Studying of the Hypothetical Patient with utilization of EBP

In this assignment you are asked to develop an answerable clinical question for a

hypothetical patient and critically appraise the relevant research literature. This includes

¾ Describing the patient’s case in a holistic manner;

¾ Formulating an answerable clinical question;

¾ Selecting evidence resources and executing a search strategy;

¾ Describing the evidence summary;

¾ Explaining how you would examine the evidence for validity, importance and

applicability to your patient.

You are also required to analyse the use of EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE, and its limitations, as applicable to the chosen clinical problem and your study. If the chosen clinical problem is an existing gap in the literature, you are expected to explore why that is the case and whether EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICEis likely to be/was of benefit.

An example patient is given below. The type of patient you select will depend upon your

clinical experience and questions of relevance to your setting.

Betty is a 74 year old woman with a history of hypertension since the age of 40. She weighs

162 kg and stands at 170 cm tall. Betty has struggled with attempts to lose weight all her life

and has long since given up on her attempts. She has remained active and relatively fit until

the last 2 years.

Her hypertension was previously well controlled with metoprolol 100 mg bd but in the past 2

years has frequently been raised to over 160/90 on several occasions. In the last year she

has had recurrent chest and left arm pain with no evidence of ischaemia found as each time

she has had normal ECGs and troponin levels. In the past year she has also noticed more.

NOTE, this assignment is for paramedic student (master level).

The example above is just to show how create your own example

I provide you another student assignment with lecturer comments, please have look at it to guide you to write my assignment.

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.