State your area of evidence-based practice (EBP) interest consistent with your specialty track.

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.

 

 

 

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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).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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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?

 

 

 

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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?

 

 

 

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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?

 

 

 

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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?

 

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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?

 

 

 

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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.