Evidence Based Research Paper

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Introduction: includes introduction to the clinical or community issue, the PICO question, and a thesis statement

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Body of Paper:

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Background & Significance of the Issue – why is the issue important to community health or clinical care? What is known about this issue? Why is it important to you?

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Summary of Evidence – give a summary of what the evidence said overall from your 10 articles – what were the main findings? Lessons learned?

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Overview of Quantitative Evidence (from your EBP table) – looking at your EBP table, examine the quantitative evidence found. What does the quantitative evidence say?

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Overview of Qualitative Evidence (from your EBP table) - looking at your EBP table, examine the qualitative evidence found. What does the qualitative evidence say? Note: you might have more quantitative evidence then qualitative evidence and this is perfectly ok!

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Proposed Change or Recommendations for Practice – based on the evidence – what should be changed in practice (whether community practice or clinical)? What considerations need to be made based on the evidence? What might need to be explored further?

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How the Evidence Would be Communicated to Patients and/or Hospital Administration or other key stakeholder – Your end user might not be a patient, but maybe it is hospital administration or a community organization – how would you communicate the evidence to them? How would you make your stakeholders believe this evidence is important?

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Paper Logistics

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Paper length (5-7 pages)

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Grammar and spelling

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References and citations (APA format) – you should use appropriate in-text citations and have a reference page.

APA also includes: title page, proper running header, proper page numbers

This website will help you with APA: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/

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Total Points (out of 100)