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Wednesday, July 21, 2004
This presentation is part of : Strategies to Create Evidence-Based Nursing Environments
For Evidence-Based Nursing to Occure - Methods in Nursing Must Be Identified
Ania M.L. Willman, RN, BEd, PhD, School of Health and Society, Malmö University, Malmö, Sweden and Anna Forsberg, RN, PhD, Dep. of Nursing, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Learning Objective #1: Identify how we define methods in nursing, and how we categorize methods that we identified by screening research journals and reports
Learning Objective #2: Learn about strategies that the Swedish Society of Nursing use on a national level to promote evidence-based nursing practice
The Swedish Society of Nursing (SSF) is a national professional organisation for registred nurses with the aim to promote research, education, and development within the field of knowledge relevant to nursing. The overall aim is to contribute to the improvement of helth care and social wellfare. SSF deals with projects within cetain prioritised areas. These are of strategic nature and are chosen according to the present stage in the health-care development. To implement evidence-based nursing is such a prioritised area, a key-component for the improvement of quality and the development of guide-lines. Evidence-based nursing (EBN) involves the will and ability to access, summarize, and apply information from the research literature to day-to-day clinical problems and is one means by which health care services can be improved. Since the year 1998 SSF has published a serie of publications on the topic of evidence-based nursing, produced jointly with the Swedish Council on Technology Assessment in Health Care (SBU).

SBU-Alert is a system for identification and early assessment concerning new methods in health-care. Among other things Alert aims to: enhance the evidence base for setting priorities in health-care. During the year 2002 SSF gave priority to identify and describe methods in nursing that could be assessed by SBU-Alert.

Two annual volumes of ten journals publishing nursing research, together with eight reports published by SSF, were screened by to independent reviewers with the aim to identify methods in nursing. Only methods for patient care are reported. Methods for organisation of care, or methods for mentoring students are exluded. Identified methods are reported in six tables, most methods are presented in descriptive studies, few methods are evaluated with the help of RCTs. Among methods identified are: Patient education with computer support.

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