Fall prevention in older people
Evidence-Based Project, Part 1:
Identifying Research Methodologies
Is there a difference between “common practice” and “best practice”?
When you first went to work for your current organization, experienced colleagues may
have shared with you details about processes and procedures. Perhaps you even
attended an orientation session to brief you on these matters. As a “rookie,” you likely
kept the nature of your questions to those with answers that would best help you
perform your new role.
Over time and with experience, perhaps you recognized aspects of these processes
and procedures that you wanted to question further. This is the realm of clinical inquiry.
Clinical inquiry is the practice of asking questions about clinical practice. To
continuously improve patient care, all nurses should consistently use clinical inquiry to
question why they are doing something the way they are doing it. Do they know why it is
done this way, or is it just because we have always done it this way? Is it a common
practice or a best practice?
In this Assignment, you will identify clinical areas of interest and inquiry and practice
searching for research in support of maintaining or changing these practices. You will
also analyze this research to compare research methodologies employed.
Resources
Be sure to review the Learning Resources before completing this activity.
Click the weekly resources link to access the resources.
WEEKLY RESOURCES
To Prepare:
● Review the Resources and identify a clinical issue of interest that can form
the basis of a clinical inquiry. Keep in mind that the clinical issue you identify
for your research will stay the same for the entire course.
● Based on the clinical issue of interest and using keywords related to the
clinical issue of interest, search at least four different databases in the
Walden Library to identify at least four relevant peer-reviewed articles related
to your clinical issue of interest. You should not be using systematic reviews
for this assignment, select original research articles.
● Review the results of your peer-reviewed research and reflect on the process
of using an unfiltered database to search for peer-reviewed research.
● Reflect on the types of research methodologies contained in the four relevant
peer-reviewed articles you selected.
Part 1: Identifying Research Methodologies
After reading each of the four peer-reviewed articles you selected, use the Matrix
Worksheet template to analyze the methodologies applied in each of the four
peer-reviewed articles. Your analysis should include the following:
● The full citation of each peer-reviewed article in APA format.
● A brief (1-paragraph) statement explaining why you chose this peer-reviewed
article and/or how it relates to your clinical issue of interest, including a brief
explanation of the ethics of research related to your clinical issue of interest.
● A brief (1-2 paragraph) description of the aims of the research of each
peer-reviewed article.
● A brief (1-2 paragraph) description of the research methodology used. Be
sure to identify if the methodology used was qualitative, quantitative, or a
mixed-methods approach. Be specific.
● A brief (1- to 2-paragraph) description of the strengths of each of the research
methodologies used, including reliability and validity of how the methodology
was applied in each of the peer-reviewed articles you selected.
- Evidence-Based Project, Part 1: Identifying Research Methodologies
- Resources
