Review the resources for defining the problem and submit a consultation form.
Use the buttons to the right of the page to submit a Project Consultation Request.

Defining the Problem
Identifying the nature of your clinical inquiry often starts with defining a problem in clinical practice affecting your patient population, their families, or your work team. The IOWA Model for EBP Implementation introduces triggers for problems that might be issues identified from the balanced scorecard, from your nursing leadership, or reported by patients. Using our Strategic Plan Pillars and Anchors to identify problems that we need to improve can be useful and help guide leadership to support high priority items. Use the PICO template to refine your clinical inquiry as to the next phase of project development.

Once you have an idea for a project, submit the initial Project Consultation Request Form.
After refining your project with consultation complete the DUHS Nursing Research and EBP Project Organizational Feasibility form and submit it and your project proposal (QI/Education IRB Exempt Application, IRB Research Summary, or DUSON DNP Project Summary) to the DUHS Nursing Research Council for project consideration.

Strategic Plan Pillars

Strategic Anchors:
• Recruit, engage, develop and retain outstanding people and foster resiliency through a healthy work environment
• Demonstrate value through the delivery of safe, evidence-based and outcomes-focused, patient-centered care
• Drive continuous learning, innovation, dissemination, and translation of discoveries across the communities we serve
• Advance integration across the health system

Quality Balance ScoreCard Initiatives

Project Consultation Request Form
DUHS Organizational Feasibility Form