NR 505 Week 1: Identification of Area of Interest Assignment

Identification of Area of Interest Assignment

For this discussion the focus is on presenting the area of interest for the evidence-based practice proposal that is required for this course.

1. State your area of research or evidence-based practice (EBP) interest from NR 500; remember that the topic must be consistent with your specialty track.

2. State your MSN program specialty track and defend how your selected area of research or EBP interest from NR 500 is consistent with your selected MSN program track.

3. Would you like to change your area of research or EBP interest from NR 500? Why or why not?

4. If you changed or modified your area of research or EBP interest, please identify the revised area of research.

5. Defend how your area of research/EBP interest is of importance to the MSN program specialty track you have selected—scholarly references are required.

6. Identify an initial PICOT/PICo question that reflects you area of interest for the evidence-based practice proposal that is required for this course.

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NR 505 Week 1: Identification of Area of Interest Assignment SAMPLE APPROACH

Evidence-Based Practice Interest from NR500

In NR 500 the Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) interest that was chosen was research of healthcare interventions and how it can lower the rates of unplanned healthcare in the rural population.  The use of emergency and unplanned care in rural communities have long been increasing.  Unplanned care is defined as the use of healthcare to include all care sought without an advance appointment, such as visits to emergency rooms, unscheduled hospital admissions, and drop-in clinics (Brainard, et, al., 2016).  Patients in the rural areas seek unplanned healthcare due to their decreased involvement with health prevention programs, low socioeconomic statuses, decreased health education, delayed diagnosis of diseases, and decreased support from caregivers who assist with chronic illnesses (Brainard, et. al., 2016).

Specialty Track and Evidence-Based Interest from NR500

The FNP specialty track will assist with obtaining advance knowledge that can be used to educate patients in the rural population about ways to improve their health. The quality of health in rural areas suffers due to the lack of exposure to proper healthcare, which includes health education, preventative programs, and confusion about the proper healthcare regimen (Brainard, et, al., 2016). This area of specialty will allow research of evidence-based practices that will be the driving force for many quality improvement initiatives, creation of standardized practices, and development of new or improved healthcare policies (Brainard, et. al, 2016).  Compared to the urban population, patients in the rural population seek care that is in the chronic states instead of the initial occurrence of symptoms.  This is due in part to their low socioeconomic status and less health education.  As a FNP who plans to provide care in rural areas, the opportunity to initiate care, education, and provide preventative measures is great.  Evidence-based information can be given to patients in the rural population in order to prevent unplanned healthcare.  The use of interventions to improve the populations’ health status can be the main focus of healthcare.  For example, the encouragement of self-care, compliance, symptom management, and the adoption of health related behaviors can be key to the prevention of unplanned healthcare……..CONT’D

Identification of Area of Interest Assignment SAMPLE RESPONSE

Good post this week.  I think your passion for battling health disparities in rural areas is very awesome.  I come from a very rural part of North Carolina, and they need someone like you to help them.  One segment of our population, the migrant population, have big issues with health disparities.  There is a lot of diabetes and hypertension in these populations.  Because many of our healthcare professionals do not serve this population, they come into our hospitals in ketoacidosis or hypertensive crisis.  There is also a lack of Spanish speaking healthcare professionals as well, which could help to educate them.  I do see the importance of reducing health disparities through education and healthcare prevention.  But,  how can we as healthcare professionals not only educate but follow up on these populations and healthcare prevention?  We already have issues with healthcare prevention in populations without such deep health disparities.  As well, the population you write about having health disparities may not have the ability to afford such technology?  They have issues just affording day to day needs.