Education: Moving Evidence into Practice Karleen Thornton Nursing Director: Nursing Midwifery...

Education: Moving Evidence into Practice

Karleen ThorntonNursing Director: Nursing Midwifery Education, Research & Practice Development

karleen.thornton@health.sa.gov.au

0466 150 365

Northern Adelaide Local Health Network Lyell McEwin Hospital

For Discussion

What is evidence and why is evidence important?

Impediments to uptake

Nurse Educator strategies to overcome impediments

What is evidence and why is evidence important?

What is evidence and why is evidence important?

Grounding nursing practice in evidence, rather than tradition, is necessary to meet nursing's social obligation of accountability, to gain and maintain credibility among other health disciplines and to build a nursing knowledge base that can be used to influence policy at agency and governmental levels (Rafael 2000).

What impedes uptake?

What impedes uptake?

Nurse Educator Strategies to overcome impediments

> Moving evidence into practice should occur as a continuum, whereby it is a part of our practice and not something that we think of as separate to our practice.

> This may be an ideal but one to which we should aspire.

Lyell McEwin Hospital: Practice Development Framework

Lyell McEwin Hospital: Nursing / Midwifery Research Framework

Novice Advanced Beginner Competent Proficient Expert

Aim for nurse / midwife

Acquire a basic understanding of research principles

Acquire a basic understanding of research theories, methodologies & methods & their applicability to practice

Develop competence in the application of research theories, methodologies & methods

Critically apply research theories, methodologies & methods

Contribute to the development of new knowledge

Focus area for nurse / midwife. Requires the organisation provides requisite support

The learner should acquire a basic understanding of:

Types of research

Relevance of research to practice

The learner should acquire an understanding of:

Basic fundamentals of conducting research

Research theories

Research methodologies

Research methods

Relevance of ethics when conducting research

The learner should know how to apply their understanding of:

Theories of research in the context of a health environment.

How evidenced Developing Ethics protocols

Collecting research data

Interpreting research data

Actively engaged in research projects

The learner should be able to critique and generate new understandings of:

The development and application of research findings in practice

How evidenced Research lead

The learner should be able to collaborate with and lead on research programmes that:

Influence strategy, policy and practice

Enables practitioner research to be realised.

How evidenced Grant writing

Nurse educators cannot bear sole responsibility for incorporation of evidence into practice and are required to work in tandem with other change agents to support evidence based nursing practice.

Each and everyone one of you here today is charged with being a change agent in order to move evidence into practice.