Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA)
The change project will comply with the Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycle model. These steps require nurses to plan their change, implement it, assess its impact, and sustain it. The implementation schedule will take nine weeks, which should involve educating diabetic patients using the DSMES program before the evaluation in the last week. The change process has four milestones, and the educational intervention has ten milestones. The change process milestones will be achieved systematically, beginning with the planning stage to the action stage. According to Coury et al. (2017), the planning stage usually involves preparing for change by having necessary stakeholders, creating the project’s aim, and having the needed resources. Therefore, all the stakeholders and resources, such as nurses, diabetic patients, and educational materials, including the objectives to be addressed, should be drafted before proceeding to the implementation stage. The implementation stage should be feasible if the resources in the planning stage are availed. The analysis is always done based on the results of the actions (Coury et al., 2017). Thus, it can be convenient if the ‘Do’ stage is well done. Finally, an action is taken based on the outcomes of the study stage (Coury et al., 2017). In this case, it will be done when the action stage is complete. As for the implementation, preparatory analysis of the DSMES topics before each week can facilitate the completion of the educational intervention. Overall, the change process and implementation milestones can only be achieved well when adequate preparation is done during the planning stage, including ensuring that patients, nurses, and educational materials are available before the project.
