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Closing the knowledge gap is an essential skill for the DNP practice scholar. Reflect upon your application of evidence-based practice and professional formation to consider the following.

• What process do you employ to identify knowledge gaps in your nursing practice (HOSPICE CARE)?
• What strategies will you use to overcome these knowledge gaps?
• As a leader in healthcare, how will you maximize others’ potential as they overcome knowledge gaps?
• How will you lead evidence-based practice at your workplace?  
•  This week our objectives and content focus on learning the difference in types of inquiry, research, QI, and evidence-based practice literature. How does understanding and using the new information you are learning in this course contribute to your practice readiness as a DNP-prepared nurse?  

Instructions:

Use an APA style and a minimum of 350 words. Provide support from a minimum of at least three (3) scholarly sources. The scholarly source needs to be: 1) evidence-based, 2) scholarly in nature, 3) Sources should be no more than five years old (published within the last 5 years), and 4) an in-text citation. citations and references are included when information is summarized/synthesized and/or direct quotes are used, in which APA style standards apply. 

• Textbooks are not considered scholarly sources. 

• Wikipedia, Wikis, .com website, or blogs should not be used.

Read the Motivation: What Makes You Tick? article.

• List five (5) different Extrinsic (external) and Intrinsic (internal) motivation factors for each of the the four (4) categories (Job Content, Work environment, Leadership, and benefits) use the table attached.

1. Answer the following questions:
   1. The research in motivation in nurses suggest that excellent quality patient outcomes are possible when which condition exists? 
   2. What types of employee characteristics can demotivators lead to? 
   3. What is the term “organizational citizenship” related to and why is it so important in the employee’s role in motivation? 
   4. Give a description of each of the three leadership styles? 
   5. Why has the transformational leadership style of such importance when considering motivation in the workplace? How does empowerment fit into this aspect of ledadership? 
   6. What is the difference between job satisfaction and motivation?
2. Your paper should be:
   • One – Two (1-2) pages
   • Typed according to APA style for margins, formatting and spacing standards 

• What are the ethical and moral issues that present themselves when communities/cities/states choose to address or not address the health needs of the underserved populations? Choose one of these populations and discuss what resources may be available to them.
• 1 page
• references should not be older than 2015

Assignment: Culture and Policy Development

Is it possible for a health policy to fail due to cultural factors? How important is it for the community to get involved with the decision-making process during policy development? After reading your Learning Resources this week, you will recognize the significance in cultural awareness and health policy development. For this Assignment, you consider community engagement in policy development.

To prepare for this Assignment, complete the readings and view the media in your Learning Resources. Consider the importance of beliefs and behaviors when developing health policies.

The Assignment (3 pages):

• Explain the importance of culturally appropriate health policies.
• Explain how one can develop a policy so that it gets the support of the community.
• Explain how you might engage the community to be part of the voice when developing a policy.
• Expand on your insights utilizing the Learning Resources.

Use APA formatting for your Assignment and to cite your resources.

Please answer the attached assignment. 

In a 1- to 2-page paper, address the following:

• Briefly describe how cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and rational emotive behavioral therapy (REBT) are similar.
• Explain at least three differences between CBT and REBT. Include how these differences might impact your practice as a mental health counselor.
• Explain which version of cognitive behavioral therapy you might use with clients and why. Support your approach with evidence-based literature.

Your quest to purchase a new car begins with an identification of the factors important to you. As you conduct a search of cars that rate high on those factors, you collect evidence and try to understand the extent of that evidence. A report that suggests a certain make and model of automobile has high mileage is encouraging. But who produced that report? How valid is it? How was the data collected, and what was the sample size?

In this Assignment, you will delve deeper into clinical inquiry by closely examining your PICO(T) question. You also begin to analyze the evidence you have collected.

To Prepare:

• Review the Resources and identify a clinical issue of interest that can form the basis of a clinical inquiry.
• Develop a PICO(T) question to address the clinical issue of interest you identified in Module 2 for the Assignment. This PICOT question will remain the same for the entire course.
• Use the key words from the PICO(T) question you developed and search at least four different databases in the Walden Library. Identify at least four relevant systematic reviews or other filtered high-level evidence, which includes meta-analyses, critically-appraised topics (evidence syntheses), critically-appraised individual articles (article synopses). The evidence will not necessarily address all the elements of your PICO(T) question, so select the most important concepts to search and find the best evidence available.
• Reflect on the process of creating a PICO(T) question and searching for peer-reviewed research.

The Assignment (Evidence-Based Project)

Part 3: Advanced Levels of Clinical Inquiry and Systematic Reviews

Create a 6- to 7-slide PowerPoint presentation in which you do the following:

• Identify and briefly describe your chosen clinical issue of interest.
• Describe how you developed a PICO(T) question focused on your chosen clinical issue of interest.
• Identify the four research databases that you used to conduct your search for the peer-reviewed articles you selected.
• Provide APA citations of the four relevant peer-reviewed articles at the systematic-reviews level related to your research question. If there are no systematic review level articles or meta-analysis on your topic, then use the highest level of evidence peer reviewed article.
• Describe the levels of evidence in each of the four peer-reviewed articles you selected, including an explanation of the strengths of using systematic reviews for clinical research. Be specific and provide examples.

Instructions

In this assignment, you will be required to use the Heart Rate Dataset to complete the following:

• Use the classification of variables from the Unit 1 assignment to match each variable to one appropriate type of graph.
• Create graphs of those variables
• Give a brief written description of how the values of each variable are distributed in the sample. What does the graph tell us about the data in the heart rate sample?

Steps

1. Open the Heart Rate Dataset in Excel
2. Using the classification of variables from Unit 1 assignment as qualitative, quantitative discrete, or quantitative continuous, match each of the 3 variables to the most appropriate graph type. (For example, qualitative data can best be displayed with a pie chart or bar graph; continuous numerical data can best be displayed using a histogram)
3. Use the graphing functions in Excel to create an appropriate graph of the data for each variable. Remember to properly label and title your graphs to identify what the graph is about clearly.

Review these videos as needed:

Excel 2016: Creating a Pie Chart

(Tom Kleen, 2017)
Estimated time to complete: 9 minutes

Making a Simple Bar Graph in Excel

(Scott Stevens, 2014)
Estimated time to complete: 5 minutes

Additional Instructions:

Your assignment should be typed into a Word or other word processing document, formatted in APA style. The assignments must include

• Running head
• A title page with
  • Assignment name
  • Your name
  • Professor’s name
  • Course

Estimated time to complete: 3 hours

References

Scott Stevens. (, 2014). Making a simple bar graph in Excel [Video]. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/_Txpfyn4ipI

Tom Kleen. (2017). Excel 2015: Creating a pie chart [Video]. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/ZKa35Iz-aZ4

Assignment Files

Heart Rate Data Set [Excel File]

• HeartRateDataSetrevised3final.xlsx

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