Exam 22: Translating Research Into Practice

What is a strategy that can be used by a small community hospital with limited resources to develop an evidence-based nursing practice program?

A strategic goal developed by the chief nursing officer is to implement an evidence-based practice program.What is an appropriate strategy that can be used by a nurse manager who is beginning to implement an evidence-based practice program?

A nurse manager introduces prompted voiding into nursing practice on a unit,which is supported by clinical guidelines derived from evidence-based practice.The nurses on the unit resist implementation,indicating that the bathroom facilities are too far away for efficient implementation of the guidelines and that resources are too few to accomplish the initial voiding observations.For the nurse manager in this situation,it is important to have further discussion with the staff regarding which of the following?

Which of the following has been identified as a significant factor in moving EBP into patient care?

Mireille is a long-term staff nurse on the rehabilitation floor.Her unit manager has been eager to adopt evidence-based recommendations related to family-centred care on the unit.Mireille's response has been that she rarely has time to provide care to patients,let alone families.Which of the following is an approach that may gain Mireille's support of the idea?

After searching the literature,Tara develops a table that outlines the findings of studies on management of incontinence; it includes an appraisal of such criteria as risk and applicability to her particular population of moderately to severely cognitively impaired patients.This is which phase of Stetler's (2003)research utilization model?