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E A Hefferin

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PubMed1982

Promoting research-based nursing: the nurse administrator's role.

As the practice of research increasingly becomes a part of the nursing profession, nurses must develop their ability to evaluate and incorporate the findings gained through the research process. This article reports the results of a survey aimed at determining problem areas existing among nursing staffs in understanding, accepting, and incorporating research findings. The report will help nursing administrators identify specific factors that inhibit the use of research findings and improve the conditions for incorporating research in their facilities.

Administrative Personnel↗
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Nursing assessment and care plan statements.

Scope, specificity, and interrelatedness of patient problem and nursing intervention statements on nursing care plans were studied in relation to the introduction into the nursing assessment process of an objective observation checklist and a nursing history form. Ninety nursing care plans from six inpatient units in a Veterans Administration hospital were studied over an 11-month period. Results indicated that significant increases in the numbers of both types of care plan statements occurred only following the introduction of the nursing history, as did the numbers of nursing interventions related to the identified patient problems. The degree of specificity among the problem statements increased, but nursing interventions tended to become less explicit. The scope of focus of both types of statements continued to be primarily physical in orientation. The findings also suggested that, since the care plans reflected less than half the patient problems identified on the nursing histories, care plan studies alone might not be appropriate for evaluating the breadth of nursing care planning.

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