- After discussion with your mentor, name one financial aspect, one quality aspect, and one clinical aspect that need to be taken into account for developing the evidence-based practice project on fall prevention in older adults. Explain how your proposal will directly and indirectly impact each of the aspects.
- Now that you have completed a series of assignments that have led you into the active project planning and development stage for your project on fall prevention in older adults. Briefly describe your proposed solution to address the problem, issue, suggestion, initiative, or educational need and how it has changed since you first envisioned it. What led to your current perspective and direction?
- Describe one internal and one external method for the dissemination of your EBP project results for fall prevention in older adults. For example, an internal method may be the hospital board, and an external method may be a professional nursing organization. Discuss why it is important to report your results to both of these groups. How will your communication strategies change for each group?
- In order to evaluate an evidence-based practice project, it is important to be able to determine the effectiveness of your change. Discuss one way you will be able to evaluate whether your project for fall prevention in older adults made a difference in practice.
- Based on how you will evaluate your EBP project of fall orevention in older adults, which independent and dependent variables do you need to collect? Why?
- Not all EBP projects result in statistically significant results. Define clinical significance, and explain the difference between clinical and statistical significance. How can you use clinical significance to support positive outcomes in your project of fall prevention in older adults?
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