Capstone Change Project Evaluation Plan

Running head: STRATEGIC PLAN SUMMARY

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Strategic plan summary

Grand Canyon University

NRS-OL191-Professional Capstone and Practicum

When implementing new changes to an organization such as the new practice interventions, there must be some challenges and barriers that may interfere with the process. The new practice interventions involve playing soft music in Post-Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU) to help postoperative patients relax and ease their pain such that they will not take a lot of postoperative pain medications (Grove & Gray, 2018). They will require low pain medications such as ibuprofen.

In some cases, the challenge may be getting the nursing staff to adopt the new practice procedures or even getting used to the new process since it may be different from their normal practice. Implementing something new and asking nursing staff to adopt may cause resistance especially if they do not support the new practice changes (Farokhzadian, Khajouei, & Ahmadian, 2015). Another challenge would be inadequate nursing staff. This has been a major challenge in most healthcare organizations towards implementing evidence-based change interventions. In my project, nursing staff are needed in PACU units to help patients who have undergone surgical procedures to manage their postoperative pain and recover from their conditions and wounds (Grove & Gray, 2018). Without adequate nursing, blending the relaxation offered by soft music with low pain medications such as ibuprofen and Tylenol will be difficult to achieve.

The organization would need a plan to overcome these challenges. First, it would be required to offer staff education and training on the importance of evidence-based practice (EBP) adoption to the nursing practice and patients’ outcomes. This would reduce staff resistance to the new practice implementation (Grove & Gray, 2018). Secondly, the organization would be required to hire more nursing staff to help in the adoption and implementation of EBP.

References

Farokhzadian, J., Khajouei, R., & Ahmadian, L. (2015). Evaluating factors associated with implementing evidence‐based practice in nursing. Journal of evaluation in clinical practice, 21(6), 1107-1113. Grove, S. K., & Gray, J. R. (2018). Understanding Nursing Research: Building an Evidence-Based Practice. Elsevier Health Sciences.