articles‚ Alan Kamhi and Kenn Apel discuss evidence-based practice‚ clinical practice‚ and science. While Kamhi feels that clinical practice cannot be scientific‚ Apel believes the contrary. Though they each note several differences between scientists and clinicians‚ I believe it is possible for clinicians to be scientists. Clinicians may not conduct science in the same regimented way as full-time researchers‚ but they are equally capable of researching practices‚ testing hypotheses‚ collecting data‚
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Integration of Evidence-Based Practice into Professional Nursing Practice In this paper we will discuss the integration of evidence based practice into professional nursing practice. Scott & McSherry (2008) define evidence based practice as the combination of individual‚ clinical‚ or professional expertise with the best available external evidence to produce practice that is most likely to lead to positive outcomes for a patient. Despite literature surrounding what evidence based nursing is and
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Discuss how evidence-based practice is applied in your practice setting and describe the desired patient outcome achieved through this approach. I worked for a dialysis clinic where I did acute and chronic hemodialysis. I preformed treatment in the hospital and in the clinic. Almost all acute patients had central lines and some of the chronic patients did as well due to fistulas and grafts occluding or getting infected or etc. Unfortunately evidence shows hemodialysis is the most common factor
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Integration of Evidence-Based Practice into Professional Nursing Practice JMartinez Chamberlain College of Nursing NR351 Deborah Sinn January 24‚ 2011 Integration of Evidence-Based Practice into Professional Nursing Practice Introduction Evidence-based practice (EBP) can be seen throughout history dating back to the mid 19th century when Florence Nightingale gathered research to improve the quality of care provided to patients while analyzing hospital data (Miller‚ Ward & Young
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In this assignment I am going to answer the question ‘why is obesity increasing in childhood and what role can nurses play to manage it?’ I have formed this question after reading an extract from an article. “Diet and weight management” which was published in the Nursing Standard. (Kirk‚ S‚ 2003) Within the article the author states that “obesity in childhood is on the increase.” In researching this particular aspect of obesity I have conducted a literature search on the increase of obesity in childhood
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Identify risk and resilience factors for the young person concerned as they go through the process of transitions. You should evaluate how the legal framework can support the young person’s transition. The young person this case study is about is a young boy named Tom; he is one years old and is currently in foster care due to his grandparents having concerns about his mother’s ability to care for him. Toms mum is called Carol and is only seventeen years old‚ she has been spending less time with
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To gain the information and evidence needed to answer this question‚ several Journal articles‚ books and online resources that have been searched for through the SHU Library Gateway‚ Inter-nurse and other online nursing databases will be used. The information and evidence gained from these search engines will establish the reasons as to why the relationship between evidence and knowledge being used in practice and study is so important. This assignment will also show how the journal articles‚ books
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methods and practices which have been implemented by professionals‚ in order to improve the provision for learners. Some of the methods adopted may be due to government legislation. An example of this is the National Curriculum. It was introduced to establish a consistent approach to the teaching of all children‚ in maintained schools. It gives guidance on what should be taught for particular age groups and a set of level descriptors are also included to assess children by. Other practices are developed
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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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disability nurse wishing to ascertain the effectiveness of CBT as a practical intervention when presented with the dual-diagnosis of anxiety disorder and learning disability‚ is through the use of ’evidence-based practice’. When deciding on the best possible clinical intervention for an identified practice problem it seams logical to convert the issue into a single answerable question
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