Evidence based practice is essential to effective social work practice. For this assignment, you are required to (a) identify a current practice problem relevant in your current agency (i.e., working with resistant clients, engaging clients when they don’t talk much, having negative perceptions about your client, counter transference, etc.), (b) after identifying your practice problem, conduct an extensive literature search as it relates to your practice problem that provides you with a complete understanding of the practice problem.

Based on your findings in the literature, what did you discover that will help you address your practice problem? How might your research guide your work in your field agency?  After reviewing the literature/research and comparing it to the practice problem, the student is expected to do the following:

By Day 7

Submit a 1-2 page reflection paper that:

  1. Briefly discusses the literature
  2. Briefly identifies the practice problem
  3. Briefly explains how the literature will be used to address the practice problem while engaging in the agency.

Required Readings

Garthwait, C. L. (2017). The social work practicum: A guide and workbook for students (7th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.Chapter 3, “Learning from Supervision” (pp. 28-40)Thyer, B. A. (2013). Evidence-based practice or evidence-guided practice: A rose by any other name would smell as sweet [invited response to Gitterman & Knight’s “evidence-guided practice”]. Families in Society, 94(2), 79–84. Note: Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.Wharton, T. C., & Bolland, K. A. (2012). Practitioner perspectives of evidence-based practice. Families in Society, 93(3), 157–164. Note: Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.

 
"Looking for a Similar Assignment? Get Expert Help at an Amazing Discount!"
ORDER NOW

Evidence-Based Practice Guideline ( The clinical question identified in this section is about chronic neck pain in adults).

Write a fully developed and detailed APA essay addressing each of the following points/questions. word count 1500-2000. be sure to completely answer all the questions for each question in detail. Separate each section in your paper with a clear heading that allows your professor to know which bullet you are addressing in that section of your paper.  however, if sources are used make sure to cite using the APA writing style for the essay and complete a reference page. The cover page is required. Review the rubric criteria for this assignment.

Utilize the databases identified in the text to locate an Evidence-Based Practice Guideline, related to your topic identified in Module 1.( The clinical question identified in this section is about chronic neck pain in adults).  Perform a rapid critical appraisal of the Evidence-Based Guideline by answering the following questions in APA format. All questions should be answered in detail and explanations offered according to guideline content when applicable. 

  • Who were the guideline developers? 
  • Were the developers of the guideline representative of key stakeholders in this specialty (inter-disciplinary)? 
  • Who funded the guideline development?  
  • Were any of the guideline developers funded researchers of the reviewed studies? 
  • Did the team have a valid development strategy? 
  • Was an explicit (how decisions were made), sensible, and impartial process used to identify, select, and combine evidence? 
  • Did its developers carry out comprehensive, reproducible literature review within the past 12 months of its publication/revision? 
  • Were all important options and outcomes considered? 
  • Is each recommendation in the guideline tagged by the level/strength of evidence upon which it is based and linked to the scientific evidence? 
  • Do the guidelines make explicit recommendations (reflecting value judgments about the outcomes)? 
  • Has the guideline been subjected to peer review and testing? 
  • Is the intent of use provided (i.e. national, regional, local)? 
  • Are the recommendations clinically relevant? 
  • Will the recommendations help me in caring for my patients? 
  • Are the recommendations practical/feasible? Are resources (people and equipment) available? 
  • Are the recommendations a major variation from current practice? Can the outcomes be measured through standard care? 

Be sure to include the database from which the guideline was obtained and please submit a copy of the guideline with your paper. 

Your APA formatted paper fully answer each question in complete sentences.

Assignment Expectations:

Length: Clearly and fully answer all questions; include database; attach a copy of the guidelineStructure: Include a title page and reference page (if sources were used) in APA format. Your essay must include an introduction and a conclusion.References: Use appropriate APA style in-text citations and references for all resources utilized to answer the questions. No minimum sources are required for this assignment; if sources are used APA format is required.

