28 Jan Understand where to find

MSN6021 – Biopsychosocial Concepts for Advanced Nursing Practice I

Week 5 Discussion

DQ1 Evidence in Clinical Practice Goal Setting

This discussion will be based upon the Vila Health: Using Evidence to Drive Improvement media piece. In your initial discussion post, address the following. Be sure to follow the requirements for initial postings found in the Faculty Expectations Message (FEM).

Analyze the data presented in the Vila Health: Using Evidence to Drive Improvement media piece.

How does the data depict the current best practices?

How do clinical practice guidelines, evidence-based practice, and governmental or regulatory practice standards and policies relate to the data in the media piece?

Based on your analysis of the data presented which areas need to be improved?

Why is there a need for improvement?

In other words, what would a gap analysis of the data tell you are the low performing areas?

Using the professional, best practice, or governmental guidelines and standards you found, what are appropriate goals to aim for?

Response Guidelines

In your response post, address the following. Be sure to follow the requirements for response posts found in the Faculty Expectations Message (FEM).

Offer a critique of your peer’s suggested clinical improvements. Consider the following:

What aspects of their analysis were done well?

Why do you think these aspects were done well?

What aspects of their analysis could be improved upon?

How could these aspects be improved upon?

Learning Components

This activity will help you achieve the following learning components:

Identify data that illustrates underperformance.

Relate data to clinical best practices and governmental or regulatory practice standards and policies.

Use data to help set goals to improve performance.

Identify data that illustrates acceptable performance.

Apply APA formatting.

Identify contemporary evidence (from within the last five years) relevant to a specific topic.

Resources

Discussion Participation Scoring Guide.

Vila Health: Using Evidence to Drive Improvement | Transcript.

Peer Review.

DQ2 Where Do You Look for Evidence?

This discussion is focused on creating collaborative discourse between you and your peers centered around the topic of where you go to look for evidence or resources for setting goals or treating a condition. If applicable, discuss this in the context of an absence of existing guidelines or policies.

For your initial post, address the following. Be sure to follow the requirements for initial postings found in the Faculty Expectations Message (FEM).

Where do you look for resources and evidence to help you get started when treating a specific condition?

Where do you look for resources and evidence to help you get started when setting clinical goals?

When there are no guidelines or policies for setting clinical goals, where do you look for resources and evidence to help you get started?

How do you use these resources and evidence to begin constructing evidence-based treatment or developing evidence-based goals?

Response Guidelines

In your response post, address one or more of the following. Be sure to follow the requirements for response posts found in the Faculty Expectations Message (FEM).

Share with your peer an additional resource or way to search out evidence that you use in your practice.

Discuss how you could envision yourself using one or more of the resources that your peer has shared.

Learning Components

This activity will help you achieve the following learning components:

Understand where to find evidence.

Apply APA formatting.

Resources

Discussion Participation Scoring Guide.