Just so you know, you don't have to interview an expert nurse because you are working in clinical practice. Students not working in clinical practice who cannot implement their project are the only ones who will have to interview an expert nurse. I was only asking everyone to provide the contact details of an expert nurse if they know one who would be interested in being interviewed by one of our students. I hope this makes sense, and I am sorry for the confusion.

Warmly,

Mark

Good evening Mark,

I have an inquiry regarding assessment 4, as I am slightly confused. In your email last week, you mentioned about interviewing senior nurses and posting their email/specialty on the discussion board. I would like to clarify whether it is mandatory to post the email address?

My specialty is actually really small, with my department only having 2 staff, including me. Therefore, there are minimal people who I can interview. My CNC is the only senior nurse, who I have been asking advice from, and consulted, regarding the project plan. In fact, throughout the whole project, I have been kind of interviewing her, as she has been involved in many QI projects in the past. She is currently on leave till next month, so do I need to include her email in the discussion board?

Kind regards,

Paula

You will not have to report results if you are not working in clinical practice. Instead, in the results section, reflect on the results you would have had if you could have implemented your project. When you interview the senior nurse, you could also ask them what they think the results might have been and advise if the design could have been improved to have yielded better results. You don't need tables and figures.

Warmly,

Mark

Hello Dr Mark,

May you please verify if the above students should focus on the feedback about feasibility and potential to yield positive findings ; in place of tables and figures for project findings.

With thanks,

Jennifer.

Thank you for your clarification and, I probably misunderstood your email too.

Kind regards,

Paula

If you are working in clinical practice you don't need to interview a senior clinician. This task is only for students who are not working in clinical practice.

Kind regards,

Mark

Hi Mark,

As per your previous announcement, I have emailed the Director of Nursing for WSLHD for details of a research nurse who has experience in my QI project topic so I can interview. However, it's been nearly a week and I have not received a response.

I've started searching other Director of Nursing for other hospitals but it's the same thing, waiting for this response to my email.

As I am working in the clinical area, can I interview either my Nurse Unit Manager, Clinical Nurse Specialist or Clinical Nurse Educator instead? They haven't specifically done a QI project on my topic (Clinical Handover) but they have done it on other topics such as Infection Control, Falls Prevention etc....

Thank you,

Mareta

The instructions don't say you need references. Still, I would reference your reflections if you have literature to support them, especially if your reflection relates to QI methodology, as these will strengthen what you have learned throughout the subject.

Hi Mark

I'm wondering if I am meant to reference my reflective section of assessment 4?

Kind regards Sarah

If I copy my aim and learning objectives from assessment 3 and put them in " .." will turn it in not allow this? Should I be rewording my aim and learning objectives?

Hi Sarah,

You can use the same objectives from assessment three. I will inform Leanne Cowin who will be marking assessment 4.

Mark

Should we need to include background or literature review about related quality improvement projects in assessment 4 or not?

No, you don't need to do a background section, but in the discussion, you will discuss how your results relate to the literature you cited in your project plan.

Mark

For the finding section, do we have to attach all audits in a table or mention the final audit result in percentage?

Regards

Sristi

Hi Sristi,

Do not put audits in the findings section, as they go in the methods section, which you did in assessment 3. You only report the results of the audit in the findings section.

Mark

How many references we have to include in assessment 4 and should we include reference in reflection?

Thank you

There is not a number of references in the rubric, but you should have around 15. The more references that you use convincingly the more you would have shown how much you have learned. Yes, use references in the reflection, especially if your reflections are related to the QI process.

Mark

Yes, you can modify your title, aim and learning objective, as per feedback from assessment three.

Sorry, with your second question, I am not sure what you are asking.

Mark

Hi Mark ,

would you please clarify the following:

1. can I use slightly modified (as per assessment 3 feedback from Leanne Cowin and my CNC) title, aim and leaning objective in introduction section? or keep the actual one from assessment 3?

2. as I am out of clinical practice at present, Can I write details of online PDSA (eg. nurses story from discussion)cycle and online survey result in finding section?

   Regards-Nusrat

   
   

   
   

   
   

It’s Nusrat. My second question I want to know is that ok to write details (ideas we extracted from PDSA cycle and online survey results) in findings? I am not working at present but I have organised online meetings and let my colleagues attend online survey to get baseline data. That’s the findings/update of my QI project so far. Can I write then for findings?

Thanks

Hi Nusrat,

Yes, if you have collected data online, you can write them up in the finding section.

Mark

I have some inquires regarding the finding and discussion sections in assessment 4 before submission on Friday.

In the finding section for those who does not have any results you mentioned to "explain the reason why and reflect on what you think the results were if you measured the outcomes of your project. Again, don't go into detail; you will discuss this in your reflection section. This section also outlines the findings of your PDSA cycles."

• Do I have to explain the reason why there were no finding in detail in the finding section or I will need to explain in detail why there were no finding in the discussion section with support of nursing literatures?

• There are a lot of literatures supporting my aim and potential finding but throughout the project plan I also find out barriers preventing my project plan are similar to other QI projects. Like how I mentioned previously is it appropriate to mention in detail in the discussion section?

Kind regards,

Paula

Hi Paula,

In the finding section, just briefly outline why you had no findings. If you want to discuss the barriers to why you had no findings in more detail you could do this in your reflection section. However, remember you have only limited words so you don't have to discuss everything.

If you think that you were not going to yield positive results due to barriers, and that these are similar to the findings of other studies, you can discuss this in your discussion.

Mark

You don't have to incorporate information from assessment three, but you can if you want to. In the last part of the assessment, you must write in the first person as it is a reflective piece of writing.

Mark

Hi Mark,

I would like to clarify a couple of points regarding Assessment 4:

• Should we incorporate the feedback provided in Assessment 3, make necessary changes, and implement them in assessment 4?

• Does this assessment need to be written in the first person (using "I")?

  Thanks - Rajita

Do we need to provide evidence of our findings? If so, could you please advise on how to present this evidence?

Thanks.

No, with findings, you don't need to back them up with evidence. You can just report what you found.

Yes, you can, and you should use previous literature from assessment 3. Using the same literature from another assessment is not considered plagiarism.

Kind regards,

Mark

Hey Mark,

I have a question regarding providing literature sources for the discussion section. My project has limited literature on the topic...are we able to re use a scholarly article that has already been used in our previous assessment?

I know this could come as a form of plagiarism but thought to ask.

Kind regards,

Dessire