 
"Looking for a Similar Assignment? Get Expert Help at an Amazing Discount!"
ORDER NOW

EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE & APPLIED NURSING RESEARCH 

Competencies:724.8.5: Foundations of Inquiry – The graduate differentiates between quality improvement processes, evidence based practice, and research.724.8.6 Literature Review and Analysis – The graduate demonstrates knowledge of the process and outcomes of conducting a literature review.724.8.7: Ethics and Research – The graduate demonstrates understanding of the ethics of nursing research, particularly human subjects’ protections, informed consent, and alignment with patient and family values and preferences.724.8.8: Patient Outcomes – The graduate discriminates between identified standards and practices that do not provide improvements in patient outcomes utilizing relevant sources of evidence and the application of nursing theory.724.8.9: Data Collection, Analysis, and Dissemination – The graduate describes the process of data collection, analysis, and implementation of evidence that can improve clinical practice from an interprofessional perspective.

Task 2: Evidence-Based Practice 

Introduction: 

In this task, you will identify a healthcare problem and develop a PICO question that can be answered using evidence. You will identify a single intervention and then search for five research articles and two non-research articles that support that change practice. 

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. An originality report is provided when you submit your task that 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.

A.  Write a summary of the significance and background of a healthcare problem by doing the following:

1.  Describe a healthcare problem that can be used to develop a PICO question.

Note: You may use the same topic and the same research articles that were used in Task 1 provided they support the proposed intervention. Or you may choose a different topic and select articles focusing on one of the following topics: falls and fall prevention, pain management in children, opioid abuse, hepatitis C, catheter-associated urinary tract infections, and hand hygiene and infections in hospitals. 

2.  Explain the significance of the problem from part A1.

3.  Describe the current healthcare practices related to the problem from part A1.

4.  Discuss how the problem affects the organization and patients’ cultural background (i.e., values, health behavior, and preferences). 

B.  Complete a literature review by searching for a total of seven articles consisting of fiveresearch articles and two non-research articles related to the healthcare problem from part A1, and describe the search strategy you used to conduct the literature review by doing the following: 

  1. Discuss two research evidence sources and two nonresearch evidence sources that you considered.

Note: Please do not use the same primary author for more than two articles. Articles must not be more than five years old.

C. Use your research articles to develop a PICO (patient/population, intervention/indicator, comparison/control, and outcome) question based on the topic.

D.  Complete the attached “Evidence Matrix,” using the five research evidence sources from scholarly journal sources you located during the literature review in part B. For eacharticle, address the following points: 

Note: You may submit your completed matrix as a separate attachment to the task, or you may include the matrix within your paper, aligned to APA formatting standards.

Note: Upload a copy of the full text of the articles with your submission. 

  • author, journal name, and year of publication 
  • research design (e.g., quantitative, qualitative, mixed design, systematic review)
  • sample size (e.g., numbers of study participants, number of articles, number of control group participants)
  • outcome variables measured (e.g., identify what the research is measuring)
  • quality (using the following scale: A, B, C)
  • results/author’s conclusions (e.g., briefly summarize the outcome) 

E.  Recommend a practice change that addresses the PICO question, using the evidence collected in the attached “Evidence Matrix.” You must use all five research articles from the “Evidence Matrix” attachment to support this recommendation via in-text citations.  

F.  Describe a process for implementing the practice change from part E in which you do the following:

1.  Explain how you would involve three key stakeholders in the decision to implement the recommendation from part E.

2.  Describe two specific barriers you may encounter when implementing the practice change from part E in the nursing practice setting.

3.  Identify two strategies that could be used to overcome the barriers described in part F2.

4.  Identify one indicator to measure the outcome (the O in PICO question) of the recommended change practice from part E. 

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

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

 
"Looking for a Similar Assignment? Get Expert Help at an Amazing Discount!"
ORDER NOW

Evidence-Based Methods of Maintaining Brain HealthAfter reading the assigned chapters in your textbook and gaining an understanding of typical age-related changes in cognition, write a review paper identifying one method that has been shown in the literature to be useful in maintaining brain health with age and what specific symptom(s) associated with aging this method addresses. Your paper must include evidence from the literature that demonstrates the effectiveness of this method and a brief overview of the theory related to brain function that supports this method.

