Time Line This program will require a 24-month time frame. The Gantt Chart below is a visual representation of major tasks that will need to be completed in order to make this program from conception to reality. The first 10 months of the program are a part of the planning phase. During this phase, the staff for the Evidence Based Practice Department will be hired. They will study the hospital’s existing protocols in attempts to identify weak points. Once the weak points are identified, they will research the best evidence based practices that will replace those weak points and create new protocols. After the creation of the new protocols, they will teach the new protocols to all the medical staff. Month 10 to 22 is the implementation phase. During this phase, the changes to the protocols are allowed to take effect and hopefully reduce the Healthcare-Associated Infections at CMC. The last 3 months of the program is the Evaluation Phase. All of the data that was collected will be reviewed and the program will be evaluated. (See Figure 1). Figure 1. Evaluation Plan The evaluation of this program will occur throughout entirety of the program. Evaluation cannot just occur at the termination of the program. If evaluation only occurs at the end, we would only be able to determine if the program was overall a success or a failure but it would be difficult to correlate why it was a success or failure. When we continuously evaluate the program, we can use that data to
A specific model favorable to this specific proposal of change in practice is the “Model for Evidence-Based Practice Change” (SITE BOOK). Progressing through the steps of this model, it will continuously evaluate the proposed change and advance towards implementation. The first step in this model is to assess the need for change in practice. Recognizing that there is indeed a practice issue and/or an opportunity for improvement, creates a focus for changing practice towards improvement. The EBP team is ought to gather data and confirm an opportunity for improvement. Progression continues to step two; locating the best evidence. The EBP team must plan a rigorous search, reviewing clinical practice guidelines, systematic reviews, and other studies in order to formulate paramount, approved research (SITE book). Building a strong foundation on research will allow successful progression through the model and towards implementing a change in practice. Step three is to critically analyze the evidence. After collecting the best evidence, it is important for the EBP team to perform a meticulous analysis of the research found. Synthesizing the evidence for benefits and risks, as well as level of reasonability, the EBP team must make a judgement whether the evidence holds enough strength to support the practice change. If the evidence is endorsed, the process may continue onto step four: designing a practice change. To promote a new practice, it must first succeed in a pilot run; it must be instigated and evaluated. A plan for the practice to be carried out must be completed. This may be accomplished by educational sessions, audit and feedback, or educational materials (SITE). Once a plan for implementation is conducted, step five may take place: implementing and evaluating change in practice. The pilot study plan may now be executed into action. Throughout this process, evaluation of the
First of all, gather all the information, such as facility policies and procedures. Research should be evidence-based. Why is it being implemented? How will we be affected? Perhaps other hospital's data could help in presenting the new procedure and how they implemented
Measures used to evaluate the outcome of the evidence-based practice (EBP) change will be reviewing quarterly dashboard data. To ensure inter-rater reliability, the infection control nurse, and only the infection control nurse, will monitor ongoing efforts of data collection of CAUTI, and be an integral part of the feedback loop responsible of giving on-sight feedback to clinicians and team members. Also, the infection control nurse along with other team members will revisit the literature to see if any new knowledge focused triggers will be considered. The quarterly dashboard will inform of outcome indicators which may, or may not, affect the process indicators. Process and outcome indicators will be used for improvement purposes within the unit. The quarterly dashboard report also allows questions to be asked by team members and stakeholders, which stimulates more discussion and advanced thought toward quality improvement of the EBP change. The dashboard will assist in
The final identified recommendation is the use of a standardized action plan format that will provide the framework for change. Defined expectations and deadlines will ensure that progress is maintained amongst the numerous and diverse clinical settings. My role-modeling of this step will teach my management team how to utilize this tool as well as assist with setting the expectation that they utilize the tool with their staff members as well.
The Utilization Management and Care Coordination teams will be trained in small group sessions using oral presentations supplemented with handouts. The training will include demonstration of how to complete the LACE index and apply the risk stratification through the use of a patient case file review. The case file demonstration assists in establishing inter-rater reliability needs for consistent application of medical management decision making (McQuillan, 2001). Upon the completion of training the teams will be asked to complete a short training survey to assist in the measurement of change in behaviors associated with the training (APPENDIX G). The survey will ask the team to rate the effectiveness of the training based on a five point Likert scale rating from strongly agree to strongly disagree. The questions will
In comparison to which tools would best be used in our own facilities, it is relatively simple to determine that Ochiltree General Hospital would gain more knowledge from research in the AACN Levels of Evidence system simply because they function more off research based principles. Ochiltree General Hospital uses websites to gain knowledge to be applied to directing their policies and procedures and this tool uses more research based examples to apply to potential for implementation into practice.
