[Evidence-based practice in nursing curricula: the experience of nursing degree course of Reggio Emilia. A pilot study].

Given the lack of evidence in literature concerning the presence of Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) in nursing curricula, but considering its importance in order to educate future nurses to use critical thinking and to base their practice on scientific evidence, tutors and nursing teachers of the Nursing Degree Course of Reggio Emilia (Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia), have decided to introduce a three-year laboratory of EBP. The purposes of this project are: to describe the three-year EBP laboratory of Nursing Degree, its objectives, its structure, its integration with practical training and nursing subjects and its students evaluation strategies; to get students verify the perception of the usefulness of the three-year EBP laboratory regarding the elaboration of the graduation thesis, the search for appropriatem answers for patients met during clinical trainings and the usefulness of the EBP process in view of the development of their professional career. The design of research of this pilot study is correlation-descriptive.

[Criteria used by nurses in choosing the site for intramuscular injections: custom or scientific evidence?].

The nursing literature of the last 20 years recommends the ventrogluteal site how the best site for intramuscular injections Beecroft, Redick, 1990, but, the few studies done with the aim to discover which is the most frequently used site report that the dorsogluteal site is the one preferred from nurses Farley, Joyce, Long et al., 1996. The propose of this descriptive study is to understand which are the criteria used by nurses when they have to decide which site choose for administering an intramuscular injection.