Submit your 20-25 page final capstone project that synthesizes the work you completed in the previous four assessments. Paper must include 12-18 resources within past 5 years(can be from previous assessment) and in APA format. Please follow scoring guide to ensure passing grade. I have also attached a "Guiding Questions" doc that helps shape the paper and give you guidance.IntroductionNote: 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.Congratulations! The finish line is in sight for both the capstone project you have been working on all quarter and your Master's of Science in Nursing program. Take a moment to appreciate all you have accomplished and give yourself a pat on the back; you have earned it!Your final submission for your capstone project will bring together all of the sections you have worked on throughout this course, as well as the relevant revisions you have made to those sections based on feedback from your instructor, as well as feedback you have received or observations you may have made during your practicum experience. True professionals can learn to strive for continuous improvement in their work and incorporate feedback from colleagues and leaders to help scaffold improvement efforts. As a master's-level nurse you will be expected to create and implement plans and evaluate their outcomes. Being able to envision a pathway for a project to move from the idea phase all the way through the evaluation phase is a critical skill. By successfully synthesizing the various sections of this project together into one final artifact, you will have demonstrated your competence in this essential skill.PreparationsRead Guiding Questions: Final Project Submission [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 is the most useful skill or concept you learned while pursuing your MSN degree?How will you leverage your degree to help you reach your ideal practice career path?How will you be able to apply the work you have done on your capstone project to improve your personal practice?InstructionsNote: 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.For your final capstone project submission you will synthesize the work you completed in the previous four assessments. Please make sure that you have made relevant revisions as suggested by your instructor, as well as relevant additions that you uncovered during your practicum experience. The only brand-new content that you will need to create for this assessment is an Abstract and an Introduction.This final submission will be graded using the seven program outcomes (POs). As a reminder they are:Lead organizational change to improve the experience of care, population health, and professional work life while decreasing cost of care.Evaluate the best available evidence for use in clinical and organizational decision making.Apply quality improvement methods to impact patient, population, and systems outcomes.Design patient- and population-centered care to improve health outcomes.Integrate interprofessional care to improve safety and quality and to decrease cost of care.Evaluate the ability of existing and emerging information, communication, and health care technologies to improve safety and quality and to decrease cost of care.Defend health policy that improves the experience of care, population health, and professional work life while decreasing cost of care.In addition, you will be assessed on how well you incorporated the feedback you received from your instructor on your previous work in this course via the following criterion:Integrate writing feedback to improve the clarity and quality of final product.You will also be assessed on the completion of hours toward your practicum experience.Demonstrate completion of hours toward the practicum experience.See the scoring guide for specific grading criteria related to these requirements.Please carefully review the outline below to see which parts of the final submission will align to which program outcomes. (Note: The bullet points in the outline correspond to the grading criteria from your previous assessments. It may be worth putting in some extra revisions on the material related to criteria on which you did not previously score as well as you would have liked. You may also wish to read the Guiding Questions: Final Project Submission document to better understand how each aspect of your submission will be assessed.) It is important to remember that if you do a quality job addressing the points below, you will meet all of the program outcomes. The alignment is provided for transparency, but do not become preoccupied with how each point will feed into the scoring guide.AbstractSummarize the purpose, approach, and any relevant findings of the final capstone project submission (PO #1).IntroductionSummarize your need, target population, and setting (PO #1).Provide a high-level overview of your intervention plan (PO #4).Justify the importance of your need and intervention plan (PO #1).Provide a high-level overview of your implementation plan (PO #4).Provide a high-level over view of your evaluation plan (PO #4).Reminder: these instructions are an outline. Your heading for this this section should be Problem Statement and not Part 1: Problem Statement.Part 1: Problem StatementNeed StatementAnalyze a health promotion, quality improvement, prevention, education or management need (PO #1).Population and SettingDescribe a target population and setting in which an identified need will be addressed (PO #4).Intervention OverviewExplain an overview of one or more interventions that would help address an identified need within a target population and setting (PO #3).Comparison of ApproachesAnalyze potential interprofessional alternatives to an initial intervention with regard to their possibilities to meet the needs of the project, population, and