Schaie, K. W. & Willis, S. L. (2011). Handbook of the psychology of aging (7th ed.). London: Elsevier.

Petersen, R. C., Caracciolo, B., Brayne, C., Gauthier, S., Jelic, V., & Fratiglioni, L. (2014). Mild cognitive impairment: a concept in evolution. Journal Of Internal Medicine – Oxford -, 275(3), 214-228.

 
"Looking for a Similar Assignment? Get Expert Help at an Amazing Discount!"
ORDER NOW

Following the success of the unit and the approval of management, the educational department will be contacted to assist with the new guidelines into policy and procedures. Once the policy is created, the change will slowly be rolled out to other departments in the organization. This will again take some time to continue to evaluate the process. As change occur and necessary for further change, the team will continue to meet to determine if the change is a succeed or not.

Findings

There are many avenues available to disseminate information internally. There are various offering such as Alerts and Recommendations, Clinical News Alerts. The organization also provides a Health Stream Learning System that requires staff to complete educational models pertinent to their role within the organization (Dearholt & Dang, 2012). The organization provides various departments to assist in getting the findings published. Another avenue to pursue would be the local newspaper and television reporters

 
"Looking for a Similar Assignment? Get Expert Help at an Amazing Discount!"
ORDER NOW

Everything it’s into this folder and I put book link into word if you would like to use that otherwise I took screenshot of exercises you can use whatever you like book link or screenshot. I did both because they don’t have some pages in that link so, I also took screenshot. I saved those into folder that’s called VB Chapt3 ScreenShot and I label them as exercise with book page #. You just have follow instruction of that exercises whatever the book says and I put eight more screen shot in that folder those are my teachers requirements for those exercises and I also label them.

First Method:Using Static Variable’ Name:Debug Project’ Purpose:Displays the number of times the Count button is pressed’ Programmer: <your name> on <current date>Option Explicit…

 
"Looking for a Similar Assignment? Get Expert Help at an Amazing Discount!"
ORDER NOW

Everything is done. I’m super bad at APA style Please put in APA Format, cover page with running head Coercion, correct grammar, add the reference in text and fix reference page. If you would like to enhance in any other way it is welcomed. This assignment is going to subjected to “turn it in” which I don’t have access to so hopefully I won’t have to reconstruct it.

Coercion can be defined as the deliberate forcing of an individual to act in a specific manner by using force or threats. The action of coercion violates the persons free will in a manner that obtains the response that is in line with what the person doing the coercion wants. Behaviors such as torture, threats and extortion are considered coercion. For example, a sibling threating to beat up her sister if she doesn’t give up a toy. Placing an individual under duress physically or emotionally and forcing them to act in a manner that is against their own interest is also a symptom of coercion. The main agenda is to force the cooperation of the person being coerced.         In law, coercion is codified as a duress crime. Scientific literature regarding the use of coercion in interrogations have changed over the years.  The use of dehumanization, torture, and psychological pressure tactics use, and limits where legally sanctioned by the Army Field Manual. Reports of abuse surfaced after the secretary of defense, Donald Rumsfeld, gave the green light to use “enhanced interrogation techniques” on “illegal combat’s” after the September 11th attack on the world trade center in New York. Consequently, on his second day in office President Obama executed Executive Order 1349 to restrict legal methods of interrogation/coercion found in the Army Field Manual.

Coercive methods are acceptable in a variety of different scenarios in everyday life and its tactics used by many. Examples range from punishing a child for “bad behavior” too threatening divorce from a spouse for not adhering to marriage vows. Placing someone under duress to get to the truth of a situation is needed in most incidences in my opinion. In instances where an individual is a juvenile or suffers from a diagnosed mental illness coercion tactics may not be justified. A person with mental illness is said to lack the understanding of a crime or the difference between right and wrong and therefore cannot fully comprehend what is being communicated.

