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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Emergency Department Triage Triage is an essential element of providing care to patients who present at a hospital emergency department. Triage is defined as a brief clinical assessment that determines the time and sequence in which patients should be seen in the emergency department. During triage‚ an emergency department nurse interviews a patient or the patient’s representative about the medical problem causing concern‚ makes a brief evaluation of the patient‚ and takes the patient’s vital signs
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The Emergency Department (ED) nurse is unlike any other. The population in the ED is highly diversified by both age and disease process. The ED cares for all ages and populations across a broad spectrum of disease‚ injury prevention and life-saving measures. For example‚ a person can come in unconscious‚ the next with an earache. The scope of emergency nursing practice encompasses the standard nursing process: assessment‚ diagnosis‚ treatment‚ and evaluation. In addition‚ emergency nursing practice
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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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Emergency Department Bottleneck Proposal Joyan Thomas University of Phoenix Online OPS/HC 571 Patience McGee March 7‚ 2011 Emergency Department Bottleneck Proposal Introduction Most hospitals experience the affects of the unexpected‚ ambiguity and uncertainty‚ and as a result‚ face challenges with quality. Middletown Hospital is a 200-bed general not-for-profit hospital. The hospital has a 20-bed Emergency Department (ED). It averages 100 patients per day. The CEO of the hospital
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Emergency Department Northeastern Intermediate Clinical Practice 04/23/2013 Emergency Department Experience I started my day in the emergency department (ED) by meeting the staff. One charge registered nurse (RN)‚ five staff RN’s‚ four paramedics‚ one patient care technician‚ and one doctor. Jennifer Thomas was also in the ED today and informed me that to get the best experience I should invite myself into the rooms as the patients arrive. Most Common Medical Diagnosis The first patient
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Evidence-Based Practice and Applied Nursing Research Types of Sources of Evidence: American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Academy of Family Physicians. [Clinical practice guideline:]. (2004). Source Of Evidence This evidence meets the criteria for a filtered source. It was sourced online from the Official Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics and Family Physicians. Specialists from multi medical disciplines assembled to create an integrative systematic study and review of the
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Administrative Challenges-Evidence Based Practice Background * Evidence Based Nursing started with Florence Nightingale. A firm believer in knowledge-based practice‚ she was a systematic thinker and passionate statistician‚ who believed in using the best possible research to elevate practice on the shoulders of knowledge. * Since then‚ the nursing profession has more recently provided major leadership for improving care through application of research findings in practice. * According
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