Appendix D EBP Project Topics

EBP Project Topic Ideas

For the sake of subsequent PICOs:

• The intervention is to be an independent nursing care intervention that does not require a provider order.
• The outcome is to be quantitively measurable. Therefore, avoid qualitative outcomes such as patient experience, feelings, or perceptions.

Independent nursing interventions are the actions that nurses can perform without assistance or guidance from other medical professionals, particularly without a doctor’s orders. These can be routine interventions such as checking a patient’s vitals, educating patients, or repositioning a client.

Topics that are not allowed due to overuse:

• CAUTI
• Early/delayed umbilical cord clamping
• Music therapy
• Play distraction or other distractions for children (for pain, procedures, etc.)
• Shift length
• Nurse-patient ratios
• Shift report (bedside, etc.)
• Nonpharmacologic interventions for pain
• Pain management interventions
• Aromatherapy

Here are some broad ideas for topics. These are simple and can be manipulated in many ways in order to think outside the box and later develop a strong focused PICO/clinical question.

1. Assessment of gender minority individuals
2. Nonpharmacological methods (specify one) to manage a disease process (hypertension, depression, diabetes, COPD, etc.) other than music therapy, essential oils/aromatherapy.
3. Sleep [education] management in families with a preterm infant
4. Airway management
5. Nursing management for preterm infant stability during blood transfusions
6. Latch-on techniques for breastfeeding infants with cleft palate, short frenulum, or injured material nipples
7. Nurse care/assessment/support for women receiving epidural for labor
8. Mobility – education, assessment, etc.
9. Insomnia management
10. Coping – education, assessment, etc.
11. Constipation management
12. Perimenopause/menopause management (non-pharmaceutical)
13. Assessment for hormone imbalances (men or women)
14. Arthritis management related to mobility and stability (not pain management)
15. Breastfeeding management, education, etc.
16. Ventilator management
17. Surgical recovery management
18. Dementia management (communication, restructuring confusion, etc.)
19. Assessment for ______ (physical, emotional, sexual, psychosocial, cultural, spiritual/transpersonal, cognitive, functional, age-related, economic, environment, etc)
20. Assessment, management, or education for any of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs:
    1. Basic Physiological Needs:Nutrition (water and food), elimination (Toileting), airway (suction)-breathing (oxygen)-circulation (pulse, cardiac monitor, blood pressure) (ABCs), sleep, sex, shelter, and exercise.
    2. Safety and Security:Injury prevention (side rails, call lights, hand hygiene, isolation, suicide precautions, fall precautions, car seats, helmets, seat belts), fostering a climate of trust and safety (therapeutic relationship), patient education (modifiable risk factors for stroke, heart disease).
    3. Love and Belonging:Foster supportive relationships, methods to avoid social isolation (bullying), employ active listening techniques, therapeutic communication, and sexual intimacy.
    4. Self-Esteem:Acceptance in the community, workforce, personal achievement, sense of control or empowerment, accepting one’s physical appearance or body habitus.
    5. Self-Actualization:Empowering environment, spiritual growth, ability to recognize the point of view of others, reaching one’s maximum potential.
21. Management of combative dementia patients (think of therapeutic communication techniques)
22. Palliative oxygen usage: nasal cannula vs masks
23. Initial care of intoxicated patients (nonpharmacological)
24. Sleep protocol in prevention of delirium
25. Noise or light in ICUs
26. Perioperative positioning
27. Nursing management and care of chest tubes in the in-patient setting
28. Choosing correct catheter size of IVs
29. Incontinence assessment or management
30. Rape-trauma syndrome management, assessment, education, etc.
31. Alternative interventions for SOB in COPD patients (fans, etc)
32. Reducing pressure ulcerations
33. Patient education at discharge on heart failure and readmission rates
34. NPO status and hypoglycemic rates (how to do this safely)
35. Reducing HAP and VAP (hospital-acquired pneumonia and ventilator-acquired pneumonia)
36. Interventions to reduce aspiration pneumonia
37. Nursing interventions for c-section recovery
38. Impact of vaccination education
39. Reducing IV infiltration
40. Management of asthma in the school setting
41. Nursing care for ADHD patients
42. Identifying patients at risk for Delirium Tremors (DTs) (assessment)
43. Preventative care of health issues of immigrant women
44. Overcoming vaccine hesitancy during pregnancy (nursing education)
45. Heparin injections: slow versus fast delivery
46. Preventing surgical site infection
47. Reducing sedentary behavior
48. Vegan or paleo diet for primary prevention of cardiovascular disease
49. Smoking cessation teaching
50. Tube feeding speed in preterm and low birth weight infants
51. Communication for adults with an artificial airway
52. Assessment for aspiration risk associated with dysphagia in acute stroke patients