NU300M3: Competency Assessment
Evidence-Based Practice: Innovation and Change Worksheet
Introduction
Many innovations in healthcare offer the promise of improved patient outcomes. Healthcare innovations can be prompted by nursing research that provides new supporting evidence for practice. Evidence-based practice innovations require a vision for what is possible and a willingness to embrace change.
Directions
Complete Parts A, B, and C on the following worksheet. All responses should be written in complete sentences. Provide a citation and reference for any supporting resource utilized.
Part A: Current Applications of Nursing Research
Review the research studies designated in the Course Resources.
Choose one (1) study to discuss in the box below.
Describe the issue/problem addressed in this study and its significance.
Which research approach method was utilized to study this topic?
See pp. 196 – 197 of your textbook (Blais & Hayes, 2016).
Explain how the findings from this study can improve patient outcomes.
APA in text citation and reference are required.
Problem and Significance
Research Approach Method
Improving Patient Outcomes
Part B: Future Applications of Evidence-Based Practice
Reflect on problems you have observed in the healthcare setting that have a direct effect on patient outcomes. Think about how some of these problems could be addressed through new/original nursing research.
2. Choose one (1) such problem to discuss in the box below.
Describe the problem and its significance.
Explain how new/original nursing research might be used to address this problem and improve patient outcomes.
Which research approach method should be utilized to study this problem? Why? See pp. 196 – 197 of your textbook (Blais & Hayes, 2016).
Problem and Significance
Addressing the Problem: Improving Outcomes
Research Approach Method
Part C: Navigating Change
1. The implementation of any innovation in evidence-based practice requires change. Reflect on your experiences with practice changes in the healthcare setting. Think about the people and processes that were involved in the change.
Choose two (2) common/motivating forces associated with practice changes you have experienced in the healthcare setting. See p. 290 of your textbook (Blais & Hayes, 2016).
Describe the motivating force.
Give an example of how the motivating force manifested itself in the healthcare setting.
How did the motivating force facilitate or accelerate the implementation of new practices in the healthcare setting?
Motivating Force #1: Description, Example, Effect
Motivating Force #2: Description, Example, Effect
Choose two (2) restraining forces associated with practice changes you have experienced in the healthcare setting. See p. 290 of your textbook (Blais & Hayes, 2016).
Describe the restraining force.
Give an example of how the restraining force manifested itself in the healthcare setting.
How did the restraining force impede or block the implementation of practice changes in the healthcare setting?
Restraining Force #1: Description, Example, Effect
Restraining Force #2: Description, Example, Effect
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