Project design the selected design in this project

Project Design
The selected design in this project was the pre-test and post-test design. The
pretest/posttest design was selected as it encouraged measuring of a variable before and after
intervention (Thyer, 2012). Further, the design was used to determine the causal relationship
between the dependent and the independent variables. The pretest/posttest design was applicable
in contexts dealing with behavioral projects. The pre-posttest design facilitated the data
collection process in which data was collected before the intervention and after the intervention

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of CDC Antimicrobial Stewardship Education Program. The pre-intervention period was done on
the day of the educational session while the post intervention period was in two weeks after the
implementation of CDC Antimicrobial Stewardship Educational Program. The independent
variable was the CDC Antimicrobial Stewardship Education Program while the dependent
variable was the antibiotic prescription knowledge and practices for treating UTIs.
Population and Sample Selection
The population of the project consisted of 10 providers who participated in the CDC
antimicrobial stewardship educational session provided in one long-term care facility located in
Florida. The project population included all the providers with the responsibility of antibiotic
prescription for treating UTI. Convenient sampling was used to select the sample of the project.
The convenience sampling method was appropriate in selecting the sample since it required
members of the target population to meet certain criteria such as easy accessibility, willingness to
participate, geographical proximity and available at a given time (Etikan, Musa & Alkassim,
2016). The project record size included at least ten participants that practice in the long-term care
settings in Florida calculated using power analysis. According to Singh and Masuku (2014),
Cohen’s d of 0.8 and a power of 0.8 yields a record of 20 participants. A power of 0.8 is mostly
used in experimental studies (Singh & Masuku, 2014).
Participants will be invited to participate in the project through emails and face to face
recruitment in the long-term care center. The emails informed the potential participants about the
project purpose, inclusion criteria, and the principal investigator’s contact information. No
written informed consent forms were distributed to the participants in the project because a
doctoral project improvement does not require informed consent. Furthermore, the skilled
nursing facility did not require the participants to sign a written informed consent because the

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providers are not patients under their care and no patient charts will be accessed. The
confidentiality of the participants will be maintained and personal information will not be
collected.