Performance Task Assessment: Evidence-Based Practice and Interprofessional Collaboration Within Clinical Specializations
Write a 3- to 4-page scholarly paper in two parts that examines evidence-based practice and interprofessional collaboration in your specialty area and uses peer-reviewed evidence to support best practices in both approaches to patient care.
Click each of the items below for more information on this Assessment.
To prepare for Part 1:
- Identify a practice in your specialty area that is evidence based. —–(Infection Control-Hand Washing in and out of patient rooms)
- Search the Walden Library and/or the internet for at least two peer-reviewed articles regarding recent research on the evidence-based practice you identify.
To complete Part 1:
Include the following:
- Identify and describe the practice in your specialty area that is evidence-based. (Infection Control-Hand Washing in and out of patient rooms)
- Identify at least two peer-reviewed articles that support this practice as being evidence-based and provide a brief summary and link for each article.
- For each of the two (or more) peer-reviewed articles you select:
- Explain the benefits and challenges of the study design, sample, data collection and analysis, statistics, recommendations, and conclusions.
- Evaluate the study as good, fair, or poor as to whether the article provides enough data to substantiate an evidence-based practice.
- Explain the value of having an evidence basis for this practice compared to a practice standard based on intuition, past experience, history, or some other way of knowing.
Use the Learning Resources and/or the best available evidence from current literature to support your explanations.
To prepare for Part 2:
- Review the resources and consider the impact of interprofessional collaboration (IPC) in the clinical area.
- Think about your practicum experience and examples of IPC that you observed, and identify two instances:
- One example of a positive interaction among collaborators —-Hand hygiene logs where Directors and practitioners monitor hand hygiene and wearing of PPE in the patient rooms. They come together and discuss observations daily in huddle.
- One example in which the collaborators were not exemplary —-There was a conversation where a few of the physicians felt it was not their role to conduct surveliance on hand hygiene and using PPE when appropriate for the patient on isolation.
- Search the Walden Library and/or the internet for at least one peer-reviewed article that supports best practices in IPC.
To complete Part 2:
Include the following:
- For each of two instances of interprofessional collaboration that you observed in your practicum experience, briefly describe each instance and include the setting, the collaborators’ positions, the context for the collaboration, and the goal of the interprofessional collaboration.
Note: Use initials or pseudonyms when describing the professionals to maintain confidentiality. - Contrast your two examples of interprofessional collaboration, and analyze the outcomes based on your comparison of the interactions.
- From your search, explain at least one suggestion/practice for how the poor interprofessional collaboration could be improved using evidence from your research of at least one peer-reviewed article that supports best practice in IPC, and explain why.
Use the Learning Resources and/or the best available evidence from current literature to support your explanations.