Complete the Johns Hopkins Nursing Evidence-Based Practice Appendix E Evidence Appraisal ToolLinks to an external site. Download Johns Hopkins Nursing Evidence Based Practice Appendix E Evidence Appraisal Tool. Once you’ve completed the tool, use your own words to summarize your appraisal of the article. Include the following: Description of the purpose Explanation of research design Discussion of sample Description of data collection methods Summary of findings Strengths of ...

Review the elements included in PICOT questions to guide evidence-based nursing practice. Respond to the questions below using the PICOT Question Worksheet TemplateLinks to an external site. Download PICOT Question Worksheet Template. Using a minimum of 3 scholarly nursing sources, current within 5 years: Identify and describe one practice-related issue or concern.  You may choose to build on the practice issue you identified in NR500NP/NR501NP. Explain why the issue/concern ...

Using the area of interest identified in the Week 1 discussion, address the following: Draft a PICOT question using the standard quantitative PICOT format. Identify your practice question, being sure to include the following information and describe each part of the PICOT question in detail: Population Intervention Comparison Outcome Time Answer For evidence practice to be achieved in nursing, PICOT questions are essential to guide the formulation of th...

Application of Course Knowledge: The student's initial post contributes unique perspectives or insights gleaned from personal experience or examples from the healthcare field. The student must accurately and fully discuss the topic for the week in addition to providing personal or professional examples. The student must completely answer the entire initial question. Initial post must be posted by Wednesday at 11:59pm MT. Two resources must be used in your initial post. One from the weekly re...

Go to your state government web page. Find one health policy enacted within the last two (2) years at the state level. Write down the bill number and the sponsors of the bill and include this information in your initial post. Write a minimum of a one-page critical analysis summary of the policy. (250 words double spaced, APA). Your summary should integrate the concepts of advocacy, population health, and the ANA ethical statements ("The Code"), and course readings, to include a minimum of...

MSN Program Outcome #2: Create a caring environment for achieving quality health outcomes (Care-Focused). MSN Essential VIII: Clinical Prevention and Population Health for Improving Health National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Competencies #4 Practice Scholarship and Translational Science Recognizes that the master's-prepared nurse applies and integrates broad, organizational, client-centered, and culturally appropriate concepts in the planning, delive...

Locate a lay press article from a national newspaper, for example, from The New York Times, The Washington Post, or other national publication. The article should be no more than three (3) years old. Locate an article on one of the following topics: Sex trafficking Environmental global health issue: For example, but not limited to: Safe water, sanitation, disasters, or oral health. Read over your chosen article and respond to the following: Pr...

This paper should clearly and comprehensively discuss a chronic health disease. Select a topic from the list provided by your course faculty. The paper should be organized into the following sections: Introduction (Identification of the problem) with a clear presentation of the problem as well as the significance and a scholarly overview of the paper's content. No heading is used for the Introduction per APA current edition. Background and Significance of the disease, to include: Defi...

Choose a topic from the list provided to you by your course faculty. Apply the concepts of population health and epidemiology to the topic. Synthesize Course content from Weeks 1-5 according to the following sections: Introduction: Analysis of the communicable disease (causes, symptoms, mode of transmission, complications, treatment) to include demographic break down that includes age, gender, race, or other at-risk indicators (da ta per demographics should include mortality,...

This week we are comparing and contrasting epidemiological methods of research; case-control and cohort study methods. Select either the case-control or cohort study method and compare its features, the methodology, to a randomized controlled trial using the following questions. Please format, organize, your responses using each question below: What is the fundamental difference between the method you have chosen (either the case-control or cohort method) and the randomized controlled trial...