Scenario
Outpatient

As a healthcare professional in a local walk-in clinic, you have been asked to meet with an 85-year-old male patient who has recently suffered from frequent falls. His 50-year-old daughter accompanies him to his visit, as he seems unsure and frightened. There is a significant language barrier with both the patient and the daughter, as well as low health literacy. You have determined that they are documented immigrants from Central America and have been in the United States for less than a year. There does not appear to be any additional family in the United States. They are currently homeless, have no source of income, and are living in a rural area with minimal resources  

Organizational

After noting several instances in which interprofessional care coordination needs improvement, a care coordinator in an acute care facility in a rural farming community is working to establish a new evidence-based practice (EBP) discharge protocol. The facility has seen an increase in readmissions and in patient dissatisfaction and, as a result, an increase in the length of stay and cost of care. The increasing number of patient transitions between departments and institutions requires effective patient handovers, especially those of frail patients with comorbidities. Continuity of care at patient discharge from the hospital is a critical aspect of high-quality patient care.

Public health/policy

A state public health official has joined a committee of non-profit organizations and is interested in decreasing health inequity, specifically the social determinants of health (SDOH) associated with the increasing mental health concerns in military veterans. The committee’s goal is to identify and prioritize current community determinants to create an action plan, including the consideration of health inequality EBP, action planning EBP, specific demographic gaps in care (population health), community demographics and gaps in care needs, and the best interventions for this community’s cultural/demographic/ health status.

Requirements
Your submission must be your original work. No more than a combined total of 30% of the submission and no more than a 10% match to any one individual source can be directly quoted or closely paraphrased from sources, even if cited correctly. The similarity report that is provided when you submit your task can be used as a guide.

You must use the rubric to direct the creation of your submission because it provides detailed criteria that will be used to evaluate your work. Each requirement below may be evaluated by more than one rubric aspect. The rubric aspect titles may contain hyperlinks to relevant portions of the course.

Tasks may not be submitted as cloud links, such as links to Google Docs, Google Slides, OneDrive, etc., unless specified in the task requirements. All other submissions must be file types that are uploaded and submitted as attachments (e.g., .docx, .pdf, .ppt).

Note: All references used must be current, within the last five years.

A. Choose one of the three scenarios included with the task. Pose a clinical or non-clinical research question to address the needs of the client in the chosen scenario. Then:

1. Describe how each of the evidence-based practice process steps was used to address the question.

2. Include an assessment of how the client’s location, background, and circumstances will affect outcomes both currently and in the future.

B. Select a resource from the WGU library to inform evidence-based practice (EBP) recommendations to address the question posed for the chosen scenario.

1. Include citations from three WGU resources with an annotated bibliography. The resources must be from the last 5 years.

2. Assess the quality of the research information used to form evidence-based practice (EBP) recommendations to address the needs of the client.

C. Acknowledge sources, using in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.

D. Demonstrate professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission.

File Restrictions
File name may contain only letters, numbers, spaces, and these symbols: ! – _ . * ‘ ( )
File size limit: 200 MB
File types allowed: doc, docx, rtf, xls, xlsx, ppt, pptx, odt, pdf, csv, txt, qt, mov, mpg, avi, mp3, wav, mp4, wma, flv, asf, mpeg, wmv, m4v, svg, tif, tiff, jpeg, jpg, gif, png, zip, rar, tar, 7z
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