HCA 255 Week 2 Analysis Of A Stakeholder Presentation

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Health Care Reform Debate ppt
 
As the health care reform debate moves forward, there has been a lot of discussion about stakeholders and potential winners and losers. Prepare a PowerPoint presentation containing 10-15 slides in which you:
 

Select a stakeholder from among the stakeholder groups described in class.
Describe the stakeholder’s position on health care reform.

Provide rationale. Explain why the stakeholder has taken this position.
 
While GCU format is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and in-text citations and references should be presented using GCU documentation guidelines, which can be found in the GCU Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.
 
This assignment uses a grading rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
You are not required to submit this assignment to Turnitin.
 
 

Also explain how you will implement this new skill in your practice. If sharing a clinical experience use only patient initialsno namesfor confidentiality. What if any was the role of faith in this situation?

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Also explain how you will implement this new skill in your practice. If sharing a clinical experience use only patient initialsno namesfor confidentiality. What if any was the role of faith in this situation?
nursingOrder DescriptionDiscussion Board Forum 3.Topic: Eyes Ears Nose Mouth Throat Cardiovascular System or Peripheral Vascular SystemPrompt: Based on the textbook readings/clinical experience examine 1 new assessment technique utilized to assess the eyes ears nose throat or the heart and blood vessels. Also explain how you will implement this new skill in your practice. If sharing a clinical experience use only patient initialsno namesfor confidentiality. What if any was the role of faith in this situation?book reading: health and physical assessment in nursing by DAmico &barbarito cha 17-18. ISBN # 978-1-269-94853-1

 
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Reward For Performance And Contribution

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Case Study
Home International is a furniture manufacturer and online retailer. The organisation is a family-owned business that was started over 30 years ago, and currently employs 175 people on full-time or part-time contracts in the UK. They have offices based in Oxford, Munich, Santa Cruz, Suez, and Kuala Lumpur.  The organisation is growing and reaching a wider market due to the growth of online furniture shopping.
The organisation has grown during the pandemic, as clients have decided to invest in their homes. More and more people are changing their habits and purchasing sustainable products, which is seen as a positive, because Home International specialise in this area.
However, the business is currently in the process of reviewing all its policies, as Brexit means there have been several changes to rules regarding importing and exporting. This review includes people management processes in areas such as performance and reward. The objective is to cut costs, improve profits and reduce turnover.
Each office has a factory where the furniture is made and distributed on a global scale. Recently, the organisation has seen a higher turnover among the factory operatives who are aged 18 – 32 years old, whereas the office employees stick around for longer, and have an age range from 48 to 68 years old.
You have been tasked to provide the following:
·       Task One: A presentation on ‘Understanding the impact of reward approaches and packages. Also, the role of people professionals in supporting line managers to make reward decisionsâ€
You will also benefit from:
·       Taking advantage of the CIPD Factsheets, Reports and Podcasts, and any other online material on these topics
Task One:  Presentation to key stakeholders
The HR director has asked you to create a documentation which will be delivered to the key stakeholders in the business. This presentation will focus on the approaches to reward and the role people professionals play in supporting line managers when developing reward packages. This documentation will also link in methods of performance management to support line management decisions. You will need to include research around the area of reward and performance management and link in business examples to support your research and show further depth.
Your documentation pages must include:
1.     An evaluation of two of the principles of reward (intrinsic and extrinsic reward and integrating reward with business objectives) (1.1).
2.     An evaluation as to why organisational culture and performance management are important to the principles of reward (1.1).
3.     An explanation of how Home International can implement new policy initiatives and practices in relation to rewards across the organisation (1.2).
4.     An explanation of how both people and organisational performance within Home International can impact its approach to rewards both positively and negatively (1.3).
5.     Using Home International and a second business example, produce a comparison of performance-related pay and intrinsic rewards as examples of benefits offered by each different organisation (1.4).
6.     An assessment of the benefits and drawbacks of how extrinsic and intrinsic rewards contribute to improved employee contribution and sustained organisational performance (1.5).
7.     An assessment of the effectiveness of performance review meetings and 360 degree feedback as approaches to performance management, including a review of the role that the people practice professionals within Home International can take to support you as a line manager, to ensure consistent and appropriate reward judgements are made (3.1).
8.     An explanation as to how line managers can make reward judgements based on organisational approaches to reward (3.3).
9.    A review of how people practice professionals can support line managers to make consistent and appropriate reward judgements.  The CIPD have provided a document called ‘The People Profession: now and for the futureâ€, which can help you with this. (3.2)
 