setting. (PO #5).Initial Outcome DraftDefine an outcome that identifies the purpose and intended accomplishments of an intervention for a health promotion, quality improvement, prevention, education or management need (PO #4).Time EstimatePropose a rough time frame for the development and implementation of an intervention to address and identified need (PO #1).Part 2: Literature ReviewAnalyze current evidence to validate an identified need and its appropriateness within the target population and setting (PO #2).Evaluate and synthesize resources from diverse sources illustrating existing health policy that could impact the approach taken to address an identified need (PO #7).PART 3: INTERVENTION PLANIntervention Plan ComponentsDefine the major components of an intervention plan for a health promotion, quality improvement, prevention, education, or management need (PO #4).Explain the impact of cultural needs and characteristics of a target population and setting on the development of intervention plan components (PO #4).Theoretical FoundationsEvaluate theoretical nursing models, strategies from other disciplines, and health care technologies relevant to an intervention plan (PO #6).Justify the major components of an intervention by referencing relevant and contemporary evidence from the literature and best practices (PO #2).Stakeholders, Policy, and RegulationsAnalyze the impact of stakeholder needs, health care policy, regulations, and governing bodies relevant to health care practice and specific components of an intervention plan (PO #7).Ethical and Legal ImplicationsAnalyze relevant ethical and legal issues related to health care practice, organizational change, and specific components of an intervention plan (PO #1).Part 4: Implementation PlanManagement and LeadershipPropose strategies for leading, managing, and implementing professional nursing practices to ensure interprofessional collaboration during the implementation of an intervention plan (PO #5).Analyze the implications of change associated with proposed strategies for improving the quality and experience of care while controlling costs (PO #1).Delivery and TechnologyPropose appropriate delivery methods to implement an intervention which will improve the quality of the project (PO #3).Evaluate the current and emerging technological options related to the proposed delivery methods (PO #6).Stakeholders, Policy, and RegulationsAnalyze stakeholders, regulatory implications, and potential support that could impact the implementation of an intervention plan (PO #5).Propose existing or new policy considerations that would support the implementation of an intervention plan (PO #7).TimelinePropose a timeline to implement an intervention plan with reference to specific factors that influence the timing of implementation (PO #1).Part 5: Evaluation of PlanDefine the outcomes that are the goal of an intervention plan (PO #4).Create an evaluation plan to determine the impact of an intervention for a health promotion, quality improvement, prevention, education, or management need (PO #3).Part 6: DiscussionAdvocacyAnalyze the nurse's role in leading change and driving improvements in the quality and experience of care (PO #1).Explain how the intervention plan affects nursing and interprofessional collaboration, and how the health care field gains from the plan (PO #5).Future StepsExplain how the current project could be improved upon to create a bigger impact in the target population as well as to take advantage of emerging technology and care models to improve outcomes and safety (PO #6).Reflection on Leading Change and ImprovementReflect on how the project has impacted your ability to lead change in personal practice and future leadership positions (PO #1).Reflect on the ways in which the completed intervention, implementation, and evaluation plans can be transferred into your personal practice to drive quality improvement in other contexts (PO #3).Address Generally ThroughoutIntegrate resources from diverse sources that illustrate support for all aspects of the project as appropriate throughout the final submission (PO #2).Clearly, concisely, and cohesively articulate a health care need, population, setting, stakeholders, supporting evidence, intervention, and evaluation (PO #6).Integrate writing feedback to improve the clarity and quality of final product.Additional RequirementsLength of submission: 20–25 pages (including references).Written communication: Written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message.Number of resources: 12–18 resources.APA formatting: Resources and citations are formatted according to current APA style.Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.Competencies MeasuredBy 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.Competency 2: Evaluate the best available evidence for use in clinical and organizational decision making.Competency 3: Apply quality improvement methods to impact patient, population, and systems outcomes.Competency 4: Design patient- and population-centered care to improve health outcomes.Competency 5: Integrate interprofessional care to improve safety and quality and to decrease cost of care.Competency 6: Evaluate the ability of existing and emerging information, communication, and health care technologies to improve safety and quality and to decrease cost of care.Competency 7: Defend health policy that improves the experience of care, population health, and professional work life while decreasing cost of care.Note: You will also be assessed on two additional criteria unaligned to a course competency:Integrate writing feedback to improve the clarity and quality of the final product.Demonstrate completion of hours toward the practicum experience.See the scoring guide for specific grading criteria related to these additional requirements.

