have carried many titles. For the past 10 years or so‚ I have primarily been a hemodialysis nurse and I’ve embraced the love I have for this specialty. I recently entered the RN to BSN program at The Ohio State University. I am learning about Evidence Based Practice‚ or EBP for short‚ which is a fairly new concept for me. I work in a relatively small environment for an extremely large healthcare company. I work in an outpatient hemodialysis clinic where we provide approximately 250 hemodialysis treatments
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Benchmark Assignment: Evidence- Based Practice Project-Paper on Diabetes Chisom Okpara Grand Canyon University NRS- 410V 10/27/14 Evidence-Based Practice Project- paper on Diabetes Introduction Diabetes
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It is undisputable fact that medicine is very important to people because it helps us to maintain or restore our health prevent of disease‚ injury and other damages. According to Meriam Webster dictionary‚ medicine can be defined as a substance that is used in treating disease or relieving pain and that is usually in the form of pill or a liquid. There are two type of medicine that we need to know which are modern and traditional medicine. Modern and traditional medicine can be compared and contrast
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(GPs) base their decision to prescribe antidepressants. This study looked at policies and practices used by GPs in regards to this problem. Subject of antidepressants has been addressed in many studies‚ recent increase in the statistics of amount of medicines prescribed for that reason shows that changes in the policies are required and this study focus on why is that. As the study was funded by Medical Research Council‚ there are no potential conflicts of interests. Number of authors as well as their
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Reviewing the Literature NURS6125‚ section 23‚ Integrating Theory and Research for Evidence-Based Practice February 12‚ 2011 Reviewing the Literature Patient handoffs are an integral part of taking care of people in all patient care settings. Patient handoffs occur at many different times throughout a facility including shift changes‚ provider break times‚ inter-departmental transfers‚ when a patient may travel for testing. Patient handoff definitions vary widely‚ but the most simplified version
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Evidence-Based Practice WGU Evidence-Based Practice Article I choose to review today is titled" Reduction of unnecessary use of indwelling urinary catheters". A1. Article. Janzen‚ J.‚ Burman‚ B. M.‚ Spanjaard‚ L.‚ de Reijke‚ T. M.‚ Goossens‚ A.‚ & Geerlings‚ S. E. (2013). Reduction of unnecessary use of indwelling urinary catheters. BMJ Quality & Safety‚ 22(12)‚ 984-988. doi:10.1136/bmjqs-2013-001908 A2. This article examines evidence-based areas of the interventions to reduce Catheter
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both self –management and determination and contributing to recovery. More recently‚ professional mental health practice has seen an increase in practice guidelines which describe key interventions and models of service provision that reflect the evidence from research in terms of effectiveness and efficacy.(Ryan & Pritchard 2004). This essay is meant to integrate both practice component and academic knowledge component which I have used to work with a client‚ I shall discuss the profile of the
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implementing an evidence-based practices is determined by the involvement of everyone and this includes the higher managements‚ physician and other health care professionals. To provide the best and highest quality of patient care are based on evidence-based practices. With this method‚ we can take an active role in ensuring that the health care provided to patients and families is based on the best research available (Grove et al.‚ 2015). The two potential barriers that may prevent my evidence-based practice
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Abortion: Destruction or Relief‚ you decide In today’s society abortion is getting more notice then ever. After the president banned partial birth abortion controversy arose from all sides of the table and has been since Roe v. Wade. Many women today feel as if they should have the right to chose either to bring life into this world or not. These women feel as if abortion will give them a sense of relief. What many of these pro-choicers don’t realize is that abortion causes more destruction then
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Traditional Chinese Medicine vs. Western Medicine Although it seems like a new health treatment in America‚ traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has been around for centuries. It is based on a classic published in the third century‚ B.C.‚ entitled Nei Jing‚ or The Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine. Many diseases and ailments that cannot be cured by Western medicine (WM) can be treated by TCM successfully. This is not to say that TCM can cure all diseases that Western medicine cannot. It is
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