9 QUANITATIVE RESEARCH ARTICLE CRITIQUE Quantitative Critique: Evidence Based Practice Beliefs and Implementation among Nurses: A Cross-Sectional Study Evidence Based Nursing Research and Practice April 9‚ 2017 This paper is a nursing critique of a quantitative research paper written by Kjersti Stokke‚ Nina R. Olsen‚ Brigitte Espehaug and Monica W. Nortredt (2014) entitled: Evidence Based Practice Beliefs and Implementation among Nurses: A Cross-Sectional Study. Throughout
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Introduction Evidence-based practice is essential in nursing. It serves as the basis of nursing care being used today. To enable nurses further to improve such care‚ research becomes a necessity. One way of ensuring research study is useable and effective is by critically appraising it. This paper aims to correctly and systematically critique a chosen qualitative research article by scrutinizing its part one by one and providing a concluding comments at the end. Title and abstract A qualitative
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rings to work which may make it harder to wash microbes away. Can one achieve the same level of cleanliness from washing their hands with and without a ring? Do nurses who wear rings carry and spread more pathogens than those who do not? There is evidence of nurses wearing rings at hospitals even though‚ many institutions frown upon jewelry being worn at work. Deborah Jane Ward found in her study that‚ “61% of clinical staff were wearing inappropriate hand jewelry (wrist watches or stoned rings)
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Present or Most Recent Employment Post Held Speciality Speciality Clinical Nurse Specialist Personal/Work Email Address m.boyle@stjh.org.uk Palliative Care NMC PIN (if registered nurse‚ midwife or health visitor) 83k0528s Name of Hospital/Practice St Joseph’s Hospice NMC PIN Expiry Date D D/M2011 Y Y Y 01 01 M/Y
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Fall and fall related problems is continuously growing and being challenges in health care settings today. The result of fall has been increased in population which affects the patient health‚ injury‚ hospital costs of test and treatment‚ death‚ and prolonged hospitalization. Falls and fall injury is recognized as a serious problems for our patients because it creates the cost burden to the hospitals‚ so it is important to identify the quality and financial impact of fall prevention program for adult
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translation of evidence-based practice as a practice mean. Critical care nurses are in a place to critically appraise and apply best evidence in daily practice to improve patients’ outcomes. It is important for critical care nurses to frequently assess their current practice to confirm that they are applying the current best evidence rather than practicing on the basis of tradition. As health care professionals‚ each of us are accountable for discovering new knowledge to guide practice‚ dispersing
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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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Evidence Based Practice Anonymous A 3. Analysis of the five areas The literature reviews and other studies suggest that hourly rounding have positive effects on patient fall rates‚ call light usage‚ and patient satisfaction. This study also resulted in a decrease in patient falls. Although statistically patient satisfaction did not improve‚ patients did however express increased satisfaction. Post discharge patient satisfaction surveys were analyzed. It is possible that the surveys did not
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study based on an elderly man named David is 56years old and has a number of personal health issues that are affecting his daily life and on top on that his wife has a history of breast cancer. The evidence-based practice is a clinical activity which is based on the belief that decision about the delivery of care to clients should be informed by the best available and current scientific evidence (Beanland et al 2011). So as a nurse it is important to understand why evidence based practice is
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resources/risk management regarding the number of patient falls‚ and number of staff injuries‚ adjusted for census‚ that were due to patient transfers. This includes information from incident reports and industrial injuries reports. A reduction in both the number of injuries and days offs as a result of those injuries‚ as well a reduction in the number of patient falls during transfers would be expected in a successful program. “The best measure of falls is one that can be compared over time within a hospital
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