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Title of your evidence-based innovation plan in title case

The title of the paper should be centered in sentence font and should not be bolded. This template provides a guide for graduate-level academic papers that require APA style and formatting (American Psychological Association). The recommended font style is Times New Roman, and the font size is 12. Margins are set at 1 inch for top, bottom, left, and right. Do not use the word “Introduction” as a section heading, as it is implied.

Begin your paper with an introductory paragraph or section that presents crucial background information with an overview of the evidence-based innovation you identified during your clinical/practice experiences. The introduction section should end with the purpose of your proposed innovation and a clear and measurable goal that can be fully evaluated to determine the success of the innovation once it is implemented.

Innovation Proposal

Role of Innovative Nurse Leader

In this section, explain the role of the innovative nurse leader. Be sure to explain and connect the role of an innovative nurse leader to your proposal. The rationale for proposing this innovation should be provided with a discussion on the anticipated disruption that will emerge, as a result of the implementation of your innovation.

Summary of CPE

Summarize your community of practice (CoP) that was established during your CPE. Things to be included in this summary are as follows: The organizational characteristics, services provided, and size of the service area; the demographic characteristics of the population served (age, gender, race, ethnicity, education levels, poverty levels, etc.); address the team member roles of those stakeholders you chose to be part of your team (including both the formal and informal roles of these individuals); and the values that are shared by the members of your team in relation to your innovation.

Organization Identified in CPE

Provide a discussion about your organization including the internal and external factors that prompted you to choose your proposed innovation.

Innovation Alignment

Then assess how your proposed innovation aligns with other professional, regulatory, and/or governmental strategic initiatives in the organization identified in your CPE.

Purpose of the Innovation

At this point, develop a purpose statement for your proposed innovation that provides the reason behind the need for the innovation. The purpose statement should be meaningful, applicable, realistic, specific, and clearly support the success of the innovation.

Goal for the Innovation

Last, discuss your goal for the proposed innovation (be specific to what you expect it to accomplish) in SMART+C format (i.e., Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Timed, and Challenging).

Relevant Sources Review

Prior to writing this section you must search the WGU library and Internet to identify credible sources that have relevant information on your innovation topic. From your search, select the top five sources that are most relevant to your innovation plan. The five sources are to be scholarly, peer-reviewed sources that have been published in the last five years and are to be relevant to your proposed innovation. Each of these five sources should also be cited in your reference list.

In this section, you will summarize the findings of each of the five sources by completing the following Relevant Sources Summary Table, which will list key findings from your sources.

Table 1.
Relevant Sources Summary Table
Reference Citation	Relevant Findings	Evidence Strength	Evidence Hierarchy
APA formatted reference citation with a DOI or retrievable link.	Present a summary of the information you found from this source that supports your innovation plan or that offers advice regarding the best approach for implementing the innovation. This information could be from research studies that have already tested the innovation or recommendations from credible sources and sites.	Numbers I-VII.	From the WGU Levels of Evidence document under the Assessments tab located with supporting documents.

Synthesis of the Literature

After you have completed your table, synthesize your findings from the literature to identify specific, logical, and clear patterns, trends, and gaps in the literature as they relate to your proposed innovation. Use the synthesis of the literature to identify specific, logical, and clear recommendations. Evidence that supports innovative practices should be grounded in a firm foundation of principles, protocols, and standards.

Recommendations for the Innovation

Develop specific, logical, and clear recommendations for your proposed innovation that is based on the literature that you summarized in your table and based on the identified gaps in the literature and/or the need for the innovation in your organization identified in the CPE.

Methods

Process to Generate Ideas

Introduce this section, by discussing the process and technology you may have used during your clinical/practice experiences (CPE) to identify your innovative idea. Also discuss methods or technology needed to support your proposed innovation. Include information on how you engaged stakeholders in the process of brainstorming ideas for an innovative change.

Examples of Big and Small Data in the Organization

Include examples of big and small data within your healthcare organization.

How Big Data Supports the Innovation

Discuss how you can utilize big data to provide you with the small data that actually may have informed you of the need for your proposed innovation.

Technology Enhancements for the Innovation

Describe any technological enhancements that are required to implement the proposed innovation.

Interprofessional Collaboration and Disruptive Innovation

Disruption of Innovation and Impact

Analyze how disruption from the proposed innovation impacts individuals, processes, and organizations. Discuss possible challenges that may occur, barriers, and structures that may need to be changed.

Strategies to Address the Challenges

Develop strategies to mitigate the challenges of disruption for individuals, processes, and organizations. Discuss how you will address those challenges and action steps that can be taken to overcome those challenges and bring individuals onboard to support your proposed innovation.

Benefits of Disruptive Innovation

Discuss how the proposed innovation can leverage benefits of disruptive innovation for cost-effective, quality healthcare outcomes. Be clear in your discussion as to how disruption empowers change and healthcare improvements, not just how it creates barriers to change.

