Locate a state or national coalition advocating for your approved healthcare policy concern. Who are the coalition partners and is there an identified leader? Can you identify successes indicating strong leadership? What can you add to the content for your upcoming interview from the work of this coalition? Solution: My identified healthcare concern is uninsured in the state of Florida and its solution is the implementation of a policy that provides financial assistance to help uninsured low-i...

Purpose In this course, the students will have the opportunity to identify a healthcare policy concern and community healthcare concern which can be improved with a change in policy, ordinance or the language in existing law. The outcome would be the potential for improved health for a population group.  Students will present a proposed solution or change to an elected official, and provide an analysis of the project.  While students are not responsible for ensuring the implementa...

Identify your selected healthcare concern in your city or state that needs your advocacy with an elected official. What is the impetus and rationale for your selection? Describe the model of policy making that you feel would be best applied to your policy concern and the rationale for selecting this model.  Solution: My selected healthcare concern is the uninsured in the state of Florida. I chose this topic after I learned that the number of uninsured individuals in Florida has been increasing...

Please discuss the four spheres of political action in nursing. In addition, please develop a brief argument sharing how these spheres are interconnected and overlapping by applying an example from your practice. What are some ethical considerations here? MSN Core Discussion Guidelines and Rubric V2 Solution: Nursing practice not only involves basic patient care  but also multidimensional aspects which obligate nurses to protect, promote, and prevent diseases and injuries in individual patie...

Purpose This assignment provides the opportunity for the student to complete their MSN EBP proposal.    This assignment includes the final sections of the proposal which are data collection, analysis, evaluation, dissemination of results, and conclusion. Course Outcomes This assignment enables the student to meet the following course outcomes: CO #1. Integrate evidence-based practice and research to support advancement of holistic nursing care in diverse healthcare settings.  (PO # 1) C...

The lesson for Week 8 asks you to objectively reflect on your current use of evidence-based practice. Throughout this course you have worked hard and created a template for an EBP project proposal. Rather than look to the past, this discussion asks you to look to the future—your future as an MSN-prepared advanced practice nurse!   You are a nurse leader in your future advanced practice track-based setting. You notice that although nurses say they use evidence-based practice (EBP), you...

Using the following steps found within the translation phase of the Practice Evidence Translation (PET) model developed by Johns Hopkins, select a research result reported in a journal article that supports your PICOT/PICo question. Please respond to the following steps. Please note that wording of the steps may have been modified slightly from the PET so that they help with this posting. Include the permalink at the end of your posting.   Using references, identity the research resul...

The difference between statistically significant results and clinical significance is very interesting. For this discussion, respond to each of the following topics. Distinguish between statistical and clinical significance of results. Would it be possible to have research study results that supported the acceptance of the null hypothesis and demonstrate clinical significance? Provide a hypothetical example that supports your answer. If you question the credibility of the results from a...

Purpose: This assignment provides the opportunity for the student to continue development of a MSN EBP scholarly project that started with the identification of a nursing concern and PICOT/PICo question from Week 2. The focus of this assignment is to discuss the research-based literature support for the selected concern, identify an appropriate research design, explain the sampling method, and discuss implementation through the use of a change model. Course Outcome: This assignment enabl...

Data collection is at the center of research because the facts gathered will contribute new information as well as answer the research question. For this discussion, please respond to each of the following topics. Refine your PICOT question. Explain your specific research approach (qualitative or quantitative) and how it has the potential to answer your research question. Discuss you data collection method, addressing strengths and identifying one potential weakness. Identify the actions you...