Assignment: Evidence-Based Capstone Project, Part 6: Disseminating Results

The dissemination of EBP results serves multiple important roles. Sharing results makes the case for your decisions. It also adds to the body of knowledge, which creates opportunities for future practitioners. By presenting results, you also become an advocate for EBP, creating a culture within your organization or beyond that informs, educates, and promotes the effective use of EBP.

To Prepare:

• Review the final PowerPoint presentation you submitted in Module 5, and make any necessary changes based on the feedback you have received and on lessons you have learned throughout the course.
• Consider the best method of disseminating the results of your presentation to an audience.

To Complete:

Create a 5-minute, 5- to 6-slide narrated PowerPoint presentation of your Evidence-Based Project.

• Be sure to incorporate any feedback or changes from your presentation submission in Module 5.
• Explain how you would disseminate the results of your project to an audience. Provide a rationale for why you selected this dissemination strategy.

For decades now, evidence based practice is believed to improve quality patient care in health care where there are practiced. Maximum efforts has been put to eliminate traditional way of doing things and embrace new methodologies (Saunders, Vehviläinen-Julkunen & Stevens, 2016). Concerns have been raised towards improving knowledge and skills in respect to evidence for efficient clinical outcome. Lack of EBP knowledge has bring a lot of challenges in our organization thus hindering its implemented. This has influenced integration of sources of evidence in clinical decision making where clinical expertise, clinical context, patients outcomes and values as well as best research are included in the process of decision-making.

There is increased demand to create culture that promotes exploration of critical inquiry and availability of evidence as an important aspect to be incorporated in our daily nursing practice in the organization. Clinical inquiry in nursing follows five EBP processes including ask, gather, appraise, act, evaluate and disseminate. Learning these steps helps to support the capacity of nurses. According to Mick (2017), the first process to clinical inquiry is developing a clinical question, followed by gathering and evaluating evidence obtained. After finding a satisfactory evidence, actions should be taken for its implementation and dissemination and examining outcome.

Reference.

Saunders, H., Vehviläinen-Julkunen, K., & Stevens, K. R. (2016). Effectiveness of an education

intervention to strengthen nurses’ readiness for evidence-based practice: a single-blind

randomized controlled study. Applied Nursing Research, 31, 175-185.

Mick, J. (2017). Call to action: How to implement evidence-based Nursing

practice. Nursing2019, 47(4), 36-43.

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As discussed in week one, the significance of evidence-based practice (EBP) in providing safe and quality health care cannot be relegated. In fact, EBP has been endorsed in research and practice as a method that obtains the highest level of care for patients, reduces the cost of health care, reduces medical errors and injuries, and encourages individual and professional advancement for nurses and other health professionals because it encourages research and educational progression. Accordingly, Black et al (2015) concluded that providing research training opportunities to nurses is a worthwhile strategy for health care facilities seeking to promote EBP for the purpose of empowering nurses and consistently ensuring safe and quality health care.

Studies have shown that several issues or factors are implicated in achieving evidence-based nursing practice (e. g. Mahmoud and Abdelrasol, 2019; Solomons and Spross, 2011). Some of these factors include inadequate time to read literature, intense workload, shortage of staff qualified in EBP, and shortage of nursing faculties to inculcate the knowledge of EBP in nurses. Despite the presence of a couple of qualified RNs, the issue of intense workload and inadequate time to read literature is the main issue for my organization in addressing the issue of evidence-based nursing practice. To address this issue however, management must increase the number of nursing staff so that nurses will have more time for investigative inquiries to improve practice. Furthermore, encouraging a culture of research amongst nurses, by keeping nursing journals, articles, and periodicals can be promising for resolving EBP issues in nursing practice.

                                                                References

Black, A., Balneaves, L., Garo, C., Puyat, J., Qian, H. (2015). Promoting Evidence-Based Practice Through a Research Training Program for Point-of-Care Clinicians. The Journal of Nursing Administration, 45(10); pp. 14-20. doi: 10.1097/NNA.0000000000000151

Matmoud, M. H., & Abdelrasol, M. (2019). Obstacles in Employing Evidence-Based Practice by Nurses in their Clinical Settings: A Descriptive Study. Frontiers of Nursing, 6(2); pp. 123-133.

Solomons, N. M., & Spross, J. A. (2011). Evidence-Based Practice Barriers and Facilitators from a Continuous Quality Improvement Perspective: An Integrative Review. Journal of Nursing Management, 19: 109-120

Review your problem or issue and the cultural assessment. Consider how the findings connect to your topic and intervention for your capstone change project. Write a list of three to five objectives for your proposed intervention. Below each objective, provide a one or two sentence rationale.

After writing your objectives, provide a rationale for how your proposed project and objectives advocate for autonomy and social justice for individuals and diverse populations.

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Benchmark Information

This benchmark assignment assesses the following programmatic competencies:

RN to BSN

1.5:  Advocate for autonomy and social justice for individuals and diverse populations.

To Prepare:

• In the Module 4 Discussion, you considered how professional nurses can become involved in policy-making.
• Review the Resources and reflect on the role of professional nurses in policy evaluation.

