Educating healthcare workers to optimal hand hygiene practices: addressing the need ¨ E. Mathai • B. Allegranzi • W. H. Seto • M.-N. Chraıti H. Sax • E. Larson • D. Pittet • Received: 14 May 2010 / Accepted: 14 July 2010 / Published online: 21 September 2010 Ó Urban & Vogel 2010 Abstract The education of healthcare workers is essential to improve practices and is an integral part of hand hygiene promotional strategies. According to the evidence reviewed here‚ healthcare worker education has a
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to Acute Stroke Care Appreciating Evidence for Practice Module Code: UZWSN3-15-1 Student Number: 14005518 In a rapidly developing electronic environment‚ the expectations for nurses to provide the highest quality of service whilst delivering the best possible patient care have widened considerably. The Department of Health (DH) (2000) stipulates that clinical effectiveness should be combined with a patient-centred approach‚ with evidence-based practice (EBP) forming the backbone of nursing
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Evidence Based Nursing Practice in Nursing "Doing the right things right" (Craig & Smyth‚ 2002‚ p.4) Used to improve the experiences associated with health care and illness Early examples o Infection control (aseptic technique) o DVT (deep vein thrombosis) prevention Development of the EBP Concept Began with medicine o Archie Cochran‚ a British epidemiologist in 1972 published a book criticizing the medical profession for not reviewing medical research studies o Believed that
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Introduction There is a need for health services stipulation to apply the best evidence instead of applying the customary methods (Stevens et al‚ 2001). However‚ this is only possible if practitioners‚ researchers‚ scholars‚ politicians‚ managers and public in general conducted a high quality research. Different methods of researches that are evident-based tend to have lack support from most users. This is because those researches are lack of proper referencing which the reviewer could not access
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Evidence-based practice (EBP) is an interdisciplinary approach to clinical practice that has been gaining ground following its formal introduction in 1992. It started in medicine as evidence-based medicine (EBM) and spread to other fields such as dentistry‚ nursing‚ psychology‚ education‚ library and information science and other fields. Its basic principles are that all practical decisions made should 1) be based on research studies and 2) that these research studies are selected and interpreted
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EVIDENCE BASED NURSING PRACTICE INTRODUCTION Evidence Based Nursing or EBN is an approach to making quality decisions and providing nursing care based upon personal clinical expertise in combination with the most current‚relevent research available. It is also known as evidence based practice. It is a thoughtful integration of the best available evidence coupled with the clinical expertise. TERMINOLOGIES Evidence Based Clinical Practice Guidelines:- Specific practice recommendations
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Control Evidence-based practice (EBP) is the conscientious‚ explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients. EBP is the integration of clinical expertise‚ patient values‚ and the best research evidence into the decision making process for patient care. Good doctors and health professional’s use both individual clinical expertise and the best available external evidence‚ and neither alone is enough. Without clinical expertise‚ practice risks
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CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION Evidence-based practice refers to the use of research and scientific studies as a base for determining the best practices in a field. In the medical field‚ this pertains to treatment and diagnostic options‚ while in education‚ it refers to teaching techniques‚ teacher training and evaluative assessments. 1.1 ORIGIN EBP EBP traces its use in medicine to the 11th century text‚ "The Canon of Medicine‚" but it was the Scottish epidemiologist Archie Cochrane in his 1972
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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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In this essay‚ I am going to consider how evidence-based practice can be used to support‚ justify‚ legitimate and/or improve clinical practice. I am also going to explore and discuss primary and secondary research evidences about how nursing interventions can potentially improve the quality of life of patients in the community suffering from heart failure. I will gather these evidences using a literature search which I will include an account of. Using a critiquing framework for support‚ I will
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