Cultivating evidence-based practice through mentorship

excellence in clinical practice through the evidence-based medicine

Cultivating Communities of Practice

Cultivating Communities of Practice is one of the most important books to be published in the KM field in the last few years. It is both catching and defining a trend. In some ways the arguments that are put forward in this book have been knocking around the KM industry for a number of years-ever since Wenger wrote his seminal book in 1998 on Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning and Ident...

Enhancing evidence-based practice through collaboration.

Hospitals increasingly reference published evidence for any given procedure or guideline as part of the push toward evidence-based nursing. Medical centers and universities can develop a collaborative model to help support evidence-based practice. The authors describe a model of collaboration between a university and medical centers to enhance nurses' knowledge and research skills and provide r...

Implementing evidence-based practice: effectiveness of a structured multifaceted mentorship programme.

AIM This paper is a report of the effectiveness of a structured multifaceted mentorship programme designed to implement evidence-based practice in a clinical research intensive environment. BACKGROUND Barriers to implementing evidence-based practice are well-documented in the literature. Evidence-based practice is associated with higher quality care and better patient outcomes than care that ...

Cultivating Responses from Students through Literature Circle

The English literature component has been around in the Malaysian Education system since 2000. However, literature as a subject has always been learned more for transactional purposes rather than for its aesthetic value. Basically, a regurgitation of knowledge from years of learning, poured out in one major examination. In this research, the researcher applies a teaching method, called the lite...