Please complete ALL THREE of the Professional Development exercises.

Duringrounds Charles encounters a rare condition he has never personallyseen, and only vaguely remembers hearing about in nursing school. Hetakes a few moments to prepare himself by searching the Internet. Thatevening, he researches even further to treat, administer, and assess thepatient safely. He searches clinical databases online and his ownschool textbooks. Most of the information seems consistent, yet somefactors vary. Charles wants to provide the highest quality in patientsafety.

• What should Charles do when he encounters information in two sources that is directly contradictory?
• Which resources are the most trusted?
• Which resources are the most accurate?
• What criteria should Charles use to identify credible resources to enhance his clinical practice?
• Practice extracting data from a database at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) State Cancer Profiles web site:
  • Compare data from at least 2 different states
  • Search for incidence by gender
  • Search for incidence by race/ethnicity
• Visit the National Guidelines Clearinghouse web site:
  • Type ‘nursing’ in the search box to limit the results to those that are within the boundaries of nursing practice
  • Choose one of the guidelines and describe how it was developed and summarize the practice recommendations
  • Howare these recommendations similar to or different from those containedin your textbook or those currently practiced in your clinical setting?
  • Choosea clinical topic and design a search strategy for searching an onlinedatabase such as CINAHL or MEDLINE. Reflect on your search strategy, forexample, what search terms did you initially use, what new terms didyou discover as you searched, how did you limit/refine your search?

Pleasesubmit one APA formatted paper between 1700 words, not including thetitle and reference page. The assignment should have a minimum of fourscholarly sources, in addition to the textbook.