EBP Scholarship

Describe at least two examples of how EBP scholarship is demonstrated either by you personally or by someone in your practice environment. Include in your example descriptions, which type of scholarship the example represents.

Recall from your lesson that the types of scholarship include (a) discovery, (b) teaching or (c) application and integration. Which type of scholarship do you think that your DNP project will be? Why do you think so?

Further, projects can be categorized into (a) quality improvements, (b) implementing practice guidelines, (c) evaluating practice processes and policy, or (d) examining patterns of behavior.

Thinking about these categories of scholarship and project type, how would you describe your potential project?

Professor notes that will help

Our second discussion for week five takes us on a search for examples of evidence-based scholarship. The lesson presented Boyer’s (1990) Model of Scholarship and outlines Boyer’s original four types of scholarship: (a) discovery, (b) teaching, (c) application, and (d) integration. Which type of scholarship do you think that your DNP project will be? Why do you think so?

But before you respond, be aware that there is a fifth type of scholarship explained by Boyer (1996), the scholarship of clinical practice. As you describe your two examples, either demonstrated by you personally or by someone in your practice environment, feel free to consider if the fifth type of scholarship as it applies to your setting. Be sure to include descriptions of your examples and explain which type of scholarship the example represents.

Once you have identified scholarship examples, reflect on the categories in which projects can be placed: (a) quality improvements, (b) implementing practice guidelines, (c) evaluating practice processes and policy, or (d) examining patterns of behavior. Thinking about these categories of scholarship and project type, how would you describe your potential project?

As you examine this topic, please review the program and course outcome(s) addressed in this discussion:

• CO4: Articulate how phenomena of interest found in nursing literature contribute to evidence-based practice. (PO 5)
• CO7: Analyze the implementation of selected theoretical perspectives into evidence-based practice. (PO 5)
• CO9: Synthesize the role of nursing theory and literary conceptual frameworks in guiding nursing research. (PO 5)

References

Boyer, E. L. (1990). Scholarship reconsidered: Priorities of the professoriate. The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

Boyer, E. L. (1996). Clinical practice as scholarship [text of speech delivered to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing at its 1995 Doctoral Education Conference, Sanibel Island, Florida, January 26, 1995]. Holistic Nursing Practice, 10(3), 1-6.