The Liverpool Care Pathway: Does it improve the quality of dying? The Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP) is an integrated care pathway developed in the late 1990’s (Ellershaw et al, 1997) as a means of transferring best practice in care of the dying, from the hospice environment to other sectors starting in the acute setting. Currently the LCP is a recognised tool used by clinicians in the United Kingdom as well as over twenty countries, to give appropriate care to patients who have reached the last hours
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PICOT Literature Review Mia Fisher Grand Canyon University EBP 325 Wendy Cockron PICOT Literature Review This literature review examines the available research on the topic of the administration of natural surfactant vs synthetic surfactant in neonates with respiratory distress syndrome. Respiratory distress syndrome is caused by a deficiency, dysfunction, or inactivation of pulmonary surfactant and is a significant cause of morbidity or mortality of preterm infants. The literature reviewed
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Critique of Systematic Review Mary Odenwalder Nur 518 April 7, 2014 Jane Cash Critique of Systematic Review The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that all infants breastfeed exclusively until six months old to achieve optimum growth. Despite this recommendation, only one out of every three children are exclusively breastfed for the first six months. This includes countries that have a high rate of breastfeeding initiation. Recent data has shown that the exclusive breastfeeding
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Innovative Leadership Project Capella University History According to Intuitive Surgical Inc. (2014): The story of telerobotic surgery involves the union of two very different technologies and the emergence of a completely new approach to minimally-invasive surgery. The first of these technologies emerged in the 1940s and was called "telemanipulation" or "telepresence" the sensation that you are in one location, while being in another. In Robert Heinlein’s 1942 science fiction short story
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Evidence-based practice has gained particular salience in nursing and health care and is also applicable to social practice.(Photo: Medioimages/Photodisc/Photodisc/Getty Images) In theory, practice and theory are the same. In practice, they are not. Evidence-based practice has gained prominence over more theoretical approaches in several areas, particularly in the field of health care. Theory-guided and evidence-based practice share the common goal of making the right decision and finding the most
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EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE BENCY GNANASIGHAMANI AMERICAN SENTINEL UNIVERSITY Introduction Medical and health care is one of the most dynamic human disciplines, and large amounts of money are spent annually on high-quality and sophisticated research, resulting in an exponential growth in health care literature. Regularly, new and more effective medicines, medical devices, and procedures are invented. One major objective behind all these efforts is to
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Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) produced a set of developmental tools to aid decision makers in discovering and interpreting evidence related decisions. These developmental tools are to promote the use of evidence-based management within a health care setting. The informed decision toolbox was created to help merge the gap between evidence based research and decision making within an organization (Crump & Spurgeon, n.d.). These tools consist of six steps that will guide managers
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RUNNING HEAD: CHANGE USING EVIDENCE BASED RESEARCH Change Using Evidence Based Research Glenda Doctor Western Governor’s University Procedure, basis for practice, rationale and explanation The procedure for the use of povidone-iodine for surgical cite antisepsis is: skin preparation for surgery includes the use of sterile drapes to drape the patient and square off surgical area with sterile towels to absorb excess solution. The incision site is where the prep begins and proceeds outward
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to get through the stressful times, even after completing therapy. In this research paper this articles presents and illustrates historical underpinnings, key concepts therapeutic process of treatment, multicultural perspective and criticisms of evidence based treatment of family therapy. Family therapy was formed in the 1950’s due the clinicians and Theoretician who were in the lead of those experimenting with the treating family members conjointly were motivated by several factors according
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Findings from a variety of research support that EBP improves the quality of care, patient satisfaction, enhances health outcomes, and reduces costs (Melnyk & Fineout-Overholt, 2015). The use of evidence-based practice has a significant impact in reducing cost in the health care system, in contrast to using outdated practices and policies. (Saba, V. K. & McCormick, K. A., 2011). Implementation of EBP benefits nurses since they would use their resources effectively and methodically instead of being
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