Poster Presentation Students this project will allow you to formulate and hypothetically develop your own research project. The purpose of this project is for the student to follow all of the different steps in a research project on an already published article and presented as a poster presentation. A poster session or poster presentation is the presentation of research information by an individual or representatives of research teams at a congress or conference with an academic or professional focus. The work is usually peer reviewed. Poster sessions are particularly prominent at scientific conferences such as medical congresses. Students will select a nursing research already published and following the article information you will create a poster presentation that include the below information: The outline of the poster should include the following tabs (minimum requirements) Abstract Outline: -Title of Project -Problem Statement: what is the problem that needs fixing? -Purpose of the Project -Research Question(s) -Hypothesis -Methodology (Qualitative vs. Quantitative) -Steps in implementing your project -Limitations Results (Pretend results) -Conclusion -References I have attached an example of a poster presentation for guidance. The due date for the poster presentation is WEEK 13. Please feel free to be artistic and provide graphs and data. You are welcome to use any poster template. Please submit it via turn it in. Criterion Outstanding 4 Very Good 3 Good 2 Unacceptable 1 Score Completeness Complete in all respects; reflects all requirements Complete in most respects; reflects most requirements Incomplete many respects; reflects few requirements Incomplete in most respects; does not reflect requirements Understanding Demonstrates excellent understanding of the topic(s) and issue(s) Demonstrates an accomplished understanding of the topic(s) and issue(s) Demonstrates an acceptable understanding of the topic(s) and issue(s) Demonstrates an inadequate understanding of the topic(s) and issue(s) Analysis Presents an insightful and through analysis of the issue (s) identified Presents a thorough analysis of most of the issue(s) identified Presents a superficial analysis of some of the issue(s) identified Presents an incomplete analysis of the issue(s) identified. Evaluation Makes appropriate and powerful connections between the issue(s) identified and the concept(s) studied Makes appropriate connections between the issue(s) identified and the concept(s) studied Makes appropriate but somewhat vague connections between the issue(s) identified and the concept(s) studied Makes little or no connection between the issue(s) identified and the concept(s) studied. Opinion Supports opinion with strong arguments and evidence; presents a balanced and critical view; interpretation is both reasonable and objective Supports opinion with reasons and evidence; presents a fairly balanced view; interpretation is both reasonable and objective ...

1. Poster Presentation
Students this project will allow you to formulate and
hypothetically develop your own research project. The purpose
of this project is for the student to follow all of the different
steps in a research project on an already published article and
presented as a poster presentation. A poster session or poster
presentation is the presentation of research information by an
individual or representatives of research teams at a congress or
conference with an academic or professional focus. The work is
usually peer reviewed. Poster sessions are particularly
prominent at scientific conferences such as medical congresses.
Students will select a nursing research already published and
following the article information you will create a poster
presentation that include the below information:
The outline of the poster should include the following tabs
(minimum requirements)
Abstract Outline:
-Title of Project
-Problem Statement: what is the problem that needs fixing?
-Purpose of the Project
-Research Question(s)
-Hypothesis
-Methodology (Qualitative vs. Quantitative)
-Steps in implementing your project
-Limitations
Results (Pretend results)
-Conclusion
-References
I have attached an example of a poster presentation for
guidance. The due date for the poster presentation is WEEK 13.
Please feel free to be artistic and provide graphs and data. You
are welcome to use any poster template. Please submit it via

2. turn it in.
Criterion
Outstanding 4
Very Good 3
Good 2
Unacceptable 1
Score
Completeness
Complete in all respects; reflects all requirements
Complete in most respects; reflects most requirements
Incomplete many respects; reflects few requirements
Incomplete in most respects; does not reflect requirements
Understanding
Demonstrates excellent understanding of the topic(s) and
issue(s)
Demonstrates an accomplished understanding of the topic(s) and
issue(s)
Demonstrates an acceptable understanding of the topic(s) and
issue(s)
Demonstrates an inadequate understanding of the topic(s) and
issue(s)
Analysis
Presents an insightful and through analysis of the issue (s)
identified
Presents a thorough analysis of most of the issue(s) identified
Presents a superficial analysis of some of the issue(s) identified
Presents an incomplete analysis of the issue(s) identified.
Evaluation
Makes appropriate and powerful connections between the
issue(s) identified and the concept(s) studied
Makes appropriate connections between the issue(s) identified

