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Engaging Front Line Nurses to Examine the Evidence for Practice Utilizing the Integrative Review Methodology

Sunday, June 12, 2016

Title: Engaging Front Line Nurses to Examine the Evidence for Practice Utilizing the Integrative Review Methodology

Longhorn Hall D (Gaylord Grapevine)
Mimi Pomerleau, DNP , Nursing, Massachusetts General Hospital Institute For Health Professions, Reading, MA

Discipline: Obstetric (OB), Neonatal (N), Professional Issues (PI)

Learning Objectives:
  • Examine strategies to promote direct care nurses participation in evidence based practice
  • Describe the steps for conducting an integrative review
  • Apply integrative review process to inform best practice regarding the use of pacifiers

    • Submission Description:
    Direct patient care nurses embarked on a project to investigate the use of evidence to inform clinical decisions. The controversial topic of the use of pacifiers was chosen as a topic to find relevant evidence to guide clinical practice. Integrative review methodology was utilized to allow for a variety of perspectives and in turn enables better understanding of the concept.

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