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NURS6052N Essent of Evidence-Based Pract Module 5 Discussion DEVELOPING A CULTURE OF EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE As your EBP skills grow, you may be called upon to share your expertise with others. While EBP practice is often conducted with unique outcomes in mind, EBP practitioners who share their results can both add to the general…
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NURS6052N Essent of Evidence-Based Pract Module 1 Assignment EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE AND THE QUADRUPLE AIM Healthcare organizations continually seek to optimize healthcare performance. For years, this approach was a three-pronged one known as the Triple Aim, with efforts focused on improved population health, enhanced patient experience, and lower healthcare costs. More recently,…
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NURS6052N Essent of Evidence-Based Pract Module 1: Discussion WHERE IN THE WORLD IS EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE? March 21, 2010, was not EBP’s date of birth, but it may be the date the approach “grew up” and left home to take on the world. When the Affordable Care Act was passed, it came with…
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NURS6052N Essent of Evidence-Based Pract Module 6 Discussion PATIENT PREFERENCES AND DECISION MAKING Changes in culture and technology have resulted in patient populations that are often well informed and educated, even before consulting or considering a healthcare need delivered by a health professional. Fueled by this, health professionals are increasingly involving patients in treatment…
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NURS6052N Essent of Evidence-Based Pract Module 2 Assignment EVIDENCE-BASED PROJECT, PART 1: IDENTIFYING RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES Is there a difference between “common practice” and “best practice”? When you first went to work for your current organization, experienced colleagues may have shared with you details about processes and procedures. Perhaps you even attended an orientation…
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NURS6052N Essent of Evidence-Based Pract Module 4 Assignment EVIDENCE-BASED PROJECT, PART 3: CRITICAL APPRAISAL OF RESEARCH Realtors rely on detailed property appraisals—conducted using appraisal tools—to assign market values to houses and other properties. These values are then presented to buyers and sellers to set prices and initiate offers. Research appraisal is not…
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NURS6052N Essent of Evidence-Based Pract Module 3 Assignment EVIDENCE-BASED PROJECT, PART 2: ADVANCED LEVELS OF CLINICAL INQUIRY AND SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS Your quest to purchase a new car begins with an identification of the factors important to you. As you conduct a search of cars that rate high on those factors, you collect evidence…
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NURS6052N Essent of Evidence-Based Pract Module 6 Assignment EVIDENCE-BASED PROJECT, PART 4: RECOMMENDING AN EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE CHANGE The collection of evidence is an activity that occurs with an endgame in mind. For example, law enforcement professionals collect evidence to support a decision to charge those accused of criminal activity. Similarly, evidence-based healthcare practitioners…
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NURS6053N Interprof Org & Sys Leadership Module 1 Discussion REVIEW OF CURRENT HEALTHCARE ISSUES If you were to ask 10 people what they believe to be the most significant issue facing healthcare today, you might get 10 different answers. Escalating costs? Regulation? Technology disruption? Social Determinant such as environment/community, education, access/quality to healthcare? …
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NURS6053N Interprof Org & Sys Leadership Module 3 Discussion DQ1 LEADERSHIP THEORIES IN PRACTICE A walk through the Business section of any bookstore or a quick Internet search on the topic will reveal a seemingly endless supply of writings on leadership. Formal research literature is also teeming with volumes on the subject.…