1007/s15010-010-0047-7 REVIEW 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
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Management Review 2006‚ Vol. 31‚ No. 2‚ 256–269. 2005 Presidential Address IS THERE SUCH A THING AS “EVIDENCEBASED MANAGEMENT”? DENISE M. ROUSSEAU Carnegie Mellon University I explore the promise organization research offers for improved management practice and how‚ at present‚ it falls short. Using evidence-based medicine as an exemplar‚ I identify ways of closing the prevailing “research-practice gap”—the failure of organizations and managers to base practices on best available evidence. I close
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Infection 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
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Bachelor and Spinster Balls (B&S) events are hosted regularly in rural Australia‚ known locally as "B & S Balls" or simply "B&S’s". They are staged for young (18 years and over) spinsters and bachelors and traditionally the couples dress up in formal wear.[1] Large volumes of cheap alcohol such as beer‚ spirits‚ Bundaberg Rum and Jim Beam can be consumed. The activities usually start at night and run until morning‚ but from mid-afternoon people will start to arrive and the partying/drinking will
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CHAPTER 6 Nursing Research and Evidence-Based Practice Jill J. Webb‚ PhD‚ MSN‚ RN‚ CS Additional resources are available online at: http://evolve.elsevier.com/Cherry/ Nursing research provides the foundation for evidence-based nursing practice. VIGNETTE I did not understand why I had to take a research class when all I wanted to do was be a staff nurse in a critical care unit. Research? Evidence-based practice? Why are these topics in the nursing program? I have enough to do just
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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 appraise both primary
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......................................................................................................... Educating Managers From an Evidence-Based Perspective DENISE M. ROUSSEAU SHARON MCCARTHY Carnegie Mellon University Evidence-based management (EBM) means managerial decisions and organizational practices informed by the best available scientific evidence. In this essay we describe the core features of educational processes promoting EBM. These include mastering behavioral principles where
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CJUS440-1402B-02: The Laws of Evidence Types of Legal Evidence Evidence can be as diverse as people; however‚ when looking to collect any type of evidence‚ it will typically be separated into one of two categories: real evidence or testimonial. Real evidence is considered to be tangible‚ such as‚ it will be anything that the five senses can perceive (Worral‚ Hemmens‚ & Nored‚ 2012‚ p. 71). Articles of clothing‚ weapons‚ contracts or legal documentation‚ and photographs are all examples of
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Implementation of Evidence Based Practice Rosemary Garcia Implementation of Evidence Based Practice Evidence Based Practice Nursing is the utilization by nurses of Evidence Based Research findings that‚ according to Houser (2012)‚ steer the nurse toward integration of clinical expert opinion and experience with an unbiased exhaustive review of the best scientific evidence professional nursing care literature can provide while incorporating patient values and preferences. Evidence Based Practice
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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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