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Week 8: Signature Assignment – Evidence-Based Project Proposal

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Points: 200 | Due Date: Week 8, Day 7 | CLO: 2, 5 | Grade Category: Assignments

Assignment Prompt

The purpose of the signature assignment is for students to apply the research and EBP concepts they have learned in this course and develop a framework for the initial steps of the student’s capstone project. The assignment allows the student to initiate the steps for planning, researching and developing an evidence-based practice intervention project proposal. 

On or before Day 7, of week eight each student will submit his or her final proposal paper to the week eight assignment link in D2L. This formal paper will include and expand upon work completed thus far in prior assignments.

Essential Components of the Final Project Proposal will include:   

1. Introduction– Provide an introduction to your topic or project. The introduction gives the reader an accurate, concrete understanding what the project will cover and what can be gained from implementation of this project.
2. Overview of the Problem – Discuss the problem,  why the problem is worth exploring and the potential contribution of the proposed project to the discipline of nursing.
3. Project Purpose Statement – Provide a declarative sentence or two which summarizes the specific topic and goals of the project.
4. Background and Significance – State the importance of the problem and emphasize what is innovative about your proposed project. Discuss the potential impact of your project on your anticipated results to the betterment of health and/or health outcomes.
5. PICOt formatted Clinical Project Question(s)– Provide the Population, Intervention, Comparison, Expected Outcomes and Timeframe for the proposed project.
6. Literature Review – Provide the key terms used to guide a search for evidence and discuss at least five (5) summaries of relevant, credible, recent, evidence-based research studies to support the project proposal.
7. Critical Appraisal of Literature – Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the evidence, what is known from the evidence and what gaps in evidence were found from the appraisal of evidence-based research studies.
8. Develop an EBP Standard – Describe two to three interventions (or a bundle of care) from the evidence and discuss how individual patient preferences or the preferences of others will be considered.
9. Implications – Summarize the potential contributions of the proposed project for nursing research, education and practice.
10. Conclusion

The outline/template for this assignment can be located

here

. Please use/follow.

Expectations

• Due: Monday, 11:59 pm PT
• Length: A minimum of 8 pages and a maximum of 10 pages (excluding the title and reference pages)
• Format: Formal scholarly paper in APA 7th ed format
• Reference Citations: A minimum of five, recent (past five years), peer-reviewed scholarly references cited in APA 7th ed format.
• File name: Save the file with Student First Name_Last Name_SigAssignment

NOTE: this is the last part of the project, a template  for you to use for the last assignment is below.

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Research Proposal Instructions and Outline

The purpose of the signature assignment is for students to apply the research and EBP concepts they have learned in this course and develop a framework for the initial steps of the student’s capstone project. The assignment allows the student to initiate the steps for planning, researching and developing an evidence-based practice intervention project proposal. 

On or before Day 7, of week eight each student will submit his or her final proposal paper to the week eight assignment link in D2L. This formal paper will include and expand upon work completed thus far in prior assignments.

Essential Components of the Final Project Proposal will include:   

1. Introduction– Provide an introduction to your topic or project. The introduction gives the reader an accurate, concrete understanding what the project will cover and what can be gained from implementation of this project. Your paper should NOT have a heading of “Introduction”. Because it is immediately following the title and the first portion of your paper, the heading is not needed.

2. Overview of the Problem – Discuss the problem,  why the problem is worth exploring and the potential contribution of the proposed project to the discipline of nursing.

3. Project Purpose Statement – Provide a declarative sentence or two which summarizes the specific topic and goals of the project.

4. Background and Significance – State the importance of the problem and emphasize

what is innovative about your proposed project. Discuss the potential impact of your

project on your anticipated results to the betterment of health and/or health outcomes.

5. PICOt formatted Clinical Project Question(s)– Provide the Population, Intervention, Comparison, Expected Outcomes and Timeframe for the proposed project.

6. Literature Review – Provide the key terms used to guide a search for evidence and discuss at least five (5) summaries of relevant, credible, recent, evidence-based research studies to support the project proposal.

7. Critical Appraisal of Literature – Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the evidence, what is known from the evidence and what gaps in evidence were found from the appraisal of evidence-based research studies.

