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Skills and attributes required by clinical nurse specialists to promote evidence-based practice.
Skills and attributes required by clinical nurse specialists to promote evidence-based practice.
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Profetto-McGrath, J., Campbell, T. D.
Purpose/Objectives: The purposes of this article were to describe the challenges that clinical nurse specialists (CNS) face in their role and to examine how CNSs describe the skills and attributes that are needed to promote the use of evidence-based practice (EBP) in their workplaces. This...
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Interventions that promote retention of experienced registered nurses in health care settings: A systematic review.
Interventions that promote retention of experienced registered nurses in health care settings: A systematic review.
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Lartey, S., Cummings, G. G., Profetto-McGrath, J.
AIM: The aim of this review was to report the effectiveness of strategies for retaining experienced Registered Nurses. BACKGROUND: Nursing researchers have noted that the projected nursing shortage, if not rectified, is expected to affect healthcare cost, job satisfaction and quality patient...
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Slaughter, S., Bostrom, A.M., Cummings, G.G., Morgan, D.G., Estabrooks, C.A., Norton, P.G., Squires, J.E.
Background: Defining what constitutes a resident care unit in nursing home research is both a conceptual and practical challenge. The aim of this paper is to provide evidence in support of a definition of care unit in nursing homes by demonstrating: (1) its feasibility for use in data collection,...
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Assessment of Variation in the Alberta Context Tool: The Contribution of Unit Level Contextual Factors and Specialty in Canadian Pediatric Acute Care Settings
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Stevens, B., Squires, J.E., Hutchinson, A., Midodzi, W.K., Cummings, G.G., Kang, S.H., Scott, S., Estabrooks, C.A.
Background: There are few validated measures of organizational context and none that we located are parsimonious and address modifiable characteristics of context. The Alberta Context Tool (ACT) was developed to meet this need. The instrument assesses 8 dimensions of context, which comprise 10...
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Advancing the argument for validity of the Alberta Context Tool with healthcare aides in residential long-term care
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Squires, J.E., Hayduk, L.A., Norton, P.G., Estabrooks, C.A., Cummings, G.G.
Background: Organizational context has the potential to influence the use of new knowledge. However, despite advances in understanding the theoretical base of organizational context, its measurement has not been adequately addressed, limiting our ability to quantify and assess context in...
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Squires, J.E., Estabrooks, C., Gustavsson, P., Wallin, L.
Background: Interventions that have a better than random chance of increasing nurses' use of research are important to the delivery of quality patient care. However, few reports exist of successful research utilization in nursing interventions. Systematic identification and evaluation of...
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Estabrooks, C.A., O'Rourke, H.M., Cobban, S., Squires, J.E., Bostrom, A.M., Hutchinson, A.M.
Background: In the past forty years, many gains have been made in our understanding of the concept of research utilization. While numerous studies exist on professional nurses' use of research in practice, no attempt has been made to systematically evaluate and synthesize this body of literature...
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A systematic review of the psychometric properties of self-report research utilization measures used in healthcare
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Squires, J.E., Newburn-Cook, C.V., O'Rourke, H.M., Wallin, L., Gustavsson, P., Estabrooks, C.
Background: In healthcare, a gap exists between what is known from research and what is practiced. Understanding this gap depends upon our ability to robustly measure research utilization. Objectives: The objectives of this systematic review were: to identify self-report measures of research...
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Validation of the conceptual research utilization scale: An application of the standards for educational and psychological testing in healthcare
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Gierl, M., Estabrooks, C., Newburn-Cook, C.V., Squires, J.E.
Background: There is a lack of acceptable, reliable, and valid survey instruments to measure conceptual research utilization (CRU). In this study, we investigated the psychometric properties of a newly developed scale (the CRU Scale). Methods: We used the Standards for Educational and...