Your application of the PICOT approach to developing your problem statement and the research that you conducted and synthesized in your literature review are the foundation and framework that you will need to successful

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12 Nov 2026 • 9 min read

Develop a 4–6 page holistic intervention plan design to improve the quality of outcomes for your target population and setting. You will also be required to submit your completed practicum hours using Capella Academic Portal.

Introduction

Note: Each assessment in this course builds on the work you completed in the previous assessment. Therefore, you must complete the assessments in this course in the order in which they are presented.

Your application of the PICOT approach to developing your problem statement and the research that you conducted and synthesized in your literature review are the foundation and framework that you will need to successfully build your intervention plan. This plan will lay out specific components of the intervention you are planning to address the need you have identified for the target population and setting. You will justify your approach to the intervention plan by integrating appropriate theoretical foundations. You will also analyze and address the needs of stakeholders, requirements of regulatory bodies, and ethical and legal considerations. It is important to have a sound intervention plan design in place before trying to work on the details of implementation and evaluation.

Preparations

As you prepare to complete this assessment, you may want to think about other related issues to deepen your understanding or broaden your viewpoint. You are encouraged to consider the questions below and discuss them with a fellow learner, a work associate, an interested friend, or a member of your professional community. Note that these questions are for your own development and exploration and do not need to be completed or submitted as part of your assessment.
- What theoretical nursing models, strategies from other disciplines, and health care technologies could help support or justify your approach to the intervention plan?
- What evidence from the literature or best practice supports the intervention plan components you identified?
- What, if any, potential is there for technology to help in the development or implementation of the intervention plan components?
- What is the impact of stakeholders, health care policy, or regulations?
- Are there any ethical or legal considerations related to the development or implementation of the intervention plan components that need to be kept in mind? If so, what are they?

Context

Instructions

Note: The assessments in this course are sequenced in such a way as to help you build specific skills that you will use throughout your program. Complete the assessments in the order in which they are presented.

Your intervention plan design will be the second section of your final project submission. The goal for this is to design a holistic plan that should be able to improve the quality of outcomes for your target population and setting. Provide enough detail so that the faculty member assessing your intervention plan design will be able to provide substantive feedback that you will be able to incorporate into the other project components in this course, as well as into the final draft of your project.

At minimum, be sure to address the bullet points below, as they correspond to the grading criteria. You may also want to read the rubric and Guiding Questions for Assessment 3: Intervention Plan Design [PDF] to better understand how each criterion will be assessed. In addition to the bullet points below, provide a brief introduction that refreshes the reader's memory about your problem statement and the setting and context for this intervention plan.

Reminder: these instructions are an outline. Your heading for this section should be Intervention Plan Components and not Part 1: Intervention Plan Components.

Part 1: Intervention Plan Components

Define the major components of an intervention plan for a health promotion, quality improvement, prevention, education, or management need.
Explain the impact of cultural needs and characteristics of a target population and setting on the development of intervention plan components.

Part 2: Theoretical Foundations

Evaluate theoretical nursing models, strategies from other disciplines, and health care technologies relevant to an intervention plan.
Justify the major components of an intervention by referencing relevant and contemporary evidence from the literature and best practices.

Part 3: Stakeholders, Policy, and Regulations

Analyze the impact of stakeholder needs, health care policy, regulations, and governing bodies relevant to health care practice and specific components of an intervention plan.

Part 4: Ethical and Legal Implications

Analyze relevant ethical and legal issues related to health care practice, organizational change, and specific components of an intervention plan.

Address Generally Throughout

Communicate your intervention plan in a professional way that helps the audience to understand the proposed intervention.

Additional Requirements

Length of submission: 4–6 double-spaced pages.
Number of resources: 5–10 resources. (You may use resources previously cited in your literature review to contribute to this number. Your final project will require 12–18 unique resources.)
Written communication: Written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message.
APA formatting: Resources and citations are formatted according to current APA style. Header formatting follows current APA levels. Refer to the APA Paper Tutorial if you need additional guidance.
Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.

Competencies Measured

By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:

Competency 1: Lead organizational change to improve the experience of care, population health, and professional work life while decreasing the cost of care.
- Analyze relevant ethical and legal issues related to health care practice, organizational change, and specific components of an intervention plan.
- Demonstrate completion of hours toward the practicum experience.
Competency 2: Evaluate and apply the best available evidence for use in clinical and organizational decision making.
- Justify the major components of an intervention by referencing relevant and contemporary evidence from the literature and best practices.
Competency 4: Design person centered and population centered care to improve health outcomes and advance health equity.
- Define the major components of an intervention plan for a health promotion, quality improvement, prevention, education, or management need.
- Explain the impact of cultural needs and characteristics of a target population and setting on the development of intervention plan components.
Competency 6: Integrate knowledge of existing and emerging information, communication, and healthcare technologies to improve safety and quality, and decrease the cost of care.
- Evaluate theoretical nursing models, strategies from other disciplines, and health care technologies relevant to an intervention plan.
Competency 7: Evaluate how health policy, advocacy, legal standards, and ethical practice advance the nursing profession.
- Analyze the impact of stakeholder needs, health care policy, legal standards, and ethical practices relevant to health care practice and specific components of an intervention plan.
Competency 8: Communicate effectively, in an appropriate form and style, consistent with organizational, professional, and scholarly standards.
- Communicate intervention plan in a professional way that helps the audience to understand the proposed intervention and the implications of the plan that must be taken into account.
- Correctly format the assessment, citations, and references using APA style.

Scoring Guide

Use the scoring guide to understand how your assessment will be evaluated.

Criterion 1

Define the major components of an intervention plan for a health promotion, quality improvement, prevention, education, or management need.