8. Develop an EBP Standard –

Describe  two to three interventions (or a bundle of care) from the evidence and discuss how individual patient preferences or the preferences of others will be considered.

9. Implications – Summarize the potential contributions of the proposed project for nursing research, education and practice.

10. Conclusion

Make a Level One heading from each of the above topics: Introduction, Overview of the Problem, Project Purpose Statement, etc. If the information needs to be divided further, use Level Two headings. This will likely be needed at least in the Literature Review and possibly elsewhere. You can expand and use Level Three if you feel it is needed.

This is an APA formatted paper. It must have a title page page numbers, and a References section.

Outline begins on the next page.

Title That Conveys or Describes the Assignment (Same as Title on Page One)

Student Name (no credentials)

United States University

MSN 563: Evidence Based Inquiry For Scholarship And Practice

Dr. Sandra J. Dotson-Kirn

Due Date

Title That Conveys or Describes the Assignment

Introduction – Provide an introduction to your topic or project. The introduction gives the reader an accurate, concrete understanding what the project will cover and what can be gained from implementation of this project. You should have references here and in the next part, too.

Overview of the Problem (or Problem Statement—You Choose)

Provide a synopsis of the problem and some indication of why the problem is worth exploring or what contribution the proposed project is apt to make to practice. Include a succinct and detailed statement of what the problem actually is. This much of paper is completed with Part 1.

Project Purpose Statement

This is not the same as the Overview of the Problem or the Problem Statement. Here, provide a declarative sentence or two which summarizes the specific topic and goals of the project. (Note: the problem and the project are not the same. The problem is what needs to be changed, done, etc. The project is what you want to do to accomplish this.

Background and Significance

State the importance of the problem and emphasize

what is innovative about your proposed project. Discuss the potential impact of your
project on your anticipated results to the betterment of health and/or health outcomes.

PICOt formatted Clinical Project Question

Provide the Population, Intervention, Comparison, Expected Outcomes and timeframe for the proposed project. This much of paper is completed with Part 2.

Literature Review

Provide key terms (search words) used to guide the search for the evidence and provide at least five (5) summaries of research articles to support the evidence. You could also include what else guided you in selecting your articles—years of publication, type of articles, etc.

Heading of Few Words Describing Article One

Review Article One: what was researched, type of research, number participants, how they were selected, reliability and validity of research, etc.

Heading of Few Words Describing Article Two

Review Article Two: what was researched, type of research, number participants, how they were selected, reliability and validity of research, etc.

Heading of Few Words Describing Article Three

Review Article Three: what was researched, type of research, number participants, how they were selected, reliability and validity of research, etc.

Heading of Few Words Describing Article Four

Review Article Four: what was researched, type of research, number participants, how they were selected, reliability and validity of research, etc.

Heading of Few Words Describing Article Five

Review Article Five: what was researched, type of research, number participants, how they were selected, reliability and validity of research, etc.

Critical Appraisal of Literature

Strengths and Weaknesses

Discuss strengths and weaknesses of the individual articles. You can compare them.

Knowledge Gained from Review

Discuss what is known from the evidence reviewed. What are your findings from the review?

Gaps in Knowledge

Discuss any gaps in knowledge known from the research evidence. Do you still have some questions about the evidence? Is there something the research hasn’t touched on that needs to be researched or that has not been researched enough for the evidence to be strong? This much of paper has already been completed with Part 3.

Evidence Based Practice Standard

Describe  two to three interventions (or a bundle of care) from the evidence and discuss how individual patient preferences or the preferences of others will be considered.

Implications

Summarize the potential contributions of the proposed project for nursing research, education and practice.

Conclusion

Include a few sentences here to close out the paper.

References

Cite references using APA 7th ed. manual. If you use the APA formatting found in Word, it is necessary for you to “Convert to Static Text”. Instructions on how to do this vary according to your computer and version of Word, so if you need instructions you will need to Google to find them yourself.

But I will not accept a paper with the formatting imbedded in the paper. You MUST convert before you submit the paper for grade.

The indentation as it is done here is how you should indent your references. Be sure to double space everything with no extra spacing between reference.