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Introduction
Assessing
the relevance and quality of a scholarly publication is an essential skill for
the refinement of evidence-based knowledge. You will learn about specific study
methods and designs, and then you will be able to determine the level of
evidence a study represents in EBP.
EBP
plays an important role throughout the development of your capstone project,
including selecting a researchable topic for improvement. For this assessment,
you will learn about different appraisal tools, including a rapid appraisal, to
apply in the EBP process. You will also learn how to conduct a comprehensive
appraisal of qualitative research and how to translate qualitative evidence
into practice (Melnyk & Fineout-Overholt, 2019).
You
will also evaluate interventions from the evidence-based literature for merit
and appropriateness. Some examples might include a particular type of
evidence-based therapy, a new policy, a quality improvement initiative, et
cetera. Consider these questions:
·        
Would the intervention
be an appropriate solution for the clinical or practice problem?
·        
Is the intervention
feasible for the organization?
·        
What type of resistance
might we encounter?
·        
What impact could the
outcome have on the organization?
Reference
Melnyk,
B. M., & Fineout-Overholt, E. (2019). Evidence-based practice in
nursing and healthcare (4th ed.). Wolters Kluwer Health.
The
purpose of this assessment is to evaluate and critically appraise the available
evidence pertaining to the patient safety issue. This is an important step in
the evidence-based practice process. The evidence should be appraised for
merit, implicit bias, and relevance to the topic. Moreover, evidence should be
from current, peer reviewed sources. Clinical practice guidelines and consensus
statements are usually updated every 10 years. Consider this guideline when
evaluating the current literature.
Scenario
Keeping
with the previous scenario, remember that as Director of Clinical Operations
and Nursing Excellence, it is your responsibility to ensure that the best
practices and protocols are implanted throughout the medical center. This
includes ensuring the use of quality literature.
Instructions
Write
a 5-7 page paper that includes an introduction and thesis statement. Develop an
annotated bibliography that highlights important articles that support the
thesis statement. Based on the evidence presented, propose one or more
evidence-based interventions for the patient safety issue.
1.     
Review the Capella
Library Guide on how to Create an Annotated Bibliography.
2.     
Review the Capella
Library Guide on how to Critically Appraise the Evidence.
3.     
Review the Capella
Writing Center Guide, In-text Citation: Paraphrasing, Summarizing, Quoting, focusing on how to paraphrase.
4.     
Create an introductory
paragraph that includes a summary of the health care safety problem, your
PICO(T) research question, and a thesis statement.
o   
Revise a summary of the
health care safety problem that you have created from one of your previous
assessments.
§  Improve it with details from the evidence and scholarly
writing traits.
o   
Revise your PICO(T)
question based on what you have learned in your research.
§  Apply PICO(T) components within the question appropriately.
§  Refine PICO(T) components with detail and specificity.
§  Compose a professional level PICO(T) question that the
researcher might have used as a foundation for the study.
o   
Write a strong thesis
statement. Review the Capella Writing Center Guide, Writing a Strong Thesis Statement.
5.     
Explain in a paragraph
the critical appraisal tool that you are using to evaluate your articles.
o   
Include a statement
about why you selected this critical appraisal tool.
6.     
Choose five articles
from literature published within the last five years and write an annotative
bibliography for each article. Each annotation should include the following:
o   
Type the APA citation
for each article, and underneath it, include the following in the annotation:
o   
Write a brief summary of
the study in the article in your own words, including the purpose, method,
design, and results.
§  Include examples from the study to illustrate the quality
of the study.
§  Provide scholarly support for the assertions made in your
appraisal of the study.
§  Evaluate the quality of the study by applying a critical
appraisal tool.
o   
Explain why the article
is relevant to the patient safety issue.
§  Provide context about how the study contributes to the body
of literature.
7.     
Propose 1-3
interventions that may improve or solve the patient safety problem.
o   
Interventions selected
must come from evidence-based literature analysis.
o   
Interventions should
also be crafted based on consideration of what is already recognized as best
practice in your state or nationally, knowledge gained through experience and
other experts, and local patient or organizational preferences.
8.     
Write a closing summary
paragraph.
9.     
Submit a complete
reference list of all sources used in the development of the protocol in APA
format.
Additional Requirements
·        
Include the following
headings to organize your paper:
o   
Introduction.
o   
Critical Appraisal Tool.
o   
Annotative Bibliography.
o   
Proposed Intervention.
o   
Conclusion.
o   
References.
PLEASE INCLUDE AI and TURN IT IN REPORTS

As a group, prepare an outline of your presentation (5-10 minutes). This outline should encompass the information you intend to present on the slide and the additional information that you intend to cover. The outline (and presentation) should include:
– background on the topic;
– the research question;
– brief details on the experiment itself (overview of methods, and interesting/clever details;
– brief summary of results;
– application to current knowledge (how this relates to/augments what you already know about the A&P system/topic); and/or
– limitations of the study (what didn’t work, why the conclusions might be limited); and/or
– areas of future research that build on the conclusions from the current study.
Information in Results is accurate
Information in Conclusion/Discussion is accurate
Relationship to A and P is accurate
Limitations of study is accurate