There are three stages of a common interrogation technique developed by John E. Reid. The Reid technique initially uses isolation then moves on to informing the suspect of his guilt and convinces him that everyone is aware of his guilt. The next step of the technique provides the suspect with the theory the evaluator came up with regarding the suspects guilt. The final step is explained to the suspect that he would feel better if he confesses to the crime so that help may be provided for him because everyone understands why the suspect committed the crime.  In an article entitled A Rare Look at The Police Tactics That Can Lead to False Confessions a 16-year-old, who’s 13-month-old son died the night before was subjected to the Reid technique by police. After two hours of the police, yelling, lying about evidence and invading ones space the young woman confessed to a crime she did not commit. The death certificate cited respiratory issues that would have require a nebulizer as the contributing factor in the child’s death. The young women later explained that she confessed because the police stated that they would give her help if she did.

According to false confession expert professor Richard Leo “Most of what police do in interrogations that lead to false confessions is legal. Its just the threats and the promises that are not legal”. In all interrogations the main goal should be to find out the truth instead of utilizing coercing techniques on suspects to gain a confession.

References

Opfer, C. (2013, February 19). The Problem With Police Line-Ups. Retrieved August 3, 2018,

from https://www.citylab.com/equity/2013/02/problem-police-line-ups/4724/

Argosy University (2019). Module 2 Interviewing and Interrogations. Retrieved January 26, 2019 fromhttp://www.myargosy.edu

 
"Looking for a Similar Assignment? Get Expert Help at an Amazing Discount!"
ORDER NOW

Everything in the assignment should to be done by excel and using appropriate EXCEL formulae. The assignment is also attached as pdf, thank you

Question 1: The Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University reported data showing the odds of an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) audit. The following table shows the average adjusted gross income reported and the percent of the returns that were audited for 20 selected IRS districts. 

Table of values in the attachment.

(a) Enter the data in EXCEL, use EXCEL to find all required components to develop the estimated regression equation that could be used to predict the percent audited given the average adjusted gross income reported. Label your answers.

(b) At the 0.05 level of significance, determine whether the adjusted gross income and the percent audited are linearly related.

(c) Did the estimated regression equation provide a good fit? Explain.

(d) Use the estimated regression equation developed in part (a) to calculate a 95% confidence interval for the expected percent audited for districts with an average adjusted gross income of $35,000. 

Question 2: Executives at the Walt Disney Company are interested in estimating the mean spending per capita for people who visit Disney World in Orlando, Florida. Since they do not know the population standard deviation, they plan to use the t-distribution to conduct the test. However, they realize that the tdistribution requires that the population be normally distributed. Six hundred customers were randomly surveyed, and the amount spent during their stay at Disney World was recorded. These data are in the file called Disney.xls. Before using these sample data to estimate the population mean, the managers wish to test whether the population is normally distributed.

(a) State the appropriate null and alternative hypotheses.

(b) Organize the data into six classes and form the grouped frequency distribution.

(c) Using the sample mean and sample standard deviation, calculate the expected frequencies, assuming that the null hypothesis is true.

(d) Conduct the test statistic and compare it to the appropriate critical value for a significance level equal to 0.05. What conclusion should be reached? Discuss. 

Question 3: Symptoms of diabetes include increased thirst and frequent urination (especially at night), unexplained increase in appetite, unexplained weight loss, fatigue, blurred vision, and tingling or numbness in the hands or feet. If your fasting blood glucose level is between 5.5 mmol/L (100 mg/dL) and 6.9 mmol/L (126 mg/dL), you are considered to have pre-diabetes (impaired fasting glucose), and you have an increased chance of developing diabetes. Other conditions that can cause high blood glucose levels include severe stress, heart attack, stroke, Cushing’s syndrome, medicines such as corticosteroids, or excess production of growth hormone (acromegaly). The Canadian Diabetes Association (CDA) criteria for diagnosing diabetes are met when any of the following results have been repeated on at least two different days:

– A fasting blood glucose level is 7.0 mmol/L (126 mg/dL) or higher.

