Describe the service area for the clinic and population groups who attend the clinic services.
Describe the service area for the clinic and population groups who attend the clinic services.
The change project is an advanced-level research paper that requires analytics, research depth, and cooperation with your clinical practicum assignment. Attending the live sessions will be key to navigating this challenging assignment and meeting all expectations.
Part 1: Problem Identification and Description
- Identify and describe the problem in clear and concise language. To help you think about what problem you might choose, keep in mind the health or nursing problems of the patient population(s) you currently serve, those you encountered in your clinical courses, or those you plan to work with in the future.
- Describe the clinical setting. Inpatient Acute psychiatric/ Detox facility
- Describe the service area for the clinic and population groups who attend the clinic services.
- What kinds of problems do you see in the clinic?
- Give a clear, explicit statement of the problem and target population, as well as the background of the specific problem relative to the clinical setting.
- Is it broad enough that you can analyze it from many theoretical and conceptual points of view and make suitable plans to address the problem from a number of perspectives?
- Is it of enough interest to you that you are willing to spend most of the semester thinking about it, assessing all its dimensions, planning in detail how to address it, and designing a detailed intervention and evaluation plan?
- Describe the significance of the evidence-based project that could be implemented in the selected setting to the nursing profession. Ask yourself why it is important to you. Consider your own clinical interest.
- Describe clinical observations that point out the knowledge gap, clinical gap, etc.
- Describe the significant research in the area that has been done that delineates the gap in our knowledge.
Your paper should be 3–4 pages in length, not including the cover or reference pages. You must reference a minimum of 3 scholarly sources in your paper.
Use current APA format to style your paper and to cite your sources.
See your Change Project Writing Assignment Resources folder for PICOT resources.
TEMPLATE
Problem Identification and Description Using PICOT Formula
Your name here
West Coast University
NURS 691A: Culminating Experience I
Dr. Tracy Macdonald
Due date
Problem Identification and Description Using PICOT Formula
Give a brief overview of what your paper will discuss. Introduce the topic of the change project, and if you want, why. You will fully discuss this in the next part. Mention that you will identify a current or potential clinical problem in detail, discuss the target population, and what the significance of this evidence-based change project could mean to the population.
Problem Identification and Description
Describes the problem thoroughly, including the target population and history or background information of the problem at the current setting.
Describe the clinical setting, or the service area for the population. Is it a hospital setting, a clinic, outpatient, etc. Is this problem specific to this setting or is it a system-wide problem.
What is the significance of this problem and how is it applicable to nursing? What are some of the potential outcomes of this project?
PICO(T) Question
Give a clear and explicit statement of the problem, written in PICO(T) format. For example: In patients with head and neck cancer undergoing radiation therapy, how does magic mouthwash compared to viscous lidocaine affect pain from mucositis within two weeks of symptom onset?
If you want, you may write your PICO(T) question out noting the specific parts of the format, for example: In patients with head and neck cancer (P) undergoing radiation therapy, how does magic mouthwash (I) compared to viscous lidocaine (C) affect pain from mucositis (O) within two weeks of symptom onset (T)?
Discuss if the topic is broad enough that you can analyze it from different theoretical and conceptual points and discuss some of the possible plans to address this problem. Find references to support this topic.
Significance of Evidence-Based Project
Describe the significance of this project from a nursing perspective. If the problem relates to a patient population, describe the significance of the current practice and the outcomes related to it, and how this change project may change the outcomes for the better.
Discuss current (up to date) research on this topic, and note any current knowledge gaps. For example, using the PICO(T) question above, you could note that current treatment of radiation induced mucositis is initially treated with the topical anesthetic of 2% viscous lidocaine and benzocaine (Singh & Bagewadi, 2022). However, magic mouthwash is a combination of a topical anesthetic, antacid, and diphenhydramine that has both an anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial effect (Singh & Bagewadi, 2022).
Make sure that your research on the topic is up-to-date and try to use references that are within the last 2-3 years, but no more than 5 years old.
Conclusion
Always end with a conclusion where you summarize your paper and repeat the primary
points. Re-emphasize your topic and how the proposed change project will (positively) impace the selected population.
References
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