Maintaining a successful project must be objective-driven. Reasons for this allegation are that the solution may be fit enough, calling for its extension to probe further into its applicability to the current research and further generalizations. In the first place, the nurses are the subject matter, in that they lack knowledge and skills to deal with mental patients. Since the study targets them, the plan will be to create an incentive system through rewards so that they positively take up the assessment tests during the research. The method of doing this will be to turn the assessment tests into an academic meriting tool that will enable health care centers for mental patients to acquire certificates that can boost their job grading, hence promotions. Secondly, the period of extension shall be designed such that it covers a national expansion of the Health Care Institutions for mental patients (Mangen, & Peterson, 1983). Thirdly, the number of instructors shall be increased to cater to the increase in the number of nurses under the comprehensive education program.
Besides, a review of researchers will be done so that they are contacted to add to the new knowledge in the successful solution to have a joint validation of the solution. The validation will target the adoption of this solution annually so that nurses are retrained to improve their care administration to the mental patients, through a change of attitude towards mental patients. Lastly, emphasis will be put on the cultural effects of nursing care for mental patients during the entire extension period. This will be done through the introduction of nurses from different cultural backgrounds to help establish the solid impacts of culture on the nursing care of the patients (Galanti, 2008).
Maintaining this successful solution will also involve approaching Nursing colleges to implement thorough training of undergraduate nurses under an education program that will be based on recommendations from this research.
There are several stakeholders to the comprehensive education program: nurses, insubordinate personnel, and diversity of instructors. In the first place, the project will only roll into action following the satisfaction of minimum numbers of participants: nurses, instructors, and insubordinate personnel. The lack of reaching the minimum number of this mentioned criterion poses a threat to the external validity of the research. The idea behind the minimum numbers shall be undertaken as an initial step in the planning stage so that achievable minimum requirements are set. Choice of health institutions where the research will be undertaken will be driven by the selective identification of mental health care institutions that receive a relatively high figure of mental patients annually. Such information can be availed by the institutions of our interest from their medical records covering at most three years back.
During the implementation of the comprehensive education program, a special monitoring team will be formed and charged with keen observation of the progress of the program. They will be required to report their findings after every two days. Analysis of the findings will warrant termination or revision of the solution to the project. Lastly, any signs of failure of the project solution will be an incentive to cut the cost of resources necessary for the implementation of the comprehensive education program. In case of termination of the program, comprehensive education material will be supplied to the nurses, addressing requirements necessary for caring for mental patients. The administration of the chosen institutions will be encouraged to make a follow-up after the termination so that patients continue to enjoy the intended care even after the termination.
This is aimed at bridging the knowledge gap between mental patients and their caretaker; the nurses. The comprehensive education program is aimed at establishing a solution leading to the improved care of mentally ill patients. During the work setting, over the entire period of the project, feedback will be communicated through the involvement of the insubordinate personnel tending patients. They will be required to monitor the activities of the nurses with the mental patients and report the level of care to the researchers (Secker, Pidd, & Parham, 1999). Secondly, the attendance response of the nurses to the comprehensive education program directly relates to the success of the program. This feedback will be provided by the monitoring team on a two-day basis. Thirdly, incidences of associated complications due to lack of timely diagnosis for patients will be monitored during the entire work setting and inference entered according to the findings.
Communicating the project and results to the external professionals will be target critics of the project and its findings. External professionals will target health care experts and past researchers in the same field. Completed project procedures and results will be supplied to professionals and experts by inviting them to conferences after the end of the research. The intention is to have an in-person communication by a presentation employing PowerPoint projection of the slides. Their critique will be welcome to enhance the external validity of the project (Meyers, et al. 2006).
References
Galanti, G. (2008). Caring For Patients from Different Cultures. Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Mangen, D.J. & Peterson, A.W. (1983). Health program Evaluation and Demography. Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press.
Meyers, J.L. et al. (2006). Applied multivariate research: design and interpretation. California: Tousand Oaks.
Secker, J., Pidd, F. and Parham, A. (1999), Mental health training needs of primary health care nurses. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 8: 643–652.