Your evidence must consist of:
A documentation of approximately 2000 words (+ or – 10%)
 
HR03 – Reward For Performance And Contribution
Task 1: Presentation to Key Stakeholders.
Assessment Tasks: documentation approximately 200 words, with plus or minus 10%. Please save this as ‘HR03’, with your name and your presentation. You also need to provide a briefing paper of approximately 1,600 words. This also needs to have a word count of plus or minus 10%. This needs to be saved as ‘HR02 pack’, with your name.
The Case study: Home International is a furniture manufacture and online retailer. The organisation is a family-owned business that was started over 30 years ago, and currently employs 175 people on full-time and part-time contracts. They have offices based in Oxford, Munich, Santa Cruz, Suez and Kuala Lumpur. The organisation is growing and reaching a wider market due to the growth of online furniture shopping. The organisation has grown during the pandemic as clients have decided to invest in their homes, more and more people are changing their habits and purchasing sustainable products, which is seen as a positive because Home International specialise in this area. However, the business is currently in a process of reviewing all its policies, as Brexit means there have been several changes to rules regarding importing and exporting.
This review includes people management processes in the area of performance and reward. The objective is to cut costs, improve profits and reduce turnover. Each office has a factory where the furniture is made and distributed on a global scale. Recently, the organisation has a higher turnover amongst the factory operatives who are aged between 18 and 32, where the office employees stick around for longer and have an age range between 48 and 68 years old. You have been tasked with the following:
Task 1: A presentation on understanding the impact of reward approaches and packages. Also the role of people professionals in supporting line managers to make reward decisions.
Looking at Task 1 with more detail now.
Task 1: The HR director has asked you to create a presentation which will be delivered to stakeholders in the business. The presentation will focus on approaches to reward and the people professionals play in supporting managers with developing reward packages. The presentation will also link to performance management to support the line manager’s decision. You will need to research around the area of reward and performance management and link in examples to research and show your further depth. The presentation will need to be created in PowerPoint with accompanying slides to support your work.
Looking at this in further detail now by assessment criteria.
AC 1.1 – Evaluate the principles of reward and its importance to organisational culture and performance management. An evaluation of two of the principles of reward, intrinsic and extrinsic rewards and integrating with business objectives. An evaluation to why organisational culture and performance management are important to reward. To ensure that you get your grading sign posting, you need to make sure that you are including examples. For a Low Pass, sufficient examples will be included. For a Pass, confident use of examples will be provided, and a High Pass, strong examples that support your answer well must be applied, and this needs to also link within a case example of your business or a company that you are familiar with. Wider reading must be applied to help you in this answer.
AC 1.2 – Explain how policy incentives and practices are implemented. An explanation of how Home International can implement new policies and incentives and practices in relation to reward across the organisation. Again, you must include examples for each of these areas regarding a Pass, a Low Pass and a High Pass. It is most important that you provide working examples again with your business or business that you are familiar with.
AC 1.3 – Explain how people and organisations’ performance can impact on the approach to reward. An explanation of how both people and organisational performance within Home International can impact its approach to rewards, both positively and negatively. Within this answer, it’s important that you highlight both positive and negative examples and make sure that you are linking this maybe to your wider research and also maybe a business that you are familiar with.Again, this is key with all of the elements of passing this assessment criteria.
It’s recommended that you would probably include one or two examples of positive and negative examples within this assessment criteria.
AC 1.4 – Compare the different types of benefits offered by organisations and the merits of each. Using Home International and a second business example, produce a comparison of performance-related pay, an intrinsic rewards as an example of the benefits offered by each different organisation. And this is AC 1.4.
With this part of the assessment you can use, obviously, Home International and a business that you are maybe familiar with. With your wider research you could also find good examples of performance-related pay and extrinsic rewards. Have a look at some of those wider benefits offered by those different organisations to form a comparison. This question is focusing on the comparison of two different organisations.
AC 1.5 – Assess the contribution of extrinsic and intrinsic rewards to improve employee contribution and sustained organisational performance. An assessment of benefits and drawbacks of how extrinsic and intrinsic rewards contribute to the performance, improved by employee contributions and sustained organisational performance.
We’re thinking here about the benefits and limitations, benefits or drawbacks of both of those extrinsic and intrinsic reward. It’s probably recommended here that you have a look at two examples of each, to help you with writing this question. With this question, make sure that you are constantly linking to those wider researchers and also linking to business examples as and when you can. This information is widely available online and you shouldn’t have too many problems finding this information. You can always contact your tutor to help you if you are struggling with your research skills.
AC 1.3 – Assess the different approaches to performance management. For this question we’re looking at the assessment of the effective performance review meetings and 360-degree as an approach to performance management, including the role that people practice professionals within Home International can take to help you support your line manager to ensure consistent and appropriate reward judgments are made. People practice professionals are known as HR professionals, so that might be something you want to review. Maybe have a look at the role of HR within the reward process, and linking in specifically here with performance management.
Lots of information written on performance management and you must include lots of examples here to your links to the wider research. But you’re looking at specifically the role of effectiveness of performance management in terms of those review meetings and 360-feedback as an approach to performance management.,/p>
AC 3.2 – Review the role of people practice in supporting line managers to make consistent and appropriate reward judgement. We’re thinking here about a review of how people practice professionals can support your line managers to make consistent and appropriate reward judgments. The CIPD have a very useful document here that will help you with this. The people profession for the now and for the future is very useful and will provide you with a lot of help with this particular question. Again, looking at the suggested content again, those examples we need to be provided and as always, your referencing needs to be throughout your assessment in the Harvard referencing format.
AC 3.3 – Explain how line managers make reward judgments based on organisational approaches to reward. An explanation as to how line managers can make reward judgments based on organisational approaches. We’re looking at the business as a whole here, and that intricate role of what line managers are doing within that judgement. Again, those working examples can be included here and also the links to wider research will also support you with the writing of this question. That is the end of the first task.
 
