Preparation
As you prepare to complete this assessment, you may want to think about other related issues to deepen your understanding or broaden your viewpoint. You are encouraged to consider the questions below and discuss them with a fellow learner, a work associate, an interested friend, or a member of your professional community. Note that these questions are for your own development and exploration and do not need to be completed or submitted as part of your assessment.
What are the most relevant sources for best practices with regard to evidence–based practice strategies for your current position and care environment?
What are the most relevant evidence–based approaches?
How do you develop criteria that help to guide evidence–based practices?
What is the role of scholarship in developing the capacity for evidence–based practice?
How do you use scholarly practice to evaluate evidence?
What is a relevant clinical question that would benefit from an evidence–based approach?
What sources from the literature or case studies would help you better define this question?
How do ethical practices and regulatory guidelines impact your approach to leveraging technology in EBP development?
Scenario
Nurses must be able to evaluate sources of data and define a process for evaluating the development of evidence– based practices (EBP). In addition, they must then be able to apply research to a clinical setting. Think about a clinical question in your current practice, or in an area of nursing practice in which you see yourself in the future.
What are the most relevant evidence–based practice considerations to help address that question?
For this assessment, choose an evidence–based practice that employs a specific health or patient care technology.
You may use the following to if they are helpful to complete your research.
Instructions
Analyze the criteria and process used for evidence–based nursing practice.
What is an evidence–based approach?
What are the steps in the process for developing an evidence–based practice?
What criteria are used to develop evidence–based practices?
Explain the importance of effective scholarship and information for evidence–based nursing practice.
What is the role of scholarship and evidence in developing evidence–based nursing practices?
How is evidence evaluated?
Describe a clinical question that can be addressed with evidence–based patient care technology.
Search the literature for an exemplar article of evidence–based nursing using a patient care technology of your choice.
Evaluate the ethical and regulatory implications that impact implementation of patient care technology.
Discuss how you would implement the evidence–based patient care technology for the selected clinical problem in your clinical agency, utilizing appropriate regulatory and ethical standards.
Write clearly and concisely, with correct use of spelling, grammar, punctuation, and mechanics.
Integrate relevant and credible sources of evidence to support assertions, correctly formatting citations and references using current APA style
