NURSE-UN 120 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Refworks, Asthma, Data Analysis
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Week 1: overview of nursing research and evidence-based practice (ebp) All of us are professionally responsible to provide the best and highest quality of care to patients: utilizing the best evidence from research findings ensures the highest quality of patient care. Continuum of participation, from consumers of research findings who use research evidence in their practice to producers of research to skilled (and everything in between: ways to participate in nursing research. Identify problems for research: member of a research team. Curiosity looking for answers to those burning questions: generate new knowledge. Resea(cid:396)(cid:272)h helps us to ide(cid:374)tif(cid:455) gaps i(cid:374) (cid:449)hat (cid:449)e k(cid:374)o(cid:449) a(cid:374)d do(cid:374)"t k(cid:374)o(cid:449) . The struggle of what is known and what is used: without current best evidence, practice becomes rapidly out of date to the detriment of our patients. Sources of evidence for nursing practice (how clinical decisions are based) Tradition (cid:374)u(cid:396)si(cid:374)g a(cid:272)tio(cid:374)s a(cid:396)e (cid:271)ased o(cid:374) t(cid:396)aditio(cid:374)s, (cid:272)usto(cid:373)s, a(cid:374)d/o(cid:396) (cid:862)u(cid:374)it (cid:272)ultu(cid:396)e(cid:863) a(cid:374)d (cid:374)ot o(cid:374) sou(cid:374)d e(cid:448)ide(cid:374)(cid:272)e.