Becoming a Leader in the Translation of Evidence to Practice

Assignment: Application 3: Becoming a Leader in the Translation of Evidence to Practice

This week you begin working on Application 3. As a nurse engaged in advanced practice, you have the exciting opportunity to be a leader in translating evidence into practice.

For this first section of Application 3, consider the economic and financial implications of addressing your EBP Assignment issue. In addition, reflect on your leadership skills. As a DNP-prepared nurse, you are expected to employ the principles of business, finance, and health policy in the development of initiatives that will improve the quality of care delivered.

Prepare for this week’s section of Application 3 as follows:

Continue (from this week’s Discussion) to evaluate the new strategies you developed to address your selected issue and the potential economic impact.
Review Chapter 6 in the course text, Translation of Evidence Into Nursing and Health Care Practice, and ask yourself the following: How are these activities enhancing my leadership skills? How does translating evidence enable me, as a leader, to affect or strengthen health care delivery and my nursing practice?
You will build on this Application next week as you look at advancing new approaches to practice through the policy process.
To complete:

Write a 3-page paper that synthesizes:

Your vision of yourself as a leader—specifically:

– How you would continue to increase your knowledge and awareness of financial, economic, and other concerns related to new practice approaches

– How translating evidence would enable you to affect or strengthen health care delivery and nursing practice

– How you would advocate for the use of new evidence-based practice approaches through the policy arena
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Note: To access this week’s required library resources, please click on the link to the Course Readings List, found in the Course Materials section of your Syllabus.

Required Readings
White, K. M., Dudley-Brown, S., & Terharr, M. F. (2016). Translation of evidence into nursing and health care practice (2nd ed.). New York, NY: Springer.

Chapter 4, “Translation of Evidence to Improve Clinical Outcomes”
Chapter 5, “Translation of Evidence for Improving Safety and Quality”
Chapter 7, “Translation of Evidence for Health Policy”
Andermann, A., Pang, T., Newton, J.T., Davis, A., & Panisset, U. (2016). Evidence for health II: Overcoming barriers to using evidence in policy and practice. Health Research Policy and Systems, 14 (17) doi 10.1186/s12961-016-0086-3

Note: You will access this article from the Walden Library databases.

Catallo, C. & Sidani, S. The self-assessment for organizational capacity instrument for evidence-informed health policy: Preliminary reliability and validity of an instrument (2014). Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing, 11(1), 35–45.

Note: You will access this article from the Walden Library databases.
Malterud, K., Bjelland, K., & Elvbakken, K.T. (Evidence-based medicine – an appropriate tool for evidence-based health policy? A case study from Norway. Health Research Policy and Systems, 14 (15) doi 10.1186/s12961-016-0088-1

Note: You will access this article from the Walden Library databases.

Ridenour, N., & Trautman, D. (2009). A primer for nurses on advancing health reform policy. Journal of Professional Nursing, 25(6), 358-362. https://doi-org.ezp.waldenulibrary.org/10.1016/j.profnurs.2009.10.003

Note: You will access this article from the Walden Library databases.

Rehfuess, E.A., Durao, S., Kyamanywa, P., Meerpohl, J. J., Young, T., & Rohwer, A. (2016). An approach for setting evidence-based and stakeholder-informed research priorities in low- and middle-income countries, Policy & Practice, 94, 297–305 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.2471/BLT.15.162966

Note: You will access this article from the Walden Library databases.