Impact of Prewarming on Maintaining Perioperative Body Temperature: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

Purpose: To determine the prewarming effect on body temperature in the perioperative period of patients undergoing conventional abdominal surgery and the level of thermal comfort.

Design: A randomized controlled clinical trial.

Methods: A Brazilian oncology hospital located in São Paulo.

Cultural adaptation and reliability testing of the Chinese version of evidence-based practice knowledge assessment in nursing: A cross-sectional study.

Objective: The EKAN is a reliable and validated tool for objectively measuring the evidence-based practice (EBP) knowledge of nurses. Thus, we set out to translate and culturally modify the Evidence-Based Practice Knowledge Assessment in Nursing (EKAN), and then evaluate its validity and reliability among Chinese practicing nurses.

Methods: This cross-sectional study consisted of two phases.

Using the Eat Sleep Console Model to Promote Optimal Care and Outcomes for Infants With Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome: A Nurse-Driven, Multidisciplinary Initiative.

Background: A nurse led a team of providers in a quality improvement (QI) project to positively impact inpatient care and outcomes for infants with neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS). The Eat Sleep Console (ESC) model was implemented to promote rooming-in and family-centered care as part of a nonpharmacological treatment approach.

Purpose: To compare the ESC model with the traditional Finnegan treatment approach to describe differences in infants' pharmacotherapy use (morphine), length of stay (LOS), weight loss, consumption of mother's own milk by any feeding method within 24 hours of discharge, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) use, and Pediatric Unit utilization.

Evidence-Based, Ethical Decision-Making: Using Simulation to Teach the Application of Evidence and Ethics in Practice.

Background: Evidence-based practice and ethics should not be taught as isolated concepts. Instead, it is imperative to prepare students with the knowledge needed to practice ethical, evidence-based decision-making in health care.

Purpose: The purpose of this project was to describe how a mock hospital ethics committee meeting impacted students' learning about the use of evidence to support ethical decision-making in health care.

Establishing A Global EBP Tool to Measure Evidence-Based Practice Knowledge: Translating and Testing the French Version of EKAN.

Background And Purpose: Government and professional organizations around the world have issued a call for evidence-based practice (EBP), affecting nursing globally. This study aimed to establish a baseline measure of EBP knowledge in French-speaking, baccalaureate nursing students and test the psychometric performance of a newly translated instrument.

Methods: For the cross-sectional, descriptive, correlational study, 103 baccalaureate nursing students from Haiti were included in the analysis.

A National Study Across Levels of Nursing Education: Can Nurses and Nursing Students Accurately Estimate Their Knowledge of Evidence-Based Practice?

Aim: This national study sought to: a) describe the evidence-based practice (EBP) knowledge levels of nursing students enrolled in baccalaureate through doctorate of nursing practice programs; b) examine relationships between objective and subjective EBP knowledge measures; c) describe correlations between educational and demographic factors and EBP knowledge; and d) further evaluate validity and reliability evidence for the Evidence-Based Practice Knowledge Assessment in Nursing.

Background: Rigorous evaluation of students' EBP knowledge across nursing program levels is vital to enhancing education and patient care.

Method: A cross-sectional, correlational design using large-scale survey procedures was used in this study.

A Global Approach to Promoting Evidence-Based Practice Knowledge: Validating the Translated Version of the Evidence-Based Practice Knowledge Assessment in Nursing Into Spanish.

Background: Government and professional organizations have issued a call for evidence-based practice (EBP), prompting the development of competencies and expectations for knowledge, skills, and attitudes. However, EBP is still inconsistently implemented. To advance the science of nursing globally, educators and leaders need to use consistent, rigorous evaluation methods to assess the EBP knowledge of students and clinicians.

Loss of Magnet® Designation and Changes in RN Work Engagement: A Report on How 1 Hospital's Culture Changed Over Time.

Objective: The aim of this study was to examine the loss of Magnet® designation and how RNs' work engagement changed at 1 community hospital.

Background: The importance of RN work engagement to promote quality and safety is widely recognized in healthcare. Ongoing consistent research is critical to determine what organizational structures are needed to support RN work engagement.

Supporting and Empowering Direct-Care Nurses to Promote EBP: An Example of Evidence-Based Policy Development, Education, and Practice Change.

This column shares the best evidence-based strategies and innovative ideas on how to facilitate the learning and implementation of EBP principles and processes by clinicians as well as nursing and interprofessional students. Guidelines for submission are available at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.

Benchmarking of Prelicensure Nursing Students' Evidence-Based Practice Knowledge.

Evidence-based practice (EBP) knowledge among prelicensure nursing students was measured before, immediately following, and 1 year after completion of an EBP course using a relatively new instrument. There was a significant increase in EBP knowledge immediately following the course, and knowledge was sustained 1 year later. Results enabled faculty to gauge the effectiveness of the EBP course within the curriculum to prepare students with the knowledge needed to enact EBP in practice.

Validity and Reliability Evidence for a New Measure: The Evidence-Based Practice Knowledge Assessment in Nursing.

Background: Studies of evidence-based practice (EBP) among nurses often focus on attitudes and beliefs about EBP and self-reported EBP knowledge. Because knowledge self-assessments can be highly inaccurate, the authors developed and tested a new objective measure of EBP knowledge--the Evidence-Based Practice Knowledge Assessment in Nursing (EKAN).

Method: Seven subject matter experts reviewed candidate items, resulting in a scale content validity index of 0.

Work engagement in Magnet(®)-designated hospitals: Exploring social and institutional demographics of RNs to optimize improvement efforts.

Objective: This study analyzed and evaluated relationships between work engagement (WE) and social/institutional demographic variables of RNs in Magnet(®)-designated hospitals.

Background: Organizational structures of Magnet-designated hospitals are recognized to promote engagement of RNs. Because little is known about relationships between WE and the social/institutional demographics of nurses, this study focused on age (generation), gender, education, shift, hours worked per week, percentage of time in direct patient care, and nursing unit.