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This document discusses Essential III: Scholarship for Evidence-Based Practice from the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) Baccalaureate Essentials. It establishes that baccalaureate nursing education is grounded in evidence-based practice, which provides a systematic approach allowing for evaluation and application of scientific evidence. The author's analytical paper on hand hygiene efficacy demonstrates the principles of evidence-based practice as theory, practice, and research by identifying a topic, appraising evidence from databases, and making a conclusion.

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Essential III Nu 496

This document discusses Essential III: Scholarship for Evidence-Based Practice from the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) Baccalaureate Essentials. It establishes that baccalaureate nursing education is grounded in evidence-based practice, which provides a systematic approach allowing for evaluation and application of scientific evidence. The author's analytical paper on hand hygiene efficacy demonstrates the principles of evidence-based practice as theory, practice, and research by identifying a topic, appraising evidence from databases, and making a conclusion.

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Running head: ESSENTIAL III: SCHOLARSHIP FOR EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE 1

Essential III: Scholarship for Evidence-Based Practice

Hai-Duong Nguyen

Frostburg State University


Running head: ESSENTIAL III: SCHOLARSHIP FOR EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE 2

This paper will focus on Essential III: Scholarship for Evidence-Based Practice from the

American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) Baccalaureate Essentials. The Essentials relates

to my paper An Analysis of the Efficacy of Hand Hygiene and Alternatives Useful to the Practice by

showing that I have an understanding of the framework from AACN, and that I have an understanding

of it based on my paper.

Baccalaureate nursing education is predicated and grounded in evidence-based practice.

Evidence-based practice provides a systematic approach within the field of nursing that allows for the

proper evaluation and application of scientific evidence (AACN, 2008, p. 16). In other words, it

withstands the scrutiny of scientific rigor by testing the evidence against the general framework of

theory, practice, and research (AACN, 2008, p. 17). This general framework of theory, practice,

and research includes the proper identification of practice issues appraisal and integration of

evidence and evaluation of outcomes (AACN, 2008, p. 16). We can see that the correct evaluation

of outcomes is necessary over time as this becomes the foundation that is contingent for the

dissemination of best-practices (AACN, 2008, p. 16-17). This understanding of evidence-based

practice for the baccalaureate nurse then serves as the foundation for more complex applications at the

graduate level (AACN, 2008, p. 17). Within this foundation is the implication that baccalaureate

nurses should be simultaneously capable of making clinical judgments adhering to legal and ethical

research codes while also safeguarding the rights of patients (AACN, 2008, p. 17).

The previous paragraph establishes the need for scholarly evidence-based practice in the field of

nursing. In my analytical paper, I discussed the efficacy of hand hygiene and alternative methods.

Here I will show how my analytical paper and the topic of hand hygiene demonstrate the principles

within evidence-based practice as theory, practice, and research (AACN, 2008, p. 17). In my

analytical paper, I began by identifying the topic and research question. Here is it necessary to state
ESSENTIAL III: SCHOLARSHIP FOR EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE 3

that the identification of the topic and research question itself, as theory, was predicated and contingent

on prior practice and research that is, that it was background knowledge from my understanding as a

registered nurse that I gained from both experience and research, which was then fully fleshed out in

research with this assignment. From this epistemological point, I moved into a more rigorous research

approach by evaluating the credibility of [the] sources of information, including but not limited to

databases and Internet resources by comparing the literature I found in databases and the strength of

the evidence in the literature (AACN, 2008, p. 17). After scientific examination, I made my

conclusion.
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References

Essential III: Scholarship for Evidence-Based Practice. (2008). In The Essentials of Baccalaureate

Education for Professional Nursing Practice. Washington, D.C.: American Association of

Colleges of Nursing.

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