NR505 Advanced Research Methods: Evidence-Based Practice
Week 1 Discussion
Identification of Area of Interest
For this discussion, the focus is on presenting the area of interest for the evidence-based practice proposal that is required for this course.
State your area of evidence-based practice (EBP) interest consistent with your specialty track.
State your MSN program specialty track and defend how your selected area of EBP interest is consistent with your selected MSN program track.
Defend how your area of interest is of importance to the MSN program specialty track you have selected—scholarly references are required.
Identify an initial PICOT question that reflects your area of interest for the evidence-based practice proposal.
NR505 Advanced Research Methods: Evidence-Based Practice
Week 2 Discussion
PICOT/PICo and Practice Questions
The focus for Week 2 is the development of a PICOT question.
Using the area of interest from Week 1, identify the following.
Create a PICOT question using the standard quantitative PICOT format.
Identify your practice question, being sure to include the following.
A questioning part such as "what is," "what are," "is there," or "are there"
Population
Intervention
Comparison
Outcome
Time
In ________(Population) what is the effect of ___________(Intervention) in comparison to ___________ (Comparison) on _____________ (Outcome) to be completed over __________ (Time).
NR505 Advanced Research Methods: Evidence-Based Practice
Week 3 Discussion
Collaboration Café
Your instructor will be monitoring the Collaboration Café but not participating as this is your opportunity to give and receive feedback from your peers. The Collaboration Café is graded this week (50 points). There are no scholarly references required in this discussion format. Please see the guidelines and grading rubric below.
This week in your lesson, there was quite a bit of discussion about quantitative research. In thinking about your PICOT question for your MSN project, in your opinion and your experience with your area of interest, what value can quantitative research bring as you review the evidence to support your project?
NR505 Advanced Research Methods: Evidence-Based Practice
Week 4 Discussion
Collaboration Café
Your instructor will be monitoring the Collaboration Café but not participating as this is your opportunity to give and receive feedback from your peers. The Collaboration Café is graded this week (50 points). There are no scholarly references required in this discussion format. Please see the guidelines and grading rubric below.
This week in your lesson, there was quite a bit of discussion about qualitative research. In thinking about your PICOT question for your MSN project, in your opinion and your experience with your area of interest, what value can qualitative research bring as you review the evidence to support your project?
NR505 Advanced Research Methods: Evidence-Based Practice
Week 5 Discussion
Collaboration Café
Data collection in research is similar to collecting data during physical and history assessments. Share a time that you collected data on your patient and analyzed the results to develop a plan of care. How will this be similar to the data collection for your evidence-based practice project?
NR505 Advanced Research Methods: Evidence-Based Practice
Week 6 Discussion
Collaboration Café
As you have learned this week in your lesson and reading, credibility of the results of your project are extremely important. In reviewing both statistical and clinical significance, which one of these do you feel is most important to your project and why?
NR505 Advanced Research Methods: Evidence-Based Practice
Week 7 Discussion
Collaboration Café
Think of a time in which you encountered a challenging change process (personal or professional) and answer the following questions/prompts:
Was the change planned or unplanned?
List the elements that made this change difficulty.
Who were the people involved, and what were their attitudes toward the change?
What were some lessons learned by you during the change process?
NR505 Advanced Research Methods: Evidence-Based Practice
Week 8 Discussion
Collaboration Café
Reflect on what you have learned in this course and give an example of how you will promote evidence-based practice in the advanced practice setting.
NR505 Advanced Research Methods: Evidence-Based Practice
Week 2 Assignment
PICOT Worksheet Assignment
Purpose
This assignment provides the opportunity for the student to work on an identified area or phenomenon of interest and nursing concern/problem related to their MSN specialty track.
Click the following link for a printable version of the instructions below: NR505 Week 2 PICOT Worksheet Assignment (Links to an external site.)
Course Outcomes
This assignment enables the student to meet the following course outcomes:
CO#1 Integrate evidence-based practice and research to support advancement of holistic nursing care in diverse healthcare settings. PO 1
CO#2 Integrate knowledge related to evidence-based practice and person-centered care to improve healthcare outcomes. PO 2, 5
CO#4 Develop knowledge related to research and evidence-based practice as a basis for designing and critiquing research studies. PO 1, 2, 3, 5
Requirements
Description of the Assignment
This assignment will allow the student to identify a nursing practice concern or problem within their chosen MSN specialty track. For this course, the selected practice concern or problem and nursing theory then serve as a foundation to the identification of PICOT question. Identification of the literature search terms will prepare you for your Week 7 assignment. The purpose of the assignments in this course is to translate evidence currently found in the literature into practice within the chosen MSN specialty track.
Criteria for Content
1. Answer ALL the questions in the first section of the PICOT worksheet (Links to an external site.)
Identify your MSN Specialty Track
Describe the practice concern/problem.
Why is this concern/problem important to nursing and healthcare?
What is the scope of the concern?
What evidence is there for the need for change?
Include a minimum of two scholarly sources.
NOTE: Do not rewrite/include the above questions in your template information.
2. Define each element of your PICOT question in one or two sentences.
P-Population and problem - What is the nursing practice concern or problem and whom does it affect?
I-Intervention - What evidence-based solution for the problem would you like to apply?
C-Comparison - what is another solution for the problem? Note that this is typically the current practice, no intervention at all, or an alternative solutions.
O-Outcome - Very specifically, how will you know that the intervention worked? Think about how you will measure the outcome.
T-Time frame - For the purpose of the EBP project, keep the timeframe within 6-8 weeks.
NOTE: Do not rewrite/include the above questions in your template information.
3. Write your PICOT question in the standard PICOT question format (narrative) and define each letter (separately). See the example below.
