Holistic care refers to approaches and interventions that address the needs of the whole person: body, mind, emotion, and spirit. Consider the following case study:

You are caring for a first-time mother in a health clinic. While assessing the woman, you notice she is becoming visibly upset. When you ask, she notes that her mother, with whom she was very close, died last year and that she really would have loved to have shared this pregnancy with her. You empathize with the patient, as your own mother just died 6 months ago. She also notes that she and her partner have been bickering a lot lately on top of her feeling generally sore, tired, and overwhelmed.

Define holistic care in your own words. Describe four ways you can implement a holistic nursing approach to care and facilitate healing. In addition, you may consider the intersection of holistic care and caritas principles from Jean Watson’s Theory of Human Caring/Caring Science from Week 1.

Expectations

Length: A minimum of 250 words, not including references
Citations: At least one high-level scholarly reference in APA from within the last 5 years

Assignment: Evidence-Based Project

Is there a difference between “common practice” and “best practice”?

When you first went to work for your current organization, experienced colleagues may have shared with you details about processes and procedures. Perhaps you even attended an orientation session to brief you on these matters. As a “rookie,” you likely kept the nature of your questions to those with answers that would best help you perform your new role.

Over time and with experience, perhaps you recognized aspects of these processes and procedures that you wanted to question further. This is the realm of clinical inquiry.

Clinical inquiry is the practice of asking questions about clinical practice. To continuously improve patient care, all nurses should consistently use clinical inquiry to question why they are doing something the way they are doing it. Do they know why it is done this way, or is it just because we have always done it this way? Is it a common practice or a best practice?

In this Assignment, you will identify clinical areas of interest and inquiry and practice searching for research in support of maintaining or changing these practices. You will also analyze this research to compare research methodologies employed.

To Prepare:

• Review the Resources and identify a clinical issue of interest that can form the basis of a clinical inquiry.
• Based on the clinical issue of interest and using keywords related to the clinical issue of interest, search at least four different databases in the Walden Library to identify at least four relevant peer-reviewed articles related to your clinical issue of interest. You should not be using systematic reviews for this assignment, select original research articles.
• Review the results of your peer-reviewed research and reflect on the process of using an unfiltered database to search for peer-reviewed research.
• Reflect on the types of research methodologies contained in the four relevant peer-reviewed articles you selected.

Part 1: An Introduction to Clinical Inquiry

Create a 4- to 5-slide PowerPoint presentation in which you do the following:

• Identify and briefly describe your chosen clinical issue of interest. This clinical issue will remain the same for the entire course and will be the basis for the development of your PICOT question
• Describe how you used keywords to search on your chosen clinical issue of interest.
• Identify the four research databases that you used to conduct your search for the peer-reviewed articles you selected.
• Provide APA citations of the four peer-reviewed articles you selected.

Part 2: Identifying Research Methodologies

After reading each of the four peer-reviewed articles you selected, use the Matrix Worksheet template to analyze the methodologies applied in each of the four peer-reviewed articles. Your analysis should include the following:

• The full citation of each peer-reviewed article in APA format.
• A brief (1-paragraph) statement explaining why you chose this peer-reviewed article and/or how it relates to your clinical issue of interest, including a brief explanation of the ethics of research related to your clinical issue of interest.
• A brief (1-2 paragraph) description of the aims of the research of each peer-reviewed article.
• A brief (1-2 paragraph) description of the research methodology used. Be sure to identify if the methodology used was qualitative, quantitative, or a mixed-methods approach. Be specific.
• A brief (1- to 2-paragraph) description of the strengths of each of the research methodologies used, including reliability and validity of how the methodology was applied in each of the peer-reviewed articles you selected.

It is anticipated that the initial discussion response should be in the range of 250-300 words.

Read the article by Aiken and associates (Links to an external site.). She has been exploring the topic of patient safety for a number of years and has been applying her research findings across international boundaries.

• What outcomes would you like to see emerge from this?
• How would you measure these outcomes?
• Include in your discussion an analysis of how Aiken measured her selected outcomes.

Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.

