Avicenna

1.2 There are four approaches to outcome based practice - results based accountability, outcomes management, outcomes into practice and the logic model. Results based accountability, also known as outcome based accountability is an approach which uses data to problem solve and make decisions, such as a feedback system. It is often used to look at communities to improve the lives of children, youth, families, adults and communities as a whole. It is also used within services to improve…

Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are one of the fundamental building blocks for creating any empirically supported therapies (ESTs). This implies that ESTs should be standard and superior treatment as they are founded and based on scientific and quantifiable evidence, which, of course, is the goal of any science. However, the stance is widely controversial as it is derived from assumptions that have minimal support and consensus data such as the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental…

“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but is a habit.” –Aristotle. In this quote, Aristotle is describing what it takes to be at the top at what you’re doing, similar as to what he did in almost every subject he studied. An attitude similar to the one he portrayed in the quote above is the reason…

Introduction Evidence-based practice is most often defined as “integrating individual clinical expertise with the best available external clinical evidence from systemic research”. (Sackett, 1996). This is where the art of nursing and the science of nursing become one, and the result is to produce the best possible outcome for the patient in the clinical area, and promote a higher quality of life. Nursing has changed dramatically since its beginning in the 16th century where the religious…

The application of evidence-based practice (EBP) in nursing has created substantial impressions in science, education, and practice in the discipline. The field does not develop new nursing knowledge or validate existing data; rather, it enables medical practitioners to use tried and tested techniques to make clinical decisions. This paper review literature to reveal the way EBP incorporates patient values, preferences, and clinical experiences in nursing practice. The analysis section…

Hippocrates of Kos is a name that is connected to both the medicine of Ancient greece and modern medicine. Hippocrates is the father of medicine, he is known for his theories about the way the human body works and the difference between spiritual and physical medicine. He is also known for the school he opened and the Hippocratic oath that is still used by our medical professionals today. The medical school on his home island of Kos in Greece raises questions about who wrote the oath and many…

During the Roman empire, medicine in Rome revolved around Galen, a physician who reconciled the opposing philosophical constructs of Plato (an idealist) and Aristotle (a realist) through dissections and the formation of a systematic description of human anatomy. Although the belief in an irrational nature, a Platonic doctrine which stated that intangible forces outside of the natural world could have an effect on earthly beings had been popular in Greece, Galen and his followers revealed unease…

Will Terry’s Father’s PTSD Affect Terry and who he is as a Person? In the story, Stop the Sun, the main character, Terry, has a father who has fought in the Vietnam War. That event in which Terry’s father took place in, changed him. Terry’s father developed Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) from his experience in Vietnam. Terry wants to know more about his father’s PTSD, but will Terry’s father’s PTSD affect Terry and who he is as a person? Terry is still a boy depending on his parents to…

A reflection of this eight weeks journey in Foundations of Autonomous Practice has showcased the different facets of what makes us a better and responsible clinicians- from identifying our core values to enabling our decision-making as a diagnostician in the realm of disablement. As we are about to disembark from our trip we are faced with another challenge; we are to traverse the great divide between research and our patients. Fortunately, a bridge has been built to enable us to cross that…

Hippocrates is accredited with being as the leading personality to consider that diseases were instigated naturally, not owing to superstition and gods. Moreover, Hippocrates was attributed by the followers of Pythagoras of affiliating medicine and philosophy. He segregated the field of medicine from religion, trusting and holding a debate that disease was not a chastisement imposed by the gods, but rather the result of ecological influences, intake, and lifestyle habits. Certainly there is not…