Cultivating Healthful Environments for Nurses

Nurses are required to create ethical environment, culture of civility and kindness, treating all staff with dignity and respect (American Nurses Association, 2015). However, incivility has negative impact on nursing profession.

This assessment will analyze the issue of incivility using scholarly nursing literature and strategies to cultivate healthful environments for all. NR 537 Week 5 Rubric Development your selected specialty track and provide two examples of how you will implement these strategies in your master's prepared advanced practice role.

Rubric Development

The development of rubrics can be a challenging process. To streamline the process, consider searching for existing rubrics from colleagues, the Internet, rubric databases, or open educational resources that may be adapted to match your assignment and activity goals. Then, describe the objectives or expected performance in the first column of a typical rubric and develop descriptions for various levels of quality within each row. Generally, it is helpful to start with the best or exemplary level of work and then describe an unacceptable product for the bottom category. Then fill in the middle levels to complete the NR 621 Intervention Evaluation Plan of quality.

Be sure that the descriptors for each level are clear, measurable, and objective. Also, pilot test new rubrics before using them formally to ensure that they are clear and cover all possible performances. Ask students to use the rubric and solicit their feedback to evaluate the usefulness and fairness of the assessment tool. Finally, consider pairing rubrics with additional measures or forms of feedback.

Intervention Evaluation Plan

A critical step in ensuring the quality of an intervention evaluation is to separate the research and implementation teams. While communication between the RAs collecting process data and the interventionists is necessary, it must be limited in order to maintain the integrity of the evaluation.

The evaluator must also be familiar with the aims and procedures of the intervention in order to make informed judgments about how well the program is being implemented. Often, differences between what was planned and what actually happened can be explained by variations in the implementation of the intervention itself, such as insufficient support from local administrators or a NR451 EBP Process Change in method. By analyzing the differences between the plan and what actually happened, the evaluator can help the interventionists refine their approach to improve future outcomes. Alternatively, the differences may indicate that the intervention is not delivering on its intended effects. This is information that can be used to decide whether to continue the intervention, modify its goals or abandon it altogether.

EBP Process Change

The health system’s leaders are a driving force in the EBP initiative. Currently, they are leading initiatives to improve communication among healthcare team members, patient falls, CLABSIs, leadership onboarding practices, fatigue mitigation of clinical staff, and efficient access to ambulatory services. The initiative also has several projects that are tied to reportable indicators of quality and safety as well as accreditation priorities, such as promoting EBP and improving patient outcomes and hospital costs.

Identifying and communicating with stakeholders is important to getting buy-in for your project. A stakeholder can help you define outcome measures and NR500 Week 5 Area of Interest PowerPoint Presentation ideas for implementation strategies. Getting administration support early in the process can also be helpful. They can offer resources from other projects and may be able to introduce you to an external consultant who has worked with similar projects in the past. Developing a formal sustainability plan is a good idea as well.

Area of Interest

An area of interest is a career tag that showcases skillsets, knowledge and abilities that don’t fit into the categories of work experience or educational background. It can include hobbies, volunteer activities and skillsets that don’t necessarily relate to a specific job description.

Lesser-known areas of interest can be very rewarding. They may also offer lesser competition and faster growth. For example, an interest in a language can take you to places that many other people have not discovered yet.

In contrast, traditional competencies such as delivering patient-centered care and working in interprofessional teams are likely to continue to dominate in a reformed health care system. However, it’s important to reinterpret these competencies for students into the NR500 Week 7 Cultivating Healthful Environments environments that are emerging. That requires faculty to create opportunities for students to develop creativity and apply these competencies into the health environments of the future. This can be a challenge for some academic programs. But, it’s essential to our profession’s success.