Benchmark - Human Experience Across the Health-Illness Continuum The benchmark assesses the following competency: Benchmark: 5.1. Understand the human experience across the health-illness continuum. Research the health-illness continuum and its relevance to patient care. In a 750-1,000 word paper, discuss the relevance of the continuum to patient care and present a perspective of your current state of health in relation to the wellness spectrum. Include the following: Examine the health-illness continuum and discuss why this perspective is important to consider in relation to health and the human experience when caring for patients. Reflect on your overall state of health. Discuss what behaviors support or detract from your health and well-being. Explain where you currently fall on the health-illness continuum. Discuss the options and resources available to you to help you move toward wellness on the health-illness spectrum. Describe how these would assist in moving you toward wellness (managing a chronic disease, recovering from an illness, self-actualization, etc.).

Competency       Describe different quality methods within healthcare.      Course Scenario       Chaparral Regional Hospital is a small, urban hospital of approximately 60 beds, and offers the following:      Emergency room services Intensive care Surgical care Obstetrics Diagnostic services Some rehabilitation therapies Inpatient pharmacy services Geriatric services Consumer physician referral services      Recently, the CEO has been hearing complaints from both patients  and staff, varying from long wait times to rude physicians. You have  been hired to design and implement a Quality Improvement Plan to help  uncover quality problems and to satisfactorily resolve them.      Instructions       The CEO has received some resistance from the Board on undertaking a  QI program. She has asked you to develop a set of talking points on the  pros and cons of common measurement techniques used in healthcare that  she can use the next time she runs into a Board member.           Talking points are used to quickly explain something by condensing  it into a compelling, but easily digestible, list. If the goal is to  increase support for a QI program, the talking points must provide the  ideas she needs to convey in order to achieve the goal.           Your talking points should be submitted in a Word document. Your  talking points should include the pros and cons of implementing a QI  program.           Upon completion of your talking points, please prepare a PowerPoint  presentation (or other shareable Webware/software you prefer) with  narration where you will explain each talking point to the CEO so they  clearly understand and can answer questions from the Board.           APA formatting for the talking points, and proper grammar, punctuation, and form are required.      Length of PowerPoint is secondary to the quality of the presentation as a whole. Highlight specific pros and cons of QI programs. Use the Notes area on each slide as needed to expand on the key points. You may use a free screen capture site such as Screencast-O-Matic  to record a video of your presentation. Screencast-O-Matic is a site  and program that can perform screen desk and audio capture up to 15  minutes for free, and can be utilized on a Windows or Mac computer. (Note:  You can use a similar program if you prefer. Screencast-O-Matic is just  one suggestion). Make sure that both your voice and the PowerPoint  slides are captured on the video.      Your audio presentation should include an introduction, a concise  discussion of each slide, and a conclusion. Make sure to use  audience-specific language and tone in your PowerPoint. Remember, you  would be presenting this to the CEO of your facility. The presentation  will be assessed on your overall knowledge of the content, clarity of  your voice, pronunciation of words, organization of your presentation,  proper recording of your presentation, overall aesthetics and  professionalism, and general clarity of your presentation.     

Develop a 5–9-page problem statement that presents information related to the problem-intervention-comparison-outcome-time (PICOT) approach to nursing research.  You will also be required to submit your completed practicum hours using CORE ELMS. You must submit a minimum of 20 hours with each assessment deliverable to receive a grade for the entire assessment. 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. SHOW LESS For the first section of your final capstone project you will develop a proposal for an intervention plan to fulfill a need within a specific population. This assessment is meant to capture your initial thoughts about the need and impacting factors to help focus your in-depth analysis later on in the course. First you will brainstorm and crystallize some of your ideas for this assessment, specifically ideas around needs, a target population, and some initial support from the literature and other sources of evidence. The problem statement is an important part of your capstone project as it will help illustrate the importance of your project, as well as help to clarify your project's scope. 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 an overview of one or more interventions that would help drive quality improvement related to an identified need within a target population and setting. Competency 2: Evaluate the best available evidence for use in clinical and organizational decision making. Analyze a health promotion, quality improvement, prevention, education, or management need. Analyze current evidence to validate an identified need and its appropriateness within the target population and setting. Competency 3: Apply quality improvement methods to impact patient, population, and systems outcomes. Describe a quality improvement method that could impact a patient, population, or systems outcome. Competency 4: Design patient- and population-centered care to improve health outcomes. Propose a rough time frame for the development and implementation of an intervention to address an identified need. Competency 5: Integrate interprofessional care to improve safety and quality and to decrease cost of care. Analyze potential interprofessional alternatives to an initial intervention with regard to their possibilities to meet the needs of the project, population, and setting. Competency 6: Evaluate the ability of existing and emerging information, communication, and health care technologies to improve safety and quality and to decrease cost. Evaluate and synthesize resources from diverse sources illustrating existing health policy, health care technologies, or other communications that could impact the approach taken to address an identified need. Competency 7: Defend health policy that improves the experience of care, population health, and professional work life while decreasing cost of care. Define an outcome that identifies the purpose and intended accomplishments of an intervention for a health promotion, quality improvement, prevention, education, or management needs. 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. As you reflect on your work in the field, what population do you feel has the greatest need? Why? Is the need across the population, or within a specific setting? What interventions already exist for the selected population? Are they effective? Why or why not? How will site support from your practicum and your preceptor support your goals and objectives? 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. Your problem statement will focus on presenting information related to the problem-intervention-comparison-outcome-time (PICOT) approach to nursing research. You will also present a brief literature review that supports the need you identified in your problem statement and the appropriateness of your broad intervention approach. Provide enough detail so that the faculty member assessing your problem statement 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 the Guiding Questions: Problem Statement (PICOT) document (linked in the Resources) to better understand how each criterion will be assessed.Reminder: these instructions are an outline. Your heading for this this section should be titled Problem Statement and not Part 1: Problem Statement.Your Problem Statement (PICOT) should be structured as follows:PART 1: PROBLEM STATEMENT (2–3 PAGES) Need Statement (1 paragraph). Analyze a health promotion, quality improvement, prevention, education or management need. Population and Setting (1–2 paragraphs). Describe a target population and setting in which an identified need will be addressed. Intervention Overview (1–2 paragraphs). Explain an overview of one or more interventions that would help address an identified need within a target population and setting. Comparison of Approaches (1–2 paragraphs). Analyze potential interprofessional alternatives to an initial intervention with regard to their possibilities to meet the needs of the project, population, and setting. Initial Outcome Draft (1 paragraph). Define an outcome that identifies the purpose and intended accomplishments of an intervention for a health promotion, quality improvement, prevention, education, or management need. Time Estimate (1 paragraph). Propose a rough time frame for the development and implementation of an intervention to address and identified need. PART 2: LITERATURE REVIEW (10–15 RESOURCES, 3–6 PAGES) Analyze current evidence to validate an identified need and its appropriateness within the target population and setting. Evaluate and synthesize resource from diverse sources illustrating existing health policy that could impact the approach taken to address an identified need. ADDRESS GENERALLY THROUGHOUT Communicate problem statement and literature review in way that helps the audience understand the importance and validity of a proposed project.