Fall Prevention - Evidence Based Practice Paper

Identify research findings that are relevant to nursing's concerns with the use of information technology, to communicate research findings, and to critique the current research and epidemiological literature.
Section 1 - Problem Identification - Chosen problem is Patient Falls and Fall prevention in nursing
What is the problem? Provide definition or description of the problem. How are people affected with the problem? What complications occur when the problem is not addressed. What are the statistics of how many people are affected in US in the world?
Section 2 -Guidelines
What are guidelines to overcome this problem? How are the guidelines not working to eradicate the problem?
Section 3-Innovative Strategies
What other types of interventions could help?
Section 4 - Literature Review (Must include 3 current primary quantitative resources) - within last 5 yrs.
Describe the Literature review process followed by key literature review findings.
Findings from Literature Review
Describe the kinds of studies that you found and why you selected the specific 3 for critical analysis.
Section 5 - Critical Analysis and Evaluation of Literature
A critical analysis and evaluation of the literature are reflected in Table 1. You do not need to do a narrative of the 5 primary research studies in this section. You only need to enter the necessary information into the table.
Grading Rubric for the First Draft:
Problem Identification = 30%
Describe the pertinent clinical problem and describe the effects of this problem with references.
For example: If it is resistant hypertension, define what that is. Tell how many people are affected by this problem. Tell what the consequences of this problem are?
Describe the current guidelines that have been recommended to overcome this problem with references.
Provide a rationale for a new and innovative protocol that may resolve the problem (with a protocol that will complement the guidelines that are in existence now or develop a new evidence based practice protocol that is supported by your 3 current primary research articles).
You may find your protocol idea by searching the databases for current research articles or literature reviews on this topic.
You may find systematic reviews or case studies for ideas of discussion in this section, but you need 3 primary research articles in order to develop your EBP protocol.
Only primary research articles provide the details of interventions with the operational definitions that were used as outcome data for the research projects.
Literature Review = 40%
The literature search process is described. The description is how you searched the databases for the primary research articles for your protocol.
The literature review needs to be comprehensive and current.
This means your search process is comprehensive to gain a historical perspective of research for the topic. However, the research that is appropriate for your protocol and critical analysis needs to be current within the last 5 years, in English, and from different sources.
The selected research articles need to be clearly relevant to the proposed innovation.
Your studies could focus on how to reduce a problem in the clinical setting. This could be a new type of hospital-wide protocol, an educational program for nurses to learn the skills associated with the protocol, and strategies to bring about compliance with the protocol.
You should report why you decided that the selected research articles were relevant to your decision to critically analyze the studies.
Review results are concisely summarized and synthesized. This means that you identified the general focus of all of the 3 selected studies and reported the types of research designs that were used to do the studies. Tell why you chose to include the studies for critical analysis and why you excluded studies for critical analysis. Also tell what their interventions and outcomes were. Tell what journals published those selected articles.