Professional Product Development for Improving Care and Patient Experience: Intervention Summary and

Develop a professional product to improve care or the patient experience related to the identified health problem with a 2-4 page summary of intervention findings, evidence, and best-practice basis for the professional product.

For this assessment, you will develop and deliver a professional product to address the health problem defined in your first assessment to improve care and the patient experience. This will be delivered face-to-face to the individual or group that you have identified. Appropriate examples include development of a community education program focused on a particular health issue or a handout to help the elderly and their families understand their Medicare and Medicaid options. The product must be useful in a practice setting, relevant to your project, and designed to improve some aspect of care or the patient experience that can be used in your own practice, with your family or community.

By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:

Competency 1: Lead people and processes to improve patient, systems, and population outcomes.

Explain the ways in which leadership of people and processes was utilized while designing an intervention and its implementation.

Competency 2: Make clinical and operational decisions based upon the best available evidence.

Justify decisions related to developing a professional product with relevant research, evidence, and best practices.

Competency 3: Transform processes to improve quality, enhance patient safety, and reduce the cost of care.

Demonstrate process improvements in the quality, safety, or cost of care resulting from an intervention and related professional product.

Competency 7: Implement patient-centered care to improve quality of care and the patient experience.

Demonstrate improvements in the quality of care and patient experience resulting from an intervention and related professional product.

For this assessment, you will develop and deliver a professional product to address the health problem defined in your first assessment to improve care and the patient experience. This will be delivered face-to-face to the individual or group that you have identified. Appropriate examples include development of a community education program focused on a particular health issue or a handout to help the elderly and their families understand their Medicare and Medicaid options. The product must be useful in a practice setting, relevant to your project, and designed to improve some aspect of care or the patient experience that can be used in your own practice, with your family or community.

For the brief APA-style paper, one organizational option is:

Summary of intervention and implementation:

1. What did you do?

2. How did you lead in terms of the processes used in the project?

3. With what participants?

4. Who were your interprofessional collaborators?

5. How did you lead them in this project?

6. What were your key findings?

Evidence-based rationale for professional product development:

1. What professional product did you develop?

2. Why did you choose this type of product?

3. How does it align with your intervention?

4. How will the product help improve outcomes?

5. How will the product enhance the patient experience?

6. How does the product improve a process related to quality, safety, and/or cost of care?

7. How do relevant research, evidence, and best practices support your choice of professional product and approach?

Your brief paper and professional product will be assessed according to the following scoring guide criteria:

1. Explain the ways in which leadership of people and processes was utilized while designing an intervention and its implementation.

2. Demonstrate process improvements in the quality, safety, or cost of care as a result of a direct clinical intervention and newly developed professional product.

3. Demonstrate improvements in the patient experience resulting from a direct clinical intervention and newly developed professional product.

4. Justify decisions related to developing a professional product using relevant research, evidence, and best practices.