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Brief Task Description

The purpose of the assignment is to enable you to ‘scope’ your professional practice context and identify and analyze the factors impacting and challenging your practice area. Importantly, you are required to articulate an evidenced based research strategy that will begin to address these factors and empower health care professionals and ultimately, improve patient health outcomes.

Task Detail

Assessment description: Frameworks for Practice Report

Genre: Report. Please include a Table of Contents and an Executive Summary.

The purpose of the assignment is to enable you to examine your professional practice context using a SWOC analysis and develop a research question to locate and analyze the literature that is impacting and challenging your practice area. Importantly, you are required to articulate an evidence-based research strategy that will begin to address these factors and empower nurses and ultimately, improve patient health outcomes.

To complete this task you will:

1. Conduct a SWOC analysis (Berend & Crillin, year p 134) to identify the practice ‘gap’ for your context of practice. Do make sure this gap is aligned to a policy that is either not in existence (and hence one is required) or a policy that is not working to its full potential.

2. Informed by the above SWOC analysis, create a research question using the PICO framework for your context of practice.

 

3. Identify a search strategy to locate evidence from the literature that addresses your research question.

 

4. Identify contemporary evidence-based strategies from literature and evaluate these strategies by using a critical appraisal tool (for example the JBI critical appraisal tool) to determine whether these strategies strengthen the research basis of health care practice generally and specifically for your professional practice context.

5. Make recommendations on how these findings can be applied to a relevant policy that is not working to its full intent in your practice area with the goal to improve the health delivery and patient health outcomes in your professional practice context.