On average, the guides took 27 minutes to complete. As the results indicate, Hospital A has not implemented some of the recommended practices in the following guides: Computerized Provider Order Entry with Decision Support, Patient Identification, and Test Result Reporting. The total number of these practices are 16 which accounts for 10% of the total recommended practices. Also, there is a number of practices that has been implemented partially in some areas in hospital A. These practices fall into the following guides: Computerized Provider Order Entry with Decision Support, Clinician Communication, High Priority Practice, Organizational Responsibilities, and system interfaces which account for 11% of the total recommended practices. The only guides that hospital A is fully complied with are Contingency Planning and System Configuration guides. The total number of practices that have been fully implemented across all guides is 125 which represent 79% of the total recommended practices.
This healthcare is documented meticulously and examined scrupulously. Data from the care given is extracted, gathered, and computed. These statistical analyses are interpreted. Trends are identified, and action plans are assembled.
The greatest benefits of Evidence- Based Practice are improved outcomes for patients, and health care agencies (Grove et al., 2015)." An example on how all staff can participate in EBP. The infection rate at my facility has improved tremendously because of a program that started one year ago called All Hands on Deck. All Hands on Deck program is a Peer Checking and Peer Coaching approach to improving hand hygiene compliance at our facility. In order to prevent lapses in hand washing to stop the spread of infection and reduces Health care Associated Infection rates, which equals ZERO events of harm to our patients. All employee are expected to wash their hand when entering and leaving a patient room, whether you're clinical or non-clinical staff.
Within a program evaluation, there are four main phases, such as the survey phase, the planning phase, the fieldwork phase, and the final phase (Capella University, 2017). In regards to disseminating results, the final phase of program evaluation is when the data that was collected is then analyzed. The evaluators take the time to develop the findings through research, draw conclusions from the data, and finally make the best recommendations for the program that are based on the findings (Capella University, 2017). Depending on the type of program evaluation being conducted, the evaluators may be managers or staff that works within the program. For instance, formative evaluations are completed internally by the managers, so that they can assess their program and make improvements moving forward. The results are used within the program evaluation to measure accountability and develop new strategies needed to meet the outcomes and objective of
The presentation of the project was attending by a small group of five PACU registered nurses, one patient care technician (PCT), the assistant manager, and one faculty member. The presentation was in a small procedure room in the PACU at the Bellevue GHC facility. There were three objectives for the presentation.
Evidence-based research is an approach using problem-solving to deliver health care, and healthcare services. It depicts organizational, financial, and clinical structure of the health care programs (Robert W. Broyles, 2006, p. 10-11). Evidence-based research assimilates the best evidence is gathered from studies, patient and laboratory data, data from outcomes of management programs, patient care with clinicians, and patient preferences and values. Evidence-based practices are not only implemented in caring for patients, it is also used to determine the effectiveness of programs, devices, services and methodologies, and to create or revise current programs. Therefore; evidenced-based research that encompasses relevant data that is valid, and
I chose this as my project because my original orientation was wide spread and followed no particular pathway of direction and was not formally organized, also, this project will serve as the kick start to my clinical process improvement project that I will be working on in the fall.
Implementing any form of new technology in health care inherently comes with risks. The failure to carefully plan out each phase of implementation can have a ripple effect that leads to the demise of the entire project. For starters, the project manager, team, or committee, must be cognizant of the Triple Constraint, meaning that the scope, time, cost all have an effect on the other. Thus, reiterating the importance of all three constraints to ALL project stakeholders cannot be emphasized enough. For example, determine the scope (final product deliverable) and amount of time from start to finish that the project will take and include time for fluctuations (changes known as ‘scope creep’) whether expected or not.
There are a number of models to guide healthcare providers when they try to move evidence into practice. One useful framework is the AHRQ Model of Knowledge Transfer. This model includes three major steps of knowledge transfer: (1) knowledge creation and distillation, (2) diffusion and dissemination, and (3) organizational adoption and implementation.