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Advocating and sustaining lifelong learning through a center of excellence approach
(2017-10-16)
A school of nursing in Texas conceived the Center of Excellence in Evidence-Based Practice to address strategies to bridge gaps, establish relationships to address workforce needs, and support connectiveness between different ...
Reviewing nursing policy and procedures: Is there a process?
(2017-10-09)
An evidence-based nursing policy and procedure minimizes risks, promotes safe patient care, and utilizes best practice (Dols et al., 2017). Maintaining evidence-based policy and procedures is challenging. Literature is ...
Standardize Central Supply Rooms
(2017-10-10)
Excessive time hunting and gathering supplies, and increased time away from patient bedside contributes to staff nurse dissatisfaction. A bedside staff nurse used the Academy of Inquisitive Thinking to create a change ...
Developing university and hospital system partnerships to promote use of evidence-based practice among baccalaureate nursing students
(2016-03-21)
Session presented on Monday, November 9, 2015 and Tuesday, November 10, 2015:
This paper describes an academic and clinical agency partnership to enhance the delivery of an undergraduate evidence based practice nursing ...
Diverse Educational Initiatives to Prevent Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection in Critical Care
(2016-03-21)
Session presented on Monday, November 9, 2015: Critical care units demonstrate the highest prevalence of Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infection (CAUTI) and greatly impact acceptance of catheter use within a facility ...
Preventing Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection in the Emergency Department: Tales from the Front Door
(2016-03-21)
Session presented on Monday, November 9, 2015: Catheter associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) prevention begins when the patient enters the healthcare system. Emergency Department nursing staff does not typically ...
Facilitative interventions for nurse leaders that enculturate evidence-based practice
(2017-10-24)
A gap in nurse leaders' knowledge exists regarding correlation of safe, quality care with evidence-based practice (EBP), resulting in fiscal detriment, decreased quality outcomes, and staff retention and empowerment issues. ...
Empowering nurses to implement evidence-based practice through instructional design
(2016-03-21)
Session presented on Saturday, November 7, 2015:
Staff nurses have been mandated to conduct and use research in their pracice as part of a Magnet application. However, many nurses are reluctant to begin the process, because ...
Nursing, respiratory care, and social work undergraduate students' practices, attitudes, and knowledge/skills with evidence-based practice
(2017-09-15)
The purpose of this inter-professional study was to identify undergraduate nursing, respiratory care, and social work students' practice of, attitudes toward, and knowledge/skills with EBP to find patterns of adoption and ...
An interprofessional evidence-based approach to reducing post-intensive care syndrome
(2017-10-26)
Providing insight into key clinical practices that can ameliorate Post-Intensive Care Syndrome (PICS), we will describe the role of interprofessional collaboration in implementation of a multicomponent intervention to ...