3. and the concept(s) studied
Makes appropriate but somewhat vague connections between the
issue(s) identified and the concept(s) studied
Makes little or no connection between the issue(s) identified
and the concept(s) studied.
Opinion
Supports opinion with strong arguments and evidence; presents
a balanced and critical view; interpretation is both reasonable
and objective
Supports opinion with reasons and evidence; presents a fairly
balanced view; interpretation is both reasonable and objective
Supports opinion with limited reasons and evidence; presents a
somewhat one-sided argument
Supports opinion with few reasons and little evidence; argument
is one-sided and not objective.
Recommendations
Presents detailed, realistic, and appropriate recommendations
clearly supported by the information presented and concepts
studied
Presents specific, realistic and appropriate recommendation
supported by the information presented and the concepts studied
Presents realistic or appropriate recommendation supported by
the information presented and the concepts studied
Presents realistic or appropriate recommendation with little, if
any, support from the information and the concepts studied.
Grammar and Spelling
Minimal spelling and grammar errors
Some spelling and grammar errors
Noticeable spelling and grammar errors
Unacceptable number of spelling and grammar errors
APA guidelines
Uses APA guidelines accurately and consistently to cite sources

4. Uses APA guidelines with minor violations to cite sources
Reflects incomplete knowledge of APA guidelines
Does not use APA guidelines
Total
Title of Project
Presenter Name
University name
Introduction and Problem
Variables
Descriptive Data
Results
Results (cont.)
Clinical Questions/PICOT
Discussion
Project Limitations
Conclusion and Recommendations
Purpose of the Project
The data analysis was in line with the needs of the project:
statistical tests, including t-test and Wilcoxon signed ranks,
were employed to determine if there were statistically
significant differences between pre- and post-test
measurements. This way, the relationships between the
independent and dependent variables were reliably inferred
(Polit & Beck, 2017)

5. Data types:
Survey: quantitative, ordinal (Likert scale).
Reports: quantitative, ratio (number of mistakes).
Data analysis approaches:
Software: SPSS.
Survey: Wilcoxon signed ranks test.
Reports: paired t-test.
Data Analysis
The project employed four Advanced Practice Registered
Nurses, three Medical Doctors, and one Physician Assistant who
exhibited significant resistance to the use of EHR.
References
.
.
Several studies have shown the benefits of the use of electronic
health records (EHR) for patients’ safety, as well as their ability
to improve efficiency in primary care settings (Porterfield,
Engelbert, & Coustasse, 2014). Regardless of the positive
effects of the implementation of EHR, health care providers
have moved slowly to adopt this technology (King, Patel,
Jamoom, & Furukawa, 2014). Practitioners who do not want to
adopt EHR, especially electronic prescription, can endanger
patient safety.
Medication errors, in turn, are a serious issue that causes

