Purpose

The purpose of this direct care project is for learners to apply the nursing process to assess if the nursing care provided by professionally certified nurses will result in improved patient outcomes. This is Part 4 of 4 in the Direct Care Project.

Overview	Points	Due Date	Project
Part 1: Assessment and Diagnosis completed in Week 2
Part 2: Planning the Presentation completed in Week 4
Part 3: Implementing the Presentation Completed in Weeks 5 or 6
Part 4: Evaluation: Check-In	10	Wednesday of Week 6	Required, graded check-in on progress of evaluation of your presentation and project.
Part 4: Evaluating the Project	200	Sunday end of Week 6	Evaluate learning and reflect on project.

Course Outcomes

This direct care project enables the student to meet the following course outcomes:

• CO 1: Apply leadership concepts, skills, and decision making in the provision of quality nursing care. (PO 2)
• CO 2: Apply the nursing process to quality improvement of patient-centered care outcomes. (POs 4, 7)

Part 4 enables the student to meet the following course outcomes:

• CO 1: Apply leadership concepts, skills, and decision making in the provision of quality nursing care. (PO 2)
• CO 2: Apply the nursing process to quality improvement of patient-centered care outcomes. (POs 4, 7)

Due Date for Part 4

Sunday 11:59 p.m. MT at the end of Week 6

Points Possible for Part 4

200 Points

Late Assignment Policy

If the assignment is not submitted by due date, a late deduction will be applied. See rubric below.

Directions for Part 4

1. View the Direct Care Project Part 4 Tutorial (Click here to view) (Links to an external site.).
2. Download the Direct Care Part 4: Evaluating the Project template below.
3. Gather the information from the surveys and attendance form.
4. Complete the template with the following:
   1. Attendance form data
      1. Include names, titles, and organization
   2. Tables of results
      1. PRE-Survey and POST-Survey results in numerical form
   3. Interpretation of results
      1. Summarize data in the tables
      2. Include any positive or negative changes
   4. Reflection
      1. Overall experience
      2. Summary of outcomes from the pre and post surveys
      3. Gaps in project (Examples: What else would have been helpful? More data? Better resources?)
      4. Barriers to the project (Examples: participant interest, time, limited resources, willingness for change)
   5. Implications for future practice
      1. How could this project impact your professional practice?
5. Submit the Direct Care Part 4: Evaluating the Project template and the attendance form. The attendance form will be a separate submission in the grades area.

SOLUTION

1. 1. Summarize data from the tables

As seen above, there were 3 registered nurses in the survey. The pre-survey indicates a relatively lack of knowledge among the nurses, especially surrounding the correlation between nursing specialty and leadership, nurse specialty and patient outcomes, and the cost and examination of the specialty certification. There is a shift in the post-survey as it is evident that the registered nurses were more knowledgeable of the certification of emergency nurses at the end of the presentation.

 

Include any positive or negative changes

The notable positive change is that all registered nurses were strongly convicted that they would be interested in pursuing specialty certification. Also, there was an increase in knowledge as the registered nurses indicated that they had gained a deeper understanding of their specialty certification and its resulting impact on leadership skills and patient outcomes.

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