Write a brief summary about how that change is being implemented and any evidence-based practice or quality outcomes that are being measured.
Topic 1: Evidence-Based Change
Locate an article from a peer-reviewed nursing journal where a practice change was made based on research, preferably a change that could relate to your area of practice or organization. Note: You are seeking to find an evidence-based article that describes some change in practice that was based on research; this is all about applying research, not doing research. Thus, you are not looking for a research article, but you are looking for an article that uses evidence from research to make a change.
Describe the change made and comment on the strength of the research evidence utilized and the whether the change led to improved patient outcomes.
Note any barriers to change that were identified and how they were overcome.
End your discussion with a reflection on how this article is useful to you as you consider your role as an advanced practice nurse leading others to use the best evidence to strengthen nursing practice and improve nursing-sensitive patient outcomes.
Topic 2: Eight Steps for Successful Change: Your Personal Example
Post your personal example about change here for peer and instructor feedback.
Refer to the Practice area in Activities.
Reading
Textbook Readings
Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing and Healthcare
Chapter 14: “Creating a Vision and Motivating a Change to Evidence-Based Practice in Individuals, Teams and Organizations”
Journal Readings
Please retrieve and read the following Journal articles. Articles can be located through a search in the CINAHL database, OVID database.
Shekelle, P. G., Woolf, S. H., Eccles, M., & Grimshaw, J. (1999). Clinical guidelines: Developing guidelines. British Medical Journal, 318(7183), 593–596.
Sandstrom, B., Borglin, G., Nilsson, R., & Willlman, A. (2011). Promoting the implementation of evidence-based practice: A literature review focusing on the role of nursing leadership. Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing, 8(4), 212–213.
Thompson, G., N., Estabrooks, C. A., & Degner. L .F. (2006). Clarifying the concepts in knowledge transfer: A literature review. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 53(6), 691–701.
Yip, W. K., Mordiffi, S. Z., Shen, L., Ang, E. N., Zhang, X., & Majid,S. (2013). Nurses’ perception towards evidence-based practice: A descriptive study. Singapore Nursing Journal, 40(1), 34–41.
Web Resources
Continuing to educate yourself is important to being an effective change-agent. Revisit the NCQA website and review the Education and Resources for Clinicians.
Review the following website that focuses on nursing-sensitive patient outcomes.
Practice
Identify an area of change in your organization where you are currently employed, or were recently employed.
Write a brief summary about how that change is being implemented and any evidence-based practice or quality outcomes that are being measured.
Explain the Marshallian inefficiency associated with sharecropping.
Explain the Marshallian inefficiency associated with sharecropping. If sharecropping is inefficient, how can we explain its prevalence?
What are the demand-side and supply-side problems of having a trade strategy based on primary commodity export expansion?
What are the demand-side and supply-side problems of having a trade strategy based on primary commodity export expansion?
How do businesses try to balance security with business operations?
The regulatory environment has required a large commitment from business in terms of security, audit and compliance. How do businesses try to balance security with business operations? How has this tightened security affected employee privacy and productivity?
Why should firms formulate and implement strategies from an environmental perspective?
Why should firms formulate and implement strategies from an environmental perspective? (Min 75 words)
Discuss this statement in relation to the literature on farm size, land tenure and agricultural productivity.
Land reform could improve efficiency as well as equity.’ Discuss this statement in relation to the literature on farm size, land tenure and agricultural productivity.
Analyze the organization’s directional strategy, including its vision, mission, and values.
Create a 3–5-page directional strategy report, as if you were preparing to present your assessment to a representative panel of employee stakeholders of a health care organization.
Questions to Consider:
What are the major categories of employee stakeholders in a health care organization of your choosing (such as executives, senior management, middle management, caregivers, maintenance, administrative support personnel, volunteers)?
What role does the board of directors play in your health care organization?
What are the important elements of an effective board of directors?
What is the process your organization uses to select members?
How effective is that process?
What are industry best practices for selecting board members for a health care organization?
How well do your organization’s strategies align with its published vision, mission, and values?
How does this organization’s environment support or hinder its alignment with its vision, mission, and values?
Assessments 1 and 2 must be completed before beginning this assessment.
Analyze the relevance of the organization’s directional strategy, including its vision, mission, values, and organizational culture. The goal is to focus upon application of the concepts and new insight. Keep it brief and substantive. Note: Feel free to construct images/diagrams to summarize information where appropriate (for example, TOWS matrix…).
Complete the following:
Review the mission, vision, and values statements of your health care organization.
Examine how well each statement addresses the components of a directional strategy.
Analyze the gap between the desired outcome and the actual state of the current environment.
Analyze the organization’s directional strategy, including its vision, mission, and values.
Examine the strategic “fit.”
Does the directional strategy fit the environment?
Is the organization headed in the right direction given the environmental assessment?
Does growth make sense right now or does maintaining the status quo or even contraction make better sense?
Recommend changes you would make to ensure a foundation necessary for the current structure and strategies of the organization. Note: Support your recommendations with relevant resources from the literature.
What positive opportunities is globalization bringing to retailers?
What positive opportunities is globalization bringing to retailers? explain at least 2.
What do you think of the relation between the law and morality regarding abortion?
Requirements:
Your initial post should be at least 250 words.
See the syllabus for assignment requirements and grading criteria, and be sure to quote from the readings to illustrate your points, followed by MLA citation, both in-text and on a Works Cited page.
Topic A: Abortion
What do you think of the relation between the law and morality regarding abortion? Do you think that if abortion is immoral, it thus ought to be illegal, or if morally permissible then it ought to be for this reason legally permissible? Explain.
discuss their form of dance with one popular song they each have sung and how it has effect on culture.
Popular culture introduced certain dance forms as art is very subjective, a particular person’s approach to dance is different in many ways especially in how one sees and explains a piece of dance. with examples of two renowned worldwide music artists, i.e Beyonce Knowles and Shakira, discuss their form of dance with one popular song they each have sung and how it has effect on culture.
