south nsg6999 Week 10 assignment 2 Evidence-Based Project

Week 10 assignment 2

Evidence-Based Project

Overview/Description:

Learners will develop a scholarly project that will
demonstrate an application of evidence to practice for a substantive change
This project emphasizes application of evidence-based methodology, scholarly
writing, and critical thinking The scholarly project will be submitted as a
written paper in APA format/style In
addition, learners will present a summary of the final project orally and/or
with a PowerPoint presentation

Learners will select one of the following projects related
to their specific advanced role specialization that addresses a health
promotion and disease prevention of a target population:

Educational program

Evidence-based healthcare policy change

Evidence-based clinical issue or protocol

Criteria for scholarly EBP project proposal

Over the past 11 weeks, students have developed a proposal
for an evidence-based project in their area of specialization This final paper
is the culmination of this scholarly activity All papers must be written using
APA format and a professional writing style The proposal should include the following
sections and content

Abstract

Part 1 – Introduction – Week 2

Introduction

Practice issue

Summarize the practice issue in need of change providing
background information about the organization (setting) and the perceived
significance and severity of the problem

Describe the specific aims of the project – what improved
outcomes do you hope to achieve

PICOT question – State your question in PICOT format,
labeling each part with P-I-C-O-T in parentheses

Significance – what is the significance of the issue in
terms of poor outcomes, cost, etc

Part 2 – Evidence review and synthesis – Week 3, 4, & 5

List the names of the databases you searched and if limited
to a span of time, ie, less than 5 years old

Summarize “keeper” studies

Summarize the synthesis of the body of evidence

Part 3 – Purpose of the project – Week 6

Purpose of the project – include intervention

Theoretical framework

Clinical questions

Part 4 – Methods – Week 7

Study design

Setting/sample

Confidentiality

Procedure/intervention

Aligning stakeholders

Instruments/scales and measurement of outcomes

Data collection

Part 5 – Data analysis – Weeks 8 & 9

Outcomes to be analyzed and how they will be analyzed

Outcomes expected (hypothesized)

Appendices

Evaluation Table – turned in Weeks 3 & 4

Synthesis Table – turned in Week 5

Oral and/or PowerPoint Presentation

Students will present a summary of their project using
Microsoft PowerPoint

The presentation for onground campus students will be done
orally in a 20-minute presentation

Online campus students will include speaker notes in their
PowerPoint slides and will defend their presentation in a discussion
board

Criteria:

Assemble the presentation to present all required criteria
sections of the EBP project

Quality of presentation is professional and provides
evidence of graduate level scholarship