NUR 550 Week 4 Assignment Benchmark Part A Population Health Research And PICOT Statement

Week 4 Assignment Benchmark

In this course, you will complete a 2-part assignment in which you conduct research about a population of focus, develop a PICOT statement, and write a Literature Review. The PICOT statement and Literature Review you write in this course can be used for your evidence-based practice project in the next course so be sure to select an issue you want to continue working on in your next course.

PICOT (Population/Problem, Intervention, Comparison, Outcome, and Time to achieve the outcome) is a method that helps clarify the qualities needed to create a good question out of a practice issue or problem affecting the population of focus. Additionally, the information derived from a good PICOT makes it easier to perform a literature search in order to find translational research sources that can be used to address the clinical problem.

Use a national, state or local population health care database to research indicators of disparity. Choose a mortality/morbidity indicator to identify a clinical problem or issue that you want to explore pertaining to a population of focus. Use this indicator to begin to formulate a PICOT and conduct research on the population.

Write a 750-1,000-word paper that describes your PICOT.

  • Describe the population’s demographics and health concerns.
  • Describe the proposed evidence-based intervention and explain how your proposed intervention incorporates health policies and goals that support health care equity for the population of focus.
  • Compare your intervention to previous practice or research.
  • Explain what the expected outcome is for the intervention.
  • Describe the time for implementing the intervention and evaluating the outcome.
  • Explain how nursing science, social determinants of health, and epidemiologic, genomic, and genetic data are applied or synthesized to support population health management for the selected population.
  • Create an Appendix for your paper and attach the PICOT. Be sure to review feedback from your previous submission and revise your PICOT accordingly.
  • Complete the “APA Writing Checklist” to ensure that your paper adheres to APA style and formatting criteria and general guidelines for academic writing. 

Include the completed checklist as the final appendix at the end of your paper. Refer to the “Evidence-Based Practice Project Proposal – Assignment Overview” document for an overview of the evidence-based practice project proposal assignments.

Benchmark Information

This benchmark assignment assesses the following programmatic competencies:

MBA-MSN; MSN-Nursing Education; MSN Acute Care Nurse

Practitioner-Adult-Gerontology; MSN Family Nurse Practitioner; MSN-Health Informatics;

MSN-Health Care Quality and Patient Safety; MSN-Leadership in Health Care Systems;

MSN-Public Health Nursing

MS Nursing: Public Health MS Nursing: Education

MS Nursing: Acute Care Nurse Practitioner MS Nursing: Family Nurse Practitioner

MS Nursing: Health Care Quality and Patient Safety

4.1: Synthesize nursing science, determinants of health, and epidemiologic, genomic, and genetic data in the management of population health.

Objectives

Description:

In this course, the student will:

  • Explore research articles, nursing and related theories, applying levels of evidence, and theoretical frameworks to identify quality research studies.
  • Demonstrate understanding of scientific inquiry, knowledge generation, utilization, and dissemination in advanced nursing practice.
  • Evaluate the evidence for potential solutions/innovations that can potentially solve a health care issue and improve patient outcomes.
  • Identify gaps in nursing knowledge and evidence-based practice that can potentially be resolved by planning and implementing a practice change project.
  • Formulate a clinically researchable question amenable to an innovative evidence-based practice change
  • Write a scholarly literature review that supports a clinically researchable question amenable to an innovative evidence-based practice change proposal.
  • Evaluate health policy and advocacy issues for the purpose of improving health care outcomes.
  • Engage in scientific inquiry into the state of health care delivery, patient-centered care, and ethical principles related to health beliefs, health promotion, and risk reduction of diverse populations.
  • Propose quality improvement initiatives that advance the delivery of safe, high-quality health care.
  • Use principles from epidemiology, biostatistics, genetics, genomics, and cultural competence to guide comparisons of various patient populations.