Review an organizational policy that supports or needs to be revised based on their practice improvement project. 

Seek out county, state, or federal regulations and laws that influence or require the selected policy. 

• Analyze the organizational policy, governmental regulations and laws, and the evidence from current literature supporting your proposed change.

Identify the strengths and gaps in this organizational policy. 

• What areas of the policy need to change?

What are the benefits of the change?

• What are the risks if there is no change?

How would you advocate for this change?

• Use APA format with a cover page, reference page, and appendix when appropriate. 

All students are expected to utilize evidence-based, peer-reviewed journals and current textbooks for the learning activities within this course.  Only selected websites will be accepted as an evidence source.  Students may not use Wikipedia or nursing.theory.org/ for reference or citations.  Please contact faculty if you are having difficulty finding appropriate resources.

Sample of Format

• Title Page
• Title of Paper [on first page of paper]
• Introduction to Paper
• Review of Organizational Policy [heading]
• Overview of policy

County, State, and/or Federal laws/regulations that may influence or mandate need for organizational policy

Review of policy that supports or needs revision in context of county, state, and/or federal laws

Analysis [heading]

Identify strengths and gaps in organizational policy

Identify any needed areas of policy change to support practice change proposed

Discuss risks and benefits of policy change

Advocating for change [heading]

Briefly identify how to advocate for policy change within one’s clinical organization

Outline steps to make policy change happen, including people and committees involved.

Conclusion to Paper

My paper will focus on the central line maintenance policy. The attached file is the policy from a hospital and the policy does not incorporate ‘disinfection caps’ or ‘antiseptic impregnated caps’. However, CDC and AHRQ (clabsitoolsap3) guidelines recommended using disinfection caps. So this paper is to compare the hospital policy with state/federal guidelines and be able to make the change. The change will be to incorporate disinfection caps in the care bundle of central lines. Please use at least 5 nursing journal articles for this paper. Please let me know if you need anything else.