Throughout this course you will be developing a formal, evidence-based practice proposal. The proposal is the plan for an evidence-based practice project designed to address a problem, issue, or conce

PICOT Question

Topic 1

Preliminary Checkpoint

• Identify a health care issue you want to see change.

• Understand the culture of the organization in its readiness for EBP implementation.

• Develop PICOT question.

• Build EBP knowledge and skills.

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Topic 2

Checkpoint 1

• Define project purpose.

• Who are the stakeholders for your project?

• Identify active (on the implementation team) and supportive (not on the team, but essential to success) roles.

• Identify project team roles and leadership.

• Begin acquisition of any necessary approvals for project implementation and dissemination (e.g., system leadership, unit leadership, ethics board [IRB]).

• Feasibility: Briefly integrate the evidence with stakeholder influence to inform evidence-based recommendations.

• Hone PICOT question.

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Topic 3

Checkpoint 2

• Conduct literature search and retain studies that meet criteria for inclusion.

• Connect with librarian.

• Critically appraise literature.

• Summarize evidence with focus on implications for practice.

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Topic 4

Checkpoint 3

• Begin formulating a detailed plan for implementation of evidence.

• Include who must know about the project, when they will know, how they will know.

• Connect the evidence and the project.

• Identify and address known barriers and facilitators of project.

• Define post-project outcome indicators of a successful project.

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Topic 5

Checkpoint 4

• Define baseline data collection source(s) (e.g., existing data set, electronic health record), methods, and measures.

• Identify resources (human, fiscal, and other) necessary to complete project.

• Gather outcome measures.

• Write data collection protocol.

• Write the project protocol (data collection fits in this document).

• Finalize any necessary approvals for project implementation and dissemination (e.g., system leadership, unit leadership, IRB).

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Topic 6

Checkpoint 5

• Finalize protocol for implementation of evidence.

• Complete final data collection for project evaluation.

• Include specific plan for how the evaluation will take place: who, what, when, where and how, and communication mechanisms to stakeholders.

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Topic 7

Checkpoint 6

• Complete proposal.

• Develop proposal presentation.

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Topic 8

Checkpoint 7

• Present proposal.

• Review proposals, addressing new questions generated from process of the peer review.

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