NURS7023 Evidence Based Health Care - Essay Assignment

Assignment 1 summary

The assignment should present as Part A: Intro­duction, body of discussion, conclusion, and ref­erences. 1800 words excluding references and in-text citations.

As stated in the Learning Guide, you are required to write 1800 words about identifying the chal­lenges and describing strategies for implement­ing evidence-based practice in a clinical setting (the focus of discussion).

In general, this is a discussion about evidence-based practice, its challenges and barriers for implementation, and strategies for overcoming these barriers in relation to a chosen clinical setting (your expertise). Please be reminded that the discussion should be around a clinical setting not a specific clinical skill, e.g. medication error or wound dressing. For instance, you could relate the discussion to mental health setting, emer­gency department or surgical unit.

You may consider to discuss 3 to 4 barriers/chal­lenges followed by strategies.

• No headings should be used
• Introduction and conclusion — 100 to 150 words
• About 3 to 4 barriers and challenges —1500 words
• 10% + or — of 1800 = range is 1620 to
  Stop marking at 2000 words
• In-text citations should be used wherever appropriate including introduction
• Reference list is for part A only
• You can use some of the essential readings as reference, but you should use your own literature search to support the discussion.
• Part B — 200 words
• Submit one document including part A and B
• Go through Learning Modules 1 & 2, my advice on vUWS and marking criteria thoroughly

Advice Part A

The assignment should present as Part A: Introduction, body of discussion, conclusion, and references. 1800 words excluding refer­ences and in-text citations.

Learning module 1 is the key for part 1— sim­ply speaking, the focus is barriers and chal­lenges for implementing EBP in a chosen clinical setting and strategies for overcoming.

1. Be careful it's not about general issue in clinical setting, like under staffing, lack of support for staff or miscommunication. But is barriers and challenges for imple­menting EBP in a chosen clinical setting and strategies for overcoming
2. It's not about a clinical skillg. medica­tion error, dressing or fall prevention but a clinical setting e.g. surgical, medical, mental health, rehabilitation, ICU or ED
3. You can discuss all barriers and challenges first then followed by discussion of strate­gies or discuss one specific barriers fol­lowed by strategies, then another one and etc
4. References, minimum 10 and not older than 10 However, for those theory based reference, it can be older than 5 years. E.g. Theory of action was invented by Professor Smith (1921)
5. 1800 word limit +/- 10 % = 1620 -1980 which is safety net. Anything over 1980 will not be marked.

As suggested, part 1 should be outlined as Intro­duction, body of discussion, conclusion and full list of references.