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Describe your plan for knowledge transfer of this change, including knowledge creation, dissemination, and organizational adoption and implementation.

September 1, 2019 in /by

Assignment: Evidence-Based Project, Part 5: Recommending an Evidence-Based Practice Change The collection of evidence is an activity that occurs with an endgame in mind. For example, law enforcement professionals collect evidence to support a decision to charge those accused of criminal activity. Similarly, evidence-based healthcare practitioners collect evidence to support decisions in pursuit of specific […]

describe how your health system work setting has responded to the healthcare issue/stressor, including a description of what changes may have been implemented

September 1, 2019 in /by

If you were to ask 10 people what they believe to be the most significant issue facing healthcare today, you might get 10 different answers. Escalating costs? Regulation? Technology disruption? These and many other topics are worthy of discussion. Not surprisingly, much has been said in the research, within the profession, and in the news […]

Consider these six aims with regard to your current organization, or one with which you are familiar. In what areas have you seen improvement? What areas still present challenges? As a nurse leader, how can you contribute to improving the organization’s achievement of these aims?

September 1, 2019 in /by

Improving Quality Improving the quality of health care delivery and patient safety continues to be a political concern and has been at the heart of reform issues for many years. The American Nurses Association (ANA) and the Institute of Medicine (IOM) have increased awareness of health care quality and safety issues, as well as advocated […]

Create your own 2-4 paragraph “dilemma.” Apply Kant’s Categorical Imperative to the problem you invent.

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Increasing food supplies are necessary to sustain growing populations around the world and their appetites for great food, quality products, and continuous availability. A great deal of expensive research is invested in developing technologies to deliver productive agriculture. Horticultural efforts to breed hybrid crops are seen as far back as history can observe, and there […]