This paper explores Jacques Derrida's strategy of deconstruction as a way of understanding and critiquing nursing theory and practice. Deconstruction has its origins in philosophy, but I argue that it is useful and relevant as a way of challenging the dominant paradigm of any discipline, including nursing. Because deconstruction is notoriously difficult to define, I offer a number of examples o...

CONTEXT Successful implementation of evidence-based practice (EBP) within athletic training is contingent upon understanding the attitudes and beliefs and perceived barriers toward EBP as well as the accessibility to EBP resources of athletic training educators, clinicians, and students. OBJECTIVE To assess the attitudes, beliefs, and perceived barriers toward EBP and accessibility to EBP res...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To illuminate the experiences of oncology nurses who participated in an evidence-based practice (EBP) project in an institution with an EBP organizational structure. RESEARCH APPROACH A descriptive phenomenologic approach and in-depth interviews with each participant. SETTING An oncology-focused academic medical center with an established organizational infrastructure for...

Background: Evidence Based Practice has been rapidly becoming a growth in the health professions. In Egypt, very little is known about physicians and nurses' perceptions towards evidence based practice and the extent of their skills to access and incorporate evidence based practice (medicine and nursing) into everyday clinical practices. The objective: Of this study was to describe the percepti...

Evidence-Based Practice: Nurses’ knowledge and implementation; in the prevention of Pressure sore amongst debilitating patients was carried out selected Government Hospitals Delta State. The research method for study a correlational survey design. A simple random sampling used to select 250 respondents. Permission collect data sought from Ethical Committee Hospital Management Board collection i...

Evidence-based practice (EBP) is now commonly used in many health care disciplines as a means of making clinical decisions based on a blend of robust research evidence and clinical experience. This paper discusses the origins and spread of EBP, from within medicine to the other professions within health care. Adoption of the evidence-based approach by other disciplines has given rise to many is...

This article contributes to the discourse around evidence-based practice (EBP) as an organizing principle and guiding framework for macro-practice education as it has developed in the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis. In examining the first five years of implementing evidence-based education at the macro level, some lessons learned are provided. Th...

Background: Development and dissemination of evidence-based practice (EBP) guidelines are important first steps, but without active translation efforts, they do little to promote knowledge uptake by direct care providers. In order to close the gap between discovery and use of knowledge, efforts should focus on methods to speed translation of research findings into practice. Aim: To facilitate t...

This issue of the Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing (CJON) will be the final time that you will see the Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) feature column. Why? Because we have seen oncology nursing evolve in the past 20 years and EBP is everywhere! We use it in our clinics and hospital units, incorporate it into decisions about symptom management, and use evidence to develop survivorship guidelin...

The ‘Best Practice Guide to Conservative Management of Patellofemoral Pain’ synthesised level 1 evidence from highquality systematic reviews with international expert opinion. The associated publication and guide (see table 1) provides a tool to facilitate research translation and evidence-based practice (EBP) in the management of patellofemoral pain (PFP). This tool is freely available to clin...