NCS1202D: Evidence Based Practice- Nursing Assignment Task: This assignment is a continuation of…

NCS1202D: Evidence Based Practice- Nursing Assignment

Task:
This assignment is a continuation of assessment 1 in that you are required to apply the remaining principles EBP to synthesise evidence that will help in answering the question that you developed in assessment 1. Therefore, you are required to employ the feedback that you obtained on the first assignment to enhance the clarity of the problem that you have chosen, and then shape your answerable question.
For this assignment, you are required to apply the systematic process involved in the application of EBP to the answer the question that you developed in assessment 1. Using the elements of the EBP process, discuss how you might access and assess the current evidence for best practice options to ensure safe and effective care is provided for this patient. You should consider the following key points:

1. employ feedback on the first assignment to enhance the clarity of the chosen problem;
2. shape (sharpen/ modify) the developed guiding/ clinical (answerable) question;
3. locate the best available evidence to answer the question;
4. appraisal of the evidence and resources to answer the question;
5. summary of the appraisal for recommendations for best practice relevant to the identified need/ problem.

Some important points to consider while preparing/ writing this assessment item:

1. Make sure you refer to the assignment writing guidelines
2. You will need an introduction and conclusion to this assignment.
3. Headings are recommended – you might like to use the ‘key points’ above.
4. Dot points are not acceptable – this must be written in essay format.
5. NB* this is an essay about the selection of evidence for application to practice so you are NOT required to discuss detailed pathophysiology or clinical care. Rather, your discussion should focus on: the process of finding evidence to support the needs of the patient/ appraising the evidence found/ providing a summary of the recommendations from the literature you have appraised to be ‘best’.
6. Make sure you use the marking criteria to focus your preparation and discussion.
7. Include cover sheet, contents page and end-text reference list.
8. Outline your literature search strategy (location of evidence),ideally providing table of search strategy.
9. Follow the ECU APA Referencing Guide (available in Moodle).

Please remember that:

1. All cited references should be credible resources including peer reviewed published journal articles.
2. The principle of assessing the adequacy of your references is that every piece of information should be supported with appropriate citation. So, there is no minimum number of references required.