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In a 5–7 page written assessment, define the patient, family, or population health problem that will be the focus of your capstone project. Assess the problem from a leadership, collaboration, communication, change management, and policy perspective. Plan to spend approximately 2 direct practicum hours meeting with a patient, family, or group of your choice to explore the problem and, if desired, consulting with subject matter and industry experts.
Choose firat the topic to write about from the pdf list that  I will upload. Use in-text citation when needed
Instructions
Complete this assessment in two parts.
Part 1
Use Assessment 01 Supplement: Assessing the Problem: Leadership, Collaboration, Communication, Change Management, and Policy Considerations [PDF] Download Assessment 01 Supplement: Assessing the Problem: Leadership, Collaboration, Communication, Change Management, and Policy Considerations [PDF]to define the patient, family, or population health problem that will be the focus of your capstone project. Assess the problem from a leadership, collaboration, communication, change management, and policy perspective and establish your evidence and research base to plan, implement, and share findings related to your project.
Part 2
Connect with the patient, family, or group you’ll work with during your practicum. During this portion of your practicum, plan to spend at least 2 hours meeting with the patient, family, or group and, if desired, consulting with subject matter and industry experts of your choice. The hours you spend meeting with them should take place outside of regular work hours. Use the Practicum Focus Sheet [PDF] Download Practicum Focus Sheet [PDF]provided for this assessment to guide your work and interpersonal interactions. Document the time spent (your practicum hours) with these individuals or group in the Capella Academic Portal Volunteer Experience Form.
Preparation
In this assessment, you’ll assess the patient, family, or population health problem that will be the focus of your capstone project. Plan to spend approximately 2 hours working with a patient, family, or group of your choice to explore the problem from a leadership, collaboration, communication, change management, and policy perspective. During this time, you may also choose to consult with subject matter and industry experts about the problem (for example, directors of quality or patient safety, nurse managers/directors, physicians, and epidemiologists).
To prepare for the assessment, complete the following:
Identify the patient, family, or group you want to work with during your practicum. The patient you select can be a friend or a family member. You’ll work with this patient, family, or group throughout your capstone project, focusing on a specific health care problem.
Begin surveying the scholarly and professional literature to establish your evidence and research base, inform your assessment, and meet scholarly expectations for supporting evidence.
In addition, you may wish to complete the following:
Review the assessment instructions and scoring guide to ensure that you understand the work you’ll be asked to complete and how it will be assessed.
Review the Practicum Focus Sheet: Assessment 1 [PDF] Download Practicum Focus Sheet: Assessment 1 [PDF], which provides guidance for conducting this portion of your practicum.
Requirements
The assessment requirements, outlined below, correspond to the scoring guide criteria, so be sure to address each main point. Read the performance-level descriptions for each criterion to see how your work will be assessed. In addition, note the additional requirements for document format and length and for supporting evidence.
Define a patient, family, or population health problem that’s relevant to your practice.
Summarize the problem you’ll explore.
Identify the patient, family, or group you intend to work with during your practicum.
Provide context, data, or information that substantiates the presence of the problem and its significance and relevance to the patient, family, or population.
Explain why this problem is relevant to your practice as a baccalaureate-prepared nurse.
Analyze evidence from peer-reviewed literature and professional sources that describes and guides nursing actions related to the patient, family, or population problem you’ve defined.
Note whether the authors provide supporting evidence from the literature that’s consistent with what you see in your nursing practice.
Explain how you would know if the data are unreliable.
Describe what the literature says about barriers to the implementation of evidence-based practice in addressing the problem you’ve defined.
Describe research that has tested the effectiveness of nursing standards and/or policies in improving patient, family, or population outcomes for this problem.
Describe current literature on the role of nurses in policy making to improve outcomes, prevent illness, and reduce hospital readmissions.
Describe what the literature says about a nursing theory or conceptual framework that might frame and guide your actions during your practicum.
Explain how state board nursing practice standards and/or organizational or governmental policies could affect the patient, family, or population problem you’ve defined.
Describe research that has tested the effectiveness of these standards and/or policies in improving patient, family, or population outcomes for this problem.
