Strategies for implementing evidence-based practices: Journal clubs
Nurse Leader Insider, February 25, 2016
Want to receive articles like this one in your inbox? Subscribe to Nurse Leader Insider!
If you’re looking for ways to get your staff engaged and current on the latest evidence-based practices, then you should consider starting a journal club, a regular meeting of staff members to discuss articles from nursing journals. It’s a great way to improve your staff’s reading habits and critical thinking while promoting cooperation and teamwork.
To start your club, you need to choose someone to select readings. A master’s-prepared nurse specialist or educator would be an ideal candidate to lead the group, but anyone with the proper knowledge or enthusiasm would make a fine choice. They should select readings that are informative, relevant, and accessible to encourage nurses of all levels to participate. They should start by selecting a guide to critical reading, so everyone has the tools to discuss the articles. Once they’ve selected the article, make sure the reading is easily obtainable and give plenty of advanced notice to ensure everyone has time to read it.
Continue reading this post on our Leader’s Lounge blog.
Want to receive articles like this one in your inbox? Subscribe to Nurse Leader Insider!
Related Products
-
Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing: A Guide to Successful Implementation
This skillfully constructed guide explains everything you need to know to successfully implement EBP.
-
Critical Thinking in the Emergency Department:
This easy-to-read resource explains the principles behind critical thinking and how to encourage nurses to use critical...
-
Nurse Residency Program Builder
This guide saves you time and money by providing the tools you need to establish a well-structured nursing residency program...
-
Charge Nurse Orientation: Improve Customer Service, Quality, and Patient Safety
During this 90-minute audio conference, speaker Tammy L. Berbarie, BA, RN-BC, will provide strategies for developing a...
-
Onboarding New Graduate Nurses: How to Overcome Hurdles and Retain New Nurses
This 90-minute webcast demonstrates how the onboarding process for new graduate nurses will increase retention and speed up...
Most Popular
- Articles
-
- CMS seeks comment on quality measures
- Don't forget the three checks in medication administration
- Practice the six rights of medication administration
- Note similarities and differences between HCPCS, CPT® codes
- What to include on the incident report
- Q&A: Primary, principal, and secondary diagnoses
- Code diagnoses and outpatient treatment for PTSD
- OB services: Coding inside and outside of the package
- Complications from immobility by body system
- Understanding nursing roles in quality improvement
- E-mailed
-
- Patient care orders/protocols: What do the regulations say?
- The five key elements of a good orientation program
- Refine the terms: Understand unbilled accounts and DNFB
- Coding meconium aspiration
- CMS final rule clarifies that medical staff can extend beyond physicians
- Clinical Corner: Revisiting respiratory failure
- Searched
