Description:
This Assignment provides an overview of how to evaluate evidence-based practice quality improvement in a practice change.
Directions:
- Introduce an overview of a healthcare system practice guideline, preferably where you work or have worked.
- Discuss how different professionals in the healthcare system (Nurses, Pharmacists, Technicians, Nurse Educators, CFO, etc.) are held to this guideline.
- Identify the research/reference used by the system to adopt the guideline.
- Define the evidence used to define the guideline.
- Determine the level of evidence used in the EBP identified.
- Provide an opinion on how well this guideline is followed by professionals in the system.
- Conclude with a concise overview of the guideline and the discussion in the paper.
- Write the paper in 8–10 pages, using APA format.
Rubric also attached in a separate document
You can choose any implemented practice that has been supported by evidence…thus creating Evidence-based practice. So feel free to choose whatever topic provides the best info.
According to our text:
- “The level of evidence plus the quality of evidence equals the strength of the evidence, which provides clinicians the confidence needed to change clinical practice
- Rule of Thumb: The level of the evidence + quality of the evidence = strength of the evidence → Confidence to act upon the evidence and change practice!
- Level I:Evidence from a systematic review or meta-analysis of all relevant randomized controlled trials (RCTs)
- Level II: Evidence obtained from well-designed RCTs
- Level III: Evidence obtained from well-designed controlled trials without randomization
- Level IV: Evidence from well-designed case-control and cohort studies
- Level V:Evidence from systematic reviews of descriptive and qualitative studies
- Level VI: Evidence from a single descriptive or qualitative study
- Level VII:Evidence from the opinion of authorities and/or reports of expert committees” (Melnyk and Fineout-Overholt, 2019, p.18)
