Assignment

Instructions: Capstone Project Milestone 1: Practice Issue and Evidence Summary Guidelines

Purpose

Clear identification of the practice issue is the first step in evidence-based nursing. Next, the evidence is reviewed to determine the best intervention to change practice outcomes. Completion of the milestone will include identification of the practice issue using the ACE Star Model of Knowledge Transformation and a review of the evidence that will support an intervention that will change outcomes. The evidence summary will be conducted through the 'breaking down' of a systematic review on your topic for your change project.

Course Outcomes

This assignment enables the student to meet the following course outcomes:

1: Develops and outlines a scientific, systematic decision-making process to integrate critical thinking with clinical judgment to assure safe and effective outcomes.

2: Selects evidence for best practice when planning professional nursing care for individuals, families, aggregates, and communities.

Milestone 1 consists of the completion of ONE form with two worksheets. Complete both worksheets.

You are required to use the linked article and Worksheets or you will earn a "0" for the assignment. In addition, assignments that do not follow the current guidelines or use the required Worksheet or article will be evaluated for evidence of an academic integrity violation.

After the due date, there will be no opportunity for revision or resubmission of assignments that have been uploaded to the submission area. It is your responsibility to submit the correct assignment to the correct submission area.

Practice Issue Worksheet Directions

Choose the ONE systematic review topic that is of most interest to you, or most relevant to your practice situation, from the required List of Approved Systematic Reviews.

Follow the grading criteria below to formulate your practice issue, which must be based on the topic of the systematic review you have selected.

Download the required Milestone 1 Practice Issue and Evidence Summary Worksheets (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. (both worksheets appear in ONE file) to document the practice issue presented and approved by your instructor in the Week 2 Discussions.
Your practice issue will be the same for all three Milestone assignments in this course.

Type your answers directly into the worksheet.

Evidence Summary Worksheet Directions

Develop an evidence summary by following the grading criteria below.

Document this on the evidence summary portion of the worksheet.

You will use this worksheet to incorporate your evidence summary into your Week 4 Milestone 2 assignment.

Type your answers directly into the worksheet.

CapstoneProject Milestone 1:

Practice Issue and EvidenceSummaryWorksheets

DIRECTIONS

1. Refer to the guidelines for specific details on how to complete this assignment.
2. Type your answers directly into the worksheets below.
3. Post questions about this assignment to the Q & A Forum. You may also email questions to the instructor for a private response.

Practice Issue Worksheet

List the topic and include the citation for the systematic review you have selected from our approved list (optional: an additional scholarly source of support):

What is the nursing practice issue you have identified related to the topic you have chosen?

Fully describe the scope of the practice issue:

What is the practice area?

___ Clinical
___ Education
___ Administration
___ Other (List):

How was the practice issue identified? (check all that apply)

___ Safety/risk management concerns
___ Unsatisfactory patient outcomes
___ Wide variations in practice
___ Significant financial concerns
___ Difference between hospital and community practice
___ Clinical practice issue is a concern
___ Procedure or process is a time waster
___ Clinical practice issue has no scientific base
__ Other:

Describe the rationale for your checked selections:

What evidence must be gathered? (check all that apply)

___ Literature search
___ Guidelines
___ Expert Opinion
___ Patient Preferences ___ Clinical Expertise
___ Financial Analysis
___ Standards (Regulatory, professional, community)
___ Other

Describe the rationale for your checked selections:

EVIDENCE SUMMARY WORKSHEET

Directions: Type your answers directly into the worksheet.

Describe the practice problem in your own words with reference to the identified population, setting and magnitude of the problem in measurable terms:

Type the complete APA reference for the systematic review article you chose from the list provided.It must be relevant to the practice issue you described above. Include the APA reference for any additional optional supplemental scholarly source related to the review you wish to use.

Identify the objectives of the article:

Provide a statement of the questions being addressed in the work and how these relateto your practice issue:

Summarize (in your own words) the interventions the author(s) suggest to improve patient outcomes.

Summarize the main findings by the authors of your systematic review including the strength of evidence for each main outcome. Consider the relevance to your project proposal for the Milestone 2 project paper.(If an optional supplemental source is also used, include a statement of relevance to it as well.)

Outline evidence-based solutions that you will consider for your project.

Discuss any limitations to the studies that you believe impacts your ability to utilize the research in your project.