THIS SHOULD INCLUDE:

– introduction
conclusion with recommendation
EACH POINT HAS TO BE 200 WORDS. 
INTEXT CITATION AS HARVARD 
 
 

brief paper Reward For Performance And Contribution

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Case Study
Home International is a furniture manufacturer and online retailer. The organisation is a family-owned business that was started over 30 years ago, and currently employs 175 people on full-time or part-time contracts in the UK. They have offices based in Oxford, Munich, Santa Cruz, Suez, and Kuala Lumpur.  The organisation is growing and reaching a wider market due to the growth of online furniture shopping.
The organisation has grown during the pandemic, as clients have decided to invest in their homes. More and more people are changing their habits and purchasing sustainable products, which is seen as a positive, because Home International specialise in this area.
However, the business is currently in the process of reviewing all its policies, as Brexit means there have been several changes to rules regarding importing and exporting. This review includes people management processes in areas such as performance and reward. The objective is to cut costs, improve profits and reduce turnover.
Each office has a factory where the furniture is made and distributed on a global scale. Recently, the organisation has seen a higher turnover among the factory operatives who are aged 18 – 32 years old, whereas the office employees stick around for longer, and have an age range from 48 to[NB1] 68 years old.
You have been tasked to provide the following:
 
·       Task Two: A briefing paper on, ‘Benchmarking data to inform reward approachesâ€
You will also benefit from:
·       Taking advantage of the CIPD Factsheets, Reports and Podcasts, and any other online material on these topics
 
