Use of Evidence-Based Practice in Intervention Plan

Use of Evidence-Based Practice in Intervention Plan

Evidence-based practice is adopted in this change project to help evaluate the success of the implementation. This involves data delivery on fall risks in respect to areas and during the discharge of patients. The management should be able to obtain support and assist in improving the educational practices of nurses to prevent patient falls. The program is sustained through constant informing of senior managers on the progress of reducing falls.

Plan for Evaluating Proposed Nursing Intervention

The first part of the evaluation would include risk assessments to identify the patients with the highest possibility of falling, as well as nurses’ skills at preventing these risks. For that, a variety of tools would be used, such as Marginal Analysis, SWOT Diagram, and different risk assessment scales. The effectiveness of the nursing intervention plan would be judged by the results of the assessments. Secondly, a post-fall evaluation would be applied to identify the outcomes of the nursing intervention and the role of education in reducing risk factors for falling.

Potential Barriers to Implementation Plan

The barriers could be associated with limited time for nurses considering that they are already serving employees who should attend to patients and at the same time, undertake education. Some nurses who lack technical knowledge and skills may find it challenging to learn new aspects of how to handle patients. These barriers could be overcome by first introducing nurses to computer literacy before they are taught new ways to prevent falls. Similarly, training on how to prevent falls should be undertaken during weekends or during the nurses’ leaves or days off.

References

Aguwa, H. (2019). Nursing education to prevent resident falls in long-term care. (Publication no. 7455) [Doctoral dissertation, Walden University]. ScholarWorks.

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