Describe current literature on the role of nurses in policy making to improve outcomes, prevent illness, and reduce hospital readmissions.
Describe the effects of local, state, and federal policies or legislation on your nursing scope of practice, within the context of this problem.
Propose leadership strategies to improve outcomes, patient-centered care, and the patient experience related to the patient, family, or population problem you’ve defined.
Discuss research on the effectiveness of leadership strategies.
Define the role that you anticipate leadership must play in addressing the problem.
Describe collaboration and communication strategies that you anticipate will be needed to address the problem.
Describe the change management strategies that you anticipate will be required to address the problem.
Organize content so ideas flow logically with smooth transitions.
Apply APA style and formatting to scholarly writing.
Use the resources linked below to help complete this assessment.
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Leadership
The following article provides an in-depth review of the effect of transformational leadership in nursing:
Fischer, S. A. (2016). Transformational leadership in nursing: A concept analysis. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 72(11), 2644–2653.
The following article presents a mental model of effective health care leadership competencies, using a concept mapping approach:
Hargett, C. W., Doty, J. P., Hauck, J. N., Webb, A. M. B., Cook, S. H., Tsipis, N. E., Neumann, J. A., Andolsek, K. M., & Taylor, D. C. (2017). Developing a model for effective leadership in healthcare: A concept mapping approach. Journal of Healthcare Leadership, 9, 69–78. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5774455/
The following article presents a comprehensive review of the literature related to decision making in nursing:
Nibbelink, C. W., & Brewer, B. B. (2018). Decision-making in nursing practice: An integrative literature review. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 27(5/6), 917–928.
Watch the following videos:
Preparing Nurses to Lead in a Changing Healthcare Environment.
This video presents strategies that an RN-to-BSN–prepared nurse can employ to lead and address health care problems.
Principles of Crucial Conversations.
This video explores how to successfully address conflict in the workplace and address health care problems with a patient and family.
Psychology of Change Framework.
This video depicts the effect of change on nursing and health care.
Health Policy
This website provides a search function to assist you in finding individual state nurse practice acts.
National Council of State Boards of Nursing. (n.d.). Find your nurse practice act. https://www.ncsbn.org/npa.htm
Health Issues
Use the following resources to begin exploring patient, family, or population health problems that you might choose as the focus of your capstone project. They provide information on a number of problems common to today’s health care systems.
Bindman, A. (2016, December 5). AHRQ’s role in improving care for patients with multiple chronic conditions. LinkedIn. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ahrqs-role-improving-care-patients-multiple-chronic-andy-bindman?trk=mp-reader-card
This blog post focuses on patient-centered care for individuals with complex care needs.
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. (2016). CMS releases guide to preventing readmissions among racially and ethnically diverse Medicare beneficiaries. https://www.cms.gov/newsroom/press-releases/cms-releases-guide-preventing-readmissions-among-racially-and-ethnically-diverse-medicare
This press release discusses the CMS Guide to Reducing Disparities in Readmissions and includes links to the guide and additional information about readmissions that you may choose to review.
Joint Commission. (n.d.). http://www.jointcommission.org
The Joint Commission website provides resources addressing a variety of health care problems, any one of which you may want to choose as the focus of your capstone project.
Leapfrog Group. (n.d.). https://www.leapfroggroup.org/
The Leapfrog Group website provides data on hospital performance for a variety of services and patient outcomes. The data presented focus on common health care problems. Hospitals are graded on how well these problems are addressed. You may want to choose one of these problems as the focus of your capstone project.
Wang, Y., Kung, L., Gupta, S., & Ozdemir, S. (2019). Leveraging big data analytics to improve quality of care in healthcare organizations: A configurational perspective. British Journal of Management, 30(2), 362–388.
This article explores the use big data analytics (BDA) in addressing health care financial performance. Data are used to identify problems in health care, drive decisions about how to address these problems, and monitor the success of associated solutions. Think about how you can use data to identify the focus of your capstone project, determine an intervention, and measure the success of the solution.
You may use your sources but within 5 years and peer reviewed journals.

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