Task Two: Briefing paper to inform future reward approaches at home international
For this task you are required to create a briefing paper which will be used to inform future decisions around Home Internationalâ€s approaches to rewards. This document must summarise the research you have carried out around rewards, which will then allow you to create your own reward policy for the organisation.
You will need to gather research for this task which will provide the context for the different environments for reward, what should be included in a reward policy, and the legal requirements, these will help you create and develop your own package.
Your briefing paper must include:
1.       An assessment of industrial trends and sector profiles linked to common reward packages and levels of business activity relating to the context of reward environment within Home International (2.1).
2.       An evaluation of how unemployment and payroll data can be used by Home International to develop insight into benchmarking reward data (2.2).
3.       An example of a reward package that you have created for Home International. This should include:
a.       An appropriate reward package supported with benchmarking data
b.       A job evaluation scheme
c.       The market rates relevant to the roles within Home International (2.3).
4.       An explanation as to the legal requirements in relation to minimum pay and working hours that might impact Home Internationalâ€s reward practice (2.4).
Your evidence must consist of:
A briefing paper of approximately 1600 words (+ or – 10%)
 
Now looking at Task 2: A Briefing Paper to Inform Future Reward Approaches at Home International. For this task you are required to create a briefing paper, which will be used to inform future decisions around Home International’s approaches to reward. This document must summarise the research you have carried out around rewards, which will then allow you to create your own reward policy for the organisation. You will need to gather research for this task, which will help you provide the context for different environments for rewards, what should be included in a reward policy, and the legal requirements.
These will help you create and develop your own package.
AC 2.1 – Assess the different approaches to performance management. An assessment of industrial trends and sector profiles linked to common reward packages and the levels of business activities relating to the context of reward environment within Home International. For this task you are looking at specific trends and profiles relating to reward packages. This will involve you carrying out research around those different areas. To secure a Low Pass, you will need to provide sufficient examples. To gain a Full Pass, you need to have confident use of examples and High Pass will provide strong examples that will support the answer well. The answer should be applied to the case organisation and evidence of wider reading to inform the answer.
AC 2.2 – Review the role of people practice in supporting line managers to make consistent and appropriate reward judgments. An evaluation of how unemployment and payroll data can be used by Home International to develop an insight into benchmarking reward data. An example of reward packages that you have created for Home International should include the following: An appropriate reward package supported with benchmarking data; a job evaluation scheme; the market rates relevant to the roles within Home International. Again, you will need to have a look at wider information around some of these areas such as pay and also job evaluation.
To secure a Pass, you need to make sure that you are including examples and definitely be linking to wider research with links, to achieve a High Pass and normal Pass and a Low Pass.
Assessment criteria 2.3 – Explain how line managers make reward judgments based on organisational approaches to reward. You need to provide an explanation to the legal requirements in relation to minimum pay and working hours that might impact Home International’s reward Practice.
Remember, this is a global organisation but you should have a focus on the UK side of the business at this point. To have a look at the grading requirements for this, you need to be having a look at information around working time and pay, and these need to be provided within your examples.
To secure a Low Pass, a Pass and a High Pass, you must be including, again, those examples to support your answer and having a look at current data. This is very important when we are looking at the area of pay and working hours because this does change.
 
 
 
Task 2 is a briefing paper to inform the future reward approaches at Home International. For this task, you are required to create a briefing paper which will be used to inform future decisions around Home International’s approaches to reward. This document must summarise the research you have carried out around rewards, which would then allow you to create your own reward policy for the organisation.
You will need to gather research for this task which will provide the context for different environments for reward. What should be included in a reward policy and the legal requirements? These will help you create your own package. Your briefing paper must include the following: An assessment of industrial trends and the sector profiles linked to common reward packages and the level of business activity relating to the context of reward environment within Home International (AC 2.1).
An evaluation of how unemployment and payroll data can be used to develop insight, benchmarking reward data (AC 2.2).
An example of a reward package that you have created for Home International. This should include the following: an appropriate reward package supported with benchmarking data; a job evaluation scheme; the market rates relevant to the roles within Home International (AC 2.3). And finally, an explanation as to the legal requirements in relation to the minimum wage or pay and working hours that might be impacted by Home International’s reward practices (AC 2.3).
Application of concepts, theories and frameworks with examples; work-based examples to underpin concepts; the use of HR terminology; theory and practice integrated; and the syllabus coverage.
This is drawing valid conclusions and recommendations, reflecting and evaluating your own learning and how this will affect current or future practices.
and wirite introducation 
include intext ciation for each paragraph.
 

