Evidence-Based Nursing Practice: Making Progress and Making a Difference

Evidence-based nursing practice: making progress and making a difference.

Making evidence-based practice a reality.

Authors are with the Department of Family Medicine, University of Wisconsin – Madison. Doctor Potter is an assistant professor and also has a clinical practice at Wingra Clinic in Madison, Wis; Dr Rotert is a faculty development fellow and clinical instructor and also practices at Belleville Clinic in Belleville, Wis. Please address correspondence to Beth Potter, MD, 777 S Mills, Madison, WI 53...

Notes on nursing: nurses making a difference in global health.

We celebrate, in 2010, the centenary of the death of Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) and to commemorate this historical fact, the United Nations have proposed the “International Year of the Nurse”, as an initiative to “give credit to the voices, values and knowledge of these professionals”, past and present, who have demonstrated how individual and collective actions can make the “world more h...

Making a Difference in Teacher Education Courses: A Psychological Reconsideration

Measuring and changing practice – making a difference in hip fractures

For a number of years there has been recognition of the disjointed approach to their care. Whilst numerous publications have highlighted the issues of multidisciplinary and co-ordinated care, the results in terms of length of stay and mortality were little altered. For many it was considered a medical problem, and the majority of the surgery required was deputed to junior orthopaedic staff, oft...