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Week 1 Discussion
Where in the World Is
Evidence-Based Practice?
March 21, 2010, was not EBP’s date of birth, but it may be the date the approach “grew up” and left
home to take on the world.
When the Affordable Care Act was passed, it came with a requirement of empirical evidence. Research
on EBP increased significantly. Application of EBP spread to allied health
professions, education, healthcare technology, and more. Health organizations
began to adopt and promote EBP.
In this Discussion, you will consider this adoption. You will examine healthcare organization
websites and analyze to what extent these organizations use EBP.
To Prepare:
Review the Resources and reflect on the definition and goal of EBP.
Choose a professional healthcare organization’s website (e.g., a reimbursing body, an accredited
body, or a national initiative).
Explore the website to determine where and to what extent EBP is evident.
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Week 4 Discussion
Searching Databases
When you decide to purchase a new car, you first decide what is important to you. If mileage and
dependability are the important factors, you will search for data focused more
on these factors and less on color options and sound systems. NURS5052 Full Course Latest
The same holds true when searching for research evidence to guide your clinical inquiry and
professional decisions. Developing a formula for an answerable, researchable
question that addresses your need will make the search process much more
effective. One such formula is the PICO(T) format.
In this Discussion, you will transform a clinical inquiry into a searchable question in PICO(T)
format, so you can search the electronic databases more effectively and
efficiently. You will share this PICO(T) question and examine strategies you
might use to increase the rigor and effectiveness of a database search on your
PICO(T) question.
To Prepare:
Review the materials offering guidance on using databases, performing keyword searches, and
developing PICO(T) questions provided in the Resources.
Review the Resources for guidance and develop a PICO(T) question of interest to you for further
study.
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Week 8 Discussion
Patient Preferences and Decision Making
Changes in culture and technology have resulted in patient populations that are often well informed
and educated, even before consulting or considering a healthcare need delivered
by a health professional. Fueled by this, health professionals are increasingly
involving patients in treatment decisions. However, this often comes with
challenges, as illnesses and treatments can become complex.
What has your experience been with patient involvement in treatment or healthcare decisions?
In this Discussion, you will share your experiences and consider the impact of patient involvement (or
lack of involvement). You will also consider the use of a patient decision aid
to inform best practices for patient care and healthcare decision making.
To Prepare:
Review the Resources and reflect on a time when you experienced a patient being brought into (or not
being brought into) a decision regarding their treatment plan.
Review the Ottawa
Hospital Research Institute’s Decision Aids Inventory at
https://decisionaid.ohri.ca/.
Choose “For Specific
Conditions,” then Browse an alphabetical listing of decision aids by health
topic.
NOTE: To ensure
compliance with HIPAA rules, please DO NOT use the patient’s real name or any
information that might identify the patient or organization/practice.
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Week 10 Discussion
Developing a Culture of Evidence-Based Practice
As your EBP skills grow, you may be called upon to share your expertise with others. While EBP
practice is often conducted with unique outcomes in mind, EBP practitioners who
share their results can both add to the general body of knowledge and serve as
an advocate for the application of EBP.
In this Discussion, you will explore strategies for disseminating EBP within your organization,
community, or industry.
To Prepare:
Review the Resources and reflect on the various strategies presented throughout the course that may
be helpful in disseminating effective and widely cited EBP.
This may include: unit-level or organizational-level presentations, poster presentations, and
podium presentations at organizational, local, regional, state, and national
levels, as well as publication in peer-reviewed journals.
Reflect on which type of dissemination strategy you might use to communicate EBP.
NURS6052/NURS5052/NRSE6052 Essent of Evidence
Week 1 Assignment
Evidence-Based
Practice and the Quadruple Aim
Healthcare organizations continually seek to optimize healthcare performance. For years,
this approach was a three-pronged one known as the Triple Aim, with efforts
focused on improved population health, enhanced patient experience, and lower
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More recently, this approach has evolved to a Quadruple Aim by including a focus on improving the
work life of healthcare providers. Each of these measures are impacted by
decisions made at the organizational level, and organizations have increasingly
turned to EBP to inform and justify these decisions.
To Prepare:
Read the articles by
Sikka, Morath, &Leape (2015); Crabtree, Brennan, Davis, & Coyle (2016);
and Kim et al. (2016) provided in the Resources.
Reflect on how EBP might impact (or not impact) the Quadruple Aim in healthcare.
Consider the impact that EBP may have on factors impacting these quadruple aim elements, such as
preventable medical errors or healthcare delivery.
