You are a Recent Graduate with Two Years’ Experience in an Acute Care Setting: Nursing (Australia) EBP Assignment, IHM, Singapore

Assignment Scenario

You are a recent graduate with two years’ experience in an acute care setting. You have taken a position as a home health care nurse, and you have several adult patients with various medical conditions. However, you have recently been assigned to care for hospice patients.

You do not have experience in this area, and you have not experienced a loved one at the end of life who has received hospice care. You notice that some of the family members or caregivers of patients in hospice care are withdrawn.

You are wondering what the family caregivers are going through so that you might better understand the situation and provide quality care.

1. Identify the research problem in the scenario.
2. Clearly formulate the four/five components of each PICO (T) question in a table format related to the above scenario.
3. Identify 2 databases to begin your literature search for evidence.
4. Choose one database only, to be shown in the table, and explain search strategies to find the relevant literature. (no reference is required in this assignment)
5. Identify 2 evidence from your search that is relevant to your scenario.
6. Briefly describe the first 2 steps (ask and acquire) of Evidence-based Practice relevant to your scenario.