Public Health Occupations in Saudi Arabia

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How have public health occupations in Saudi Arabia changed over the last 50 years? 
How will public health occupations look in the next 20 years in Saudi Arabia? 
What do you think will drive the changes and why?
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Test order – Do not bid or take

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As a group observe the simulated Home Visit With Sallie Mae Fisher video (http://lc.gcumedia.com/zwebassets/courseMaterialPages/nrs410v_vp01Alt.php)

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As a group observe the simulated Home Visit With Sallie Mae Fisher video (http://lc.gcumedia.com/zwebassets/courseMaterialPages/nrs410v_vp01Alt.php).
Refer to Sallie Mae Fishers Health History and Discharge Orders for specifics related to the case study used to inform the assignment.Using Home Visit With Sallie Mae Fisher and Sallie Mae Fishers Health History and Discharge Orders complete the following components of this assignment:Essay PortionAfter viewing the home visit write an essay of 500-750-words in which you do the following:1.Identify prioritize and describe at least four problems.2.Provide substantiating evidence (assessment data) for each problem identified.3.Identify and describe at least four medical and/or nursing interventions.4.Discuss your rationale for the interventions identified.Prepare this step of the assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.Scripted Dialogue PortionUtilizing the information learned from the home visit health histories and discharge orders write a scripted dialogue in which you provide Sallie Mae with education that describes her problems and the interventions identified to improve her condition. Consider Sallie Maes physiological psychosocial educational and spiritual needs when developing your dialogue.Your dialogue should resemble a script. The following is an example of a few sentences from a scripted dialogue:Nurse: Good morning Salle Mae my name is ______ and I will be your nurse today. I understand you are experiencing problems with ________.APA format is not required for this part of the assignment but solid academic writing is expected.Refer to Home Visit With Sallie Mae Fisher Grading Criteria.portion (overall) is the rationale for the interventions.

 
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Family Health Assessment Part 2 750 Words

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Refer back to the interview and evaluation you conducted in the Topic 2 Family Health Assessment assignment. Identify the social determinates of health (SDOH) contributing to the family’s health status. In a 750-1,000-word paper, create a plan of action to incorporate health promotion strategies for this family. Include the following:

Describe the SDOH that affect the family health status. What is the impact of these SDOH on the family? Discuss why these factors are prevalent for this family.
Based on the information gathered through the family health assessment, recommend age-appropriate screenings for each family member. Provide support and rationale for your suggestions.
Choose a health model to assist in creating a plan of action. Describe the model selected. Discuss the reasons why this health model is the best choice for this family. Provide rationale for your reasoning.
Using the model, outline the steps for a family-centered health promotion. Include strategies for communication.

Cite at least three peer-reviewed or scholarly sources to complete this assignment. Sources should be published within the last 5 years and appropriate for the assignment criteria.
Part 1 attached, please use the paper from part 1 to answer and respond for this paper.

Jazi, a 59 year old man was admitted to the intensive care unit of a large metropolitan hospital with a diagnosis of septicaemia.

