NR 392 Week 6 Course Project Milestone 3

Course Project Milestone 3

Guidelines and Grading Rubric

Purpose

To apply lessons in quality improvement in nursing to a real world nursing issue. This Course Project will use the Six Sigma DMAIC process.

Course Outcomes

The Course Project enables the student to meet the following course outcomes:

CO 1: Identify the role of the BSN nurse in the quality improvement process as a member of the collaborative inter professional team (PO#2 & 7)

CO 2: Discuss effective processes and strategies to improve quality in nursing (PO#2 & 8)

Points

The entire project is worth 600 points. Milestone 3 is worth 300 points of this total.

Due Date

Submit your completed NR392Milestone 3 to its Dropbox by Sunday, 11:59 p.m. MT, end of Week 6.

Requirements and Guidelines

1. Carefully review this Milestone 3 Guidelines document including the rubric, as well as the Milestone 3 Template.

2. Download the Milestone 3 Template. Save it to your computer in Microsoft Word 2010 (or later) as a .docx file with the file name: Your Last Name NR392 Milestone 3.docx.

3. Milestone 3 is a continuation of and builds upon Milestones 1 and 2. See Rubric in this Guidelines document for details about requirements including 3 interventions and evaluation of each.

4. A peer-reviewed scholarly professional nursing journal article (not a website) that is appropriate to the nursing care issue must be obtained from CINAHL via the Chamberlain Online Library and must be available in full text. Use APA format to cite and reference this article. You will write a short summary of this article.

5. Carefully review the assigned areas for Milestone 3 and type directly on your saved Milestone 3 Template.

6. Submit your completed Milestone 3 Template to the Dropbox by Sunday at end of Week 6.

Course Project Milestone 3 Template

Directions: Prior to completing this template, carefully review Course Project Milestone 3 Guidelines paying particular attention to how to name the document and all rubric requirements. After saving the document to your computer, type your answers directly on this template and save again. This assignment is due by Sunday end of Week 6 by 11:59 p.m. Mountain Time.

Your Name:__________________________

Assignment Criteria Answers:

NOTE: See Milestone 3Rubric for details required in each area.

Brief Statement of Nursing Care Issue

15 points

Improve: Interventions (3) to Improve Quality

120 points

(40 points each for 3 interventions)

Intervention #1:

Intervention #2:

Intervention #3:

Improve: Professional Article to Support Interventions

75 points

(25 points reference and citation; 50 points summary)

Citation must be included with appropriate intervention above. Do NOT type in this box.

Reference:

Article Summary:

Control:

Control/

Evaluation

90 points

(30 points each for 3 evaluations)

Evaluation for Intervention #1:

Evaluation for Intervention #2:

Evaluation for Intervention #3: