Wednesday, July 21, 2004: 1:00 PM-2:30 PM | |||
Staff Nurse-Driven Evidence Generation and Use: Supporting the Process | |||
| Learning Objective #1: Describe specific organizational strategies & resources used to educate and support staff nurses in competent use of evidence | |||
| Learning Objective #2: Identify strategies feasible for use to support hospital staff nurses in research conduct when the evidence is "missing" | |||
| The importance of using research evidence as a basis for nursing practice has existed in the literature for decades. More recently, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) has identified practice based on evidence as a core competency to meet the needs of the healthcare system in the 21st century (IOM - Greiner & Knebel, 2003). Keeping pace with literature extolling the importance of evidence-based practice is literature describing the barriers that continue to exist at individual, organizational, and system-wide levels. This symposium will present two models of how organizational and individual efforts support evidence-based practice and research conduct when the evidence for practice is lacking. Sessions 1 and 2 will describe development and current activities of an evolving organizational infrastructure using a staff nurse-driven shared governance model to support the search for and use of evidence by bedside nurses. Included in these presentations will be discussion of tangible resources expended by and expected from the organization to maintian infrastructure support. Session 3 will present a joint venture model between practice and academic partners to promote evidence-based practice and research using the principles of process consultation. Sessions 4 and 5 will present specific examples of how unit staff have conducted studies to answer practice questions when published evidence is "missing". The symposium will conclude with sharing of ideas and suggestions among presenters and participants. | |||
| Organizer: | Priscilla Sandford Worral, PhD, RN | ||
| Presenters: | Priscilla Sandford Worral, PhD, RN Kristine M. Brindak, BS, RN, CCRP Maureen F. Murray, RN, MS, CNA Elizabeth Foster, RN, SHNT Laurie Blatt, RN | ||
| Infusing Evidence-Based Nursing Practice into a Teaching Medical Center: Celebrating Incremental Change Priscilla Sandford Worral, PhD, RN | |||
| Evidence-Based Practice: Infrastructure Support at the Unit Level Kristine M. Brindak, BS, RN, CCRP | |||
| Creative Approaches to Building a Nursing Research Program: A Rural Story Maureen F. Murray, RN, MS, CNA, Jeanne-Marie E. Havener, PhD, RNCS, FNP, IBCLC | |||
| The Impact of a Computer-Based Documentation System on Nursing Care in an Acute Care Setting Laurie Blatt, RN, Renee Slade, RN, Christine Utegg, RN, III, Jeanne-Marie E. Havener, PhD, RNCS, FNP, IBCLC | |||
| The Effects of a Nursing Education Intervention on Perceptions of Pain and Patient Satisfaction in a Post-Operative Setting Elizabeth Foster, RN, SHNT, Brian Nicol, RN, III, Melissa Hamilton-Hawke, RN, III, Jeanne-Marie E. Havener, PhD, RNCS, FNP, IBCLC | |||
Evidence-Based Nursing: Strategies for Improving Practice
Sigma Theta Tau International
July 21, 2004