Pre-Implementation Plan

Diffusion of Innovation

Apply the stages of Roger’s Diffusion of Innovation theory to your innovation plan by presenting strategies for managing the diffusion at all levels of the implementation. Diffusionussion and implementation occurs over time as an idea or change gains momentum and diffuses (or spreads) through the specific population or organization. Discuss the development of a communication plan for the purpose of facilitating the innovation and its usability. Include information on the perceived barriers and facilitators of innovation diffusion. For the idea to succeed, work in collaboration with an interprofessional team to plan the implementation of the innovation. Introduce this section by presenting the purpose of creating a pre-implementation plan that includes all the steps that will need to be taken prior to implementing your innovation.

Roles and Responsibilities of Team Members

Present how you will facilitate interprofessional collaboration to plan the implementation and evaluation for your innovation. Describe the various professions that should be represented to ensure a successful integration of your innovation. Discuss the method and frequency of meeting with these individuals and the major topics that will need to be addressed to plan the implementation of your innovation. Include a plan for employee engagement and empowerment, as this is crucial for the success of your innovation implementation plan.

Innovation Action Plan

The use of project management techniques can be used when planning the implementation of an innovation. These techniques help you to break down the process in to smaller, more manageable pieces. Complete the following Innovation Action Plan table by including information on a minimum of 5 team members needed to implement your proposal along with their responsibilities and the timeline your are proposing for each of those responsibilities.

Table 2.

Innovation Action Plan

Responsible Person (Role)	Responsibilities	Timeline

Financial Implications

Next, you are to discuss the financial implications of implementing the proposed innovation. Be sure to include things such as salaries/benefits if you must hire new employees, the cost of training, new equipment, the cost of team member time taken away from other duties, incentives, etc. Also, what are the positive financial rewards once the innovation is implemented (return on investment).

Interprofessional Communication Plan

Develop an interprofessional communication plan for the proposed innovation that will provide the necessary information especially to those who will be impacted and need to be involved with the new innovation one it is implemented. Be clear as to who needs to be involved, who will be impacted, what the innovation is, when things will occur (such as training and implementation), and the usability (i.e., they will want to know “what is in this for me” or “how will I benefit” or “how will the patients benefit”).

Evaluation of the Innovation

Finally, you need to determine how you will evaluate that each of those responsibilities of your team members have been completed successfully as well as how you will evaluate the overall implementation and success of your proposed innovation.

Conclusion

In your conclusion, bring the reader back to the purpose and rationale of your innovation plan. Emphasize how your innovation provides an opportunity or addresses a problem that will help improve organizational operations, services and/or outcomes. Reflect on the experience and process of developing an evidence-based innovation for your setting and the strengths and challenges of developing the innovation plan. Address lessons learned and how you will apply these lessons to future initiatives. Include information on how this innovation advances nursing practice and improves patient outcomes if appropriate. The purpose of this section is not to introduce new information, rather it should provide a review and summary of your proposed innovation, the process of implementation, and the expected outcomes as well. Also, include new insights that were identified and offer creative ideas for additional innovations in the future.

References

The reference list should follow the body of your academic paper. Each reference listed must have a corresponding citation placed within the text of your paper. A sample reference page is included on the following page with examples of different reference types, such as books, journal articles, and websites. When using websites, you should italicize the title, if the information is a stand-alone document, for example a PDF file (see Raisman reference on next page). If it is part of the whole web page or any other electronic data, it should not be italicized.

References

American Psychological Association. (2010). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (6th ed.). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Davidson, S., Weberg, D, Porter-O’Grady, & Malloch, K. (2017). Leadership for evidence-based innovation in nursing and health professions. Burlington: Jones & Bartlett.

Polit, D. & Beck, C. (2018). Essentials of nursing research: Appraising evidence for nursing practice. Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer.

Raisman, N. A. (2013). The cost of attrition at four-year colleges and universities. Educational Policy.org Policy Perspectives. Retrieved from http://www.educationalpolicy.org/pdf/1302_PolicyPerspectives.pdf

Shank, W. & Keyser, D. (2017, May 16). Diffusion of innovations in healthcare: Obtaining evidence to move faster. [Blog post]. Retrieved from https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20170516.060078/full/

Valentine, J. C., Hirschy, A. S., Bremer, C. D., Novillo, W., Castellano, M., & Banister, A. (2011). Keeping at-risk students in school: A systematic review of college retention programs. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 33(2), 214–234. https://doi.org/10.3102%2F0162373711398126

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. (2003). Managing asthma: A guide for schools (NIH Publication No. 02-2650). Retrieved from http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/ health/prof/asthma/asth_sch.pdf

Note: Following your references, you may include tables, figures, and appendices (in this order). Present key points about these items in the body of your paper and then refer the reader to the table and figure numbers or the appendices letters. Please refer to your APA Publication Manual for examples of proper formatting for these additional sources of information.