EBP project

In Week 9, you will be submitting your complete EBP capstone project proposal in the project assignment folder. The paper will be a comprehensive discussion on the EBP project you have been building during this course. The sections to be included will be the following: 

1. Introduction

2. The Spirit of Inquiry Ignited  (this is the Week 1 and Week 2 background work - why are you interested in this topic?)

3. The PICOT Question Formulated (this is the Week 3 work)

4. Search Strategy Conducted  (this is the Week 4 and Week 5 search for evidence)

5. Critical Appraisal of the Evidence Performed (this is the synthesis of evidence from Week 6; be sure to include your synthesis and evidence evaluation tables as appendices in your paper)

6. Evidence Integrated with Clinical Expertise and Patient Preferences to Inform a Decision and Practice Change Implemented (this is the implementation plan from Week 7)

7. Outcome Evaluated (this is the evaluation plan from Week 8)

8. Project Dissemination (this is the dissemination plan from Week 9)

9. Conclusion

PICOT Question:

For hospitalized patients on a general medicine unit with Foley catheters (P), does implementation of nursing Foley bundles, accompanied with continual education on Foley bundles (I), compared to using no nursing Foley bundles/continual education (C), decrease the incidence of hospital-acquired catheter-associated urinary tract infections (O), over one year (T)?