Week-7&8 Discussion: Implementation Plan

Week-7&8 Discussion: Implementation Plan

Week-7&8 Discussion: Implementation Plan

Implementation of the Plan

A patient care plan is key in ensuring that a proposed care initiative or strategy has various concise activities to undertake and a timeline to follow. In addition, the formulated care plan needs to be implemented to realize the projected benefits. As such, it is vital to plan for the implementation effort to ensure that the implementation is successful and the patients benefit (Melnyk& Tim Raderstorf, 2019). In the previous weeks, a care plan for an aggregate of three women patients with different levels of depressive symptoms was formulated. The purpose of this paper is to formulate a plan for implementing the patient care proposed earlier.

The Selected Group and Why the Group Was Selected

The group selected is an aggregate of three women 35-44 years working at the Fort Pierce, Florida Advanced Eye Care Center. This group of women was revealed to be having symptoms of anxiety and depression, which worsened with the coming of the covid-19 pandemic. The coming of pandemic complicated the patient care environment, which was already facing patient burnout and stress. This group was selected because their health concern (depression and anxiety) can be solved through the use of a nursing intervention for better outcomes.

The Intervention and the Health Risk to Be Addressed by the Intervention

As earlier indicated, the three patients were diagnosed with moderately severe, moderate, and mild depression according to the GAD-7 and PHQ assessment. The proposed intervention is to use psychotherapy and lifestyle changes involving self-management and self-control initiatives (Cuijpers et al., 2020). The intervention seeks to address the different levels of depression associated with the patient. Therefore, the risks to be addressed by the intervention include the risk of the condition advancing to severe depression, which could lead to other conditions like heart disease, obesity, and osteoporosis.

The Expected Results and the Plan of Implementation

Upon the implementation of the intervention, the patients are expected to have improved scores on both the GAD-7 and PHQ assessment scales. The implication is that every patient is expected to have reduced depressive symptoms (Cuijpers et al., 2020). The symptoms after implementation will be compared with those at baseline to evaluate the impact. This intervention is to be implemented through the organization a group psychotherapy session with the patients for general psychotherapy activities. Thereafter, individual psychotherapy will be held with each patient to help them develop the targeted behaviors problem solving and help them improve their self-management or self-control skills. The targeted strategy is to use interactive and open sessions that can help the patients to grasp the therapy session activities more easily.

The Resources Needed and the Time Taken for Results to be Seen

Various resources will be needed for the implementation of the proposed intervention. Human resources in the form of psychotherapists will be needed (Tegeler et al., 2020). Since they are three patients, one psychotherapy intervention will be enough. Other resources include educational materials that will be used to educate the patient on self-management and self-control skills. Pamphlets will also be needed, which will have to be given to patients explaining further on depression and its management. The results are expected to be seen within the first five weeks. Within this duration, the patients shall have attended sufficient psychotherapy sessions and training to have an impact on their depression symptoms.

Conclusion

The three identified patients with different scores in the GAD-7 and PHQ assessment scales can have better patient outcomes through the implementation of the proposed intervention. Therefore, it is important to implement the intervention effectively to eliminate the chances of failing. This write-up has detailed an implementation plan for the proposed intervention.

Week-7&8 Discussion: Implementation Plan References

Cuijpers, P., Karyotaki, E., Eckshtain, D., Ng, M. Y., Corteselli, K. A., Noma, H., … & Weisz, J. R. (2020). Psychotherapy for depression across different age groups: a systematic review and meta-analysis. JAMA Psychiatry, 77(7), 694-702. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2020.0164

Melnyk, B. M., & Tim Raderstorf, D. N. P. (Eds.). (2019). Evidence-based leadership, innovation, and entrepreneurship in nursing and healthcare: A practical guide to success. Springer Publishing Company.

