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Education: Moving Evidence into Practice
Karleen ThorntonNursing Director: Nursing Midwifery Education, Research & Practice Development
0466 150 365
Northern Adelaide Local Health Network Lyell McEwin Hospital
For Discussion
What is evidence and why is evidence important?
Impediments to uptake
Nurse Educator strategies to overcome impediments
What is evidence and why is evidence important?
What is evidence and why is evidence important?
Grounding nursing practice in evidence, rather than tradition, is necessary to meet nursing's social obligation of accountability, to gain and maintain credibility among other health disciplines and to build a nursing knowledge base that can be used to influence policy at agency and governmental levels (Rafael 2000).
What impedes uptake?
What impedes uptake?
Nurse Educator Strategies to overcome impediments
> Moving evidence into practice should occur as a continuum, whereby it is a part of our practice and not something that we think of as separate to our practice.
> This may be an ideal but one to which we should aspire.
Lyell McEwin Hospital: Practice Development Framework
Lyell McEwin Hospital: Nursing / Midwifery Research Framework
Novice Advanced Beginner Competent Proficient Expert
Aim for nurse / midwife
Acquire a basic understanding of research principles
Acquire a basic understanding of research theories, methodologies & methods & their applicability to practice
Develop competence in the application of research theories, methodologies & methods
Critically apply research theories, methodologies & methods
Contribute to the development of new knowledge
Focus area for nurse / midwife. Requires the organisation provides requisite support
The learner should acquire a basic understanding of:
Types of research
Relevance of research to practice
The learner should acquire an understanding of:
Basic fundamentals of conducting research
Research theories
Research methodologies
Research methods
Relevance of ethics when conducting research
The learner should know how to apply their understanding of:
Theories of research in the context of a health environment.
How evidenced Developing Ethics protocols
Collecting research data
Interpreting research data
Actively engaged in research projects
The learner should be able to critique and generate new understandings of:
The development and application of research findings in practice
How evidenced Research lead
The learner should be able to collaborate with and lead on research programmes that:
Influence strategy, policy and practice
Enables practitioner research to be realised.
How evidenced Grant writing
Nurse educators cannot bear sole responsibility for incorporation of evidence into practice and are required to work in tandem with other change agents to support evidence based nursing practice.
Each and everyone one of you here today is charged with being a change agent in order to move evidence into practice.
