Intervention Plan Design (Sleep Centers)
Develop a 4-6 page holistic intervention plan design to improve the quality of outcomes for your target population and setting.
Introduccion Note: Each assessment in this course builds on the work you completed in the previous assessment. Therefore, you must complete the assessments in this course in the order in which they are presented.
Your application of the PICOT approach to developing your problem statement and the research that you conducted and synthesized in your literature review are the foundation and framework that you will need to successfully build your intervention plan. This plan will lay out specific components of the intervention you are planning to address the need you have identified for the target population and setting. You will justify your approach to the intervention plan by integrating appropriate theoretical foundations. You will also analyze and address the needs of stakeholders, requirements of regulatory bodies, and ethical and legal considerations. It is important to have a sound intervention plan design in place before trying to work on the details of implementation and evaluation.
Preparations
Read Guiding Questions: Intervention Plan Design [DOC]. This document is designed to give you questions to consider and additional guidance to help you successfully complete this assessment.
As you prepare to complete this assessment, you may want to think about other related issues to deepen your understanding or broaden your viewpoint. You are encouraged to consider the questions below and discuss them with a fellow learner, a work associate, an interested friend, or a member of your professional community. Note that these questions are for your own development and exploration and do not need to be completed or submitted as part of your assessment.
What theoretical nursing models, strategies from other disciplines, and health care technologies could help support or justify your approach to the intervention plan?
What evidence from the literature or best practice supports the intervention plan components you identified?
What, if any, potential is there for technology to help in the development or implementation of the intervention plan components?
What is the impact of stakeholders, health care policy, or regulations?
Are there any ethical or legal considerations related to the development or implementation of the intervention plan components that need to be kept in mind? If so, what are they?
Instruccions Note: The assessments in this course are sequenced in such a way as to help you build specific skills that you will use throughout your program. Complete the assessments in the order in which they are presented.You intervention plan design will be the second section of your final project submission. The goal for this is to design a holistic plan that should be able to improve the quality of outcomes for your target population and setting. Provide enough detail so that the faculty member assessing your intervention plan design will be able to provide substantive feedback that you will be able to incorporate into the other project components in this course, as well as into the final draft of your project.At minimum, be sure to address the bullet points below, as they correspond to the grading criteria. You may also want to read the scoring guide and Guiding Questions: Intervention Plan Design document (linked above) to better understand how each criterion will be assessed. In addition to the bullet points below, provide a brief introduction that refreshes the reader’s memory about your problem statement and the setting and context for this intervention plan.Reminder: these instructions are an outline. Your heading for this this section should be Intervention Plan Components and not Part 1: Intervention Plan Components.
PART 1: INTERVENTION PLAN COMPONENTS
Define the major components of an intervention plan for a health promotion, quality improvement, prevention, education, or management need.
Explain the impact of cultural needs and characteristics of a target population and setting on the development of intervention plan components.
PART 2: THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS
Evaluate theoretical nursing models, strategies from other disciplines, and health care technologies relevant to an intervention plan.
Justify the major components of an intervention by referencing relevant and contemporary evidence from the literature and best practices.
PART 3: STAKEHOLDERS, POLICY, AND REGULATIONS
Analyze the impact of stakeholder needs, health care policy, regulations, and governing bodies relevant to health care practice and specific components of an intervention plan.
PART 4: ETHICAL AND LEGAL IMPLICATIONS
Analyze relevant ethical and legal issues related to health care practice, organizational change, and specific components of an intervention plan.
ADDRESS GENERALLY THROUGHOUT
Communicate intervention plan in a professional way that helps the audience to understand the proposed intervention.
Length of submission: 4–6 double-spaced pages.
Number of resources: 5–10 resources. (You may use resources previously cited in your literature review to contribute to this number. Your final project will require 12–18 unique resources.)
Written communication: Written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message.
APA formatting: Resources and citations are formatted according to current APA style. Header formatting follows current APA levels.
Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:
Competency 1: Lead organizational change to improve the experience of care, population health, and professional work life while decreasing cost of care.
Explain the impact of cultural needs and characteristics of a target population and setting on the development of intervention plan components.
