NURS 8100 Week 1 Assignment: Introduction to the Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) Assignment

NURS 8100 Week 1 Assignment: Introduction to the Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) Assignment

As part of your practicum experience in this course, you will engage in a small-scale Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) Assignment. This project will enable you to apply many of the concepts presented in the Learning Resources; it provides an authentic learning experience to enhance your specialty area knowledge and support your growth as a scholar-practitioner.

Select the following link for an overview of the full EBP Assignment.

Document: Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) Assignment Overview (Word document)

The document includes due dates. You do not need to submit anything this week, but begin thinking about and planning for this project as soon as possible. You may wish to discuss it with your Practicum Mentor as well.

Practicum: Planning Learning Objectives

The practicum experience allows you to develop and expand your advanced nursing knowledge and skills at the aggregate, organizational, or policy level. During week 1 you will submit two to three individual learning objectives that you wish to achieve during this practicum experience. You should prepare a set of measurable learning objectives, using Bloom’s Taxonomy. Your practicum objectives should reflect your interest in expanding knowledge. They are not to include activities related to your DNP project. These objectives will be identified during your mentoring course (NURS 8700P, 8700, 8701). Practice experiences should be designed to achieve specific learning objectives related to the DNP Essentials and specialty competencies (AACN, 2006).

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Your practicum objectives should include the following:

– Two to three learning objectives using Bloom’s Taxonomy.
– Description of how these objectives will expand your advanced nursing knowledge and skills at the aggregate, organizational, or policy level.
– Relationship of the learning objectives to the DNP Essentials.

NOTE: Learning objectives must be submitted using APA style. Points may be deducted for lack of references, writing style, and APA format.

Submit by Day 7 of Introduction to the Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) Assignment

Ensure that all of the necessary paperwork has been submitted and approved. Remember, final approval for your practicum experience must come from your Instructor, and your practicum may not begin until the required documentation has been submitted and you have received Instructor approval.

Reminder:
Begin keeping track of your practicum hours using the provided time log. This time log needs to include the date, times (start and finish), total hours for the week, a brief description of what you did or observed during each time interval, and the objectives that are being addressed through your practicum activities. You can have more than one objective for each time interval.

In addition, you will submit a journal entry (along with your time log) in Weeks 3, 7, and 11. Journal entries need to connect your previous professional experience with your practice, competencies/concepts in the program, and the literature.

Submission and Grading Information

To submit your completed Practicum for review and grading, do the following:

1. Please save your Practicum using the naming convention “WK1Practicum+last name+first initial.(extension)” as the name.
2. Click the Week 1 Practicum link.
3. Next, from the Attach File area, click on the Browse My Computer button. Find the document you saved as “WK1Practicum+last name+first initial.(extension)” and click Open.
4. If applicable: From the Plagiarism Tools area, click the checkbox for I agree to submit my paper(s) to the Global Reference Database.
5. Click on the Submit button to complete your submission.

To access your rubric:

Week 1 Practicum Rubric

Check Your Practicum Draft for Authenticity

To check your Practicum draft for authenticity:

1. Submit your Week 1 Practicum draft and review the originality report.

Submit Your Practicum by Day 7

Week 1 Practicum

Introduction to the Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) Assignment

Practicum: Journal Guidelines

You will submit your Clinical Time Log and Journal located in the Week 1 Learning Resources in Weeks 3, 7, and 11. Journal entries need to connect your previous professional experience with your practice, competencies/concepts in the program, and the literature. Your journal entry should be week-based and sequential so that all journal entries are contained in one file.

– Describe the observed activity (1 point)
– Using an evidence-based approach, analyze the problem, issue, or situation. Address questions posed in the weekly practicum pages if appropriate. (2 points)
– Reveal how the real-world might mirror or diverge from program-related evidence, concepts, and/or theories. (2 points)
– Time Log submission (1 point)

NURS 8410: Best Practices in Nursing Specialties

The following is an overview of the four Applications that are assigned in this course.

Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) Assignment

Application 1: Identification of a Practice Issue for the Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) Assignment (developed in Week 2)

In a 1- to 2-page paper, address the following:

– Provide a summary of the selected practice issue in which the outcome is different from what would be expected according to the research literature. (Note: The issue you select must be suitable for completing the entire EBP Project.)

Application 1 is due by Day 7 of Week 2.

Application 2: Laying the Foundation for New Approaches to Practice (developed in Weeks 4 and 5)

In a 3- to 5-page paper, include the following:

– A brief summary of the currency of the science underlying the practices used to address your EBP Assignment issue
– Possible causes of the difference in outcomes from what would be expected according to the research literature
– The effect the EBP Assignment issue is having in practice
– Current research evidence on new practices for addressing the EBP Assignment issue
– A summary of the evidence-based practice model (including models from other disciplines as appropriate) and/or change theory or framework you will utilize to systematically integrate new approaches to practice to address the issue

Application 2 is due by Day 7 of Week 5.

Application 3: Becoming a Leader in the Translation of Evidence to Practice (developed in Weeks 6 and 7)

Write a 2

– to 3-page paper that synthesizes:

– Your vision of yourself as a leader—specifically:
– How you would continue to increase your knowledge and awareness of financial, economic, and other concerns related to new practice approaches
– How translating evidence would enable you to affect or strengthen health care delivery and nursing practice
– How you would advocate for the use of new evidence-based practice approaches through the policy arena

Application 3 is due by Day 7 of Week 7.

