An Ohio State University study found that fewer than a third of nurses surveyed had health care mentors that were available to help them learn about evidenced-based practices. It is imperative that new nurses need to be partnered with model mentors that are dedicated to seeking out current research. Established nurse leaders need to make more time to seek out current research and communicate when change needs to be made. A way to change this would be to have nurses review a procedure or current concern each quarter for their floor and see how they are rating.  Complacency tends to happen when there is no plan.  

Another barrier that was identified in this same study was that nurses may stick to the tradition or previous teaching that they received when they were originally educated. New nurses who have received more up-to-date evidenced based training in school, may be up against nursing tradition when they come to the workplace.  These nurses may not be allowed or encouraged to implement this new evidence based practice and be orientated to the organization’s old policies and procedures (Nursing Times, 2012). A great way to tackle this is to survey new nurses throughout orientation and ask them if they were taught with different technique.  Once discrepancies are identified, the nurse manager could begin looking into the EBP for that concern. 

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o Select a practice problem of interest to use as the focus of your research.

Start with the patient and identify the clinical problems or issues that arise from clinical care.

Following the PICOT format, write a PICOT statement in your selected practice problem area of interest, which is applicable to your proposed capstone project.

The PICOT statement will provide a framework for your capstone project (the project students must complete during their final course in the RN-BSN program of study).

Conduct a literature search to locate research articles focused on your selected practice problem of interest. This literature search should include both quantitative and qualitative peer-reviewed research articles to support your practice problem.

Select six peer-reviewed research articles which will be utilized through the next 5 weeks as reference sources. Be sure that some of the articles use qualitative research and that some use quantitative research. Create a reference list in which the six articles are listed. Beneath each reference include the article’s abstract. The completed assignment should have a title page and a reference list with abstracts.

Suggestions for locating qualitative and quantitative research articles from credible sources:

1. Use a library database such as CINAHL Complete for your search.

2. Using the advanced search page check the box beside “Research Article” in the “Limit Your Results” section.

3. When setting up the search you can type your topic in the top box, then add quantitative or qualitative as a search term in one of the lower boxes. Research articles often are described as qualitative or quantitative.

To narrow/broaden your search, remove the words qualitative and quantitative and include words that narrow or broaden your main topic. For example: Diabetes and pediatric and dialysis. To determine what research design was used, review the abstract and the methods section of the article. The author will provide a description of data collection using qualitative or quantitative methods.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.