ASSIGNMENT | Week 8 Discussion: The Evidence-Nursing Practice Connection (graded)

Purpose: This week’s graded topics relate to the following Course Outcome (CO).

• CO 1: Examine the sources of evidence that contribute to professional nursing practice. (PO 7)

• CO 5: Recognize the role of research findings in evidence-based practice. (PO 7 & 8)
• Directions

• Discussions are designed to promote dialogue between faculty and students, and students and their peers. In discussions students:
  • Demonstrate understanding of concepts for the week
  • Integrate scholarly resources
  • Engage in meaningful dialogue with classmates
  • Express opinions clearly and logically, in a professional manner
• Use the rubric on this page as you compose your answers.
• Discussion Questions

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Improving patient care and outcomes is paramount to the practice of nursing. As we conclude our learning journey through our world of research and evidence-based practice, it is important to reflect upon your time spent in the course:

• Think about nursing practice and describe one barrier that you feel prohibits nurses from engaging in EBP; share one strategy you could use to facilitate the use of evidence to help improve nursing care for patients.
• Reflect back over your time in the course and describe how your thinking has changed about nursing research and evidence-based practice; describe one new learning during this course that you believe was the most helpful.

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Grading

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SAMPLE SOLUTION

One of the barriers to the use of evidence-based practice is the lack of access to a rich library with ORDER YOUR PAPER AT WRITTASK.COM is the primary source of evidence-based practice as it contains medical journals that carry research findings and recommendations to improve interventions and care plans. Libraries have materials containing current information which can be included in the processes of shared decision making. The library provides important information to clinicians, patients, as well as ORDER YOUR PAPER AT WRITTASK.COM healthcare facilities do not have access to adequately stocked medical libraries within the facilities, which requires nurses to incur costs to access libraries outside of their facilities. This is time-consuming and costly and acts as an impediment to the use of EBP in nursing.  One strategy to facilitate the use of evidence to help improve nursing care for patients is the provision of internet services. The internet makes it possible for nurses to access information that is most relevant and actionable (Grove & Gray, 2018). The internet can help overcome the limitations…