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2). ATLEAST 5 REFERENCES, NO MORE THAN 5 YEARS

3). PLEASE SEE THE FOLLOWING ATTACHED RUBRIC DETAILS. 

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Program/policy evaluation is a valuable tool that can help strengthen the quality of programs/policies and improve outcomes for the populations they serve. Program/policy evaluation answers basic questions about program/policy effectiveness. It involves collecting and analyzing information about program/policy activities, characteristics, and outcomes. This information can be used to ultimately improve program services or policy initiatives.

Nurses can play a very important role assessing program/policy evaluation for the same reasons that they can be so important to program/policy design. Nurses bring expertise and patient advocacy that can add significant insight and impact. In this Assignment, you will practice applying this expertise and insight by selecting an existing healthcare program or policy evaluation and reflecting on the criteria used to measure the effectiveness of the program/policy.

To Prepare:

• Review the Healthcare Program/Policy Evaluation      Analysis Template provided in the Resources.
• Select an existing healthcare program or policy evaluation or choose one of interest to you.
• Review community, state, or federal policy evaluation and reflect on the criteria used to measure the effectiveness of the program or policy described.

The Assignment: (2–3 pages)

Based on the program or policy evaluation you selected, complete the Healthcare Program/Policy Evaluation Analysis Template. Be sure to address the following:

• Describe the healthcare program or policy outcomes.
• How was the success of the program or policy measured?
• How many people were reached by the program or policy selected?
• How much of an impact was realized with the program or policy selected?
• At what point in program implementation was the program or policy evaluation conducted?
• What data was used to conduct the program or policy evaluation?
• What specific information on unintended consequences was identified?
• What stakeholders were identified in the evaluation of the program or policy? Who would benefit most from the results and reporting of the program or policy evaluation? Be specific and provide examples.
• Did the program or policy meet the original intent and objectives? Why or why not?
• Would you recommend implementing this program or policy in your place of work? Why or why not?
• Identify at least two ways that you, as a nurse advocate, could become involved in evaluating a program or policy after 1 year of implementation.

Part 1

Use the article below, chapters 6-8 in your textbook, and the movie (“Miss Evers’ Boys”) to help guide your answers. Most of these questions do not have a right or wrong answer. 

• Was this study unethical in 1932?
  • Why or why not?
  • If you feel the study was ethical, was there a point when it became unethical?
  • Did the study provide valuable information?
• How could the study have been done differently?
• How do you think the subjects felt about their participation?
  • Did they think they were being treated unfairly?
  • Does the answer change over time (1930s, 1940s, 1950s, etc.)?
  • Should they have thought to question the MDs or Nurse Rivers?
• What was the impact of recruiting at churches and schools on test subjects?
• What was Nurse Rivers’ role in the project?
  • What is your opinion of her role?
• Was Nurse Rivers negligent or did she commit malpractice?
  • Why or why not?
• Think of a research question or study pertinent to a specific race, ethnicity, or culture.
  • How would you ensure the ethical recruitment of subjects?
• Imagine you are the nurse in a modern-day, ethical, TSS-like study.
  • How would you use each of the five elements of cultural competence for the selected population?
• Which modern-day, government agencies could be involved in a health-related research study?
  • How might they be involved?

Part 2

Lack of diversity in clinical trials and research has increasingly been highlighted as a problem.

• Hypothesize one reason (whether methodological, social, ethical, or other) why a lack of diversity has been a persistent issue in clinical trials and research.
• What is one potential solution for your hypothesized reason?

Your initial post should be at least 400 words and supported with at least one additional scholarly source.

Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.

The post and responses are valued at 75 points. Please review post and response expectations. Please review the rubric to ensure that your response meets criteria.

Discussion Files

• Hermann, D. H. J. (2001). Lessons taught by Miss Evers’ boys: The inadequacy of benevolence and the need for legal protection of human subjects in medical research. Journal of Law and Health, 15, 147-163. [PDF]

 

M2: Lesson 6 – Discussion

1. Create an original posting with a minimum of 250-300 words.
2. Back up your arguments with reliable evidence.

How to Write an EBP Literature Review

Instructions:

1. Implementing evidence into practice requires nurses to identify, critically appraise and synthesize research.  this may require a comprehensive literature review.  Please respond to the following questions:
   
   1. In your own words, discuss what “evidence” means to you. 
   2. What are “journal articles” and “Peer Review”?
   3. In your own words, describe in detail what a literature review is and how it is useful when making clinical decisions?
   4. Discuss in detail the major purposes of doing a literature review. 
   5. Discuss the various criteria that a good literature review will have. 
   6. What does the acronym IMRaD stand for?

Due: Sunday night at 11:59pm Mountain Time

In this assignment, you will write a paper that analyzes a scenario and considers the relationships between theory, research, and practice in evidence-based research.

Step 1: Read the following scenario.

During the course of your practice as a staff nurse on a medical-surgical unit, the nurse manager and unit-based council state that discharge teaching for postoperative patients will now include information pertaining to wound assessments, care, and dressing changes (as needed). The basis for this change stemmed from the unit consensus about postoperative readmissions with wound infections. The unit-based council performed a review of the literature and has decided to implement a discharge teaching plan that will include specific information addressing wound care.

Step 2: Identify one research article pertaining to this problem.

The article must be from nursing research from the United States and be published within the last five years in a peer-reviewed journal. Suggestions for finding an article include use of the library and journal articles posted to the Internet.

Step 3: Review aspects of theories and conceptual models.

• Consider the various aspects of a theory and nursing conceptual models.
• Consider the purpose of research and how theory and research work together to support evidence-based practice.
• Think of how theory and nursing conceptual models could be used to reflect on the problem in nursing practice described in Step 1.

Step 4: Write a two-four page paper.

Write a paper that analyzes the importance of theory, research findings, and practice as it relates to evidence-based research. Then, using the scenario from Step 1 and the article you identified in Step 2, summarize how the aspects of a theory would help support evidence-based research into the problem described in the scenario. Also, describe which nursing conceptual model would be appropriate for research into this problem and why.

Construct your paper and cite any sources in APA format.

Step 5: Save and submit your assignment.

When you have completed your assignment, save a copy for yourself in an easily accessible place and submit a copy of the paper to your instructor.

In an essay of 1500 to 2000 words, using at least 2 APA style cited references, write an essay in APA style on:

1. A 10th grader is brought to you by a teacher. She whispers in your ear to please look at the forearms of the girl because she suspects cutting. What is cutting? Examine the different reasons for cutting. Who in the school could you collaborate with to help the adolescent? Would you call her parents? Her pediatrician? After you have taken care of the situation, the teacher comes back “wanting the scoop”. What do you tell the teacher? Support your answers with legal reasons for or against your answer.
2. You are a middle school nurse. One of the popular jocks on the basketball team committed suicide over the weekend. It is now Monday morning.  Review the mental health considerations of this issue. Synthesize the information and explain what you would do about the mental health issue, what may follow, and the crisis at school.
3. You are part of a committee to prepare a disaster plan for your elementary school. Review your textbook, synthesize the information, and report what your role would be. Of chief concern are your children with chronic illnesses.