Task 1:
Step 1: Identify and briefly describe a specific area of your practice in which you have a particular interest or where there are uncertainty/ differing opinions about the provision of care.
Task 2:
a) Develop a specific searchable question using the PICO/PEO format or similar based on the area of practice described in task 1.
b) Using MeSH and/or keywords together with Boolean operators, conduct a search for the highest levels of evidence that you can find to answer your question (refer to levels of evidence models/frameworks).
c) The 3 highest pieces of research evidence found should be selected and reported in this task.
d) Succinctly describe your search process and provide justification of the resources that you chose to search, and the evidence selected (discuss where your evidence sits within a level of evidence model/framework). Attach the abstract/s or summary/summaries of the high-level evidence to the appendices that sits after your reference list.
PubMed is a good place to start. Here is a step by step tutorial on how to search using PubMed.
Task 3:
Highlight the level of evidence and strength of the recommendations and clearly discuss any differences that exist between the evidence-based recommendations and current practice in your clinical setting.
If you are unable to find high level evidence and/or clear evidence-based answers to your question then this should be discussed, including reasons why you think this evidence does not exist or is poorer quality evidence.
Task 4:
Discuss the barriers to EBP that may exist in your specific clinical setting, and how these barriers may be overcome, and/or strategies that promote EBP within your practice setting.