To Complete:
Write a brief analysis (no longer than 2 pages) of the connection between EBP and the Quadruple Aim.
Your analysis should address how EBP might (or might not) help reach the Quadruple Aim, including
each of the four measures of: Patient experience Population health Costs
Work life of healthcare providers
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Week 2 & 3Assignment
Evidence-Based Project
Is there a difference between “common practice” and “best practice”?
When you first went to work for your current organization, experienced colleagues may have shared with
you details about processes and procedures. Perhaps you even attended an
orientation session to brief you on these matters. As a “rookie,” you likely
kept the nature of your questions to those with answers that would best help
you perform your new role.
Over time and with experience, perhaps you recognized aspects of these processes and procedures
that you wanted to question further. This is the realm of clinical inquiry.
Clinical inquiry is the practice of asking questions about clinical practice. To continuously
improve patient care, all nurses should consistently use clinical inquiry to
question why they are doing something the way they are doing it. Do they know
why it is done this way, or is it just because we have always done it this way?
Is it a common practice or a best practice?
In this Assignment, you will identify clinical areas of interest and inquiry and practice searching
for research in support of maintaining or changing these practices. You will
also analyze this research to compare research methodologies employed.
To Prepare:
Review the Resources
and identify a clinical issue of interest that can form the basis of a clinical
inquiry.
Based on the clinical issue of interest and using keywords related to the clinical issue of interest,
search at least four different databases in the Walden Library to identify at
least four relevant peer-reviewed articles related to your clinical issue of
interest.
Review the results of your peer-reviewed research and reflect on the process of using an unfiltered
database to search for peer-reviewed research.
Reflect on the types of research methodologies contained in the four relevant peer-reviewed articles
you selected.
Part 1: An Introduction
to Clinical Inquiry
Create a 4- to 5-slide
PowerPoint presentation in which you do the following:
Identify and briefly
describe your chosen clinical issue of interest.
Describe how you used keywords to search on your chosen clinical issue of interest.
Identify the four research databases that you used to conduct your search for the peer-reviewed
articles you selected.
Provide APA citations
of the four peer-reviewed articles you selected.
Part 2: Identifying Research Methodologies
After reading each of the four peer-reviewed articles you selected, use the Matrix Worksheet template
to analyze the methodologies applied in each of the four peer-reviewed
articles. Your analysis should include the following:
The full citation of each peer-reviewed article in APA format.
A brief (1-paragraph)
statement explaining why you chose this peer-reviewed article and/or how it
relates to your clinical issue of interest, including a brief explanation of
the ethics of research related to your clinical issue of interest.
A brief (1-2
paragraph) description of the aims of the research of each peer-reviewed
article.
A brief (1-2
paragraph) description of the research methodology used. Be sure to identify if
the methodology used was qualitative, quantitative, or a mixed-methods
approach. Be specific.
A brief (1- to
2-paragraph) description of the strengths of each of the research methodologies
used, including reliability and validity of how the methodology was applied in
each of the peer-reviewed articles you selected.
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Week 5 Assignment
Evidence-Based Project, Part 3: Advanced Levels of Clinical Inquiry and Systematic Reviews
Your quest to purchase
a new car begins with an identification of the factors important to you. As you
conduct a search of cars that rate high on those factors, you collect evidence
and try to understand the extent of that evidence. A report that suggests a
certain make and model of automobile has high mileage is encouraging. But who
produced that report? How valid is it? How was the data collected, and what was
the sample size?
In this Assignment, you will delve deeper into clinical inquiry by closely examining your PICO(T)
question. You also begin to analyze the evidence you have collected.
To Prepare:
Review the Resources
and identify a clinical issue of interest that can form the basis of a clinical
inquiry.
Develop a PICO(T)
question to address the clinical issue of interest for the Assignment.
Use the key words from the PICO(T) question you developed and search at least four different databases
in the Walden Library to identify at least four relevant peer-reviewed articles
at the systematic-reviews level related to your research question.
Reflect on the process
of creating a PICO(T) question and searching for peer-reviewed research.
The Assignment
(Evidence-Based Project)
Part 3: Advanced
Levels of Clinical Inquiry and Systematic Reviews
Create a 6- to 7-slide
PowerPoint presentation in which you do the following:
Identify and briefly
describe your chosen clinical issue of interest.
Describe how you developed a PICO(T) question focused on your chosen clinical issue of interest.
Identify the four research databases that you used to conduct your search for the peer-reviewed
articles you selected. NURS5052 Full Course Latest
Provide APA citations
of the four peer-reviewed articles you selected.
