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Evidenced Based Practice
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Biology
Undergraduate 1
04/01/2009

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Confidentiality
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any information a particpant relates will not be made public or available to others without the participan'ts concent
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Evidence-based practice
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the use of some form of substantiation in makin clinical decisions
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Hypotheses
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a prediction of the relationship among two or more variables
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reliability
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the degree of conistency with which an instrument measures a concept or variable
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Valid
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the degree to which an instrument measures what it is supposed to measure

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NURSING RESEARCH
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·        A way to identify new knowledge, improve professional education and practice, and use resources effectively
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ANA revised Standards of Nursing Practice in 2003 to include research standards
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Ø      American Association of Critical Care Nurses, Oncology Nursing Society, and Sigma Theta Tau International support nursing research.
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·        Outcomes Management Research

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o       Designed to assess and document the effectiveness of health care services and interventions o       A response of the health care industry to demands from policy makers, insurers, and public o       See Box 5-4 page 61 in P and P for examples of Nursing-sensitive outcome measures
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·        Scientific Method

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o       The foundation of research o       The most reliable and objective means of acquiring and conducting research
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·        Nursing and Scientific Approach

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o       Nursing research provides a way for nursing questions and problems to be studied in broader contexto       Quantitative o       Qualitative
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RESEARCH PROCESS

·        Five steps on the research process
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o       Identify problem. o       Design studyo       Conduct study o       Analyze datao       Use the findings
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 QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT
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  • Every health care organization gathers data on health outcome measures as a way to gauge their quality of care
  • Quality Improvement
  • Performance Management
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EVIDENCED-BASED PRACTICE

 A CASE FOR EVIDENCE

A response to societal forces
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 ·        The public has broader access to information regarding health care issues including  the incidences of medical errors within health care facilities.
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  • A problem-solving approach to practice
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    • The use of evidenced-based practice (EBP) allows nurses to structure how to make accurate, timely, and appropriate clinical decisions. EBP is a problem-solving approach to clinical practice.
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·        Steps of Evidence-Based Practiceo       Five steps:
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§         Ask the clinical question:·        1)Identify a patient population, 2) identify the intervention of interest, 3) identify the usual standard of care or current intervention, and 4) identify what result you wish to achieve. §         Collect the best evidence-available data bases§         Critique the evidence-often the most challenging aspect§         Integrate the evidence- The evidence can be used to make new policy and procedures, guide clinical practice, and/or develop new teaching, assessment, or documentation tools. §         Evaluate the practice decision or change
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Anonymity
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occurs when even the researcher cannot link the subject to the data
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Nursing research
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way to identify new kowledge, imrpove professional education and practice and use resources effectively
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Quantitative nursing research
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the investigiation of nursing phenomena that lend themselves to precise measurement and quantification
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Research process
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consists of an orderly series of phases or steps that allow the researcher to move from asking the reaseearch question to finding the answer
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