Research Question
This section should include your PICOT question but also should provide thorough
descriptions of your population, intervention, comparison intervention, outcome, and timing (if
appropriate to your question). This section contains, in essence, your operational definitions of
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the variables in the question. If you use definitions from the literature, be sure to cite them.
Include objectives (general and specifics).
Theoretical Framework
This section should include the theoretical framework that supports your proposal.
Describe the theory or model that served as the foundation for your project. This may be a
nursing theory or theory from another discipline if pertinent and applicable.
Synthesis of the Literature
Synthesize at least 10 primary research studies and/or systematic reviews; do not include summary articles. This section is all about the scientific evidence rather than someone else’s opinion of the evidence. Do not use secondary sources; you need to get the article, read it, and make your own decision about quality and applicability to your question even if you did find out about the study in a review of the literature. The studies that you cite in this section must relate directly to your PICOT question. This is synthesis rather than a study-by-study review. Address the similarities, differences, and controversies in the body of evidence. The literature review should include the following: 1. The objective of the literature review; 2.Overview of the subject under consideration; 3.Particular position, those opposed, and those offering completely different arguments; 4.Discussion of both the distinctiveness of each source and its similarities with the others.
Practice Recommendations
So. . . using available evidence, what is the answer to your question? This section is for
you to summarize the strength of the body of evidence (quality, quantity, and consistency), make
a summary statement, and based on your conclusions drawn from the review, give a
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recommendation for practice change based on scientific evidence. This would logically be the intervention of your PICOT question. Perhaps you found substantiation for usual practice, and you recommend reinforcement and education regarding this best practice.
Project Setting
This section should include a description of the setting of the Project. Include the type of
setting, description of a typical client, and the vision and mission, and organizational structure
and culture. Describe how organizational need was established. Identify the stakeholders.
Describe how organizational support was confirmed and plans for sustainability.
Project Description: methodology
This section should begin with a description of your change model and why it was
selected as the model for this specific change. You should learn about the model from a primary source (i.e., do not cite a textbook). The model that you selected should be appropriate to the change that you recommended (i.e., individual change or organizational change). Use the model to describe the practice change that you recommended even if that is reinforcement and education regarding the status quo. Your change process should be specific to your setting. You can make each step of the model a level 2 heading (title case and flush left) and then describe how you implemented that step of the change in your selected setting. Your change process must be specific to your question and the answer that you found through your literature review and your setting. It should be a well-thought-out process using the model as a guide. Describe the setting for your project. Include a discussion of barriers and facilitators. Discuss your role in the project and the leadership qualities and skills that were utilized for the successful completion of the project. Methodology includes:
• Describe the design
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• Identify the variable
• Describe the reliability and validity of the instrument
• Describe the population and the sample.
• Describe the steps to protect the rights of humans according to IRB criteria.
• Discuss the procedure to complete the study.
This section may be in the first person.
Project Evaluation Results
This section must include how you are going to evaluate the planned change project.
Remember that your plan must evaluate the outcome(s) identified in your PICOT question.
Discuss recruitment and selection of participants or subjects including inclusion and exclusion criteria. Discuss the evaluation design and whether you will use primary or secondary data for the comparison group. Discuss formative and summative criteria for evaluation and time points for the evaluation. Describe and include any tool(s) that are to be used in your project evaluation as Appendices and discuss the reliability and validity of the tool(s). Identify the type of data (i.e., nominal, ordinal, interval, or continuous) produced by the evaluation tool(s).
Discuss how you will control extraneous variables. Discuss the planned analysis of your evaluation data. Discuss how you will protect human rights and ensure the privacy of health information.
This section may be in the first person.
Discussion and Implications for Nursing and Healthcare
Discuss the conclusions you can make from the project evaluation results: review and answer your PICOT question. Examine, interpret, and qualify the results. Discuss the internal validity and limitations of the project evaluation. Take into account sources of potential bias and
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other threats to internal validity, the imprecision of measures, and other limitations and weaknesses of the evaluation (adapted from APA, 2010, p. 35).
Describe the implications of your project and the project evaluation on nursing practice and healthcare. Do not overstate the significance. Identify the impact on the appropriate microsystem. Include any recommendations you have as a result of this project and project evaluation. Also, include what you might recommend with replication of this project and project evaluation and your potential next steps for this practice problem.
Plans for Dissemination
This section should include your plan for sharing the results of your project within the institution and within the professional community. Discuss who you invited to the presentation of results at the institution and how you presented the information. Describe the response of stakeholders to your presentation and about the potential for sustainability. Also, discuss your plans for presentation at regional or national meetings and/or publications. If the publication is
planned, discuss what journal you will submit your manuscript to and why.
This section may be in the first person.
Summary and Conclusion
The conclusion should start with a statement regarding the intent of the paper and your achievement toward that intention. Also, it should briefly say what was included in the paper.
Remember that the introduction is a preview, and this section should contain a summary.
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References
Remember that this is a reference list rather than a bibliography. A bibliography is everything you read to prepare the paper but a reference list is only what you cited. If there is not a citation for a reference, it should not be here. PLEASE make sure that your references here and your citations throughout the paper are in APA format. Take the time to make sure that they are correct. We have already formatted the paper for you with this template.
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