NR 451: Capstone Project: Practice Issue and Evidence Summary Worksheet
NR 451 Week 3: Capstone Project: Milestone 1: Practice Issue and Evidence Summary Worksheet (graded)
Capstone Project Milestone 1: Practice Issue and Evidence Summary Guidelines
Updated 7/10/2017
Purpose
Clear identification of the practice issue is the first step in evidence-based nursing. Next, the evidence is reviewed to determine the best intervention to change practice outcomes. Completion of the milestone will include identification of the practice issue using the ACE Star Model of Knowledge Transformation and a review of the evidence that will support an intervention that will change outcomes. The evidence summary will be conducted through the ‘breaking down’ of a systematic review on your topic for your change project.
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NR 451 Week 3: Capstone Project: Milestone 1 Course Outcomes
This assignment enables the student to meet the following course outcomes:
- CO4: Develops and outlines a scientific, systematic decision-making process to integrate critical thinking with clinical judgment to assure safe and effective outcomes. (PO4)
- NR 451: Capstone Project: Practice Issue and Evidence Summary Worksheet
- CO8: Selects evidence for best practice when planning professional nursing care for individuals, families, aggregates, and communities. (PO8)
Due Dates
Milestone 1 consists of the completion of ONE form with two worksheets called the Practice Issue and Evidence Summary Worksheets. (Links to an external site.) Complete both worksheets and submit the form by Sunday, 11:59 p.m. MT at the end of Week 3.
NR 451 Week 3: Capstone Project: Milestone 1 Points
Milestone 1 is worth 175 points (75 points for the Practice Issue and 100 points for the Evidence Summary). NR 451: Capstone Project: Practice Issue and Evidence Summary Worksheet.
Practice Issue Worksheet Directions
- A tutorial with tips for completing this assignment may be viewed at https://atge.webex.com/atge/ldr.php?RCID=4905b26a67572323c11b839e3251c96a (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)
- Choose the ONE systematic review topic that is of most interest to you, or most relevant to your practice situation, from the List of Approved Systematic Reviews (Links to an external site.).
- Follow the grading criteria below to formulate your practice issue, which must be based on the topic of the systematic review you have selected.
- Use the worksheet to document the practice issue presented and approved by your instructor in the Week 2 Discussions.
- Your practice issue will be the same for all three Milestone assignments in this course. NR 451: Capstone Project: Practice Issue and Evidence Summary Worksheet.
- Please type your answers directly into the worksheet.
Evidence Summary Worksheet Directions
- Develop an evidence summary by following the grading criteria below.
- Document this on the evidence summary portion of the worksheet.
- You will use this worksheet to incorporate your evidence summary into your Week 4 Milestone 2 assignment.
- Please type your answers directly into the worksheet.
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NR 451 Week 3: Capstone Project: Milestone 1: Practice Issue and Evidence Summary Worksheet (graded) Rubric
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Practice issue statement, scope of practice, practice area Identifies a Practice issue statement that is an independent nursing decision, and is relevant to the systematic review topic chosen from among the list provided in the course. Describes the scope of practice issues. Example: The number of falls in your facility has been increasing, especially during shift change. What do you believe may be causing this? Are there any new interventions that could be put into place that would lessen or eliminate the falls? This is where you begin your initial search into the problem or practice issue identified. Identifies the practice area.
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Practice issue identification, rationale for selections Identifies how rationale behind how the practice issue was selected as a practice issue/problem Documents the practice issue in a logical manner.
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Types of evidence to gather, rationale for selections Identifies and documents types of evidence that must be gathered for review of the Practice Issue. Describes rationale for each type of evidence that is selected.
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Practice problem States practice problem in own words, with reference to the population, setting, and magnitude and in measurable terms. Describes practice setting in measureable terms. Example: Consider the example given in the evidence summary above. The setting is the long term care facility where falls have been increasing and a trend has been identified that it seems to occur mainly during shift change. What do you believe may be causing this? What can be done to lessen or eliminate the falls? How does this number of falls relate to other months that have been tracked?
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Source of evidence Identifies a source of evidence that is a nursing topic that is the subject of a systematic review article. Provides a complete reference for the systematic review article that was chosen from the list provided.
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Objectives of the article/Statement of questions Identifies the objectives of the article. Identifies questions being addressed by author/s. Explains relationship to the chosen practice issue
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Interventions/Main findings summary Summarizes, in own words, suggested interventions by the author/s to improve patient outcomes. Summarizes main findings of the author/s including strength of evidence for each main outcome. Describes the relevance to the Milestone 2 paper.
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Evidence-based solutions and limitation Outlines evidence-based solutions to consider for the capstone project. Discusses any limitations to the studies included in the systematic review that he/she believes may impact use of the evidence provided in their project
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Total Points: 175 NR 451: Capstone Project: Practice Issue and Evidence Summary Worksheet
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