Topic 2: Making the Case for Evidence-Based Practice
Topic 2: Making the Case for Evidence-Based Practice
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Topic 2: Making the Case for Evidence-Based Practice
Description
Objectives:
Describe effective strategies to create an evidence-based practice culture within health care settings.
Assess stakeholders, team roles, and leadership skills needed to bring about change.
Create evidence-based practice objectives that are aligned to measurable outcomes.
Study Materials
Read Chapter 25 in Advanced Nursing Research: From Theory to Practice.
Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing and Healthcare
Description:
Read Chapter 3 in Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing and Healthcare.
Joanna Briggs Institute EBP Database
Description:
Use the Joanna Briggs Institute EBP Database to search for EBP resources related to your project.
Guide to Clinical Preventive Services
Description:
Read the Guide to Clinical Preventive Services located on the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality website.
Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine
Description:
Explore the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (CEBM) website.
National Guideline Clearinghouse
Description:
Explore the National Guideline Clearinghouse website.
The Cochrane Collaboration
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Explore The Cochrane Collaboration website.
Star Model Research
Description:
Explore the Star Model Research website.
Cochrane Library
Description:
Explore the Cochrane Library website.
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Tasks
Evidence-Based Practice Proposal – Section A: Organizational Culture and Readiness Assessment and Section B: Proposal/Problem Statement and Literature Review
Description:
In order to formulate your evidence-based practice (EBP), you need to assess your organization. In this assignment, you will be responsible for setting the stage for EBP. This assignment is conducted in two parts: an organizational cultural and readiness assessment and the proposal/problem statement and literature review, which you completed in NUR-550.
Section A: Organizational Culture and Readiness Assessment
It is essential to understand the culture of the organization in order to begin assessing its readiness for EBP implementation. Select an appropriate organizational culture survey tool and use this instrument to assess the organization’s readiness.
Develop an analysis of 250 words from the results of the survey, addressing your organization’s readiness level, possible project barriers and facilitators, and how to integrate clinical inquiry, providing strategies that strengthen the organization’s weaker areas.
Make sure to include the rationale for the survey category scores that were significantly high and low, incorporating details or examples. Explain how to integrate clinical inquiry into the organization.
Submit a summary of your results. The actual survey results do not need to be included.
Section B: Proposal/Problem Statement and Literature Review
In NUR-550, you developed a PICOT statement and literature review for a population quality initiative. In 500-750 words, include the following:
Refine your PICOT into a proposal or problem statement.
Provide a summary of the research you conducted to support your PICOT, including subjects, methods, key findings, and limitations.
General Guidelines:
You are required to cite three to five sources to complete this assignment. Sources must be published within the last 5 years and appropriate for the assignment criteria and nursing content.
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.
This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Please refer to the directions in the Student Success Center.
Note: After submitting the assignment, you will receive feedback from the instructor. Use this feedback to make revisions for your final paper submission. This will be a continuous process throughout the course for each section.
Topic 2 DQ 1
Description:
You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.
Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.
Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.
The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.
