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Advocacy:
- Analyze the nurse's role in leading change and driving improvements in the quality and experience of care
- Explain how the intervention plan affects nursing and interprofessional collaboration, and how the health care field gains from the plan
Future Steps:
- Explain how the current project could be improved upon to create a bigger impact in the target population as well as to take advantage of emerging technology and care models to improve outcomes and safety
Reflection on Leading Change and Improvement:
- Reflect on how the project has impacted your ability to lead change in personal practice and future leadership positions
- Reflect on the ways in which the completed intervention, implementation, and evaluation plans can be transferred into your personal practice to drive quality improvement in other contexts
Address Generally Throughout:
- Integrate resources from diverse sources that illustrate support for all aspects of the project as appropriate throughout the final submission
- Clearly, concisely, and cohesively articulate a health care need, population, setting, stakeholders, supporting evidence, intervention, and evaluation
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Capstone Evaluation Plan: Long-Acting Injectable Cabenuva for HIV Management
This evaluation plan is designed to determine the effects of long-acting injectable Cabenuva on the management of HIV in virally suppressed adults in a period of six months. It establishes objective results and uses a mixed-methods approach to assess the adherence, viral suppression, patient satisfaction, and healthcare utilization, which guarantees strong, evidence-based results.
Outcome Goals:
The intervention leverages Cabenuva to optimize HIV care. The primary outcome goals are:
1. Better Medication Adherence: The increase in adherence rate, which is the number of monthly injection appointments, by at least 20 percent relative to the baseline rate of oral antiretroviral therapy (ART) adherence, will ensure that treatment is consistent.
2. Sustained Viral Suppression: Achieve viral suppression (viral load <200 copies/mL) in 90 percent of participants at six months, relative to historical oral ART data, to delay disease progression.
3. Improved Patient Satisfaction: Achieve a 15 percent increase in validated survey satisfaction scores, indicating greater convenience and ease of treatment and less stigma, leading to long-term patient engagement.
4. Lower Healthcare Utilization: Reduce HIV-related emergency care or hospitalization by 10 percent to enhance affordable care and quality.
These outcomes advance health promotion, care quality, and resource efficiency for a vulnerable population.
Evaluation Plan
Data Collection Methods
The evaluation is based on a mixed-methods approach to evaluate the impact of the intervention. Quantitative ones involve monitoring the monthly attendance of injection appointments through electronic health records (EHRs), which will be compared to the baseline oral ART adherence (percentage of doses taken) (Slama et al., 2023). The viral load is measured at baseline, month 3, and month 6 using lab reports and compared with the data of oral ART clinics. EHRs track the number of emergency visits and hospitalizations related to HIV when compared to past records of oral ART. Patient satisfaction is measured using the Patient Satisfaction Questionnaire Short Form (PSQ-18) at baseline and month 6 (Marshall & Hays, 1994).
Qualitative measures involve semi-structured interviews with 12 participants at month 6 to explore treatment benefits, barriers, and stigma perceptions. Nurse focus groups at month 6 gather feedback on implementation challenges, such as training or workflow, and patient engagement, providing nuanced insights into operational feasibility.
Evaluation Tools:
The EHR system ensures secure, HIPAA-compliant tracking of adherence, viral load, and utilization data, facilitating real-time monitoring. The PSQ-18, a validated instrument, standardizes satisfaction assessment across care domains (Marshall & Hays, 1994). Interview guides, developed with nursing and psychology expertise, align with cultural considerations and intervention objectives to ensure relevant and sensitive data collection.
Timeline:
Evaluation activities are structured over six months. In month 1, baseline data (adherence, viral load, satisfaction) are collected, and staff are trained on protocols to ensure consistency. Months 2-5 involve monthly monitoring of adherence, viral load, and utilization. In month 6, final viral load tests, PSQ-18 surveys, patient interviews, and nurse focus groups are conducted, followed by data analysis. Post-month 6, findings are disseminated to stakeholders to inform future scaling and policy decisions.
Stakeholder Responsibilities:
Stakeholders play critical roles in the evaluation. Patients provide survey and interview data to shape outcomes. Nurses collect clinical metrics and offer implementation feedback.
Administrators oversee EHR data extraction and resource allocation. Payers evaluate cost-effectiveness to guide coverage decisions, ensuring the intervention's sustainability.
Analysis:
Quantitative data are analyzed using SPSS, with t-tests (p < 0.05) to compare outcomes between Cabenuva and oral ART groups. Qualitative data undergo thematic analysis to identify themes, such as stigma reduction, triangulated with quantitative results for validity. Outcomes are benchmarked against HRSA standards to contextualize success (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2025). Bias is mitigated by blinding analysts to patient identities and using multiple coders for qualitative reliability.
References:
Marshall, G. N., & Hays, R. D. (1994). The Patient Satisfaction Questionnaire Short Form (PSQ-18). RAND Corporation.
Slama, L., Porcher, R., Linard, F., Chakvetadze, C., Cros, A., Carillon, S., ... & Molina, J. M. (2023). Injectable long acting antiretroviral for HIV treatment and prevention: perspectives of potential users. BMC Infectious Diseases, 23(1), 98.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (2025). Health Resources and Services Administration: HIV/AIDS Bureau.