INTERVENTION PLAN DESIGN ASSESSMENT INSTRUCTIONS
PROBLEM STATEMENT: In South San Francisco Hospital, over 91% of contaminated blood cultures are drawn by Emergency Department (ED) Registered Nurses (RNs). This is an average of 1.63% in ED vs. 0.3% for the rest of the hospital. Contaminated blood cultures could result in false-positive results, which could lead to the patient being unnecessarily treated.
TARGET POPULATION AND SETTING: ED patients requiring septic work-up
TARGETED INTERVENTION/ACTION PLANS
• Development of a blood culture collection observational tool for direct observation and feedback
• RN education and training
Introduction
Develop a 4-6 page holistic intervention plan design to improve the quality of outcomes for your target population and setting.
This plan will lay out specific components of the intervention you are planning to address the need you have identified for the target population and setting. You will justify your approach to the intervention plan by integrating appropriate theoretical foundations. You will also analyze and address the needs of stakeholders, requirements of regulatory bodies, and ethical and legal considerations. It is important to have a sound intervention plan design in place before trying to work on the details of implementation and evaluation.
Preparations
• Read Guiding Questions: Intervention Plan Design [DOC] (See Separate Attachment). This document is designed to give you questions to consider and additional guidance to help you successfully complete this assessment.
Instructions
At minimum, be sure to address the bullet points below, as they correspond to the grading criteria. Read the Scoring Guide (See Separate Attachment) and Guiding Questions: Intervention Plan Design document to better understand how each criterion will be assessed. In addition to the bullet points below, provide a brief introduction that refreshes the reader’s memory about your problem statement and the setting and context for this intervention plan.
Reminder: these instructions are an outline. Your heading for this this section should be Intervention Plan Components and not Part 1: Intervention Plan Components.
Part 1: Intervention Plan Components
• Define the major components of an intervention plan for a health promotion, quality improvement, prevention, education, or management need.
• Explain the impact of cultural needs and characteristics of a target population and setting on the development of intervention plan components.
Part 2: Theoretical Foundations
• Evaluate theoretical nursing models, strategies from other disciplines, and health care technologies relevant to an intervention plan.
• Justify the major components of an intervention by referencing relevant and contemporary evidence from the literature and best practices.
Part 3: Stakeholders, Policy, and Regulations
• The stakeholders include, but are not limited to, the patients, ED RN staff, ED and Hospital Leadership, Laboratory Director, Physicians, and Infection Prevention Manager.
• Analyze the impact of stakeholder needs, health care policy, regulations, and governing bodies relevant to health care practice and specific components of an intervention plan.
Part 4: Ethical and Legal Implications
• Analyze relevant ethical and legal issues related to health care practice, organizational change, and specific components of an intervention plan.
Address Generally Throughout
• Communicate intervention plan in a professional way that helps the audience to understand the proposed intervention.
Additional Requirements
• Length of submission: 4–6 double-spaced pages.
• Number of resources: 5–10 resources from peer-reviewed journals or professional industry publications (no more than 5 years) to support your presentation.
• Written communication: Written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message.
• APA formatting: Resources and citations are formatted according to current APA 7th Edition style. Header formatting follows current APA levels.
• Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.