6. numerous safety incidents in primary care. Studies have shown
that the use of EHR significantly reduces the number of
prescription errors that can harm patients (Liao et al., 2017).
Palabindala, Pamarthy, and Jonnalagadda (2016) showed that
the use of EHR could reduce medication error while also
resulting in improved communications between patients and
healthcare teams
The purpose of this quantitative quasi-experimental project was
to determine if there was a relationship between the application
of an educational program and the improvement of
practitioners’ perception of EHR usability, as well as the
reduction of the number of prescription medication errors, at a
medical group practice in the Southeastern of the United States
(US).
The PICOT question created for the project was as follows: (P)
Among healthcare practitioners, (I) how does the
implementation of an educational program in a primary care
medical center in the Southeast of the US (C) compared to the
pre-intervention measurements in the prior four weeks (O)
influences primary care practitioners’ perceptions of the
usability of EHR and the incidence of prescription medication
errors (T) within four weeks of participating in the program?
The following clinical questions guide this quantitative project:
Q1: How does the implementation of an educational program
influence the perceptions of primary care practitioners
regarding EHR usability?
Q2: How does the implementation of an educational program
influence prescription medication error incidence?
Variable 1: Quality improvement educational program
(independent)
Variable 2: Primary care practitioners’ perception of EHR
usability (dependent)
Variable3: Number of prescription medication errors
(dependent).

7. The educational program can enhance the participants’
perceptions regarding EHR, but the described project cannot
reject the null hypothesis that the intervention had no effects on
the medication error rates. However, since the project was
constricted by significant limitations, this finding is not
conclusive.
Some of the research recommendations include the proposal to
increase the sample size, have a greater timeframe for future
projects, and consider randomizing the sample into two groups.
The project can also be used to recommend educational EHR
efforts for the reduction of EHR resistance and the specific
program that has been tested for the same purpose.
The sample was small (8 participants) and could not be
expanded because the facility was small.
The data collection process was limited by the short time
allocated to observing the results (4 weeks)
The project employed a quasi-experimental design. Since its
sample was so small, trying to split it further was not feasible.
King, J., Patel, V., Jamoom, E. W., & Furukawa, M. F. (2014).
Clinical benefits of electronic health record use: National
findings. Health Services Research, 49(1pt2), 392–404. doi:
10.1111/1475-6773.12135
Liao, T. V., Rabinovich, M., Abraham, P., Perez, S., DiPlotti,
C., Han, J., ... Honig, E. (2017). Evaluation of medication
errors with implementation of electronic health record
technology in the medical intensive care unit. Open Access
Journal of Clinical Trials, 9, 31-40. doi:
10.2147/OAJCT.S131211
Porterfield, A., Engelbert, K., & Coustasse, A. (2014).
Electronic prescribing: Improving the efficiency and accuracy
of prescribing in the ambulatory care setting. Perspectives in
Health Information Management, 2014, 1-13

8. Palabindala, V., Pamarthy, A., & Jonnalagadda, N. R. (2016).
Adoption of electronic health records and barriers. Journal of
Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives, 6(5), 1-3.
doi: 10.3402/jchimp.v6.32643
Polit, D.F., & Beck, C.T. (2017). Nursing research: Generating
and assessing evidence for nursing practice (10th ed.).
Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins.
The survey contained 11 individual items and used a Likert
scale in which 1 stood for an extremely negative assessment of
an aspect of usability or usefulness and 5 referred to an
extremely positive one. The summary of the mean and standard
deviation for each of the items before and after the intervention
is presented in Table 1.
. The raw data indicate that the most common errors for the
clinic include incorrect dosage, incorrect drug, and drug-drug
interaction, as well as incorrect frequency and drug omission.
Table 4 presents the results of the paired t-test analysis of the
errors that occurred and those that were reported. No
statistically significant differences were found for either pair
(p>0.05). Thus, the findings do not suggest that the program had
an impact on medication error rates; a relationship between the
independent variable and medication errors was not found.
Example changes in pre- and post-test scores can be found in
Figure 4. Table 2 summarizes the results of analyzing the
survey items with the Wilcoxon signed ranks test. Items 1, 3, 4,
5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 demonstrate statistically significant results
(p<=0.05).
Therefore, the intervention improved the perceptions of the
participants regarding the effect of EHR on one’s performance
and job effectiveness, the usefulness of EHR, the clarity of
interacting with the system, the ease of EHR use, and the use of
EHR for clinical care and research. The relationship between

