NHS 8060 Unit 3 Assignment Identifying a Problem or Issue and an Intervention
NHS 8060 Unit 3 Assignment Identifying a Problem or Issue and an Intervention
For this assignment, identify a health care or public health problem, issue, or gap in practice and propose an intervention that may improve or solve this problem. The problem, issue, or gap in practice could be derived from your own experience or not. The intervention you choose must take into consideration what is already considered best practice in your state or nationally, knowledge gained through experience and other experts, and local patient or organization preferences.
You will address this problem, issue, or gap in all the assignments in this course, so take a look at those assignments now. Make sure the problem and intervention you select in this assignment will also work for the other assignments.
Submit a 3–4 page paper, using APA format, in which you:
Identify a health care or public health problem or issue (organizational process or clinical practice) that needs to be improved.
Describe why this problem or issue is of significant concern to certain stakeholders, patients, or community members.
Describe your evidence-based practice or quality improvement (EBP/QI) intervention.
Briefly describe your ideal inter-professional team for this EBP/QI project and why this team would be best suited to address this issue.
Using the Researching Theory in the Capella Library library guide from the Studies in this unit and/or literature search engines, identify and describe a single theory that can provide some big-picture insight into predicting or rationally explaining why a relationship might exist between your improvement intervention approach and the issue itself. Justify your selection of this theory by finding and describing similar studies where this theory has been used.
Design a diagram or concept map (along with an explanatory two-paragraph narrative) that visually represents how you expect the big-picture theoretical concept(s) will relate to key parts of your study.
APA Writing Checklist
Use this document as a checklist for each paper you will write throughout your GCU graduate program. Follow specific instructions indicated in the assignment and use this checklist to help ensure correct grammar and APA formatting. Refer to the APA resources available in the GCU Library and Student Success Center.
☐ APA paper template (located in the Student Success Center/Writing Center) is utilized for the correct format of the paper. APA style is applied, and format is correct throughout.
☐ The title page is present. APA format is applied correctly. There are no errors.
☐ The introduction is present. APA format is applied correctly. There are no errors.
☐ Topic is well defined.
☐ Strong thesis statement is included in the introduction of the paper.
☐ The thesis statement is consistently threaded throughout the paper and included in the conclusion.
☐ Paragraph development: Each paragraph has an introductory statement, two or three sentences as the body of the paragraph, and a transition sentence to facilitate the flow of information. The sections of the main body are organized to reflect the main points of the author. APA format is applied correctly. There are no errors.
☐ All sources are cited. APA style and format are correctly applied and are free from error.
☐ Sources are completely and correctly documented on a References page, as appropriate to assignment and APA style, and format is free of error.
Scholarly Resources: Scholarly resources are written with a focus on a specific subject discipline and usually written by an expert in the same subject field. Scholarly resources are written for an academic audience.
Examples of Scholarly Resources include: Academic journals, books written by experts in a field, and formally published encyclopedias and dictionaries.
Peer-Reviewed Journals: Peer-reviewed journals are evaluated prior to publication by experts in the journal’s subject discipline. This process ensures that the articles published within the journal are academically rigorous and meet the required expectations of an article in that subject discipline.
Empirical Journal Article: This type of scholarly resource is a subset of scholarly articles that reports the original finding of an observational or experimental research study. Common aspects found within an empirical article include: literature review, methodology, results, and discussion.
Adapted from “Evaluating Resources: Defining Scholarly Resources,” located in Research Guides in the GCU Library.
☐ The writer is clearly in command of standard, written, academic English. Utilize writing resources such as Grammarly, LopesWrite report, and ThinkingStorm to check your writing.