BACKGROUND Clinical practice guidelines have been developed to assist healthcare practitioners in clinical decision making. Publication of clinical practice guidelines does not automatically lead to their uptake and barrier identification has been recognized as an important step in implementation planning. This study aimed at developing a questionnaire to identify perceived barriers for impleme...

Nursing Reference Center is a point-of-care resource designed for the practicing nurse, as well as nursing administrators, nursing faculty, and librarians. Users can search across multiple resources, including topical Quick Lessons, evidence-based care sheets, patient education materials, practice guidelines, and more. Additional features include continuing education modules, e-books, and a new...

1.1 Clinical Practice Guidelines and the Renal Association The Clinical Practice Guidelines Committee was established by the UK Renal Association (RA) to prepare guidelines for the management of patients with renal disease and help identify the data to be collected by the Renal Registry. The Clinical Practice Guidelines Committee is one of three committees reporting to the Clinical Affairs Boar...

or more than 50 years, the goal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM; Figure 1) has been to advance the art and science of ultrasound in medicine and research through its educational, scientific, and professional activities. The AIUM has achieved numerous accomplishments in its quest to reach this goal. These accomplishments have helped cultivate the field of medical ultras...

Guideline for the Promotion of Perioperative Normothermia: Second Edition Vallire D. Hooper, PhD, RN, CPAN, FAAN, Robin Chard, PhD, RN, CNOR, Theresa Clifford, MSN, RN, CPAN, Susan Fetzer, PhD, RN, Susan Fossum, BSN, RN, CPAN, Barbara Godden, MHS, RN, CPAN, CAPA, Elizabeth A. Martinez, MD, MHS, Kim A. Noble, PhD, RN, CPAN, Denise O’Brien, MSN, RN, ACNS-BC, CPAN, CAPA, FAAN, Jan Odom-Forren, PhD...

The AJCC Patient Care Page is a service of the American Journal of Critical Care and the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses. Designed to elaborate AACN practice guidelines based on content in select articles, this page may be photocopied noncommercially for use by readers in their workplace, in continuing education programs, or for distribution to colleagues, patients, or patients’ fa...

Clinical practice guidelines are evidence-based recommendations with the potential to improve population health, yet they remain inconsistently utilized. In this commentary we discuss barriers and drivers to implementing clinical practice guidelines. We also suggest ways to support their translation into practice.

BACKGROUND The Aboriginal Women's Cancer Care Project used a participatory research model guided by an Aboriginal advisory group. METHODS The researchers attempted to conduct cancer research with 5 culturally and geographically different communities in North America. RESULTS We discuss the challenges of conducting ethical research in keeping with the emergent research principles of communit...

This article has described the key points in the evidence-based practice guideline entitled Nursing Management of Hearing Impairment in Nursing Facility Residents. The guideline outlining the nursing management of nursing facility residents with hearing impairment is supported by 175 articles: 94 research articles (both experimental and descriptive) and 81 nonresearch articles (expert opinion)....