Leading change through evidence based practice

Week 6: Assignment: Leading Change through Evidence-Based Practice

Nurse leaders play a major role in establishing a culture in which nursing practice is guided by evidence. To do this, leaders must establish expectations supported by departmental policy that encourage clinical nurses to actively incorporate evidence into daily decision making. This can produce challenges for the often overburdened nurse leader who must overcome the frequently sited barriers to EBP implementation: lack of time, inadequate knowledge and skills, lack of EBP mentors, and resistance to change.

This assignment is to assist the baccalaureate nursing students in understanding the importance of evidence-based practice (EBP) by identifying clinical nursing problems observed in practice, searching the literature for evidence related to the problem and presenting it in a systematic and organized method.

Choose one of the areas listed below and conduct systematic research to determine the EBP guidelines for this issue. Provide supporting research when discussing the importance of EBP in this area and its correlation to patient safety and positive patient outcomes.

EBP Topics:

Communication involving changes in a patients status. ( i choose this one)

Soft skills that improve patient interaction.

Training and onboarding new nurses.

Shift scheduling and the effect on care.

Infection control practices

Recognizing alarm fatigue

Nurse-to-nurse shift change.

Patient care and discharge.

Utilize the five As of EBP in your paper:

Ask: Formulate answerable clinical questions about a patient, problem, intervention, or outcome.

Acquire: Search for relevant evidence to answer questions.

Appraise: Determine whether or not the evidence is high-quality and valuable.

Apply: Make clinical decisions utilizing the best available evidence.

Assess: Evaluate the outcome of applying the evidence to the patients situation.

All papers should be written using full APA style— in-text references and a final reference list. You must use level headings in all scholarly papers. Level headings announce the topic you are addressing in the body of the paper and correspond with the grading rubric; this includes the 5 “A’s” of EBP on this paper. Papers are limited to a total of 5 pages (excluding the title page, and full reference list).

No less than 6 references are expected. All references must be from professional sources. The majority of all references must be primary source, research/data based (SRSU library), original articles.

Follow the rubric for point allotment.