9. the independent variable (program) and perceptions (one of the
dependent variables) was found.
Figure 1. The occupations of the participants.
Figure 2. Age of the participants.
Figure 3. Gender of the participants.
Figure 4. Example changes in survey results before and after the
intervention.
As had been planned, the data were collected before and after
the intervention using an already established survey tool and the
clinic’s pharmacy call reports regarding medication errors.
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OBESITY IN THE UNITED STATES, 2011-2012
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PREVALENCE OF CHILDHOOD AND ADULT OBESITY IN
THE UNITED STATES, 2011-2012
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12. Prevalence of Childhood and Adulthood Obesity in the
United States, 2011-2012
Authors: Ogden, Cynthia., Carroll, Margaret., Kit, Brian &
Flegal, Katherine
Student: Daily Rodriguez Aguilera.
Prevalence of Childhood and Adulthood Obesity in the United
States, 2011-2012
In the United States, obesity has become one of the most public
health issues which affect both the children and adults in the
country. In the recent times have seen the rate of the affected
personalities escalating quickly, of which this has been a result
of the adopted lifestyle choice, unwillingness to engage in
exercise, nutritional issues or just simple one chooses to ignore
the personal health decisions even though these people are
conscious of the outcomes. Additionally, over a third of the US
total population is approximate to be suffering from obesity as
per the research conducted. At the same time, a very significant
high of seventeen percent is attributable to the obesity
prevalence are among the youth that is according to research
conducted (Ogden, Carroll, Kit & Flegal, 2014). The research
question of this study aimed to find out the rate of prevalence in
both the adults and the children in the US between 2011 and
2012. To develop a comprehensive report on the same, the

13. authors of this article utilized a sample size involving the
children to two years of age, adolescents the period between 9
to 19, and finally the adults. The authors concluded from the
research that the prevalence of obesity remains high over the
years among the entire age group, of which this call upon for
further examinations.
Hypothesis and the Process Used to Arrive at Conclusions
In the research study, the fundamental aim of the author
was to investigate and offer the most current estimates on the
toddler from 2 years obesity nationwide, and study the trends in
childhood obesity between the year 2003 and 2012. The authors
similarly intend to investigate the trends in the adult and the
rate of the prevalence as well. Significantly, the National and
Nutrition Examination Survey measured the height and weight
of the 9120 research participants and tested for obesity between
2011 and 2012 (Ogden, Carroll, Kit & Flegal, 2014). To
conclude, the children, as well as the adolescents between the
ages of 2 and 19, were subjected to BMI test, whereas the
toddlers with age two years and below were examined for the
obesity through the Center for Disease Control and Preventions
specifications of the height and weight in the growth chart
Research Methods
Does the author provide the literature review?
The author provides a very comprehensive literature review that
scrutinizes the recent results and findings concerning obesity,
significant findings, and the methodological as well as the
theoretical framework contributions that were made in the past
concerning the obesity. The research study is current; however,
it was conducted some eight years ago, but obesity remains one
of the most severe diseases among the United States of America
and globally as a whole due to the lifestyle adopted by the
majority. Moreover, the obesity diseases still a threat as well as
a significant health issue in the current time because research
has been set in place to investigate and find out the causes, the
risk contributing factors as well as the development of
comprehensive preventative measures.

14. The relevance of the research to current health issues
Currently, in the United States, obesity has become one of the
crucial health issues. Approximately 35% of the American
population is obese, the disease of obesity is not just an issue of
(girth control), but currently, it is now considered as one of the
chronic conditions by the American medical association. It is, in
fact, the national epidemic, according to the CDC, which the
Center for Disease Control and prevention. It is not just all
about the weight challenge, but it is said it manifests severe
effects for the individual metabolic, physical as well as
psychological health. This aspect provides comprehensive
nature on how obesity should be prevented hence call for more
research studies to be conducted. With persistent and increase
of obesity, this research study is relevant to the current state of
growth in the number of people becoming obese in the country
as well in the entire world.
Description of the research type utilized
More importantly, even though obesity proves to be a
health issue researcher still can identify the causal effect
relationship as well as the protective measures, the researchers
in this journal article have chosen non-experimental research
method design. The rationale for the non –experimental research
method is because they have comprehensively provided relevant
statistics to the designed objective as well as the research
question, and they have not further identified the possible
causal relationships. The necessary information has been
collected through the interviews as well as performing various
examinations on their desired target population to reach the
determined conclusion. Also, these researchers observed the
patterns as well as interpreted the outcome results with no use
of laboratory tests, and this makes us conclude that the research
method is non-experimental. The used sample, as previously
identified, is from birth to adults as the research targeted both
the children and the adult.
A total population of 9120 participants used with inclusive of

