Description
This assignment is about the safety of nurses and needle sticks. There is alttle bit of research required to complete this assignment. This last assignment will serve as your final paper and will also be used to upload to the ePortfolio (6-8 pages). You will need to incorporate the following previous week’s assignments into this final paper: 1. SWOT analysis (Needle Sticks) 2. Literature Review (Needle Sticks) 3. Quality Improvement Initiatives (needle Sticks) The paper will need to include the following elements: 1. An abstract 2. A table of contents 3. Using your SWOT analysis write an introduction to the problem identifying the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats to initiating a change. 4. Provide an analysis and synthesis of the three selected evidence-based articles. 5. Select a change theory and describe how you would change this situation. 6. Include in your discussion the role that quality and safety initiatives (including informatics, technology, and interprofessional collaboration) would play in implementing this change. 7. Identify the strengths of your change and the barriers you may confront when attempting to create the change. Provide a discussion on how the strengths can be utilized to promote the change and how as a nurse leader the barriers can be overcome. 8. Support your ideas with current literature and evidence-based healthcare practice. At least three peer-reviewed references are required. 9. Paper is to be written in APA format. This last assignment completes your final paper. (6-8 pages).