Application 4: Planning for Change, Implementing and Evaluating EBP Assignments (developed in Weeks 8–10)

Write a 4- to 8-page paper that addresses the following:

Planning for Change

– Analyze the impact of implementing change in your practice environment, including the factors that need to be considered regarding stakeholders and end users.
– Summarize the methods you would use to ensure that those are adequately addressed.

Implementing EBP Assignments

– Identify the desired outcomes of your EBP Assignment.
– Describe any macro

or micro systems issues that may inhibit implementation and strategies for resolving those issues.
– Explain how resolving your EBP Assignment issue will improve quality and patient safety.

Evaluating EBP Assignments

– Describe evaluation strategies.
– Formulate new practice guidelines based on the possible results of the evaluation of outcomes.
– Describe, if appropriate, new standards of care relevant to the new practice guidelines.

Application 4 is due by Day 7 of Week 10.

Practicum: Journal Guidelines

You will submit your Clinical Time Log and Journal located in the Week 1 Learning Resources in Weeks 3, 7, and 11. Journal entries need to connect your previous professional experience with your practice, competencies/concepts in the program, and the literature. Your journal entry should be week-based and sequential so that all journal entries are contained in one file.

– Describe the observed activity (1 point)
– Using an evidence-based approach, analyze the problem, issue, or situation. Address questions posed in the weekly practicum pages if appropriate. (2 points)
– Reveal how the real-world might mirror or diverge from program-related evidence, concepts, and/or theories. (2 points)
– Time Log submission (1 point)

NURS 8410 Week 1: Developing a Focus in Your Specialty Area

As a nurse and a doctoral student, you have already developed a set of skills and the expertise that have enabled you to contribute to the nursing profession and to those you serve. Yet, your call to advanced practice warrants a deeper understanding of issues and approaches, particularly in your area of specialty practice. To practice at the highest level, you must be able to analyze a health care problem using reasoning, theory, research, and experience.

As you move forward in this course, you will create an Evidence-Based Practice (EBP), in which you will evaluate the scientific foundations of a health care issue in your specialty area, apply effective practices, identify and evaluate outcomes, and develop new practice guidelines. This week, you will become familiar with the requirements of the EBP Assignment, which will be completed as part of your practicum experience. To help you prepare for your practicum, this week you reflect on your own potential for professional growth and create learning objectives to guide your experience. The EBP Assignment must be completed during this practicum experience and is not the same as your DNP project that you are developing with the guidance of your DNP faculty chair and committee in the mentoring courses.

Introduction to the Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) Essay Assignment Learning Objectives

Students will:

– Formulate an EBP Assignment question incorporating theory, knowledge, research, reasoning, and nursing practice
– Assess areas for professional growth within the practicum experience

Looking Ahead

You are required to keep a log of the time you spend related to your practicum experience. You can access your time log from the Welcome page in your Meditrek account. Please make sure to continuously input your hours throughout the term.

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Learning Resources

Note: To access this week’s required library resources, please click on the link to the Course Readings List, found in the Course Materials section of your Syllabus.

Introduction to the Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) Essay Assignment Required Readings

– Terry, A. J. (2018). Clinical research for the doctor of nursing practice (3rd ed.). Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning.
– Chapter 2, “Developing the Researchable Problem”
– American Association of Colleges of Nursing. (2006). The essentials of doctoral education for advanced nursing practice. Retrieved from http://www.aacn.nche.edu/dnp/Essentials.pdf
– Jeffs, L., Beswick, S., Lo, J., Campbell, H., Ferris, E., & Sidani, S. (2013). Defining what evidence is, linking it to patient outcomes, and making it relevant to practice: Insight from clinical nurses. Applied Nursing Research, 26, 105-109.
– McCurry, M. K., Revell, S. M. H., & Roy, C. (2009). Knowledge for the good of the individual and society: Linking philosophy, disciplinary goals, theory, and practice. Nursing Philosophy, 11(1), 42–52.

– Melnyk, B.M., Fineout-Overhold, E., Stillwell, S.B., & Williamson, K.M. (2010). Evidence-based practice step-by-step: The seven steps of evidence-based practice. American Journal of Nursing, 110(1), 51-53.
– Note: You will access this article from the Walden Library databases.
– Stillwell, S. B., Fineout-Overholt, E., Melnyk, B. M., & Williamson, K. M. (2010). Evidence-based practice, step by step: Asking the clinical question: A key step in evidence-based practice. American Journal of Nursing, 110(3), 58–61.
– Note: You will access this article from the Walden Library databases.
– Tschannen, D., Aebersold, M., Kocan, M., Lundy, F., & Potempa, K. (2015). Improving patient care through student leadership in team quality improvement projects. Journal Nursing Care Quality, 30(2), 181-186.
– Note: You will access this article from the Walden Library databases.
– Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching. (2017) Bloom’s Taxonomy Retrieved from https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/guides-sub-pages/blooms-taxonomy/
– Yensen, J. (2013). PICO Search Strategies. Online Journal of Nursing Informatics (OJNI), 17 (3). Available at http://ojni.org/issues/?p=2860
– Document: Clinical Time Log and Journal (Word document)
– Document: Literature Review Matrix (Word document)
– Document: NURS 8410 Practicum Journal Template (Word document)
– Introduction to the Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) Essay Assignment