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Forum Bibliotek Medycznych 1/2, 512-518
2008
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the Importance of evidence-based nursing and non journal Content in Aggregation
With an increased focus on healthcare quality and rising costs, evidence-based education has been strongly supported by leading authorities in Nursing
As a result, evidence-based curriculum has become widely accepted as crucial to quality nursing programs
What is gained from evidence-based practice? Industry Benefits
● Utilisation reduces the overall variability of practice (based on following best practices)
● Cost savings (which flow from appropriate product use and best health outcomes)
● Improves healthcare outcomes in general user and Student Benefits
● Users can develop more effective discussions of current approaches to nursing practice
● Builds the ability to better critique current nursing strategies
● Gives users skills to assist in clinical audits for quality improvement
● Resource familiarity allows for better use of online evidence-based programs
● Maximises users leadership potential in nursing
What does the joanna Briggs Institute (jBI) say about evidence-Based nursing?
“Simply defined, evidence-based nursing is the combination of individual clinical or professional expertise with the best available external evidence to produce practice that is most likely to lead to a positive outcome for a client or patient.”
“The core of evidence based practice is the systematic review of the literature on a particular condition, intervention or issue.”
What constitutes a high quality evidence-based systematic review? According to JBI systematic reviews use the following steps:
1. Developing a rigorous proposal or protocol
2. Stating the questions or hypotheses to be pursued in the review 3. Identifying the criteria to be used to select the literature 4. Detailing a strategy to identify all relevant literature
5. Establishing how the quality of primary studies will be assessed or critically appraised and any exclusion criteria based on quality considerations
6. Detailing how data will be extracted from the primary research regarding the participants, the intervention, the outcome measures and the results
7. Setting out a plan of how the data extracted will be Why the joanna Briggs Institute makes a difference
● Academic libraries requirement for evidence-based nursing resources: – “Every curriculum is now focusing on information that is
evidence-based”
– “Our nursing library has just been reaccredited…evidence-based resources
● Difficult to find information that thoroughly evidence-based and focused on nursing and allied health:
– “There are several databases which focus on evidence-based medicine, but
it is hard to get good evidence-based nursing information.”
– “We have been looking for evidence-based nursing resources, but haven’t
found anything appropriate”
other Resources Available from jBI
ProQuest users are also be given access to two tools on JBI's own platform: RAPid is an on-line critical
appraisal of evidence training program SUMARI is a developing software
package designed to assist health and other researchers and practitioners to conduct systematic reviews.
Users are authenticated through to the JBI platform by clicking on a JBI logo provided on the ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source database
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An registered nurse is treating a 3 year old Laotian boy for an asthma attack discovers round abrasions on the child’s chest and trunk and asks the parents how they occurred - the parents are silent. The nurse suspects abuse and files a report with Child Protective Services.
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