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Implement evidence-based practice in orientation manuals

HCPro's Weekly Update on the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®*, July 17, 2007

New graduates in the emergency department (ED) at Centra Health in Lynchburg, VA-a recipient of ANCC Magnet Recognition Program® designation in 2005-are immediately introduced to evidence-based practice (EBP) from their first day of orientation. Johanna Derrenbacker, RN, staff educator for the ED, says she works to ensure that everything she teaches new graduates in the ED is evidence based.

The orientation manual given to new graduates includes two articles about EBP. One of the articles discusses the care of terminally ill patients in the ED, and the other details the experience of trauma resuscitation and features interviews with seven trauma patients about their experiences as patients. "I think it's important for us to understand as nurses what our patients are seeing, what made them comfortable or uncomfortable," says Derrenbacker. "As nurses we see it from a different view."

Derrenbacker placed the EBP articles in the manual so new graduates could increase their knowledge about EBP and so they would gain familiarity with EBP articles.

Source: Johanna Derrenbacker, RN

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