Prospectus Draft Revision.

Problem Statement must include:

· Why it’s necessary to have standardized care plans (their importance and benefit, why are care plans necessary). Why do nurses need to have care plans for the patients

· How will the standardized care plans affect patients care.

b) Summarize preliminary, supporting evidence that provides justification that this problem is meaningful and relevant to the local setting as well as the broader field of nursing practice, citing key scholarly sources.

· The facility recently upgraded their system to include standardized care plans. Unfortunately, since the implementation of the standardized care plans, the nurses compliance with adding care plans to the patients’ chart upon admission based on the patients’ diagnosis decreased from 90% compliance to 40% which was supported by the findings of the Joint Commission who recently paid a visit to the facility and had penalized the facility for poor compliance by the nurses in adding the standardized care plans to the patients’ charts.

· Why are the nurses not utilizing the standardized care plans? The nurses stated that the facility had not provided them with the proper training on how to use the new standardized care plans.

· Some nurses also expressed their concern on the standardized care plans being time consuming and impede the workflow.

c) Explicitly state the gap in nursing practice or problem that will be the focus of this doctoral project

· Implementing a teaching tool to educate the nurses on how to use the standardized care plans.

· The importance of standardized care plans.

· Also, to increase the nurses’ knowledge on using the standardized care plans

The Practice Focus Question

a) Describe the meaningful gap-in-practice that this doctoral project addresses.

b) State the guiding practice-focused question(s) for this doctoral project.

Will an educational tool increase the inpatient nurses’ compliance in using the standardized care plans from 40% to 90% as compared to non-standardized care plans.

c) Briefly explain the practice focused question as it is relevant to the identified gap in practice.

Social Change

a) Discuss how the healthcare consumers support positive social change in the community.

b) Discuss how Walden University support social change and be specific (google “Walden University social change).

c) Specify who might benefit from the project and in what ways the information from the project might result in positive social change.

Context for Doctoral Change

a) Briefly describe the intended setting for the doctoral project.

Inpatients hospital

b) Explain how this project can be accomplished in the identified setting or context.

· Approval from the institution. I need to speak to the facility to get their approval to build a teaching tool for the inpatients’ nurses.

· Approval from the stakeholders, the nurses and anyone involved in the project.

· The research design is pre presentation questionnaire and post presentation questionnaire

Sources of Evidence

· The library

· Joint Commission

· Literature search, review and appraisal

Ethical Considerations

This section should include how do you protect the involved parties. Also reassure the involved parties that the follow-up test would be done anonymously. Also, how do you protect the involve parties from not reporting their Get consent for all those who will participate in the teaching program ( example: by continuing to complete this questionnaire, you are giving your agreement to participate in this questionnaire).