NUR 302 Nursing
Question:
Determine the practicum project’s return on investment and discuss the following in regard to your data collection and analysis:
- Describe how the data collection method reflects the purpose of the needs assessment.
- Discuss any feedback you have received from your practicum site.—remember this is in regualted state so nocontact with the facilty or patients etc. it is virtual project—feedback should be based on the online reserch etc avialable
- Describe how reliability and validity are measured for quantitative data.
- Describe how trustworthiness is measured for qualitative data.
Answer:
Reporting near misses in healthcare program
The need identified for this practicum project is; bottlenecks to reporting incidences of near misses in nursing practice
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Data collection method rationale |
Observation. Observation will be one of the best methods for this project because contact with hospital staff is prohibited |
Internet data. Data from the internet is vast and dynamic. A good health research will provide a wide spectrum of information about challenges that nurses face |
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Feedback from practicum site |
Not required |
Not required |
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Determination of reliability and validity for quantitative data |
Confirmation from documented data especially found in databases from organizations that have previously researched on this topic |
Reference from official sites. Blogs and search engines may give opinions from scholars that are not authenticated. Only official websites will be utilized. |
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Measure of trustworthiness for qualitative data |
Tabulation into quantitative data. By use of software like SSPS, qualitative data can be analyzed and deductions made from it. |
Use of analysis software. |
Return on investment of the practicum project
This project has mainly used secondary data because of the caution that the members of the hospital should not know that they are being investigated. However, hospital statistics available to the public provided credible information about lack of reporting on near misses in nursing. The near misses, as has been testified by patients, are mainly as a result of negligence by senior medical practitioners who assign inexperienced nurses the duty of caring for patients (Smith, Harris, Potters, Sharma, Mutic, Gay and Terezakis, 2014). The use of secondary data was cost-effective in logistics and finances. This led to gathering of useful data without having to worry about subjectivity of respondents which arises where such tools as interviews are used.
Before deconstruction of the project, there needs to be included therein mechanisms for primary data. The use of primary data gives authenticity to the research done (Baker, Rodgers, Davis, Gracely and Bowleg, 2014). This project is poised to improve patient care because there will be deliberate efforts to provide feedback through various forums available (Brennan and Bakken, 2015). The first feedback will be to the nurses directly where those responsible for the welfare of the nurses will see the challenges they have to go through in the line of work. The public will be presented with this information through articles that will be published in the media particularly the print media. Messages transmitted in print media enjoy wider readership and can easily be stored for future use. This will be a good forum for discussion on policy decisions in the healthcare field.
Return on investment is the measure of gain or loss regarding an investment in relation to the money invested (Baxter, Sanderson, Venn, Blizzard, and Palmer, 2014). It is usually depicted in formula form i.e.
ROI = (Net Profit/ cost of investment) * 100
Return on investment can be customized to various situations depending on the tradable goods for a firm (Slight, Franz, Olugbile, Brown, Bates,and Zimlichman, 2014). In this practicum case, ROI cannot only be based on financial gains because it is intended to improve service delivery and welfare of nurses. This calculation will therefore have to be based partly on the qualitative gain of satisfaction and level of motivation for the nurses (Speroni,, Fisher, Dennis, and Daniel, 2014).. Based on the strategy adopted by this practicum, it has a positive return on investment.
References
Brennan, P. F., & Bakken, S. (2015). Nursing needs big data and big data needs nursing. Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 47(5), 477-484.
Baker, J. L., Rodgers, C. R., Davis, Z. M., Gracely, E., & Bowleg, L. (2014). Results from a secondary data analysis regarding satisfaction with health care among African American women living with HIV/AIDS. Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, & Neonatal Nursing, 43(5), 664-676.
Baxter, S., Sanderson, K., Venn, A. J., Blizzard, C. L., & Palmer, A. J. (2014). The relationship between return on investment and quality of study methodology in workplace health promotion programs. American Journal of Health Promotion, 28(6), 347-363.
Slight, S. P., Franz, C., Olugbile, M., Brown, H. V., Bates, D. W., & Zimlichman, E. (2014). The return on investment of implementing a continuous monitoring system in general medical-surgical units. Critical care medicine, 42(8), 1862-1868.
Speroni, K. G., Fisher, J., Dennis, M., & Daniel, M. (2014). What causes near-misses and how are they mitigated?. Plastic Surgical Nursing, 34(3), 114-119.
Smith, K. S., Harris, K. M., Potters, L., Sharma, R., Mutic, S., Gay, H. A., … & Terezakis, S. (2014). Physician attitudes and practices related to voluntary error and near-miss reporting. Journal of Oncology Practice, 10(5), e350-e357.
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