PART A
Essay 1,500 words (40%) With reference to your own clinical practice in no more than 1500 words identify the challenges and describe strategies for implementing an evidence-based approach to clinical practice. Incorporate literature into your discussion. You may find some of the readings on the unit vUWS website useful to get you started. However, it is expected that you will conduct your own search for additional reading material. Marking criteria for the assignment are listed on the later part of this Learning Guide.
PART B Identification of evidence 500 words (10%). Please note Part B has TWO Steps. Clinical question and literature search
Step 1: (5%) (a) Write a clinical research question then complete the PICO table (Table 1) with type of patients or problem, intervention, comparison intervention and outcome.
(b) Identify key words and search terms to describe the problem, intervention, comparison intervention and outcome and write them in the table to assist you with your literature search.