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, i.e., 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.