15. all the age groups in which the 5181 constitutes of adults over
the age of 20, 584 children and toddlers, and 1179 were not
Hispanic Asians (Ogden, Carroll, Kit & Flegal, 2014). The
gender populations, as well as their ages, were incorporated for
a final research report. Concerning the identified community in
the research, the Hispanic race has been used, which displays a
form of bias in the study research. The author, though, shows
that the previous investigations had oversampled the Hispanics,
non-Hispanic Asian, not Hispanic black. This made it justifiable
for the research to incorporate the non-Hispanic in the research
study because they were left out in the previous time.
Application of the Research Results
Convincingly, the obesity prevalence rate, in fact, in the
US is high. The current main focal point in most of the public
health initiatives is childhood obesity, with a prevalence rate of
17% of all infant population (Ogden, Carroll, Kit & Flegal,
2014). Several pieces of research in a place health institution in
the US have been directed to focus on childhood obesity,
whereby nearly all states have funded initiatives to address the
high recorded prevalence rate. Further, a third of the resul ts of
the research display adults as obese. With the research results,
it is significant for the medical professional to work with state
departments to develop measures to curb an increased rate of
obesity in the US. This can be achieved through the
comprehensive, collaborative initiative to provide the
educational approach to address obesity in the community
grassroots.
How is research practical?
The sufficient method to check on the individual weight,
whether they are healthy, obese, or underweight is the use of
body mass index; hence this justifies the research as practical.
The body mass index is ever easy to interpret, and it is
somehow affordable. This can permits the respondents to
personal follow-ups even at home to assist in modifying total
lifestyle change initiatives.
My opinion

16. In my view, it could be very prudent that the sample size of
over 5000 representing the non-Hispanic Asian could have been
distributed evenly among the US entire race so that it provides
results that can be depended on by the US as a whole
population. During the research, the design could have
considered that the US is a multi-racial country, and the
necessity to have all people sample is an excellent idea since
different races have different lifestyles.
Is however clear and straightforward
The articulation of the relevant statistics and findings makes
the research straightforward and bright, as the author displays.
The way an individual can read and interpret the results is much
open; thus, the analysis is detailed and straightforward. The
language used in the entire research design is clear, which
means even those not in the medical profession can follow and
find relevant information that is of help.
Future Research
Chronic disease obesity is a broad subject that deemed
persistently as well as a continuous research study. As the world
continues, things proliferate. Individuals have changed
themselves into busy routines with no physical exercise or time
to prepare healthy means. Through sufficient management,
obesity can be manageable to results in positive outcomes.
Genetically aspect can be an essential element in the
contributions factor for obesity; therefore, the need for further
research is appropriate.
Conclusion
Comprehensively, the research has attained its optimum initial
targets as well as assisted the claimed idea or hypothesis that
the incidence of obesity is elevated in both adults as well as the
children. While the researcher has used the non-experimental
research technique, it would have been more suitable to use an
experimental research technique to categorize the causal
relationships and offer substantive recommendations.

17. References
Ogden. C, Carroll. M. Kit. B & Flegal, K (2014). Prevalence of
Childhood and Adulthood Obesity in the United States, 2011-
2012.
Journal of the American Medical Association. 311(8):
806-814