In this first paragraph, provide an overview of the John Hopkins Nursing Evidence-Based Practice Process. Feel free to state why nurses should use this model as a guide to facilitate change. Under each of the second level headers listed below, you now link your identified topic to the John Hopkins EBP Process.

Practice Question

Step 1: Recruit Interprofessional Team

You will be the leader of the team since this is your project. Who will you also include in your team? Make sure you choose relevant stakeholders.

You should have no more than eight members. Do not list your team members by name but instead by position (pharmacists, charge nurse etc)

Step 2: Develop and Refine the EBP Question

Restate your question. Include the PICO elements but make sure you write them in paragraph form and not in list format.

Step 3: Define the Scope of the EBP

Why is this a problem? Give statistics and information to back the scope of the problem. How does this problem impact healthcare on a broader scale?

Steps4 and 5: Determine Responsibility of Team Members

Why are the members chosen important to your project? What are their roles?

Evidence

Steps 6 and 7: Conduct Internal/External Search for Evidence and Appraisal of Evidence

What type of evidence did you find? EBP guidelines? Quality improvement data? Position statements? Qualitative research? Quantitative research? Briefly discuss the strength of this research. This is not where you describe the results of your studies. This is done in the following steps.

Steps 8 and 9: Summarize the Evidence

Synthesize the information that you obtained from your sources. You will need at least four sources. Of these four sources, three must be from peer-reviewed articles. The other source can be from a reputable source. See page 44 of your text for examples of sources you can use.

In this section, you need to synthesize the information from the articles. Feel free to cite multiple articles within one sentence. This section should be one paragraph that is a summation of information from the multiple articles. Be sure and cite all of your references, in proper APA format, from the articles into this one paragraph.

Step 10: Develop Recommendations for ChangeBased on Evidence

What is your recommendation based on the research? Ideally, you will have found enough support in your evidence to proceed with implementing your pilot program.

Translation

Steps 11, 12, and 13, 14: Action Plan

You have not implemented your project yet, therefore, this section will be hypothetical. Develop your plan for implementation. What are the specific steps you will take to implement your pilot study? What is the timeline for your plan? Make sure you include a plan for evaluation of outcomes and method to report the results.

Steps 16 : Evaluating Outcomes and Reporting Outcomes

What are the desired outcomes? How will they be measured? How will you report the results to the key stakeholders?

Steps 17: Identify Next Steps

How will you implement the plan on a larger scale? Will this be applicable to other units or the facility as a whole? What will you do to ensure that the implementation becomes permanent?

Step 18: Disseminate Findings

How will you communicate your findings internally (within your organization) and externally (to others outside of your organization)?

Conclusion

Provide a clear and concise summary. Review the key aspects of the problem as well as the change model. Be sure to include important aspects of the three levels of change for the John Hopkins EBP process.