The PICOT question standard format (narrative):
In patients on the 4th floor at CUMC Bergan Mercy, does being rounded on by senior leadership twice
during their hospital stay compared to not being rounded on by senior leadership during hospital stay,
Increase HCAHPS scores on the medical surgical & progressive care nursing units in 8 weeks?
Define each letter (separately):
P-Patients on the 4th floor at CUMC Bergan Mercy
I-Those that are rounded on by senior leadership twice during their hospital stay
C-Those that are not rounded on by senior leadership during hospital stay
O-Increased HCAHPS scores on the medical surgical & progressive care nursing units
T-8 weeks
4. Identify the key search terms and phrases for your literature search.
5. Identify a theoretical framework/nursing theory that will guide your EBP project. (The same theory for your Week 7 assignment is preferred)
Preparing the Assignment
Criteria for Format and Special Instructions
The PICOT worksheet will include a title page and reference page.
Title page and reference page must follow APA guidelines as found in the currentedition of the manual.
A minimum of 2 (two) appropriate research-based scholarly references must be used. References must be current - within a 5-year timeframe.
Proper citation and reference are required for the Ideas and information from scholarly, peer-reviewed sources.
Rules of grammar, spelling, word usage, and punctuation are followed and consistent with formal, scientific writing.
NR505 Advanced Research Methods: Evidence-Based Practice
Week 5 Assignment
Research Summary Assignment
Purpose:
This assignment provides the opportunity for the student to continue development of a MSN EBP scholarly project that started with the identification of a nursing issue/problem and PICOT question from Week 2. The focus of this assignment is to review the pertinent literature that supports the practice change intervention.
Note: You are to locate original studies with research conducted and published by the primary investigator. Systematic reviews or any type of analysis articles are not allowed as they are not original research.
Click the following link for a printable version of the instructions below: NR505 Week 5 Research Summary Assignment (Links to an external site.)
Course Outcome:
This assignment enables the student to meet the following course outcome:
CO #1. Integrate evidence-based practice and research to support advancement of holistic nursing care in diverse healthcare settings. (PO # 1)
CO #2. Integrate knowledge related to evidence-based practice and person-centered care to improve healthcare outcomes. (PO #2, 5)
CO #4. Develop knowledge related to research and evidence-based practice as a basis for designing and critiquing research studies. (PO 1, 2, 3, 5)
CO #5. Analyze research findings and evidence-based practice to advance holistic nursing care initiatives that promote positive healthcare outcomes. (PO 1, 2, 5)
Requirements
Description of the Assignment: This continues the development of a MSN EBP scholarly project by identifying and reviewing a minimum of ten scholarly, peer-reviewed research articles in support of the practice change intervention identified in the PICOT question.
Criteria for Content
Review ten (10) scholarly, peer-reviewed research articles in support of the practice change intervention.
Complete the Research Summary Table Template (Links to an external site.)
State the PICOT question
For each article, complete each section of the table:
Write the complete reference for the article in APA current edition format
Write the purpose of the research study
Identify the Research study method
Identify the Participants
Write the data collection methods used
Write the findings of the study
Identify the limitations of the study
Discuss the relevance the study has to your PICOT question
Preparing the Assignment
Criteria for Format and Special Instructions
Use the designated Research Summary Table Template. The title page, which is APA formatted is part of the template. No reference page is necessary since each article will be identified and placed in APA format within the table.
Title page and references must follow APA guidelines as found in the current edition of the manual.
All scholarly, peer-reviewed research articles must be current - within a 5-year time frame unless a valid rationale is provided and the instructor has approved the use of the older reference.
NR505 Advanced Research Methods: Evidence-Based Practice
Week 7 Assignment
Evidence-Based Practice Project Proposal Outline
Purpose
This assignment culminates the evidence-based practice change proposal using the provided Evidence-Based Practice Project Proposal Template. Added components to the EBP change proposal include identification of key stakeholders, data collection and analysis methods, and expected outcomes related to the chosen nursing practice change and PICOT question.
Click the following link for a printable version of the instructions: NR505 Week 7 Evidence-Based Practice Project Proposal Assignment (Links to an external site.)
Course Outcomes
This assignment enables the student to meet the following course outcomes:
CO #1. Integrate evidence-based practice and research to support advancement of holistic nursing care in diverse healthcare settings. (PO # 1)
CO #2. Integrate knowledge related to evidence-based practice and person-centered care to improve healthcare outcomes. (PO #2, 5)
CO #4. Develop knowledge related to research and evidence-based practice as a basis for designing and critiquing research studies. (PO 1, 2, 3, 5)
CO #5. Analyze research findings and evidence-based practice to advance holistic nursing care initiatives that promote positive healthcare outcomes. (PO 1, 2, 5)
Requirements
Description of the Assignment
For this assignment, the student will complete the Evidence-Based Practice Change Project Proposal Template (Links to an external site.). The areas within the template include identification of the nursing practice issue/problem, PICOT question, theoretical framework, literature review, key stakeholders, data collection methods, analysis and expected outcomes.
Criteria for Content
Complete the following sections within the Evidence-Based Practice Change Project Proposal Template:
Nursing Practice issue/problem - describe the area of interest and practice issue/problem within your nursing specialty area. Identify your MSN Specialty Track.
PICOT question - Restate your PICOT question.
Key stakeholders - identify the key stakeholders involved in your practice change project.
Theoretical framework - describe the theoretical framework guiding your practice change project.
Literature review - Summarize the literature review from the Research Summary Table completed in week 5.
Data collection methods - Describe the data collection methods for your practice change project
Data analysis - Describe how you will analyze the data collected.
Expected Outcomes - What are the expected outcomes from this practice change project?
