NURS 6052 Assignment Evidence-Based Project

NURS 6052 Assignment Evidence-Based Project

Is there a difference between “common practice” and “best practice”?

Experienced colleagues may have shared details about processes and procedures with you when you first started at your current company. Perhaps you even went to an orientation session to learn more about these issues. As a “rookie,” you probably limited your questions to those that would help you in your new role.

You may have identified aspects of these processes and procedures that you wanted to investigate further with time and experience. This is the domain of clinical research.

Clinical inquiry is the practice of asking questions about clinical practice. All nurses should use clinical inquiry to question why they do things the way they do them in order to continuously improve patient care. Is it because they understand why it’s done this way, or is it just the way we’ve always done it? Is this standard operating procedure or best practice?

You will identify clinical areas of interest and inquiry in this Assignment, as well as practice searching for research to support the continuation or modification of these practices. You will also contrast the research methods employed in this study.

To Prepare:

Review the Resources and identify a clinical issue of interest that can form the basis of a clinical inquiry.

Based on the clinical issue of interest and using keywords related to the clinical issue of interest, search at least four different databases in the Walden Library to identify at least four relevant peer-reviewed articles related to your clinical issue of interest. You should not be using systematic reviews for this assignment, select original research articles.

Review the results of your peer-reviewed research and reflect on the process of using an unfiltered database to search for peer-reviewed research.

Reflect on the types of research methodologies contained in the four relevant peer-reviewed articles you selected.

Create a 4- to 5-slide PowerPoint presentation in which you do the following:

Identify and briefly describe your chosen clinical issue of interest. This clinical issue will remain the same for the entire course and will be the basis for the development of your PICOT question

Describe how you used keywords to search on your chosen clinical issue of interest.

Identify the four research databases that you used to conduct your search for the peer-reviewed articles you selected.

Provide APA citations of the four peer-reviewed articles you selected.

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Part 2: Identifying Research Methodologies

After reading each of the four peer-reviewed articles you selected, use the Matrix Worksheet template to analyze the methodologies applied in each of the four peer-reviewed articles. Your analysis should include the following:

The full citation of each peer-reviewed article in APA format.

A brief (1-paragraph) statement explaining why you chose this peer-reviewed article and/or how it relates to your clinical issue of interest, including a brief explanation of the ethics of research related to your clinical issue of interest.

A brief (1-2 paragraph) description of the aims of the research of each peer-reviewed article.

A brief (1-2 paragraph) description of the research methodology used. Be sure to identify if the methodology used was qualitative, quantitative, or a mixed-methods approach. Be specific.

A brief (1- to 2-paragraph) description of the strengths of each of the research methodologies used, including reliability and validity of how the methodology was applied in each of the peer-reviewed articles you selected.

By Day 7 of Week 3

Submit Part 1 and Part 2 of your Evidence-Based Project.

Note: Part 1 is a 4-5 slide PowerPoint and Part 2 is the Matrix. Be sure to attach both of your documents (Part 1 and Part 2) before you click Submit.

Submission and Grading Information

To submit your completed Assignment for review and grading, do the following:

Please save your Assignment using the naming convention “WK2-3Assgn+last name+first initial.(extension)” as the name.

Click the Weeks 2 and 3 Assignment Rubric to review the Grading Criteria for the Assignment.

Click the Weeks 2 and 3 Assignment link. You will also be able to “View Rubric” for grading criteria from this area.

Next, from the Attach File area, click on the Browse My Computer button. Find the document you saved as “WK2-3Assgn+last name+first initial.(extension)” and click Open.

If applicable: From the Plagiarism Tools area, click the checkbox for I agree to submit my paper(s) to the Global Reference Database.

Click on the Submit button to complete your submission.