evidence-based practice use in nursing for making decisions using evidences to provide care to patients. This assignment has highlighted five main principles of EBP. These principles should be considered while implementing EBP. Moreover, there are c Continue Reading...
Evidence-Based Practice citation that was of interest to the author of this document is called "Closing the quality gap: A critical analysis of quality improvement strategies: volume 5 -- asthma care." It focuses on the phenomenon in which "there re Continue Reading...
EBP Evidence-based practice model EBP project issue: Obesity "The prevalence of obesity (BMI > 30) has been increasing; currently; at least 27% of the adult population is obese" (McTigue 2003: vii). Despite being one of the most pervasive health p Continue Reading...
For example, although many nurses were taught to place infants in the prone sleeping position to prevent aspiration, there is now persuasive evidence that supine (back) sleeping position decreases the risk for sudden infant death syndrome." (p. 28) Continue Reading...
Practice Issue Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) Project in courses DNP program, asked The practice issue I have chosen to explore is whether or not q2 hourly turning and positioning actually decreases the incidence of pressure ulcers in the elderly be Continue Reading...
Still, the concept of guided imagery tends to stray far from traditional methods of pain management. Pharmaceuticals have long been a major method of treatment for pain, but have resulted in major backlashes in regards to patients becoming addicted, Continue Reading...
This is not entirely due to the nurse's fault. Nurses, especially in large, busy, urban medical-surgical units such as the one in which I worked, are often forced to care for a high volume of patients, and work back-to-back shifts. It is difficult t Continue Reading...
Evidence-based practice (EBP) is the method of gathering, handling, and applying research results to enhance medical practice, the work atmosphere, or patient results. Based on the American Nurses Association or ANA, medical treatments ought to be fu Continue Reading...
Synthesis/Summary of Evidence Based Practice Articles Introduction A life-long disease, diabetes tends to affect the way an individual’s body handles blood glucose. In essence, type 2 diabetes happens to be the most prevalent kind of diabetes. Continue Reading...
Roles and ValuesA. Discuss the evidenced-based practice regarding advance directive DNRNursing care is purposed to meet the comprehensive needs of both the patients and their families throughout their healthcare process. This is especially fundamenta Continue Reading...
Week 1 This week’s material helped me to understand in a clear way how we should think about nursing. Getting to know the history of nursing allowed me to put nursing theory into historical context. The personal worldview of nursing that I real Continue Reading...
Polit and Beck (2008) Evidence-Based Practice is "broadly defined as the use of the best clinical evidence in making patient care decisions, and such evidence typically comes from research conducted by nurses and other health care professionals" (3) Continue Reading...
Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing Education Track Rubin (2009) defines evidence based practice (EBP) as “a process in which practitioners use the most rigorous scientific research evidence available as an important part of the basis for making Continue Reading...
Prevention of Pressure Ulcers Evidence-Based Practice for Intervention Project Question: Can quarter hour turning and positioning minimize pressure ulcers within the elderly population who are bed bound residing in hospitals or nursing homes? The Continue Reading...
A New Perception of Evidence-Based PracticeAbstractThree possible outcomes are expected whenever a clinical practice is conducted: correct results, representation of a random variation, or results influenced by systematic errors. Numerous factors can Continue Reading...
nursing competencies, outline what they are, and how they will influence the trajectory of my nursing career path. The American Association of Colleges of Nursing and the Quality and Safety Education in Nursing have put together a joint document tha Continue Reading...
SYSTEMS THEORY vs. DIFFUSION OF INNOVATION THEORY EVIDENCED-BASED PRACTICE Systems theory and diffusion of innovation theory Systems theory and healthcare delivery in the U.S. According to theorist Ludwig von Bertalanffy, it is essential to view Continue Reading...
Financing Health Care in the United States How do the rapid and dynamic changes in financing impact health outcomes within your practice? Health is a very important part of human existence. We also live in very interesting times when there are new li Continue Reading...
Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococci (MRSA), most common Healthcare Associated Infections The PICOT question to be discussed is: For adult patients using catheters, does the use of sterilization practices reduce the future risk of health associated i Continue Reading...
Evidence-based practice has become popular in several disciplines of healthcare and continues to do so. One of the major characteristic of EBP is its reliance on scientific evidence, individual choices and needs of the patient and clinical expertise. Continue Reading...
Evidenced-Based Practice According to research, evidence-based practice (EBP) results to greater quality care, enhanced patient outcomes, minimized costs, and more nurse satisfaction when compared to conventional approaches to care. Evidence-based p Continue Reading...
Nursing Student 1: A matter that I consider to be of ethical importance in nursing is the use of evidence-based practice. This is an ethical issue in the sense that it is unethical not to utilize evidence in determining how to perform the duties of Continue Reading...
Evidence-Based Practice Translation of Research in Evidence-Based Practice Nursing involves men and women who are willing to help the patients with their skills like health maintenance, recovery of ill or injured people and the treatment. They deve Continue Reading...
Evidence-based practice (EBP) is defined as the conscientious, judicious, and explicit use of current best evidence to make decisions about patient care. EBP incorporates the best available evidence in order to guide nursing care and improve patient Continue Reading...
NURSING Nursing: Evidence-Based PracticeEvidence-based practice helps the new nurses to gain expertise that the previous scholar has verified within their current practice for positive patient outcomes. However, to ensure quality patient care, commun Continue Reading...
.. If one of the goals of the healthcare system is to promote health and prevent illness and injury, it may be logical to start with those who work in the system." (Yassi, Ostry, Spiegel, and Walsh, 2002, p.1) Presently the healthcare environment is Continue Reading...
Mobility Evidence-based Practice Progressive Mobility Protocol This paper is a project based on PICO. The clinical question that serves as the foundation for this data-based design is; for immobile critical care patients, does the use of a nurse Continue Reading...
In seeking to administer drugs, nurses ought to be guided by the five medical administration rights. These are patient, time, dose, drug, and route (You, Choe, Park, Kim, and Son, 2015). One issue that I consider to be of great concern in my practice Continue Reading...
Diabetes Evidence-Based Practice Diabetes Diabetes is a disease which stays with the patient life-long except in some cases where the diabetes is gestational which occurs during pregnancy and often goes back to normal after the delivery. Typically Continue Reading...
Evidence-based practice is not incompatible with patient-centric care. Although evidence-based practice is concrete, there are different models and frameworks in use. One of the most important models for evidence-based practice is the ACE Star Model Continue Reading...
The Alzheimer’s Association (2018) offers healthcare administrators and practitioners a set of recommendations for dementia care. These evidence-based practice guidelines and protocols are designed to improve overall standards and quality of ca Continue Reading...
The Role of Nursing Research in Demonstrating Evidence-Based Practice It helps for hospitals to embed in their culture evidence-based practice. This is particularly important as it demonstrates that in addition to conducting an evaluation of publishe Continue Reading...
Abstract Although the practice of nursing can be traced back thousands of years, the history of modern nursing as a profession begins with the integration of evidence-based practice. Evidence-based practice has dramatically, profoundly, and irrevers Continue Reading...
Employing Evidence-Base Practice The influence of evidence-based practice (EBP) has found reverberations in the field of medical care giving, academia and scientific endeavors. The need for evidence-based quality arises from the need to afford impro Continue Reading...
Medication Reconciliation Evidence-Based Practice and the Procedural Education of Nurses Medication reconciliation is a critical issue in healthcare reform. Today, improvement in this area of treatment could have a transformative effect on the curr Continue Reading...
Facilitating Change to Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing: The Iowa and Stetler Models The Iowa Model of Evidence-Based Practice Developed by Marita Titler to promote quality healthcare, the Iowa Model is a source of guidance for nurses and clinici Continue Reading...
