MSN 6011 Unit 7 Discussion Collaborating to Ensure EBP Utilization Across a Team

MSN 6011 Unit 7 Discussion Collaborating to Ensure EBP Utilization Across a Team

Scenario

You are part of an interdisciplinary care team that is
working with a patient who has recently had a stroke. The patient has lost a
good deal of mobility on the left side of their body. The goal is to help the
patient become ambulatory again, and regain as much function as possible. To do
this, you are collaborating with various team members and care areas to ensure
that the best evidence, practice, and communication are used.

You will need to address the following bullet points to
successfully complete this discussion:

Propose a plan, utilizing a model or framework for EBP, for
collaborating with your various colleagues and across care areas that will
ensure the patient is receiving the optimal care to speed their recovery.

Explain how you would ensure that the various care areas and
team members communicate and cooperate so that all aspects of the patient’s
care are leading toward recovery. In other words, how would you ensure that
care approaches from different team members did not create an undesired
combination of effects?

Cite a minimum of two resources that provide relevant and
credible evidence to support and inform the development of your proposed plan.

Briefly note why each piece of evidence is relevant and
valuable as a basis for your proposed plan.

Explain how you would help other members of the team to
implement evidence-based practice strategies in their contributions to the
patient’s rehabilitation.

How would you persuade team members of the value of an
evidence-based approach?

How would you guide team members to appropriate tools and
repositories for gathering evidence relevant to this scenario?

How would you support team members in ensuring they are
successfully synthesizing the evidence they have found into their practice
decisions?

Cite a minimum of one resource that provides relevant and
credible evidence to support at least one of your EBP training or teaching
strategies.

Response Guidelines

Review the posts of peers and then select two peers to whom
you would like to respond. In your response be sure to address the following.
Note: Your responses should be substantive and 100-200 words.

Propose an additional collaboration strategy that would
complement those already outlined in your peer’s initial discussion response.

Refer to the resource or evidence for this strategy in your
response.

Resources

Discussion Participation Scoring Guide.

ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE CLASS

Discussion Questions (DQ)

Initial responses to the DQ should address all components of the questions asked, include a minimum of one scholarly source, and be at least 250 words.

Successful responses are substantive (i.e., add something new to the discussion, engage others in the discussion, well-developed idea) and include at least one scholarly source.

One or two sentence responses, simple statements of agreement or “good post,” and responses that are off-topic will not count as substantive. Substantive responses should be at least 150 words.

I encourage you to incorporate the readings from the week (as applicable) into your responses.

Weekly Participation

Your initial responses to the mandatory DQ do not count toward participation and are graded separately.

In addition to the DQ responses, you must post at least one reply to peers (or me) on three separate days, for a total of three replies.

Participation posts do not require a scholarly source/citation (unless you cite someone else’s work).

Part of your weekly participation includes viewing the weekly announcement and attesting to watching it in the comments. These announcements are made to ensure you understand everything that is due during the week.

APA Format and Writing Quality

Familiarize yourself with APA format and practice using it correctly. It is used for most writing assignments for your degree. Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in LoudCloud for APA paper templates, citation examples, tips, etc. Points will be deducted for poor use of APA format or absence of APA format (if required).

Cite all sources of information! When in doubt, cite the source. Paraphrasing also requires a citation.

I highly recommend using the APA Publication Manual, 6th edition.

Use of Direct Quotes

I discourage overutilization of direct quotes in DQs and assignments at the Masters’ level and deduct points accordingly.

As Masters’ level students, it is important that you be able to critically analyze and interpret information from journal articles and other resources. Simply restating someone else’s words does not demonstrate an understanding of the content or critical analysis of the content.

It is best to paraphrase content and cite your source.

Lopes Write Policy

For assignments that need to be submitted to Lopes Write, please be sure you have received your report and Similarity Index (SI) percentage BEFORE you do a “final submit” to me.

Once you have received your report, please review it. This report will show you grammatical, punctuation, and spelling errors that can easily be fixed. Take the extra few minutes to review instead of getting counted off for these mistakes.

Review your similarities. Did you forget to cite something? Did you not paraphrase well enough? Is your paper made up of someone else’s thoughts more than your own?

Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in LoudCloud for tips on improving your paper and SI score.

Late Policy

The university’s policy on late assignments is 10% penalty PER DAY LATE. This also applies to late DQ replies.

Please communicate with me if you anticipate having to submit an assignment late. I am happy to be flexible, with advance notice. We may be able to work out an extension based on extenuating circumstances.

If you do not communicate with me before submitting an assignment late, the GCU late policy will be in effect.

I do not accept assignments that are two or more weeks late unless we have worked out an extension.

As per policy, no assignments are accepted after the last day of class. Any assignment submitted after midnight on the last day of class will not be accepted for grading.

Communication

Communication is so very important. There are multiple ways to communicate with me:

Questions to Instructor Forum: This is a great place to ask course content or assignment questions. If you have a question, there is a good chance one of your peers does as well. This is a public forum for the class.

Individual Forum: This is a private forum to ask me questions or send me messages. This will be checked at least once every 24 hours.