Reflect on the four peer-reviewed articles you critically appraised in Module 4, related to your clinical topic of
interest and PICOT.
Reflect on your current healthcare organization and think about potential opportunities for evidence-based
change, using your topic of interest and PICOT as the basis for your reflection.
Consider the best method of disseminating the results of your presentation to an audience.
Part 4: Recommending an Evidence-Based Practice Change
Create an 8- to 9-slide narrated PowerPoint presentation in which you do the following:
Briefly describe your healthcare organization, including its culture and readiness for change. (You may opt to
keep various elements of this anonymous, such as your company name.)
I work as a psychiatric nurse, in a psychiatric hospital, and the major problem is the shortness of staffing, which
increases the risk of violence in the unit.
Describe the current problem or opportunity for change. Include in this description the circumstances
surrounding the need for change, the scope of the issue, the stakeholders involved, and the risks associated with
Propose an evidence-based idea for a change in practice using an EBP approach to decision making. Note that
you may find further research needs to be conducted if sufficient evidence is not discovered.
Describe your plan for knowledge transfer of this change, including knowledge creation, dissemination, and
organizational adoption and implementation.
Explain how you would disseminate the results of your project to an audience. Provide a rationale for why you
selected this dissemination strategy.