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Jazi, a 59 year old man was admitted to the intensive care unit of a large metropolitan hospital with a diagnosis of septicaemia.
Jazi, a 59 year old man was admitted to the intensive care unit of a large metropolitan hospital with a diagnosis of septicaemia. Jazi was admitted to hospital for further treatment of his leukaemia at which time his PICC line site became red and inflamed. Communication with Jazi’s doctor occurred after 48 hours of noted redness when pain and a temperature also presented. The PICC line was removed and peripheral access gained. Jazi continued to deteriorate and at the time of admission to ICU he was pale, markedly short of breath, and had a temp of 42. After the ICU physician’s review he was immediately commenced on a regime of intravenous antibiotics. Jazi’s medical history included severe mitral valve stenosis and chronic myeloid leukaemia.
A few hours after Jazi’s admission to ICU, the shift handover occurred for the afternoon shift. During handover, the NUM informed the nursing staff present that she had received a phone call from the treating Oncologist advising the patient was not for resuscitation (NFR). The nurses continued with afternoon handover however they questioned why the patient had been transferred to ICU as he was NFR. Later in the shift the Oncologist called to see Jazi and indicated to him that the treatment plan was sorted and now the focus was to eliminate the source of infection that had occurred. The Oncologist questioned Jazi as to how long the PICC line had been red and sore and Jazi responded that it had ‘been that way most of the time I have been in hospital, however it did get a lot worse over the weekend.’ The Oncologist did not reply to Jazi. He continued to write up his clinical assessment report however did not document the NFR directive which he had phoned through earlier. This oversight was later dealt with by the nursing staff writing the initials ‘NFR’ in pencil, on the top of the nursing care plan.
The intensive care unit became busy throughout the shift and a nurse from another area of the hospital came to assist in the area. This nurse, Pat, discussed with Jazi his condition, what had brought him to hospital and how his family were coping. Throughout the conversation Jazi identified that he really ‘wanted to have further treatment, but they won’t give it to me.’ Jazi was referring to his cardiac valve replacement surgery for which he had been denied surgery recently. Pat questioned Jazi as to whether he had discussed his options with his Doctor. Jazi replied that he has ‘many times but they won’t do it because there is only a 50-50 chance of success.’ Pat questioned Jazi again…’So you would still want the surgery?’ Jazi replied, ‘I sure would, I need to buy some time. My wife is very ill at home, she has cancer and is completing dependent on me. She doesn’t have long to live, and all I want to do is live long enough for her, because she is afraid of being alone.’ Jazi continued with ‘It’s wonderful that the doctors and nurses are doing all they possibly can for me.’

 
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Identifying A Researchable Problem | Nursing School Essays

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Project: Course Project: Part 1—Identifying a Researchable Problem

 
One of the most challenging aspects of EBP is to actually identify the answerable question.—Karen Sue Davies
 
Formulating a question that targets the goal of your research is a challenging but essential task. The question plays a crucial role in all other aspects of the research, including the determination of the research design and theoretical perspective to be applied, which data will be collected, and which tools will be used for analysis. It is therefore essential to take the time to ensure that the research question addresses what you actually want to study. Doing so will increase your likelihood of obtaining meaningful results.
 
In this first component of the Course Project, you formulate questions to address a particular nursing issue or problem. You use the PICOT model—patient/population, intervention/issue, comparison, and outcome—outlined in the Learning Resources to design your questions.
 
To prepare:
 

Review the article, “Formulating the Evidence Based Practice Question: A Review of the Frameworks,” found in the Learning Resources for this week. Focus on the PICOT model for guiding the development of research questions.
Review the section beginning on page 75 of the course text, titled, “Developing and Refining Research Problems” in the course text,( Marquis & Huston) which focuses on analyzing the feasibility of a research problem.
Reflect on an issue or problem that you have noticed in your nursing practice. Consider the significance of this issue or problem. (Refer to the PICOT question you earlier formulated for me on handwashing)
Generate at least five questions that relate to the issue which you have identified. Use the criteria in your course text to select one question that would be most appropriate in terms of significance, feasibility, and interest. Be prepared to explain your rationale.
Formulate a preliminary PICO question—one that is answerable—based on your analysis. What are the PICO variables (patient/population, intervention/issue, comparison, and outcome) for this question? (once again refer to the PICO question you earlier formulated for me on: Does hand washing and appropriate staff dressing among the surgical ward nurses reduce cross infection during patient management)

 

Note: Not all of these variables may be appropriate to every question. Be sure to analyze which are and are not relevant to your specific question.

 

 

(1) A summary of your area of interest, an identification of the problem that you have selected, and an explanation of the significance of this problem for nursing practice
(2) The 5 questions you have generated and a description of how you analyzed them for feasibility
(3) Your preliminary PICOT question and a description of each PICOT variable relevant to your question
(4) At least 10 possible keywords that could be used when conducting a literature search for your PICOT question and a rationale for your selections
 
Reference:Davies, K. S. (2011). Formulating the evidence based practice question: A review of the frameworks. Evidence Based Library and Information Practice, 6(2), 75–80. Retrieved from https://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/EBLIP/article/viewFile/9741/8144
 
Readings

Polit, D. F., & Beck, C. T. (2012).  Nursing research: Generating and assessing evidence for nursing practice (Laureate Education, Inc., custom ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.

