A Plan for Creating an Innovative Culture in Support of Evidence-Based Project Implementation

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Doctor of Nursing Practice
As a nurse with Doctor of Nursing Practice, education plays a major role in all the operations and the interventions that are incorporated in the practices. This is relative to the fact that, the professional background of a DNP leader is also based on education, with close reference to evidence based practices, improvements on the quality of care and boosting the leadership systems (Gallagher-Ford, Fineout-Overholt, Melnyk, & Stillwell, 2011). On a daily basis a leader in nursing is faced with quite a number of decisions that they have to make with reference to the profession, patients, coworkers and even the community among others. A DNP leader can concentrate on a number of aspects to make sure that they are streamlined, relative to the emergence of new information and therefore new practices that are based on improved theories. All of which have to be implemented in actions. To better elaborate on the best practices that a DNP leader can implement, this paper evaluates how one can bring about innovative cultural change in support of evidence based practices at the hospital. Evidence based practices in nursing are gaining popularity, especially considering the fact that they lead to better patient outcomes. One of the health problems that needs to be addressed using this approach is related to pica self-injurious behavior ("Mental Health and Pica", 2016). Children that develop this behavior are likely to cause injury to their digestive systems, furthermore the objects that are ingested do not have any nutritional value. It is common for children to try and get objects into their mouths; however, there is a limit to which this habit develops into a health problem as the children become obsessive in their attempts to swallow objects that they come across. Using education and evidence based nursing practices, it is possible to improve the level of care that is extended to such patients. This will better offer quality health care outcomes, compared to the traditional and standard approach.
Pica behavior in children
It is crucial to understand the basics of the Pica condition that can be quite dangerous if left unattended. Pica is an eating disorder that shows some aspect of persistence in trying to ingest objects that do not have any nutritive substance for at least one month at an age when this behavior would be considered to be developmentally inappropriate. While in some of the cases, it may be considered to be benign, in some of the cases, it is likely to have some fatal consequences if it is not treated. The clinical presentations of the condition are highly varied and they tend to be associated with specific nature of the medical condition that results as well as the object that has been ingested by the patient. It is the variability that comes with the objects that has been ingested that creates some level of difficulty when dealing with such cases ("Mental Health and Pica", 2016). There are some physical manifestations that may give away the main cause of the complication such as manifestations of the toxins ingested, manifestation of parasitic or infectious that the patient is showing, GI manifestations or even the de...