Scenario

In your weekly one-on-one meeting your boss congratulates you on the comprehensive and well-researched work you have done to date. The CEO has been working with the rest of the organization’s leadership team to adopt the overarching strategies for the organization that your boss recommended. However, your boss and CEO are seeking clarification on how to translate these strategies into meaningful benchmarks, or performance measures. They want to know how the organization will measure progress in following these strategies. In previous discussions with your boss, you have been describing the SMART methodology for writing objectives that support the overarching strategies. She has asked you to share the SMART objectives you have written for each strategy with the CEO in a brief presentation.

You are ready to begin creating your presentation and the slides that you will use to support your key points and conclusions. Your boss reminds you that the CEO expects a brief, substantive, and concise presentation. You will be lucky to get 15 minutes of the CEO’s time. Consequently, she suggests that you include no more than 10–12 slides, or you will run out of time and cautions you about not creating a “death by PowerPoint” experience for the CEO. You already know from experience that your organization expects professional presentations that adhere to the organization’s branding standards.

Instructions

Create an executive-level presentation, with voiceover, of the SMART objectives that correspond to the organization’s main strategies, associated performance indicators and metrics, and strategic plan recommendations.

Practice your presentation until you are satisfied with it, staying as close as possible to the limited time allotted. Remember that the audience is your organization’s CEO. All the work you have done so far in this course has prepared you for this briefing, but you are ready.

Presentation Requirements

The requirements, outlined below, correspond to the grading criteria in the Strategic Plan Objectives and Balanced Scorecard Scoring Guide, so be sure to address each point. Read the performance-level descriptions for each criterion to see how your work will be assessed.

• Present your operational recommendations and strategic control mechanisms.
  • Include goals, objectives, resources, and action steps for reconfiguring and aligning the organization’s structure, systems, shared values, management style, staff, and skills.
• Define critical success indicators that enable an organization to measure success in implementing the strategy.
• Propose a strategic plan to optimize outcomes and mitigate risks in the organization.
• Analyze potential long-term opportunities and operational components in the strategic planning process.
• Analyze the effect of strategy formulation on human, financial, and technical resources.
  • Weigh factors of measurement against current organizational benchmarks.
• Create a visually pleasing, professional presentation tailored to a specific audience.
  • Use charts and/or images that support the content.
• Communicate critical content clearly and persuasively in a limited time.

Presentation Format and Length

Your presentation should consist of 10–12 slides and be 10–15 minutes in length. Use the notes portion of each slide to write your script (the notes section is required).

You may use the structure below as a guide for organizing and timing your presentation. You do not need to place your slides in this specific order.

• Slide 1: Title slide (15 seconds).
• Slide 2: Revised/updated directional strategies (vision, mission, and values) from the Unit 7 assignment. (30 seconds).
• Slide 3: Gap analysis: desired versus actual position (1 minute).
• Slide 4: Recommend Overarching Strategy One with three objectives (2 minutes).
• Slide 5: Recommend Overarching Strategy Two with three objectives (2 minutes).
• Slide 6: Recommend Overarching Strategy Three with three objectives (2 minutes).
• Slide 7: Recommend Overarching Strategy Four with three objectives (2 minutes).
• Slide 8: Visual: Balanced scorecard table with 1–3 performance indicators and associated metrics (1 minute).
• Slide 9: Analysis (1 minute).
• Slide 10: Recommendation of new strategic plan strategies based on the balanced scorecard (1 minute).
• Slide 11: Overall recommendations/conclusions (1 minute).
• Slide 12: References.

Include all relevant supporting details, such as data, charts, and graphs, as an addendum to the presentation. Indicate the slide associated with the relevant data set. In addition, include all relevant data and narrative in the notes section of each slide.

Supporting Evidence

Cite a minimum of six references to current scholarly and authoritative sources to support your presentation. Format your citations and references according to APA style and formatting guidelines.

Submission Requirements

Proofread your slides and addendum, before you submit them, to minimize errors that could distract readers and make it more difficult for them to focus on the substance of your presentation.

Portfolio Prompt: You may choose to save your presentation to your ePortfolio.

Resources

• Strategic Plan Objectives and Balanced Scorecard Scoring Guide.
• ePortfolio.
• Using Kaltura [PDF].