Describe the levels of
evidence in each of the four peer-reviewed articles you selected, including an
explanation of the strengths of using systematic reviews for clinical research.
Be specific and provide examples.
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Week 7 Assignment
Evidence-Based
Project, Part 4: Critical Appraisal of Research
Realtors rely on
detailed property appraisals—conducted using appraisal tools—to assign market
values to houses and other properties. These values are then presented to
buyers and sellers to set prices and initiate offers.
Research appraisal is
not that different. The critical appraisal process utilizes formal appraisal
tools to assess the results of research to determine value to the context at
hand. Evidence-based practitioners often present these findings to make the
case for specific courses of action.
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In this Assignment,
you will use appraisal tools to conduct a critical appraisal of published
research. You will then present the results of your efforts.
To Prepare:
Review the Resources
and consider the importance of critically appraising research evidence.
Reflect on the four
peer-reviewed articles you selected in Module 2 and analyzed in Module 3.
Review and download
the Critical Appraisal Tools document provided in the Resources.
The Assignment
(Evidence-Based Project)
Part 4A: Critical
Appraisal of Research
Conduct a critical
appraisal of the four peer-reviewed articles you selected and analyzed by
completing the Critical Appraisal Tools document. Be sure to include:
An evaluation table
A levels of evidence
table
An outcomes synthesis
table
Part 4B: Critical
Appraisal of Research
Based on your
appraisal, in a 1-2-page critical appraisal, suggest a best practice that
emerges from the research you reviewed. Briefly explain the best practice,
justifying your proposal with APA citations of the research.
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Week 9 Assignment
Evidence-Based
Project, Part 5: Recommending an Evidence-Based Practice Change
The collection of
evidence is an activity that occurs with an endgame in mind. For example, law
enforcement professionals collect evidence to support a decision to charge
those accused of criminal activity. Similarly, evidence-based healthcare
practitioners collect evidence to support decisions in pursuit of specific
healthcare outcomes. NURS5052 Full Course Latest
In this Assignment, you will identify an issue or opportunity for change within your healthcare
organization and propose an idea for a change in practice supported by an EBP
approach.
To Prepare:
Reflect on the four peer-reviewed articles you critically appraised in Module 4.
Reflect on your
current healthcare organization and think about potential opportunities for
evidence-based change.
The Assignment:
(Evidence-Based Project)
Part 5: Recommending
an Evidence-Based Practice Change
Create an 8- to
9-slide PowerPoint presentation in which you do the following:
Briefly describe your
healthcare organization, including its culture and readiness for change. (You
may opt to keep various elements of this anonymous, such as your company name.)
Describe the current
problem or opportunity for change. Include in this description the
circumstances surrounding the need for change, the scope of the issue, the
stakeholders involved, and the risks associated with change implementation in
general.
Propose an evidence-based idea for a change in practice using an EBP approach to decision
making. Note that you may find further research needs to be conducted if
sufficient evidence is not discovered.
Describe your plan for
knowledge transfer of this change, including knowledge creation, dissemination,
and organizational adoption and implementation.
Describe the
measurable outcomes you hope to achieve with the implementation of this
evidence-based change.
Be sure to provide APA
citations of the supporting evidence-based peer reviewed articles you selected
to support your thinking.
Add a lessons learned
section that includes the following:
A summary of the
critical appraisal of the peer-reviewed articles you previously submitted
An explanation about
what you learned from completing the evaluation table (1 slide)
An explanation about
what you learned from completing the levels of evidence table (1 slide)
An explanation about
what you learned from completing the outcomes synthesis table (1 slide)
NURS6052/NURS5052/NRSE6052 Essent of Evidence
Week 11 Assignment
Evidence-Based
Capstone Project, Part 6: Disseminating Results
The dissemination of EBP results serves multiple important roles. Sharing results makes the case for
your decisions. It also adds to the body of knowledge, which creates
opportunities for future practitioners. By presenting results, you also become
an advocate for EBP, creating a culture within your organization or beyond that
informs, educates, and promotes the effective use of EBP.
To Prepare:
Review the final
PowerPoint presentation you submitted in Module 5, and make any necessary
changes based on the feedback you have received and on lessons you have learned
throughout the course.
Consider the best
method of disseminating the results of your presentation to an audience.
To Complete:
Create a 5-minute, 5-
to 6-slide narrated PowerPoint presentation of your Evidence-Based Project.
Be sure to incorporate
any feedback or changes from your presentation submission in Module 5.
Explain how you would
disseminate the results of your project to an audience. Provide a rationale for
why you selected this dissemination strategy. NURS5052 Full Course Latest