Tegeler, C., Beyer, A. K., Hoppmann, F., Ludwig, V., & Kessler, E. M. (2020). Current state of research on psychotherapy for home-living vulnerable older adults with depression. Zeitschrift für Gerontologie und Geriatrie, 53(8), 721-727. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00391-020-01805-3

Week-7&8 Discussion: Implementation Plan

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Week 7 Discussion

This week you will be creating an Implementation Plan that will be attached to your final EBP.  For the discussion board this week—outline your implementation steps 1-2-3.

As you work on your capstone project proposal, you will want to share your progress with your peers and instructor and seek or provide guidance or share insights.

Week 8 Discussion

This week you will be working on an evaluation plan that will be attached to your EBP in Week 9.  Submit your Evaluation Plan to the DB –listed as 1-2-3…

As you work on your capstone project proposal, you will want to share your progress with your peers and instructor and seek or provide guidance or share insights.

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.
Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.

ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE CLASS

Discussion Questions (DQ)

• Initial responses to the DQ should address all components of the questions asked, include a minimum of one scholarly source, and be at least 250 words.
• Successful responses are substantive (i.e., add something new to the discussion, engage others in the discussion, well-developed idea) and include at least one scholarly source.
• One or two sentence responses, simple statements of agreement or “good post,” and responses that are off-topic will not count as substantive. Substantive responses should be at least 150 words.
• I encourage you to incorporate the readings from the week (as applicable) into your responses.

Weekly Participation

• Your initial responses to the mandatory DQ do not count toward participation and are graded separately.
• In addition to the DQ responses, you must post at least one reply to peers (or me) on three separate days, for a total of three replies.
• Participation posts do not require a scholarly source/citation (unless you cite someone else’s work).
• Part of your weekly participation includes viewing the weekly announcement and attesting to watching it in the comments. These announcements are made to ensure you understand everything that is due during the week.

APA Format and Writing Quality

• Familiarize yourself with APA format and practice using it correctly. It is used for most writing assignments for your degree. Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in LoudCloud for APA paper templates, citation examples, tips, etc. Points will be deducted for poor use of APA format or absence of APA format (if required).
• Cite all sources of information! When in doubt, cite the source. Paraphrasing also requires a citation.
• I highly recommend using the APA Publication Manual, 6th edition.

Use of Direct Quotes

• I discourage overutilization of direct quotes in DQs and assignments at the Masters’ level and deduct points accordingly.
• As Masters’ level students, it is important that you be able to critically analyze and interpret information from journal articles and other resources. Simply restating someone else’s words does not demonstrate an understanding of the content or critical analysis of the content.
• It is best to paraphrase content and cite your source.

LopesWrite Policy

• For assignments that need to be submitted to LopesWrite, please be sure you have received your report and Similarity Index (SI) percentage BEFORE you do a “final submit” to me.
• Once you have received your report, please review it. This report will show you grammatical, punctuation, and spelling errors that can easily be fixed. Take the extra few minutes to review instead of getting counted off for these mistakes.
• Review your similarities. Did you forget to cite something? Did you not paraphrase well enough? Is your paper made up of someone else’s thoughts more than your own?
• Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in LoudCloud for tips on improving your paper and SI score.

Late Policy

• The university’s policy on late assignments is 10% penalty PER DAY LATE. This also applies to late DQ replies.
• Please communicate with me if you anticipate having to submit an assignment late. I am happy to be flexible, with advance notice. We may be able to work out an extension based on extenuating circumstances.
• If you do not communicate with me before submitting an assignment late, the GCU late policy will be in effect.
• I do not accept assignments that are two or more weeks late unless we have worked out an extension.
• As per policy, no assignments are accepted after the last day of class. Any assignment submitted after midnight on the last day of class will not be accepted for grading.

Communication

• Communication is so very important. There are multiple ways to communicate with me:
  • Questions to Instructor Forum: This is a great place to ask course content or assignment questions. If you have a question, there is a good chance one of your peers does as well. This is a public forum for the class.
  • Individual Forum: This is a private forum to ask me questions or send me messages. This will be checked at least once every 24 hours.