MY CHOSEN TOPIC: The effects of breastmilk feeding vs formla feeding on newborn infant outcomes related to ear infections.
INTERVENTION: BREASTMILK
COMPARISON: FORMULA FEEDING
OUTCOMES: Patient outcomes (number of newborn infants that develop ear infections.
Instructions below:
Purpose:
To assist the student to gain skills in promoting evidence-based practice through education of a population group. Each student will complete a maternity or child health teaching project as a component of the clinical portion of the course. Students will select a practice, procedure, or nursing intervention that is of interest to them and appropriate to the clinical specialty of maternity OR child health (
Instructions:
1. Develop a PICO question for your chosen topic. This will assist you in narrowing down your search.
2. Develop at least THREE teaching project objectives for chosen topic.
3. Conduct a review of the evidence to support or refute the selected topic
- Evidence needs to be RESEARCH based, meaning your sources need to be research studies, preferably nursing research studies (although nursing may not publish on every topic), not opinion pieces, commentaries, or reviews. You should have at least FIVE sources.
- Consider the quality of the research studies in your review of the evidence, meaning how sound are the inferences you make based on factors such as study design, sample size, sampling procedures, and the potential for bias, or measurement error.
- Think about factors that could threaten the validity or reliability of the study findings.
4. Develop a presentation which will incorporate the stated objectives. Your presentation should be ~10 – 12 slides. Keep in mind the readability of your slides (i.e. enough text to convey your idea, but not so much that font is small and the amount of information on the slide is overwhelming). Remember you will be presenting this in real time.
- Title slide
- Project objectives
- Background
- Purpose/PICO question
- Search strategy (database used, search terms, limits to research, etc.)
- Significance and the “so what?” (think why do you as a nurse care about this?)
- One slide outlining what the current policy says (if applicable)
- 3-5 slides presenting synthesized evidence supporting or refuting the practice
- Synthesized evidence refers to combining the study results rather than reporting on each individual study, speaking about overall strengths and weaknesses in the evidence as a whole, and identifying gaps, and future direction for practice and research.
- Two recommendations you would make to the unit based on your findings; do your findings conflict with the unit policy (if applicable)?
- References
5. Present your project via a student-recorded Panopto and post to the Discussion Board. Be sure to attach your PPT Presentation to the thread.