Student Name:
EBP Journal Article in APA format:
Is this an Evidence Based Article? Name of Journal and Year article was written? |
Yes/No Name of Journal Year: |
.2 points |
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State the problem What was the goal of the project in the article? Does this project correlate with your problem? State how? What are you trying to achieve? Does this article support this goal? |
Problem: Goal: State how this article correlates with your group problem and goal. |
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Strengths (Internal) What’s was good about your article? |
Why was this project successful? List attributes of the article, i.e. support from administration, councils, colleagues, institutions. Did this implementation take place on a unit or area like yours? |
.4 points |
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Weakness (Internal)- issues |
Example: lack of education, lack of staffing, staff readiness, lack of support; size, managerial style. |
.4 points | ||
Opportunities (External) |
Example: Lack of supplies, educational needs, stakeholders, baseline (your baseline data), what needs to be improved? |
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Threats – (External) |
Staff buy in, support, limitations and barriers, supply cost, cost of implementation, time, money, realistic? |
Total Points = 2 points
New grad Nurse retention: The manager of a medical surgical unit that is expanding needs to hire additional staff. Over the last 3 years 90% of the new graduates hired have quit within the first year of hire. The current RN staff is comprised of 8 nurses with greater than 10 yrs experience, 6 nurses with 5-10 yrs experience and 7 nurses with less than 5 yrs experience on the unit. Six new graduates are hired for the expansion. They will start 3 months before the new beds open. Your task is to propose a plan to enhance retention of the new graduates.