GRAND RAPIDS COMMUNITY COLLEGE SCHOOL OF WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT NURSING PROGRAMS NUR 100 – PERSPECTIVES IN NURSING COURSE INFORMATION Title: NUR 100 Perspectives in Nursing Section: 2243 Credit Hours: 2 Class Times: Mondays and Wednesdays 12:15-2:15pm Class Dates: 8/25/14-10/13/14 CONTACT INFORMATION Michelle Olszewski RN‚ MSN Office location: 616 College Park Plaza Building Office Hours: Upon request Office Phone: 234-4483 E-Mail Address: molszews@grcc.edu (best way to reach
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p37-41w29_ART&SCIENCE 18/03/2011 15:20 Page 37 art & science literature review & Improving evidence-based care for patients with pyrexia Scrase W‚ Tranter S (2011) Improving evidence-based care for patients with pyrexia. Nursing Standard. 25‚ 29‚ 37-41. Date of acceptance: December 29 2010. Summary Fever or pyrexia is a common clinical condition which nurses treat regularly. Fever and hyperpyrexia are defined in this article with a physiological explanation for this adaptive response
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examination. Teachers and aspiring teachers can use either of the three types of validity evidence ( content-related‚ criterion-related‚ and construct related) to ensure that the examination results will provide a clear reflection of the student’s understanding and knowledge of the subject. The content-related evidence validity is the easiest to apply amongst the three validity evidence type. Content-related evidence validity refers to the extent an examination covered all the important knowledge and
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Demystifying nursing research terminology. Part 1 Cite this article as: Welford C‚ Murphy K‚ Casey D (2011) Demystifying nursing research terminology. Part 1. Nurse Researcher. 18‚ 4‚ 38-43. Received February 12 2010; accepted October 29 2010 Correspondence to Claire Welford Email: claire.welford@ nuigalway.ie Claire Welford RGN‚ Dip NS‚ BNS Hons‚ MSc‚ PGC TLHE is HRB nursing research fellow Abstract Aim This article aims to provide clear explanations of the research approaches available
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The firm stakeholders‚ policy makers and individual in departments involved employs skills and research outcome to win out the approximations to achieve the set ends and aims. Through the use of newsletters‚ magazine‚ flyers‚ brochure‚ posters‚ presentation and interviews‚ the firm will pass along knowledge to the different individual in the organization. In the nursing field‚ information about Evidence Base Practice is of importance. It should be shared amongst the practicing nurses in order for
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In healthcare‚ evidence-based practice provides patients with quality care while saving cost. The Iowa model of evidence-based practice ‘promote quality care in a systematic method that explains how organizations change practice” (Schmidt &Brown‚ 2015 p. 445). This model of EBP provides step-by-step on how to take clinical problems and put it into practice with the intervention based on research to bring change into an organization or a department (Brown‚ 2014). The Iowa model consists of two triggers
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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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pioneer of nursing as well as the first nursing researcher. During the Crimean War in 1854‚ Nightingale and 38 nurses traveled to the military hospital Scutari‚ in Turkey‚ to care for the wounded soldiers. The conditions they found were horrible. Soldiers were lying in filth‚ there was little medications and fewer supplies. There was no ventilation and an open sewer ran beneath the hospital. Morbidity and mortality rates were a staggering 43%.(Fee & Garofalo‚ 2010). Significance to nursing. Nightingale’s
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Evidence-based medicine (EBM) and Clinical Decision Support (CDS) provide opportunities for clinicians to use established guidelines to improve the quality of care that they provide. EBM is the intentional use of established best practices to determine the best course of treatment for a patient (Hughes‚ 2011; Timmermans & Mauck‚ 2005). These guidelines are determined by a committee of experts who analyze research to determine the best methods (including benefits and risks)‚ such as “how and when
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AGGRAVATED ASSAULT Jouca Young Strayer University CRJ 105 L. Hanson April 22‚ 2010 AGGRAVATED ASSAULT Aggravated assault is a more serious form of threat than an ordinary assault. This may be because the threat is made with a deadly weapon‚ or with the intent to rape or murder. Also most victims have been associated with the person attaching them. A violent crime is a crime in which the offender uses or threatens to use violent force upon the victim. Violent crimes include crimes committed
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