Post an explanation of at least two opportunities that currently exist for RNs and APRNs to actively participate in policy review. Explain some of the challenges that these opportunities may present and describe how you might overcome these challenges. Finally, recommend two strategies you might make to better advocate for or communicate the existence of these opportunities. Be specific and provide examples. 

Select an ethnic minority group that is represented in the United States (American Indian/Alaskan Native, Asian American, Black/African American, Hispanic/Latino, Native Hawaiian, or Pacific Islander). Using health information available from Healthy People, the CDC, and other relevant government websites, analyze the health status for this group.

In a paper of 1,000-1,250 words, compare and contrast the health status of your selected minority group to the national average. Include the following:

1. Describe the ethnic minority group selected. Describe the current health status of this group. How do race and ethnicity influence health for this group?
2. What are the health disparities that exist for this group? What are the nutritional challenges for this group?
3. Discuss the barriers to health for this group resulting from culture, socioeconomics, education, and sociopolitical factors.
4. What health promotion activities are often practiced by this group?
5. Describe at least one approach using the three levels of health promotion prevention (primary, secondary, and tertiary) that is likely to be the most effective in a care plan given the unique needs of the minority group you have selected. Provide an explanation of why it might be the most effective choice.
6. What cultural beliefs or practices must be considered when creating a care plan? What cultural theory or model would be best to support culturally competent health promotion for this population? Why?

Cite at least three peer-reviewed or scholarly sources to complete this assignment. Sources should be published within the last 5 years and appropriate for the assignment criteria and public health content.

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HA3220D – Health Information Systems

Develop a training plan and evaluation of training for a hospital that is implementing a new health care information system. 

1. Training Plan In a roughly 1 page double-spaced training plan, include:

Introduction What will this training cover? In what mode/format will occur?  

Training Strategies What training strategies will you use, and why do you feel they will be effective for a system implementation training program?

Probable Issues / Roadblocks to System Implementation and how you will use the training process to reduce their likelihood.

Key Elements that must be included in training for users of a health care information system.

This training plan should be a minimum of 1 page double-spaced in Times New Roman or similar 12-point font.

2. Create an evaluation tool to measure user satisfaction with the training process. You may model it on common questions asked on a customer satisfaction survey, but you should also create questions that can be used to improve the training process and learn more about users’ needs, knowledge, and skills.

The practice of health care providers at all levels brings you into contact with people from a variety of faiths. This calls for knowledge and understanding of a diversity of faith expressions; for the purpose of this course, the focus will be on the Christian worldview.

Based on “Case Study: End of Life Decisions,” the Christian worldview, and the worldview questions presented in the required topic study materials you will complete an ethical analysis of George’s situation and his decision from the perspective of the Christian worldview.

Provide a 1,500-2,000-word ethical analysis while answering the following questions:

1. How would George interpret his suffering in light of the Christian narrative, with an emphasis on the fallenness of the world?
2. How would George interpret his suffering in light of the Christian narrative, with an emphasis on the hope of resurrection?
3. As George contemplates life with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), how would the Christian worldview inform his view about the value of his life as a person?
4. What sorts of values and considerations would the Christian worldview focus on in deliberating about whether or not George should opt for euthanasia?
5. Given the above, what options would be morally justified in the Christian worldview for George and why?
6. Based on your worldview, what decision would you make if you were in George’s situation?

Remember to support your responses with the topic study materials.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide. An abstract is required.

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Hi Maria! Thank you for sharing your response. Reflecting on the organization in which you are currently employed, what evidence based interventions or changes has the organization undergone? At the time of implementation, did you observe barriers that prevented nurses from participating in the change process? What barriers were present, and what was done to effectively remove these barriers?

Professor Hanson

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The definition of evidence-based practice is to ‘integrate best research with clinical expertise and patient values for optimum care, and participate in learning and research activities to the extent feasible” (Finkelman, 2019). The use of evidence-based practice is necessary in nursing care in order to provide patient-centered care that is effective and of good quality (Finkelman, 2019).

Warren et al. (2016) identify the main barriers to the implementation of evidence-based practice by nurses as a lack of organizational readiness to implement evidence-based practice, lack of fiscal resources to support evidence-based practice education, and age and work experience with younger, less experienced nurses lacking the confidence to implement evidence-based practice into their nursing practice.

I personally have little experience with evidence-based practice and research and believe that one of the most prominent barriers to implementing evidence-based practice I have seen is lack of knowledge about evidence-based practice and research and lack of experience in the use of evidence-based practice in nursing care. Strategies that can be used to remove these barriers are measures such as taking a course on evidence-based practice, consulting advance practice nurses on the use of evidence-based practice, attending a conference where the use of research in nursing practice is presented, volunteering to serve on committees to set policies and protocols, or by staring a program where experienced nurses can mentor newer, less experienced nurses (Finkelman, 2019).

Article link:

https://ct1.medstarhealth.org/content/uploads/sites/116/2016/02/systemchallengesofEBP-2.pdf