NUR 590 Week 7 Assignment  Benchmark – Evidence-Based Practice Proposal Final Paper Throughout this course, you have developed a formal, evidence-based practice proposal.

NUR 590 Week 7 Assignment  Benchmark – Evidence-Based Practice Proposal Final Paper Throughout this course, you have developed a formal, evidence-based practice proposal.

Setting and Access to Potential Subjects

The proposed solution entails the provision of health education to African American women with osteoporosis on the importance of dietary supplementation of calcium and vitamin D. The aim of providing health education on calcium and vitamin D supplementation is to reduce the predisposition of African American women with osteoporosis to fractures. The project will be undertaken in our hospital. The specific department where it will be undertaken is the emergency department. African American women who come to the emergency department for medical assistance due to osteoporosis will participate in the project. The emergency department is the most appropriate due to the high number of patients that are seen due to different health problems. The potential clients for the project will be approached and informed about the project. They will be informed about the benefits and the role that they will play in the project. Informed consent will be obtained from the participants that express their interest in the project. Informed consent will be used to show that the participants understand the aims, benefits, risks, and their roles in the project (Perrin, 2020). Approval for undertaking the project will be sought from the quality assurance department of the hospital prior to project initiation process.

Time Needed

The proposed project seeks to promote lifestyle and behavioral changes among African American women with osteoporosis. As a result, adequate time is needed to achieve the desired lifestyle and behavioral change and determine the impact of the interventions that will be used in the project. The proposed time for undertaking the project is 12 months. It is anticipated that this period will be enough to determine the effect of project interventions. The period will also enable the incorporation of additional interventions to improve the outcomes of the project. Therefore, it is expected that the effectiveness of calcium and vitamin D dietary supplementation will have been determined by the end of 12 months (O’Gorman, 2020).

Resources

The successful implementation of the project will require the adequate and effective use of resources. Human and financial resources will be required for the implementation of the project. The human resources that will be needed will include trained nursing staffs, data analyst, data, data collectors, and physicians. Trained registered nurses will be involved in the provision of health education to African American women with osteoporosis. The nurses will also play the role of following-up the participants and obtaining the data that will be needed for the project. A data analyst with be hired to analyze the data and making meaning of it. Physicians will assist in the identification of the potential participants for the project. Financial resources will also be needed for the successful implementation of the project (Nations, 2021). The finances will be used for training, hiring experts, purchasing training materials, and undertaking other tasks such as follow-up of the participants. The finances will also be used for purchasing printing materials and educational booklets for the participants. The last resource is time. Registered nurses, physicians, and data analyst will have to spend their time in engaging in project activities for its successful implementation.

Methods and Instruments

Questionnaires will be used to collect the data needed for undertaking this project. Questionnaires will be administered before and at the end of the project. The questionnaires will obtain information such as demographic data of the participants, their level of awareness and practices related to management of osteoporosis, and health risks related to osteoporosis such as history of fractures. The baseline data obtained from the questionnaires will be compared with the data obtained at the end of the project to determine whether dietary supplementation of calcium and vitamin D was effective in reducing the risk of fractures among the participants. Questionnaires are effective for the project because of their ease of administration. Little time will be used in the acquisition of data needed for the project. Questionnaires will also enable the acquisition of extensive project data (Rowe, 2020). The extensiveness of the data will increase the understanding of the effectiveness of the project in nursing practice.

Process for Delivering the Intervention

As noted above, the participants for the project will be obtained from the emergency department of our hospital. Nurses will work in collaboration with the physicians in identifying potential participants for the project. African American women with osteoporosis will be approached and informed about the project. They will be informed