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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DDBA-8005 Handout What is Scholarly Writing? If you are just beginning your graduate studies, much of the next few years of your life will be devoted to scholarly writing. You will be reading, discussing, and producing scholarly writing. You will get feedback from peers, instructors, and the Writing Center staff about how to adapt to the expectations of scholarly writing. You hear about it so much, in fact, that you may hesitate to ask the basic question: "What is scholarly writing?" Scholarly
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Literature Review in Research: An Annotated Bibliography Lavin, Claudia A; Cox Joanne E. b,c (2012). Teen Pregnancy Prevention Current Perspectives. Current Opinion in Pediatrics. 24(4):462-469 This is a scholarly peer reviewed journal article. This article address teen pregnancy rates in the United States and how differences exist between states and regions. It discusses programs that use a comprehensive approach . It discusses how age and culture of the population should be considered when
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legislative and executive branches is fueled by the ambitions of the puliticians working within those institutions. o Just as the Supreme Court has served as a referee in the evulution of the federal balance of power by asserting “judicial review,” it also mediates separation of powers disputes between the Congress and the president.
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The Fletcher vs. Peck trial was a landmark, as it was one of the first cases in which the U.S. Supreme Court declared a state law unconstitutional. After the Treaty of Paris, Georgia laid claim to 35 million acres of land known as the Yazoo lands, also home to an Indian reserve. Georgia then divided this land into 4 regions and sold it for $500,000, or about 1.4 cents per acre. This move became known as the Yazoo Land Act of 1795 However, it was soon revealed that all but one of the Georgian
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Capstone Project Milestone #1: Guidelines and Rubric PURPOSE Clear identification of the problem or opportunity is the first step in evidence-based nursing. This first milestone offers two tools to assist in the identification and gathering of evidence to link the problem, proposed intervention, and desired outcomes. Completion of the milestone will include identification of the problem or concern using the PICOT format and a literature search to find evidence to support an intervention that will
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assignment will ask you to navigate and explore different components of the GCU Fleming Library. There are seven steps, each containing a question. Record your answers to the questions in the appropriate sections. Before starting this Scavenger Hunt, review the short walk-through tutorial on the GCU Fleming Library. This tutorial consists of five short segments: http://tutorials.gcumedia.com/libraryWalkThrough/vp02.swf If you have time, you can also attend the GCU Library Introduction Webinar. Sign
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Medical Advisory Secretariat began work on the Aging in the Community project, an evidence-based review of the literature surrounding healthy aging in the community. The Health System Strategy Division at the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care subsequently asked the secretariat to provide an evidentiary platform for the ministry's newly released Aging at Home Strategy.After a broad literature review and consultation with experts, the secretariat identified 4 key areas that strongly predict an elderly
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Running head: Practicing EBHR: Researching Team Building There are many things may arise in the workplace that can cause conflict between employees and negatively affect the production or quality of work. In this paper I will give a summary of an article called becoming an evidence based HR practitioner. This article is relevant to this paper because it gives background on how to address issues in the workplace, using evidence based solutions. Also, I have chosen to focus on team building
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