Week 5: Evidence-Based Practice
My selected specialty Track is EDUCATION. BELOW IS THE DISCUSSION ASSIGNMENT:
Discuss the EBP process and importance to nursing practice. Identify your selected specialty track. Provide a rationale on why you selected the specific professional track. Identify a concept or topic you have a passion about or an area of interest related to your future specialty advanced practice area. Provide an example, using the best evidence available, substantiating the significance of your selected area of interest as it relates to your specific specialty track.
BELOW IS RESOUCE INFORMATION TO HELP COMPLETE THE ASSIGNMENT
An important competency of an advanced practice nurse is to engage in scholarship. Nursing practice should not be based solely on opinions or past practices but on the results of scientific evidence. The master’s- prepared advanced practice nurse is expected to integrate prior and current evidence-based knowledge, skills, and attitudes and apply them to practice. The master’s-prepared advance practice nurse is also expected to analyze gaps in knowledge or evidence, formulate research questions, and implement solutions for improving practice in one’s specialty area (National League for Nursing [NLN], 2010). This week, we will define scholarship and evidence-based practice, consider an area of interest, activate a spirit of inquiry, discuss a systematic method for conducting an evidence-based project, and describe the importance of knowledge dissemination.
Outcomes
1
Examine roles and competencies of master’s-prepared nurses essential to performing as leaders and advocates of holistic, safe, and quality care. (POs 1, 2, 3, and 10)
Weekly Objectives
- Demonstrate a spirit of inquiry related to an area of interest that leads to professional growth, scholarship, and service with collaborative teams in diverse health care settings.
- Explore evidence-based project processes and models as a means for applied scholarship.
3
Analyze essential skills needed to lead within the context of complex systems. (POs 1, 2, 3, 8, and 11)
Weekly Objectives
- Demonstrate a spirit of inquiry related to an area of interest that leads to professional growth, scholarship, and service with collaborative teams in diverse health care settings.
- Analyze the importance of implementing evidence-based practices to promote health and healthcare outcomes.
4
Explore the process of scholarship engagement to improve health and healthcare outcomes in various settings. (POs 4, 5, and 9)
Weekly Objectives
- Analyze the importance of implementing evidence-based practices to promote health and healthcare outcomes.
- Evaluate the definition of scholarship as it pertains to knowledge building and practice performance.
- Demonstrate a spirit of inquiry related to an area of interest that leads to professional growth, scholarship, and service with collaborative teams in diverse health care settings.
- Explore evidence-based project processes and models as a means for applied scholarship.
Week 5: Reading
- PLEASE REFER TO THESE READING ASSIGNMENTS AND ADD ONE OUTSIDE RESOURCE.
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Conard, P. L., & Pape, T. (2014). Roles and responsibilities of the nursing scholar. Pediatric Nursing, 40(2), 87–90.
Johns Hopkins Medicine. (n.d.) John Hopkins Nursing Evidence-Based Practice Model. Retrieved from http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/ evidence-based-practice /jhn_ebp.html Link (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
Limoges, J., Acorn, S., & Osborne, M. (2015). The scholarship of application: Recognizing and promoting nurses’ contribution to knowledge development. The Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing, 46(2), 77–82. doi :10.3928/00220124-20151217-02
Melnyk, B. M., Fineout-Overholt, E., Gallagher-Ford, L., & Stillwell, S. B. (2011). Sustaining evidence-based practice through organizational policies and an innovative model. American Journal of Nursing, 111(9), 57–60.
Stevens, K. R. (2013). The impact of evidence-based practice in nursing and the next big ideas. Online Journal of Issues in Nursing, 18(2), 1. doi:10.3912/OJIN.Vol18No02Man04