– A 2-hour oral glucose tolerance test result is 11.1 mmol/L (200 mg/dL) or higher. For more information, see the medical test Oral Glucose Tolerance Test.

– Symptoms of diabetes are present and a random blood glucose test is 11.1 mmol/L (200 mg/dL) or higher.

Part I: At a diabetic clinic, a group of people considered to have pre-diabetes (impaired fasting glucose) were randomly selected. Then they were randomly assigned in two groups, namely treatment groups (subject to a strict diet plan) and placebo (normal diet), for a specified number of days. After the completion of the clinical trial, their blood glucose level readings provided the following statistics:

Placebo: n1 = 10, x1 = 6.5, s1 = 0.21

Treatment: n2 = 10, x2 = 5.4, s2 = 0.17 2

Assume the assumptions of normality are satisfied.

(a) Is it reasonable to assume equality of variances in this problem? Justify your answer.

(b) Do the data provide sufficient evidence at the 5% significance level that the strict diet plan lowers the blood glucose level? What is the appropriate conclusion?

(c) What is the p-value for this test?

(d) Using p-value approach and = 0.10, what conclusion can be drawn about the difference in average blood glucose level readings between treatment and placebo groups? (e) Estimate with 95% confidence the difference in mean blood glucose levels between the two groups. Interpret the interval estimate. 

Part II: Ten adults with symptoms of diabetes were randomly selected and a random blood glucose test was administered before and after a medication. Their blood glucose level readings were gathered before and after the medication and the results are shown below (Values are in the pdf)

(a) Are the samples independent? Justify your answer.

(b) State the appropriate null and alternative hypotheses to test whether the medication has been effective in decreasing blood glucose level.

(c) Calculate the value of the test statistic and test the hypotheses assuming = 0.05.

(d) Find the p-value.

(e) Find a 95% confidence interval for the difference in average blood glucose levels between the two groups. Based on this interval, can one conclude that there is a significant difference in average blood glucose level between the two groups? Justify your answer. Is your finding consistent with that in (c)? 

Question 4: The variance in a production process is an important measure of the quality of the process. A large variance often signals an opportunity for improvement in the process by finding ways to remove the process variance. Conduct a statistical test to determine whether there is a significant difference between the variances in the bag weights for the two machines. Use a .05 level of significance. What is your conclusion?

Values for Machine 1: 2.95 3.45 3.50 3.75 3.48 3.26 3.33 3.20 3.16 3.20 3.22 3.38 3.90 3.36 3.25 3.28 3.20 3.22 2.98 3.45 3.70 3.34 3.18 3.35 3.12

Values for Machine 2: 3.22 3.30 3.34 3.28 3.29 3.25 3.30 3.27 3.38 3.34 3.35 3.19 3.35 3.05 3.36 3.28 3.30 3.28 3.30 3.20 3.16 3.33 

 
"Looking for a Similar Assignment? Get Expert Help at an Amazing Discount!"
ORDER NOW

Everything else equal, how would each of the following affect the market value of a stock? Indicate by a plus ( +), minus (-), or zero (0) if the factor wouldincrease, decrease, or have an indeterminate effect. Be prepared to justify your answer.

 a. Investors require a higher rate of return to buy the stock. 

 b. The company increases dividends.

 c. The company’s growth rate increases. 

d. Investors become more risk averse. 

 
"Looking for a Similar Assignment? Get Expert Help at an Amazing Discount!"
ORDER NOW

Everyone who lives in Ramón’s dorm has many activities and interests. Form sentences with the words provided to find out what everyone does each day. ¡OJO!Be sure to create a sentence in the same order and begin the sentence with a capital letter and end with a period.

 
"Looking for a Similar Assignment? Get Expert Help at an Amazing Discount!"
ORDER NOW