Distinguished

Defines the major components of an intervention plan for a health promotion, quality improvement, prevention, education, or management need, and suggests criteria that could be used to evaluate the success of such a plan.

Proficient

Defines the major components of an intervention plan for a health promotion, quality improvement, prevention, education, or management need.

Basic

Attempts to define the major components of an intervention plan for a health promotion, quality improvement, prevention, education, or management need, but fails to clarify how components will lead to improvements or why they are the best option to address the need.

Non Performance

Does not define the major components of an intervention plan for a health promotion, quality improvement, prevention, education, or management need.

Criterion 2

Explain the impact of cultural needs and characteristics of a target population and setting on the development of intervention plan components.

Distinguished

Explains the impact of cultural needs and characteristics of a target population and setting on the development of intervention plan components, and identifies assumptions on which the explanation is based.

Proficient

Explains the impact of cultural needs and characteristics of a target population and setting on the development of intervention plan components.

Basic

Partially explains the impact of cultural needs and characteristics of a target population and setting, but omits some aspects or fails to make a logical connection to show how the cultural needs and characteristics will impact the development of intervention plan components.

Non Performance

Does not explain the impact of cultural needs and characteristics of a target population and setting on the development of intervention plan components.

Criterion 3

Evaluate theoretical nursing models, strategies from other disciplines, and health care technologies relevant to an intervention plan.

Distinguished

Evaluates, identifying both strengths and weaknesses of, theoretical nursing models, strategies from other disciplines, and health care technologies relevant to an intervention plan.

Proficient

Evaluates theoretical nursing models, strategies from other disciplines, and health care technologies relevant to an intervention plan.

Basic

Attempts to evaluate theoretical nursing models, strategies from other disciplines, and health care technologies, but fails to show their relevance to the intervention plan.

Non Performance

Does not evaluate theoretical nursing models, strategies from other disciplines, and health care technologies relevant to an intervention plan.

Criterion 4

Justify the major components of an intervention by referencing relevant and contemporary evidence from the literature and best practices.

Distinguished

Justifies the major components of an intervention by referencing relevant and contemporary evidence from the literature and best practices, and impartially considers conflicting data and other perspectives.

Proficient

Justifies the major components of an intervention by referencing relevant and contemporary evidence from the literature and best practices.

Basic

Attempts to justify the major components of an intervention, but cited references lack relevance to the proposed intervention or are insufficient to justify the plan.

Non Performance

Does not justify the major components of an intervention by referencing relevant and contemporary evidence from the literature and best practices.

Criterion 5

Analyze the impact of stakeholder needs, health care policy, legal standards, and ethical practices relevant to health care practice and specific components of an intervention plan.

Distinguished

Analyzes the impact of stakeholder needs, health care policy, legal standards, and ethical practices relevant to health care practice and specific components of an intervention plan, and identifies assumptions on which the analysis is based.

Proficient

Analyzes the impact of stakeholder needs, health care policy, legal standards, and ethical practices relevant to health care practice and specific components of an intervention plan.

Basic

Provides an incomplete or flawed analysis of how stakeholder needs, health care policy, legal standards, and ethical practices will affect the specific components of an intervention plan.

Non Performance

Does not analyze the impact of stakeholder needs, health care policy, legal standards, and ethical practices relevant to health care practice and specific components of an intervention plan.

Criterion 6

Analyze relevant ethical and legal issues related to health care practice, organizational change, and specific components of an intervention plan.

Distinguished

Analyzes relevant ethical and legal issues related to health care practice, organizational change, and specific components of an intervention plan; identifies knowledge gaps, unknowns, missing information, unanswered questions, or areas of uncertainty (where further information could improve the analysis).

Proficient

Analyzes relevant ethical and legal issues related to health care practice, organizational change, and specific components of an intervention plan.

Basic

Discusses ethical and legal issues, but fails to analyze their relationship to health care practice, organizational change, and specific components of an intervention plan.

Non Performance

Does not discuss relevant ethical and legal issues related to health care practice, organizational change, and specific components of an intervention plan.

Criterion 7

Communicate intervention plan in a professional way that helps the audience to understand the proposed intervention and the implications of the plan that must be taken into account.

Distinguished

Communicates intervention plan in a professional way that helps the audience to understand the proposed intervention and the implications of the plan that must be taken into account. Grammar, punctuation, spelling, and citations are error-free.

Proficient

Communicates intervention plan in a professional way that helps the audience to understand the proposed intervention and the implications of the plan that must be taken into account.

Basic

Inconsistently communicates intervention plan in a way that partially helps the audience to understand the proposed intervention and the implications of the plan that must be taken into account.

Non Performance

Does not communicate intervention plan in a professional way that helps the audience to understand the proposed intervention and the implications of the plan that must be taken into account.

Criterion 8

Correctly format the assessment, citations, and references using APA style. 

Distinguished

Correctly formats the assessment, citations, and references using APA style. Citations and references are free from all errors.

Proficient

Correctly formats the assessment, citations, and references using APA style. Citations and references contain few errors.

Basic

Formats the assessment, citations, and references using APA style, but with errors and inconsistencies.

Non Performance

Does not format the assessment, citations, and references using APA style.

Criterion 9

Demonstrate completion of hours toward the practicum experience.

Distinguished

Demonstrates completion of hours toward the practicum experience and provides a clear and concise description of the focus of the clinical hours and alignment to the capstone project.

Proficient

Demonstrates completion of hours toward the practicum experience.

Basic

Demonstrates completion of hours toward the practicum experience, but provides no details about activities completed during those hours.

Non Performance

Does not demonstrate completion of hours toward the practicum experience.

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