NURS 8410 Week 9 Assignment 1: Application 4: Planning for Change, Implementing and Evaluating EBP Projects

It is essential to consider those systems that inhibit and facilitate change within the health care organization. Recognizing how one system influences another is a necessary step in moving an EBP project forward.

 

For this week’s Discussion, you examined the macro and micro systems within your practicum organization and how these systems affect your EBP Project issue. For this section of Application 4, reflect on your colleagues’ feedback regarding your Microsoft PowerPoint presentation. What new insights did you gain? How might you modify your strategies for resolving the issue?

 

Prepare for this week’s section of Application 4 as follows:

 

Continue (from this week’s Discussion) to refine your desired outcomes and strategies for resolving the issue.

Also continue (from this week’s Discussion) to evaluate how resolving the issue will improve quality and patient safety.

You will integrate this information (not in PowerPoint) into your Application paper.

 

By Day 7 of Week 10

 

Application 4 is due. You do not need to submit anything this week.

 

Assignment 2: Application 5: Disseminating the EBP Project

 

One of the chief purposes of translating evidence into practice is to advance the field of nursing. Dissemination is a critical step in this process. It is important to disseminate and share the information gained from a translation-of-evidence project to enhance the body of knowledge within the profession, thus furthering the science of nursing. To prepare for this week’s section of Application 5:

 

Continue (from this week’s Discussion) to:

Analyze the role of the DNP-prepared nurse in scholarship

The full Application 5 is due by Day 6 of week 11.

 

For this assignment you will prepare a scholarly product that reports the results and implications of your project to designed audience.  The scholarly product for dissemination reports the results and implications of your project to a specified audience. NURS 8410 – Best Practices In Nursing Specialties weekly discussion essay assignments Your scholarly product may be in the form of a project summary and evaluation report,  poster presentation, program evaluation report, or a media or technology-based deliverable, Your scholarly product must include the following:

 

Background, Purpose, and Nature of the Project (2 points)

Describe the larger problem or issue you explored in your DNP Project. Identify your practice-focused question. Explain how this problem or issue affects nursing practice and the overall health care system, and describe how your DNP Project explored possible strategies for addressing the problem or issue.

Evidence (2 points)

Identify the practice setting and context in which you conducted your project, a summary of the evidence supporting the project, and the process for implementation and evaluation.

 

Presentation of Results (2 points)

Explain the results of your DNP Project and recommendations for change that you made to the organization.

 

Note: Up to 2 points may be deducted for grammar, spelling, and/or APA errors.

 

This Application is due by Day 6 of Week 11.

 

Practicum

 

Continue to keep a time log and journal of your practicum experiences. See the Practicum Guidelines located in the Practicum area of the Course Overview page for a complete description of the practicum.

 

By Day 7 of Week 11

 

Reminder: You will submit your time log and a journal entry in Week 11.

 

 

 

 

 

Week in Review

 

This week, you applied systems theory to the evaluation of quality improvement and safety initiatives.

 

Next week, you will determine how the success of the new practice approaches can be evaluated and explore the next steps of translating research evidence into new guidelines for practice and, ultimately, standards of care.