An Exploration of the Roles of Nurse Managers in Evidence-Based Practice Implementation 1 An Exploration of the Roles of Nurse Managers in Evidence-Based Practice Implementation Kimrae McDonald Grand Canyon University October 29‚ 2014 An Exploration of the Roles of Nurse Managers in Evidence-Based Practice Implementation 2 Introduction
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According to Hamric‚ “evidence-based practice (EBP) is a problem-solving approach that incorporates best available scientific evidence‚ clinicians’ expertise‚ and patients’ preferences and values” (Hamric 2009) and is of high “importance to best practice and to the education of healthcare professionals” (Hamric 2009). EBP helps nurses to improve their clinical practice by evaluating what they do and how they do it‚ and what are the final outcomes on their patients. Research‚ in providing healthcare
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Implementing Evidence-Based Practice: Walking the Talk Norma E. Thurston and Kathryn M. King Russworm and Larrabee’s (1999) six-step model for evidence-based practice (EBP) was used by 10 nursing teams to seek answers to clinical questions. These teams‚ primarily composed of staff nurses‚ participated in a health region-wide EBP program over 1 year. Overall‚ the model served as a useful mechanism for examining practice-derived questions. However‚ additional strategies needed to be incorporated
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Evidence-based practice (EBP) emerged in the field of medicine during the 1990s and has been extensively integrated into an increasing number of disciplines (Coggan‚ 2004). EBP relies‚ first and foremost‚ on research findings published in the peer-reviewed scientific literature including treatment process and treatment outcome research. EBP of psychological treatments involves the conscientious‚ explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in each stage of clinical decision-making and service
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Intro: Evidence based in sports therapy provides both reliable and useful sources. Primary sources are an original piece of data‚ the piece of information hasn’t been tampered so it proves the information is correct. Evidence‐based practice requires that physical therapists are able to analyse and interpret scientific research. When performing or evaluating research for clinical practice‚ sports physical therapists must first be able to identify the appropriate study design. Sackett et al (1996)
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1. As noted in the first part of the case‚ establishing a questioning culture is essential for effective evidence-based management practice. Sally‚ Richard‚ and others have made several attempts to influence the culture at AMC‚ some more successful than others. For example‚ they tried to establish regular evidence-based management workshops‚ and they implemented and evidence-based quality improvement project to reduce patient falls on Richard’s unit. What more could they do to influence the culture
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Marketing Strategy At the heart of any business strategy is a marketing strategy Businesses exist to deliver products that satisfy customers. Marketing is the process of planning and executing the conception‚ pricing‚ promotion‚ and distribution of ideas‚ goods‚ and services. A marketing strategy is composed of several interrelated components called the marketing mix: The Marketing mix consists of answers to a series of product and customer related questions. The Marketing Mix
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To begin with‚ BCG is the acronym for Boston Consulting Group—a general management consulting firm highly respected in business strategy consulting. BCG Growth-Share Matrix (see figure 1) happens to be one of many of BCG’s strategic concepts the organisation developed in the late 1970s‚ and is being taught at leading business schools and executive education programmes around the world. It is a management tool that serves four distinct purposes (McDonald 2003; Kotler 2003; Cipher 2006): it can
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The company I chose to conduct my BCG Matrix on was Wal-Mart‚ because this company has become one of the largest and most successful companies within the United States. Wal-Mart started out as a small retail business in 1962 in Rogers‚ Arkansas by Sam Walton. Today Wal-Mart has more than 10‚000 stores in more than twenty eight different countries. In 2012 Wal-Mart gained revenue of $421‚849 million dollars‚ which was an increase of 3.4% from the previous year. (www.topics.nytimes.com>Business>Companies
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Exploring the Post-Colonial Literary Canon Sandhya Rao Mehta Sultan Qaboos University‚ Oman Abstract. This paper addresses some the most prominent problematics of working with an established literary canon‚ including the extent to which‚ when implemented in universities worldwide‚ it represents the emerging concerns of diverse communities across the world. The main argument extended in this discussion is that‚ while the western-centred literary canon is being increasingly replaced by other
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