GUIDELINES FOR ASSIGNMENT: Project DesignIntroduction:Introduction (Childhood obesity) paragraph that grabs the reader’s attention. There must be a thesis statement that tells reader purpose of paper and what will be discussed.Sample:Describe your participants. What are the inclusion and exclusion criteria? How will participants be chosen (sampling technique)? How many participants you plan to include in your project? Identify the setting and describe the environment where the project will be conducted.Outcomes:What do you think are going to be the outcomes from the strategy(s) you choose to implement? Provide a rationale for your selection of outcomes.In Assignment #3, you identified best practices that may impact the practice problem or issue (CHILDHOOD OBESITY). What do you think are going to be the outcomes from the strategy(s) you selected to implement for your quality improvement initiative (I am including the (s) behind the strategy because some of you may have more than one best practice that you are going to use)? Provide a rationale for your selection of outcomes (you will need more than one outcome; try to think of at least 3 that are appropriate). You will need to report reliability and validity for at least one of your outcomes. Therefore, you may want to choose a “latent” variable as an outcome. These variables are something that you can’t see (think pain, quality of life, anxiety, depression, patient satisfaction, etc.). You will have a course in outcomes measurement and program evaluation, so this is by no means an exhaustive paper. Our goal is for you to start thinking about what outcomes would be appropriate to use to evaluate the effectiveness of your program. Make sure your outcomes are measurable and relate directly to the evaluation of your program. See the AHRQ website given in the resources section of this unit for some helpful guidance.Data Collection Methodology and Measurement:What are your ideas about how you will measure these outcomes? What data collection methods are you going to use to measure the outcomes you have selected? Will you use qualitative or quantitative methods or both to measure the outcomes? What kind of instrument or measurement methodology will be used? What is the validity and reliability of the instrument(s) you have chosen? Provide 1 instrument that would be appropriate and share the validity and reliability. This tool must measure something and must already exist (you cannot create a data collection tool for this section). Please describe how the validity and reliability were established. Do not just say that it was good. HINT: there is often a statistical test involved. For reliability think test/retest, internal consistency, or inter-rater; validity can be construct, content, or one of the criterion related validities.Cultural Considerations:Cultural Sensitivity: There are cultural implications for every people group. In order to plan an effective intervention, you have to consider cultural implications. How would you modify your intervention to meet the needs of a different culture? How would you modify to use in Latino, African American or a third group found in your community? What strategies might you use to get buy in from one or more culture groups? Remember, all groups of people require cultural sensitivity.If your project idea is more administrative in nature that is not impacted by different culture groups, then choose a people group that you see in your community and speak to the cultural norms of that group and what nurses and other healthcare professionals need to consider when caring for this population in your community. For example, in Baldwin County, we have a Hispanic population of migrant workers who move to various farms for harvesting. What do nurses need to know about the group in order to provide the most effective care for them? How do we alter the care we provide to meet their needs?Organizational Culture: Within the system where you practice or hope to implement your project idea, describe the organizational culture of that system and how might that culture impact your implementation of best practices? Are you going to have to modify or change your strategies based on that information? For example, if someone works in a system that is very hierarchal in decision making (top down) or there are problems with staff morale, they may have challenges to overcome that someone else in a collaborative environment may not have. Reflect on your system and consider the problems and strengths of that system. How might that impact the implementation of your project idea?Ethical and HIPAA Concerns:Will you need to obtain Institutional Board Review (IRB) approval? How does the IRB protect human subjects? Do you expect to submit an application for a full, expedited, or exempt review? Keep in mind quality improvement is EXEMPT.What are possible challenges related to ethics and HIPAA issues you may encounter? Think about what could happen if your best practices were implemented. How would you plan to address the possible challenges? You must include at least one ethical concern AND at least one possible challenge related to HIPAA.Dissemination:We want you to find a conference that you think is appropriate for your clinical area and share about the conference. Also, locate a journal that you think would possibly be interested in your final manuscript.The paper should be carefully written in a formal style, based on primary sources and provide an integration of ideas. Organized flow, logical progression of ideas, and clarity in thought processes are essential. Page limit: 6-7 pages. Page length does not include the title page, reference list or any Appendix.Make sure you follow the guidelines above for each section of the rubric. You MUST use headings corresponding to rubric points.For This or a Similar Paper Click Here To Order Now
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