NUR2300 Health Care Assignment
NUR2300 Nursing And Health care Assignment 1
Brief task description :
You are to respond to a clinical scenario by applying the key concepts of evidence-based nursing practice.
Rationale for assessment task :
Contemporary nursing practice requires the use of evidence to improve health outcomes for patients, families, and populations. It is important for nursing students to understand the relationship between the generation of evidence and the delivery of safe and effective nursing care.
NUR2300 Health Care Assignment
Length : 1500 words +/-10% (word length includes in-text referencing and excludes your reference list and appendices)
Course Objectives measured
1) Define evidence-based practice and identify key stages, principles, and processes of an evidence-based practice approach in nursing
2) Define the research process and identify common research methods within qualitative and quantitative paradigms
3) Describe the relationship between research and identify evidence-based nursing praxis
4) Evaluate data and research findings
5) Determine ways to improve nursing practice and patient outcomes by using an evidence-based practice approach to planning, implementing and evaluating nursing care
6) Examine the issues and ethical considerations which impact on nursing and health care research
Exemplar/Example provided
No. Information of a general nature will be posted to Study Desk to facilitate an informed response.
NUR2300 Health Care Assignment
Task information
Task detail
Choose ONE of the following TWO scenarios to inform your response to the task required for this assessment:
- You attend clinical placement at an aged care home where the Nurse Unit Manager informs you that there has been a significant increase in falls among residents over the previous 12 months.
- You undertake clinical placement in a medical ward which identified 30% compliance with hand hygiene protocols among healthcare professionals in a recent audit.
TASK
Using the 5A’s Evidence Based Practice approach, you are to identify the most likely solutions to the scenario of your choosing by outlining the following:
- Ask: Provide the most appropriate research question for the problem in the scenario you chose. Justify your question (150 words)
- Access: Search and synthesise literature to identify the most up-to-date interventions/strategies for achieving evidence-based practice (500 words)
- Appraise: Evaluate the quality of evidence identified using appropriate resources (250 words)
- Apply: Identify barriers and enablers of interventions you have identified by searching and discussing the literature (250 words)
- Assess: Identify and explain ways you would measure the success of interventions against the problem identified referring to the literature. (150 words)
Please include an introduction and draw conclusions as related to evidence-based practice
NUR2300 Health Care Assignment
Writing Style : This assessment piece will be written in the form of an academic essay providing references to relevant peer reviewed articles
Referencing/citations
For this assessment you will use APA 7 th referencing style.
Sources: You are expected to justify every statement of fact with a valid/peer-reviewed reference.
In text citations: You must include in-text citations in the body of your work. Each new point or piece of evidence must be attributed (via in-text citation) to the source.
Formatting Style
Times New Roman, Size 12, 1.5 spaced. Headings are permitted. No graphics, coloured texts or title pages.
Resources available to complete task
Refer to the NUR2300 StudyDesk