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CASE STUDY (Nursing) - Psychosocial Care for Health Complexity
The Case Study assessment is an opportunity for nursing students to demonstrate their achievement toward Standards 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the Registered Nurses Standards for Practice (RNSFP).
This assessment builds on your Critical Essay assessment and continues to investigate psychosocial interventions for post-intensive care syndrome (PICS). While completing the Critical Essay, you would have explored a number of effective interventions for PICS, both preventative-focused and treatment-focused. This assessment requires your group to use that knowledge to design your own nursing-led psychosocial intervention for PICS and discuss a quality improvement project proposal for the implementation and evaluation of that intervention within the context of WA-based public healthcare.
Evaluating outcome 1: Critically evaluate common psychosocial responses to complex health concerns and physical and psychological disability within different contexts.
Evaluating outcome 2: Develop person-centred intervention strategies to assist individuals and families to manage psychosocial responses and empower well-being.
Evaluating outcome 3: Analyse communication strategies employed by individuals, families, and the transdisciplinary healthcare team to assist adaptive responses to complex health concerns.
Your group will be allocated an intervention focus for your QI project-either preventative-focused or treatment-focused. Using the QI project proposal template provided in the Case Study folder in Blackboard, you will need to make an evidence-based and convincing argument that considers the rationale, methodology, benefits, risks, and costs of your nursing-led intervention. The audience for the majority of your QI project proposal template is health professionals and healthcare management, unless otherwise specified. Get AI-free online assignment help by the best tutors.
Detailed content instructions for the QI template document are as follows (all group members must contribute to this document):
Working project title (max. 25 words):
This title should give your reader a clear description of what your QI project is about and its key ideas.
Summary of the project (max. 400 words):
This is a plain language summary of your project proposal in its entirety. Your audience for this summary is health consumers. Your Flesch Reading Ease score should be greater than 60, and your Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level should be no more than 9 to match health literacy levels within the general public. Have a look here and also here for some suggestions on how to write your summary in lay language.
Project background and rationale for change (max. 600 words):
This section argues for and justifies the proposed nursing-led psychosocial intervention by describing the core problems/issues related to PICS and providing a clear rationale for nursing-led change.
The aim of this section is to make a clear evidence-based argument for why things need to change in order to ensure we are providing optimal and comprehensive care to people. In this section, you will need to describe the core psychosocial problems/issues you have identified within the literature regarding PICS and its impact on people.
You will need to use research literature to explain why people experience these particular psychosocial responses, as well as the negative impact these have on patient and healthcare outcomes. What evidence is there that others have tried to solve these problems/issues in the past? Is there any evidence about what might work and what does not work to solve your problem/issue? What was left unknown or unresearched? How might your group improve on and extend our existing knowledge?
Use the research literature to make the argument that we could reduce or remove these psychosocial responses and achieve better health outcomes by doing things differently. Do not try to fix every problem/issue you have discussed-identify one core issue your group will address with its psychosocial intervention. Finish this section with your project's aim and SMART objectives (maximum of three).
Project details (max. 600 words):
This section discusses your evidence-based nursing-led psychosocial intervention addressing the core problems/issues identified earlier in the rationale for change section.
Your psychosocial intervention must fall within a nursing scope of practice. Inform the reader what you are proposing to do in your nursing-led psychosocial intervention and the evidence base for your ideas, how the intervention will be implemented and delivered, and how nurses will lead this process.
You will also need to discuss your project's overall methodology and data evaluation strategies. How will your group evaluate the efficacy of your intervention in achieving its objectives? Describe which measures you have selected for studying the processes and outcomes of the intervention. Describe how you plan to collect this data throughout your project. Outline how you plan to establish whether the observed outcomes have been directly caused by your intervention.
Benefits and improvement to patient outcomes (max. 300 words):
This section explains how your nursing-led psychosocial intervention will specifically benefit patient outcomes and improve care. These benefits can be qualitative and/or quantitative but should be demonstrable in some way.
Potential risks and mitigation strategies (max. 250 words):
What are the potential risks and/or constraints for your project and intervention, and what are your mitigation strategies for these risks? Consider different types of risks such as health and safety, social, psychological, economic, legal, and reputational risks, as well as the likely impact these would have on your project and intervention.
Not all of these will be relevant to your project and intervention, so only discuss the key risks and the mitigation strategies.
Project timeline:
Provide the approximate timescale for your project and intervention from start to finish via a Gantt chart figure.
Project budget:
This section is an itemised summary of the estimated and approximate start-up, ongoing operations, and maintenance costs of your project and intervention. Where relevant, costs should include staff time, training requirements, and resources such as equipment (ICT or clinical) and materials. Ensure you justify each area of expenditure and your costings.
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