Patient safety and quality improvement capstone

INTRODUCTION
This discussion addresses designing and implementing patient safety and quality improvement capstone initiatives within the context of transprofessional care. All students must work with the Health Placement Team and receive a Field Experience
Placement Confirmation Letter, before they can begin their Field Experience and Capstone.

Patient safety and quality improvement capstone
Please contact the Health Placement Team to obtain the organizational approval letter and
preceptor agreement. In addition, you will need to work with Health Placement for an
affiliation agreement if required by your facility/organization.
You will design and develop an evidenced-based practice change, quality improvement, or
innovation that demonstrates the synthesis of WGU graduate competencies. This project is not
primary research but should be focused on scholarly evidence in support of practice
improvements, innovation, or general practice change. It will not require an Institutional Review
Board (IRB) approval. You will be required to conduct a comprehensive literature review that
defines the evidence in support of your project.

Patient safety and quality improvement capstone
The literature review represents a collection of
primary research studies that have already been conducted and that provide guidance for best
practices. Once your project plan is complete, you will create a professional presentation that
outlines your plan and then present it to your stakeholder group and preceptor.
Before you start your project, you will first need to secure organizational approval and obtain a
letter of agreement from your preceptor. In this task, you will be required to develop a plan for
your capstone project that describes your problem and proposed solution.

Patient safety and quality improvement capstone REQUIREMENTS
Your submission must be your original work. No more than a combined total of 30% of the
submission and no more than a 10% match to any one individual source can be directly quoted
or closely paraphrased from sources, even if cited correctly. An originality report is provided
when you submit your task that can be used as a guide.
Professional Communications is a required aspect to pass this task. Completion of a spell check
and grammar check prior to submitting your final work is strongly recommended.
You must use the rubric to direct the creation of your submission because it provides detailed
criteria that will be used to evaluate your work. Each requirement below may be evaluated by
more than one rubric aspect. The rubric aspect titles may contain hyperlinks to relevant portions
of the course.
A.  Submit a completed approval letter from the organization where your project will be
conducted using the “Organizational Approval Letter Template,” including the following:
•  date
•  signature
•  all required information

Note: Forms must be completed in the time specified on the approval letter.

B.  Submit a legible, signed copy of the “Preceptor Agreement” including the following:
•  preceptor professional credentials
•  preceptor educational credentials
•  preceptor job title
•  date by preceptor

Patient safety and quality improvement capstone

Note: All “Preceptor Agreements” must be signed by a qualified nurse.

C.  Summarize your project by doing the following:
1.  Identify the clinical or organizational problem.
2.  Describe why the problem you have identified requires a practice change, quality
improvement, or innovation, including supporting evidence.

Note: Evidence can be internal, based on clinical expertise, and/or from scholarly
literature.

3.  Explain the causes of the problem.
4.  Identify the stakeholders.
a.  Discuss each stakeholder’s interest, power, and influence in relation to the project.
D.  Explain the purpose of your project.

E.  Explain your proposed solution for your project.

F.  Provide an evidence summary to support your proposed change.
1.  Provide a reference list for your evidence summary in APA format that includes a
minimum of five scholarly, peer-reviewed sources that were published within the last five
years.

Note: This reference list refers specifically to your evidence summary only.

G.  Explain your proposed implementation plan, which includes the following:
1.  plan of action
2.  timeline
3.  needed resources and personnel
4.  proposed change theory
5.  barriers to implementation

H.  When you use sources, include all in-text citations and references in APA format.

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