Competency 2: Evaluate the best available evidence for use in clinical and organizational decision making.
Evaluate theoretical nursing models, strategies from other disciplines, and health care technologies relevant to an intervention plan.
Analyze the impact of stakeholder needs, health care policy, regulations, and governing bodies relevant to health care practice and specific components of an intervention plan.
Competency 3: Apply quality improvement methods to impact patient, population, and systems outcomes.
Define the major components of an intervention plan for a health promotion, quality improvement, prevention, education, or management need.
Competency 4: Design patient- and population-centered care to improve health outcomes.
Explain the impact of cultural needs and characteristics of a target population and setting on the development of intervention plan components.
Competency 6: Evaluate the ability of existing and emerging information, communication, and health care technologies to improve safety and quality and to decrease cost.
Justify the major components of an intervention by referencing relevant and contemporary evidence from the literature and best practices.
Competency 7: Defend health policy that improves the experience of care, population health, and professional work life while decreasing cost of care.
Analyze relevant ethical and legal issues related to health care practice, organizational change, and specific components of an intervention plan.
Note: You will also be assessed on two additional criteria unaligned to a course competency:
Communicate intervention plan in a professional way that helps the audience to understand the proposed intervention and the implications of the plan that must be taken into account.
Demonstrate completion of hours toward the practicum experience.
Part 1: Intervention Plan Components
The major components of an intervention plan for improving outcomes at sleep centers include screening and assessment, education, treatment, follow-up, and quality improvement processes.
Screening and assessment involves identifying patients who may have sleep disorders through questionnaires, interviews, and physical exams. This helps target those most in need of further evaluation and treatment. Culturally sensitive tools and interpreters can help address diverse needs.
Education plays a key role, as many patients are unaware of the importance of sleep and treatment options. Educational materials and programs should be at appropriate literacy levels and provided in multiple languages. Group education classes led by bilingual staff can help engage diverse populations.
Treatment involves medical, behavioral, and lifestyle interventions tailored to each patient’s needs. Non-pharmacological therapies like cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) delivered in-language have been shown to improve outcomes in Hispanic populations.
Follow-up supports long-term success. Reminder calls and follow-up appointments in preferred languages encourage continued use of CPAP and lifestyle changes. Telehealth options expand access for rural patients.
Quality improvement involves monitoring processes and outcomes to identify disparities and continually enhance culturally competent care. Patient surveys and focus groups provide feedback from diverse perspectives.
Part 2: Theoretical Foundations
The biopsychosocial model justifies comprehensive assessment and multimodal treatment. Considering biological, psychological, social, and cultural factors that influence sleep helps design interventions addressing each domain (Buysse, 2014).
Self-efficacy theory supports educational and behavioral programs to increase patients’ confidence in making lifestyle changes and using new therapies (Lacks & Rotert, 1986). CBT-I teaches skills to overcome barriers through problem-solving and reinforcement.
Part 3: Stakeholders, Policy, and Regulations
Insurers and accountable care organizations prioritize cost-effective care and outcomes. Screening high-risk groups and non-pharmacological therapies address this.
The Joint Commission’s Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services standards require addressing language needs. Interpreters and translated materials ensure diverse patients understand care.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services quality measures track follow-up care post-diagnosis. Tracking outcomes by demographic helps reduce disparities (CMS, 2022).
Part 4: Ethical and Legal Implications
Informed consent and health literacy efforts ensure patients understand risks, benefits, costs of all options. Translated materials and interpreters facilitate this.
HIPAA privacy rules and confidentiality are maintained through secure telehealth platforms, encrypted patient portals, and private spaces for education.
References
Buysse, D. J. (2014). Sleep health: Can we define it? Does it matter? Sleep, 37(1), 9–17. https://doi.org/10.5665/sleep.3298
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. (2022). Quality measures. https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Quality-Initiatives-Patient-Assessment-Instruments/QualityMeasures
Lacks, P., & Rotert, M. (1986). Knowledge and practice of sleep hygiene techniques in insomniacs and good sleepers. Behavior Research and Therapy, 24(3), 365–368. https://doi.org/10.1016/0005-7967(86)90147-3
