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Is research used in your facility? Find out if there is a research committee at your facility. Is research an important component of clinical practice?
In today’s world, healthcare professionals and consumers rely on research-based interventions for health promotion and disease management. Professional nurses rely on research findings to carry out their practice decisions in specific patient situations. The hospital that I work for is a small county hospital located in a rural area and we do not have a research committee. Often research problems find the nurse rather than the other way. Frustrations with ineffective procedures and the search for a “better way “or the need to help a single patient may motivate the nurse to seek research based evidence to improve patient care thus research is an important component of clinical practice. As professional’s nurses we are accountable for the outcomes patients achieve and the effectiveness of interventions that are applied and recommended for patients thus research is an important component of clinical practice.
Have you had an …show more content…
For example, at the facility where I work keeping beds in the recommended low position is one of the fall prevention interventions and the extent to which nurses assess the risk for falls in these patients upon admission has had a positive impact on patients outcomes as the number of falls have decreased drastically in the past several months. There is a team which implements evidence-based fall-prevention protocols, and sustains and develops such preventive interventions into measures of nursing care …show more content…
Using the South University Online Library, find articles on how research was used to make
Is research used in your facility? Find out if there is a research committee at your facility. Is research an important component of clinical practice?
In today’s world, healthcare professionals and consumers rely on research-based interventions for health promotion and disease management. Professional nurses rely on research findings to carry out their practice decisions in specific patient situations. The hospital that I work for is a small county hospital located in a rural area and we do not have a research committee. Often research problems find the nurse rather than the other way. Frustrations with ineffective procedures and the search for a “better way “or the need to help a single patient may motivate the nurse to seek research based evidence to improve patient care thus research is an important component of clinical practice. As professional’s nurses we are accountable for the outcomes patients achieve and the effectiveness of interventions that are applied and recommended for patients thus research is an important component of clinical practice.
Have you had an …show more content…
For example, at the facility where I work keeping beds in the recommended low position is one of the fall prevention interventions and the extent to which nurses assess the risk for falls in these patients upon admission has had a positive impact on patients outcomes as the number of falls have decreased drastically in the past several months. There is a team which implements evidence-based fall-prevention protocols, and sustains and develops such preventive interventions into measures of nursing care …show more content…
Using the South University Online Library, find articles on how research was used to make