When using evidence based practices, nurses will be better
When using evidence based practices, nurses will be better
Go to MEDLINE at http://www.pubme44d.gov and conduct a search on your clinical question. Please type your search history in the table below:…
Nasogastric (NG) tube placement is a common procedure done in pediatric and neonatal patient care settings. However, there is little research that exists in today’s vast amount of medical information that conclusively proves the safest and most accurate way to verify placement. Although there have been several research and antidotal studies done, dating back as early as the 1980’s that have questioned the safety of solely using the auscultation of air in the abdomen to verify correct placement it is still considered the gold standard of practice, and the vast majority of clinical nurses utilize this practice everyday in practice. In 2009, the Pediatric Nursing Journal published an article authored by Michelle Farrington and Cheryl Lang titled, “Nasogastric Tube Placement and Verification in Pediatric and Neonatal Patients.” This article reports an evidence-based practice project using the Iowa Model of Evidence-Based Practice in Midwestern Children’s hospital to implement standards of care and avoid future inconsistencies in nursing practice to provide the best patient outcomes.…
Evidence-based practices are extremely important to me. I spend the majority of my current job as a Loss Prevention Officer finding and exhausting all the evidence I can acquire. I feel that it’s important to find evidence to back up my reports. While conducting the Predisposition Report I would be tasked with interviewing the Juvenile, which would provide their history and their side of the story. However I feel that it’s important to use EBP to do my own research of the juvenile to find and exhaust all resources to find the truth. I believe that in doing my own research and finding the truth using EPB I will be better able to provide an accurate report to the court system and references for the juvenile’s rehabilitation needs.…
Urine Test : this method of testing has been the commonest method of sugar testing, this can be done by comparing the color charts to detects the amount of glucose in the urine by dipping clinistix in urine specimen however it is not accurate sometimes although it simple and fast to…
This case study based on an elderly man named David is 56years old and has a number of personal health issues that are affecting his daily life and on top on that his wife has a history of breast cancer.…
(2015). Impact of Changes in the NHSN Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection (CAUTI) Surveillance criteria on the Frequency and Epidemiology of CAUTI in Intensive Care Units (ICUs). Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, 36(3), 346-349. doi:10.1017/ice.2014.67. Retrieved from EBSCO…
Hagman, J., Oman, K., Kleiner, C., Johnson, E., & Nordhagen, J. (2013). Lessons Learned From the Implementation of a Bedside Handoff Model. The Journal of Nursing Administration, 43(6), 315-317.…
In this section, students describe what worries them about current practice. They answer the question, what…
The PICOT Model formulates the clinical questions. The PICOT Model has five steps, P: patient/population, I: intervention, C: current practice, O: outcome, T: time. The Iowa Model of Evidence-Based Practice to Promote Quality Care emphasis the importance of considering the entire healthcare system from the provider to the patient and it gives large systems an effective, team-centered approach to implement evidence-based practice in the clinical setting and is used for sweeping, system-wide changes in practice. The Iowa model has seven steps, the seven steps are identify a problem or new knowledge, prioritize the issues and form a team, team reviews, critiques and synthesizes the evidence…
Evidence-based practice needs one to get all the available evidence on a study topic. Internal evidence is applied in diagnostic reasoning such as in data banks. Concerning the issue of patients with ventilation-caused pneumonia, the nurse opts to visit institutions to gain evidence. On the other hand, external evidence is found in scientific studies and randomized control trials. This type of evidence is found from outside sources other than records from hospital facilities. Internal evidence enables standardization of the practice. However,…
Evidence based practice helps us to ensure that we are providing the best possible care to our patients. By basing our care on practices that have outcomes based on evidence just makes since. They have been tested and proven to be effective on patients. We don’t have to do trial and error to find out what works the best for our patients, the work has been done for us. This gives our patients the best care possible. Many changes have been made over the past 10 years based on evidence based practices. There are many resources available to nurses, nurse managers, administrators and others that provide research that has been completed. These resources include different kinds of studies that have been performed. They include cohort studies, case…
Evidence-based practice is an anticipated core experience of all health care clinicians irrespective of position. Role modeling and participating in the skills are necessary to develop evidence-based practice into clinical and nonclinical courses and also an important part in developing positive attitudes toward evidence-based practice, that’s the first step for using evidence to guide practice decisions (Winters). One way to accelerate EBP In health care organizations are by obtaining support from entire culture. Advance practice and staff nurses as well as administrators must have the knowledge and have to believe about the importance of EBP and provide critical skills to support evidence-based care. The knowledge of nursing is built on a…
Evidence based practice is used as a framework for planning, implementing and evaluating care provided to clients as stated by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ, 2014). According to the AHRQ (2014), evidence-based research provides the basis for grounding clinical practice guidelines and recommendations in order to provide effective healthcare to patients. Furthermore, the AHRQ reported that the United States of America implement a preventive task force of experts to prevent and provide evidence based medicine to improve the health of all Americans with preventive medication and health screening (2014). It is the belief of this writer that clients value their health and strength, therefore preventive medication and health…
This week the discussion focuses on why research and evidenced-based practice are important to the nursing profession.…
Kitson, a., Harvey, G., McCormack, B., (1998). Enabling the implementation of evidence based practice: a conceptual framework. Quality in Health Care, 7, 149-158. doi: 10.1136/qshc.7.3.149…