Week 2
assignment
Evidence-Based Practice Proposal – Section B: Problem
Description
Write a paper of 500-750 words (not including the title page
and reference page) on your proposed problem description for your EBP project.
The paper should address the following:
Describe the background of the problem. Tell the story of
the issue and why it deserves attention.
Identify the stakeholders/change agents. Who, or what organizations,
are concerned, may benefit from, or are affected by this proposal. List the
interested parties, patients, students, agencies, Joint Commission, etc.
Use the feedback from the Topic 2 main forum post and refine
your PICOT question. Make sure that the question fits with your graduate degree
specialization.
State the purpose and project objectives in specific,
realistic, and measurable terms. The objective should address what is to be
gained. This is a restatement of the question, providing focus. Measurements
need to be taken before and after the evidence-based practice is introduced to
identify the expected changes.
5) Provide supportive rationale that the problem or issue is
an important one for nursing to resolve using relevant professional literature
sources.
Develop an initial reference list to assure that there is
adequate literature to support your evidence-based practice project. Follow the
“Steps to an Efficient Search to Answer a Clinical Question” box in
chapter 3 of the textbook. Use “NUR-699 Search Method Example” to
assist you.
7) The majority of references should be research articles.
However, national sources such as Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC), National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), Department of Health and
Human Resources (HHS), or the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
and others may be used when you are gathering statistics to provide the
rationale for the problem.
Once you get into the literature, you may find there is very
little research to support your topic and you will have to start all over
again. Remember, in order for this to be an evidence-based project, you must
have enough evidence to introduce this as a practice change. If you find that
you do not have enough supporting evidence to change a practice, then further
research would need to be conducted.
Prepare this assignment according to the APA guidelines
found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An
abstract is not required.
This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric
prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for
successful completion.
You are required to submit this assignment to Turnitin.
Please refer to the directions in the Student Success Center.
Upon receiving feedback from the instructor, refine
“Section B: Problem Description” for your final submission. This will
be a continuous process throughout the course for each section.
