July 21, 2010 - Off the Charts

Searching for the Evidence? AJN Series Demystifies EBP

By Shawn Kennedy, AJN interim editor-in-chief

Trying to get evidence-based practice (EBP) implemented in your hospital or nursing home? Running into problems or just not quite sure how to proceed? Well, AJN has the answer.

EBP should be the basis for any clinical practice. Since last November, AJN has published a series of articles by the faculty at Arizona State University College of Nursing and Health Innovation’s Center for the Advancement of Evidence-Based Practice. Articles are published every other month and are designed to take the reader, step-by-step, towards implementing EBP. The current article describes the beginning steps to appraising the evidence; or go here to read the first article and follow in sequence.

Listen to a podcast with series leaders Bernadette Melnyk, PhD, RN, CPNP/PMHNP, FNAP, FAAN, and Ellen Fineout-Overholt, PhD, RN, FNAP, FAAN, the authors of Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing & Healthcare: A Guide to Best Practice. And we’ll have a second “Ask the Authors” call in November (check our home page for details after November 1).

If you’ve had problems or hit snags on your journey to EBP, e-mail me (shawn.kennedy@wolterskluwer.com) so we can address these issues on our next call.

Shawn Kennedy, MA, RN, FAAN, editor-in-chief (emerita)2017-05-27T10:32:54-04:00July 21st, 2010|Nursing|0 Comments

Florence Comes to Constantinople…And I Come to Istanbul

By Sue Hassmiller, PhD, RN, FAAN, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Senior Adviser for Nursing (from an ongoing series of posts by Hassmiller, who’s spending her summer vacation retracing crucial steps in Florence Nightingale’s innovative career)

As I enter the city of Istanbul today, I am tired. Almost immediately I catch myself and remember that it took me just 3.5 hours to fly from London to Istanbul and it took Ms. Nightingale almost a month to sail here (Istanbul was called Constantinople at the time). She was sick most of the time, but resolute in her mission. I look around at the airport and see that all I come into contact with are standing upright, while those Nightingale came into contact with were mostly horizontal. […]