Assignment: Demystifying Research

Assignment: Demystifying Research
Assignment: Demystifying Research
Assignment: Demystifying Research
Week 4 assignment 2 Evidence Based Project Proposal This week you will submit the completed Evaluation Table that includes only your “keeper” studies. This will be added to your final paper as an Appendix. You will also turn in the Search Tracker so faculty can see the steps you took to locate the evidence. This will not become a part of your paper, but it is for feedback only should faculty deem that necessary.This paper aims to provide guidance to nurses,
physicians, medical librarians, and others in the
healthcare community on how to evaluate evidencebased research and integrate it into clinical practice in
order to improve healthcare outcomes. Readers will
come away with a critical understanding of what it takes
to translate evidence into actionable clinical techniques
that reduce medical errors and alter the way their
healthcare institution operates.
The paper begins with a workable definition of evidencebased research, along with a brief history of its origins.
Steps on how to integrate evidence into clinical practice
are then presented. The bulk of the paper outlines, in
step-by-step form, how to critically appraise the
research evidence, using real-world examples.
This paper is based on a live webcast, Demystifying
Research: Simplifying Critical Appraisal, which was
sponsored by Ovid and Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
and originally broadcast March 7, 2012. The following
individuals participated in the webcast discussion:
• Anne Dabrow Woods, MSN, RN, CRNP, ANP-BC,
Chief Nurse of Lippincott Williams & Wilkins and
Ovid, and publisher of AJN: American Journal
of Nursing
• Ellen Fineout-Overholt, PhD, RN, FNAP, FAAN,
Dean & Professor of the Groner School of
Professional Studies and Chair, Department of
Nursing, at East Texas Baptist University
• Maureen “Shawn” Kennedy, MA, RN, Editorin-Chief of AJN: American Journal of Nursing