Professional Nursing Practice
Miami Dade College
BSN Program
Business Proposal Scholarly Paper
This is a REVISION PAPER

? Topic: Medication Reconciliation: Prevention Errors
o NOTE (When writing the Action Plan of Paper, The PICO format has to be related to the Topic.

? Scholarly Paper & Presentation Content Sequence to Follow

o Scholarly Paper Sequence: Must be written in APA Format

o Paper will include the following in Sub-Headings:

? Introduction (10%): The Relevance of the Problem to Healthcare Delivery and Nursing System when promoting Quality and Safety. Please include Graphs and Data that proves relevance of the problems (negative or positive). Also put data that proves excellence supported by numbers.

? Problem Statement (15%): Why is it Personal Area of Interest for Professional Nursing Care?
? Ex: Core Measures, National Patient Safety Goals, Negative Clinical Indicators, and Unit Based Problems.
? What type of data is being presented to reflect the problem in numbers for the past three months? Graphs, tables, fiscal report in numbers.

? Goal(s) and Objectives of the Quality Improvement Project (25%): The team will produce data (GRAPH) that reflect improvement with reasonable interventions addressing the improved clinical indicators to appropriate benchmark number acceptable to regulatory practice.

? Action Plan (25%): PICO Format Problem, Intervention, Comparison and Outcome. (This section of the paper is written as statement) For example :In patients with recurrent furunculosis, do prophylactic antibiotics, compared to no treatment, reduce the recurrent rate?
P ? Population/patient ? = ? Patients with recurrent furunculosis
I ? Intervention/indicator ? = ? Prophylactic antibiotics
C ? Comparator/control ? = ? No treatment
O ? Outcome ? = ? Reduction in recurrence rate of furunculosis
PICO Format
? Patient, Population or Problem
o What are the characteristics of the patient or population?
o What is the condition or disease you are interested in?
? Intervention or exposure
o What do you want to do with this patient (e.g. treat, diagnose, observe)?
? Comparison
o What is the alternative to the intervention (e.g. placebo, different drug, surgery)?
? Outcome
o What are the relevant outcomes (e.g. morbidity, death, complications)?

? Level Three Evaluation: Education, Validation and Simulation (HINT: JOINT COMMISION

? Conclusion (15%): What was the outcome? Did the problem resolve and or did the Team?s project improve the situation? What would be the future implications for Nursing Practice and Healthcare Delivery

? References (10%): From various levels of evidence: SEE PYRAMID BELOW
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