7401NRS Foundations of Critical Care Nursing Practice

7401NRS Foundations of Critical Care Nursing Practice

Trimester 2 2024

Written Assignment: Evidence Based Practice Poster

Weighting: 40%

Due Date: see Course Profile

Aim:

The aim of this assessment task is for you to demonstrate your ability to critique the most appropriate research evidence to inform your decision making when caring for critically ill patients.

Poster presentations aim to communicate research or highlight action such as practice ideas. For example, posters are regarded as an integral part of a conference program and some materials are best presented this way.

Task Description:

For this task you are required to create a one sided A3 digital POSTER on which you identify an area of critical care nursing (skills and/or practice) and clearly outline the best practice for managing critically ill patients in this situation.

For example, you may choose to do a poster on the evidence-based management of a patient with ARDS in ICU.

The audience for your poster is your professional peers. For example this poster could be presented at a State-wide conference for Critical Care. It is not a patient education or patient information style poster, it is for PEER education and practice advancement.

Instructions:

You MUST select an area of critical care nursing (skills and/or practice) from the topics that are covered in this course.

Search for literature on your chosen topic and synthesise the findings1.

Create a digital poster using the information you have found from the literature search.

Suggested headings/sections for your poster (note: this is a suggestion. You can use your own creativity to design this poster):

Title

Background (what is the worldwide status of this topic, and in Australia?)

Purpose of the poster

Significance of this topic to patient outcomes

(If applicable - depending on your topic) Treatment strategies and nursing care of patients with these conditionsAny controversial issues in literature about this topic

Conclusions and implications /recommendations for nursing.

Referencing: Poster is supported with no fewer than 10 scholarly relevant sources from the last 5 years.

The goal of the poster presentation is to present the information visually and in enough detail to enable the audience to understand what is being communicated without requiring the author to explain the material.

Poster formatting

Place your student number on the upper right hand side of the poster.

Size: Your poster can be no larger than 65cm wide by a maximum of 120cm long (you can use either portrait or landscape). This can be setup when you use Microsoft programs such as Powerpoint or Word to design your poster.

Keep text information to the key points only so as not to crowd the poster, but this needs to be balanced against providing sufficient scientific information for the reader.

The title, colour of the poster, size of print, and content should immediately catch the interest of the passer-by and marker.

The title should immediately inform readers of the topic. Shorter titles are usually betterUse pictures, graphs, tables etc. to illustrate key points and to capture the audience's interest. Please be mindful about copyright issues when using pictures downloaded from websites. You need to acknowledge where the pictures are from. If a picture says it is subject to copyright, then you cannot use the picture in your poster unless you have permission from the owner.

All text must be typed.

Font size - use large font so that people can read from a distance and at a glance they can decide whether they want to know more or move to the next poster. Use easy to read fonts such as Times New Roman and Arial. Minimum size font should be no smaller than size 24.

Other elements:

Always refer to the Griffith Health Writing and Referencing Guide.

1 Ensure that you use scholarly literature (digitised readings, research articles, relevant Government reports and text books) that has been published within the last five years.

You might find these resources useful when creating your poster:

New York University, How to Create a Research Poster Poster Basics

Erren, T.C., Bourne, P.E. (2007). Ten simple rules for a good poster presentation. PLoS Computational Biology 3(5), e102Overview: How to design a poster presentation you tube video

Ranse, J. & Aitken C. (2008). Preparing and presenting a poster at a Scientific Conference, Journal of Emergency Primary Health Care (6)1: 1-9.Refer to the marking guidelines when writing your assignment. These will assist you in calculating the weightings of the sections for your assignment.

Submit your assignment as per the instructions on your Learning@Griffith course site.

MARKING CRITERIA Evidence Based Practice Poster

Overall appearance

The poster aligns with best practice principles for poster presentation:

The poster has the ability to hold the viewers attentionAppropriate use white space to avoid cluttered appearance whilst providing appropriate level of detailAppropriate use of colour combinations

Poster content logically organised 20

Content - Context

The context for the poster is clearly establishedPoster title reflects topicProvides a brief description of background informationDescribes the significance of the topic 20

Content Critical evaluation

Poster presents a critical evaluation of best practice pertaining to chosen topic, citing current clinical research evidence. 30

Content - Implications

Poster presents a critical analysis of implications for practice, education and/or further research. 20

Writing and referencing

Conforms to the Health Group Writing and Referencing Guide.

Uses academic language throughout with correct spelling, grammar, and well-constructed sentence and paragraph structure

Poster is supported with no fewer than 10 scholarly relevant sources from the last 5 years.

In-text citations are appropriate and correct

Referencing as per APA Style 7th Edition.10

Total Marks

[weighted at 40%] 100