Applying Evidence to Nurse Practitioner Cardiovascular Practice

"Deadly spin" on nurse practitioner practice.

Nurse practitioner prescribing practice in Australia.

PURPOSE In Australia, nurse practitioner (NP) services are a relatively new development with little being known about the prescribing practices of Australian NPs. The aim of this study was to conduct the first national study of Australian NP prescribing practices. DATA SOURCES Focus groups were conducted to inform construction of an electronic survey that was available for all NPs and NP cand...

Evidence-based practice for the busy nurse practitioner: part one: relevance to clinical practice and clinical inquiry process.

PURPOSE Evidence-based practice (EBP) continues to gain momentum within health care. The purpose of this four-part EBP series is to provide an introductory overview of the EBP process, emphasizing EBP steps one through three, in order to assist nurse practitioners (NPs) in building EBP skills that can be integrated into clinical practice. The relevance of EBP to the NP's clinical practice, an i...

Evidence-based practice for the busy nurse practitioner: part two: searching for the best evidence to clinical inquiries.

PURPOSE The purpose of this four-part evidence-based practice (EBP) series is to enhance the nurse practitioner's (NP's) EBP skills by reviewing the process of developing a clinical question, searching for the best evidence, and critically appraising and applying the findings. Part two of the series focuses on how to search the published scientific literature for the most relevant studies that ...

Applying nursing theory to the practice of nurse anesthesia.

With the current movement of anesthesia education into graduate programs, changes in curriculum are inevitable. These changes will include advanced nursing theory. How the issues of nursing theory apply to the practice of nurse anesthesia are examined. Applications of Betty Neuman's systems theory are used in specific examples of the anesthesia role. The profession of nurse anesthesia may benef...