Common practice and best practice

Is there a difference between “common practice” and “best practice”?
When you first went to work for your current organization, experienced colleagues may have shared with you details about processes and procedures. Perhaps you even attended an orientation session to brief you on these matters. As a “rookie,” you likely kept the nature of your questions to those with answers that would best help you perform your new role.
Over time and with experience, perhaps you recognized aspects of these processes and procedures that you wanted to question further. This is the realm of clinical inquiry.
Clinical inquiry is the practice of asking questions about clinical practice. To continuously improve patient care, all nurses should consistently use clinical inquiry to question why they are doing something the way they are doing it. Do they know why it is done this way, or is it just because we have always done it this way? Is it a common practice or a best practice?
In this Assignment, you will identify clinical areas of interest and inquiry and practice searching for research in support of maintaining or changing these practices. You will also analyze this research to compare research methodologies employed.

To Prepare:
• Review the Resources and identify a clinical issue of interest that can form the basis of a clinical inquiry.
• Based on the clinical issue of interest and using keywords related to the clinical issue of interest, search at least four different databases in the Walden Library to identify at least four relevant peer-reviewed articles related to your clinical issue of interest. You should not be using systematic reviews for this assignment, select original research articles.
• Review the results of your peer-reviewed research and reflect on the process of using an unfiltered database to search for peer-reviewed research.
• Reflect on the types of research methodologies contained in the four relevant peer-reviewed articles you selected.

Part 1: An Introduction to Clinical Inquiry
Create a 4- to 5-slide PowerPoint presentation in which you do the following:
• Identify and briefly describe your chosen clinical issue of interest. This clinical issue will remain the same for the entire course and will be the basis for the development of your PICOT question
• Describe how you used keywords to search 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 peer-reviewed articles you selected.

Part 2: Identifying Research Methodologies
After reading each of the four peer-reviewed articles you selected, use the Matrix Worksheet template to analyze the methodologies applied in each of the four peer-reviewed articles. Your analysis should include the following:
• The full citation of each peer-reviewed article in APA format.
• A brief (1-paragraph) statement explaining why you chose this peer-reviewed article and/or how it relates to your clinical issue of interest, including a brief explanation of the ethics of research related to your clinical issue of interest.
• A brief (1-2 paragraph) description of the aims of the research of each peer-reviewed article.
• A brief (1-2 paragraph) description of the research methodology used. Be sure to identify if the methodology used was qualitative, quantitative, or a mixed-methods approach. Be specific.
• A brief (1- to 2-paragraph) description of the strengths of each of the research methodologies used, including reliability and validity of how the methodology was applied in each of the peer-reviewed articles you selected.
Submit Part 1 and Part 2 of your Evidence-Based Project.
Note: Part 1 is a 4-5 slide PowerPoint and Part 2 is the Matrix. Be sure to attach both of your documents (Part 1 and Part 2)

Please see attachment for the worksheet.

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Why you chose this article and/or how it relates to the clinical issue of interest (include a brief explanation of the ethics of research related to your clinical issue of interest)

The article analyzes the impact of music therapy on reducing pain among patients who have undergone surgery. Ideally, patients experience intense pain after undergoing surgery. Pain can be a limiting factor as it can result in sleeping disorders or interfere with patients’ daily activities. The article is selected because it will provide more insights related to the application of music therapy in reducing Postoperative pain (POP). It offers more literature about music therapy, which is one of the components addressed in this research. The ethical concerns were adequately addressed. The participants’ consent was sought, and only participants with 18 years and above were integrated into the research. More so, the study was reviewed by the University Hospital Ethics Committee and conducted as per university hospital ethical guidelines.

The article was chosen because it provides more details on using music as therapy to manage postoperative pain. The article relates to the clinical issue because it evaluates barriers that are encountered in postoperative pain management. Kusi Amponsahi et al. (2020) aimed at identifying nursing-related obstacles that interfere with pain management. Kusi Amponsahi et al. (2020) found that a nursing staff shortage was one of the significant barriers to ineffective pain management among the children. They based their study on various nurse-related barriers attributed to inadequate pain management among the children population. Ethical consideration is critical in the research process. Kusi Amponsahi et al. (2020) observed ethical requirements when conducting their research. The management approved the study in respective hospitals in Ghana. The research’s ethical approval by the School of Medical Sciences (SMS), Committee on Human Research, Publications, and Ethics (CHRPE), and KNUST. Also, the data was only accessible to the research participants.

The article was chosen because it provides more details on the use of music as therapy to manage postoperative pain. The article relates to the clinical issue because it evaluates how music can be applied in postoperative pain management. Varbanova et al. (2016) observed ethical concerns in their study. The Institutional Review Board and Research & Development Office reviewed ethical considerations in the study. The researchers observed all IRB ethical requirements.

The article was chosen because it provides more details on non-pharmacological methods as a therapy to manage postoperative pain.  In their study, Gumus et al. (2020) observed ethical considerations while recruiting the participants. The researchers sought the participants’ consent before allowing them to join in the research. The privacy was maintained. Lastly, the study was approved by the Internal Review Board.

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