Evidence-Based Practice for Nurses

on the manufacturer’s recommendations because this may not be very strong evidence. Many associations define beforehand what lev ...

well research is applied to practice. In the fourth phase it was decided that practice should be based on the knowledge that pat ...

New research or other literature National agencies or organizational standards & guidelines Philosophies of care Questions ...

effective professional organizations are in fostering nurses’ abilities to develop and initiate interventions aimed at safe pati ...

Nurses are expected to use the best evidence available to achieve the best patient outcomes possible (Krugman, 2003). Many organ ...

articles (Moreno-Casbas, 2011; Polit & Beck, 2016). The authors suggest that there are no perfect studies, and nurses would ...

hand, if nurses are in organizations that operate from a philosophy of “we have done it this way for years,” one can expect chan ...

KEY TERM journal club: A strategy for disseminating research among nurses by discussing articles in a small group Identify a nur ...

having some structured discussions online, coupled with face-to-face meetings (Wilson et al., 2015). If you do not feel comforta ...

Establish urgency Collect data to show clinical issue• Raise aw about the areness issue by talking with colleagues• Meet with m ...

Communicating the sense of urgency often results in the development of a coalition, the second phase of Kotter’s model (1996). A ...

When a variety of healthcare providers is empowered, there is a greater chance for success. Succeeding in some aspect of any pro ...

misunderstandings related to the change, and facilitates implementation of the change. Box 16-2 presents an example of a questio ...

workload. When input from stakeholders is not solicited, mistrust can develop among healthcare providers, often putting patients ...

is admitted to the hospital with HF, and the insurance will pay $10,000 for his care. It costs the hospital $10,000 to provide 6 ...

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Horsely, J. A., Crane, J., & Bingle, J. D. (1978). Research utilization as an organizational process. Journal of Nursing Adm ...

Titler, M. G., Kleiber, C., Steelman, V., Rakel, B., Budreau, G., Everett, L. Q., .  . . Goode, T. (2001). The Iowa model of evi ...

CHAPTER OBJECTIVES KEY TERMS At the end of this chapter, you will be able to: ‹ List four characteristics of an innovator ‹ Prov ...

© Madredus/Shutterstock At the end of this section, you will be able to: ‹ List four characteristics of an innovator ‹ Provide e ...