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Approaches to producing credible and useful literature reviews

01 April 2013

Cancer Nursing Practice

Art & Science

Nurses at all stages of their careers can develop evidence-based practice through reviewing the literature to identify the best available evidence. This is not...

Transitoriness: patients’ perception of life after a diagnosis of cancer

10 May 2011

Cancer Nursing Practice

Feature

This article analyses the concept of transitoriness, a perception of the end of life after cancer diagnosis, using Rodgers’ (2000) framework of concept analysis,...

Developing training in intramuscular injections

09 June 2015

Mental Health Practice

Art & Science

There is a wealth of international publications regarding evidence-based practice in relation to administering safe and effective intramuscular (IM) injections. This...

Developing clinical guidelines in eye care for intensive care units

31 May 2011

Nursing Children and Young People

General

It is common for children in paediatric intensive care units (PICUs) to have impaired ocular defence mechanisms. The authors discovered inconsistencies in eye care...

Behavioural activation: an alternative to cognitive behaviour therapy

01 October 2013

Mental Health Practice

Art & Science

This case study describes how behavioural activation was used to treat a client with depression who had undergone previous psychological treatments including...

Embedding a culture of evidence-based practice

26 November 2012

Nursing Management

Feature

Evidence-based practice (EBP) can improve patient outcomes, cost effectiveness and staff satisfaction, and nursing care should be based on the best available...

Developing the evidence base for hygiene and emollient practices

30 April 2015

Nursing Older People

Art & Science

Maintaining skin integrity is an essential part of ensuring health and wellbeing in older people, and personal hygiene and emollient practices are central in...

Clinical pathway compliance and quality improvement

14 January 2004

Nursing Standard

Art & science

Background Clinical pathways have been developed to guide evidence-based practice in health care. The documented use of a clinical pathway by clinicians can be...

Nurse-led cardiac clinics for adults with coronary heart disease

28 March 2006

Nursing Standard

Art & science

This information on best practice is based on a systematic review of research, published by Blackwell Publishing Asia and conducted by the Centre for Evidence-based...

A pelvic floor muscle exercise programme for urinary incontinence following childbirth

02 May 2006

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

This information on best practice is based on a systematic review conducted by the Western Australian Centre for Evidence Based Nursing and Midwifery, a...