Chapter 2, “Evidence-Based Nursing: Translating Research Evidence into Practice” (Review pages 27–34)
Chapter 5, “Literature Reviews: Finding and Critiquing Evidence”
In this chapter, you focus on conducting a literature review. Topics include how to identify the relevant literature on a given topic and then how to critique the strengths and weaknesses of the literature that you have found. Finally, the chapter examines how to synthesize the research findings into a written literature review.

Houde, S. C. (2009). The systematic review of literature: A tool for evidence-based policy. Journal of Gerontological Nursing, 35(9), 9–12.Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.
This article emphasizes the importance of systematic reviews of literature. The authors present an overview of resources that may assist in conducting systematic reviews.
Krainovich-Miller, B., Haber, J., Yost, J., & Jacobs, S. K. (2009). Evidence-based practice challenge: Teaching critical appraisal of systematic reviews and clinical practice guidelines to graduate students. Journal of Nursing Education, 48(4), 186–195.Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.
This article reviews the features of the TREAD Evidence-Based Practice Model. In particular, the authors of this article stress how the model emphasizes the use of standardized critical appraisal tools and Level I evidence.
Robeson, P., Dobbins, M., DeCorby, K., & Tirilis, D. (2010). Facilitating access to pre-processed research evidence in public health. BMC Public Health, 10, 95.Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.
This article describes a hierarchy of pre-processed evidence and how it is adapted to the public health setting. The authors identify a range of resources with relevant public health content.
Barker, J. (n.d.) Basic search tips and advanced Boolean explained. Retrieved August 3, 2012, fromhttp://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Boolean.pdf
This resource provides a graphical representation of different approaches to research and gives examples of each.
Davies, K. S. (2011). Formulating the evidence based practice question: A review of the frameworks. Evidence Based Library and Information Practice, 6(2), 75–80. Retrieved from https://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/EBLIP/article/viewFile/9741/8144
This article reviews the frameworks commonly used to assist in generating answerable research questions. The author recommends considering the individual elements of the frameworks as interchangeable (depending upon the situation), rather than trying to fit a situation to a specific framework.
Walden University Library. (2012). Levels of evidence. Retrieved from http://libraryguides.waldenu.edu/evidencepyramid
This guide provides a listing of evidence-based clinical resources, including systematic reviews and meta-analyses, critically appraised topics, background information and expert opinions, and unfiltered resources.
Indiana State University. (n.d.). Database search strategies. Retrieved July 6, 2012, fromhttp://libguides.indstate.edu/content.php?pid=118904&sid=1065428
In this resource, the most common types of database searches are highlighted. It includes topics such as nesting searches, phrase searches, and using synonyms of key words in the search.
Library of Congress Online Catalog. (2008). Boolean searching. Retrieved fromhttp://catalog.loc.gov/help/boolean.htm
This web page provides a basic overview of Boolean searches and provides simple examples of key search terms.
Walden University. (n.d.b.). Searching and retrieving materials in the research databases. Retrieved August 10, 2012, from http://libraryguides.waldenu.edu/content.php?pid=162865&sid=1375878
This resource provides tips for searching in the Walden Library. It includes a guide to keyword searches, an explanation of Boolean searches, and tips on locating specific journals or articles.
Document: Course Project Overview (Word document)

Media

Laureate Education, Inc. (Executive Producer). (2012e). Finding resources for EBP. Baltimore, MD: Author.
Note: The approximate length of this media piece is 6 minutes.
In this video, Dr. Marianne Chulay identifies sources where nurses can find evidence to support their practices. She provides several examples of resources that provide specific information about best practices in health care.

Laureate Education, Inc. (Executive Producer). (2012f). Finding sources of evidence. Baltimore, MD: Author.
Note: The approximate length of this media piece is 9 minutes.
Dr. Kristen Mauk explains the process of performing a literature review in this video. She provides advice for nursing students in browsing databases and analyzing sources of evidence.

Laureate Education, Inc. (Executive Producer). (2012g). Hierarchy of evidence pyramid. Baltimore, MD: Author.
This multimedia piece explains the hierarchy of evidence pyramid. The piece offers definitions and key information for each level of the pyramid.