Guiding Questions

Intervention Plan Design

This document is designed to give you questions to consider and additional guidance to help you successfully complete the Intervention Plan Design assessment. You may find it useful to use this document as a pre-writing exercise, an outlining tool, or as a final check to ensure that you have sufficiently addressed all the grading criteria for this assessment. This document is a resource to help you complete the assessment. Do not turn in this document as your assessment submission.

Part 1: Intervention Plan Components

Define the major components of an intervention plan for a health promotion, quality improvement, prevention, education, or management need.

· What are the major components of your intervention plan?

· How will these components lead to improvements related to your identified need?

· Why are these components the best option to address your identified need?

Explain the impact of cultural needs and characteristics of a target population and setting on the development of intervention plan components.

· What are the cultural needs and characteristics of your target population for this project?

· How will the cultural needs of the population impact the development of your intervention plan components?

· What aspects of the target population’s cultural characteristics impact the development of your intervention plan components?

· What are the cultural needs and characteristics of your setting for this project?

· How will the cultural needs of the setting impact the development of your intervention plan components?

· What aspects of the setting’s cultural characteristics impact the development of your intervention plan components?

Part 2: Theoretical Foundations

Evaluate theoretical nursing models, strategies from other disciplines, and health care technologies relevant to an intervention plan.

· What theoretical nursing models are relevant to your intervention plan?

· Which of these models will most impact the design of the intervention plan components?

· What strategies from other disciplines are relevant to your intervention plan?

· Which of these strategies will most impact the design of the intervention plan components?

· What health care technologies are relevant to your intervention plan?

· Which of these technologies will most impact the design of the intervention plan components?

Justify the major components of an intervention by referencing relevant and contemporary evidence from the literature and best practices.

· How will the theoretical nursing models you referenced help justify your design decisions regarding intervention plan components?

· How will the strategies from other disciplines you referenced help justify your design decisions regarding intervention plan components?

· How will the health care technologies you referenced help justify your design decisions regarding intervention plan components?

Part 3 – Stakeholders, Policy, and Regulations

Analyze the impact of stakeholder needs, health care policy, regulations, and governing bodies relevant to health care practice and specific components of an intervention plan.

· Who are the relevant stakeholders?

· How will the needs of these stakeholders impact your intervention plan components?

· What are the relevant health care policies?

· How will these health care policies impact your intervention plan components?

· What are the relevant health care regulations?

· How will these health care regulations impact your intervention plan components?

· What are the relevant governing bodies?

· How will these governing bodies impact your intervention plan components?

Part 4 – Ethical and Legal Implications

Analyze relevant ethical and legal issues related to health care practice, organizational change, and specific components of an intervention plan.

· What are the relevant ethical issues related to your project?

· How will these ethical issues affect the health care practice considerations that are relevant to your intervention plan?

· How will these ethical issues affect any organizational change considerations that are relevant to your intervention plan?

· How will these ethical issues affect one or more specific components of your intervention plan?

· What are the relevant legal issues related to your project?

· How will these legal issues affect the health care practice considerations that are relevant to your intervention plan?

· How will these legal issues affect any organizational change considerations that are relevant to your intervention plan?

· How will these legal issues affect one or more specific components of your intervention plan?

Address Generally Throughout

Communicate intervention plan in a professional way that helps the audience to understand the proposed intervention and the implications of the plan that must be taken into account.

· Is your writing clear and professional?

· Does your writing effectively communicate you proposed intervention plan?

· Does your writing effectively communicate how you will address the implications that you uncovered?

· Is your writing free from errors?

· Is your submission 4–6 pages?

· Did you cite a minimum of 5–10 resources? (You may use resources previously cited in your literature review to contribute to this number.)

· Does your submission conform to current APA style standards?