Professional Capstone and Practicum Documentation The Professional Capstone and Practicum course requires students to select a course mentor. This mentor is not a preceptor, but an individual who will guide students as they work to complete the practice immersion hour requirements for this course. Students are not required to "shadow" their mentor. The course mentor should be someone who can provide professional development knowledge and guidance and who possesse...

In the first week of this class, the student will describe the activity of which they will be involved during the course of the class.This section consists of a single paragraph that succinctly describes the scholarly activity that of which you wish to attend or participate.  The scholarly activity will occur outside of clinical practicum. Examples of scholarly activities include attending conferences, seminars, journal club, grand rounds, morbidity and mortality meetings, interdisciplinary comm...

Not all EBP projects result in statistically significant results. Define clinical significance, and explain the difference between clinical and statistical significance. How can you use clinical significance to support positive outcomes in your project? Solution: The interpretation of the significance of research is crucial particularly in medical and psychology fields and can take the form of statistical or clinical significance. The significance of the intervention can palpable, genuine or c...

Based on how you will evaluate your EBP project, which independent and dependent variables do you need to collect? Why? Solution: According to Smokowski et al. (2016), it is critical to understand the distinction between dependent and independent project variables as it facilitates the framing of study and organizing the elements of study for discovery of relevance and significance of the results. My EBP project entails the use of educational handouts as compared to technology-oriented interve...

In order to evaluate an evidence-based practice project, it is important to be able to determine the effectiveness of your change. Discuss one way you will be able to evaluate whether your project made a difference in practice. Solution: The main objective of evaluation of outcomes is to interpret the results and subsequently measure the degree of impact of the project through evaluating the outcomes of the interventions applied.  According to LoBiondo-Wood and Haber (2017), measurement of the...

Describe one internal and one external method for the dissemination of your EBP project results. For example, an internal method may be the hospital board, and an external method may be a professional nursing organization. Discuss why it is important to report your results to both of these groups. How will your communication strategies change for each group? Solution: The process of dissemination of evidence based practice (EBP) results is substantially significant particularly, in the field o...

Now that you have completed a series of assignments that have led you into the active project planning and development stage for your project, briefly describe your proposed solution to address the problem, issue, suggestion, initiative, or educational need and how it has changed since you first envisioned it. What led to your current perspective and direction? Solution The proposed solution for prevention and reduction of adolescent suicide risks is provision of educational handouts for impro...

After discussion with your mentor, name one financial aspect, one quality aspect, and one clinical aspect that need to be taken into account for developing the evidence-based practice project. Explain how your proposal will directly and indirectly impact each of the aspects.  Solution: In implementation of Evidence Based Projects, it is imperative to take into cognizance the resources that facilitate the design, development and implementation of the project. The availability, efficiency and ef...

Technology is integral to successful implementation in many projects, through either support or integration or both. Name at least one technology that could improve the implementation process and the outcomes of your EBP project. Do you plan to use this technology? If not, what are the barriers that prevent its use? Solution: The introduction of Evidence Based Practice (EBP) mandates the medical providers to seek the optimal contemporary evidences available into clinical decision making and pr...

Stakeholder support is necessary for a successful change proposal project implementation. Consider your internal stakeholders, such as the facility, unit or health care setting where the change process is situated, and your external stakeholders, like an individual or group outside the health care setting. Why is their support necessary to the success of your project, and how you will go about securing that support? Solution: The success and productivity of implementation of Evidence based Pro...