DEVELOPING A CULTURE OF EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE | HOMEWORK #1 SOLUTION

DEVELOPING A CULTURE OF EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE

As your EBP skills grow, you may be called upon to share your expertise with others. While EBP practice is often conducted with unique outcomes in mind, EBP practitioners who share their results can both add to the general body of knowledge and serve as an advocate for the application of EBP.

In this Discussion, you will explore strategies for disseminating EBP within your organization, community, or industry.

To Prepare:

• Review the Resources and reflect on the various strategies presented throughout the course that may be helpful in disseminating effective and widely cited EBP. DEVELOPING A CULTURE OF EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE
  • This may include: unit-level or organizational-level presentations, poster presentations, and podium presentations at organizational, local, regional, state, and national levels, as well as publication in peer-reviewed journals.
• Reflect on which type of dissemination strategy you might use to communicate EBP.

BY DAY 3 OF WEEK 9

Post at least two dissemination strategies you would be most inclined to use and explain why. Explain which dissemination strategies you would be least inclined to use and explain why. Identify at least two barriers you might encounter when using the dissemination strategies you are most inclined to use. Be specific and provide examples. Explain how you might overcome the barriers you identified. DEVELOPING A CULTURE OF EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE

Steps in Disseminating Evidence Through Publication

• Find a mentor or collaborate on a joint writing project with experienced author(s)
• Generate the general concept/idea
• Decide what type of publication the idea would best fit
• Plan and organize the manuscript outline
• Select a journal (see next slide)
• Develop the content
• Develop a timeline for completion of manuscript sections, including literature review
• Proofread the manuscript before submitting it

Assessing Resources Available for Teaching EBP

Assessment should include:

• Assessment of institutional climate for resource allocation to EBP
• Assessment of educators’ knowledge of EBP
• Assessment of computer literacy
• Assessment of availability of a knowledgeable medical librarian and evidence databases
• Assessment of financial support
• Melnyk, B. M., & Fineout-Overholt, E. (2018). Evidence-based practice in nursing & healthcare: A guide to best practice(4th ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Wolters Kluwer. DEVELOPING A CULTURE OF EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE
  • Chapter 10, “The Role of Outcomes on Evidence-based Quality Improvement and enhancing and Evaluating Practice Changes” (pp. 293–312)
  • Chapter 12, “Leadership Strategies for Creating and Sustaining Evidence-based Practice Organizations” (pp. 328–343)
  • Chapter 14, “Models to Guide Implementation and Sustainability of Evidence-based Practice” (pp. 378–427)
• Gallagher-Ford, L., Fineout-Overhold, E., Melnyk, B.M. &  Stillwell, S.B. (2011). Evidence-based practice step-by-step:  Implementing an evidence-based practice changeLinks to an external site.. American Journal of Nursing, 111(3), 54-60.
• Newhouse, R. P., Dearholt, S., Poe, S., Pugh, L. C., & White, K. M. (2007). Organizational change strategies for evidence-based practiceLinks to an external site.Journal of Nursing Administration, 37(12), 552–557. doi:0.1097/01.NNA.0000302384.91366.8f. DEVELOPING A CULTURE OF EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE
• Melnyk, B. M. (2012). Achieving a high-reliability organization through implementation of the ARCC model for systemwide sustainability of evidence-based practice.Links to an external site.Nursing Administration Quarterly, 36(2), 127–135. doi:10.1097/NAQ.0b013e318249fb6a
• Melnyk, B. M., Fineout-Overholt, E., Gallagher-Ford, L., & Stillwell, S. B. (2011). Evidence-based practice, step by step: Sustaining evidence-based practice through organizational policies and an innovative model.Links to an external site.American Journal of Nursing, 111(9), 57–60. DEVELOPING A CULTURE OF EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE doi:10.1097/01.NAJ.0000405063.97774.0e
• Melnyk, B. M., Fineout-Overholt, E., Giggleman, M., & Choy, K. (2017). A test of the ARCC© model improves implementation of evidence-based practice, healthcare culture, and patient outcomesLinks to an external site.. Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing, 14(1), 5–9. doi:10.1111/wvn.12188