The Final Project is a presentation that you create and upload to the Class Discussion. The presentation must include information of a quantitative nature. No matter what you are majoring in, an ability to communicate and work with quantitative information will enhance your career. The goal of this project is to practice and improve that ability in the form of a research project. Your grade for this project does not depend on demonstrating math skills. Rather, the accuracy and clarity of quantitative communication are the most highly valued elements for this project. Being able to think critically and creatively and generate original material (whether it's text, images, graphics, or computer-generated media of any kind) are highly valued skills. Regardless of your major, these attributes are a necessary part of succeeding in the real world. There are three principal criteria for this presentation: That you spend some time furthering your current math-related knowledge, understanding or skills. That you present your knowledge and understanding, and/or demonstrate your skills in a professional manner. Most importantly, that you include quantitative information. For example, any use of numbers, percentages, statistics, physical units, changing units, graphs, tables or diagrams (preferably that you make) should be labeled with the proper units. Use of scientific notation, ratios, any relevant formulas, statistics, or calculations are also ways to include quantitative information. The most important aspect of the quantitative information you include is that it supports your thesis, is integral to or in context of the research and that you reference and explain it. List of Example Topic Ideas Research the nutritional effects, health effects, and history of a specific food, supplement, or phytochemical. Example: tea, caffeine, tannins, or soy-based foods Study a medication that is controversial in some way. Example: statins, antidepressants, or Ritalin Research the health effects of a synthetic sugar or other food additive. Example: saccharine, Splenda, aspartame, or hydrogenated oils Research a question related to a vitamin or mineral. Example: Does Vitamin E protect against oxidative stress? Explore the health effects of an environmental contaminant, additive, or technology that may be controversial. Example: BPA, fluoride in municipal water, link between cells phones and brain tumors Analyze a popular diet plan or a training plan. Develop a diet and/or exercise plan for a particular individual. Study a health condition or illness. Example: autism, ADHD, breast cancer, obesity, or diabetes Research a particular genetically modified food. I decided to do the effect of taking marijuana on health. One way to make sure your project meets the requirements for quantitative literacy is to include and discuss numerical data from other sources that supports your thesis. You may include relevant graphs, tables, or simply discuss the numbers from your source. For example, a student doing a research paper on the consumption of sugar and other sweeteners might choose to include the graph shown here. You may also find data in a table or list and create your own line, circle, or bar graph to include in your project. Graphs and tables such as these should be included in the narrative where they apply. The student should discuss the numbers in the graph and write about how the data support the point he or she is making. When referring to any numbers such as the concentration of a molecule or medicine, make sure to use the proper units and convert units if it applies to the topic. For example this student might write, "There are 180 mg of aspartame in a 12 oz. soft drink. An individual who drinks three soft drink containing aspartame per day would consume 540 mg of aspartame a day from soft drinks alone." A student doing a project or exercise would make sure to include the proper units as well. For example, he or she might write the following sentence, "The athlete’s resting heart rate was 56 beats per minute." rather than, "The athlete’s resting heart rate was 56." Yet another approach to making your project quantitative is to collect and analyze your own data. This could include designing a survey and analyzing the results. You could study peoples’ knowledge or opinions on your subject with this approach by asking questions such as, "Do you think GMO foods should be labeled?" or "Are you concerned about BPA in plastics?" Alternately, you could study peoples’ health-related behaviors with questions such as, “How many of the past three days did you eat breakfast?" Collecting and analyzing your own data on a subject can complement a research project well but in most cases will not suffice as a project unto itself without any additional research on the topic. You could design and present an exercise or healthy diet plan based on the quantitative concepts in this course. Lastly, you might choose to have your entire project based on testing your own hypothesis. Come up with a hypothesis and collect data to support or refute it. You can collect your own data either physically or by using the Internet. Then use Excel or a Google Documents spreadsheet to process the data. Statistical correlations are easy (and fun) to do if you are competent working with spreadsheets. You would then discuss your methods, and report and analyze your own results. Feel free to run other project design ideas you may have by your instructor and he or she will let you know if it is an approach that meets the goals of this project. Remember, any topic is fine as long as you use quantitative information as part of your communication. Ideally you will show that you understand the numbers you use by explaining them and how they relate to and support your thesis. You need to include at least two math problems, and that can be in the form of a graph (one that you created or one that you found as long as you cite it and explain the trends you see) or actual calculations.

Question 1 The demand for healthcare administrators has gone up substantially over recent decades, as has the salary range for the position. The job of managing healthcare facilities has become more challenging and more important than ever before. How would you describe the dual purpose of financial management in health care today? Your response must be at least 200 words in length. Question 2 An essential aspect of healthcare financial management for any medical facility is the year-end closing. What are the primary accounts that must be addressed in the year-end closing process? List these accounts, and briefly describe the procedure for each. Your response must be at least 200 words in length. Question 3 What is meant by a pro forma financial statement? How are pro forma financial statements utilized in determining whether a major proposed project for the healthcare organization should be approved or not? Provide at least two examples of healthcare projects that should be analyzed by pro forma statement before making a go or no-go decision. Your response must be at least 200 words in length. Question 4 Consider the big picture of our American economy with health care being an important part of it. How does the large share of American gross domestic product (GDP) that we spend on health care each year impact our nation’s economy overall? What other areas of our economy may currently be suffering because of so much medical spending? In your view, can America continue to spend this much money on health care without sacrificing the quality of American life in other areas? Why or why not? Please support your position. Your response must be at least 200 words in length.