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Evidence-Based Practice and Research at UCSD

Evidence-based practice has been recognized by the healthcare community as being the gold standard for the provision of safe and compassionate healthcare. Barriers and facilitators for the adoption of evidence-based practice in nursing have been identified by researchers. Healthcare organizations have been challenged to foster an environment conducive to providing care based on evidence and not steeped in ritualized practice. 

 

  •       Evidence-based practice is the use of evidence, clinical expertise, and patient preferences for providing nursing care (Sackett, D, Straus, S., Richardson, W., Rosenberg, W & Haynes, B., (2000). Evidence-Based Medicine: How to Teach EBM.  Edinburgh; Churchill Livingstone).

 

Services:        

Dr. Brown is available for consultation to assist you with evidence-based practice projects and nursing research projects.  Please email at c7brown@ucsd.edu

 

Getting Involved with Evidence-based Practice and Research at UCSD:

 

  • Enter the Digging for Dinosaurs Monthly competition. Find out more and get the entry form at the  Digging for Dinosaurs link on the edr.ucsd.edu page.

 

  • Sign-up for one of the following Learning Opportunities: Sign up for classes on the EDR website at the following link:  /EDR_Calendar/

 

  • Join the Research Council. The research council meets the second Friday of every month, contact co-chairs Marlon Saria or Laura Dibsie for more information.

 

 

  • Apply for the Evidence-Based Practice Institute, a year long mentored program to guide you through an EBP project. Application is due Thursday, January 8, 2009 in the EDR office MC-8929 (address to Caroline Brown).  Find more information and application materials here:  http://nursing.sdsu.edu/inr/institute.php

 

Evidence Based Practice Model:

 

Favorite Articles on Evidence-based Practice:

                             (click the "Access UGI" button)

 

 

    • SQUIRE - Standards for Quality Improvement Reporting Excellence. Use these standards when publishing quality improvement projects.

 

 

Web-based Tutorials for Nurses on Evidence-based Practice:

 

 

 

 

Web-links for Evidence-based Practice:

  • Show Me the Evidence:  http://evidencebasednursing.blogspot.com/  The Saint Joseph Hospital (Orange, California) Nursing Research Blog will communicate the nursing research activities at SJO to staff. Communications may include, but are not restricted to, announcements of Nursing Grand Rounds, Nursing Journal Clubs, Nursing EBN classes, ongoing nursing research and relevant medical library announcements and news. Open discussion forum for nurses and librarians interested in evidenced based nursing.

 

  • The TRIP Database started in 1997 as a small search engine with a focus on medical articles considered evidence-based.  The aims of the TRIP Database have remained the same since 1997 - allow health professionals to easily find the highest-quality material available on the web. http://www.tripdatabase.com/

 

 

 

 

 

  • The Registered Nurses Association of Ontario (RNAO) launched the Nursing Best Practice Guidelines (NBPG) Program in November 1999 with funding from the Government of Ontario. http://www.rnao.org/Page.asp?PageID=861&SiteNodeID=133  Topics: IV line care, crisis intervention, constipation, continence, pain, wounds, stroke assessment, breastfeeding…

 

  • Evaluating Internet Health Information: A Tutorial from the National Library of Medicine:  This tutorial teaches you how to evaluate the health information that you find on the Web. It is about 16 minutes long. You need a Flash plug-in, version 6 or above, to view it. If you do not have Flash, you will be prompted to obtain a free download of the software before you start.  The tutorial runs automatically, but you can also use the navigation bar at the bottom of the screen to go forward, backward, pause, or start over.  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/webeval/webeval_start.html

 

 

 

UCSD Resources for EBP and Research:

Advanced Practice Nursing Council: Karen Perdion, CNM: kperdion@ucsd.edu

Research Council: Laura Dibsie: ldibsie@ucsd.edu

Consultation with Dr. Caroline E. Brown: c7brown@ucsd.edu

UCSD Institutional Review Board:  http://irb.ucsd.edu/

UCSD Library Nursing Outreach:  Mary Wickline: mawickline@library.ucsd.edu