Covid-19 pandemic impacted peoples’ lives negatively, it led to millions of deaths, harmed people’s health and negatively impacted people financially. As such, the Covid-19 vaccines were made in record time in a bid to control the pandemic and bring life back to normal (Santos et al.,2021). Even though the vaccines have played a big role in reducing the impacts of the pandemic, there is still a need to ensure that people take the vaccine to prevent further infections. As such, it is important to use strategies that can be used to improve people’s willingness to take the vaccine. Therefore, the purpose of this project is to use health education to increase the willingness to those at risk of Covid-19 virus to take the vaccine.
PICOT statement: Among the general population and individuals at risk of covid-19, will the use of health education about covid-19 vaccination plans, as compared to no intervention, lead to a 50% increased willingness to take covid-19 vaccine within six months?
The implementation of an evidence-based practice project requires the readiness of the targeted organization in terms of its leadership and culture. Therefore, it is important to assess the readiness of the organization as well as its culture. Fortunately, there are various tools which can be used to accomplish such assessment and reflect the real picture of the organization in terms of its culture and readiness. This assessment also helps in finding out if the proposed change aligns with the organization’s vision, values and mission (Ost et al.,2020). From the assessment, the leaders are ready to support EBP initiatives to participate in improving population health in line with their mission. The organization also targets a magnet status in the future, hence support initiatives that would bring quality to the organization. The organization also supports interprofessional teams which key to effective EBP implementation.
The organizational culture and readiness for the System-Wide Integration of the EBP survey tool was used in the assessment of the organizational culture and readiness (Patton et al.,2022). This tool have been proven to be effective in the assessment of organization culture and readiness. As such, the tool also helped in determining the organization’s ability to support and promote EBP and understand the staff and leaders readiness when it comes to the implementation of EBP. The survey results showed that up to 90% of the staff would support the EBP initiative. This implies that majority of the employees are ready for the proposed change and would positively contribute to it. In addition, up to 80% of the leaders showed an intention of supporting the EBP initiative, which is a majority. Therefore, the organization can be considered ready for the EBP project.
The Covid-19 vaccines were developed in a record time to help reduce the rates of infection and help people return to normal life. Therefore, researchers made big strides and delivered the vaccines in a record time. Since the millions of people have received the vaccine which has helped in slowing the rates of infections and reinfections. However, millions of people are still skeptical of the vaccines and have failed to take the vaccine so far (Motta et al.,2021). Therefore, there is a need to use effective strategies such as health education that can be used to encourage individuals to take the vaccine.
A literature review was performed to explore articles which support the implementation of the proposed EBP project. Motta et al.(2021) performed a study to determine the impact of educational messages in improving individuals’ willingness to take the Covid-19 vaccine. The researchers found that the pro-vaccine health messages substantially improved the individuals’ willingness to take the vaccine. Another study was conducted by James et al. (2021). This study was conducted with the major aim of determining if the use of persuasive messages as an education strategy can impact Covid-19 vaccine uptake. The researchers noted that the use of persuasive messaging led to an increased willingness to take vaccines, influence others to do so, and become less judgmental about those who have taken the vaccine. Jensen et al. (2022) explored the use of health education delivered through video-based messages. Therefore, the p
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