Evaluating Effectiveness of Using Pharmacological Measures in Reducing Anxiety
Hi Team, Could you pls work with below assignment. I am a nurse . My My Subject for Research: Anxiety of preoperative Cardiac surgery Patients. FYI - PICOT question In adult patients age above 50 (P) in inpatient settings, using pharmacological (I) or non pharmacological measures (C), more effective in reducing anxiety (O) prier to cardiac surgery? (T) Assignment Details Using 550-850 words, discuss methods to evaluate the effectiveness of your proposed solution and variables to be assessed when evaluating project outcomes. Example: If you are proposing a new staffing matrix that is intended to reduce nurse turnover, improve nursing staff satisfaction, and positively impact overall delivery of care, you may decide the following methods and variables are necessary to evaluate the effectiveness of your proposed solution: Methods: 1. Survey of staff attitudes and contributors to job satisfaction and dissatisfaction before and after initiating change. 2. Obtain turnover rates before and after initiating change. 3. Compare patient discharge surveys before change and after initiation of change. Variables: 1. Staff attitudes and perceptions. 2. Patient attitudes and perceptions. 3. Rate of nursing staff turnover. Develop the tools necessary to educate project participants and to evaluate project outcomes (surveys, questionnaires, teaching materials, PowerPoint slides, etc.). Refer to the "Topic 4: Checklist." Prepare this assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide. An abstract is not required.
My Subject for Research: Anxiety of preoperative Cardiac surgery Patients
YI - PICOT question
In adult patients age above 50 (P) in inpatient settings, using pharmacological (I) or non pharmacological measures (C), more effective in reducing anxiety (O) prier to cardiac surgery? (T)
Assignment: Developing an Evaluation Plan
Details:
Using 550-850 words, discuss methods to evaluate the effectiveness of your proposed solution and variables to be assessed when evaluating project outcomes.
Example: If you are proposing a new staffing matrix that is intended to reduce nurse turnover, improve nursing staff satisfaction, and positively impact overall delivery of care, you may decide the following methods and variables are necessary to evaluate the effectiveness of your proposed solution
Methods:
- Survey of staff attitudes and contributors to job satisfaction and dissatisfaction before and after initiating change.
- Obtain turnover rates before and after initiating change.
- Compare patient discharge surveys before change and after initiation of change.
Variables
- Staff attitudes and perceptions.
- Patient attitudes and perceptions.
- Rate of nursing staff turnover.
Develop the tools necessary to educate project participants and to evaluate project outcomes (surveys, questionnaires, teaching materials, PowerPoint slides, etc.).
Refer to the "Topic 4: Checklist."
Prepare this assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide. An abstract is not required.
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Developing an evaluation plan
In this research project, the PICO question is: in adult patients aged 50 years and above (P), is the use of nonpharmacological measures (I) more effective than pharmacological measures (C) in reducing anxiety (O) prior to cardiac surgery? The proposed solution is the use of nonpharmacological measures such as preoperative education and music therapy prior to cardiac surgery to reduce their levels of anxiety and fear.
Methods for evaluating the effectiveness of proposed solution
To assess the effectiveness of the proposed solution, preoperative educational programs and music interventions would be provided to patients aged 50 years or older who are scheduled to undergo coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery in order to reduce their emotional stress and anxiety. During the waiting period of heart surgery, patients would be given education comprising information that the patients have to know. Music intervention would be provided to create a comforting, calm atmosphere that is geared toward decreasing levels of anxiety in pre-operative patients (Goodman, 2009). The patients would be closely monitored before they undergo cardiac surgery to determine their levels of anxiety. If their levels of anxiety would have decreased after the educational and music interventions have been applied, then the proposed solution would be considered as being effective in the reduction of anxiety levels in pre-operative patients. However, if the anxiety levels are still high, then the proposed solution would not be considered as being effective (Boni, Martinez& Saccomann, 2013).
Variables to be assessed when evaluating project outcomes
Staff perceptions and attitudes: the attitudes and perceptions of workers are of major importance given that the success of the proposed solution vastly relies on the way the organization’s employees would consider it. This basically means that if the staffs in the healthcare facility have positive attitudes and perceptions towards it, then it would be successful. Conversely, if they have negative perceptions and attitudes towards the proposed change, then it would most likely not be successful since the employees would not be agreeable and receptive of it and they will tend to resist it and its execution.
Attitudes and perceptions of patients toward the proposed solution:in essence, the proposed solution would be provided t...