Nursing Practicum Project Plan

Nursing Practicum Project Plan

Assignment: Practicum Project Plan

Practicum Project Plan includes a synthesis of scholarly research justifying your project topic, as well as a formal plan for the implementation of your project and evaluation of your objectives. As such, the project plan offers the audience—including organizational stakeholders—clarity about what will take place and why.
For this Assignment, you anticipate the needs, questions, and concerns of your intended audience as you lay out your Practicum Project Plan.

To prepare:

Review the information in the Practicum Project Plan Overview document as needed. The overview describes the elements that must be included in your plan.
Reflect on the development of your Practicum Project Plan thus far. Address any questions you have and/or identify areas in need of further consideration or improvement. How can you craft your proposal objectively yet persuasively?

Develop any outstanding components of your Practicum Project Plan. For instance, you may need to continue your review of the literature that justifies your project and create your project timeline.

Review the information on scholarly writing in this week’s Learning Resources; be sure to integrate these principles as you develop your Practicum Project Plan.

To complete the Practicum Project Plan:

Write a 4- to 6-page scholarly paper in which you formulate a detailed plan for the problem or issue you are examining at your practicum site. Your paper should include the following:
Title. The title includes the name of your project and follows the Uniform-Guidelines format.

Introduction.
The introduction includes the purpose of the paper, the goal of the project, and the name of the project. It also outlines the structure of the paper.

Goal statement. A goal statement identifies what you expect to accomplish, the focus area, and the population. It introduces the project and conveys, in broad terms, how you plan to solve a particular problem or issue.

Project objectives. Project objectives delineate your strategy for reaching the goal and the steps you will follow to complete the project. You must include two or three measurable objectives that use Application-level or higher verbs from Bloom’s Taxonomy.

Evidence-based review of the literature for project justification. This review provides evidence-based support for your identified problem, project methods, and evaluation. The literature should be directed toward justifying the project, not focus on potential solutions. You must include a review of your specialization’s professional-practice standards and guidelines related to your project and a minimum of five scholarly references for this section of the paper.

Methodology. This section addresses in detail how you will accomplish the project objectives. Include, as relevant, the who, when, where, and how of each objective.

Resources. Identify and justify the human, physical, and/or technical resources you will need to complete this project. Note that for this assignment, you do not have to address the financial aspects of your plan.

Formative evaluation. Describe how and when you will conduct a formative evaluation of your project. Explain how you will use the evaluation results and how you will determine if the project is proceeding as planned.

Summative evaluation. Describe how and when you will conduct a summative evaluation of your project. Explain how you will use the evaluation results.

Timeline. Create a graphic timeline representing significant stages of your project. Provide a narrative to help your Faculty understand the timeline. Include the timeline in an Appendix to your Practicum Project Plan.

References. References should be formatted in APA style and reflect current nursing/health literature (i.e., published within the past 5 years).

Note: You must use APA Style headings, but you are not required to title the headings as listed above.

*****Need to use this topic*** This is an idea that needs to be fixed***

I work as a Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Clinical Nurse. We travel around USA and Puerto Rico seeing patients. Regular nurse shifts are 8:00am–5:00pm during week days (Monday thru Friday). Almost a year ago, we started doing extra shifts on weekends due to the requirement to treat PAH patients. Since that, the nursing turnover in the company is higher due to more travel and working hours. Researchers exploring the effects of nursing overtime have identified relationships between overtime and practice errors, nurse fatigue and injuries, and adverse patient outcomes. Healthcare industry faces ongoing challenges with cost containment, workforce shortages, and a growing chronically ill patient population.

During this capstone course, my goal as an manager nurse is that Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Program will offer a new schedule tool over the weekends for nursing personnel resulting in 50% less overtime by December 2020.

This project seeks to address the problem by creating a second work schedule including shifts for weekends in which nurses can work without doing overtime at all.

Objectives:
Need at least 3 objectives in SMART Nursing Practicum Project Plan

 

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Nursing Practicum Project Plan

Introduction

A nursing practicum is an opportunity for students to gain experience in a health care setting. It gives students the opportunity to learn about patient care, as well as develop skills necessary for future employment within the field of nursing. Nursing practica are usually completed during the second and third years of college, although some institutions allow students to complete them earlier if their senior year GPA is high enough or they have completed other prerequisites such as courses in science labs or chemistry labs before coming to university!

Choosing a Practicum

When choosing a practicum, it is important to consider several factors. These include:

• The type of practicum that will best fit your career goals. This can include an internship or fieldwork experience, classroom placement and others.

• The educational background you possess; do you want to work with patients in clinics? Or would you prefer to be involved with research projects?

• The area of interest that interests you most—is there something special about this particular city or state? Or maybe your favorite TV show just aired its latest season on Netflix! Whatever it is, make sure that whatever placement appeals to your passions has room for growth as well as opportunities for learning new skills related specifically towards nursing practice (such as CPR).

Choosing a Practicum Site

Choosing a practicum site is an important decision. You need to make sure that the site you choose will be a good fit for your needs and interests, as well as provide you with the opportunity to learn and grow.

You should also consider the reputation of your chosen program in terms of their commitment to quality education, support services and diversity initiatives.

Developing a Strategy and Plan of Care

To begin, you must first define the problem. This is an important step because if you don’t know what’s wrong and how to fix it, then your plan of care will be incomplete.

Once you’ve identified the problem, set goals for yourself! Don’t worry about what other people’s goals are—you should make yours as ambitious as possible but still realistic. For example: “I want to lose 50 pounds by March 2020” or “I want my patients’ pain scores on their last visit before surgery drop by at least 10 points.” Once these specific tangible fitness goals have been established (and documented), they can serve as benchmarks against which future progress toward similar ones will be measured during therapy sessions with patients who come into see me after surgery or have other conditions that require rehabilitation following treatment such as chemotherapy/radiotherapy etc., etc., etc..

Preparing to Conduct Research Project

You should plan your research project.

Planning is important for success because it helps you to be prepared and organized, efficient and effective, confident and positive.

Developing the Research Project Activities

• Describe the activities you will do, including a timeline and budget.

• List resources that will be used in your project.

Completing the Research Project

The final step of the nursing practicum is to complete the research project. In this section, you will write a proposal that outlines your goals and objectives for the research paper you will write in class. You should also present your findings to the class during your presentation on Friday afternoon.

Takeaway:

• Takeaway: This is the main point of your project. It should summarize all of the important points you’ve covered, and give a call to action for your audience.

• Call to action: This is what you want them to do next, whether it’s signing up for a class or buying something from your store. You can also include a link here if you’d like people to go directly there after reading this section!

• Final thought: If there is anything else that needs further explanation or elaboration, don’t hesitate!

Conclusion

Congratulations! You have successfully completed your research project. This is an important milestone in your nursing career and will give you a good foundation for future projects.