Application of Clinical Guidelines

Select a clinical guideline of interest to you that is used in advance nursing practice within your specialty area. Write a 1,000-1,250-word paper evaluating the clinical guideline you selected. Utilize the resources topic Resources to complete this assignment. Describe the clinical guideline and explain why you selected it for your specialty area. Clinical guidelines are created through peer-reviewed research and disseminated through nursing scholarship. How does this process encourage the application of ethical principles in practice? Evaluate the clinical guideline you selected. Discuss the different types of peer-reviewed research that support and inform practice change in the clinical guideline. Explain how evidence-based research applies a logical and defendable approach when making decisions in nursing practice. What opportunities for innovation and changes in practice does the clinical guideline address? Within the chosen clinical guideline, explain how evidence supports effective practice change by evaluating outcomes. What is the impact on new practices? As a future advanced registered nurse, discuss how you can become a socially responsible leader who effectively applies evidence into practice to improve outcomes. Review your personal philosophy of practice and approach to patient care. Consider whether you need to amend your statement now that you have more knowledge of the expectations of the advanced registered nurse. In one or two sentences, restate your personal philosophy of practice and approach to patient care and explain how this statement will help guide you as a nursing leader. Upon completion of your paper, conducted a final review to ensure your selected sources, APA style, and LopesWrite results meet the required criteria. You are expected to perform this review for all assignments, prior to submission, without further prompting. Assignments are graded upon the degree to which they meet the university requirements for these elements. Assignments that fail to meet these criteria may not receive a passing grade. You are required to cite five scholarly resources to complete this assignment. Three of the five sources must be from peer-reviewed journals published within the last 5 years and must be appropriate for the assignment criteria and nursing content. Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.