2- Professional Nursing Practice

The master’s-prepared advanced practice nurse is expected to analyze gaps in knowledge or evidence, formulate research questions, and implement solutions for improving practice in one’s specialty area (National League for Nursing, 2010). In this assignment, students will consider an area of interest, identify a practice issue or problem related to the area of interest, and develop a clinical/practice question to guide an evidence-based practice process improvement project

Module 3 Assessment: Project Area of Interest Form Professional Practice Issue

Consider you practicum work setting and environment. Complete the following:
(1) What issues or problems are you working on or want to work on for your MSN evidence-based practice quality improvement project? (This is brainstorming.)
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(2) Thinking about these issues or problems, what internal organization data is currently available, tracked, or reviewed? (What is it that indicated to you that this was an issue or problem? Do not drill down to the details; keep it broad. Do you see patterns developing? Such as between 2-4 am most patients between the ages of 65-85 fall.)
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(3) Based on the data that is available, what is done with it? (Are process improvement plans generated? Are there groups of people that work on this? Such as a Root Cause Analysis group? Clinical nurse specialists? Nurse managers?)
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(4) When this issue or problem is improved / positive change occurs, how will you know you have been successful? (What measures? Can be patient-centered, financial, clinical-based?)
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(5) Identify why this issue or problem is important to nursing and healthcare. (You should include at least 2 scholarly sources here which include 1 quantitative and 1 qualitative design)
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(6) What are the real or potential barriers to you implementing your intervention to the problem? (Identify at least (4) potential barriers.)
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(7) Who (inside and outside) can you connect with to refine & develop this work?
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(8) State your PICO(T) Elements
Answer P – (Patient, population, or problem)
I – (Intervention)
C – (Comparison with other interventions, if foreground question)
O –(Outcomes are qualitative or quantitative measures to determine the success of change)
T- (Time frame)

(9) From you PICOT elements, state your clinical practice or EBP question.
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P – (Patient, population, or problem)
I – (Intervention)
C – (Comparison with other interventions, if foreground question)
O – (Outcomes are qualitative or quantitative measures to determine the success of change)
T- (Time frame)

(10) Quantitative Research

Reflect upon the nursing professional practice issue of interest that you identified. In addition, consider the intervention that you proposed to improve the issue. Be sure to reference and cite the quantitative scholarly source you identified in item 5 from above.

With both the issue and the intervention in mind, respond to the following:

• What type of evidence produced through quantitative research would be helpful to better understand the selected practice issue?
• How might quantitative research findings shape your efforts to improve the issue?
• Describe an example (real or hypothetical) of a quantitative research design that would provide valuable evidence regarding this issue (may refer to source above related to question 5).

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(11) Qualitative Research

Reflect upon the nursing professional practice issue of interest that you identified. In addition, consider the intervention that you proposed to improve the issue. Be sure to reference and cite the qualitative scholarly source you identified in item 5 from above.

With both the issue and the proposed practice change in mind, respond to the following:

• What type of evidence produced through qualitative research would be helpful to better understand the selected practice issue?
• How might qualitative research findings shape your efforts to improve the issue?
• Describe an example (real or hypothetical) of a qualitative research design that would provide valuable evidence regarding this issue (may refer to source above related to question 5).

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