outcomes.
- Engage in scientific inquiry into the state of health care delivery, patient-centered care, and ethical principles related to health beliefs, health promotion, and risk reduction of diverse populations.
- Propose quality improvement initiatives that advance the delivery of safe, high-quality health care.
- Use principles from epidemiology, biostatistics, genetics, genomics, and cultural competence to guide comparisons of various patient populations.
