NR505 All Weeks Discussions Latest 2019 September

NR505 Advanced Research Methods: Evidence-Based Practice

Week 1 Discussion

Identification of Area
of Interest

For this discussion,
the focus is on presenting the area of interest for the evidence-based practice
proposal that is required for this course.

State your area of
evidence-based practice (EBP) interest consistent with your specialty track.

State your MSN program
specialty track and defend how your selected area of EBP interest is consistent
with your selected MSN program track.

Defend how your area
of interest is of importance to the MSN program specialty track you have
selected—scholarly references are required.

Identify an initial
PICOT question that reflects your area of interest for the evidence-based
practice proposal.

NR505 Advanced Research Methods: Evidence-Based Practice

Week 2 Discussion

PICOT/PICo and
Practice Questions

The focus for Week 2
is the development of a PICOT question.

Using the area of
interest from Week 1, identify the following.

Create a PICOT
question using the standard quantitative PICOT format.

Identify your practice
question, being sure to include the following.

A questioning part
such as “what is,” “what are,” “is there,” or
“are there”

Population

Intervention

Comparison

Outcome

In
________(Population) what is the effect of ___________(Intervention) in
comparison to ___________ (Comparison) on _____________ (Outcome).

NR505 Advanced Research Methods: Evidence-Based Practice

Week 3 Discussion

Collaboration Café

Your instructor will
be monitoring the Collaboration Café but not participating as this is your
opportunity to give and receive feedback from your peers. The Collaboration
Café is graded this week (50 points). There are no scholarly references
required in this discussion format. Please see the guidelines and grading
rubric below.

This week in your
lesson, there was quite a bit of discussion about quantitative research. In
thinking about your PICOT question for your MSN project, in your opinion and
your experience with your area of interest, what value can quantitative
research bring as you review the evidence to support your project?

NR505 Advanced Research Methods: Evidence-Based Practice

Week 4 Discussion

Collaboration Café

Your instructor will
be monitoring the Collaboration Café but not participating as this is your
opportunity to give and receive feedback from your peers. The Collaboration
Café is graded this week (50 points). There are no scholarly references
required in this discussion format. Please see the guidelines and grading
rubric below.

This week in your
lesson, there was quite a bit of discussion about qualitative research. In
thinking about your PICOT question for your MSN project, in your opinion and
your experience with your area of interest, what value can qualitative research
bring as you review the evidence to support your project?

NR505 Advanced Research Methods: Evidence-Based Practice

Week 5 Discussion

Collaboration Café

Data collection in
research is similar to collecting data during physical and history assessments.
Share a time that you collected data on your patient and analyzed the results
to develop a plan of care. How will this be similar to the data collection for
your evidence-based practice project?

NR505 Advanced Research Methods: Evidence-Based Practice

Week 6 Discussion

Collaboration Café

As you have learned
this week in your lesson and reading, credibility of the results of your
project are extremely important. In reviewing both statistical and clinical
significance, which one of these do you feel is most important to your project
and why?

NR505 Advanced Research Methods: Evidence-Based Practice

Week 7 Discussion

Collaboration Café

Think of a time in
which you encountered a challenging change process (personal or professional)
and answer the following questions/prompts:

Was the change planned
or unplanned?

List the elements that
made this change difficulty.

Who were the people
involved, and what were their attitudes toward the change?

What were some lessons
learned by you during the change process?

NR505 Advanced Research Methods: Evidence-Based Practice

Week 8 Discussion

Collaboration Cafe

Reflect on what you
have learned in this course and give an example of how you will promote
evidence-based practice in the advanced practice setting.