Upcoming Presentation: Bernadette Mazurek Melnyk presenting @ the AORN’s OR Executive Summit
Embed Evidence-based Practice in your Culture: “If every clinician and every nurse leader across the health profession had EBP [evidence-based practice] in their DNA we would be the best and safest health care system in the world,” says Bernadette Mazurek Melnyk, PhD, RN, CPNP/PMHNP, FNAP, FAANP, FAAN. She is an internationally recognized expert on EBP who serves as associate vice president for Health Promotion, university chief wellness officer, dean and professor in the College of Nursing at The Ohio State University.
Melnyk will be speaking at AORN’s OR Executive Summit™ March 8–10 in Denver to empower OR nurse leaders with the tools needed to implement EBP in their own practice settings.
LEARN MORERegister to attend Melnyk’s presentation: The Role of Leaders in the Implementation of Evidence-Based Practices , which is part of registration costs for AORN’s OR Executive Summit TM .
Springer Publishing Company announced the publication of DNP Capstone Projects: Exemplars of Excellence in Practice, edited by Barbara A. Anderson, Joyce M. Knestrick, and Rebeca Barroso this September 2014.
It is described as:
“The only book to describe and analyze completed DNP capstone projects that have positively impacted clinical practice and health care outcomes.
Although several books have been written about creating capstone projects, this is the first to focus on exemplary, completed DNP capstone projects that have provided leadership for change in clinical practice, enhanced interprofessional collaboration, promoted advocacy and policy changes, or contributed to quality improvement in health care systems. The book also delivers key information on how to design, construct, complete, and disseminate a capstone project that, combined with detailed descriptions of exemplary capstone projects, will provide unparalleled guidance for current DNP students, faculty, nursing practitioners, and other health care providers.”
One of the book chapters titled – “The DNP Essentials and the Evidence-Based Practice Framework: Foundations of a Capstone Exemplar” was contributed by Dr. Pamela...
Tina Magers, MSN, RN-BC; Expert EBP mentor & Nursing Professional Development and Nursing Research Coordinator from Mississippi Baptist Medical Center (MBMC), Jackson, MS recently presented the Evidence-based Practice Patient Education Project, a "new knowledge and innovation" story of how nurses changed patient outcomes with technology at the Telehealth Conference in Tampa Bay, Florida. In this project, they used Telehealth to provide patient education via the patient's television through an "iTigr" system where the nurse assigned videos through their computers.
"This project stemmed from the awareness of patient satisfaction and the need to more effectively educate our patients. The evidence showed most patients are visual learners and comprehension increases when they choose when to learn when they choose (adult learning theory). An interdisciplinary team including nurses evaluated the resources available in the hospital in 2012. The old system required a nurse (usually) or patient to use the telephone in the room to dial up an education video to watch. Only four patients could view a video at one time. The team searched for a better...
Three CTEP EBP mentors who are CNSs at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center have had EBP project presentations accepted for the National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists 2015 Annual Conference, The Clinical Nurse Specialist: The Essence of Transformational Health Care from March 5 – 7, 2015 at the Loews Coronado Bay, Coronado, CA.
Lynette Roush and Todd Yamokoski – “Alarm Fatigue: The Tale of the Boy Who Cried Wolf” Kristin Calvitti – “Tracheostomy Suctioning: An Evidence-Based, Interdisciplinary Collaboration for Best Practice”
The third edition of the Evidence based Practice in Nursing & Healthcare book, co-authored by the EBP pioneers in nursing - Bernadette Mazurek Melnyk and Ellen Fineout-Overholt was published this September 2014.
NEW! chapters on the Role of a clinician’s expertise and patient preferences/values in making decisions about patient care (Ch. 7), Leadership strategies for creating and sustaining EBP organizations (Ch. 11) were contributed by our very own CTEP faculty – Lynn Gallagher-Ford, Lisa English Long and Jackie Buck .
This book will help you “develop the skills and knowledge you need to make evidence-based practice an integral part of your clinical decision making and everyday nursing practice with Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing & Healthcare. Written in a friendly, conversational style, this Third Edition of the authors’ gold standard textbook covers all the information you need to use evidence-based practice to improve patient outcomes. Real world examples and meaningful strategies in every chapter show you how to take a clinical issue from inquiry to a sustainable solution that drives a preferred standard of...