Rsearch Methods for Nursing (NUR2300)

NUR2300 Research Methods for Nursing Assignment 2

FORMATTING:

• Typed responses
• Times New Roman, Size 12 Font
• Double line spacing
• No cover sheet required
• Header including your name and student number on each page of the assignment
• Type your responses directly into the Assignment 2 Marking Criteria and Template. No need for additional or different headings.

REFERENCING:

• APA (6th Edition)
• Use of in text referencing throughout your assignment
• Full list of references provided on a separate page at the end of your assignment

Identifying Recommendations for Practice

1. Refer back to the literature which you had located an analysed as part of Assignment 1 (your 15 sources of evidence). Reflect on the key findings from across the evidence, in relation to recommended areas of nursing practice that could be changed to improve patient care.

2. From this published research, your task is to identify and describe three (3) recommendations for nursing practice based on the research literature.

Your description should include:

• How the recommendation may lead to improvements in patient care
• How the recommendation may lead to a change in the way nurses provide care (e.g. assessment, communication)
• The significance or importance of the recommendation for nursing practice or patient care
• The strength of the evidence that supports the change (i.e. hierarchy of evidence)
• A description of the recommended practice change
• In text referencing (this should reflect the number of references that support each recommendation)
• Paragraph style (no dot points)

3. Each of the three recommendations for nursing practice should also have a rationale based upon the criteria for research utilisation outlined by Borbasi and Jackson (2012) in Chapter 8, from page 206.

Example of Suggested Structure for this Task:

Recommendation for Nursing Practice (1): (provide a short phrase or title to reflect the type of recommendation)

Description:

Evidence that supports the recommendation for practice:

Rationale for Practice:

Relevance

Rigour

Applicability

Implementation

Part 3: Strategies to Facilitate Research Utilisation

There are a number of frameworks that can be used to consider stages and steps involved in translating evidence into practice. For this task you are asked to:

Choose one (1) of the following research utilisation frameworks:

• ACE Star Model of Knowledge Transformation
• Iowa Model
• Stetler Model
• Promoting Action on Research Implementation Health Services Framework

1. You are asked to describe your chosen framework in terms of:

Key features or components of the research utilisation framework

How the model can be used to guide evidence-based practice nursing

How this framework has been used before (refer to a published study that has utilised this framework to guide practice change)

2. Based on your chosen research utilisation framework, discuss three (3) important strategies that could assist in facilitating the translation of your practice recommendations into practice.

For example, one framework may outline that clinicians readiness to change is a key factor prior to implementing change. If this is the case, that what could be a strategy to determine this amongst the staff that work in your area? You will need to base your strategies from literature about the framework, therefore you discussion will need to use in text referencing.

Part 4: Ethical Considerations and Evidence-Based Practice

It is suggested in the nursing literature, that there are both moral and ethical reasons as to why evidence-based practice is important for nursing. Discuss the four principles of healthcare ethics in relation to evidence-based practice:

• Beneficence (doing good)
• Non-maleficence (avoiding unnecessary harm)
• Autonomy (respecting freedom of action)
• Justice (fairness)

Part 5: Identifying and Evaluating Outcomes

1. This task links with Part 2 of this assignment. For each of the recommendations for practice that you identified, outline and describe (1) nursing practice or patient outcome which you might expect or anticipate in relation to implementing your recommendation into practice. Your suggested outcomes must be objective and measurable and based upon outcomes identified in the nursing literature (support your answer therefore with in text referencing). So for each recommendation for practice you will need one related nursing or patient outcome.Please write in paragraph style using the headings provided.

For each aspect, support your answer with relevant literature.

Example of Suggested Structure for this Task: (for each recommendation you can set out like this)

Recommendation for Practice 1 (provide a short phrase or title of your recommendation)

Anticipated outcome:

How the outcome could be measured:

How the overall implementation of the recommendation could be evaluated to determine its effectiveness:

Part 6: Disseminating Evidence-Based Practice Outcomes

1. Describe the concept of disseminating research findings (use references to support your answer)

2. Based on the evidence-based nursing literature, outline three (3) effective ways of disseminating the outcomes of implementation of evidence into practice. This could include both formal and informal approaches. (Support your answer with relevant literature).

Student Name:                                        Student Number:

Part 2: Identifying Recommendations for Practice (25 marks)

Introduction:

Recommendation for Nursing Practice (1):   

Description:

Evidence that supports the recommendation for practice:

Rationale for Practice:

Relevance

Rigour

Applicability

Implementation

Recommendation for Nursing Practice (2):   

Description:

Evidence that supports the recommendation for practice:

Rationale for Practice:

Relevance

Rigour

Applicability

Implementation

Recommendation for Nursing Practice (3):   

Description:

Evidence that supports the recommendation for practice:

Rationale for Practice:

Relevance

Rigour

Applicability

Implementation

Conclusion:

Part 3: Strategies to Facilitate Research Utilisation (25 marks)

Introduction

Heading: Research Utilisation Model / Framework

Key features or components of the research utilisation framework:

How the model can be used to guide evidence-based practice nursing:

How this framework has been used before

Heading: Strategies to facilitate translation of practice recommendations into practice

Conclusion

Part 4: Ethical Considerations and Evidence-Based Practice (15 marks)

Principles of healthcare ethics in relation to evidence-based practice

Part 5: Identifying and Evaluating Outcomes (15 marks)

Recommendation for Practice 1

Description of anticipated outcome:

How the outcome could be measured:

How the overall implementation of the recommendation could be evaluated to determine its effectiveness:

Recommendation for Practice 2

Description of anticipated outcome:

How the outcome could be measured:

How the overall implementation of the recommendation could be evaluated to determine its effectiveness:

Recommendation for Practice 3

Description of anticipated outcome:

How the outcome could be measured:

How the overall implementation of the recommendation could be evaluated to determine its effectiveness:

Part 6: Disseminating Evidence-Based Practice Outcomes (10 marks)

The concept of disseminating research findings

Effective ways of disseminating outcomes